Tuesday January 24, 2006 5:30 am Ballina NSW

A. Morning Musings

5:30 am My first goal this morning is to review the four web sites that I posted to the web server and look for errors and problems of navigation. I have made a few changes. I have moved the Introduction page from the Journals web site to the Home web site. I have also added a new section to this page on how to view the sites. The diagram for the sites on the Home page was then updated to reflect this change.

The following 8 items from the Ideas/ToDos page are still legitimate targets for this week:

• Update Birds website for this visit to Australia.
• Read & make notes for "The Story of the Stone" vol. 1.
• Begin specific bird watching trips.
• Follow "Chapter 1 Getting Started with Stylus Studio" online documentation.
• Go bird watching on lighthouse trail at Byron Bay.
• Redo scanned History mind maps using Mind Genius.
• Read "Dumbo feather, pass it on." Issue 7.
• Revise History web site for uploading to server. 6:40 am

B. Plan

6:50 am Chores: Deposit 2 cheques to our account.

Exercise: Tummy exercises & beach walk.

Technology: Upload revisions to 4 web sites to web server.

Literature: Make notes for chapter 21.

History: Read chapter 2 of Ideas.

Food, Mathematics, Art and Drawing will not be active. 7:00 am

C. Actual

9:30 am Now to connect to the Internet via dial-up and upload the revisions that I have made since yesterday afternoon. 10:00 am

3:30 PM A quick check of the CBC web site indicates that the Consevatives will form a minority government in Canada, replacing the Liberal government.

Now that I have the four web sites at least temporarily under control, I am spending less time in front of the screen and have returned to a better balance of outside activities and reading. We had our beach walk and exercise and then went down to Pelican 181 for our cappuccinos.

During our beach walk we spotted another bird for the first time: a Noisy Friarbird.

While in the CBD I stopped in at a music shop and bought a superb 2 CD album "Odetta: The Tradition Masters". I am listening to it at the moment. I also put a hold on a 3 CD album that is a collection of Woodie Guthrie songs. He hopes that it will arrive near the end of the week. Lunch was at Lennox Head with one of the realtors that we got to know during our last visit in February. I have now completed reading chapters 21 -23 of "The Story of the Stone" and have only 3 additional chapters to read in order to complete the first volume. Now to bring my Notes up-to-date. Done. 4:40 PM

4:50 PM Another check on the Canadian election. Conservatives form minority government, Martin stepping down as leader. 5:05 PM

7:15 PM We went for our regular early evening walk along the mouth of the Richmond river. Here is a picture of the prawn boats heading out for the night:

And here is one of a nearby dophin:

We must have watched a couple of dozen in the space of about 20 minutes but they were very difficult to photograph because (a) they were fast, (b) the water was still opaque from the recent floods so you couldn't see them through the water, (c) the light was getting dark and (d) I was the photographer.

D. Reflection

8:20 PM This was a more humane day. Only an hour in the morning on the screen editing the web pages and another in the late afternoon when I was making Notes about my reading of "The Story of the Stone". Otherwise I was enjoying an early morning beach walk, identifying a new bird (friarbird), completing my exercise routine, having a cappuccino in an outdoor cafe by the river, having lunch in another cafe, listening to an Odetta CD, reading a novel, barbequing a steak with a beer in my left hand, and watching the dolphins in the river. Not too shabby. 8:30 PM