Weekly review: Week ending February 20, 2015

Posted: Feb 22, 2015 - Modified: May 29, 2019| review, weekly

Wow, that was actually a pretty full week: an extended family dinner that required dressing up, technical issues with my work laptop and with my cellphone, cooking, dusting off my sewing things, meeting people, contributing to code… This week, I have a couple of social and family things planned. I'm looking forward to digging into sewing a little more, too, so that I can practise while I remember. =)

2015-02-23b Week ending 2015-02-20 -- index card #weekly

Blog posts

Sketches

Definitely slowed down when I changed my target from five cards a day to one card.

Link round-up

Oleh Krehel: Two new Hydra colors – pink and teal: It just keeps growing! I'm starting to get confused by the colours, though, so maybe regularly-named synonymous options would be nice… =)
Prioritize Your Goals with This Simple Two-Question Test: "What is the one thing you want to pursue right now? Can you focus on that for at least a month?" Gosh. An entire month. That's hard to imagine, but maybe I can work up to that.
Poor Man's UML / Emacs Artist Mode and Ditaa Demo: Because Emacs.
A Dent in the Universe: There's something interesting in here about the necessity of creativity.
Using word clouds to get a birds eye view of a large professional programmer's notebook:
Retirement – First of Three Reflections by Alan Scribner and Doug Marshall: Got me thinking about otium.
emacs mpv.el : 【mpv＋org-mode】オーディオブックやセミナー音声(動画)から時間情報付きでメモを取れ！ | 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: Oooh, this can insert the current playback position. Might be handy for transcripts. Needs mpv, which is free and cross-platform.
The Art of Stillness: "The idea behind choosing to sit still long enough to learn about yourself is simple and has been around for ages."

Focus areas and time review

Business (24.0h – 14%)
- Earn (10.5h – 43% of Business)
- Build (11.6h – 48% of Business)
  - Drawing (8.0h)
  - Delegation (0.0h)
  - Packaging (0.6h)
    - ☑ Upload to Createspace
  - Paperwork (0.1h)
    - ☑ File federal annual return
  - ☑ Figure out why library isn't renewing
  - ☑ Fix color detection
  - ☑ Fix e-mail relay
- Connect (1.9h – 7% of Business)
  - ☑ Talk to SAP about Quantified Self
  - ☑ Attend Sketchnote Hangout
Relationships (19.1h – 11%)
- ☑ Help Sean with Emacs
- ☑ Organize get-together with Linda
- ☐ Print tickets
Discretionary – Productive (13.2h – 7%)
- Emacs (6.2h – 3% of all)
  - ☑ Host Emacs Hangout
  - ☑ Look into bounty for code coverage
  - ☑ Set up engines for searching
  - ☐ Revise transcript for Magnar Sveen
  - ☐ Integrate journal with review
- ☑ Read chapter 3 of Intermediate Japanese
- ☑ Back to sewing!
  - ☑ Print out Colette pattern
  - ☑ Find 1.5 yards in stash
  - ☑ Choose additional fabrics for Sorbetto top
- ☑ Buy Moto G from Staples
  - ☑ Set up new phone
- ☐ Read chapter 4 of Intermediate Japanese
- ☐ Review Createspace
- ☐ Investigate Powershell
- Writing (3.0h)
Discretionary – Play (2.8h – 1%)
- ☑ Read synopsis for Die Walkure, watch it
Personal routines (35.8h – 21%)
Unpaid work (13.5h – 8%)
Sleep (59.6h – 35% – average of 8.5 per day)