============================================================== ============================================================== ============================================================== ============================================================== ============================================================== ============================================================== Th 7/17/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, instead ... 8am, Hope Breakfast Bar, breakfast with Vic Reiner. He just got back from back-to-back trips, one to Washington State, the other to New York. In Washington with Kristi, visited with his brother. Then Kristi went on a bike ride on the Olympic Peninsula. In New York, he met with Lydia, and they visited with his other brother. Also visited Utica (his hometown) and did a run there with Lydia. They also did some kayaking on a river Packed for the trip starting tomorrow. Depart at 2:30pm. Maxim will give us a ride to the airport, leave home around 11am. Washington, DC and Boston. Return on 7/28/25. Around 4pm, went for a walk with Julia near round lake. ============================================================== W 7/16/25 After a string of hot weather with no rain, today was a cool rainy day. Very pleasant in the evening. Strength (low bar), slow running not far (15 mins, 400 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: Economist, looked for invited article by Chris Wright, but that issue isn't at the library yet. Neural net slides -- still trying to pin down the definition of a diagram of functions. I think I've settled on: labeled finite digraph, with no directed loops and no redundancies. labeled: every vertex is a labeled as a fn, every edge is labeled as a set and each function goes from the product of incoming edge sets to product of outgoing edge sets no directed loops: no directed path that ends where it starts (directed path is a finite sequence of alternating vertices and edges s.t. each edge goes from the preceding vertx to the following vertex) no redundancies: for any in-vertex a, for any out-vertex b, there's at most one directed path from a to b. Home: Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 56%, start of Ch 34. Band is working hard, making lots of new songs. Napped for a while. 9pm, watched Maxim play in the Wednesday league. His team won, and he had a good game. ============================================================== Tu 7/15/25 Jordan's birthday today. My dad's birthday tomorrow. He'd be 88. Strength, slow running (20 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. NOTE: Got a little light-headed while running, cut the run short. Probably because I'm working on my weight, not eating a lot. Weight at noon was 145.6, a record in my adult life, I think. Library: WSJ, worked on neural net slides. Reorganized the definition of a "diagram of functions", so that the directed graph has the "no redundancy" property, meaning: for any in-vertex a, for any out-vertex b, there's at most one directed path from a to b. Started planning a CCL chapter field trip to Dakota Prairie Composting. Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 55%, at start of Ch 33. Bill Berry got very sick during a European tour, with Rocky Mountain fever. He decided to stop drinking, temporarily. Also decided to stop touring. ============================================================== M 7/14/25 Laundry: Finished the load of whites I started last night. Pretty much ready to pack on Thursday, departing for DC and Boston on Friday. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: NYT and WSJ. No time for neural nets. Home: 12:30pm, Zoom call about Washington State's "Cap and Invest" program. MN: Me, Michelle Eul,Holly Swiglo, Patrick Welle, Greg Jason Washington: Zac Pinard, Isaac ? Very intersting -- I need to rethink my views about CF&D relative to cap and trade. Did a little shopping at L&B: Milk, cheese, a couple of apples. Trying not to buy too much since I'm away for 10 days starting on Friday. Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 54%. REM is playing at huge venues, exactly the type they said they didn't want to do. As usual, when reality knocks, ideology morphs. Band goes on a huge worldwide tour. Interesting email exchange with Mike Bennett. He wrote a good LTE, submitted to the Strib. Watched a few minutes of The Romanovs. Started over again. ============================================================== Su 7/13/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, NYT, NYT Review of Books, worked on neural net slides. Home: Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 52%. Signing with Warner Bros has given REM members a lot of money and success. They're buying houses, and spending a lot of time writing and developing songs. Sort of in the "big leagues" now. Contacted people I'm visiting in DC and Boston, just to remind and get / double check phone numbers. 8pm, walk around the neighborhood with Julia. Laundry: Started a load of whites. ============================================================== Sa 7/12/25 Finished the load of dark laundry. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Came home. 10:30am-11:20am, ran a chapter meeting for people who have recently joined CCL. Only one new person (Roger Clay), but it was still a good meeting. lunch. 12noon-3pm, library. WSJ, NYT, Strib, Economist, neural net slides. Home. Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 50%. At the start of Part IV (The Monster) and Ch 30. The band continues to wrestle with success and what they want from it. Has let their contract with IRS Records lapse and signed with Warner Bros. They were not happy with IRS's ability to promote them overseas. Watched the training for the "ask"s for CCL's Lobby Day in DC. Jennifer Tyler and Dana Nuccitelli Primary: Support the clean energy transition Secondary: Fix our Forests Act, Foreign Pollution Tariff Legislation Got in touch with Dave Bellerose, and made final plans to meet him at his place in Massachusetts, on the 28th. He lives on a lake (Big Alum Pond, or just Alum Pond), in Fiskdale. Seems that Fiskdale is part of Sturbridge. According to the Wikipedia article on Sturbridge, Fiskdale is a "census-designated place" in the NW portion of Sturbridge. Rewatched a few minutes of The Romanovs. ============================================================== F 7/11/25 Strength, very slow running (15 mins, 400 ft climb, 7mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, instead went to VEAP. 11am-2:30pm, VEAP mobile pantry driver at Dar al-Farooq mosque. Very hot, got dehydrated. Gave food to 118 families, though. Afterward, helped Miles to drop off a van a church in south Minneapolis where there'll be a food drive tomorrow. At home: Exhausted, slept for a couple of hours. Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 48%. Finally made a video that MTV is willing to put in its regular rotation. New album: Document. Started a load of dark laundry. ============================================================== Th 7/10/25 Much calmer day today. Also, a great night's sleep -- so tired yesterday, but not today. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: Strib, WSJ, NYT, worked on neural net slides. Saw that my LTE on geothermal was published in the Star-Tribune. Continue to work on the "visual" chain rule in neural net slides. Home: 4pm, Zoom with Fernando. He's also gotten interested in neural nets. We'll talk about that (maybe) next time we meet. Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 46%. In Ch 28. Filling larger and larger halls, but not the giant ones. More equipment, more roadies, more security. Getting aired on MTV, too. ============================================================== W 7/9/25 Didn't sleep so well, very tired. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to U, 12:25pm home. Napped a bit in the office. 11am, went to Manuel Sanchez' talk on PMLs (Perfectly Matched Layers). Home: Opened a new personal ROTH IRA (...8078), see Info/numbers for the exact number. Then found out I couldn't invest the money in an S&P 500 index fund. Decided to cancel the account. Changed my withrawals, so that $6,611 will now be drawn from my Stanford account, twice per month. After withholding, $4875 will go into my US Bank checking acct, twice per month. I left that as is. Until I change it, for a while, I'll have some extra money. I'm earning about $5,600,000 x 0.045 / 24 = $10,500, twice per month. Since 6,611 < 10,500, this is sustainable -- as long as money markets are earning 4.5%. NOTE: 4875/6611 = 0.7374. So they remove 26.3% withholding for federal and state taxes. NOTE: $10,500 * 0.74 = $7,770. Still trying to decide when to start tapping Social Security. Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 45%. In the middle of Ch 27. Band is releasing a new album: Lifes Rich Pageant, named after a line in a Pink Panther movie ("A Shot in the Dark"). Submitted my announcement for EPLN of CCL's lobby day. Invited Dr Heidi Roop (director of the Climate Adaptation Partnership at UMN) to come talk to our chapter. 6:45pm, went to watch Maxim play basketball. They lost, to a very good team. On the way home stopped in at Cold Stone Creamery and had a milkshake. Weight is at 153 again. Tried to get tickets to see Evstuhin, but the 50% off promo code doesn't seem to be working. He's doing The Seasons and Pictures at an Exhibition, at TMORA, on Friday and Saturday. :-( ============================================================== Tu 7/8/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, instead went home, had some lunch. 2:30pm, Zoom with Terry Quain and Nicola Philpott Wrote an announcement for EPLN of the trip to DC. Will probably submit it tomorrow. Submitted the LTE I'd been working on, focused on geothermal. Sent it to to the Strib. L&B Shopping: milk, Carr's crackers, an Amy's, some soup, some apples. Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 43%. REM did a tour in Europe. Lots of success, but still having ups and downs. Released another album. Went home to Atlanta to relax. Submitted my LTE about geothermal to the Star Tribune Looking at the Wikipedia article on the Toda lattice. Need to understand infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian mechanics, i.e., Hamiltonian mechanics to describe the evolution of a field. ============================================================== M 7/7/25 busy day No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At the U: Worked on slides at Starbucks, had a butter croissant. Turned in signed memorandum of understanding about my phased retirement. Left it with Nathaniel Nesheim-Case. Should get a fully signed document by email, later. napped Worked through some email. 11:30am, lunch at campus club with Bryan Mosher Then we went to Starbucks for coffee / snack. His son, Will, is undergoing a therapy called TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation). Will's autism and OCD have been working synergistically to his detriment, and TMS may help. They just started it. 2pm, met with Aarya Garimella to discuss neural nets. Should meet once more on the 29th to go over the third and final lecture, covering disassembled Jacobian-transpose of the compression of a diagram of functions, based on the disassembled Jacobian-tranposes of the components and applying that to find the gradient of the loss function of a neural net. Stopped in at Buca on the way home. A manager there called me sometime in the last couple of days to say that she had tracked down what happened to the missing gift cards. Turns out that I did use them up (just forgot), but one of them was loaded incorrectly and didn't have a full $100. Did the paperwork to replace the money that was accidentally left off. Then ordered a large Penne a la Vodka. (Today is National Macaroni Day, and the pasta was half off.) At home: Weight is up again, about 153, probably from eating out for lunch and eating a lot of penne for dinner. Very tired, napped. Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 42%, start of Ch 26. Now playing to big concert halls, not nightclubs. Description of interviews of band members, particularly Peter and Michael. Tension over maintaining the alternative rock (non-mainstream) vibe, while becoming successful (mainstream). ============================================================== Su 7/6/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: NYT, more on work on neural net slides. Home: Just got a message from Irene: Maxim just successfully defended his title as the Litchfield ping pong world champion! :-) Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 41%. Describing success within the context of alternative rock -- not megariches, but rewarding. Particularly connecting with college audiences. 6pm, went with Julia to see Church of Cash, a Johnny Cash tribute band, at Staring Lake Ampitheater. Scheduled all the CCL calling reminders for July. I'll be away for 10 days, and don't have to worry about it. ============================================================== Sa 7/5/25 Visited Chris Waller. Maxim and I drove there on Thursday, arriving about 1:30pm. Steven showed up a couple of hours later with his kids, Aaron and Chloe. Chris' wife, Cara, and their son, Steven, were away helping to take care of her 90 year old father. Stayed overnight at the Super 8 in Sheboygan with Maxim. Visited for a few hours again on Friday (4th of July). Played a catchphrase game. Just as we left, Tom and Sue arrived, but didn't get to chat with them. Got home around 9pm on Friday, too late to do much. Today: Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, more on work on neural net slides. Home: Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 40%, starting Ch 25. ============================================================== W 7/2/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, Strib, more on work on neural net slides. Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 38%, starting Ch 24. Wrote an LTE focusing on geothermal energy. Leaving tomorrow morning to visit my cousin, Chris, in Plymouth, WI. Will return the next day, Friday. Won't write a diary entry tomorrow. ============================================================== Tu 7/1/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, Strib. More work on neural net slides. Called Fidelity (800-343-0860) to increase Fidelity withdrawals. I'll be withdrawing $5525, twice per month. NOTE: It was later (7/9/25) revised to $6611 twice per month. This should replace my paychecks, which will go to $0, as I begin my phase. Money market funds are earning about 4.5% now, and I have $5.65M in retirement, so ... I could consider as much as 0.045 * $5.65 * 10^6 / 24 = $10,600, twice per month. Stopped in at Buca to check on my missing gift cards. Spoke to the manager there who told me she forgot to check, but would send a message right away. If they can find my gift card numbers and verify that nothing was used, I can use them, just from the numbers. If not, I guess I'm out $200. Shopping: Milk, razor blades, one Amy's, cheese, apples, almonds. Removed $60 per paycheck extra withholding. My future ROTH contributions will probably be < $800 per paycheck. Paychecks are every two weeks. I'll find out the exact ROTH contributions by looking at my next paycheck, on the 9th. Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 36%, starting Ch 23. Fell asleep, napped for 30 minutes or so, I think. Went for a walk with Julia on the nearby nature trail. Had a chance test out my new portable fan, which seems to work well. Still haven't written my LTE, won't have a chance tonight. Maybe tomorrow. ============================================================== M 6/30/25 Busy day. Finished laundry, the load of whites. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, Strib, NY Times book review, more on slides on neural nets. 2:30pm, Smith Coffee, met Greg Olson and Anne Englert to discuss LTE writing. Dave Homans forgot, and James Skarie was unable to travel. I'll draft a letter and send it to the group. 3:30pm, beer with Rod and Jon. Laurie joined us later, and also, Marge, who has a big statewide role in the Democratic Party. Home: Received two portable fans that I'd ordered on Amazon. Both seem to work well. Made in China, from a company called Bearwind. One of them is now in my backpack, smallest front pocket (along with charging cord and lanyard) under my reading glasses. The other is near my Russian books (along with charging cord and lanyard). Total cost was $43.38 Completed a survey for the US Census. Took about an hour, maybe more. Very involved, very annoying. Finished net worth. Saved for retirement: 5,640,738.71. Total net worth: 7,349,141. Pat Vasatka emailed me back to tell me that my NEIC share values hadn't changed since last year. No time to read about REM today. ============================================================== Su 6/29/25 Finished the small part of the lawn that was unmowed. