Scarabaea's beeminder journal

Life
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General impressions

  • Next week I am going to travel away again, so it was nice to mostly be at home this week. We only made another local day trip. It’s good - there’s no need to travel far and to organize something massive with tons of logistics to enjoy spring nature.

New goals

  • 2025_may_pomos - I still have some outstanding things to write up for my project, so I will try to focus on them in another way than a goal to write a specific number of words, which failed in April (see below). More detail in the monthly challenge thread.

Derailments

  • tbr_total - I am still looking for the correct rate where this goal will gently nudge me to stay under the line instead of repeatedly derail on a whim of wanting more books right now. I also noticed that some time ago I defined the goal as date-value instead of rate, so after a few derailments the suggested rate was also way above what I realistically expected to be possible. Ideally this goal should exist with some buffer, so that I can actually always grab on a whim something that is only available right now and won’t be available a few days later (like when my turn comes for a library book or when an ARC is on “read now” at NetGalley for a limited amount of time).

Completed goals

  • 2025_apr_draft - this goal for putting enough words in the document was not working for me in the way it should have, so I derailed and flattened it.

Changes to goals

  • Slightly changed the algorithm feeding tbr_pur_pages_stale: the books that I objectively cannot start reading any moment I would like (e.g. I own a physical copy but it’s in a different country, a library book has expired and I am waiting for my turn to get it again so I could finish it, or an ARC request is pending) do not get “stale”, i.e. increase exponentially. They will start as soon as I have the access. In this way, the number of pages in such books is already accounted for in the total, so that when I get them, I won’t suddenly derail, but isn’t growing, because they are literally not getting older in my hands, as they are not in my hands.
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