The holiday season is here! Taking a week-long break to let my relax by not having to make something every day.
2025 Building Challenge Posts
Making an URSYS App Example
Adding Typescript support to Eleventy
Review of Old Design Work
Improving my Eleventy Atom Feeds
Managing a Productivity Crash
Activity Bingo Board: Layout with Affinity Designer
ETP 5885 Notebook Press Run Prep
Activity Bingo Board Revisions
ETP 5885 Notebook Press Tour
A Silly Pass at Logo Design
Unprofessional Business Cards
Word Counting Calendar PDF Quickie Reuse
Word Counting Calendar PDF Now Available!
Word Counting Calendar Preparing to Code
Word Counting Calendar Simple Beginnings
Articulating Friendship
First skip day due to day trip to Concord, etc.
Making a PDF-LIB Reference
Word Counting Calendar Drawing Blocks
Minimum Progress Despite Nausea
Word Counting Calendar Drawing Blocks II
Writing A Mythical Magical Adventure Cat Primer
Word Counting Calendar Drawing Days
Word Counting Calendar Drawing Spaces
A Restorative Visit to the North Shore
Word Counting Calendar: Alpha Release!
ETP 5885 Notebook Production Update!
Personal Cards Revisited
11/21 - Visiting an Old Friend in Beverly, MA
Experimental Collaboration
Short Productive Sprint Day
Thanksgiving Reset Break
ETP 5885 Notebook back on Amazon!
ETP 365 Day Journal Updated for 2026!
Making a Freelance Services Page
I will be taking a break from November 27 to December 2. During this time, I won't be blogging or doing Month of Blogging activities. I need to unplug, let my brain relax, and also start preparing for the winter weather and end-of-year accounting.
That said, I will do at least 15 minutes of work daily on the current projects to keep them on low simmer. This is to maintain continuity of my plans fresh in my memory. If I go more than 2 days without reviewing an active project, it's much harder to remember what I was going to do next.
The general plan:
- spend 15 minutes a day in the morning doing review of next steps
- prioritize health care planning for 2026
- use end-of-year accounting to help with health care planning
- spend time with family
- physical household chores, holiday decorations, and space improvements
- play around with technology and stuff if it happens to be interesting
Happy Thanksgiving! I'll see y'all in a week! I have a LOT of decompressing to do!
BUILD 27/30: Short Productive Sprint Day
BUILD 28/30: ETP 5885 Notebook back on Amazon!
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