Taking it easy. =) Writing a lot!

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending July 26, 2013
• Homebodies
• Sometimes you don’t know what you know until someone asks; why I like preparing talking points for podcasts and chats
• Visual metaphors and layouts for planning your life
• How to manage a large blog archive
• Sketchnote Lessons: Banners and ribbons
• My evolution as an “artist”, or why there’s hope for you yet

Quick notes

• This was a while ago, but just in case you missed it, I added a transcript to my chat with Bastien Guerry
• There’s a web app for calculating sag for lengths of wood, appropriately named the Sagulator.
• When creating multiples of components in SketchUp, you need to press ENTER after typing in “x5” or whatever you’re multiplying it by.
• After we finished making our first stringer, we celebrated by going out for Vietnamese bun. Pho Nho was a delightful discovery.
• Woodworking is more fun with two people than with one.
• WordPress: the_widget lets you display a widget using PHP in a page template. Get the widget name from the class definition for it.
• New welcome page: http://livinganawesomelife.com
• Excel: You can repeat rows or columns in Microsoft Excel print-outs by choosing Page Layout – Print Titles.
• Excel: SUMIFS is a great function for conditionally summing items in a tabse.
• Excel: Tables make your formulas much more readable. To convert the current data into a table, press Ctrl-T.

Focus areas and time review

• Business (19.3h – 11%)
  • [X] [#A] Call CRA to clarify HST – Busy
  • Earn (2.8h – 14% of Business)
    • [X] Sketch municipal view
  • Build (8.4h – 43% of Business)
    • [X] Make Share a Draft easier
    • [X] Make redirections easier
    • Quantified Awesome (0.0h)
    • Drawing (3.5h)
    • Paperwork (0.8h)
      • [X] [#A] Call CRA to clarify HST
      • [ ] File Brock Health claim
  • Connect (8.1h – 41% of Business)
    • [X] Chat with Timothy Kenny about learning
    • [X] Evaluate Awesome Foundation Toronto experiment
    • [ ] Go to Damian Conway’s talk, or go to Hacklab?
• Relationships (17.3h – 10%)
  • [X] Work on E for project P
  • [X] Work on T for project P
  • [ ] Hang out with Mel
  • [ ] Bring Mel to HackLab
  • [ ] Check results for experiment
  • [ ] Make plans for 30th birthday party during the last weekend in August?
  • [ ] Send notes to people who bought my blog compilation
  • [ ] Work on gratitude map for 30th birthday
• Discretionary – Productive (28.6h – 17%)
  • [X] Follow up with consulate regarding police report (should have been faxed)
  • [X] Have chip filled
  • Writing (19.7h)
    • [ ] Work on my outline
• Discretionary – Play (7.1h – 4%)
• Personal routines (16.3h – 9%)
• Unpaid work (14.2h – 8%)
• Sleep (66.3h – 39% – average of 9.5 per day)