Friday, 11/1/2019
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- 35ce3fab-800d-4628-89e2-c52933e94774
Tasks
DONE Set tasks for the day
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DONE Write in daily journal
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DONE Coffee call with Gabriel
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DONE Conference call to discuss Helen's contract
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- JIRA
- https://zoom.us/j/5466412133
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- Bobby is going to get in touch with Helen regarding simplifying her proposal
to just what she plans to accomplish and giving a deliverable that we can
expect.
- Next meeting will be Monday morning and should be pretty quick
DONE Communications
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- [X] Check and respond to email
- [X] Check mastodon
- [X] Write a blog post?
DONE Morning animal chores
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- [X] Milk the goat
- [X] Feed the pigs
DONE Team Boost
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- ZOOM
- https://zoom.us/j/647103643
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What is your favorite book or story from your childhood?
DONE Halloween parade
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DONE Review Andrii's PR 25171
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https://github.com/15five/fifteen5/pull/25171/files
DONE Dishes
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DONE Wiring up Slack to Emacs
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DONE Dinner
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DONE Bedtime
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DONE Watch Poldark
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DONE Write basic tech roadmap of custom attributes
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*JSONField on the User model*
- Pros
- lightweight and very flexible
- Very performant: https://coussej.github.io/2016/01/14/Replacing-EAV-with-JSONB-in-PostgreSQL/
- Cons
- inability to filter on date fields easily
- renaming attributes is painful
*Entity-Attribute-Value model using https://github.com/makimo/django-eav2/*
- Pros
- properly indexed, very fast
- fully filterable and searchable, esp. datetimes
- Cons
- convoluted table layout, with many n joins for each attribute
DONE Add Anne's offer to run Ferry Beach again to agenda
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#+BEGIN_QUOTE
Thanks Colin! So, I know I was very vocal about not wanting to handle registration and Chair next year but I think that was
coming more from a very last minute resignation from Jessica (Belfast) and no programming done. I have had several folks
approach me about stepping up to coordinate various components of the Retreat. I am willing to step into the leadership role
again for our 2020 retreat AND handle the administrative/registration/contract with Ferry Beach. I am hoping we can talk
about the possibility of an online registration at the November CMT meeting and recruiting someone from Belfast to coordinate
workshops. I look forward to seeing the evaluation. BTW, I have absolutely LOVED watching your family grow and connecting
with you children. You and Emma can call me to watch the munchkins if you want a date night! 565-2057
Anne
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DONE Type up the results to the Ferry Beach survey
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DONE Check for CMT survey results and send update to mailing list
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DONE Set a date for the soccer banquet
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DONE Email Elaine about soccer trophies
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DONE Watch David's talk on good editors
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWa0S60f530
Journal
So I thought the big storm was going to be mostly yesterday and overnight, but
the strongest winds appear to be this morning. The bus was delayed and the kids
were mostly still sleeping when I woke up. Well, the girls. The boys were all
awake and clamoring for candy :)
I made coffee and headed downstairs, which is a first in a while. I usually
spend some time setting tasks upstairs and helping out with things. But dishes
were done yesterday and we didn't do dinner at home, so there was nothing to
clean up, and I had meetings to prepare for, including one regarding hiring
Helen Miller for fundraising ME 200 that I'm feeling a little out my league
with. Bobby and Bill have WAY more experience as execs and yet I'm the chair :(
I'm pleased with myself these days though, as I've gotten back to reading a bit
more. I'm plowing my way through Dracula and really enjoying it. The fourth
chapter was way creepier than those that came before it. I was afraid the book
was going to be "scary for when it was written". Instead it's just creepy.
I need to do a better job of embracing /amor fati/ more often. Just yesterday we
got stuck in Bucksport for an hour longer than we meant to because we stopped to
see Kember really quickly. Heather asked if the girls could go trick or treat up
by the high school really quick, so we said sure because we still needed to pick
up the pizza. When we got back with the pizza we waited for more than half an
hour for contact and finally met up with Heather and the girls 45 minutes later.
We ended up getting back to Castine really late and everything had shutdown at
town hall. It was really disappointing at the time, but the kids were positive
about the whole thing.
Accepting fate and managing expectations are surprisingly similar.
---
After reading [[http://yiming.dev/blog/2019/05/22/my-gtd-workflow-2019-ver/][about GTD from Yiming]] today I think I'm going to try experimenting
with adding deadlines to my someday tasks. Not necessarily as a mechanism for
getting things done, but to at least surface and re-prioritize things.
There's a lot of stuff that goes by the board for me. I get distracted. I have a
meeting and talk about something. I'd love to make Emacs and Org Mode more of a
second brain than just a dumping ground for my one brain. The best way to do
that is to re-surface things occasionally.
---
Emma was telling me when I went upstairs to do animal chores today how windy it
was this morning. The constant wind was strong, but gusts would send the trees
across the street almost horizontal. Truly an amazing day. The wind is supposed
to continue through this afternoon too.
Report
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| Tags | Headline | Time | % |
|------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+---------+-------|
| | *Total time* | *12:57* | 100.0 |
|------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+---------+-------|
| | Friday, 11/1/2019 | 12:57 | 100.0 |
| | \_ Tasks | 12:57 | 100.0 |
| @personal, tasks, daily | \_ Set tasks for the day | 0:07 | 0.9 |
| @personal, habit, journal | \_ Write in daily journal | 0:21 | 2.7 |
| @15five, meeting, coffee, gabriel | \_ Coffee call with Gabriel | 0:17 | 2.2 |
| @town, steering, me200, meeting | \_ Conference call to discuss Helen's... | 0:25 | 3.2 |
| @personal, email, comms | \_ Communications | 0:56 | 7.2 |
| @farm, chores, animals | \_ Morning animal chores | 0:34 | 4.4 |
| @15five, meeting, boost | \_ Team Boost | 0:23 | 3.0 |
| @family, halloween, parade, school | \_ Halloween parade | 1:58 | 15.2 |
| @15five, pullreview | \_ Review Andrii's PR 25171 | 0:06 | 0.8 |
| @home, chores, dishes | \_ Dishes | 1:10 | 9.0 |
| @personal, emacs | \_ Wiring up Slack to Emacs | 0:39 | 5.0 |
| meal, dinner, @family | \_ Dinner | 1:21 | 10.4 |
| @family, kids, bedtime | \_ Bedtime | 0:38 | 4.9 |
| @family, tv, poldark | \_ Watch Poldark | 1:13 | 9.4 |
| @15five, customattrs, techmap | \_ Write basic tech roadmap of custom... | 1:19 | 10.2 |
| @church, cmt, ferrybeach, survey | \_ Type up the results to the Ferry... | 1:25 | 10.9 |
| | \_ Watch David's talk on good editors | 0:05 | 0.6 |
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