April 2025: Minecraft, playdates, Bike Brigade

May 1, 2025| monthly, review

April 2025: ✏🎭🚲👕🤔🌱🎮🩹🏘️🪓🔥🌱🔧🎭🐠✍️🥚🌱🖩🚲🐒🫧🩹☀️🎮🛴🚲✏🍨📚

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April 2025 Minecraft, playdates, Bike Brigade

✏ Pictionary
🎭 Charades
🚲 bike playdate
👕 clothes, shoes
🤔 reflection
🌱 gardening
🎮 Minecraft together
🩹 A+: finger cut
🏘️ set up a village
🪓 trial chamber
🔥 blazes
🌱 nether wart, skeleton spawner
🔧 bike maintenance, park playtime
🎭 pretend Minecraft - park
🐠 aquarium
✍️ writing
🥚 early Easter egg hunt
🌱 gardening
🖩 Easter Monster Math Hunt
🚲 Bike Brigade
🐒 monkey bars
🫧 bubbles
🩹 right-size Band-aid
☀️ another sunny day
🎮 experimented with Minecraft club
🛴 scooter parking
🚲 Bike Brigade, trail mix
✏ drawing with Popo
🍨 ice cream
📚 reading, drawing

I worked on some personal projects. I finally got around to adding side notes and footnotes to my blog. I made space by moving the post navigation to the left sidebar. Along the way, I figured out how to add scroll-based highlighting for SVGs, so I can use a drawing as a table of contents. I added sketches to my On This Day page, and I wrote some Emacs Lisp to visualize a specific day or set of days.

The weather's starting to warm up. More of A+'s friends are emerging from hibernation and having outdoor playdates. Yay!

We planted more radishes, lettuce, peas, cilantro, and spinach. We also started marigolds, petunias, chrysanthemums, jalapeno peppers, cherry tomatoes (Sweet Million), and mini bell peppers inside. I tidied my basement desktop and I cleared out some more of my old yarn and fabric scraps, and I sewed a cushion for A+'s chair.

I wrote a few long blog posts. It felt good to take time to explore a thought.

I continued to practise fretting less about homework, and A+ managed to catch up with all the things she needed to do mostly on her own. Things really work out better when I back off and let her take responsibility for it.

We played a lot of Minecraft. We set up a 1.20.1 world with Create 6.0 and the Create: Ultimate Selection modpack. We also figured out how to do port forwarding so that other people could theoretically join us.

I finished the intermediate courses in Simply Piano and worked on more songs. I'm at the point where I need to play through things a couple of times at slower speeds in order to get the hang of them. This is good. It means I'm challenging myself.

A couple of Sundays had pleasant weather, so we did Bike Brigade as a family. That was a lot of fun. A+ and I also went to Ripley's Aquarium.

In May, I want to add more plants to our outdoor garden, sew some swimwear for A+ and me, and see about volunteering for Bike Brigade.

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Time

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Category	Previous month %	This month %	Diff %	h/wk	Diff h/wk
Business	1.0	2.4	1.3	3.8	2.2
Unpaid work	3.8	4.9	1.1	7.9	1.8
Discretionary - Play	0.9	1.6	0.7	2.6	1.1
Personal	10.9	11.6	0.7	18.9	1.1
Discretionary - Family	0.1	0.5	0.4	0.8	0.7
Sleep	33.3	32.2	-1.0	52.5	-1.8
Discretionary - Productive	17.4	16.1	-1.2	26.3	-2.1
A+	32.6	30.7	-1.9	50.0	-3.2

I had a few client requests I wanted to work on, so W- helped me get some more focus time. I feel a little underslept, so I should get better at going to bed instead of staying up reading.

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