Weekly review: Week ending November 7, 2014

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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

Sketches

Link round-up

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)

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