Weekly review: Week ending November 6, 2015

Posted: Nov 9, 2015 - Modified: May 29, 2019| review, weekly

It was warmer and sunnier than usual, which felt great. Lots of long walks, and even a sunny afternoon on the deck.

More interactions with people, too. I made it out to Hacklab and helped with Tuesday's dinner. On Friday, another friend dropped by and we went for a walk in the park.

Lots of coding this week. More progress on the scraper I've been working on, and some ideas for other prototypes my clients want me to build. Whee! Some fun on the Emacs front, too. I finally set up org-protocol, and I'm looking forward to playing with more integration points.

I filed my corporate taxes, yay! I'd done most of the figuring out in September before my fiscal year end, so it was mostly a matter of updating the numbers with the final statements from the bank and doublechecking all the calculations before submitting it to the government. Looks like everything's good.

I might tilt the balance towards consulting a little bit more over the next couple of months. There are a few projects that might be interesting to pull off, and the team would probably find them very helpful. I can move the time from things like Latin and sewing, which I can reduce without much of a tradeoff.

Onward!

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Sketches

Focus areas and time review

Business (24.9h – 14%)
- Earn (13.0h – 52% of Business)
  - ☑ Prepare invoice
  - ☑ Do monthly data dump
  - ☐ Start second scraper
  - ☐ Draft browsing interface
- Build (8.4h – 33% of Business)
  - Drawing (0.0h)
  - Paperwork (2.5h)
    - ☑ Include September bank statements
    - ☑ Do Paypal USD conversion
    - ☑ Do HST quicktax calculation
    - ☑ Credit personal amounts
    - ☑ Doublecheck prepaid expenses
    - ☑ Write reimbursement cheque
    - ☑ Finalize return
    - ☑ File federal return
    - ☑ File HST return
    - ☑ Set up quarterly payments
- Connect (3.5h – 14% of Business)
Relationships (9.3h – 5%)
- ☑ Have dimsum with family
- ☑ Hang out with Jen
Discretionary – Productive (12.3h – 7%)
- Emacs (2.8h – 1% of all)
  - ☑ Do another Emacs review
  - ☑ Set up a nested hydra
  - ☑ Play with melpa stats
  - ☑ Update missing podcast episode
- Sewing (1.2h)
- Writing (1.4h)
- ☑ Check out Stoic Week
- ☑ Update Quantified Awesome goals
- ☑ Rake leaves
- ☑ Investigate library xml dump
- ☐ Check out Stoic Week
- ☐ Do another Emacs review
Discretionary – Play (26.0h – 15%)
Personal routines (21.0h – 12%)
Unpaid work (9.4h – 5%)
Sleep (66.1h – 39% – average of 9.4 per day)