Weekly review: Week ending September 25, 2015
Posted: - Modified: | review, weeklyWe spent Saturday reorganizing the pantry and freezer, throwing out things that had long since expired. We dedicated an eye-level area for snacks and things that weren't too far past their expiration date, and we've been making excellent progress going through these. The new system seems to be working well.
Two sewing milestones! I modified a pattern to add a zipper and a gathered section, and that worked out nicely. I also sewed my first buttoned shirt. It looks recognizably shirt-like, hooray! I want to make a few comfy flannel shirts, but a wide-ranging search of fabric stores didn't turn up the kind of flannel I was looking for. Oh well, I'll just keep looking. In the meantime, I've added quite a few yards to my stash. I look forward to sewing my way through them. I'm also curious about generating SVG patterns based on measurements, especially if I can use them (with a little modification) for laser cutting.
A couple of new things for cooking, too. We've settled into a bubble tea / ginataan routine at home, both nice afternoon treats. I learned how to make tapioca pearls from scratch, too. I made corned beef steamed buns using a bun mix from the Asian supermarket. The dough needs a little work, but the filling was perfect. Yum.
Motivated by a podcast session on Friday with Daniel Gopar (we talked about the Emacs community), I finally got around to splitting up the Emacs Conf 2015 videos into individual talks and assembling them into a playlist.
Whee! Next week: Paperwork, sewing, and hanging out with people…
Blog posts
- Weekly review: Week ending September 18, 2015
- Update on Emacs Conf 2015 videos; Org Mode tables and time calculations
- Bubble tea and tapioca pearls
Sketches
- Journal
- 2015-09-20e Week ending 2015-09-18 -- index card #journal #weekly
- 2015-09-19b Saturday -- index card #journal
- 2015-09-20f Sunday -- index card #journal
- 2015-09-21a Monday -- index card #journal
- 2015-09-22a Tuesday -- index card #journal
- 2015-09-23a Wednesday -- index card #journal
- 2015-09-24a Thursday -- index card #journal
- 2015-09-25a Friday -- index card #journal
- 2015-09-19a What would be in my kitchen of the future -- index card #tech-and-home #technodomesticity
- 2015-09-20a How do I want to organize sewing patterns -- index card #sewing #organization
- 2015-09-20b What can I do or make for myself -- index card #life #routines
- 2015-09-20c How do I feel about various interests -- index card #motivation #hobbies #interests
- 2015-09-20d Using this time well -- index card #preparation
- 2015-09-22b DIY, needs, and wants -- index card #making #sewing #cooking #hobbies
- 2015-09-25b Pattern-making -- index card #sewing
Focus areas and time review
- Business (11.3h – 6%)
- Earn (5.6h – 49% of Business)
- Build (5.4h – 47% of Business)
- Drawing (3.0h)
- Paperwork (0.0h)
- Connect (0.4h – 3% of Business)
- Relationships (0.0h – 0%)
- Discretionary – Productive (24.3h – 14%)
- Emacs (6.2h – 3% of all)
- ☑ Process Emacsconf videos
- ☐ Announce Emacs Hangout
- ☑ Check out open source tools for patternmaking
- Sewing (14.6h)
- ☑ Make buttoned shirt
- Writing (1.6h)
- Emacs (6.2h – 3% of all)
- Discretionary – Play (13.9h – 8%)
- Personal routines (31.0h – 18%)
- Unpaid work (22.2h – 13%)
- Sleep (65.1h – 39% – average of 9.3 per day)