This month, I experimented with doing my daily
drawings on a calendar grid. Since that meant I
had a nice neat one-page summary of the month
right there, I figured I might as well resume
writing these monthly reviews.
Most of my discretionary time was taken up by
preparations for EmacsConf, which was a lot of
fun. The main things were adding to our organizers
notebook and figuring out our own BigBlueButton
installation.
We still had plenty of time to get outside to the
playground, go for walks and bike adventures, go
skating, and make wontons. On indoor days, we
mostly played Minecraft, Ni No Kuni, and
Supermarket Together. Now that her usual
playgroup's shifting mostly indoors (and tend to
be pretty cough-y when they're outdoors), we've
been going to the ice rink instead, and have even
had a couple of playdates with new friends.
A+ definitely craves more stimulation during
virtual school. The teacher suggested micro:bit
programming, and we've been having fun making
simple programs to run on actual hardware. A+ has
also been learning turtle graphics via Python
programming, and she's quite proud of programming
by typing instead of using blocks. She passed the
first stage of the gifted identifaction process in
the public school board, so we had a couple of
meetings and I scrambled to do some research. I
don't think it'll change much. The Toronto
District School Board doesn't offer virtual
placements for gifted students even if they do
identify an exceptionality, and there probably
isn't anything in their budget for extra resources
for the self-contained virtual school they're
setting up next year. Ah well. We're planning to
take a very chill, non-tiger-parenting approach to
the whole thing, and we'll just have to see how
things work out.
We set up a new desk for A+ near the window, which
let her enjoy more sunlight during the day. In
return, I got to have her old desk setup, so now I
can sometimes get computer time with an extra
monitor (at least when I'm not helping her stave
off boredom).
It was the last month before W- retired, so we
squeezed in a few dental and medical appointments
to take advantage of the remaining coverage. Now
we get to figure out what our days could be like!
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Sketches
Time
| Category |
Previous month % |
This month % |
Diff % |
h/wk |
Diff h/wk |
| A+ |
30.3 |
39.3 |
8.9 |
63.9 |
15.0 |
| Personal |
8.3 |
10.9 |
2.6 |
17.8 |
4.3 |
| Discretionary - Play |
0.2 |
0.0 |
-0.2 |
0.0 |
-0.3 |
| Unpaid work |
3.5 |
2.9 |
-0.5 |
4.8 |
-0.9 |
| Discretionary - Family |
1.0 |
0.2 |
-0.8 |
0.3 |
-1.3 |
| Sleep |
35.8 |
33.5 |
-2.3 |
54.6 |
-3.8 |
| Business |
4.1 |
0.3 |
-3.7 |
0.5 |
-6.3 |
| Discretionary - Productive |
16.9 |
12.9 |
-4.0 |
21.0 |
-6.7 |
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