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Went to People's Organic, got a cup of chili. Worked on neural net slides. Home: Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 35%, starting Ch 21. Working on net worth. Retirement: $5,640,738.71 up from $5,485,253.76 three months ago. Increase of $155.484.95 in three months. Note: 155,485 / 5,640,739 = 2.76%, so a 2.76% increase in three months. I'm invested in money markets now, so, in the near future, I'm expecting about 4.5% per year, so about 1% per quarter. Need to wait to hear from Pat Vasatka about the value of my NEIC holdings. Then I can complete the rest of my net worth analysis. Started laundry, a load of whites. ============================================================== Sa 6/28/25 Finished load of laundry. Strength, very slow running (only 15 mins, 400 ft climb, maybe 7mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ only. Finished the lawn, except for a small patch that I forgot about in front. Will finish that tomorrow. Haircut. No wait this time, lucky. Picked up refill of prescription. Somehow got changed to 90 day supply, costing almost $30. They switched it to a 30 day supply, and cost went down to 63 cents. Ridiculous. Home: Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 33%, starting Part III. Band is getting lots of success, with some backlash for "selling out". ============================================================== F 6/27/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to the U, 2:55pm back to EP. 11am, met Aarya Garimella to talk about neural net slides 1:15pm, physical with Dr Ofstedal. Received the streptococcal pneumonia vaccine. Home: Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 31%. A mention of Peter Jesperson and the Replacements. Jesperson found it much easier to work for REM. Tired. Napped a little. Takeout from Buca, Penne alla Vodka. Discovered that I don't have $200 of gift cards, not sure where they went, or if I even received them. I still have the receipt, though. The manager said she'd contact corporate about it. Mowed the front lawn. Will start work on the back tomorrow. Started a load of colored laundry. ============================================================== Th 6/26/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Not much time at the library. Library: Continued developing neural net slides, focusing on explaining CVSs (coordinate vector spaces). 11:30am, met Alex at Stonegarden restaurant. Nice looking place. Food was unusual. They make their own hot sauce, with an interesting flavor. Not exactly my favorite, but different from any other place I've tried. After lunch, we went for a drive just around Minneapolis. He had to be at work at 2:15pm. Home: Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 30%. Ordered 2 Bearwind Portable Handheld Turbo Fans from amazon.com Expected on Wednesday 2 July. $43.38. Looking at cost of renewing my vehicle registration https://onlineservices.dps.mn.gov Tesla Model Y Registration Tax $731.00 Wheelage Tax 20.00 Registration Technology Surcharge 2.25 Electric Vehicle Surcharge 75.00 Filing Fee 8.00 ------- Total $836.25 Chevrolet Volt Registration Tax $ 76.00 Wheelage Tax 20.00 Registration Technology Surcharge 2.25 Filing Fee 8.00 ------- Total $106.25 Last time, I paid [[ $766 for the Y ]] and [[$158 for the Volt]]. NOTE: My two cars (Y and Volt) renew in November. Julia's Protege renews in March. Maxim's Prius renews in July. Went for a short walk with Julia around the neighborhood. ============================================================== W 6/25/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, New Yorker, NYT, Strib. Continued developing neural net slides, focusing on explaining CVSs (coordinate vector spaces). Home: Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 29%, just finished Ch 17. More about the band's ascent. New album "Murmur". High praise from critics. Not so much playing time on mainstream radio. 6:45pm, watched Maxim play in his Wednesday league. His team won, he played well and the team did, too. Listened to a few minutes of The Romanovs, ending at 16:28. ============================================================== Tu 6/24/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. 9:30am, call with Michelle Eul and Holly Swiglo. Not present: Greg Jason, Patrick Welle. Michelle and Holly will continue the conversation on Friday (while I'm in Wisconsin). I'm trying to arrange our next meeting -- checking in with Greg Jason. Library: NYT, WSJ, neural net slides with visual chain rule Starting to figure out more how to explain the visual chain rule. First just do only the parts of the Chain Rule that are needed for neural nets. Then define a finite directed tree (FDT)of functions, then a FDT of smooth functions. Then talk about the Jacobian differential of an FDT of smooth functions, and its decomposition into submatrices, with one submatrix for each path from an input edge to an output edge. As such a path crosses a vertex function, it specifies an input edge to the vertex and an output edge, and so there is, at each vertex function, a submatrix of its Jacobian differential. Chain Rule: Each such path's submatrix is obtained by multiplying together the Jacobian differential submatrices appearing along the vertices it crosses. (Product taken in reverse order.) Home: Went for a walk with Julia at Riley Creek. Pretty warm, but the path was shady. Also, I wore my hat and a neck fan. Difficulty with Amazon Kindle has been fixed. I noticed it working earlier today. Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 28%. Just starting Ch 17. The band is touring in a bus, traveling all around the US, working its way back from CA, via MN, OH, back to GA. Also just signed with IRS Records. Released their first EP, called Chronic Town. Generally favorable reviews, although Robert Christgau's Village Voice column was negative. Finished the Massaman Curry from Haven Thai. Weight is back up, at 153. No big eating plans tomorrow, but will meet Alex on Thursday for lunch. Going to Stonegarden restaurant, on Chicago, down near the MSP airport. Signed up for a shift at VEAP, Mobile Pantry, Dar Al-Farooq on Fr 11 July, 11am-2:30pm. Listened again to the first 15 minutes of The Romanovs. ============================================================== M 6/23/25 Our 29th wedding anniversary (Russian marriage ceremony) Slightly cooler today. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, Strib, quick look at NY book review, NYT. Continued developing slides for neural nets. Continuing to develop a visual form for the chain rule. Home: Can't read any books on Amazon Kindle anymore. Will show to Alex, but I'm not sure if there's any solution. It's really unclear what the problem is. Discovered that there's a forum currently discussing this problem: https://www.amazonforum.com/s/topic/0TO4P000000t6ksWAA/kindle-reading-app-mobile Looks as if they have people working on the problem. 5pm, went to Haven Thai with Julia. Excellent. I had Massaman Curry and Tom Kha. Brought some home. Restaurant. Afterward, Julia and I went for a walk, starting at Shady Oak Beach. It was warm, but the path was shady and there was some breeze. ============================================================== Su 6/22/25 Another hot day -- high in the 90s. Tomorrow should be in the 80s. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Instead, went to People's Organic. Worked on slides for neural nets. Developing notation for a "visual" chain rule. Home: Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 26%. Tried to do more, but I'm now having trouble with Kindle. Later, seems to have fixed itself, not sure why. Spent a little time reading Taylor and Heinonen, Condensed Matter Physics. Not really getting anywhere, going to delete it. 7:30pm-8:30pm, watched Maxim play basketball at Augsburg College. His time won by a lot. Excellent players. Pacers not doing well in Game 7 of the NBA finals -- will probably lose. :-( Problem with Kindle started again. ============================================================== Sa 6/21/25 Very hot today -- high in the 90s. Finished a load of laundry, black. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: Strib, WSJ. Continued working up notes on neural nets on the IPAD. Went to lunch at Chipotle with Maxim, using a BOGO entree. Two big burritos for $21.38. Then tried to recycle some electronics at a recycling event, but it turns out that I won't be able to do that until the September. Had a Cold Stone milkshake. Home: Sent in DVS Renewal for Maxim's Prius. Cost: $132.25. Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 24%. The band has given up its rights to two of their songs, in return for having them produced and marketed. They have an unpaid legal advisor who didn't like that, but they were happy with the deal. Also, they agreed to split all the credit for all of their songs (past and future) four ways, between the four members (Bill Berry, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe and Peter Buck). They also agreed to split all earnings five ways, between the four members and their road manager, Jefferson Holt. Reread some of Ch 1 of Taylor and Heinonen, Condensed Matter Physics Yesterday looked at analysis of a chain of springs -- linear equations. Now moving on to phonons in matter, anharmonic. Looking for "solitons", or solitary waves. Toy model: Toda lattice. Interpolates between array of hard rods and chain of springs. Interaction with potential: V(r) = (1/b)r + (1/b^2) e^{-br}, with b-->0 and b-->infty. Could fix any c and try: V(r) = (c/b)r + (c/b^2) e^{-br}, with b-->0 and b-->infty. Setting a := c/b, get: V(r) = a r + (a / b) e^{-br}. e^{-br} = 1 - br + b^2 r^2 / 2 - b^3 r^3 / 6 + ... (a / b) e^{-br} = a/b - ar + c r^2 / 2 - bc r^3 / 6 + ... V(r) = a r + (a / b) e^{-br} = a/b + c r^2 / 2 - bc r^3 / 6 + ... With b-->infty, get hard rod. To study b-->0, note that, modulo constants, V(r) agrees with c r^2 / 2 - bc r^3 / 6 + ... V'(r) = a - a e^{-br}, so V'(0) = 0. Create a potential: U(...,R_{-1},R_0,R_1,...) = \sum_n V(R_n-R_{n-1}-d). Then U has a critical point (i.e., equilibrium) at (...,-2d,-d,0,d,2d,...). Let y_n := R_n - nd, displacement from equilibrium. Then it gets complicated ... ============================================================== F 6/20/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, Strib, Economist. Continued working up notes on neural nets on the IPAD. Some shopping: string cheese (on sale), apples, milk. Home: Lunch. Cat napped. Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 21%. REM's popularity continues to increase. Friends are helping and offering to help with the business side. Still not signed to a major label, but there are some discussions with IRS Records. (IRS Records is hard to look up -- searching comes up with issues about tax records. There was also a booking agency at the same time called FBI.) Very light dinner. Milk, cheese, nuts, yogurt. Caught up on email. Reread some of Ch 1 of Taylor and Heinonen, Condensed Matter Physics Started a load of laundry, black. ============================================================== Th 6/19/25 Juneteenth. Hot day. Looks as if it'll be quite hot until Tuesday. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library (closed for Juneteenth). People's Organic: worked on slides for neural nets. Home: Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 20%. More about Peter Buck's development (in Athens, GA). He worked at one record store, then quit, then started at Wuxtry. 3pm-5pm, Edina Farmer's Market. Climate Conversations, organized by Paul Thompson. Lots of good conversations, but I got overheated. 7:30pm-9:30pm, watched half of the Pacers-Thunder game. Pacers had a huge lead at half-time, stopped watching. They won. Game 7 on Sunday, but Maxim will be playing at the same time so I'll miss the game. ============================================================== W 6/18/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, Strib. Continued working up notes on neural nets on the IPAD. Home: Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 16%. Learning a little of Peter Buck's history. 6:30pm-8pm, in Wayzata, with Juila went to see the Jessie Street Band. Excellent. Jazzy versions of popular tunes. Stand O'Daffer on keyboards. Jacob Yackshaw, bass. Bill Katsiyannis, drums. Trish Neumann, vocals. Would be interested in seeing the Craig Clark band again sometime. Blues. 8:45pm, watched Maxim's team win another basketball game. I plan to watch the Pacers-Thunder game with him tomorrow. ============================================================== Tu 6/17/25 Trouble sleeping last night. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ and NYT. Worked on neural nets slides. 1:15pm at Discount Tires. Bought coverage for all four Tesla tires. Cost: $172.16. They also did a tire rotation on the Tesla. Odometer: 5370. Took about an hour. Read some of the book about REM. Home: Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 15%. In Part II, Chapter 9. The band did a party, very successful. Got invitations from it. Managed to come up with the name R.E.M., not for any very good reason, just a glance in the dictionary, decided to pick something that anyone could assign words to -- e.g., Really Eclectic Music. Sent out message to chapter about reviving the LTE writing program. Greg Olson and Dave Homans responded. Around 7:30pm, went for a walk with Julia around the neighborhood. Lots of places are dug up -- lots of work going on. Maybe fiber optic installation? Point to https://www.edenprairie.org/community/infrastructure-projects then scroll down to "Private Projects". ============================================================== M 6/16/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, NYT, Strib. Started working up notes on neural nets on the IPAD. Will focus on a system that distinguishes images of handwritten 1,2,3 with 10^3 x 10^3 = 10^6 pixels. Let n_0 := 10^6. Say there are I := 5000 images. Let \epsilon_1,\epsilon_2,\epsilon_3 be the standard basis of \R^3. Each image is an element x_i \in {0,1}^{n_0}. Each represented number is k_i \in {1,2,3}. i \in [1..I]. We seek M \in \N and a function F : \R^{n_0} x \R^M ----> \R^3 such that, for some w \in \R^M, F(x_1,w) is close to \epsilon_{k_1} , ... , F(x_I,w) is close to \epision_{k_I} . Thought about why closeness is measured by softmax. We want that adding a constant to F doesn't change the measure of how effective F is. When you change (x,y,z) \in \R^3 by adding C to coordinates you get (x+C,y+C,z+C). When you exponentiate, you get e^{(x+C,y+C,z+C)} = e^C . e^{(x,y,z)}. When you normalize e^{(x+C,y+C,z+C)}, you get the normalization of e^{(x,y,z}}, because multiplying by a constant (like e^C) doesn't change the normalization. There's still the question of why use - ln after normalizing the exponential. Suppose we're trying to recognize the 7-th image, and suppose k_7=1. We're trying to create a function on \Delta := ( open cvx hull of \epsilon_1,\epsilon_2,\epsilon_3 ) that is small at \epsilon_1 and large away from \epsilon_1, i.e., large on the convex hull of \epsilon_2,\epsilon_3. The mapping z |----> - ln z_1 works pretty well. If we were to use, say, z |----> 1 - z_1, it might be okay, but it doesn't offer enough encouragement to modify w when F(x_7,w) is far from \epsilon_1, particularly if that modification would cause other F(x_i,w) to shift slightly away from \epsilon_{k_i}, even if they're very, very close to \epsilon_{k_i}. Home: Looked into AAA insurance Auto Renewal. Cost will be $933.92 scheduled for mid-July. Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 13%. About to start Chapter 8. The four band members (Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Bill Berry, Mike Mills) have now met and are starting to play together. Kathleen O'Brien is organizing her birthday party with the band playing. They're working on a name for the band. Also, an inspiring trip to NY City by Michael and Peter. Studying Fleming's Left Hand Rule for how a current in a magnetic field produces a force on the wire. Current is conventional current, not electron current, pointing from positive to negative. Magnetic field points from north to south. Watched video on alternating current generator (alternator) at www.electrical4u.com/fleming-left-hand-rule-and-fleming-right-hand-rule Takeaway: Spinning a conducting "turn" in a magnetic field creates an induced alternating current. ============================================================== Su 6/15/25 Father's Day. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library -- People's Organic instead. Continued thinking about how to present neural nets. Went on a walk with Julia at Centennial Lakes. Just before 5pm: Julia and I went to Kadai (formerly Bay Leaf), an Indian restaurant just south of Shady Oak and Hwy 62 in Shady Oak Center. Restaurant. Kadai or Tai-Kadai is a language group, "Kra-Dai" in Wikipedia. Seems to have its center of mass in Thailand. Food was excellent. Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 10%. About to start Chapter 7. Michael Stipe is singing in a band he doesn't like -- lots of covers of lame songs. Michael Stipe has now met Peter Buck (guitar player), who was working at Wuxtry Records. They're getting serious about starting a band. Signed up with Greg Jason to be part of the Cap and Invest team. Patrick Welle. Greg mentioned "discovery team members Michelle and Holly". Michelle Eul (email address says Michelle Tutkowski). Holly Swiglo (email address says oberlin). Greg also mentioned "MN Carbon Assessment and Dividend Act", and sent a slide deck. Apparently, in 2024, MN Sen Ann Rest introduced SF 4802 Carbon Assessment and Dividend Act (CADA). Various podcasts mentioned in the slides attached to Greg's email message. Transcript of an NPR podcast "Can cap and trade work in the US?" at www.npr.org/transcripts/1210935827 hosts: Keith Romer, Kenny Malone. Interviewed Luke Martland (pro). Discussed Brian Heywood (con). Listened to some of the Planet Money podcast "The surprising leader in EVs" https://one.npr.org/?sharedMediald=1197961130:1225279521 story was about BYD: its success and why its cars aren't sold in the US ============================================================== Sa 6/14/25 Another rainy day. