Between the three days I have before my friends come visit for a week, I have one day dedicated to saltmines, antoher to taking care of miscellaneous tasks, and the last to working on TheFleet.
1. Monday 03/02
Saltmines (8h)
Revise What-Makes-A-Good-Tragedy Outline (2.5h)
Outline an article that is based on a personal experience (2.5h)
Plan full day trip for the next day.
2. Tuesday 03/03
2.1 Full day trip to take care of various tasks: (print businesses cards, get a haircut, get a pair of backup reading glasses, get a new surfboard fin key, find and take some clothes to a dry cleaner, make an appointment with a doctor, open bank account with another CR bank (BAC), buy jumper cables + get the car washed, put gas in car, go grocery shopping, withdraw cash from atm)
2.2 Daily Writing Exercise – Publish What-Makes-A-Good-Tragedy Article(2.5h)
2.2 Publish Article on Personal Experience (2.5h)
3. Wednesday 03/04
3.1 Investigate memory issue with TheFleet. Restart dead fleet regardless of results (8h)
3.2 Pick up friends from airport in the evening.
03/05 => 03/11
Entertain two friends visiting from the states / Paris. We are going to visit the nearby beaches, and then go see Arenal / La Fortuna. I will try to find time to get some writing or reading done while they are here, otherwise I will be away from my terminal most of the time.
See the change re writing topic from the comment on the review.
Comment by Diana Coman — March 2, 2020 @ 8:01 am
Done & updated.
Comment by Will Haack — March 2, 2020 @ 5:46 pm
Pasting two day timesheets, although I only have time to go over today.
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01/03
8:00AM – 8:45AM Wake up, make breakfast + tea, eat breakfast + drink tea.
8:45AM – 11:00AM Write review + plan for the week.
11:00AM – 11:15AM Design + order business cards.
11:17AM – 1:20PM Finish reading Butcher’s butchered translation of Aristotle’s Poetics.
1:20PM – turn on phone to check messages + learn to fix tire. Can’t do that, taxi friend unavailable. Reading and taking notes on how to change a flat tire instead.
(Time wasted – 7 mins watching surfing videos)
2:30PM – pause study of changing flat tires to begin cooking rice.
4:00PM – finished eating (wow that took a while)
4:00PM – 4:10PM Finished reading fixing tire
4:15PM – 5:07 – Aristotle Poetics Article Outline
5:08PM – 6:25 Sunset surf
6:25PM – 6:31PM Pay rent
6:31PM – 6:41PM Make cup of tea and look at engine part
6:41PM – 6:57PM Side tracked reading trilema http://trilema.com/2019/word-by-fucking-word-you-understand-me/
6:57PM – 7:33PM Finish Aristotle Outline
7:33pm – 7:55PM Plan meeting with surfpal for evening
8:00pm – 11:00PM Met surfpal to play guitar w/ some company.
11:00PM-1:00AM Difficulty falling asleep
Note: Most timestamps for today are best guesses. That the day was unproductive and poorly logged is not a coincidence.
02/03
8:30AM-9:15AM Phone derpage. Played some guitar in the morning as well thinking about previous night.
9:15AM-? Breakfast
?-11:30AM Cleaned up apartment
11:30AM-11:40AM Addressed younghands comment.
11:45AM-2:00PM Saltmines work
2:00PM-3:30PM Saltmines meeting
3:30PM-4:37 Lunch
4:38PM-5:15PM Article Outline
5:16PM-7:45PM Guests over at apartment. Saw a girl I met the previous night, got her number. I drank roughly 2 drinks during this window.
(7:45PM is a rough guess when guests left)
7:46PM-9:00PM Worked on outline. Not very productive, mind was on girl and distracted by drinks.
9:00PM-10:30PM Messaging girl from previous phone derpage
10:30PM-11:00PM Small Dinner
11:00PM-11:37PM Type up of this comment
2. Where did I ask smart questions? Where could/should I have asked *more* questions?
Did not ask any questions today. Not sure where I should have, I think problems lie elsewhere.
3. Where did I deliver on my word and where did I fail to deliver? What did I do to mitigate the fail and what do I need to do + who do I need to talk to tomorrow to sort the fail(s) out?
I failed the word that was my plan. I kinda-sorta made an outline, and did about half the saltmines work. As I type this up I have not gone over what I’m going to do tomorrow and will have to leave that for the morning. I didn’t do anything to mitigate the fail. Tomorrow I won’t be at the terminal much since I need to run around to get tasks done, so I can discuss this failure on Wednesday if necessary.
4. What are the priorities for tomorrow? (those should include whatever you got from 3 above, as *first priorities* and then what comes from looking at the plan and at what you did + where you are
The top priority for tomorrow is to get as many tasks done as possible during my trip to town. In the morning I need to figure out the best route I can take to all the different stores in different places. I may have to go to two separate towns, argh.
Comment by Will Haack — March 3, 2020 @ 5:40 am
What do you consider to be the point of the first question?
Comment by Diana Coman — March 3, 2020 @ 8:15 am
The point of the first question, “what did I spend my time on?”, is to let one review whether efforts to stick to their plan and focus one’s time well landed on always attacking the *highest priority*. The point of the question is not “is one attempting to allocate their time well at all?” The point of _this_ question I gather is to point out that I made no effort to stick to priorities to begin with and therefore neither I nor you can give a review that’s much more helpful other than “stop being stupid.”
Comment by Will Haack — March 3, 2020 @ 2:47 pm
1. What did I spend my time on?
7:30AM-8:47AM Wakeup, contemplate and address comment http://younghands.club/2020/03/02/wh-plan-for-week-21-march-2nd-march-8th/#comment-508
8:48AM-8:55AM Make tea
8:55AM-9:30AM Plan Day Trip
9:30AM-5:15PM Errands done. (Note: tire pressure was imbalanced, that felt good to fix.)
5:15PM-5:56PM Read logs and contemplated severity of saying the right thing but not doing the right thing.
5:57PM-10:18PM Worked on article.
10:18PM-11:00PM Answer questions for the day.
11:00PM-11:20PM Final proofread + publish article.
2. Where did I ask smart questions? Where could/should I have asked *more* questions?
I am not sure if today warranted asking more smart questions, I was away from my terminal. The merit of the topic of my article though is pretty dubious, yesterday I should have asked whether or not it was something worth writing about. I choose to write about surfing because you told me to pick something I know more about. I don’t know what, if anything, I understand “properly.”
3. Where did I deliver on my word and where did I fail to deliver? What did I do to mitigate the fail and what do I need to do + who do I need to talk to tomorrow to sort the fail(s) out?
I failed to deliver on all of the things I wanted to get done today during my errands. The most important two were scheduling a doctor’s appointment and creating another CR bank account. The doctor is the most important. I feel fine but I have not gotten a checkup since I moved here. I can ask my landlord and maybe mp for help finding one.
4. What are the priorities for tomorrow? (those should include whatever you got from 3 above, as *first priorities* and then what comes from looking at the plan and at what you did + where you are).
a. Contact a doctor and schedule a checkup.
b. Investigate issue with TheFleet, restart bot that crashed.
c. Prepare for friends’ arrival.
Comment by Will Haack — March 4, 2020 @ 5:20 am