This week was about getting back into the swing of several projects: Emacs, Japanese, Quantified Awesome and one of the personal projects I'm working on. Also, we picked up the LEGO Movie videogame, which is turning out to be lots of fun. =) I'm taking it pretty easy at the moment because there's lots of stuff on the go.

… Oh. Now that I look at all the things I've crossed off, it deosn't seem like I've been taking it easy. Funny how that works. Thank goodness for TODO lists!

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending October 24, 2014
• Upgrading from Rails 3 to Rails 4; thank goodness for Emacs and rspec
• Cupcake challenge: accepted!
• Hacklab Cooking: Thai curry from scratch, and coconut tapioca pudding too
• Emacs hangout notes
• Planning for winter – tweaking my layers
• Publishing WordPress thumbnail images using Emacs and Org2Blog

Sketches

• 2014-11-01 More thoughts on delegation
• 2014-11-01 Baselines and possible improvements - part 2
• 2014-11-01 Baselines and possible improvements - part 1
• 2014-11-02 What could I do if I showed up in a bigger way
• 2014-11-02 Emacs, coaching, and unknowns

Link round-up

• How Do You Make Emacs Work For Development? : emacs: Comments are helpful
• A week with emacs : this guy shows how he uses emacs to keep track of his expenses and time, writing letters, checking his e-mails, keeping an agenda etc.: Workflow videos are always fun.
• Make Plans Work on 20% Effort: Good reminder to plan for small efforts and small successes.
• Design Spiking: Divergence and convergence
• Schedule a “Fix-It Afternoon” to Clear Out Low-Priority To-Do Items: Good idea for clearing out a lot of little tasks.

Focus areas and time review

• Business (38.5h – 22%)
  • Earn (15.3h – 39% of Business)
    • ☑ E1: Brainstorm prototypes I want to propose
    • ☐ Earn: E1: 2.5-3.5 days of consulting
  • Build (20.5h – 53% of Business)
    • Drawing (0.9h)
    • Delegation (0.0h)
    • Packaging (0.0h)
    • Paperwork (2.8h)
      • ☑ Apply updates from bookkeeper
      • ☑ Send trial balance and general ledger to accountant
      • ☑ Sort out invoice/deposit thing
    • ☑ Plan business and delegation for this phase
    • ☑ Set up Guard again
    • ☑ Set up Skewer
  • Connect (2.8h – 7% of Business)
    • ☑ Plan for office hours
    • ☑ Process Quantified Self videos
• Relationships (3.9h – 2%)
  • ☑ File insurance paperwork
  • ☐ Coach Lucas on programming
• Discretionary – Productive (23.4h – 13%)
  • Emacs (5.6h – 3% of all)
    • ☑ Figure out how Michael's smartparens is showing rainbow colours for the blocks
    • ☑ Get the hang of smartparens
    • ☑ Log editing inefficiencies, keep track of annoyances. Then you can go through them when you have time.
    • ☑ Organize Emacs Hangout
    • ☑ Pick a different keychord instead of hs for seeking to seconds, or maybe turn it on only when transcribing
    • ☑ Quick clocking in on a task, or jumping and clocking task
    • ☑ Quick way to capture little thing to experiment with in Emacs
    • ☑ Rebind other-window
    • ☑ Set up and get the hang of Skewer
    • ☑ Set up and get the hang of autocompletion
    • ☑ expand-region
  • Japanese
    • ☑ Added counters to my Anki decks
    • ☑ Find a good resources for learning about Japanese counters
    • ☑ Minna no Nihongo Chapter 10
    • ☑ Minna no Nihongo Chapter 11: Counters
    • ☑ Minna no Nihongo Chapter 12
    • ☑ Minna no Nihongo Chapter 13
  • Quantified Awesome
    • ☑ Fix login form
    • ☑ Fix pagination
    • ☑ Fix sparklines
    • ☑ I can give someone access to my grocery list
    • ☑ Make list entry closer to my design
    • ☑ Update to Rails 4.1
    • ☑ Upgrade localhost to next version of Ubuntu
    • ☑ Wireframe design for groceries
    • ☑ Work on Angular interface for grocery list
  • Other
    • ☑ Organize a journal section in my notes
    • ☑ Trim my organizer.org file
    • ☑ Split up book notes into individual files
  • ☐ Apply for passport
  • ☐ Ask two guarantors for passport
  • ☐ Get passport pictures
  • ☐ Move my dentist appointment
  • ☐ Pick up cultural access pass from Front and Parliament
  • Writing (6.8h)
• Discretionary – Play (9.7h – 5%)
• Personal routines (24.1h – 14%)
• Unpaid work (15.7h – 9%)
• Sleep (53.9h – 32% – average of 7.7 per day)