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. CCL Chapter meeting at 10:30am. Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 9%. About to start Chapter 6. A brief history of the B-52s, which also started at U of GA, just before REM. 3:45pm, went to see the movie "Sinners" with Maxim. Buddy Guy (who's now 88 years old) plays the elderly Sammie. I used to go to the Checkerboard Lounge in graduate school, which was owned by Buddy Guy. Michael B Jackson plays the Smokestack brothers (Elijah "Smoke" Moore and Elias "Stack" Moore). Miles Caton as the young Sammie (Samuel "Preacher Boy" Moore), Jack O'Connell as Remmick, an Irish vampire. Auto renewal came due. Tesla $485.20, Prius $262.69, Mazda $95.62, Volt $90.41. Total: $933.92. All are for 6 months of coverage. Only a slight increase over what I paid for auto in January 2025. ============================================================== F 6/13/25 Rainy day. Finished the load of whites. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library -- met Vic for breakfast at People's Organic in Southdale. Took me a long time to find the place. Then, afterward, it took me a long time to find my car. He later sent me a paper with Trevor Karn, very interesting. Not sure if I have time to really digest it, but maybe. Home: Worked on Back Substitution writeup. Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 8%. About to start Chapter 5. Mike is now Michael, and has started as an art student at the U of GA. ============================================================== Th 6/12/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, Strib, NYT, economist, started writing up preliminary remarks for the Back Substitution Theorem. Arrived early to VEAP -- surprising how fast I got through bad traffic on 494. (Came home via 62 -- much easier, but not perfect.) Spent a lot of time at VEAP, before my shift, reading a couple of old New Yorkers. 1pm-4pm, at VEAP, mobile site driver, to Yorktown, with Miles and Peter. Peter's interesting. Spent many years in Taiwan with a food bank group. Then some time in Benin. Retired a couple of years ago. Decided not to send his kids to a Taiwanese school. Lots of rote memorization and corporal punishment. Home: Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 7%. Description of how Mike Stipe got into music. He ran out of money and has to go back to live with his parents in Athens, GA. Listened to Roger Federer's 2024 commencement speech at Dartmouth. Excellent. Interesting statistic: He won 80% of his matches, 54% of his points. Started a load of laundry, whites. ============================================================== W 6/11/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: NYT, WSJ, Strib, notes on energy-momentum relation, notes on neural nets Home: Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 6%. Description of how Mike Stipe got into music. 4:30pm, headed to Alex's place -- light rain and terrible traffic. Met Alex at his place at 5:30pm, had some vegetarian cornbread. (They usually make it with bacon grease, but not this time.) Then we went to an MNEVO meeting at a nearby place (The Foreign Service) that, among other things, salvages Nissan Leaf batteries. At the meeting, we also had a discussion about electric motorcycles. Need to learn more about induction motors. ============================================================== Tu 6/10/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, Strib, NYT, thought a bit about new notation for the Back Substitution Theorem. Home: 2:30pm, monthly Zoom with Terry Quain, David Homans, Nicola Philpott. Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 5%. Mike Stipe is discovering music, the NY music scene, Patti Smith, etc. Friendship with Melanie Herrold. 5pm, Statewide Team Zoom, focus on whether to "pursue democracy" within CCL. I made a forceful argument against it, maybe too forceful. 7pm, went for walk around the neighborhood with Julia. ============================================================== M 6/9/25 Not much on my schedule again today. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: NYT, WSJ, wrote up notes about Banach algebras: hatx \ne 1 on hatG is equiv to x has no quasi-inverse in G. Also, noted that a co-unital ideal (meaning that the quotient has a unit) in a Banach algebra is contained in a maximal ideal and that maximal ideal is co-unital, because any ideal containing a co-unital ideal is again co-unital. Went for a walk with Julia to the Wolsfeld Woods SNA, close to Wood Rill. Science and Nature Area (SNA). Spent my time reminding myself of the connections (for a real Lie algebra \Lg) between irr real reps of \Lg and irr complex reps of \Lg. Also (Th 5 below) irr complex reps of \Lg^\C <---> irr complex reps of \Lg, where ---> is given by restriction from \Lg^\C to \Lg. MORE DETAIL: Let RR be the category of irr real reps of \Lg, CR the category of irr complex reps of \Lg. There's an involution V \mapsto barV : CR --> CR. (Here, barV is just V with its complex structure negated.) The realization functor will be denoted V \mapsto V_\R : {complex reps of \Lg} --> { real reps of \Lg} The complexification functor will be denoted A \mapsto A^\C : { real reps of \Lg} --> {complex reps of \Lg} For all V \in CR, V_\R \equiv \barV_\R. For all V \in CR, (V_\R)^\C \equiv V \oplus \barV. For all A \in RR, (A^\C)_\R \equiv A \oplus A. For all A \in RR, the commutant D_A of \Lg in gl(A) is a division algebra over \R, and so (by Frobenius) is isomorphic to \R or \C or \H. Th 1: Let V \in CR have reducible V_\R. Let A \in RR be an irr subrep of V_\R. Then A^\C \equiv V \equiv barV, and D_A \equiv \R. Also, V_\R \equiv A \oplus A. Th 2: Let V \in CR have irreducible V_\R =: A. Then A^\C \equiv V \oplus barV and D_A \not\equiv \R. Also, V_R = A. If D_A = \C, then V \not\equiv \barV. If D_A = \H, then V \equiv \barV. Th 3: Let A \in RR have reducible A^\C. Let V \in CR be an irr subrep of A^\C. Then V_\R \equiv A, so V_\R is irr, so (by Th 2) D_A \not\equiv \R. Also, A^\C \equiv V \oplus barV. Th 4: Let A \in RR have irreducible A^\C =: V. Then V_\R \equiv A \oplus A, so V_\R is reducible, so (by Th 1) D_A \equiv \R. Also, A^\C = V. Th 5: The irr complex reps of \Lg^\C are, by restriction to \Lg, in one-to-one correspondence with the elements of CR, i.e., with the irr complex reps of \Lg. Home: Continued reading "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 3%. Sudden enormous success -- albums selling 1M copies, then 20M. Flashback to Mike Stipe at Rocky Horror Picture Show, trying to explain how the teens, like him, in drag at the show are normal. ============================================================== Su 6/8/25 Quiet day again, and tomorrow, too, I think. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Drove Volt. No library. Didn't get home from EPCC until about noon, and left shortly afterward to go with Julia to Jazz on the Prairie. Jazz on the Prairie: At Staring Lake Ampitheater. Over 2 hours, we listened to three big bands. All were good. Just Friends was best. Shortly afterward (about 4:45pm) Julia and I went to India Palace for dinner. Brought home enough for both of us to get a second meal, or maybe more. Total was $66, including tax and tip. (Used a $10 off coupon.) Went for a walk with Julia around the neighborhood. Started a new book, "The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography", by Peter Ames Carlin. (450 pages.) At 2%. Early days of the band included appearing on David Letterman. Successful. Band refuses to do the usual kinds of publicity. ============================================================== Sa 6/7/25 Not much on my schedule again today. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: NYT, WSJ. Define SL_2 over \C. Spent some time reviewing why the complexification of the realification of SL_2 is SL_2 x SL_2. That is ( (SL_2)_\R )^\C is isomorphic to SL_2 x SL_2, in the category of algebraic groups over \C. Let A^1 be affine 1-space defined over \C. Let W := (A_1)_\R be the realification of A^1, so W is the set of all a -b b a. Then W^\C is isomorphic to A^1 x A^1, by mapping the matrix above to ( a+bi , a-bi ). Then (W^{2x2})^C is isomorphic to A^{2x2} x A^{2x2}. Since SL_2 is an affine subspace of A^{2x2} defined over \C, we see that its realification, (SL_2)_\R, is an affine subspace of W^{2x2} defined over \R. Then ( (SL_2)_\R )^\C is an affine subspace of A^{2x2} x A^{2x2}. Need to check that the image is SL_2 x SL_2. In general, if G is defined over \C, then ( G_\R )^\C is G x barG, I think. So, if G is defined over \R, then ( G_\R )^\C is G x G, I think. Also, reviewed why SU(2) x SU(2) is a double cover of SO(4). Let x,y\in \H_1 be two unit quaternions (same as an element of SU(2) x SU(2)). Then (x,y) acts on \H (same as \R^4) by: (x,y) . z = x z y^{-1}. Kernel is { (1,1) , (-1,-1) }. Home: Looked up investments, made sure all are in Money Markets, recorded amounts below in Th 6/5/25 entry. Went for walk around the neighborhood with Julia, spoke for a while with Susan and Anar Vladovar. Susan is almost finished teaching this year. They're going to start some kind of remodeling project. Both of their dogs have cancer, one is likely to die pretty soon. ============================================================== F 6/6/25 Not much on my schedule today. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, NYT. Spent some time studying the Spectral Radius Formula in Appendix D4 of Rudin. Clever idea: Fix x in a Banach algebra A. For each nonzero lambda, solve - lambda y + xy = x, for y. Then y : \R \backslash {0} --> A is a complex analytic function y of lambda. The equation - y + (x / lambda) y = x / lambda shows y as a quasi-inverse for x / lambda, and so y(lambda) is the sum, over n, of -(x / lambda)^n (when |lambda| > |x|). Then, for all n, the residue formula gives x^n as an integral invoving y(lambda), and, whenever R > |hatx|_infty, we can use this to estimate x^n / R^n, showing that x^n / R^n tends to 0. Then, whenever R > |hatx|_infty, we get: limsup |x|^n / R^n \le 1. (In fact, the limsup is the lim, and is 0.) Then, whenever R > |hatx|_infty, we get: for suff large n, |x^n| <= R^n. Then, whenever R > |hatx|_infty, we get: limsup |x^n|^{1/n} \le R, Then limsup |x^n|^{1/n} \le |hatx|_infty. The reverse inequality is straightforward. Julia and I went for walk around Hyland Lake. New lawnmower battery arrived today. Clad proof set from US Mint arrived yesterday. Exhausted -- didn't sleep much last night. Napped a bit. ============================================================== Th 6/5/25 Good night's sleep. Didn't wake up until 6:30am, out of bed around 7:45am. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, NYT. Spent some time reviewing the appendices of Rudin's book on Fourier Analysis on LCA groups. Following p. 20-21 of Rudin (Bochner's Theorem): L^1(G) is not a C*-algebra, but is a Banach algebra with involution. Involution (p. 9): f |--> tildef. Its dual is hatG (by 1.2.2 p 7), and can pull back the L^\infty norm from C^0(hatG) to L^1(G) Suppose you have a fixed phi : G --> \C that's positive semidefinite, meaning phi_2 : G x G --> \C has positive semidefinite diagonal submatrices. Use phi_2 to define a positive semidefinite sesquilinear L^1G x L^1G --> \C. Set the second input to approximate \delta_0. In the limit, get a map T : L^1G --> \C. Cauchy-Schwarz can be adapted to give |Tf|^2 <= T(f*tildef). So T gives a seminorm \| dot \|, with \| f \|^2 <= \| f*tildef \|. Spectral radius argument shows that this seminorm is bounded above by that pullback of the L^\infty norm. Then T factors through the Fourier transform, and then extends to C^0(\hatG) --> \C. Gives a measure on \hatG. By construction, the Fourier transform of that measure is phi. Home: about 2pm, went for a walk at Bredesen with Julia Moved from stocks to money markets. Note added later: The S&P closed at 6000 (in fact, it was 6000.36) on 6/6/25. S&P 500 at the end of close on W 5/14/25: 5892. (This was when I moved money back to S&P.) 6000 / 5892 = 1.01833, so gained 1.83% in about three weeks (from 5/14 to 6/6). ---- Fidelity Effective on close 6/6/25 Conf numbers: 2515616020648, 2515616020648, 2515616020648, 2515616020648, 2515616363421 Numbers are from yesterday's close. MN Old FROZEN ORP $2,121,698.40 move 100% from FIDELITY FXAIX to FIDELITY FZCXX (4.59%) MN 457 $1,441,631.95 move 100% from VANGUARD VIIIX to VANGUARD VMFXX (4.86%) MN Fac Ret $805,133.38 move 100% from VANGUARD VIIIX to VANGUARD VMFXX (4.86%) MN New ROTH ORP $154,871.74 move 100% from VANGUARD VIIIX to VANGUARD VMFXX (4.86%) Stanford $22,340.60 move 100% from VANGUARD VIIIX to VANGUARD VMRXX (4.88%) Added later, numbers are from close 6/7/25: MN Old FROZEN ORP $2,132,626.04 in FIDELITY FZCXX (4.59%) MN 457 $1,449,043.03 in VANGUARD VMFXX (4.86%) MN Fac Ret $809,272.37 in VANGUARD VMFXX (4.86%) MN New ROTH ORP $155,667.90 in VANGUARD VMFXX (4.86%) Stanford $22,455.44 in VANGUARD VMRXX (4.88%) ---- TIAA-CREF Conf number: C3BOU22SM TIAA-CREF, moved 100% of $1,056,735.88 from CREF Equity Index R2 / QCEQPX to CREF Money Marked R2 / QCMMPX (4.25%) Added later, close 6/7/25: $1,062,162.11 in CREF Money Marked R2 / QCMMPX (4.25%) ---- 4pm, Zoom with Fernando Has been having hip trouble. Plasma injection. Recommended "The Handmaid's Tale", Margaret Atwood 6:30pm-8pm, Climate conversation at the EP Library. Marilyn Torkelson organized. Her husband was there. Nicola Philpott came. Marilyn mentioned a university course on climate change. ============================================================== W 6/4/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. 11am, Sedgwick tech (Jeremy Chan) came by to do pressure check and drop off an A/C filter. Library: WSJ, NYT, Strib, studied why nontriv LCA group has nontriv dual: Any L^infty fn \phi on G gives rise to a sesquilinear form on L^1(G) and a functional on L^1(G). If \phi is pos def, then the form is, too, so you get a Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. Can use this, together with the Spectral Radius Formula, to factor the functional to A(\hatG), then extend (Stone Weierstrass) to C_0(\hatG). This, then, shows \phi to be the Fourier transform of a positive measure on \hatG. If \hatG had only one element, then \phi would have to be constant. However, by forming \phi = f * \tildef, you can make positive definite functions with arbitrarily small support around 1_G. 8:45pm, Went to Maxim's baskeball game at Hopkins High School. They played against a good team, and won by a lot, making many 3-pointers. Rewatched Episode 3 of Adolescence, where the psychologist (Briony) does an independent assessment of Jamie. Just as hard to watch as the first time. Amazing acting. ============================================================== Tu 6/3/25 Not a lot on the schedule today. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, NYT. Spent some time reviewing the appendices of Rudin's book on Fourier Analysis on LCA groups. Got an EV reserved for a day in Boston (5pm Sunday 27 July to 5pm Monday 28 July). Kia Nero EV or similar. $76.23. Never rented an EV before. For $35, they'll recharge it for me. I think I'll take it. Spent a long time on the phone, because I agreed to pay $10 for extra insuance, then it came in at $20, so I canceled it. What a hassle. Paid the extra $173.02 on homeowners insurance. The premium was adjusted because the house came in valued a little higher than the original estimate. 6:30pm-7pm, Zoom meeting: Emerging Group Leader call. Interesting -- only four people. 7pm-8pm, Zoom meeting: Leadership call. A lot of speechifying. Left early. Listened three times to 10:00-15:00 of The Romanovs. Then once from start to 10:00. ============================================================== M 6/2/25 Finished mowing. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, NYT, Economist. Also spent about an hour trying to understand Type II and Type III unitary representations. Bought a new EV lawnmower battery, for $43.39. Any time you disintegrate a unitary representation into irreducibles, you get an equivalence relation on the measure space, in which two points are equivalent if their irreducible reps are unitarily equivalent. Key point about disintegration of unitary representations: Primary doesn't always imply isotypic. (Isotypic = multiple of an irreducible (and possibly an infinite multiple).) Primary only says that the equivalence relation is ergodic. Isotypic says it's essentially transitive. Now, if it's tame, then ergodicity implies essentially transitive, so then you do get isotypic. If it's ergodic but *not* essentially transitive, then you can reduce to a transversal, and then ask if there's a finite invariant measure, an infinite invariant measure, or *no* invariant measure -- only quasi-invariant. These correspond, I think, to Type II_1, Type II_infty, Type III, respectively. Rewatched first 12:32 of The Romanovs. ============================================================== Su 6/1/25 Continued mowing the lawn. Did a couple of rounds around the back lawn. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Came home, had some lunch. 