Wednesday, March 7
5:30 am
It is -5 °C, with a high forecast of +5 °C.
From the Environment Canada website:
Today Mainly sunny. Wind west 30 km/h gusting to 50. High plus 5. UV index 3 or moderate.
Tonight Clear. Wind west 30 km/h. Low zero.
We are now entering a period where the daytime highs will be double digit positive. Spring!
A couple of comments on the day. I do not "need" to find a cache for March 7 but I will need finds for the remaining days this week. There are 3 caches in the Taber area that will help fill this void. I will start on this tomorrow. Later this morning Apple will announce the release of the iPad3.
3:00 PM Literature
I read another chapter of Rumi's "The Big Red Book" this morning. But for the second day in a row I did not feel inclined to note any passages for inclusion in this set of notes.
I have been trying to decide on my next selection for reading. I am looking for something with a bit of a challenge to it. I then noticed a novel called "The Quincunx" by Charles Palliser. I remember starting this book about a decade ago but gave it up after about a third of the way through as being far too convoluted to disentangle. I fact there was a bookmark in it on page 276. As I recall the story was some form of crime mystery. Time to give this a serious try.
This is a good place to practise what I call slow reading. The idea is to develop a method of keeping notes that will help me keep track of the details. To begin, I think I need one web page that identifies the details ( Quincunx Details ) and another that tries to establish a timeline of the events (Quincunx Timeline ). I may need to revise this approach as I get into the story, but this is a start.