Thursday June 29, 2006 6:00 PM Lethbridge Alberta

A. Morning Musings

6:00 PM A cold front moved through Lethbridge about 9:00 this morning and the temperature dropped almost 10 degrees. It is + 22 C at the moment with a low tonight forecast of +13 C.

I was really dragging today and finally had a nice jacuzzi and sleep at about 3 PM. I am now up and ready to begin the day. I spent a couple of hours in the early afternoon playing with iPhoto on the Mac and am now beginning to see how it might be equivalent to the Adobe Photoshop Elements that I had been using on the PC. The organizing capability does appear to be excellent. I have yet to see how easy it is to convert a photo for use on this web site. Here is a photo of the machine I rented that chops the bricks into two pieces.

I used the Export feature in iPhoto to save the image in a reduced size but the final step of specifying the location was either the name of the external hard drive or the desktop. I then had to take the extra step of dragging and dropping the file to the appropriate file folder using the finder. That was both annoying and strange. Anyway, here is a picture of the final result.

We spent a couple of hours going over the material for our health care options once I retire. We are leaning toward staying with Alberta Blue Cross (which is the company that we had while I was at the university) and then supplement that with special travel coverage that we can obtain from the Alberta Motor Association.

B. Plan

Immediate
Chores	Paint front garage door	1 hr
Health	Walk & exercise	1 hr
	Familiarize ourselves with health care alternatives	2 hr
Technology	Familiarize myself with the MacBook	4 hr
Model Trains	Add blue backdrop to layout	2 hr
History	Continue reading "Citizens"	2 hr
Literature	Continue reading "Seeing" by Jose Saramago	1 hr
Mathematics	Read "The Computational Beauty of Nature" Chap 2	1 hr
Later
Chores	Take cement blocks to landfill	2 hr
	Readjust patio bricks near rear wall	1 hr
	Buy sealant for join between garage floor and wall
	Take 5th wheel in for maintenance	2 hr
	Investigate water softeners for home	2 hr
Technology	Read manual for cell phone	1 hr
	Transfer music to iPod
	digital photography
	try using extender lens and monopod	2 hr
Mathematics	Larson "Calculus"
	Gardner "The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles"
History	Watson "Ideas"
Model Trains	Visit Lethbridge Model Train club at 7 PM on Tues	2 hr
	Review layout for under the table turnouts
	Wire lower mainline track for a power block
	Fasten lower mainline track to layout
	Draw schematic diagram of track layout	2 hr

C. Actual/Notes

D. Reflection