Category Archives: Spirituality

Weeknote for 12/8/2024

Posted on December 8, 2024 by Andy

Holidays 😐 I got the barest start on my Christmas shopping. I was a little too occupied with work and blogging. I did order a new suitcase and a new phone for myself, though, so clearly I had my priorities … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 11/24/2024

Posted on November 29, 2024 by Andy

Holidays 😐 I worked through a big chunk of the Christmas gift label design and then had to switch to updating my Christmas wish list. My family needed the update to start their shopping. My wish list is always a … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 10/20/2024

Posted on October 23, 2024 by Andy

Politics 😌 I finished my election research and made my ballot decisions. Thanks to newspaper interviews and endorsements, the local races were much easier to evaluate. Some of the propositions were tougher, and in those cases I usually end up … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 4/7/2024

Posted on April 8, 2024 by Andy

Learning 😌 I started indexing the lists of mnemonic substitutes in my new sources. I worked from Mnemonic Techniques by Hoff and Remember It! by Dellis. Early on I tried entering the lists themselves, but that took too much time … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 3/31/2024

Posted on April 1, 2024 by Andy

Learning 🙂 Douglas Hoff recommends Nelson Dellis’s Remember It! as a first book on memory techniques, and I’d say it’s a good choice. My top choice is still Kenneth Higbee’s Your Memory: How It Works and How to Improve It. … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 3/24/2024

Posted on March 30, 2024 by Andy

Learning 😎 Memory Techniques by Douglas Hoff is the book I’ll work through first when I’m designing my own system. I might not recommend it as a first book on memorizing, but it’s an intensive survey of the many techniques … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 3/3/2024

Posted on March 7, 2024 by Andy

Life maintenance 😌 Last week sprang some good surprises, the biggest one being that my health insurance started covering my ulcerative colitis med again. Tuesday’s surprise was that my busy doctor had an opening the next day, so I scheduled … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 2/25/2024

Posted on March 2, 2024 by Andy

Life maintenance 😬 My spring housekeeping was interrupted by a clash with the medical system. I’d learned a couple of weeks earlier that my health insurance had dropped coverage of my very expensive ulcerative colitis medication. The next week, the … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 2/18/2024

Posted on February 18, 2024 by Andy

Housekeeping 😐 For my spring housekeeping, I spent some time on catch-up cleaning and boxing up my accumulated clutter. My kitchen floor and bedroom look a lot nicer now. This week I’ll continue sorting through the clutter and try to … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 2/11/2024

Posted on February 14, 2024 by Andy

Productivity 😌 I made good progress on my Make integration with Notion, which will register a day’s session of work on a task. I’m switching projects now, so I’ll have to pick up the integration again in a few months … Continue reading →