Category Archives: Housekeeping

Weeknote for 3/19/2023

Housekeeping 🙂 For my tidying project, I chose a cassette player to order and found some info on taking apart my scanner. The cassette player will let me preserve some valuable old recordings. My scanner has a dead bug under … 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 I’ll need to sneak in some more … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 10/2/2022

Life maintenance ? I narrowed down my candidates for primary doctor and ranked them to clarify my options. This week I’ll try to make an appointment with one of them for the annual physical I’ve been postponing since the start … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 2/13/2022

Website ? I’m fixing the wiki side of the website. If you hadn’t noticed, the front page of this site used to point to a page that looks like Wikipedia, and now it points to this blog. At the end … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 2/6/2022

Productivity ? I got through another page of the Org guide, and then I made a cheat spreadsheet. It’ll let me sort by different pieces of info so I have a more flexible way to review the many, many commands. … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 11/14/2021

Christmas labels ? I made decent progress. I’m about at the place I hoped to be a week ago. Programming ? I snuck in some Haskell learning and finally finished unit 2. Since this is going more slowly than I … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 6/27/2021

Productivity ? I made a couple of interval timers to march me through my morning and night routines. A sign of a disturbed mind, I’m sure. I chose those routines because in theory they should fit into reliable time frames, … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 6/13/2021

Finances ? I finished my expense goal calculations with grad school and a pet. For grad school I chose about 20 schools for AI and cognitive science based on their rankings at US News and CollegeHippo, and I gathered tuition … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 6/6/2021

Finances ? I started researching grad school costs. What I’ve learned so far is that university websites are confusing. I’m going to try not to get lost in the details, because right now I’m only looking for ballpark figures. I’m … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 5/30/2021

Finances ? I examined some opinions on long-term care insurance. I spent more time on them than is really called for at this stage of this project, since I’m only collecting costs, but I’ll need to look into it sometime … Continue reading

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