Things I did today

Another successful weekend and successful Kinfire battle! I voted early, finished my taxes, which were accepted (both federal and state!) as well as got the Tim Ferriss salad lesson done. Kinfire battle: I also got my car inspected on Thursday morning - passed. And Friday morning, the brake shuddered at the top of a hill and the ABS light went on. I knew I could still drive my car - ABS is pretty recent, my first car didn't have that, so I headed to early vote. It's only 6 miles away. C'mon, what can go wrong? Luckily nothing went wrong , but for a trip I've done multiple times (early voting center is near other places I've gone) it was impressive. First, a guy really threatened to pull out in front of me after doing a fast u-turn in a subdivision entrance, secondly an ambulance came up behind me while stopped at an intersection, so I had to go into the intersection while red, and thirdly, geese. Ugh. Geese. Those guys do whatever they want. They walked in front of ...

Had a pretty good week overall. Made progress on goals, had an excellent steak dinner at Flemings, and was able to finish Hero of the Kingdom this week.  Played another round of Kinfire Chronicles, and the Beast was stunned, but not defeated. The battle was lost - annoyingly due to the randomness of picking tokens from a bag. The bag consists of 14 enemy tokens, 12 player tokens and three time tracker tokens (so you'll never be able to predict gameplay near the end of the bag). The first battle drew 12 enemy tokens, 3 time tracking tokens and only 3 player tokens. For the second phase of the battle, in which the enemy's health was refreshed (and the players' health were not) the enemy tokens pulled were 9, and 2 player tokens before death and a loss. When the enemy gets 4 turns to 1 of yours, it doesn't matter how clever or well you play, you're going to lose. I don't know if it was just bad luck or if some house ruling needs to be put into place here. I played ...

  Week 6: Become a certified Power BI Data Analyst Quarter 1: Finish Power BI Skill Track and do exercises in  The Definitive Guide to DAX  MS Learn Quarter 1: Finish Power BI Skill Track and do exercises in MS Learn Model Data with Power BI 19% ( slow going here due to work ) Build Power BI Visuals and Reports 0% Manage Workspaces and Semantic Models 0% Have a similar level of fitness as my exercise partner Quarter 1: Create daily PT exercises habit Add running to the calendar. Run at least one time (because this week looks rainy) ( I did run once, for a third of a mile. It's a start. ) Achieve intermediate level playing for piano Quarter 1: Play through all of Alfred's Adult Learner 1 and learn five fakebook songs Become proficient in these songs in Alfred's Adult Learner 1: The Entertainer ( 90% ) Somewhere Over the Rainbow ( 80% ) Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas ( 60% ) In The Hall of the Mountain King (in fakebook) ( 5% ) ( Finally, some progression ...

None of my bets panned out, but it was a good game. What did I do this week, and what's on tap for next week?    Week 5: Become a certified Power BI Data Analyst Quarter 1: Finish Power BI Skill Track and do exercises in  The Definitive Guide to DAX  MS Learn Quarter 1: Finish Power BI Skill Track and do exercises in MS Learn Prepare Data for Analysis with Power BI 100% (done) Model Data with Power BI 12% Build Power BI Visuals and Reports 0% Manage Workspaces and Semantic Models 0% Have a similar level of fitness as my exercise partner Quarter 1: Create daily PT exercises habit Increase weights and time for all exercises  (done) Achieve intermediate level playing for piano Quarter 1: Play through all of Alfred's Adult Learner 1 and learn five fakebook songs Become proficient in these songs in Alfred's Adult Learner 1: The Entertainer Somewhere Over the Rainbow Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (at least I'll have enough time for that one) I...

 I slept well, which meant I got up at a reasonable time and was able to get PT and piano done before lunch, with a walk afterward. The evening was taken up by a new board game, the Kinfire Chronicles. It took a little bit of time to read the directions and set up the board, but most of the time was playing quest 1. The mechanics are a little different from other games I've played, but the dragon was defeated and I'm looking forward to quest 2!  Week 4: Become a certified Power BI Data Analyst Quarter 1: Finish Power BI Skill Track and do exercises in  The Definitive Guide to DAX  MS Learn Quarter 1: Finish Power BI Skill Track and do exercises in MS Learn Power BI Skill Track  100% Get Started With MS Data Analytics  100% Prepare Data for Analysis with Power BI  15% Model Data with Power BI  0% Build Power BI Visuals and Reports  0% Manage Workspaces and Semantic Models  0% Have a similar level of fitness as my exercise partner Quarter ...

Timebox for Monday: Week 3: Become a certified Power BI Data Analyst Quarter 1: Finish Power BI Skill Track and do exercises in The Definitive Guide to DAX Complete Case Study Analyzing Job Market Data in Power BI (done) Have a similar level of fitness as my exercise partner Quarter 1: Create daily PT exercises habit Continue habit and find two small times, and one half hour, for PT (still not easy) Achieve intermediate level playing for piano Quarter 1: Play through all of Alfred's Adult Learner 1 and learn five fakebook songs Become proficient in these songs in Alfred's Adult Learner 1: The Entertainer Somewhere Over the Rainbow Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (at least I'll have enough time for that one) Find a fakebook song to learn (Also still not easy) Cook through the 4 Hour Chef Quarter 1: Read through 4 Hour Chef Read the first four lessons (done) Go through the Brent Ozar DBA Mastery courses Quarter 1: sp_Blitz exercises Walk through the second five errors ...

What a lovely Sunday! I don't have many tasks that must be done so I get to relax. The gathering yesterday was a lot of fun and everyone had a great time. I was able to conquer most everything on my list except for PT, which is getting more urgent as my next appointment is on Wednesday. I must get stronger! Let's see how Week 2 went: Week 2: Become a certified Power BI Data Analyst Quarter 1: Finish Power BI Skill Track and do exercises in The Definitive Guide to DAX Complete Case Study Analyzing Job Market Data in Power BI (Only got halfway though the course as I had too many support calls at work. Hoping to finish it up this week.) Have a similar level of fitness as my exercise partner Quarter 1: Create daily PT exercises habit Find three separate times to do 33% of my exercises (This was mostly successful, but was difficult to achieve during the weekend. Much better than weeks prior, and I'm happy about that.) Achieve intermediate level playing for piano Quar...

Week 1 is done - how did I do? Week 1 : Become a certified Power BI Data Analyst Quarter 1: Finish Power BI Skill Track and do exercises in The Definitive Guide to DAX Finish Report Design in Power BI (done, plus the following course is finished!) Have a similar level of fitness as my exercise partner Quarter 1: Create daily PT exercises habit 75% of daily exercises as scheduled for PT (I mostly did some PT daily, but not nearly like I hoped. Need a better plan.) Achieve intermediate level playing for piano Quarter 1: Play through all of Alfred's Adult Learner 1 and learn five fakebook songs Play the first 20 pages of Alfred Adult Learner 1 (Seeing as I'm at page 145 - though not all the recent songs are at 100% proficiency, I've blown past my goal.) Cook through the 4 Hour Chef Quarter 1: Read through 4 Hour Chef Read the first 60 pages of 4 Hour Chef (I did indeed do that.) Go through the Brent Ozar DBA Mastery courses Quarter 1: sp_Blitz exercises Create spreadsheet for...