Tuesday, June 12
5:10 am
It is +9 °C, with a high forecast of +23 °C.
From the Environment Canada website:
Today Sunny. Becoming a mix of sun and cloud this afternoon. Wind southwest 20 km/h gusting to 40. High 23. UV index 8 or very high.
Tonight Clearing late this evening. Wind southwest 30 km/h. Low 12.
6:40 am Life
My top priority at the moment is to rid the front lawn of weeds, notably one called Creeping Charlie, that has over-run the lawn in a number of places. Once that is finished I can mow the lawn. I would like to complete this today.
I have identified an RV campground in the Crowsnest Pass area (actually in Sparwood, which is just inside the BC border). I want to drive out and have a look, and if it is okay, to make a reservation for later this month. Hopefully I can do this in the next few days. If I make the reservation, then I will need to get the 5th wheel out of storage.
The new MacBook Pro was announced yesterday and I am impressed. I also see that delivery times for the unit with the retinal display are 2-3 weeks. I will wait at least a week to see if there are any rumors about the unit, but I have reviewed the specifications and options and am ready to place an order.
And then comes fitness. I will try to fit in a session at the Fitness Center later this afternoon, but the weeding and lawn mowing comes first.
3:30 PM Life
The lawn is (relatively) weed free and mowed. Whew!
8:30 PM Musings
Now that the pressing matter of the front lawn has been handled, I have spent a few minutes wondering what should replace it as a top priority. The answer to this is clear - fitness and weight loss.
However I then rotated the chair I was sitting in and noticed a few disorganized piles of books. I quickly put away the books that I had recently read and found a place for a number of books that I have yet to begin. But that still left a new pile of books that represented books that I have begun but then put aside. A quick count revealed that the total was 16. And there is also another set of ebooks residing on my iPad.
The 16 books
The next step is to organize these 16 books into categories. Once that is done I will identify a few that require immediate attention.
- Science
- Molecular Biology (2010) by David P. Clark & Lonnie D. Russell
- Mathematics
- The Symmetries of Things (2008) by John H. Conway et al.
- Fearless Symmetry (2006) by Avner Ash & Robert Gross
- A Book of Abstract Algebra (1990) by Charles C. Pinter
- Technology
- My MacBook: Lion Edition (2012) by John ray
- Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? (2011) by John Brockman (Ed.)
- Turing's Cathedral (2012) by George Dyson
- Literature
- The Penguin Book of Memoir (2011) by Camilla Gibb
- The Use and Abuse of Literature (2011) by Marjorie Garber
- The Masnavi: Book One (2004) by Rumi
- The Big Red Book (2010) by Rumi/Coleman Barks
- Scribble, Scribble, Scribble (2010) by Simon Schama
- The Quincunx (1989) by Charles Palliser
- No Trace (2004) by Barry Maitland
- Puzzles
- Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go (1996) by Toshiro Kageyama
- Philosophy
- Tao Te Ching (2002) by Lao Tzu
Two books in the above list are novels (The Quincunx and No Trace). The remainder are all non-fiction.
Mathematics is still my deep love. I want to return to Pinter's book, "A Book of Abstract Algebra". Another book that I was enjoying was Marjorie Garber's "The Use and Abuse of Literature". Finally, I would like to return to "The Quincunx", a Victorian mystery novel by Charles Palliser.