Thursday November 16, 2006 7:50 am Lethbridge Sunrise 7:44 Sunset 17:48 Hours of daylight: 9:04

A. Morning Musings

7:50 am It is +2 C at the moment with a high of +6 C forecast.

From rear window	South patio
Both images taken at 11:45 am

I have coffee at The Ugly Mug at 8:30. It is fairly windy this morning with gusts of up to 70 kmh forecast for later today. The walk to the coffee shop will be a work out - one which I could use.

B. Plan

Immediate
Health	Walk & exercise	1 hr
Mathematics	Make notes for "Fearless Symmetry" chap 8: Galois groups	1 hr
History	Continue reading & making notes for "Citizens"	1 hr
GO	Play 3 games of 9x9 GO++; Solve problems from Graded GO Problems for Beginners	1 hr
Literature	Complete reading "One Man's Wilderness "	1 hr
Later
Chores	Investigate water softeners for home
Technology	Read manual for cell phone
	Make notes for chap. 4 of "Switching to the Mac"
	Begin reading "iPhoto"
	digital photography - learn about using the various manual settings
Philosophy	Read "The Art of Living" by Epictetus
Mathematics	Larson "Calculus"
	Read "Symmetry" by Hermann Weyl
	Read "The Computational Beauty of Nature" Chap 3
	Gardner "The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles"
History	Watson "Ideas"
Model Trains	Build oil refinery diorama: add ground cover
	Assemble second oil platform kit
	Assembly of CN 5930, an SD40-2 with a NAFTA logo
Puzzles	The Orange Puzzle Cube: puzzle #9

C. Actual/Notes

5:00 PM I have just finished reading "One Man's Wilderness". Spectacular. I am glad I bought the book. It was a great read!

While rereading sections of "Fearless Symmetry" I came across a reference to a book written by the mathematician Hermann Weyl, "Symmetry". I said to myself, 'I have that book', and sure enough I went downstairs and immediately spotted it on one of my shelves. It was written in 1952. The first chapter on bilateral symmetry is a classic. Now to have a much more careful look at the remaining three chapters. The math of symmetry begins to rear its head.

D. Reflection