Sunday January 14, 2007 7:20 am Lethbridge Sunrise 8:24 Sunset 16:57 Hours of daylight: 8:33

A. Morning Musings

7:20 am It is -24 C at the moment with a high of -9 C forecast.

Now for my first cuppa.

I am between sixes and sevens this morning, and there are an infinite number of possibilities in that interval. Learning to use 3rd PlanIt to create a model of my model train layout. Learning to draw, which I have put off for over 50 years. Reading Richard Feynman's "Lecture Notes on Physics", all 3 volumes. Plus Roger Penrose's The Road to Reality. Cross-country skiing - but not until I stop coughing. Having a breakfast sandwich at Tim Hortons. Buying a Tassimo coffee maker. Getting real good at digital photography. Building a fire in the fireplace. Reviewing my books - it is time for a cull. Spending more time with my eyes closed and the iPod on. Playing Go at a higher level. And then there is mathematics, particularly symmetry. Back to my model trains - to get much better at this while running prototypical operations. To return to the beginning: time is both infinite and finite - there are only 24 hours in a day.

Now to return to "Between the Acts" by Virginia Woolf.

From rear window	South patio
Both images taken at 12:20 PM

B. Plan

Immediate
Health	Walk & exercise	1 hr
Technology	Begin reading "iPhoto"	1 hr
	Transfer images from PC to Mac	2 hr
	Digital photography - learn about using the various manual settings	1 hr
Model Trains	Follow tutorial for 3rdPlanIt (Manual p. 3 - 24)	1 hr
Literature	Complete reading "Virginia Woolf: The Inner Life" by Julia Briggs	1 hr
	Read "Between the Acts " by Virginia Woolf.	2 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 07 January 14
Technology Notes
5:00 PM This session began innocently enough - we were only trying to organize a few photos from our recent trip to Cuba. But I soon realized that I was missing (on the Mac) photos from the time before I purchased my Panasonic digital camera. Using a 1 MB memory stick we were able to transfer images from our PC laptop to the MacBook Pro. This took 9 cycles of copying file folders from the PC to the stick, then reading the stick on the Mac, transferring the file folders to the desktop and then deleting them from the stick. We then put the stick back in the PC for the next batch, while at the same time I was importing the images from the Mac desktop into iPhoto. SUMMARY of the session: This took about 2 hours. There are now a couple of new major activities to complete. 1. I need to buy some blank DVDs and copy the images to DVD as backup. 2. I need to edit all of the new images, deleting the unwanted images and keywording the rest. 3. I need to carefully read the chapter in my iPhoto book on the best way to do the first activity.

D. Reflection