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This page last updated on: Saturday, October 18, 2008 9:00 AM
My cup is beside me. Now for a few thoughts before the day begins.
Geocaching and Model Trains are my two top priorities. Literature is third. I am going to drop Mathematics: Symmetry from my list of immediate activities. I simply run out of hours.
A few quick observations. Keeping track of each geocache search using a combination of web page and pdf file is working well. The web page, which is first used as a planning sheet for a search, is good. It captures all of the necessary information in about a half page, giving room to make a few notes at the time of the actual search. The filling in of information on my return, including photos, and saving it as a pdf file is also working well. What is missing is some form of index. Two obvious candidates are Excel and Filemaker Pro. I think Filemaker Pro will do a better job, as sometimes I will want to sort all of my records by date, or perhaps by location, and sometimes by cache ID (so I can see all of my attempts for a particular cache). I will set this up today.
I checked the Calgary GPS Central store yesterday and the friction mount for my nuvi unit was on order. I just checked now, and one page says it is in stock, but another says it is on order. I will wait until 8 am and give them a phone call to see if I can order it.
I have three local geocaches that I am ready to pursue. One is the very first cache that I tried to find (GC16ZFP) NS West #2. I am sure that I have the location down to the metal beam at either end of a small wooden bridge. The other two will be first attempts (GC1AWFD, GC1AWFG). It is time to spend some time outdoors.
It is almost a month since we took a trip along some of the backroads of southern Alberta. It is time to do this again. I want to try setting this up using my GPS unit and waypoints.
Model Trains: I want to be sure to spend at least one, and preferably two, hours a day on assembling the 4 cylindrical hopper cars.
I am not monitoring the model train forums on the web. I will try to spend an hour on that activity today.
But first, a little calculus.
| Learning Category | Planned Activities for Today | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Literature | Begin reading "Prey" by Michael Crichton | 1 hr |
| Mathematics | Calculus | 1 hr |
| History | Begin reading "A Fair Country" | 1 hr |
| Geocaching | Play with Preparation Sheets and pdf files | 3 hr |
| Geocaching | Try to find GC16ZFP | 1 hr |
| Model Trains | Continue building kits for 4 cylindrical hopper cars | 2 hr |
| Model Trains | Monitor 3 model train forums | 1 hr |
I have carefully gone through the material in sections 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5 in Banner's "The Calculus Lifesaver". This has reviewed the ideas of inverse functions, composition of functions, and odd & even functions. No real difficulties. I took Weiner's suggestion of trying to work through each example myself before reading the example. I like it.
I made one more try for geocache GC16ZFP but it is still a DNF.
I have brought my geocache web pages up to date. I have had a total of 47 "searches", with 29 "finds". The very first geocache search (GC16ZFP) "NS West #2" is giving me the most trouble. I have conducted 5 separate searches and have still to find the cache.
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