This was a good week for making things. I coded a bunch of patterns and capabilities in the Python-based sewing pattern generator I've been tinkering around with. Now that I can easily rescale patterns and set measurements from the command-line, I can create paper models to test ideas. It was fun doing the math for rotating points and doing simple dart manipulation, too. In addition to programming, I also finished the mass production phase of one of my sewing projects. Yay!

Good cooking this week, too. We tried this General Tsao Chicken recipe – our first time to double-fry – and it was yummmmmy. I made a pan of lasagna, too.

The Latin 101 video course I'd checked out from the library turned out to have a few errors in the guidebook, so I've been using a combination of that and Wheelock's Latin for practice. It's fun feeling things start to make sense.

W- and I started a new playthrough of Borderlands 2, the shooter/RPG we've been playing for a few months now. We picked different characters, so we've been adapting to the new playstyles required.

Some fuzziness and tiredness, but such is life. Taking it easy. =)

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending October 23, 2015
• 2015-10-26 Emacs News
• Programmatically rescaling and manipulating the darts in sewing patterns
• Python + sewing: Making basic shapes and splitting up larger patterns

Sketches

• 2015-10-25a Week ending 2015-10-23 -- index card #journal #weekly
• 2015-10-24a Saturday -- index card #journal
• 2015-10-25b Sunday -- index card #journal
• 2015-10-26a Monday -- index card #journal
• 2015-10-27a Tuesday -- index card #journal
• 2015-10-28b Wednesday -- index card #journal
• 2015-10-29a Thursday -- index card #journal
• 2015-10-30a Friday -- index card #journal

Link round-up

• Business (29.7h – 17%)
  • Earn (10.0h – 33% of Business)
    • ☑ Attend scraper meeting
    • ☐ Prepare invoice
  • Build (13.3h – 44% of Business)
    • Drawing (1.0h)
    • Paperwork (0.4h)
      • ☐ Include September bank statements
      • ☐ Finalize return
  • Connect (6.3h – 21% of Business)
• Relationships (3.1h – 1%)
• Discretionary – Productive (16.4h – 9%)
  • Emacs (2.6h – 1% of all)
    • ☑ Do another Emacs review
    • ☐ Do another Emacs review
  • Sewing (5.0h)
    • ☑ Add scale to tmtp
    • ☑ Try papercraft tmtp with my measurements
    • ☑ Programmatically rescaling and manipulating the darts in sewing patterns
    • ☑ Add SVG splitter to tmtp
    • ☑ Add seam allowances to tmtp
    • ☑ Sanity-check with someone else's basic bodice block instructions
    • ☑ Python + sewing: Making basic shapes and splitting up larger patterns
    • ☑ Circle skirt pattern
    • ☑ Box tote pattern
    • ☑ Sew box tote prototype
  • Writing (2.0h)
  • ☑ Do a chapter of Wheelock's Latin
  • ☑ Send in form
• Discretionary – Play (17.1h – 10%)
• Personal routines (30.7h – 18%)
• Unpaid work (9.9h – 5%)
• Sleep (61.1h – 36% – average of 8.7 per day)