Saturday December 30, 2006 7:00 am Lethbridge Sunrise 8:29 Sunset 16:39 Hours of daylight: 8:10

A. Morning Musings

7:00 am It is -1 C at the moment with a high of 0 C forecast.

From rear window	South patio
Both images taken at 12:30 PM

B. Plan

Immediate
Health	Walk & exercise	1 hr
Science	Make notes for "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity"	1 hr
History	Read Watson "Ideas"	1 hr
Philosophy	Read & make notes for "Breaking the Spell"	1 hr
GO	Complete reading "Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go" Volume 1	1 hr
Literature	Continue reading "Virginia Woolf: The Inner Life" by Julia Briggs	1 hr
	Continue reading "Selected Works of Virginia Woolf" - Jacob's Room	1 hr
	Continue reading "The View From Castle Rock" by Alice Munro	1 hr
Model Trains	Continue assembly of coaling tower	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	Read "Fearless Symmetry" chap 9: Elliptic Curves
	Make notes on the beginnings of number theory
	Larson "Calculus"
	Read "Symmetry" by Hermann Weyl
	Read "The Computational Beauty of Nature" Chap 3
	Gardner "The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles"
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

9:10 am I am finally beginning to realize that I need to establish some priorities and focus my time on those activities. I am placing model trains at the top of the list.

	Model Trains 61 December 30
Model Trains Chronology
9:15 am While searching the web this morning I discovered an excellent discussion board called The Gauge, http://www.the-gauge.com/ . I am now registered. Even better, I have posted my first message. It was a question about the difference between F3A, F7A and C-liner diesel units. Looking at the heading for his note, it is hard to realize that this is my 61st session this year. Overall I have made good progress but I now want to press on and get my layout DCC operational. At the same time I want to begin serious work on the scenery (beginning with ballasting the track). As always, the first step is to do some reading on how to do this (ballasting). I think I have the basic idea for ballasting the track but until I try it out, I will not know what problems can occur. I bought the last two issues of Canadian Railway Modeller magazine. There are full page adds for the diesel locomotive that I bought yesterday, after I spent much of the morning on the web trying to find information on the model. Timing is everything, not location.

D. Reflection