August 22

Wednesday August 22, 2007 3:30 PM Lethbridge

It is +21 C with a high forecast of +21 C. Sunrise 6:31 Sunset 20:37 Hours of daylight: 14:06

A. Morning Musings

3:30 PM

We are back from a week-long trip to Edmonton. It always feels good to be home.

We stopped beside the highway on the road between Claresholm and Barons to do a little birdwatching at a slough that was full of birds. It was difficult to get a good identification of most of them as we were looking directly into the sun. Phyllis was pretty sure she saw a Greater Yellowlegs - the legs were clearly yellow. I took a few photos and I agree: the legs are yellow. This is a Canadian lifer for us (we saw a few hundred of them in Mexico in February).

yellowlegs

Immediate	Description	Time
Literature	Begin reading "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers	1 hr
Mathematics	Create Mathematica Notebooks for Week 5a	1 hr
Mathematics	Complete notes for week 5b of "The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems"	1 hr

C. Actual Learning Activities

7:00 PM

I keep forgetting to scan the covers of the books that I am reading at the moment.

I am using some spare time to play with crossword puzzles. I now have a book of "easy" New York Times puzzles. They are actually not too bad. I can usually get about 3/4 of the puzzle in the first couple of hours and often get within a few blank squares after another half dozen reviews.

Shortz

Here are the covers of the two novels I finished while in Edmonton:

And now for the novel that I have just begun:

(That is the back cover, honest. It is printed upside-down on my book.)

"Number 9 Dream", "Since Daisy Creek" and "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" are all books I bought a few years ago and have finally got around to reading.

Finally, here are the covers for the non-fiction book that I started a couple of weeks ago.

I forgot the math book I bought!

Weiner

That is enough for the moment.