1pm, left to say goodbye to Lee Morgan out in Annandale (about a 1 hr drive). Lots of fun people to talk to. Stopped at a Burger King on the way home -- Impossible Whopper. Overate. Finished the except from Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead. About a furniture salesman in Harlem. Trying to decide what to read next. Home at about 4pm. Rested. Continued reading Mackey's book on unitary representations. Starting to come into focus. ============================================================== Sa 5/31/25 Started mowing the lawn. Did the front yard today. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, NYT, Strib. Studied Mackey's book on Unitary Representation Theory. Should compare with Varadarajan's book on Quantum logic. Takeout from Buca, coupon for $15, small Penne alla Vodka. Total cost was about $30, after the $15 off. Finished Colson Whitehead's 1999 debut novel, "The Intuitionist". After the ending, there's an excerpt from another of his novels (Harlem Shuffle) that I haven't read yet, and I'll look at that, maybe tomorrow. Ended without ending, Lila Mae figuring out what to say when about the "perfect" elevator. Well written, but the plot is desultory. 7pm, with Maxim, watched the Pacers beat the Knicks, to win the Eastern conference. The Pacers will play the Thunder in the finals. Rooting for Indiana. Lots of teamwork on that team. ============================================================== F 5/30/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 11:45am home. At the U: Wrote letter of recommendation for Kishanth Koushik, and submitted it. Started a review of Pontryagin duality. Taking the viewpoint that it's "baby unitary representation theory". Also started reviewing Mackey's book on unitary representation theory. Brought home book by Mackey. Will focus on disintegration of representations. Also brought home Rudin's book on Abelian Fourier analysis. Home: Very tired, rested. Didn't sleep much last night. Near the end of Colson Whitehead's 1999 debut novel, "The Intuitionist". At 90%. Fulton's housekeeper, Mrs Rogers, has the notebooks describing the black box, and gives it to Lila Mae. Seems as if Fulton started Intuitionism as a joke, then discovered he believed in it. Made plans for visit to Chris Waller's place on 4 July. Maxim and I will drive out on Th the 3rd, planning to arrive about 1pm. Will overnight at a Super 8 in Sheboygan, about 15 miles away. Will visit again on F the 4th, leaving around 3pm to go back to Minnesota. ============================================================== Th 5/29/25 Another quiet day. Tomorrow will be busy -- going to the U to write letter of rec. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, NYT, glaced at Barrons and weekend Strib. Home: quick late lunch (2pm). 3pm, went for walk with Julia at Wood Lake Nature Center in Richfield. Just barely got back to the car before rain started coming down quickly. Reading Colson Whitehead's 1999 debut novel, "The Intuitionist". At 81%. Ready to start "Part TWO". Lila Mae and Ben Urich meet and she tells him that Arbo and United are the main players in the drama, not the two candidates Orville Lever and Frank Chancre. He also mentions some of Arbo's goons, e.g. Jim and John. Turns out that Natchez in one of them, too -- real name: Raymond Coombs. Another big reveal. John Murphy, Jim Corrigan. Rewatched 15 minutes of The Romanovs. ============================================================== W 5/28/25 Quiet day. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ and NYT. Spent a little time calculating the relativistic Hamiltonian of a free particle, from its Lagrangian. Home: Rested. Ate a light lunch. 1pm, Mobile Pantry Driver at VEAP. Delivered food to an address just off Lyndale, north of 66th St. Only took about an hour. Back home: Reading Colson Whitehead's 1999 debut novel, "The Intuitionist". At 70%. Big reveal: Lila Mae is about to confront the man (Pompey) who likely framed her. Her friend in her department is Chuck. Her enemy is Pompey. She's working with Natchez, each helping the other with their projects, and, at the same time, they're falling in love. First 15 minutes of The Romanovs. ============================================================== Tu 5/27/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: very quick look at WSJ, NYT, Economist, Barron's. Only had about 45 minutes. 12noon, had lunch with Karl Narveson near his place, at a "public house" named George and the Dragon. Karl's older daughter, Sophie, is graduating from college, staying at home right now. His younger daughter, Solveig, is graduating from high school, and will go to U of VT next year. She's volunteering for two weeks at VEAP, to fulfill a service requirement. His wife, Rebecca, finished some program to allow her students to earn college credit at St Thomas. Duality between: 2-adic integers and discrete union, over n, of 2^n th roots of unity. I received a $20.95 mystery check from Health Partners a few days ago. Called billing (651-265-1999) and was told that I had sent in a check for $20.95, but the check number they had recorded was more than three digits, and all of my checks have three-digit numbers. I decided to go ahead and deposit it. A few days ago I also received a message on My Chart reminding me to schedule a "Wellness" visit. I already have a physical scheduled for F 27 June. I wrote to ask what this is about and whether I need to ask for more time for my appointment with Dr Ofstedal. Just heard back today that there's such a thing as a Medicare Wellness check, but I don't have medicare. Could sign up for Part A, but won't sign up for Part B until I need to (because Part B has premiums, and I'm already covered by work). Still unclear about whether to add more time to my physical appointment, so I wrote again. Eventually told just to ignore the message. Reading Colson Whitehead's 1999 debut novel, "The Intuitionist". At 60%. Big reveal: Natchez is the nephew of Fulton. Seeks the black box as his inheritance. First 10 minutes of The Romanovs. ============================================================== M 5/26/25 Memorial Day. Everything closed -- e.g., gym and library. Laundry: Did a load of whites and a small load of blacks. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, closed. People's Organic (wild rice pancakes, again). Glanced through the newspaper. Wifi at People's Organic hasn't been working for a couple of weeks. Starting to make sense of E=mc^2, from one point of view. Apply a constant force F on a particle whose position at time t is x. Assume particle position at time 0 is 0. Know: E = F x. (Work is force time distance.) Then: dE/dt = F v. When v is close to c, dE/dt \approx F c Know: p = m * v. Then: F = dp/dt = (dm/dt) * v + m * (dv/dt). When v is close to c, dv/dt is small, so m * (dv/dt) can be ignored. Then: F \approx (dm/dt) * c. Then: dE/dt \approx F c \approx (dm/dt) * c^2. Assuming the approximations have error that can be made arbitrarily small, we get: dE/dt = (dm/dt) * c^2. Integrate: E = m * c^2. To get a better sense of this, probably need to understand the relativistic Lagrangian. Home: Shower, shave, etc -- usually done at gym, but community center (where the gym is) is closed for Mem Day. Finished folding and putting away clothes from laundry. More on E=mc^2: Let m_0 denote the rest mass of a particle in free space (no potential). Assume that, in the lab frame, the particle moves with velocity v. Let beta := ( 1 - v^2/c^2 )^{1/2}. Want the relativistic Lagrangian in free space to be of the form: - constant * beta. The constant would then be called "rest energy". Denote it by E_0. Then the relativistic Lagrangian would be - E_0 * ( 1 - v^2/c^2 )^{1/2}. Taylor: ( 1 - h )^{1/2} = 1 - (1/2) * h - (1/8) * h^2 + ... Replace h by v^2/c^2 and multiply by E_0. The the relativistic Lagrangian would be - E_0 * ( 1 - (1/2) * (v^2/c^2) - (3/4) * (v^4/c^4) + ... When v << c, we want this to be close to constant + (1/2) * m_0 * v^2. So we want E_0 * (1/2) * (v^2/c^2) = (1/2) * m_0 * v^2. Then E_0 = m_0 * c^2. Around 1pm, went to Murphy-Hanrehan Park Reserve with Julia, walked for about 1.5 hrs. Picked up Bob at Cathy's, the drove to the airport and picked up G&S and Maxim. Dropped off Bob and G&S in Mendota Hts, brought Maxim back to EP. He'll stay overnight and will leave tomorrow. ============================================================== Su 5/25/25 Good night's sleep, by my standards. (Over six hours and a half hour of rest after waking.) Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Instead, went to People's Organic, had wild rice pancakes. Home: Reading Colson Whitehead's 1999 debut novel, "The Intuitionist". At 50%. Lila Mae is released with only a threat, personally delivered by Chancre. She goes back to the HQ of the intuitionists, meets Orville Lever, briefly. Is debriefed by Mr Reed, lies to him about where she was. Seems as if he doesn't believe her. Natchez wants to speak with Lila Mae, causing her to think back to the first time a boy kissed her. Not clear what Natchez wants, though. More resting, for about an hour. Close to sleep. Listened again to the first 15 minutes of The Romanovs. Then added another 2.5 minutes. ============================================================== Sa 5/24/25 Got up *very* early, 3am. Finished load of colored laundry, then continued on to a load of black. Some black is left to wash. Washed sheets on my bed and Maxim's. Folded many, many t-shirts. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Home to drop off clothing. 11:15am, blood donation. Library: NYT, WSJ, Strib, Sun Current (local paper). Home: Tired, rested. Reading Colson Whitehead's 1999 debut novel, "The Intuitionist". At 42%. Lila Mae is captured by Johny Shush's goons, sees tortured man, Ben Urich. She doesn't seem too worried, somehow. Glanced at Philip Taylor and Olle Heinonen ("A quantum approach to condensed matter physics"). Looked at Chapter 2. Ch 1 = semiclassical analysis to guess at what the quantum analysis will show. Ch 2 = the quantum analysis. Rewatched first 15 minutes or so of The Romanovs. (Liñgöpie.) ============================================================== F 5/23/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Instead, went to my mom's and mowed the lawn. Also ate up the last of the dessert. Mmm. Reading Colson Whitehead's 1999 debut novel, "The Intuitionist". At 30%. Empiricist Frank Chancre is up for reelection. Opposing him: Intuitionist Orville Lever. Lila Mae has been in seclusion at an Intuitionist "safe house". She seems to be falling for someone Black (Natchez, named after Natchez, MI) who works there. Mr Reed tells her about the "Black Box", an Intuitionist elevator design. Designer: James Fulton, the original Intuitionist. Reporter (Ben Urich) is being tortured by Jim and John (thugs working for Johnny Shush) for uncovering information about the design of the Black Box, and trying (unsuccessfully) to publish it. Rested. Rewatched first 10 minutes or so of The Romanovs. (Liñgöpie.) 9pm, started a load of colored laundry. ============================================================== Th 5/22/25 Quiet day. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Met Vic for breakfast at Hope Breakfast bar. Went home to drop off workout clothes, then went to the library. WSJ, Strib, NYT, a glance at an Economist. Studied the Dirac equation, which is slowly coming into focus. Home: Some lunch, some quiet time. A walk (on my own) in the evening, just around the neighborhood. Julia wasn't feeling well. Reading Colson Whitehead's 1999 debut novel, "The Intuitionist". At 17%. Lila Mae caught two men (Jim and John) searching her apartment. Mr Reed (Orville Lever's secretary) intervenes. Rewatched first 10 minutes of The Romanov's. Needing less and less effort to understand, each time. Slow process, though. Ordered two belts (30''-34'') and six washcloths from Amazon. Should arrive Tu 26 May. $55.68. ============================================================== W 5/21/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, went to the U (by car) to have my "labs" done. Proper fasting this time. Glucose was 94, in the recommended 70-99 range. Only problems: Cholesterol 221, should be < 200 LDL 124, should be < 100 On 5/14/25: Boynton, biometric screening (drank coffee before, unfortunately) Total Cholesterol 232 (Recommended: 150 mg/dL or lower) HDL Cholesterol 73 (Recommended: 40 mg/dL or higher in men) LDL Cholesterol 146 (Recommended: 100 mg/dL or lower) Triglycerides 65 (Recommended: 150 mg/dL or lower) Blood Pressure 110/72 (Recommended: 120/80 or lower) Glucose 109 (Recommended: 99 or lower) Body Fat % 16.4 (Recommended: 12%-25% in males ages 60-79) Height 5'7" Weight 149.4 Came home. Rested. Maxim came out at about 1:30, plugged his car into a trickle charge, and I took him out to G&S's, where he'll spend the night. All three are going to CA tomorrow. Back on Monday. I'll mow their lawn on Friday. On Monday, I'll pick up Bob (at Cathy's), and then pick G&S and Maxim up at the airport and take G&S&Bob home, then take Maxim out to my place to get his car. Reading Colson Whitehead's 1999 debut novel, "The Intuitionist". At 9%. Rewatched some of The Romanovs, esp. the first five minutes. Lila May is in trouble -- a building she inspected had a falling elevator. ============================================================== Tu 5/20/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Home just to drop off workout clothes. Library: WSJ, NYT, Strib, Economist. 12noon, went to "Taste of Africa Restaurant & Deli" with Eric Johnson and George Temple. Pretty loud. Back in EP went to Aurelia's for Tres Leches. Home: Napped for about an hour. Light dinner. Weight is now about 151.5. (Was below 149 after workout this morning.) Started new book. Colson Whitehead's 1999 debut novel, "The Intuitionist". At 4%. Lila Mae Watson, elevator inspector, intuitionist. Did one inspection. Someone tried to bribe her, unsuccessfully. Spent about an hour watching first episode of The Romanovs. Around 16:00 out of 51:32. ============================================================== M 5/19/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Needed to go home to meet a Sedgwick tech. Home: Printed the airplane and train itineraries for my DC trip. They look fine. F 18 July, Delta 2963, MSP to National Airport (DCA), 2:31pm-5:59pm, confirmation JKDVON F 25 July, Amtrak train from Union Station in DC to Boston, 10:35am-7:04pm, conf 1E3A17 eticket in email with subject "Amtrak: eTicket and Receipt for Your 07/25/2025 Trip - SCOT ADAMS" confirmation 1E3A17 M 28 July, Delta 1098, Boston Logan (BOS) to MSP, 6pm-8:26pm, confirmation JKDVON About 10:30am: Tech from Sedgwick did our A/C tuneup. Cost covered by our contract. Turned out that he didn't have the right filter and will have to come back. Also the temp was too low to get a good pressure reading, so he can do that again when he returns. Tech: Jeremy Chan. Set a new appt for W 4 June. 5pm, pub pizzas with Julia at Old Chicago. Back home: Watched The Romanovs for about an hour. ============================================================== Su 5/18/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, went to Brueggers (near EP Liquor), then to EP Liquor. Bought a bottle of Rioja for dinner at Mom's tonight. Got some new windshield washer fluid, refilled the fluid in my car. Will get some more and put it in Julia's car. Then maybe buy more, just to have extra. Home: Worked on eigenspaces for a cos theta, sin theta linear combination of the Pauli matrices sigma_3, sigma_2. Worked on what happens if we project [1 0]^T orthogonally onto those two eigenspaces. The sum of the squared-lengths of the projections is 1. Got cos^2(theta/2) and sin^2(theta/2), as expected. Never worked that out in detail before. 4:30pm, dinner at my mom's, with Mom, Sally, Maxim, me, cousin Brian (in from BC), cousin Mary (in from Marin County), Barbara (Bob's wife). Bob was ill, couldn't make it. Alex didn't show up. Mushrooms for me, GramBee's Chicken Pot Pie for everyone else. Also, fruit salad, some veggies, excellent rhubarb dessert. I brought Rioja wine. Home: Wrote out $240 check to Kathy Steen for our part of the new mailbox construction. ============================================================== Sa 5/17/25 Woke up very early, not sure why. Finally got out of bed at 4:30am. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, Strib, NYT. Quiet day, nothing on my calendar. Very tired, napped a little. L&B: milk, frozen veggies, apples, Amy's (1, not on sale). T-Mobile bill has been about $120 since at least 7/5/20, but just increased to $140. I have 4 lines and they added $5 to the cost per line. Spent about an hour listening to The Romanovs. At 15:22 out of 51:32. ============================================================== F 5/16/25 ANNUAL LETTER 2025: Maxim's college graduation was today! Busy day. Rainy, too. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Went home and brought Maxim to his graduation in Mariucci Arena. Julia was sick, missed it. G&S, Alex and Jordan, Maxim, Me. Afterward, we went to Tokyo Sushi on Roberts Street near G&S's. I ate a la carte, so not too much food. Afterward, Maxim and I headed home. Gave Maxim a check for $9,000. Graduation present. Grandma has already put $7,000 in a Roth IRA for him this year, and that's the max. I'll plan to give him another $9000 next year (in 2026), and the two years after that (in 2027, 2028). Maybe some of it can go to a Roth (some year in the future), and/or some to a downpayment on property. Napped very briefly. ============================================================== Th 5/15/25 Quiet day today. