Month: June 2012

6/5

A thought on Scott Walker’s holding off the recall in Wisconsin.  Overall, it sucks, and I would have liked to see the guy go.  However, I think we Democrats have gotten far too knee-jerk about supporting unions, in particular teachers’ unions.  In the education world, the pendulum has swung back, and teachers’ unions have become one of the greatest obstacles to fixing a broken system.  Read Class Warfare by Steven Brill; see Waiting for “Superman.”

Today’s Deeds
Did freelance editing — 30 GP
Caught the system up — 30 GP
Did cleaning and other duties — +1 Dut, 15 GP
Wrote 1000 words — +1 Inv, 50 GP
Completed project on time — 20 GP
Read 50 pages — 15 GP
GP subtraction — -122 GP

Leveling up

So, congratulations to me!  After a long slog of cleaning, moving, traveling, and working, I have decided to level myself up to a Level 4 Freelancer.  Somewhere in all the lunacy, I lost track of tracking my activities, though I know I certainly was doing a lot of worthy things.  I’ve started myself even with an extra point in each stat for Level 4, because I’m worth it, baby.  And I’ve set the GP balance to 1000, which sounds about right.  Now we can return to our regularly scheduled activity tracking.

So now I’m looking back on the last week or so.  My deeds for the last several days include, as I recall (leaving out the GP balances, because I’ve really got to get back on track here):
Went for a run with Jane — +1 Sta
A few thousand words’ worth of writing — +3 Inv
Enough freelance editing to merit +2 Fin
Editing a Benjamin chapter — +1 Fin
Read a few hundred pages — no stat points, sadly
Filming a couple of Tiki Huts — +2 Pre
Ran a few errands — +3 Dut
Meeting with colleagues to discuss project — +1 Gen
Attending a peer event — +1 Pre, +1 Gen
Spending quality time with friends and family — +1 Gen

Now time to start keeping track of things in detail, starting today. New post…. go!