ROW80 ~ Sunday Update, 7/10

Update

My original “measurable” goal, set on the fly Monday morning, was to do 3 hours of work, Monday-Saturday. That number feels very small, but it doesn’t include anything that isn’t listed below. It doesn’t include blogging, promo stuff, or anything I might do for my other “job” as webmaster for VOTS. I debated whether I wanted to include the “Personal Growth” category. Those are things I don’t want to fall off my radar and I’m only going to do a section a week, so I left them.

I did my 3 hrs/day Monday-Friday, but I think I want to change that goal to 4 hrs/day and take a full weekend. Which means, retroactively, I’m behind. But I’m okay with that. Maybe I’ll get a hour in today.

I bounced between projects during this first week. I should work mostly on Open Court stuff this week.

Writing
David P. Abbott in The Open Court

Need to decide if I want to add another picture (the file size is maybe starting to get big).
Do a final edit, especially of the final article which makes mention of the photos.
Write an introduction. Drafted
Add front matter. Added, not in final form.
Cover. Worked on.

 One Ahead series


Rename files in a manner that makes sense.
Gather notes and make a timeline of planned stories.
Reread first One Ahead story. Decide on a subtitle.
Rewrite/finish second story. Decide on a subtitle.
Edit pass on second story.
Draft third story.


Publishing
Website

Change the header to be a SSI. Improve accessibility and validate.

update front page
update subpages – Finished PHYSIC, Luck for Hire


Website metrics? – Learned about Awstats and its lack of export ability.
Fix /images  /img – Added. In general, my file structure needs a clean-out.
Update “Other Works” page.
Should I set up a One Ahead page? Cart before horse?
Change blog links to drive traffic to website.

Personal Growth
Courses at Code Academy (one section per week):

Finish Python – two sections left. 1/2
Learn SQL – four sections
SQL: Table Transformation – four sections
SQL: Analyzing Business Metrics – two sections