I've been feeling a little under the weather, so I've been taking it easy in order to not jeopardize a few important things coming up. W- is in crunch mode too. Result: the occasional pizza or takeout dinner for J-, which is okay for now because we'll get back into the swing of cooking later on.

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending September 5, 2014
• Gardening update: Reviewing my goals for this year
• Monthly review: August 2014
• Crunch mode
• Figuring out how to deal with sub-optimal times
• Becoming Filipino-Canadian

Sketches

• 2014-09-08 To think, draw, write about
• 2014-09-08 After this sprint or crunch time - imagining ideal days
• 2014-09-09 To think, draw, write about
• 2014-09-10 Programming - What does it mean to be creative
• 2014-09-10 Possible workflow for developing ideas
• 2014-09-10 Index cards
• 2014-09-10 Applying insights from the Alternative Uses Task Test and brainstorming research
• 2014-09-10 Alternative Uses Task test
• 2014-09-12 Things to tweak or try this winter
• 2014-09-12 Noticing my reading habits
• 2014-09-12 Categorical imperatives versus genetic algorithms

Link round-up

• Five Resources for Teaching Yourself Latin: Ooh, neat
• How To Deal With the Decision to Put Down Your Pet: Not for a long time, I hope, but this will eventually be helpful.
• 3 Surprising Interview Questions You Should Ask Every Potential Employee: I like the question about disagreement. I need to test more people's conflict handling skills, since I tend to be low-conflict myself.
• Using Opportunity Cost to Your Advantage: Anticipation is good for frugality.
• Show key binding for commands in helm-execute-extended-command: Oooh. helm-M-x is nifty.
• Being good to each other is so important, guys: So glad W- has great communication skills. =) Hat tip to lifehack.org for the link.
• Implementing an Emacs programming language mode: beyond the basics: Good reminder about things that will make your programming mode feel more Emacs-ish.

Focus areas and time review

• Business (64.8h – 38%)
  • Earn (40.0h – 61% of Business)
    • ☑ E1: Work on poll improvements
    • ☐ Earn: E1: 2.5-3.5 days of consulting
  • Build (5.9h – 9% of Business)
    • ☑ Upgrade webserver
    • ☑ Uprade WordPress to 4.0
    • Drawing (1.6h)
    • Delegation (0.0h)
    • Packaging (0.0h)
    • Paperwork (2.2h)
      • ☑ Check on Brock Health claim
      • ☑ Order TurboTax
  • Connect (18.9h – 29% of Business)
    • ☑ Help with Helpouts
    • ☑ Send Helpouts messages
• Relationships (5.8h – 3%)
  • ☑ Help with Hacklab kitchen
  • ☑ Work on project K
  • ☑ Shop for dishwasher parts
• Discretionary – Productive (3.7h – 2%)
  • Emacs (0.0h – 0% of all)
    • ☐ Set up Emacs Chats again?
  • ☑ Arrange for cheque
  • ☑ Apply for cultural access pass
  • ☑ Back up phone
  • ☑ Clean up phone apps
  • ☑ Reflash phone
  • ☑ Water the garden
  • ☐ Apply for passport
  • ☐ Ask two guarantors for passport
  • ☐ Get passport pictures
  • ☐ Pay Mastercard
  • ☐ Pick up cultural access pass from Front and Parliament
  • Writing (2.0h)
• Discretionary – Play (0.6h – 0%)
• Personal routines (25.6h – 15%)
• Unpaid work (7.9h – 4%)
• Sleep (59.5h – 35% – average of 8.5 per day)