Category Archives: Spirituality

Weeknote for 5/10/2020

Posted on May 14, 2020 by Andy

Text-to-speech 🙂 A few weeks ago when I included an audio version of my post, I had a couple of (off-blog) comments about the unexciting tone of the text-to-speech voice Noah, and though I had sampled far blander voices, I … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 4/26/2020

Posted on April 26, 2020 by Andy

Text-to-speech Even though I’ve now subscribed to Play.ht, it seems I’ve already exhausted my quota of words, so this week’s audio will sadly have to wait. In the meantime, if you use Chrome, try the Pericles extension. Learning After carefully … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 4/12/2020

Posted on April 12, 2020 by Andy

Productivity 😎 In my continual quest not to waste my life, I seem to have taken a couple of significant steps forward in the past week, if they last. At the beginning of the week I picked up an idea … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 4/5/2020

Posted on April 5, 2020 by Andy

Programming 😐 I devoted almost the full 10 hours allotted to the project last week (Data Structures and Algorithms in Java by Robert Lafore), but I spent most of that time figuring out meta issues, like how exactly to take … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 3/22/2020

Posted on March 26, 2020 by Andy

Learning 🙂 I had the notion that Josh Kaufman’s book The First 20 Hours would help me plan my projects, since many of them are about learning new skills, so I listened to that early in the week with the … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 2/23/2020

Posted on February 25, 2020 by Andy

Sleep 🙂 After my degraded time management the week before, I had some success getting to bed earlier last week by using a Pomodoro timer to break up my work at the computer, which kept me from losing track of … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 1/12/2020

Posted on January 16, 2020 by Andy

Conceptual modeling 😐 At the beginning of the week I decided my original plan to immediately make a spreadsheet didn’t really fit the material, and if I tried it, I’d end up with only a superficial understanding of the content. … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 12/1/2019

Posted on December 5, 2019 by Andy

Christmas labels 😐 I got myself over the major hurdle in the work, once I managed to stop procrastinating toward the end of the week, but I still have the final products to make, so I’m giving myself another week, … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 11/24/2019

Posted on November 26, 2019 by Andy

Christmas labels 🤔 I got past a milestone, and I’m hoping to finish these this week, or at least the main part of the work. I’ve been feeling procrastinatory because whenever I try something new with the intent to create … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 11/17/2019

Posted on November 19, 2019 by Andy

Christmas labels 😐 I got the planning done and a tiny bit of work. I’ll need to do a big push this week to make sure I don’t fall behind my schedule. Life maintenance 😐 I’m still working through my … Continue reading →