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, Strib, NYT Tomorrow will be busy: Maxim's graduation and sushi afterward. Julia is not feeling well, may not be able to go. Julia and I are planning to give Maxim money as a graduation present: $7,000 to put into a Roth IRA (recommend Fidelity, S&P index fund) $2,000 to put into his bank account, a plan to do the same thing next year. NOTE: $7,000 is the limit for 2025. ANNUAL LETTER 2025: Finished "Trouble Boys" by Bob Mehr. Home: Weight is up (153.1), probably because of eating out yesterday at Emily's. So I just had a small snack for lunch. Short nap. Got cut off (some kind of computer mainenance in Lind Hall at the U kept me from finishing this entry yesterday) Watched a significant amount of The Romanovs. ============================================================== W 5/14/25 Busy day. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 2:55pm home. 10:30am, Boynton, biometric screening (drank coffee before, unfortunately) Total Cholesterol 232 (Recommended: 150 mg/dL or lower) HDL Cholesterol 73 (Recommended: 40 mg/dL or higher in men) LDL Cholesterol 146 (Recommended: 100 mg/dL or lower) Triglycerides 65 (Recommended: 150 mg/dL or lower) Blood Pressure 110/72 (Recommended: 120/80 or lower) Glucose 109 (Recommended: 99 or lower) Body Fat % 16.4 (Recommended: 12%-25% in males ages 60-79) Height 5'7" Weight 149.4 2pm, met Aarya Garimella at my office to talk about the Householder Method. Posted some slides that I showed him. Snacked a little at home. 5pm, met Madhu at her place and went to Emily's Lebanese Delicatessen. Then went for a walk at Boom Island Park. Got home around 7 or 7:30. Read a little of "Trouble Boys" by Bob Mehr, at 92%. In the epilogue. Bob Stinson died, each other band member is finding his way. ----------------------------------------- Yesterday, I called to move money back to S&P 500 index fund effective at close today. --- S&P 500 at the end of close on W 5/14/25: 5892. --- Conf number: 251331657450, effective end of close 5/14/25 MN Old FROZEN ORP $2,088,424 move 100% to FIDELITY FXAIX MN 457 $1,419,000 move 100% to VANGUARD VIIIX MN Fac Ret $790,941 move 100% to VANGUARD VIIIX MN New ROTH ORP $149,596 move 100% to VANGUARD VIIIX Stanford $26,960 move 100% to VANGUARD VIIIX --- Conf number: C3B00Q2BW, effective end of close 5/14/25 TIAA-CREF $1,041,692 move 100% to CREF Equity Index R2 --- Note: I moved all but TIAA-CREF and a small Roth acct to money market funds on 2/27/25. I moved TIAA-CREF to money market fund on 3/13/25. ----------------------------------------- Planned graduation day (Friday): I'll bring Maxim and Julia to the U. G&S will get there on their own. Alex and Jordan will get ther on their own. Afterward, G&S and Alex and Jordan and Maxim will all meet at the ticket office, and I'll take Julia home. They'll do some pictures, then go on to Tokyo Sushi. I'll drop off Julia, then go join them. Ridiculously complicated but Julia wants to avoid Jordan. ============================================================== Tu 5/13/25 Another quiet day. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, Strib, Atlantic, slides for Householder method. 2:30pm, Zoomed with Terry Quain and Dave Homans about CCL chapter activities Nicola couldn't make it, canceled out earlier today. Read a little of "Trouble Boys" by Bob Mehr, at 87%. The band has broken up, reading the epilogue. Napped. Tomorrow will be busy: Go to the U early. Fasting until 10:30am. Vincent 127: re-sign document for phased retirement. 10:30am, Boynton Biometric screening 2pm, Vincent 354, meet Aarya Garimella 5pm, her place, meet Madhu, with Julia. ============================================================== M 5/12/25 Finally a fairly quiet day. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: Strib, WSJ, worked on setting up an example to illustrate the Householder method. L&B: vitamins, milk, string cheese, yogurt. Home: Lunch -- finished Jordan's casserole. Delicious. Read a little of "Trouble Boys" by Bob Mehr, at 84%. Westerberg is trying to sober up, difficulty on European tour (drinking lots of cough medicine), band seems to be on its last legs. Dinner: Almost done with pasta from Buca. Egg. Some cheese. Some walnuts. Milk. Continuing to read about QFT (Quantum Field Theory). Got Maxim a $40 gift card at Chipotle. Earned a BOGO, which I should use with Maxim on the weekend. Made plans to get together with Madhu on Wednesday. Wednesday will be busy: Need to go to school, ride back at 2:55pm, then drive back in with Julia to get together with Madhu. 8:15pm, Maxim's playoff game. Close game, but Maxim's team won. :-) Maxim played well, and his team played well. They'll play another game tonight but it was getting too late for me. Just notified that my full self-driving trial has expired. Never cared for it. ============================================================== Su 5/11/25 Mothers Day! This has been a busy week, but tomorrow should be easier. (Only one thing on my schedule: Maxim's first "playoff" game is tomorrow. Everyone makes the playoffs in this league.) Strength, slower running at shorter time (15 mins, ?200? ft climb, ?8?mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, went to my mom's for Mother's Day. Helped move some plants around, and moved mulch around. Alex and Jordan made brunch, a casserole. (They made a special vegetarian casserole for me.) Also had a fruit salad. They added lemon juice for preservation, but we finished it at the meal. Home: Napped a little. Read a little of "Trouble Boys" by Bob Mehr, at 80%. Julia and I went for a walk around Purgatory Creek Park, then had Mother's Day dinner at Kyoto Sushi. I just ordered a la carte, veggie tempura and some ice cream. Julia had all you can eat sushi. Home: Read some of David Tong's lectures on Quantum Field Theory (https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/qft/one.pdf) Comparing this with Nicolas James Marks Ford's QFT I (https://nicf.net/articles/qft-free-fields/) ============================================================== Sa 5/10/25 Busy day. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No slides, CCL chapter meeting instead. 10:30am-12noon, ran chapter meeting. Moones Alamooti spoke about geothermal. Very interesting discussion. 2pm, met Alex, did some shopping (at Trader Joe's) for brunch tomorrow, then Noodles (Penne Rosa), then Cold Stone Creamery (Sweet Cream shake). Only read a little of "Trouble Boys" by Bob Mehr, at 76%. ============================================================== F 5/9/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 1:25pm home. Sent Henry Mahnke a scan of his exam. Made no changes to grade lines. Corrected several blank grades that should have been 0s. This change caused one student to move from D to F. (He'd skipped Midterms 2 and 3 both, so he shouldn't be surprised.) All the other letter grades were unchanged. Submitted grades to the registrar. Went for a short walk along the Mississippi. Home: Tried out Mariuchi Udon. Not bad. Not much vegetarian. Went with Julia to Old Chicago for pub pizzas. Dropped Julia off at home, and then went for a 3 leches at Aurelia. Read some more of "Trouble Boys" by Bob Mehr, at 75%. ============================================================== Th 5/8/25 Good night's sleep! Nothing on my agenda for today. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: No slides! NYT, Economist, Strib, WSJ. Home: With Maxim, watched Black Mirror, Season 7, Episode 6, "USS Callister: Into Infinty". About 1.5 hours long. Complicated story, but excellent. Read some of "Trouble Boys" by Bob Mehr, at 70%. Catnapped. ============================================================== W 5/7/25 Got very little sleep last night for some reason. Just not tired. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 3:48pm home. At the U: 12:20pm-1:10pm, gave Yufeng Qiu a late exam. Finished grading, including totaling and entering grades in Canvas. Also worked out grade lines for Midterm 3 and grade lines for the course totals. Will submit grades to the registrar tomorrow or Friday, probably Friday. Grabbed a little ice cream at the ice cream social. Home: Really tired. Dozed for about 45 minutes. Lots of email from students with grading inquiries. Graded Yufeng Qiu's exam. ============================================================== Tu 5/6/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Drove to the U. 10am, gave Erick Yang a late exam, and picked up DRC exams. Turns out there's one more student (Yufeng Qiu) who needs a late exam. 11:45am, met Joe Bove at Boca Chica for lunch. Steve Barbo and Rich Reardon arrived about noon. Steve's looking after his mom (dementia), and Rich is looking after his wife (back problems). Joe's younger child (a son) is graduating from high school. His older kid (daughter) is at UW Stout in Menomonie, WI. Home: Read some of "Trouble Boys" by Bob Mehr, at 63%. Lots of drinking and drugs. Finished grading III 2 today, leaving III 3 and III 4 for tomorrow. Then: totaling, entering grades, figuring Midterm 3 gradelines, course gradelines. Then: submitting grades to registrar. Checked over solutions, can post them (and the exam) anytime. Watche a few new minutes of The Romanov's. Michael Romanov has repulsed a Polish attack, recovered some lands that were taken earlier. ============================================================== M 5/5/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 3:48pm home. At school: Gave my final exam. Renewed my Electric Vehicle Association membership, cost $55 Home: Graded I and II. Will do III over the coming days. Read some of "Trouble Boys" by Bob Mehr, at 60%. They keep insulting anyone who can help them. Bad boys. Tracy called me today and told me that he and Jenn had separated. I let Maxim know just before his game. 8:25pm, Maxim's basketball game. His team won decisively. ============================================================== Su 5/4/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Weight was down to 148.9, but I ate a lot today so it'll be up again. Library: WSJ, Economist (yet another new one), thought more about Fock-representation of super-algebra of a super-vector-space. Went with Julia to the Wolsfeld Woods SNA, close to Wood Rill. She'd been there for a nature hike yesterday. Lots of nice paths, relaxing environment. Julia kept wanting to lecture me on plants, and I was trying to think about super-algebras. Read some of "Trouble Boys" by Bob Mehr, at 57%. Now that Bob Stinson is gone, the 'Mats are looking at adding Bob Dunlap aka "Slim". This book has a tremendous amount of info about the Minnesota music scene. Rewatched a part of The Romanovs. At 51:32 of first episode. ============================================================== Sa 5/3/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Starting at 11am, I went on walk at Riley Creek led by Marilyn Torkelson. Home at about noon, then went with Julia and Maxim to Buca. $100 lunch! ($20 off because of coupon). Maxim had shrimp fried diavolo, Julia and I shared penne alla vodka, and Julia had a shrimp appetizer. Julia and I brought home about half of what we ordered, but Maxim finished an entire order. Home: Watched an episode of Black Mirror ("Plaything"). Artificial lifeforms which a nerd (Peter Capaldi) falls for. Eventually they take over the world. Dozed off for a few minutes. Read some of "Trouble Boys" by Bob Mehr, at 54%. Bob's out of the band, and the three others (Paul, Tommy and Chris) are making an album in Memphis, with a producer named Jim Dickinson. ============================================================== F 5/2/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 3:48pm home. At the U: Finished writing exam, uploaded to the DRC, made 85 copies (for 38+38=76 students). Taught at 10:10am and at 1:25pm. Extra long office hours 1:25-3:35pm. Then ran to catch bus. Home: Some dinner. Weight is below 150. Read some of "Trouble Boys" by Bob Mehr, at 50%. Tour of Europe was okay, but uncomfortable. Paul Westerberg fired Peter Jesperson. Band is at the edge of kicking out Bob Stinson. Even Tommy Stinson seems to feel that Bob should go. Lots of destructive behavior, including Bob and Peter. Kathy Steen got an estimate ($725) for new mailboxes for three of us in the neighborhood (us, the Steens, the Bostons). I'm okay with that cost. Should be around $250 for each, then. No payment until work is done. Rewatched some of The Romanovs and reread a paragraph from Anna Karenina. ============================================================== Th 5/1/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, Atlantic, Economist (another new Economist just came out), slides (worked on review session, scheduled for tomorrow) 4pm, Zoom with Fernando. He had gotten together with his Korean coauthor, in Miami. The guy started his own company, so he's a client of Fernando's. Also, he was recently divorced, needed cheering up. 5:45pm, saw the movie Warfare. Very quiet for about half, then an IED goes off and the rest of the movie is endless horror. It's good to be reminded that war so terrible, or we'd grow fond of it. Read some of "Trouble Boys" by Bob Mehr, at 46%. The band got on Saturday Night Live, and played well, but swore on live TV, got dressed down by Lorne Michaels. ============================================================== W 4/30/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 3:48pm home. At the U: Taught at 10:10am and at 1:25pm. Office hours at 2:30pm. Home: Bite to eat. Then hurried off to Vic's 60th birthday party at Surly Brewery. 6:30pm-8pm, at Vic's party, home around 8:30pm. No time for reading Trouble Boys or Anna Karenina. No time for Romanov's. ============================================================== Tu 4/29/25 29th US wedding anniversary today. Plan to go to Big Bowl later today. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Weight at 149.5 today. Library: WSJ, Economist (new one just came out), slides. Home: Some lunch. Received "Fully executed Phased Agreement", so that's now a done deal! Need to get back to Ben about plans for the phase, after teaching in the Fall. Just wrote to him, asking if we can talk more about this toward the end of this calendar year. 2:30pm, Faculty meeting on tenured faculty continuation and promotion. Went for a walk with Julia around Centennial Lakes, then on to Big Bowl, for our wedding anniversary dinner. Had a cannoli like desert with banana that was very good. Brought home about half of the food. Ran through new version of Midterm 3 -- looks okay. Ordered an Old Chicago gift card, promised two bonus cards, but only one arrived. Complained through their online chat. Gladys A escalated the request, promised resolution in 1-2 days, ticket number 5672378. OC customer service is at https://oldchicago.cashstar.com/self_service/v2/register then, on the LEFT, click on "Contact Customer Support" or "Live Help". NOTE: The next day, on Wednesday, they did send me a second bonus card. Problem solved. ============================================================== M 4/28/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 3:48pm home. At the U: Taught at 10:10am and at 1:25pm. Office hours at 11:15am. Prepared second draft of Midterm 3. Will work some more on it tomorrow. Will send final version to Carolyn and the DRC, maybe Wednesday, mabye Friday. Headed home. Got to SW Station, then went to Richfield Community Center. Last Saturday, I accidentally left the CCL Banner there. I picked it up, and delivered it to Nicola's place. Then went home for a quick bite to eat. Prediction of big storm, but it seems to have missed the Twin Cities, went to the south. It caused Maxim's basketball game to be delayed by 30 minutes, starting at 7pm. Maxim played well, but his team lost. Playing against a really good team. He had me pick him up and bring him to and from the game. Didn't want to leave his car outside, because of the possibility of large hailstones. G&S came to the game, too. Home around 8:30, just time to get ready for bed. No time for reading Trouble Boys or Anna K. No time for Romanovs. ============================================================== Su 4/27/25 Finally a good night's sleep and a quiet day. Relaxing. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Went to Smith Coffee, worked on slides. Home: Rested up. Some shopping at L&B: milk, apples, cheese, yogurt. Read some of "Trouble Boys" by Bob Mehr, at 40%. Watched The Romanovs for about 30 minutes. (Liñgöpie.) Reread a paragraph from Anna Karenina. ============================================================== Sa 4/26/25 Busy busy day. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, Economist, NY Times, just a little on slides. 