A little less DIY-ing this week (waiting for tools, trying to figure out what to do with the floor, hours of browsing in Home Depot and Rona). Aside from that: family get-together, interesting conversations at Hacklab, revamping the Tableau reports at work.

Next week, I finally get to do my annual review. =) Looking forward to it!

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending December 19, 2014 Preparing the floor for tiling; also, EPUBs for Emacs Chat transcripts and my blog
• Exploring sketchnote colour styles Comparing fifteen colouring styles and experimenting with decorations, accented text, toned text, background, and flood
• Making personal blogs useful for other people too Looking for a middle ground between dry advice and personal journals, using the metaphor of travel guides and photo albums. A travelogue might be a good metaphor.
• Emacs kaizen: ace-jump-zap lets you use C-u to zap to any character Quick Emacs tip for using ace-jump-zap-to-char-dwim or ace-jump-zap-up-to-char-dwim for deleting characters up to a specified character anywhere on your screen
• Relaxed routines Where I tell people it's okay to have a relaxed, not-crammed-to-the-gills schedule, and I extol the benefits of slowing down and taking notes
• When you feel like you’re spending a lot of time on low-impact activities Embracing your constraints, laying the groundwork for action, acting in tune with yourself, and accumulating gradual progress can help you keep moving forward even if it feels like you're taking such tiny steps.

Sketches

• 2014-12-25 Sketched Book - Take Charge of Your Talent - Three Keys to Thriving in Your Career, Organization, and Life - Don Maruska and Jay Perry

Link round-up

• emacs helm-swoop.el : 【これはすごい】バッファ全体をMigemo絞り込み検索して走り回れ！Emacs Advent Calendar 2014 | MELPA Emacs Lisp Elisp パッケージ インストール 設定 使い方 スクリーンショット: Rubikitch has started a daily Emacs blog with lots of great tips. It's in Japanese, but Google Translate gives you the gist.
• Selling eBooks and Digital Products on Your Blog? You Need to Know About EU VAT-MOSS: Looks complicated. Haven't figured this out yet.
• Eric James Michael Ritz: Using Quickrun in Emacs: Interesting way to quickly evaluate compiled or interpreted code; can even be used to translate markup syntax
• Improve Creative Skills by Reducing Degrees of Freedom: Guidelines for deliberate practice.
• What It Really Takes to be a Professional Programmer: Good tips for non-coding skills.
• On my mind: Disjointed Links & Thoughts: TODO – reflect on the framing of the challenge to find something sufficiently meaningful to replace a full-fledged career.
• Clear Your Mental Cache: A reminder to revisit your assumptions, especially the ones you have about yourself

Focus areas and time review

• Business (18.4h – 10%)
  • Earn (7.0h – 38% of Business)
  • Build (4.5h – 24% of Business)
    • Drawing (3.9h)
      • ☑ Post Take Charge of Your Talent to blog
      • ☑ Sketchnote Take Charge of Your Talent
      • ☑ Update collection
    • Delegation (0.0h)
    • Packaging (0.0h)
    • Paperwork (0.3h)
      • ☐ File payroll return
    • ☑ Fix random link on blog
    • ☑ Fix forgot password process
    • ☑ Fix link to introvert stuff on about page
  • Connect (6.9h – 37% of Business)
• Relationships (30.5h – 18%)
  • ☑ Buy LG WH16NS40 internal BluRay drive for W-
• Discretionary – Productive (14.3h – 8%)
  • Emacs (0.0h – 0% of all)
    • ☐ Revise transcript for Thomas Kjeldahl Nilsson
  • ☑ Draw yearly review for 2014
  • ☑ Visualize the connected components in my blog
  • ☐ Collect words and examples from tweets about Emacs
  • Writing (11.0h)
    • ☐ Work on Think like an Emacs Geek
• Discretionary – Play (11.5h – 6%)
• Personal routines (21.1h – 12%)
• Unpaid work (10.3h – 6%)
• Sleep (61.9h – 36% – average of 8.8 per day)