This week’s report demonstrates the importance of sorting tasks and accomplishments by project, or at least some level of category. I have a few things to consider regarding the organization of these reviews. I’m also second-guessing the use of Tumblr for them, because its support for formatting is somewhat lacking, unless I hack straight HTML.

This has been another busy week of work, with not much time really given over to managing my life. While I was able to accomplish quite a bit on my three days off, I feel I probably could have done more.

Tasks and Accomplishments:

From last week:

• Life Management:
  • [  ] Continue room cleanup & organization
  • [  ] Restate and record current projects, goals for next year, long-term goals, and “meaning of life”
  • [✔] Clean out inboxes
  • [✔] Contact D.K. about helpfulness of supports
  • Reset task management systems
• Education:
  • [  ] Complete unit M3U12
  • [  ] Complete unit M3U13
  • [  ] Complete unit M3U14
  • [  ] Module 3 test
• Toastmasters:
  • [✔] Renew Toastmasters membership
  • [  ] Prepare “Speaking To Inform” project 2 presentation
  • [✘] Present Speaking to Inform #2 project
• Projects:
  • [  ] Fix sleep mode bug in Radio Alarm Clock
  • [  ] Review platforms to replace Drupal 5 on chris.charabaruk.com
• Game Design Workshop:
  • [  ] Send invoice for running seminar in October
• Ad Astra:
  • [✔] Review past department postmortems for Ad Astra
  • [  ] Determine goals for Ad Astra Gaming for 2012 convention
  • [✔] Contact gaming department staff and request ideas for 2012 game events
• Reading:
  • [  ] Read “The Origins of Political Order”
  • [  ] Read “Brave New World”
  • [  ] Finish reading “The Gambler”
  • [  ] Read “The Pragmatic Programmer”
  • [  ] Re-read “Getting Things Done”
  • [  ] Read “Code Complete”
  • [  ] Read “Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs”
• Life:
  • [✔] Find buy new shoe polish
  • [✔] Clean dress shoes
  • [✔] Clean hiking shoes
  • [  ] Return library books
  • [✔] Plan October budget
  • [  ] Research e-readers
  • [  ] Research new cell phones
  • Picked up notebook for L.
  • Converted Skyrim pre-order to collectors edition
  • Ordered “Commodore: A Company on the Edge”
  • Archived completed anime
  • Brought Sega Genesis and games to Retro Gaming Night at library
  • Blogged about Windows 8
  • Blogged about daily tracking forms

For next week:

• Work:
  • [  ] Confirm dates off for October & November to provide to manager
• Education:
  • [  ] Complete unit M4U15
  • [  ] Complete unit M4U16
  • [  ] Complete unit M4U17
  • [  ] Complete unit M4U18
  • [  ] Complete unit M4U19
  • [  ] Take module 4 test
  • [  ] Schedule proctored midterm exam
• Toastmasters:
  • [  ] Prepare note cards for “Speaking to Inform” #2 presentation
  • [  ] Review source material for presentation accuracy
• Game Design Workshop:
  • [  ] Review game design workshop materials and outline
  • [  ] Revise workshop outline for three hour program
  • [  ] Review workshop presentation notes
• Life:
  • [  ] Write blog post on game design/mechanics
  • [  ] Write blog post on life management

Events of Interest:

Monday: 4 / 5 ✭

• Worked
• Felt tired throughout day
• Found out about reimbursement for workshop
• Great dinner!

Tuesday: 3 / 5 ✭

• Work was okay
• About.me MooCards finally arrived!
• Spent too much time in the evening screwing around instead of doing what I needed to do

Wednesday: 3 / 5 ✭

• Worked
• Went to Toastmasters; rescheduled my speech because I felt too unprepared
• Tired all evening

Thursday: 3 / 5 ✭

• Woke up late
• Paranoid worries in the morning about management
• Work was great in AM, good in PM
• Dinner was screwed up by Dad
• Weekly group meeting went well

Friday: 3 / 5 ✭

• Woke up late
• Rain kept soaking me when I went out
• Phone troublesome all morning until the battery ran dry
• Couldn’t talk with my manager about next week schedule, she was away
• Good experience opening new account at TD
• Monthly one-on-one support meeting
• Bus driver to back home had lots of bad attitude
• Running late in afternoon
• Retro gaming night at library; got ride to/from for me and the Genesis
• Clearing out tasks and planning weekend to clear out the rest

Saturday: 4 / 5 ✭

• Talked on phone with manager about next week’s schedule
• Great time with Dad, chatting and shopping
• Progress in Morrowind
• Dad was annoying in the evening

Sunday: 5 / 5 ✭

• Woke up very late
• Watched last episode of Hanasaku Iroha
• Cleared out everything from my physical inbox
• Great dinner
• Great phone calls with family