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What are your goals for the week? #155

Welcome to December, the last month of the year. Time to wrap things up for the year.
Slightly odd week here. School was just closed a week for Thanksgiving. They are open today then closed tomorrow then three more days of school. There's a special election Tuesday for part of the county and the schools are polling places.

What are your goals for the week?

  • What are you building this week?
  • What do you want to learn?
  • Are you attending any events this week?
  • Are you doing any of the advent coding challenges? (link below)

This Week's Goals.

  • Continue Job Search.
    • Not expecting much this month. But I'll network and work on updating resume and profiles on job sites.
    • Network.
    • Redo resume.
  • Project work.
    • Content for side project.
    • Work on my own project.
    • Set Content & Project Calendar for December.
  • Blog
    • I want to blog more often and produce more than I did this time last year.
  • Events.
    • Thursday Virtual Coffee.
    • Attend Some Torc streams.
    • Don't know of many local events this week. Since it's the holidays, some meetups combine for a big group holiday party later in the month.
  • Run a goal setting thread on Virtual Coffee(VC) Slack.

How I did last week.

  • 🚧 Continue Job Search.
    • Not expecting much this month. * I did talk with a recruiter on Wednesday. They are interviewing this month but not starting anyone till January.
    • Network.
    • Redo resume
  • Project work.
    • ✅ Content for side project.
    • ✅ Work on my own project.
    • Follow Content & Project Calendar for November.
  • ✅ Test streaming with new modem. * Did some Zoom meetings. Attending some live streams.
  • Blog
    • ✅ I want to blog more often and produce more than I did this time last year. Last year Nov word was count 5,568. So far this year, including this post 2,242.(this was last Monday) A bit behind but I'm working on two more posts for the week.
    • 2,242/5,568 sitting at 5,730 right now. So I beat same month's total from last year. With 12 hours to go.
    • ✅ Finalizing a post on getting some tech upgraded at the house. * posted Link * It is posted below
    • ✅ Search for Black Friday developer related deals. I'll post them Wednesday and update as more are announced. posted below plus a list of developer related advent calendar challenges.
  • Events.
    • It's a holiday week, not sure if there are any events.
  • ✅ Run a goal setting thread on Virtual Coffee(VC) Slack.

Blogs from Last week

Setting up higher speed internet in my office.

Your turn, what do you plan to do this week?

  • What are you building this week?
  • What do you want to learn?
  • Are you attending any events this week?
  • Are you doing any of the advent coding challenges?

Cover image is my LEGO photography. Stitch with fours arms. He's holding a laptop, phone, cookie, and a mug. He's next to a desk with a CRT monitor and keyboard.

-$JarvisScript git commit -m "edition 155"
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