Young Hands Club

1. Blog: gscm, gbw, router setup, bitcoind notes, differential backups, moar outdoorsy photos, maybe something on the local covid politics… 8h.

None.

2. JWRD: remote training setup, landing page, prospective client conversations, other: 8h.

8.6h, of which 5.2h Zoom futzing and .9h phone call with VT prospect. No progress on landing page or training VPS.

3. JWRD: prep and delivery of a first remote training session for Panama student, with reciprocal management instruction: 4h.

3.6h. This got off to a rough start but worked out alright. In the management session, major topics were status of current leads, sales projections, and ideas for expanding the prospect list.

4. Continue TRB/BDB/Boost study: 6h.

None.

5. Personal administration such as insurance and some accounting catchup: 2h.

Nothing on the above, though 2.6h on some web archiving and backups.

6. Young Hands chat, reading, comments: 6h.

5.9h marked as YH and 3.4h as some mix of YH, JWRD chat and old log reading.

7. Unexpected: 6h.

2h – regrind of MP-WP patches plus signing, press test, and blog update.

4.8h – added multi-level aggregation to my time reporting tool “treport”. As this was the last missing piece, I tidied up a bit, wrote usage comments and an install script, and issued a genesis for upcoming release.

2.8h – failed testing of browser-based alt-Zoom favored by some in the Junto group, and emails defending my choice. I had some fun with these and figure I should blog them.

.8h – browsing local classifieds.

4h on Sunday – poking “meetup.com” as a promising target for mining local contacts, as public meeting spots are still pretty restricted.

Subtotal: 14.4h.

8. Weekly review: 2h at 16:30 UTC (12:30 local) Friday.

2.4h; missed target and deadline.

9. Next week’s plan: 1h.

Missed and will have to do later Monday.

Total is 37.5h on (non-household) work. On top of that is 9.3h assorted reading and 4.9h “planning”/pondering/spinning/general misery. Sleep was a bit irregular.

I tried to take the “priorities first and foremost” to heart, but as they stalled they dragged other things I meant to do down with them. I did less than usual with checking in on the plan and adjusting.

Not to pin it all on Robinson, and I find I’m reluctant to say it, but it can’t be avoided saying that his continued half-responsiveness was frustrating and demotivating. At least it’s clear that I’ll need to cut back on expectations, and take on more responsibility for outreach: do or die. I’ll see how that goes and where we stand by the end of the month to decide what next.