Last month, I

that in July, I wanted to:

• Continue to take things easy: Yep, definitely did that. Lots of sleep and video games.
• Enjoy hermit mode: It's wonderful.
• Focus on coding, cooking, and reading: My team won third place at an internal hackathon, yay!
• Walk as often as possible: Yup, did a fair bit of walking
• Water the grass and do some more gardening: The boulevard grass is a little brown, but the backyard is flourishing nicely.

My weekly reviews tell me I actually got a fair bit of programming in, which surprises me because I mostly remember July as sleep, Borderlands, and very little writing. It turns out that I worked a lot more because of the hackathon. I also did a little bit of Javascript and Emacs Lisp for personal projects, too. Neat.

This turned out to be a month of experimenting with posting twice a week: a weekly review, and another post. I prefer more frequent writing, and I'm looking forward to getting back into the groove of that as my brain returns.

I think August will be a good month for working on household projects and getting things ready. Maybe more writing and drawing, too!

Blog posts

• Reviews
  • Weekly review: Week ending July 3, 2015
  • Weekly review: Week ending July 10, 2015
  • Weekly review: Week ending July 17, 2015
  • Weekly review: Week ending July 24, 2015
  • Monthly review: June 2015
• Exploring our grocery numbers
• Gradually evolving my data entry interfaces
• July 2015 Emacs Hangout
• What I'm learning from Borderlands 2
• Pleasure and utility

Sketches

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• Reviews:
  • 2015-07-06e June 2015 -- index card #monthly #review
  • 2015-07-02b Week ending 2015-06-26 -- index card #journal #weekly
  • 2015-07-06d Week ending 2015-07-03 -- index card #journal #weekly
  • 2015-07-15b Week ending 2015-07-10 -- index card #journal #weekly
  • 2015-07-19a Week ending 2015-07-17 -- index card #journal #weekly
  • 2015-07-29c Week ending 2015-07-24 -- index card #journal #weekly
  • 2015-08-03a Week ending 2015-07-31 -- index card #journal #weekly
• Problem-solving and problem-finding
  • 2015-07-05b Thinking about problem-finding -- index card #problem-solving #problem-finding
  • 2015-07-16b Problem-solving and problem-finding - what do I like -- index card #problem-solving #problem-finding #preference
• Connecting
  • 2015-07-01c Thinking about people -- index card #connecting #energy
  • 2015-07-04b Social media updates I like -- index card #connecting
  • 2015-07-04c Ephemera -- index card #connecting #archive
  • 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
  • 2015-07-24e Thinking about asynchronous conversations -- index card #async #connecting
• Time, utility, and pleasure
  • 2015-07-15a Discretionary time and fuzziness -- index card #fuzziness
  • 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
  • 2015-07-25a Pleasure and utility -- index card #choice #utility #pleasure #time
  • 2015-07-25b Utility and pleasure - activities -- index card #utility #pleasure #time
  • 2015-07-25c How can I improve my utility-pleasure choices -- index card #time #utility #pleasure #choice
  • 2015-07-27a Thinking about time and role models -- index card #time
  • 2015-07-27b Pleasure and satisfaction -- index card #pleasure #philosophy
• Phases
  • 2015-07-06a How can I take advantage of this time -- index card #pace
  • 2015-07-24c What phase am I in -- index card #pace #phase #lifecycle
  • 2015-07-26b Plans for next phase -- index card #life #phase #lifecycle
  • 2015-07-26c Thinking about what I want -- index card #phase #lifecycle #planning
  • 2015-07-06c Plans for July -- index card #plans
• 2015-07-01a More grocery visualizations -- index card #visualization #quantified
• 2015-07-01b When is it easy to write -- index card #writing
• 2015-07-04d Persona 1 Bad Ending -- index card #gaming
• 2015-07-05a Book - Better and Faster - The Proven Path to Unstoppable Ideas - Jeremy Gutsche -- index card #sketched-book #business #idea
• 2015-07-05d Which business idea strategies resonate with me -- index card #business #idea
• 2015-07-05e Copycat -- index card #life
• 2015-07-07b What do I want in terms of browser automation -- index card #automation
• 2015-07-07c Ideas for presentation workflows -- index card #automation
• 2015-07-13b What I learned from the hackathon -- index card #geek #hackathon
• 2015-07-15c Things I would like to think, write, and talk about in the future -- index card #learning
• 2015-07-23a Lasagna -- index card #cooking
• 2015-07-26a Figuring out more reading preferences -- index card #reading #fiction
• 2015-07-29b Writing through challenges -- index card #writing #fuzzy #distraction

Time

Category	Last month (%)	This month	Avg h per week	Delta (h/wk)
Discretionary – Play	13.7	22.4	38	14.6
Business – Earn	4.6	9.2	15	7.7
Business – Connect	0.6	1.1	2	0.8
Personal	15.9	15.6	26	-0.5
Discretionary – Social	0.9	0.0	0	-1.5
Discretionary – Productive	4.9	3.4	6	-2.5
Discretionary – Family	4.5	2.6	4	-3.2
Unpaid work	7.5	4.8	8	-4.5
Sleep	39.7	36.9	62	-4.7
Business – Build	7.8	3.9	7	-6.6