Dusted off an old Rails codebase I hadn't really touched in years, since my former client and my former teammate needed a little help. Fixed a couple of bugs. It was great to have those automated tests.

I wrote some Emacs Lisp code to help me find and fill in missing entries in my daily sketch journal. Given a starting date, it checks the days since then, looking at the filenames in several directories to see if I've drawn a daily entry. Then it displays a list of the missing dates as buttons. When I select a date, it sets up the index card template and displays the matching time entries from my Quantified Awesome logs. It's been pretty handy, since my journaling has been rather sporadic lately.

My sister and my mom have been writing cooking-related posts on Facebook. I realized that I like chatting about cooking, so that might be good common ground. Since I'm still sorting out issues with energy, I'm leaning more towards asynchronous communication (messages versus Skype). I like the undirected general conversation of streams, too.

Oh, and I spent a day running a few errands downtown. It was nice to be out in the sun.

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending July 17, 2015
• What I’m learning from Borderlands 2

Sketches

• Journal
  • 2015-07-19a Week ending 2015-07-17 -- index card #journal #weekly
  • 2015-07-18a Saturday -- index card #journal
  • 2015-07-19b Sunday -- index card #journal
  • 2015-07-20a Monday -- index card #journal
  • 2015-07-21a Tuesday -- index card #journal
  • 2015-07-22f Wednesday -- index card #journal
  • 2015-07-23b Thursday -- index card #journal
  • 2015-07-24d Friday -- index card #journal
• 2015-07-22a What I'm learning from hermit mode -- index card #hermit #connecting
• 2015-07-22b What do I look for in people, then -- index card #connecting
• 2015-07-22c What helps me appreciate people's awesomeness -- index card #connecting
• 2015-07-22d How can I get even better at being the kind of person I would like to connect with -- index card #connecting #growth
• 2015-07-22e What do friends add to each other's lives -- index card #connecting #friendship
• 2015-07-23a Lasagna -- index card #cooking
• 2015-07-24a How do I want to feel about time -- index card #time #pace
• 2015-07-24b What can help me enjoy time that way -- index card #time
• 2015-07-24c What phase am I in -- index card #pace #phase #lifecycle
• 2015-07-24e Thinking about asynchronous conversations -- index card #async #connecting

Link round-up

Focus areas and time review

• Business (17.1h – 10%)
  • ☐ Earn: E1: 1-2 days of consulting
  • Earn (8.2h – 47% of Business)
  • Build (3.5h – 20% of Business)
    • Drawing (3.5h)
    • Paperwork (0.0h)
  • Connect (5.4h – 31% of Business)
• Relationships (5.4h – 3%)

• Discretionary – Productive (2.6h – 1%)
  • Emacs (0.6h – 0% of all)
  • ☑ Announce Emacs Hangout 2015-07-15
  • ☑ Verify Jen's public key by calling
  • Writing (1.5h)
• Discretionary – Play (41.8h – 24%)
• Personal routines (21.4h – 12%)
• Unpaid work (17.5h – 10%)
• Sleep (62.2h – 37% – average of 8.9 per day)