Category Archives: Spirituality

Weeknote for 1/26/2025

Posted on January 27, 2025 by Andy

Productivity 😌 I’m diving back into my productivity system update. My task management has been languishing under my awkward system while the holidays and other things took precedence. But now I’m getting back to it, if I can get past … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 1/19/2025

Posted on January 26, 2025 by Andy

Learning 🤔 In Productive Failure Manu Kapur gave me a bit more courage to try things and fail at them. It’s a deep dive into the research on failure and learning, complete with design principles for lessons that incorporate failure. … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 1/12/2025

Posted on January 17, 2025 by Andy

Decision making 😌 I got some decision making exercise while settling on some new earbuds. They were the last item in my list of electronics to upgrade. Annoyingly, there were a lot of options with no clear winners. So as … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 1/5/2025

Posted on January 6, 2025 by Andy

Health 😕 I came down with something Tuesday and spent the week sick. I assumed it was probably COVID, since that’s the only thing I catch anymore, but my tests came up negative, so I’m guessing it was the flu, … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 12/29/2024

Posted on January 1, 2025 by Andy

Holidays 🙂 We got into the swing of our still low-key vacation. Once Abbie and Colleen arrived, our family gathering felt complete and a bit livelier, though overall it was another quiet week of Christmas together, which mostly suited me … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 12/15/2024

Posted on December 16, 2024 by Andy

Holidays 😌 I finished my Christmas shopping and made some more progress on the gift labels. I want to get through the main work on those in the next few days, but I’m far enough along that they shouldn’t be … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 12/8/2024

Posted on December 8, 2024 by Andy

Holidays 😐 I got the barest start on my Christmas shopping. I was a little too occupied with work and blogging. I did order a new suitcase and a new phone for myself, though, so clearly I had my priorities … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 11/24/2024

Posted on November 29, 2024 by Andy

Holidays 😐 I worked through a big chunk of the Christmas gift label design and then had to switch to updating my Christmas wish list. My family needed the update to start their shopping. My wish list is always a … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 10/20/2024

Posted on October 23, 2024 by Andy

Politics 😌 I finished my election research and made my ballot decisions. Thanks to newspaper interviews and endorsements, the local races were much easier to evaluate. Some of the propositions were tougher, and in those cases I usually end up … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 4/7/2024

Posted on April 8, 2024 by Andy

Learning 😌 I started indexing the lists of mnemonic substitutes in my new sources. I worked from Mnemonic Techniques by Hoff and Remember It! by Dellis. Early on I tried entering the lists themselves, but that took too much time … Continue reading →