1pm-4pm, Richfield Commumity Center, tabling event. Five new signups. Forgot the CCL banner there, hoping to recover. Home: Read just a couple of pages of "Trouble Boys" by Bob Mehr, at 35%. Prince and The Replacements were developing at about the same time. Very tired, napped for about 30 minutes. (I was on my feet for the three hours tabling.) With Maxim, watched two episodes of Black Mirror with Maxim. One was "eulogy", which was excellent. About a guy (Paul Giamatti) who as, an old man, confronts the fact that that through his own unkindness towards the love of his life, he lost her. He thought *she* was unkind to *him*, but, by exploring old photos in detail, using tech, he pieces together what really happened, and how his memory of it was incomplete and one-sided. Very compelling, very sad. The other was about updating an old film in a modern style, done with high tech. The 1940s actress and the modern actress fall in love, but it's all "in the matrix". Two more episodes left in this season. ============================================================== F 4/25/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 3:48pm home. At the U: Taught at 10:10am and at 1:25pm. Office hours at 1:25m. Jeff is back, caught bus home with him. Also saw Greg Handy on the same bus. Working on a question from one of my students, Henry Mahnke. Rotation matrix question. Find the matrix of 120 degree rotation counterclockwise about the line x=y=z. Easy if you note that this action cyclically permutes the standard basis vectors. He had a specific way he wanted to do it, and I'm working that out. Read "Trouble Boys" by Bob Mehr, at 33%. Peter Jesperson is back with the 'Mats. ============================================================== Th 4/24/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. 9:30am-10:30am, took a shift at VEAP, delivering Mobile Pantry to a new location: Penelope 35, at 10619 Beard Ave South, Bloomington 55431. Received my new passport, valid to 17 Apr 2035. Library: WSJ, slides. Read "Trouble Boys" by Bob Mehr, at 30%. The band abandoned 16-year old Tommy in NY City (with no money), and went on to Boston. Jesperson is now with REM. Julia returned from her trip to Iowa City. Funny satire piece linked from the Daily, about penguins near Australia objecting to Trump's tariffs. Sent a copy to G&S. ============================================================== W 4/23/25 Not much sleep last night. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 3:48pm home. At the U: Taught at 10:10am and at 1:25pm. Office hours at 2:30m. Had an Impossible breakfast sandwich at Starbucks. Had french fries with aioli sauce at Sweetgreen Back in EP: Ate at Qdoba. Weight is at about 152. 5:30pm Haircut Free MVP coupon, but they tried to tell me that it had already been used. Maybe so -- I used a free MVP on 3/1/25. However, I've received repeated notices, since then, that I have a coupon and need to use it before it expires on the 24th. Eventually they relented and gave it to me for free -- I left a $7 tip. Pretty tired. Started a load of whites in laundry. No time to read or study Russian. :-( ============================================================== Tu 4/22/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, EV of the year in a car magazine, slides. 2:30pm, faculty meeting for promotions from assistant (tenure-track) to associate (tenured). I had some input on promotions from associate to full, and I'll also attend the meeting a week from today on promotions from associate to full. Read some of "Trouble Boys" by Bob Mehr, at 24%. Cleaned all the bathrooms (except in the basement). Emptied all the smaller trash containers. Relistened to the first five minutes of The Romanovs. (Liñgöpie.) ============================================================== M 4/21/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, no flash cards, no juggling, no pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 2:55pm home. At the U: Taught at 10:10am and at 1:25pm. Office hours at 11:15am. Review with Ben Brubaker at 1:30pm. He was interested to know if I have thoughts about how I want to spend my phase. Still thinking about that. We discussed possibly adding a data mining feature to Financial Math. Home: Ate an early dinner. Read a few pages of "Trouble Boys" by Bob Mehr, at 19%. Very tired -- slept for about an hour. Didn't do flash cards or juggling or pen spin -- just too tired. 8:15pm, Midtown YWCA, another of Maxim's basketball games. His supervisor is Lane, and I met Lane's girlfriend, Bella. The team led by a lot for a while, but started shooting badly in the second half and lost. Would have gone to overtime except one three-pointer just barely missed. Got back around 9:30pm, headed to bed. ============================================================== M 4/20/25 Easter. EPCC closed. Good night's sleep. No strength, no running, no stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. 9am, went to my mom's to make B^3 pancakes and Sock It To Me jello. Maxim came along. 10am, Alex and Carolyn arrived. I brought along some chocolate, some mock mimosas. Carolyn brought white chocolate and chocolate Easter bunnies. Helped with cleanup. Home: With Maxim, watched an episode of Black Mirror about a woman who, in school, treated another student terribly. The other student comes and exacts revenge, using tech that can reshape the world as she wishes it. "Bete noir". Read some "Trouble Boys" by Bob Mehr, at 18%. The Replacements are now "discovered" by Peter Jesperson, and their career is going well, but there are clear signs of trouble ahead. Chapter 9 has a very interesting synopsis of the music scene in the Twin Cities in the 70s and 80s. Rewatched some of The Romanovs, reread one paragraph of Anna Karenina. Mikhail Romanov has been chosed tsar, Stiva is waking up to his chaotic household. ============================================================== Sa 4/19/25 Woke up early. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, economist, slides. Shopping for Easter (which is tomorrow) at my mom's. Julia is still in Iowa City, until Thursday. Will make B^3 pancakes and Sock It To Me Jello. Should be some leftover eggs, too. Later, went shopping a second time (to get some sparkling juice and orange juice for mockosas). Watched the last episode of Court of Gold. Turns out that the finals of 2024 Olympic Basketball were very close. The US beat France. France came in 2nd, Serbia 3rd. Watched an episode of Black Mirror with Maxim, about a married couple. She starts getting headaches, and eventually has part of her brain replaced with something "connected to the cloud", but then the medical establishment bleeds them dry. Eventually he kills her (by her wishes) and he looks as if he's headed to commit suicide online at the end. Replaced Britta filter on room temperature water. Watched a little of the Lakers Timberwolves game. (Game 1 of a first to 4 series.) MN was doing great while I watched. Just read a little of "Trouble Boys" by Bob Mehr, at 13%. ============================================================== F 4/18/25 Slept well, but not long enough. Asleep from about 9:30pm to 4:30am. Woken up by alarm, felt very tired. Seven hours sleep. More tomorrow, I hope. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, no flash cards, no juggling, no pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 2:25pm home. At the U: Taught at 10:10am and at 1:25pm. Office hours at 1:25pm. Home: Dinner: cheese and crackers, yogurt and walnuts, some Penne alla Vodka, milk, an apple. Getting weight slowly under control. Haven't had time to work out since Tuesday, though. Tomorrow, will get to the gym -- that should help. Cleaned up the island and part of the counter to make more room. Continued reading "Trouble Boys" by Bob Mehr, at 12%. Watched a little of The Romanovs. (Liñgöpie.) Maxim out for the weekend, Julia away. Planning Easter (this Sunday) at G&S's. Planning BBB Pancakes and Sock It To Me Jello topping. Read a couple of paragraphs from Anna Karenina. Started a load of laundry (coloreds). ============================================================== Th 4/17/25 Didn't get to bed until midnight last night -- woke up exhausted. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, no flash cards, no juggling, no pen spin. No library, caught 7:10am to the U, 2:25pm home. At the Graduate Starbucks, worked on slides for about 30-45 minutes. From the U, took Green Line to Minneapolis then walked to the convention center. Showed cars from 9:45am to 1pm, then took Green Line back to the U. Did a little more work on slides at Starbucks, then caught bus home. Julia left today to go on her trip to Iowa. Back on the 24th. Home: Registered for July CCL conference. It will only run for two days, 20-22 July. Read some more of "Trouble Boys", at start of Chapter 6, at 8%. Need to start thinking about Easter brunch. Maybe B^3 Pancakes and Sock It To Me Jello. ANNUAL LETTER 2025: Some of Julia's 2025 trips: Iowa City, Th 17 Apr to Th 24 Apr Greenbush MN, M 9 Jun to M 16 Jun DC (with me), F 18 Jul to F 25 Jul Spain, W 5 Nov to F 14 Nov Rewatched beginning of The Romanovs. (Liñgöpie.) ============================================================== W 4/16/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, no flash cards, no juggling, no pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 3:48pm home. At the U: Taught at 10:10am and at 1:25pm. Office hours at 2:30pm. 11am, lunch at Chipotle (free queso) 4pm, met Alex and Jordan at Beacon and Union, and they drove me over to the Auto Show. Wandered around for a while, then went to the MNEVOC meeting. Afterward, had a light dinner (beat salad and some potatoes) at a restaurant in a hotel. Expensive place. Then Alex drove me back to Eden Prairie. Got back around 9:15pm. Julia wanted me to top off the oil in her car -- took about 15 minutes. Put out the trash and recycling and organics. No time for flash cards, juggling, pen spin, reading "Trouble Boys", or the Romanovs. ============================================================== Tu 4/15/25 Strength, no running (decided to rest on the running, but not on strength), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, Atlantic, Economist, slides. Took some notes (in /export/scratch/AdamsFiles/Info/Computer/www) about how to apply for Medicare Part A. Will probably do that, maybe Thursday. Finished Jack London's "The Little Lady of the Big House". Not a high opinion of that book, probably because the characters all have too-high opinions of themselves. Also, the unbridled racism and sexism is offputting, even considering when it was written. Maudlin ending. Paul and Dick Forrest, Evan Graham. Love triangle. Lots of effort trying to figure out what my health care options are for Julia from 2030 to 2033. It's fairly confusing. Not sure if "Active Employee" coverage will apply. I have questions in to Lori Stotesbery, a benefits councilor. I spoke to her earlier. At https://www.msrs.state.mn.us/sites/default/files/2024-10/At%20A%20Glance%20Brochure%2010.24.pdf I see Our Tax-Free Solution Health Care Savings Plan At-A-Glance and, scrolling down, I see Most Common Reimbursable Expenses ... Premiums for medical, dental and long-term care insurance Bought "Trouble Boys" by Bob Mehr, on Kindle, about $15. Recommended by Jeff Klepfer. Begins with memorial service for Bob Stinson. (Mother Anita Stinson, sister Lonnie.) Eulogist Jim Walsh. Peter Jesperson (who "discovered" the group) decided not to do the eulogy. Former Replacements bandmates: drummer Chris Mars, frontman Paul Westerberg, Tommy (Bob's brother), guitarist Slim Dunlap. Johnny Thunders of the New York Dolls. Bob Stinson's first girlfriend, Kim. Ray Reigstad played with Bob Stinson for five years in Static Taxi. Mike Leonard, apartment mate with Bob Stinson. Also, they played together in the Bleeding Hearts. Bob's ex-wife Carleen, son Joey. Ch 2: Paul Harold Westerberg born 31 Dec 1959. (Arrived "in time for a tax deduction".) Father Harold "Hal" Robert Westerberg, mother Mary Louise Philipp. Hal's father Robert Westerberg, mother Margaret Harris. Hal was an amateur golfer. WW II cut short hopes to be professional golfer. Hal fought at Normandy, collected dog tags and wedding rings from corpses. Mary Louise's brothers were musicians. Hal and Mary met at the 1948 MN State Fair. Hal worked at Warren Cadillac in Golden Valley. Later Anderson Cadillac. One of Paul's classmates: Jimmy Mars, younger brother Chris. Paul started drinking at 13 -- glass of vodka. Phil, Paul's brother, was in legal trouble in the early 1970s. Stopped at Chapter 3, 4%. ============================================================== M 4/14/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 3:48pm home. At the U: Taught at 10:10am and at 1:25pm. Office hours at 11:15am. Continued reading Jack London's "The Little Lady of the Big House", at 95%. Openly discussing infidelity of the heart and technical infidelity. Dick Forrest has committed technical infidelity. Paula -- of the heart. Clear double standard, remarked overtly on in the text. Watched a few minutes of The Romanov's. (Liñgöpie.) Went to another of Maxim's basketball games. His team came from behind, briefly led, then lost a very close finish. :-( ============================================================== Su 4/13/25 Strength, no running (decided to rest on the running, but not on strength), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, economist, slides. Some shopping. More nuts, more apples, more milk, more cheese, more yogurt (on sale), more coffee (on sale). $80.72. Unfortunately coffee went on sale after I'd bought a large amount. Expecting tariffs will push coffee prices up, up, up. Giving up on rechargeable 9V batteries. Too many hassles. Bought regular 9V batteries to put in the smoke detectors. Julia and I went for a walk around Hyland Lake. Went with Julia to Buca on a BOGO pasta coupon. Paid about $75 (including tax and tip), but probably ended up with 8 servings of pasta to take home. Rested for about 30 mins or an hour. Continued reading Jack London's "The Little Lady of the Big House", at 90%. Watched a few minutes of The Romanov's. (Liñgöpie.) ============================================================== Sa 4/12/25 Did a load of laundry (blacks). Started last night, finished up today. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Went home for a few minutes, then to Eco Expo at the EP mall. Thought I might do the library afterward, but was too tired. 11am-1pm, at Eco Expo at EP Center (i.e., the EP mall), tabling. Met a guy named John Jarvis, who freelances for EPLN (the Eden Prairie Local News) and who had a scientific job related to methane detection. He joined our chapter a few hours later. Watched fourth episode of "Court of Gold" (2024 Olympic basketball tournament) with Maxim. This one focused on the semi-finals. Only one left (on the finals). Went for a walk at Wood Rill with Julia. Really tired when I got home. Rested. Continued reading Jack London's "The Little Lady of the Big House", at 85%. ============================================================== F 4/11/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 3:48pm home. At the U: Taught at 10:10am and at 1:25pm. Office hours at 1:25pm. 2:30pm, Lori Stotesbery (benefits counselor) called and we spoke for about 10 minutes. She clarified several things: 1. If my salary isn't sufficient to cover all of my deductions, then the retirement deductions would be reduced as much as needed, until balance. On my last paycheck (Advice Date: 04/02/2025), my total employee deductions were: $ 196.13 + 37.74 + 124.97 + 115.39 + 63.69 + 1400 = 1937.92 (NOTE: The $1400 is retirement savings to ORP Roth.) My regular gross pay was $4998.77 and my total taxes were $1122.03. 4998.77 - 1122.03 = $3876.74 (net pay before deductions) and $3876.74 x 25% = $969.19, so I wouldn't be surprised if the ORP Roth isn't fully funded. Last year the max annual deductions for the ORP Roth was $30,500. NOTE: $1937.92 - 969.19 = $968.73. $1400 - 968.73 = $431.27 (per month for the ORP Roth). 26 x $431.27 = $11,213.02, much less than $30,500. She said that there's no way to supplement that $969.19 (or whatever it is); it has to come out of my paycheck. However, I could do conversions, which would have the same effect, incurring a tax cost that, instead of coming out of my paycheck, would be paid when I do my taxes. 2. It's been extremely rare for someone to waive the Health Care Savings Plan (HCSP), she said only twice that she knows of in all the time she's been here, and, even in those cases, she would have advised against it. She said it couldn't happen accidentally; I'd need to actively indicate that I want to waive it. 3. She said that, after the end of my phase (2030) and before Julia is Medicare eligible (2033), I can go on Medicare, and she can use the "active employee plan" to buy Medica insurance. She thinks this would be our cheapest option. Lori said she'd send me a link about this "active employee plan" so that I can read more about it. 4. Assuming I don't actively waive the HCSP and assuming I sign the second release on my last day of employment, I should see the lump sum deposited sometime in the following 2-3 months. I can use the money for Medicare B premiums and for Julia's Medica premiums, and for other health care expenses not covered by insurance. Lori said she'd send me a link about what the HCSP can be used to pay. 5. She said it makes little difference whether I sign up for Medicare A now or at the end of my phase. I'll plan to do it soon -- seems there's no reason not to. Home: Watched third episode of "Court of Gold" (2024 Olympic basketball tournament) with Maxim. A couple more episodes left, and then we can start on the new episodes of Black Mirror. Continued reading Jack London's "The Little Lady of the Big House", at 80%. No time for the Romanovs. ============================================================== Th 4/10/25 Alex's 28th birthday. