Monday, April 16
6:40 am Sydney, NSW, Australia
I am up, awake, and showered. Now the waiting begins.
7:00 am Musings
I view the trip as a hop, skip, and jump. The hop is from Sydney to San Francisco, the skip is from San Francisco to Vancouver, and the jump is from Vancouver to Calgary. Definitely an olympic event.
Already I have my head at home. Now to get the rest of my body there.
- Top priority is to lose some weight and gain some muscle tone around the abdomen.
- get URL for Don's article
- order a few books
- (especially a cookbook from New Zealand) "The Free Range Book" Annabel Langbein
- David Eagleman "Sum"
- Barry Maitland
- Henning Mankel
- A. J. Mackinnon
- Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow
- Well at World's End
- Frank Moorhouse
- Grand Days
- Dark Palace
- vol. 3?
- Edmund de Waal
- The Hare with Amber Eyes
- "The Reader"
- update my web site for this trip
- begin some focused learning on linear algebra.
- Geocaching will ease back to single trips within the Lethbridge area that fill in dates that are empty on my yearly grid.
- Birding will involve a few trips to see what waterfowl I can find. I will also do some reading on birds (particularly warblers) in Eastern Ontario.
- Technology
- Synchronize iPad and Macbook Pro files
- Edit photos on iPhoto
- Review data on Macbook Air
- Slide converter "PhotoMaker" by Kaiser baas
- Model Trains
- complete assembly of viaduct
- begin running trains according to session 3
- Go
- make detailed notes while playing SmartGo and Igowin
- read yellow book on Go
- set up schedule for solving Go problems
- Magazines
- Walrus
- Dumbo Feather
I will begin my weight loss and fitness program by setting up my own schedule. If this doesn't work, then I will look into joining some fitness facility. My activities begin NOW (while still in a hotel room in Sydney).
One phase is to monitor my diet. I will use an app called MyFitnessPal that I have used before. I will weigh myself as soon as I arrive home and will begin a schedule of alternating days between a coulee walk and a home exercise routine. But I can begin my dietary program now. The goal is to restrict my calorie input to 1200/day. The main idea is to keep track of what I eat. So far I have had nothing today. That is a beginning. I will forego coffee and have a glass of orange juice for breakfast.
Most of the above items will remain on hold until I am in Lethbridge. At the moment I do not have wifi access, so I am limited to iPad apps that do not require connectivity. The Across Lite app that I installed a week ago requires connectivity to obtain a new crossword. Hopefully I can do this in the airport.
My choices at the moment are Go (smartgo & igowin) and magazines (The Walrus, Dumbo Feather). It is time for The Walrus.