Tuesday January 9, 2007 8:10 am Lethbridge Sunrise 8:27 Sunset 16:50 Hours of daylight: 8:23

A. Morning Musings

8:10 am It is +2 C at the moment with a high of +9 C forecast.

From rear window	South patio
Both images taken at 11:40 am

B. Plan

Immediate
Health	Walk & exercise	1 hr
Technology	Begin reading "iPhoto"	1 hr
	Learn to use digital photo storage device (Epson P-3000)	1 hr
	Digital photography - learn about using the various manual settings	1 hr
Literature	Continue reading "Virginia Woolf: The Inner Life" by Julia Briggs	1 hr
Later
Chores	Investigate water softeners for home
Technology	Read manual for cell phone
	Make notes for chap. 4 of "Switching to the Mac"
Mathematics	Read "Fearless Symmetry" chap 9: Elliptic Curves
Model Trains	Add ground cover to oil refinery diorama
	Continue assembly of coaling tower
	Purchase DCC system
History	Read Watson "Ideas"
Philosophy	Read & make notes for "Breaking the Spell"
GO	Complete reading "Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go"
Puzzles	The Orange Puzzle Cube: puzzle #10

C. Actual/Note

	Technology 05 January 9
Technology Notes
7:45 PM I spent about an hour this morning with the Epson P-3000 photo storage device.   I focused on the steps necessary to transfer images from the camera to the P-3000. Basically I follow a few menu options on the P-3000 screen and that is all there is to it. The second task is to transfer the images from the P-3000 to my iPhoto library on the laptop. I had some difficulty with this at first as I failed to realize that I needed to focus on the laptop screen rather than the P-3000. Once I figured this out, the rest was easy. The images get stored in an Epson file and then I need to use the Import feature to move them over to the iPhoto library. Not difficult. SUMMARY of the session: I have now tested everything out for the P-3000 and am relatively familiar with the appropriate steps. Another tool almost mastered. Learning in never-ending.

	Literature 05 January 9
Literature Notes
8:00 PM I have just finished reading chapters 8 - 9 of Julia Briggs' biography of Virginia Woolf. Chapter 8 covers the writing of "Orlando" and chapter 9 describes "A Room of One's Own" (which I have read a couple of times). Here are a few quotes from Briggs. link to back cover Orlando (1928) I found this a delightful comparison of life as experienced by men and women during the last 400 years. Briggs points out that this entire novel is based on Woolf's relationship with Vita Sackville-West. "Readers of modern texts must be prepared to let their old habits go, and learn to read in a new way." [p. 123] A Room of One's Own (1929): "She [Virginia] defends the value of fiction by arguing that 'when a subject is highly controversial ... Fiction ... is likely to contain more truth than fact.' " [p. 223] " 'Lies will flow from my lips', she promises, ' but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them; it is for you to seek out this truth and to decide whether any part of it is worth keeping'; here and later she continues to remind her listeners/readers that they must think for themselves." [p. 223 "The chapter [in a Room of One's Own] concludes that however 'unpleasant it is to be locked out ... it is worse perhaps to be locked in'. " [p. 226] SUMMARY of the session: I have now read Briggs' discussion of Woolf's writing of 9 novels and have another 5 to go. Unfortunately, I have not read any of these latter 5. Three of them are in "Selected Works of Virginia Woolf": The Waves, Three Guineas & Between the Acts. The next task is to read "The Waves".

D. Reflection