It was A-'s first Halloween. I made her a pirate hat with embroidered skull and crossbones, and a vest too. I cobbled together my own quick pirate costume from stuff in my closet, and I made a quick eye patch. Yay! We handed out candy and then took a quick walk around the neighbourhood.

I took A- to the More than Child's Play centre that's in the same community centre as the Peer Nutrition support site. It's a large, clean, well-lit space. She had fun playing with the xylophone. She's also been somewhat interested in bead mazes, although she hasn't quite gotten the hang of them yet.

A- has been working on her motor control. She's managed to gently pet the cat a few times, and has gotten quite adept at dropping and tossing small objects. She can climb up from the carpet to the crib mattress, and from there, to the twin mattress. She's making good progress toward the 9-month milestones, yay!

de Quervain's tenosynovitis now affects both of my hands enough for me to have to be careful during everyday activities. I might need to come up with a different plan for drawing and writing, focusing more on gross motor movements.

Other small updates: It was great going for a walk through High Park with Quinn and Richard. Baking season definitely in full swing. Potato rosemary bread, etc. Pediatrician thinks A- is doing okay, whew. Ready for travel.

Consulting project: figured out how to build that add-on they were asking for, hooray! Also, scraped data from another site for a friend.

Taking it easy.

Blog posts

• 2016-10-31 Emacs News
• Weekly review: Week ending October 28, 2016

Sketches

• Journal
  • 2016-10-31a Week ending 2016-10-28 #journal #weekly
  • 2016-10-29a Saturday #daily #journal
  • 2016-10-30a Sunday #daily #journal
  • 2016-10-31b Monday #daily #journal
  • 2016-11-01a Tuesday #daily #journal
  • 2016-11-02a Wednesday #daily #journal
  • 2016-11-03a Thursday #daily #journal
  • 2016-11-04b Friday #daily #journal
  • 2016-11-04a October 2016 #monthly #journal #review
• 2016-10-30b More discretionary time #time
• 2016-10-30c Reflecting on language #language #parenting

Focus areas and time review

• Business (6.3h – 3%)
  • Earn (3.7h – 58% of Business)
    • ☐ Earn: E1: 1-2 days of consulting
  • Build (1.1h – 16% of Business)
    • ☑ Prepare invoice
    • ☑ Write shareholder's resolutions
  • Connect (1.6h – 25% of Business)
• Relationships (2.6h – 1%)
• Discretionary – Productive (6.0h – 3%)
  • Drawing (3.7h)
  • Emacs (0.0h)
  • Coding (0.0h)
  • Sewing (0.6h)
  • Writing (0.3h)
• Discretionary – Play (0.0h – 0%)
• Personal routines (20.5h – 12%)
• Unpaid work (76.2h – 45%)
  • Childcare (64.4h – 38% of total)
• Sleep (56.3h – 33% – average of 8.0 per day)