Category Archives: Weeknotes

Weeknote for 9/3/2023

Posted on September 3, 2023 by Andy

Math 😐 I tracked down my notes from earlier generations of this project. That’s about all I gave myself time to do. This week I’ll make any flashcards I’m missing from prealgebra. AI 🙄 I spent too much of my … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 8/27/2023

Posted on August 28, 2023 by Andy

Life maintenance :relieved: I bought a new 12-inch skillet and some clothes. My old skillet has needed replacing for years, and I hope having a new one will at least temporarily motivate me not to procrastinate on cooking. My wardrobe … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 8/20/2023

Posted on August 20, 2023 by Andy

Life maintenance 😐 I didn’t fix my sleep schedule, but I did take a break from pushing myself to work on things. This week I’ll do some invoicing and look into some purchases that have been waiting. Productivity 🙂 My … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 8/13/2023

Posted on August 19, 2023 by Andy

Art 😐 I learned Blender’s basic interface from the first few chapters of Blender for Dummies. That’s as far as I could get in a week. I maybe could’ve gotten into some modeling with Learning Blender’s more tutorial approach, but … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 8/6/2023

Posted on August 6, 2023 by Andy

Art 🙂 I did the first few exercises in Presto Sketching. The first two were for confidence building (shown last in the Instagram post), and the rest were basically warm-up. This week I’m trying out 3D modeling, but I’ll try … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 7/30/2023

Posted on July 31, 2023 by Andy

Writing 😎 To wrap up this iteration on creative writing, I listened to Matt Bird’s excellent Secrets of Story and turned my attention to short stories. Those are the kind I expect to write, so I found a book on … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 7/23/2023

Posted on July 24, 2023 by Andy

Writing 😎 I collected my story ideas and found a literature textbook to study. The story ideas were random ones I’d recorded in my notes apps the past few years. They tend to be about social thought experiments, bizarre science … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 7/16/2023

Posted on July 16, 2023 by Andy

Productivity :thinking: I decided to try improving my schedule tracker in Google Sheets rather than moving it to Notion. I was convinced I’d move it, but then I didn’t want my Notion to become unusably slow from a ballooning database. … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 7/9/2023

Posted on July 11, 2023 by Andy

Productivity 🙂 Starting on another iteration of productivity system improvement gave me a burst of productivity motivation. I returned to a normal sleep schedule, cut out background distractions to improve my focus, and used countdown timers to limit my open-ended … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 7/2/2023

Posted on July 3, 2023 by Andy

Programming :thinking: I reviewed my Agile sources for their advice on project initialization to learn how requirements fit into the Agile lifecycle. They fit uneasily, it seems, since Agile enthusiasts like to keep specification informal and minimal, but the authors … Continue reading →