My birthday was last week. I had fun reviewing the past year. So much has happened, and I've learned a lot: new skills, deeper interests, and so on. Yay!

I've been dealing with a lot of bleahs. W- has taken over cooking and has been wonderfully supportive. With any luck, I should be out of this phase soon.

Still have a hard time with focused thinking, but fortunately, the programming I do for my consulting clients isn't blocked like that. When I find it difficult to write, I fill my mind with reading instead. I've been going through a lot of nonfiction books and science fiction novels from the library, and I've started picking up Latin again.

I've been playing around with doodling a bit more. It's fun sketching a few random curves and seeing where my imagination goes, or gradually shaping a drawing into something that resonates with me.

W- and I finished True Vault Hunter Mode (TVHM) in Borderlands 2, hooray! Now we're going through side missions and occasionally farming loot. I often join him for a few hours of gaming in the evening. Good for in-jokes and shared experiences.

Next week: small steps…

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending August 7, 2015
• Life as a 31-year-old
• August 2015 Emacs Hangout

Sketches

• Journal
  • 2015-08-11a Week ending 2015-08-07 -- index card #journal #weekly
  • 2015-08-08a Saturday -- index card #journal
  • 2015-08-09a Sunday -- index card #journal
  • 2015-08-10d Monday -- index card #journal
  • 2015-08-11e Tuesday -- index card #journal
  • 2015-08-12i Wednesday -- index card #journal
  • 2015-08-13a Thursday -- index card #journal
  • 2015-08-14b Friday -- index card #journal
• 2015-08-10a If our cats ran a cafe... -- index card #cat
• 2015-08-10b Writing -- index card #writing
• 2015-08-10c How do I feel -- index card #fuzzy #blah
• 2015-08-11b Life as a 31-year-old -- index card #review #yearly
• 2015-08-11c Things I am curious about this year -- index card #planning
• 2015-08-12a Yay archive -- index card #writing #blogging
• 2015-08-12b Boundaries for sharing -- index card #boundaries
• 2015-08-12c Productivity -- index card #productivity
• 2015-08-12d Life is pretty good -- index card #life
• 2015-08-12e What could spending more time with people look like -- index card #connecting
• 2015-08-12f Friendships of abundance rather than need -- index card #connecting #friendship #abundance
• 2015-08-12g How would I like to feel about friends -- index card #connecting #friendship

Link round-up

• Business (9.9h – 5%)
  • Earn (4.4h – 44% of Business)
    • ☑ Earn: E1: 1-2 days of consulting
  • Build (5.5h – 55% of Business)
    • Drawing (5.5h)
    • Paperwork (0.0h)
  • Connect (0.0h – 0% of Business)
• Relationships (9.0h – 5%)
• Discretionary – Productive (8.6h – 5%)
  • Emacs (1.7h – 0% of all)
  • Writing (2.1h)
• Discretionary – Play (42.6h – 25%)
• Personal routines (28.7h – 17%)
• Unpaid work (1.0h – 0%)
• Sleep (68.1h – 40% – average of 9.7 per day)