Category Archives: Art

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 7/16/2023

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 3/12/2023

Posted on March 14, 2023 by Andy

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 I’ll need to sneak in some more … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 3/28/2021

Posted on April 3, 2021 by Andy

Finances 🤔 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

Posted on November 26, 2018 by Andy

Thanksgiving 🙂 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

Posted on July 22, 2018 by Andy

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

Posted on November 25, 2017 by Andy

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 🙂 The week before last amounted to a revolution in my productivity, if it … Continue reading →

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Update for 7/10/2016

Posted on July 11, 2016 by Andy

It’s strange to me that I find so much to write every time when I normally start out thinking it was a quiet, simple week. Project updates Math relearning – This week I’ll start on my programming approach to this … Continue reading →