This week marks (hopefully) the end of 3 weeks of serious overtime (60+ hours a week, 6-7 days a week). Needless to say, I've been thinking a lot about overtime... Let's talk about it.
Quarterly Goals - September 2018
This coming quarter is a sober one. Skipping the 'why', there are things that I feel compelled to do to have a prepared life. That said, let's jump into it!
My Goals Due September 2018
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- Tech Dungeon Game Prototype
- This comes from the partial work done last quarter. A real-time text-based squad dungeon crawler, the text-based part is already in place. What's next is random level generation, enemies, better code for the game timers, and finally something fit for showing off on GitHub.
- Letters to Myself
- I will write letters of advice to myself at certain ages. What would you tell your seven-year-old self? Your seventeenth? The goal provides me an opportunity to address mistakes, clarify my own learning, and leave something organized in terms of a life philosophy so far.
- World-Build Diesel Dark (Working Title)
- Diesel Dark allows me the opportunity to write grimdark stories outside of the Warhammer 40K universe, i.e. intellectual property. Set on an alien Earth, by September I will have described the fungal beasts, tireless aliens, crumbling barriers, underwater cults, crazed nomads, walking mountains, fortress spires, and dying orbital cities. Maybe a story or two will creep in as well!
- Two Blog Posts Monthly
- Self explanatory. Won't hold myself to much criteria here, except that I ought not to rely on these "Quarterly Goals" articles to save me.
- Clear Reddit / Facebook Saves
- Do you collect online articles like lint on black velvet? I know I do. And I'm going to get my act together on this regard.
- Warhammer 40,000 Loglines
- Warhammer has been my crutch for the last two-to-three years. In that time a mound of concepts and storylines nearly snuffed out original stories. To fix that, I'll title and add up to a manuscript in length of content for each tale. If sometime in the future I wish to take up these thoughts again, they'll be nicely prepared to receive me.
- Remove All Excess Property
- I failed to sell all but one book last quarter. This time, the ante is upped by my forced removal of all excess property that plagues my home. Getting money for these would be nice, but the bin is free of all effort.
- Refresh C#
- When was the last time I formally studied C#? University? Whatever the case, there's a collection of tasks I've charged others to accomplish when attempting to learn C#. I'm not above these tasks myself, so it should be a fine refresher of my favorite language.
- Visit Family
- It's been awhile. I am fixing that.
- Will
- Everyone needs a will to plan their estate. Time not to talk about what I want my funeral to be like. Rather, leave no doubt as to my last intentions.
That's a list! In addition to the above are two personal goals (no worries - I'll hit those just as steadfastly!). Twelve in all, I'll be occupied without a doubt. Wish that all my intentions turn out in these endeavors!
If you missed the review of June's goals, you can find them here. As a reminder, this system is based off of YouTuber Jenna Moreci's technique. It works for her and with edits drives me too.
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