Topic - Now

Last updated: [2025-04-01 Tue]

Following the idea of having a /now page, here's what I'm thinking about or working on these days.

Plans for April 2025: (see my March 2025 review):

• Get better at enjoying life with A+ and W-
  • Keep replacing fretting with snuggles and connection
    • Use her drawing homework as sketching practice for me too
  • Look for more field trip possibilities
    • Pick up pottery workshop results, consider another pottery wheel workshop
    • Explore more recipes, especially as more local produce becomes available
    • Little Canada?
    • Royal Ontario Museum?
  • Enjoy more fruits and vegetables
• Playdates: Popsicles, biking, farmers markets…
• Tech:
  • Dust off my postponed ideas and projects
  • Slowly get the hang of automating the BigBlueButton server I offer to Emacs Berlin, Emacs APAC, OrgMeetup, and other Emacs meetups
  • Settle into my learning/reading/drawing/writing workflows
• Writing:
  • Document my workflows
  • Flesh out more topics
• Gardening:
  • Start some seedlings indoors (bitter melon, cherry tomatoes, marigolds, basil; maybe cucumber?)
  • Convert the rest of the grass into garden and amend the soil
  • Direct-sow lettuce, poppies
• Sewing:
  • Might be good to start thinking about sewing more skirts and dresses for A+ and me, and probably new swimwear too.
• Habits:
  • Continue with piano, walking/biking, writing, drawing
  • Ease into some kind of strength thing? Grip strength might be a good place to start. Maybe I can learn some hand-strengthening exercises I can do next time A+'s doing homework on my lap.
• Improve piano skills:
  • Motivations:
    • It challenges my brain and attention
    • A+ wants to sing while I play Disney songs
  • Currently working through the intermediate classes in Simply Piano
• Consulting: ~1-4 hours a week, mostly JavaScript

Let's see if I can get the hang of updating this page monthly.