Category Archives: Art

Weeknote for 11/26/2023

Christmas šŸ˜Œ I finished the wish list. I ended up choosing several pieces of basic survival gear but only one piece of wall art. I got into the art research and realized it was way too big of a task … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 8/13/2023

Art šŸ˜ I learned Blenderā€™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 couldā€™ve gotten into some modeling with Learning Blenderā€™s more tutorial approach, but … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 8/6/2023

Art šŸ™‚ 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 Iā€™m trying out 3D modeling, but Iā€™ll try … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 7/30/2023

Writing šŸ˜Ž To wrap up this iteration on creative writing, I listened to Matt Birdā€™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 7/16/2023

Productivity :thinking: I decided to try improving my schedule tracker in Google Sheets rather than moving it to Notion. I was convinced Iā€™d move it, but then I didnā€™t want my Notion to become unusably slow from a ballooning database. … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 3/12/2023

Finances :thinking: I finished my taxes early, so I did some more investing research. I settled on my international stock fund fund and then got lost in the forest of bond funds. So Iā€™ll need to sneak in some more … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 3/28/2021

Finances šŸ¤” I got partway through my taxes. I did the time-consuming part of organizing my records. Maybe this year I’ll organize as I go. Anyway, I’ll finish the taxes this week. I watched a bunch of videos on diversifying … Continue reading

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Update for 11/25/2018

Thanksgiving šŸ™‚ I ended up visiting my brother and his church friends for Thanksgiving. I met his friends a month ago when I was there for my coworker’s wedding. I didn’t talk a lot either time, but compared to my … Continue reading

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Update for 7/22/2018

Life maintenance Just kidding, I guess. I’m moving after all. At the end of July. A lot happened last week. My top choice of apartments wasn’t going to be ready till after my lease ended, so I was thinking I’d … Continue reading

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Update for 11/19/2017

Last week was calmer. It was also largely taken up by trying to write the previous blog post. So this entry is a little shorter. Productivity šŸ™‚ The week before last amounted to a revolution in my productivity, if it … Continue reading

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