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, economist, slides. Home briefly, then on to meet Alex, Jordan, Maxim, my mom and Sally. All you can eat sushi at Tokyo Sushi, on Roberts. My mom and Sally and I were a la cart, though. Still above 150. Maybe over the weekend, it'll go down. Home: Continued reading Jack London's "The Little Lady of the Big House", at 75%. Julia went to a concert with the SPCO, at Temple Israel. Rewatched a few minutes of the Romanovs. Describing the year after 1598. False Dmitris, and then Zemsky Sobor election. Some confusion: Godunov elected tsar in Feb 1598, assumes the throne in Sept of that year. False Dmitris and Polish-Russian War happened *after* Godunov's death. Godunov's death: 1605. Polish-Russian War: 1609-1618. Smutnoe Vremya: 1598-1613. There was also the Ingrian War between Russia and Sweden, 1610-1617. The documentary seems to imply that the Polish-Russian War was fought in 1598, but that's not right. Also seems to indicate that the False Dmitris came forth while Godunov was alive. Also not right. It doesn't even mention the death of Godunov. Very confusing. Boris Godunov: Lived 1552-1605. Regent 1586-1598. Tsar 1598-1605. False Dmitri 1: 10 June 1605 to 17 May 1606 False Dmitri 2: Pretend from 1607, killed 21 Dec 1610 by a tatar whom he had flogged False Dmitri 3: Pretend from 1607, killed July 1612 False Dmitri 4: possible claimant to the throne, but killed at age 3 Confusing sequence of wartime events, probably too hard to explain in a fast-moving documetary: Because of the succession of False Dmitris, Poles sensed weakness and attacked Russia. Russia tried to ally with Sweden against Poland. Swedish mercenaries agreed, with expectation of compensation. Poland defeated the alliance of Sweden and Russia at a major battle 4 July 1610. Compensation went unfulfilled, Russia became very unstable, Tsar Vasili Shuisky deposed, Poles occupied the Kremlin. Sweden then held onto the NW part of Russia as a buffer against the Poles attacking Sweden. That part of Russia then declared (under pressure) allegiance to Sweden, giving Sweden a claim to the Russian throne. Eventually Poles were expelled from Moscow. Then, in 1611, Sweden pursued its claim to the Russian throne, even though Zemsky Sabor had elected Mikhail Romanov as tsar. This then led to war between the former allies (Russia and Sweden). Meanwhile the Poles, though expelled from Moscow, continue to fight against Russia. ============================================================== W 4/9/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 3:48pm home. At the U: Taught at 10:10am and at 1:25pm. Office hours at 2:30pm. Lunch with Steve Barbo at Tacos Locos near 15th and University. His mother is getting old & paranoid. Wants him to barricade the front door each night. Weight is up even a little more. Over 153 today. Tomorrow will be going to a Sushi place for Alex's birthday. Hard to keep it off! At Home: Read some of Jack London's "The Little Lady of the Big House", at 70%. Rewatched start of the Romanovs. Doesn't speak much about Boris Godunov's life before 1598 when Tsar Fyodor died. Smutnoe Vremya: 1598-1613. The earlier period, the reign of Fyodor was relatively good. (Fyodor was somehow incapacitated and Godunov ruled as regent.) Ten year-old Dmitri (who was next in line to become tsar) had died mysteriously in 1591. Many speculate the Godunov had him killed. Godunov was elected unanimously by Zemsky Sobor on 21 February 1598, and became tsar in Sept of that year. Mikhail Romanov was sent to a monastery. Spent a little time studying notes that Sasha Voronov wrote up for me about superalgebra Shale-Weyl representations. You just identify the annihilation operators (Bosonic and Fermionic), put in the unit, generate a subalgebra, let that subalgebra act on a 1-dim space (with the annihilators acting as 0 and the unit acting as 1), and then induce up to the entire superalgebra. ============================================================== Tu 4/8/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, NYT, economist. Lots of work on slides with lots of improvements. 2:30pm, Zoom, monthly check-in with Terry Quain and Nicola Philpott and Dave Homans 3pm, went to OC for pub pizzas with Julia A few crackers and cheese when we got home. Weight is up, around 152. 5pm, statewide Zoom, run by Greg Jason, got very tired during the call Should try to avoid two Zooms on one evening. 6pm, went for walk with Julia around our neighborhood Read some of Jack London's "The Little Lady of the Big House", at 65%. ============================================================== M 4/7/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 3:48pm home. At the U: Taught at 10:10am and at 1:25pm. Office hours at 11:15am. For phased retirement, I signed the MOU and Release #1. I also made an appointment to talk to a benefits couselor this coming Friday at 2:30pm. Ask again about how to avoid waiving the HCSP. Is there any good reason not to sign up for Medicare Part A right now? What are my options for continuing coverage after the phase? Spent about 45 minutes talking with Sasha about super-algebras. There are very standard representations: You always pick the elements you want to be annihilators, make them act as 0 in a 1-dimensional rep make the unit act as 1 in that same rep then induce the rep to the entire algebra. Home: Quick dinner. 6:15pm-7:15pm, watched Maxim play basketball at the midtown YWCA. They lost, unfortunately. No time for reading London or watching Romanovs. Very tired -- should sleep well tonight. ============================================================== Su 4/6/25 Quiet day, warm weather. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, People's Organic (wild rice pancakes): slides. Shopping: Milk, cheese, some more Carr's crackers. Read Jack London's "The Little Lady of the Big House", at 60%. Went for a walk with Julia at the 9 Mile Creek walk in Bloomington. Studied Tong's lectures on QFT. Napped a little. ============================================================== Sa 4/5/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, slides. Home: Light lunch, heavier dinner, weight at 151 at 7pm. Wrote up questions about phased retirement, and sent them to the benefits office. Can call on Monday. Read Jack London's "The Little Lady of the Big House", at 55%. Drifted off for 30 minutes or so. Tired. Only slept about 6 hours last night. Watched a little of the start of The Romanovs. Trying to train my ear to hear Russian. Big "Hands off" protests today. Sally went to the Capitol. I didn't participate, but sympathize. ============================================================== F 4/4/25 Another busy day. Mild weather. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 3:48pm home. At the U: Taught at 10:10am and at 1:25pm. Office hours canceled; instead had Promotions Committee meeting 1:30pm-3:30pm. Spoke with Andrew Odlyzko for an hour about retirement and various other things. A little shopping at L&B. Bought lots of coffee in advance of tariff price increases. Also, cheese, protein bars, some Carr's crackers. Really glad to have my money out of stocks right now; S&P 500 dropped over 10% in the last two days. Home: New system (Commander S3XY) arrived. Alex says we can install it on the 10th, when we get together for his birthday. Read Jack London's "The Little Lady of the Big House", at 50%. Watched second episode of "Court of Gold" with Maxim. No time for The Romanovs. ============================================================== Th 4/3/25 Warming up finally. Good night's sleep. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Hurried back home for appt with tech from Tesla who installed garage door opener in my car. Seems to be working well. Library: WSJ, NYT, slides. Home: Had a little lunch. Read a few pages of Jack London's "The Little Lady of the Big House", at 45%. Something about Paula not getting caught by Evan, using some kind of trick of hiding in a special hiding place. Silly stuff. Every character seems to be some kind of superhero. How any of them get any work done is beyond me -- too busy being supersmart. I read that London was not a successful farmer, not interested enough in the details of keeping the farm running. Too intellectual, which rings true based on the book. Had a light dinner. A little before 6pm, went with Julia to TMORA to see a collection of nesting dolls, Matryoshki. I bought her a print of a girl among birches that she likes. "Among the Birch Trees" by Akhmed A Kitaev, 1962. Sredi Beryoz. Back home: Watched a few minutes of The Romanov's. Female narrator is harder to understand that the male one. Currently decribing the start of Smutnoe Vremya, esp. Lzhedmitri. ============================================================== W 4/2/25 Cold and snowy again. Very busy day, too! Got up at 4am, so that I'd have time to shovel snow before catching the early bus. No strength, no running, no stretch, no tongue, no flash cards, no juggling, no pen spin. No time for anything today! No Podari, no London, no Anna K. Not even time to work through email -- will have to do that tomorrow. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 3:48pm home. At the U: Taught at 10:10am and at 1:25pm. Office hours at 2:30pm. Gave 3 makeup exams 11:10am-12noon. One makeup exam was done at the DRC and I downloaded it and printed it. Graded these four makeup exams. There was also one from last Friday. Entered the 5 grades into Canvas. Carolyn entered the other 65 grades in. Figured out grade lines. Got the solutions written up for about half of the exam -- will finish that on Friday. Home: Just a little time to eat. 7pm, Science group met at Rod's place. Discussion about AI. Very interesting. Got home around 10pm. Exhausted -- time for bed! ============================================================== Tu 4/1/25 Cold and snowy. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ and economist. Worked on makeup exam to be administered tomorrow. Read through some of the documents on phased retirement. Plan to start signing on Friday. Maybe. Worked on slides. Home: Had some cheese and milk and an apple. Worked on getting the makeup exam uploaded for the DRC for tomorrow. Will need to print three copies to administer to students tomorrow. 12noon: Alex showed me his Commander system that interacts with his Tesla. Lunch with him at Old Chicago. Came back home and ordered a garage door opener for me. Also ordered a Commander system for me. Alex left around 2pm, maybe 3pm. I read a little from Jack London's "The Little Lady of the Big House", at 40%. Evan and Dick just told Paula about Evan's long swim after the sinking of a ship he was on. Finished first episode of Podari Mne Zhizn'. Restart. Will go through very slowly and carefully. Try to learn to recognize each sentence from listening. Also, on Liñgöpie: started a new series: The Romanov's. Maybe a documentary will have better pronunciation. Stopped 00:46. Again, moving slowly, trying to learn everything to the point where I can listen and understand, without reading. Slow process. ============================================================== M 3/31/25 A little warmer. Some snow even melted today. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 3:48pm home. At the U: Taught at 10:10am and at 1:25pm. Office hours at 11:15am. Graded an exam that was taken at the DRC on Friday, delivered to Vincent today. Checked on outstanding loan amount on my Tesla, and learned how to look it up online. Finished the net worth calculation, and sent info to Julia. Wrote a makeup exam to administer on Wednesday. Looked into all the documents for my phased retirement. Ben Brubaker sent me the MOU, but it didn't include details about the lump sum for health care. Employee Benefits pointed me to https://policy.umn.edu/hr/phasedretirement which links to a variety of documents that, together with the departmental MOU, specify the entire agreement, including the lump sum. I've now printed all this out and plan to read through it tomorrow. Home: 5pm, Zoom conversation with Steve Bradlow. Talked for 1.5 hrs, lots about climate. No time for Jack London or "Podari mne zhizn'" or Anna Karenina. Tired! Time for bed. ============================================================== Su 3/30/25 Cold and snowy. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. People's Organic: Wild rice pancakes, worked on grading. Library: WSJ, finished grading Midterm 2, including all the totaling. Home: I read a little from Jack London's "The Little Lady of the Big House". More shopping at L&B, just milk, cheese. Back at home: I read a little from Jack London's "The Little Lady of the Big House". At 35%. Net worth analysis: Worked on net worth. Amount saved for retirement is down 2.5% since the start of 2025. S&P 500 is down 5.5% since the start of 2025. Retirement savings changed from 5,619,463.83 on 12/29/24 to 5,485,253.76 on 3/30/25. (Down about 2.5%.) I moved all but TIAA-CREF and a small Roth acct to money market funds on 2/27/25. I moved TIAA-CREF to money market fund on 3/13/25. S&P was at 5,906.94 on 12/30/24 (the day after I did the last net worth). S&P was at 5,861.57 on 2/27/25 (when I moved all but TIAA-CREF and small ROTH). S&P was at 5,521.52 on 3/13/25 (when I moved TIAA-CREF). S&P was at 5,580.94 on 3/28/25 (last trading day before today). Watched a few minutes of "Podari mne zhizn'". Started 43:33, stopped 47.56. ============================================================== Sa 3/29/25 Pretty cold day today, rainy. Nipogoda. Not too busy, though. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ and grading. Graded III 1&2. No work on slides today, maybe tomorrow. Shopping at L&Bs. apples, cheese, Yogurt Amy's. Out of walnuts, unfortunately. I'm completely out. Home: Lunch. Watched first episode of "Court of Gold" with Maxim. I read a couple of pages of Jack London's "The Little Lady of the Big House". At start of Chapter IX, 28%. Watched a few minutes of "Podari mne zhizn'". Started 33:40, stopped at 43:33. Power outage 6:29pm to 8:17pm Phased retirement: Ben Brubaker (my dept head) clarified that the lump sum for health care is administered by the U, not the dept. So that's not part of the MOU. I'll call employee benefits Monday to see what the details are on the lump sum. ============================================================== F 3/28/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 3:48pm home. At the U: Taught at 10:10am and at 1:25pm. The 1:25pm office hours were canceled, because: 1:30pm-3:20pm, Assoc Prof Review Meeting. Discussed 5 cases. 4 more to go. Next meeting on Friday 4 April. I'll have to cancel office hours again for that one. DRC = Disability Resource Center. I have 70 students who took or will take Midterm 2. Of them, 7 have required special arrangements. Ten percent. See below for details. 1. One student missed the exam because of a stomach ache, couldn't figure out how to send me email about it, came to see me in person after class today, and agreed to take the exam at 3:30pm today. I got a room and got an exam ready to give him. He wrote to me at the last minute and canceled. Eventually explained he had another stomach ache. I asked for a doctor's note. Not sure how this will end up. 2. One more had her advocate at the Aurora Center (for survivors of sexual abuse) contact me, explaining the legal ramifications of not agreeing to her plan to take the exam on Wednesday 2 April. I agreed. She also wanted to do office hours by Zoom. I'm now waiting for the Zoom invite. She'll take a makeup exam (I'll have to write a different exam for her) through the DRC. I won't receive that one until Friday 4 April, so I'll even be grading an exam on the 4th. 3,4. Two students took the exam at the DRC yesterday. I now have their exams. 5. One other student was scheduled at the DRC, but got a migrane, and rescheduled for today. I'll get her exam on Monday. 