Tuesday September 19, 2006 5:00 am Lethbridge Sunrise 7:13 Sunset 19:37 Hours of daylight: 12:24

A. Morning Musings

5:00 am It is +5 C at the moment. There is a forecast of rain for later today which is supposed to last for the rest of the week.

B. Plan

I have some early morning banking to attend to, then a dental appointment at noon and a social get-together at 3:30 this afternoon. My primary computer activity is to work on the North American bird data base and the iPhoto library. I will try to find some bright colored circle stickers that I can add to my Birds of Alberta and to my Sibley Guide to Birds that will indicate which birds have been seen and identified.

Immediate
Health	Walk & exercise	1 hr
Puzzles	The Orange Puzzle Cube: puzzle #7
Technology	add keywords to iPhoto records	1 hr
Birds	Add August birds to North American data base	2 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

5:40 am Now to put in a hour on updating my North American bird database.

I noticed that when one first opens iPhoto, the software loads the thumbnails quickly but if one wants to work with the file it is a good idea to wait a few minutes until the behind the scenes processing catches up. I tried duplicating an image yesterday and was surprised when it failed to appear in the library. I tried a few times with the same result. I then went on and did some other work and when I returned to the program I found that I now had multiple copies of the record.

I am working on my July 17 images at the moment.

7:40 am A good beginning to the day. It is very time consuming to look at a photo of a bird, enlarge it, and then compare it with various images in books. In time, this should be much more automatic, but right now I am still a novice. As a result of this morning's work I am able to say that we now have 88 North American lifers and our running total for 2006 is 24. This includes all of the data I have up to and including August 16 (the first day of our trip to Virginia).

D. Reflection