The Ghost of New Years Present: Part 4 / 5 – The Soul quadrant
The Soul quadrant is about expressing myself or engaging with my community, and includes my Website Setup, Writing, Blogging, Photography and Volunteering. It also frequently interacts with the other three quadrants as I write about all the categories as I go through the year.
Website Setup
I usually think of website set-up as part of the mind quadrant, but with the focus shifting from design to communications, I think it’s a different quadrant now. After surviving a large catastrophe last year, I rebuilt my site and simplified a bunch of elements. I likely need to transfer it over to a new server at some point in the distant future, i.e. 2-3 years, but for now, it’s fine. My focus is mainly on adding photos, but that’s not so much setup, as just populating content. I have some areas in my writing to add, but that is more about writing than how they go on the website.
At the end of the year, I want a streamlined system with simplified workflows.
ROCKS
- Create single template for all blog types, ditch reusable
GRAVEL
- Expand PandA Gallery index
- Find solution for PolySpring
SAND
- New branding: PolyWogg Guides to…
- New branding: PolyWogg Trivia
Writing
I have already pumped out 50K words on my new draft of the HR Guide, and I want to finish it this year. I would love to plan to get to my fiction writing, but I think that is a topic for November’s NaNoWriMo. In the meantime, I’ll likely turn to my Astronomy Guide. I haven’t decided yet what I’m going to accomplish for my reviews and stuff, but I know I like writing series of posts (like this one, part 4 of 5).
By the end of the year, I want to have used my writing dashboard regularly, completed my HR Guide early, and written numerous series for the website. I’m also hoping to start on the astronomy guide but we’ll see how the research goes for that, over in the Astronomy heading (part of the Mind quadrant).
ROCKS
- Update writing dashboard: 2022
- NF goals
- Blogging metrics
- Bloggables
- HR 2022: Introduction
- HR 2022: Know yourself
- HR 2022: Know the Government
- HR 2022: Understanding The Process
- HR 2022: Finding Jobs
- HR 2022: Applications
- HR 2022: Written Exams
- HR 2022: Interviews
- HR 2022: References
- HR 2022: Language tests
- HR 2022: The final answer
- HR 2022: Spotlight: EX Competitions
- HR 2022: Spotlight: Special tests
- HR 2022: Spotlight: Managing career
GRAVEL
- PWGA 2022.1a: Introduction – general
- PWGA 2022.1b: Intro to the Universe
- PWGA 2022.1c: Intro to Astronomy
- PWGA 2022.1d: Practical Astronomy
- PWGA 2022.x: Planning your night
- PWGA 2022.x: S/L: The Solar System
- PWGA 2022.x: S/L: The Stars
- PWGA 2022.x: S/L: Galaxies
- PWGA 2022.x: S/L: Clusters
- PWGA 2022.x: S/L: Nebulae
- PWGA 2022.x: Intro to A/P
- PWGA 2022.x: Further Adventures
- WD tutorials
SAND
- Post my writing
- Carleton book 1
- Carleton book x: Feast or famine – a 4-murder week
- DJ story
- Local court – light was out, ticket, splashing in rain, same date, courtroom sealed for duration of all of the cases
- Scifi: Planetary visit – after a catastrophe, special / secret tunnel access points
- YotG: Grimm Tales, Mythology research
- YotG: Character chart
- YotG: Tracker for Gods
Blogging – Reviews
I noted above that I want to do a bunch of new reviews, and it is a bit anti-climactic for the actual list below.
ROCKS
- Update BR index
- Upload MRs, write new ones
- Recipes: Workflow, post or page or both, indexing, tags
GRAVEL
- Music for one year «
- Music reviews: Workflow, post or page or both, indexing, tags
- Update MR index
- Write new TVRs
- Update TVR index
SAND
- MR: Highlander
- MR: Matrix
- MR: Percy Jackson
- MR: Jurassic series
- MR: Indiana Jones
- BR: Swanson
Blogging – Bloggables
Under writing, I mentioned wanting to do more “series” of posts? Well, here’s the working list.
ROCKS
- Who do I owe in life
- Isolation as a precursor to retirement
GRAVEL
- Humour
- Quotes
- Drake Equation
- Psychology of retirement
- Retirement planning
- Retirement date
- Honeymoon
- Jacob’s father
SAND
- What I learned in elementary school, high school, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, First year Law, MPA 0.5, MPA 1.0, MPA 1.5, MPA 2.0
Photography
I took very few photos in 2021 (or even 2020), nor did Jacob and Andrea. So most of my focus is really about blogging and putting the pics online. And I want to learn how to use GIMP well.
A year from now, I want all my photos organized and up on the website or at least Flickr, to have learned GIMP, and at least seriously started the scanning project.
ROCKS
- Bloggable: Henry’s course
- GIMP training
GRAVEL
- Family photos to Flickr
- Astro photos to Flickr
- LT backup options
- Bloggable: Free photography course
- Bloggable: Free tips cards / Flash cards for learning
- MOOC course (National Geographic)
- Photography event / outing
- New lens choice
- Photo album to scan
- Scan birthday party collection
- Photo for Roula – father, Nico
- Merry go-round photo for Andrea
- Estate photos
SAND
- Photobooks of all the years
- Update e-frame
- Print astro photos + family photos for the wall
Volunteering
I struggled with my volunteer work in the last year, and I’m going to back away from time commitments for it in 2022. I have a few things to finish off, but after that, I’m going to coast for the rest of the year.
ROCKS
- End of year gift giving — Winnipeg, AstroPontiac, Church, Marney’s group
- RASC: Volunteer “code”, Centre materials
GRAVEL
- RASC Auditor report: 2021
- RASC: Star Party Coordinator Report: 2021
- Astro Notes: Publication reviews
SAND
- Astropontiac updates
