Sunday September 17, 2006 5:50 am Edmonton

A. Morning Musings

5:50 am I have my coffee ready. The weather is remaining cool and damp. I think the rain may be over but the temperatures are still in the low single digits. The good news is the digits still have a + symbol in front of them.

I have three types of activities in front of me:

• reading
• clerical (updating North American bird database, adding keywords to iPhoto database)
• creative (mind map for "Science and the Akashic Field")

The clerical and creative activities both have a stronger sense of accomplishment attached to them. I will have a look at the bird data base and see if i can get that up to date.

B. Plan

Today's we will see a performance of "Phantom of the Opera" at the Jubilee Auditorium.

Immediate
Health	Walk & exercise	1 hr
Puzzles	The Orange Puzzle Cube: puzzle #7
Technology	add keywords to iPhoto records	1 hr
Birds	Add June birds to North American data base	1 hr
History	Continue reading "Citizens"	1 hr
Mathematics	Read "The Computational Beauty of Nature" Chap 3	1 hr
Literature	Continue reading "All the Men Are Sleeping"	1 hr
	Read "In Praise of Folly" by Erasmus	1 hr
	Read "The Art of Living" by Epictetus	1 hr
	Read "The Song of Roland"	1 hr
Science	Make notes for "Science and the Akashic Field" by Ervin Laszlo	1 hr
Later
Chores	Investigate water softeners for home	1 hr
Technology	Read manual for cell phone	1 hr
	Make notes for chap. 4 of "Switching to the Mac"	2 hr
	Begin reading "iPhoto"	1 hr
	digital photography - learn about using the various manual settings
Mathematics	Larson "Calculus"
	Gardner "The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles"
History	Watson "Ideas"
Model Trains	Build oil refinery diorama: add ground cover
	Add blue backdrop to layout
	Assemble second oil platform kit
	Redraw diagram for Lower Mainline control panel
	Wire Lower Mainline turnouts

C. Actual/Notes

6:35 am I compared the notes for bird watching in the notebook with the records in my database and was able to add 1 bird to my files. This was an Evening Grosbeak that we positively identified at Post Falls, Idaho while on a weekend trip to Spokane. It also was a new lifer, bringing our total to 81.

12:00 noon I am making good progress on both the iPhoto files (adding keywords, deleting images, enlarging bird images) and the Filemaker Pro database for North American birds. I now know, for example, that as of July 9, 2006 we have a total of 82 North American lifers and have seen 13 different species in 2006 (2 of them lifers).

D. Reflection