lunatechian (lunatech-ian)

I seem to be having this tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle.

- Arthur Dent

• Health - To say that I have been neglecting my health would be an understatement. I have not been doing any physical exercise - except pushing my chair to get away from my desk. I have gained a lot of weight and have grown wider.
• Volunteer work - This part is balance I guess. I contribute to the PHPCommuntiy and quite a few mailing lists. I have also joined as a developer for addons.mozilla.org website and I am still trying to get my head around the code. The part lacking here is that I do not write enough technical articles.
• Book reading - Currently my reading list has been limited to technical books/webzines/blogs only. I should read at least 2 books each month (self development, literature, fantasy, non-fiction)
• Hacking - Not enough hacking, have not written something which does something utterly cool. One idea floating in my head is to write a "knowledge digger" - a script which when give a word or a starting url, will find the list of key terms on it, will run through wikipedia and del.icio.us and look for urls that give more idea about the terms.
• Fun - The less said about this, the better it will be. Bangalore sucks - there is absolutely nothing to do here. Most of my good friends are in Delhi and to make the matters worse, the LUG meeting (at least the one I attended) was as fun as a funeral .

Quite a lot of this problem can be solved if I get up early, get to the office early, put in 8 hours of work and be back home early. Below is the ideal outcome in each part of my life

• Health - Lose 20Kgs over next 3 months
• Volunteer area - Put 3 hours weekly in writing articles (to produce 2 articles monthly) and put in 1.5 hours of work daily in the u.m.o website code
• Book reading - Read for at least an hour daily. This will not include the time I spent in reading blogs
• Hacking - Think of one cool hack every month and implement it. I think that hacking does require any flash of insight, but simply hard thought. Spend 4 hours every weekend on this.
• Fun - Spend half hour each day in solving puzzles

I also have to find a way to measure how effective I am at following these measures. Each month will have 3 tables - for my daily, weekly and monthly goals. Anytime I reach my goal, I will put a dot in the column. But I have still not worked out the format for recording them. I will have time to do it this evening.