6,7. Two more students who got sick will take the exam with me on Wednesday 2 April. I have a room set aside for them. They'll get the same exam as #2 above. The other 63 took the exam yesterday (Th 3/27/25) in the regular place (recitation). Fall semester should be my last semester teaching, not a moment too soon. I'll give one more exam this semester, and three exams in the fall, and then ... never again, I hope. Ben Brubaker sent me a copy of the Memorandum Of Understanding for my phased retirement. The plan is that I'll teach two courses in fall 2025, along with committee work. Then I'll just do committee work for spring 2026, and will continue just doing committee work for the four academic years after that. These include fall 2026, spring 2027, fall 2027, spring 2028, fall 2028, spring 2029, fall 2029, spring 2030. Then full retirement, starting in summer of 2030. I'll be 70 years old that summer, turing 71 in August of 2030. Will keep all benefits until full retirement, but pay will be at 25%. There's also supposed to be some kind of lump sum payment, but that wasn't mentioned in the MOU. I wrote to Ben asking for clarification about that. Julia will turn 62 in November 2030. She'll become eligible for Medicare three years later, November 2033. So we'll need to find some way to bridge health insurance over that period of time, from summer 2030 to November 2033. Home: Started grading. I have 65 exams with me now to grade. Finished grading the definitions and the true/false on those. The 65 exams include #3,4 above. Waiting on 5 more (#1,2,5,6,7 above). So that's 70 students taking the exam. Made arrangements with Alex to go to the next MNEVO meeting, at the TC Auto Show at the Mpls Convention Center. On W 16 April. We'll get to the show at about 4:30pm, then look around for an hour, then the meeting runs 5:30pm-8pm. I'll also volunteer to show EVs at the Auto Show the next day, Th 17 April, 9:30am-1pm. No time for Jack London or "Podari mne zhizn'" or Anna Karenina. Really tired, and worn down. Not such an easy day today. ============================================================== Th 3/27/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No knee problems running this time. Library: WSJ and slides. Home: Lots of email from students who are unable to take the exam for one reason or another. Got up on roof and cleared some branches from an invading nearby tree. 3:30pm, met Rod and Jon at Unmapped. Laurie joined a little later. Rod had been to Paris with Nancy. (Trip was a Valentines Day present.) Did a tour of a bakery, long walks. I read just a couple of pages of Jack London's "The Little Lady of the Big House". At start of Chapter IX, 26%. Napped. No time for "Podari mne zhizn'" or Anna Karenina. ============================================================== W 3/26/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 3:25pm home. At the U: Today was review for tomorrow's midterm. Taught at 10:10am and at 1:25pm, office hours at 2:30pm. Home: Dinner. Spent a large portion of the evening on finances. Amex "Recent Transactions" showed I got 3% cash back on some visits to Lunds&Byerlys, but not all. It appears that the cash back is sometimes delayed by several days. The statement will post tomorrow and I'll look at it then. No time for "Podari mne zhizn'" or Anna Karenina or Jack London. ============================================================== Tu 3/25/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No knee problems running this time. Library: WSJ and slides. Picked up new AA batteries for smart lock in door to garage. Replaced all four batteries there. 2:45pm, Dale Schloesher (roofer, Troy's friend, 612-270-2142) came by to do an inspection of my roof. Doesn't think roof will leak anytime soon. Some cosmetic damage, some damage to siding, but nothing to cause an immediate leak. Said he'll send me an estimate of cost to reroof. Wouldn't take payment for his time. The last roof replacement was done about 20 May 2014, by Sela. Cost: $15,961.73. See messages by Carey Lifson: 2/7/21 (painting), 5/20/14 (roofing), 9/3/13 (roofing). I read a few pages of Jack London's "The Little Lady of the Big House". At start of Chapter IX, 25%. Evan Graham is soon to arrive to the Big House. Short nap. Finally back to s01e01 of "Podari mne zhizn'", Liñgöpie (50:22), third time. https://lingopie.com/app/show/episode/3988?back_to=catalog Started at 23:14, stopped at 33:40. Finally back to Anna Karenina https://ilibrary.ru/text/1099/index.html reread first two paragraphs of p. 1. ============================================================== M 3/24/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 2:25pm home. At the U: Worked on slides. 7:30am, met with Greg Handy to discuss teaching evaluation. Finished writing his evaluation. Taught at 10:10am and at 1:25pm, office hours at 11:15am. Did a little shopping at Lunds and Byerlys. Apples, milk, cheese, yogurt. Home: Uploaded Hao Jia's pre-review. Finished submitting request for passport renewal. Should take 4-6 weeks. Cost: $130. Called Delta to find out why the calendar information for my flights is so far off. Finally decided to remove it all from my phone and put in my own entries. (Fernando suggested this, in fact.) I read just a couple of pages of Jack London's "The Little Lady of the Big House". At start of Chapter VIII, 23%. Very tired, rested for about an hour. ============================================================== Su 3/23/25 In Litchfield: No strength, no running, no stretch, no tongue, no flash cards, no juggling, no pen spin. No library. Today: No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Litchfield: Lots of food, drink and talk out in Litchfield. Troy, Irene, Alex, Jordan, Maxim and me. Yesterday: Alex got Maxim's taxes done, and we found that I wasn't eligible for a property tax refund. Alex also took a photo for me to use for my passport, but we didn't know that glasses aren't allowed. So I'll have to do that again. Maybe tomorrow at school. Watched LA Confidential last night. I now think I understand the entire story. I fixed mushroom quiche Marianne for lunch today, then headed home. Took me almost 24 hours to finish the Bloody Mary that Jordan fixed. Also had a couple of mimosas. Irene fixed a salad and a dish with potatoes. Arrived back home close to 4pm. At home: Ate a sandwich. Weight is up: 154. Probably will go down quickly. Hope so. Worked on my application for a new passport until I discovered that my photo won't work, because I'm wearing glasses. I'll see if someone can take another photo of me tomorrow at school. Spent a lot of time checking Alex's work on property tax refund, and he did everything right: No refund in 2023 or 2024, but I did get something in 2022. ============================================================== Skipped 3/24/25. In Litchfield. ============================================================== F 3/21/25 And ... another busy day! No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 1:25pm home. At the U: Worked on slides. Taught at 10:10am and at 1:25pm, office hours at 1:25pm. Couple of students took up a lot of time in office hours, it was an interesting conversation, but it meant that I didn't finish Greg Handy's peer evaluation. Got most of it done, though. Submitted final draft of exam to the DRC and gave a pdf file to Carolyn Stephen. At home: Very hungry, ate a fair amount, but weight is down, <150 at end of day. Also very tired, napped. Getting ready to go to Litchfield tomorrow. Packed. Tomorrow, I need to do a little shopping for the trip. Planning to make Mushroom Quiche Marianne. I read a little from Jack London's "The Little Lady of the Big House". At 21%, at start of Chapter VII. Mr Perfect, Dick Forrest, is becoming a farmer. Started one load of laundry. Whites. Will finish tomorrow morning before going. Also need to shop, work out and finish packing tomorrow morning. ============================================================== Th 3/20/25 Another busy day! No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 1:25pm home. At the U: Worked on slides. Took a nap in my office. Visited Greg Handy's class on probability in biology. Good class, need to write an evaluation. First half was lecture. Then break. Then work on HW in class. Covered Bayes' Theorem. At home: some lunch 4pm, Los Amigos, chatted with Fernando Back seems to be getting better, maybe. Talked a lot about prospects for climate action in the new era. 6:15pm, Greg Olson's place, then on to Kelly Morrison's town hall Finished at 8:30pm. Had to wait outside in the cold for about 45 minutes. Very slow because of security. By the time we got in it was about 1/3 finished. It was all right, but I'll probably stop going to town halls after this. Takes lots of time with very little benefit. ============================================================== W 3/19/25 Another busy day! No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 2:55pm home. At the U: Worked on slides. Taught at 10:10am and at 1:25pm, office hours at 2:30pm. 11:15am, Lunch with Bryan at Campus Club. Home: Quick bite to eat. 5:30pm, MNEVO meeting at Evo Charge in EP. Couldn't hear much. I read a few pages of Jack London's "The Little Lady of the Big House". At 14%. Finished "Adolescence". Devastating. Through a Child's Eyes (by Aurora) plays at the end. No time for Podari or Anna K. ============================================================== Tu 3/18/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No knee problems running this time. Library: WSJ and slides. Home: Lunch. Got another bill from TRIA for the 2/6/25 service with Lucy J Daldorph, PT. Called TRIA billing at 952-806-5463 to find out why I'm still being billed. The woman I spoke to just said to ignore the bill. 4pm, beer with Greg Jason at Unmapped. Had three empanadas, half a tres leches. Brought some home for Julia. Maxim stopped by on the way to a soccer game, we chatted. Watched half of the 4th episode of Adolescence. Stopped at 29:37 left to go. No time for London book or Podari or Anna K ============================================================== M 3/17/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 2:55pm home. At the U: Worked on slides. Taught at 10:10am and at 1:25pm, office hours at 11:15am. Had a bite to eat. (Julia got me a delicious frozen dinner to eat from Trader Joe's.) Went for a walk with Julia in the neighborhood near Bren Drive, where we used to walk the kids when they were little. Had another bite to eat -- some yogurt, some cheese and crackers, some milk. Listened to the end of the "Volts" podcast with CEO Tim Latimer of Fervo Energy, which is having great success with geothermal. David Roberts is the interviewer. Terry Quain recommended this episode -- very inspiring. Episode 3 of "Adolescence" Briony Arison (psychologist). Tenerife, largest of the Canary Islands Very disturbing episode, will have trouble sleeping ... Started Episode 4, just a few minutes. ============================================================== Su 3/16/25 Good sleep last night. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No knee problems running this time. No library. Instead finished gift card at Smith's coffee. Had a biscuit and jam and worked on slides for a long time. Shopping: over $100 on milk, TP, walnuts, apples, coffee, two Amy's, cheese. I read a few pages of Jack London's "The Little Lady of the Big House". At 10%. Listened to 58:49 of a "Volts" podcast with CEO Tim Latimer of Fervo Energy, which is having great success with geothermal. 10:53 left to go. David Roberts is the interviewer. Terry Quain recommended this episode -- very inspiring. No time for Anna Karenina or Podari Mne Zhizn or "Adolescence" End of spring break, back to teaching tomorrow. ============================================================== Sa 3/15/25 Didn't sleep well last night, up at 4:30am. Spent morning reading up on superalgebras, canonical commutation relations, canonical anti-commutation relations. (CCR and CAR). No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. 10am, Smith Coffee: Discussion about nuclear. 11am: Donated blood. I read a couple of pages of Jack London's "The Little Lady of the Big House". At 5%. Home: very tired, napped. Continued superalgebras. Continued Jack London book. At 6%. Finished Chapter 2. ANNUAL LETTER 2025: Washington DC trip with Julia, time in Boston Started "Adolescence" on Netflix. Jamie Miller (arrested), Dexter Bascombe (cop), Misha (Dexter's partner). Paul Barlow (lawyer). Watched two episodes. ============================================================== F 3/14/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No knee problems running this time. Library: WSJ and slides. Spoke to Charles from Advocate at Work about our CCL chapter and its activities. Home: Called Tria billing (952)806-5463. Guarantor number 201480238, my Medica ID number 924586459 Date of injury 11/16/24. Jones and Doda 23 January. Daldorph 6 Feb. "For date of service February 6 with Lucy Daldorph, the ordering physician should say Robert Jones, so the claim can process as in network with my insurance. And resubmit the claim to Medica." The person I spoke to told me that she would ask the relevant dept to resubmit the claim, and that she'd put a 30 day hold on the bill. She thought it was likely that it would be resolved and that I wouldn't owe any more money. Went for walk with Julia at Hyland Lake, stayed on paved paths because of snow melt. Had dinner at Buca: Penne alla vodka and tiramisu. Brought a lot home. Used $25 off coupon. Home: Very tired, napped for about 30 minutes. No time for Jack London book, or Anna Karenina or Podari Mne Zhizn. What a busy spring break. ============================================================== Th 3/13/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, Economist, slides 1pm-4pm: VEAP, mobile pantry driver to Yorktown Home: 4:30pm, went for a walk around the neighborhood with Julia. Continuing dealing with billing for TRIA. Guarantor number 201480238 My Medica ID number 924586459 Date of injury 11/16/24 ---- Kha Y (at UM Physicians) says that it's not possible to put in a referral without entering the name of the provider. The location is "Office Visit at TRIA PT and Ed Center, Physical Therapy Provider: Lucy J Daldorph (PT) 6 February 2025 ---- Called back to Medica 952-992-1814, then 4 Robert Jones (PA, I think) and Ann Doda (PT), on Jan 23 ---- Was told by someone at Medica to contact TRIA Orthopaedics billing dept (952-831-8742) and say: "For date of service February 6 with Lucy Daldorph, the ordering physician should say Robert Jones, so the claim can process as in network with my insurance. And resubmit the claim to Medica." Unfortunately, it's closed now, so I'll have to do that tomorrow. Wrote pre-review for Hao Jia. This completes all of my pre-reviews for the Promotions Committee. Finished setting up the meeting to discuss nuclear power. Set for this coming Saturday, 15 March. (Beware the Ides of March!) Time: 10am. Location: Smith Coffee. Moved TIAA-CREF money to a money-market fund. Now only the old Roth isn't money-market invested. ============================================================== W 3/12/25 Yet another busy day. Spring break is not a break. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No knee problems running this time. Library: WSJ and slides. Went for a walk with Julia in the neighborhood near Bren Drive, where we used to walk the kids when they were little. Billing issue with TRIA and Medica and UM Physicians. Knee injury. Apparently UM Physicians submitted a referral for me to a specific doctor at TRIA. When that doctor sent me to physical therapy, the physical therapist visit was treated as out of network. UM Physicians now needs to submit a backdated referral to TRIA, but not to any specific provider at TRIA. That way, the physical therapy visit can be fully covered (except for the $25 copay that I already paid). I sent a message (dicated by someone at Medica) to my doctor through MyChart. It said, "My TRIA claim went towards my out of network. I need a referral for TRIA backdated to 6 February 2025 for 30 visits, submitted to Medica. If you have questions, please call 800-458-5512." Wrote pre-review for Ru-Yu Lai, whose class I evaluated on 2/27/25 No time for Jack London book, or Anna Karenina or Podari Mne Zhizn. ============================================================== Tu 3/11/25 Busy day again! Finished third load of laundry. 8am, Vic for breakfast. He's going to DePaul University in Chicago to give a talk. He and Kristi will spend some time on a Greek island in ?May? Also, plans to visit Washington state, where his oldest brother lives. Also, the annual 15K in New York State -- Lydia will join him. Naomi is with them now, leaving Thursday to go take a new job in France. 11am, Spoke to Isaac Siegel at All Energy Solar He sent me a quote: $8,838 estimate for a Tesla Powerwall 3 installation. Would have 13.5 kWh storage. Starting cost $16,000, but reduced by federal tax credit of $4,800 and MN incentive of $2,363. Price includes installation. Wrote draft of letter of rec for Seamus Manzke. Wrote pre-review for Li Wang. Have to do two more for the Assoc Prof annual reviews. Figuring out what time is good for a small group meeting in CCL about nuclear power. Hoping Fred Gustafson might be available on the 15th. 2:30pm, Zoom with Terry Quain, Dave Homans, and Nicola Philpott No time for Jack London book, or Anna Karenina or Podari Mne Zhizn. ============================================================== M 3/10/25 Started a load of laundry. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No knee problems running this time. Went to the EP mall to see about fixing the port on my phone. Couldn't find an apple store, but there was a place that advertised phone repair. The guy there (nice guy, from Bangladesh) cleaned the port, and I'll hope it works better for a while. Also bought a new protective cover for $20. (No charge for the cleaning.) Library: WSJ and slides. Home: lunch. Went for a walk at Staring Lake Park, with Julia. Bought a new rain jacket, online, with Julia's help. Then she found something she'd bought years ago that fits great. We'll get the new one in a few days, and will try to figure out what to do with it. Started Jack London's "The Little Lady of the Big House". At 3%. Started reading some of GramBee's letters from the 1960s. First one talked about her trip to Leningrad. Second one about traveling in Africa. Very well written, very engaging. ANNUAL LETTER 2025: Julia's trips Reading: Jack London's "The Little Lady of the Big House" GramBee's letters Skimmed through the March 2025 CCL Call, which featured Mindy Ahler from 15:19. Finished the load of laundry. One more load to do. ============================================================== Su 3/9/25 Somehow busy again, though little on the agenda. Daylight Savings Time, sprang forward. Strength, broke off slow running because of knee ache, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Free wash at Crew Car Wash. (Today was a free day. Julia went, too.) No library. Went to my mom's for lunch. Julia and I went for a walk near Round Lake. Mark Bruso called and we spent about two hours talking. He feels that Trump doesn't wield much power. Ordered Jack London's "The Little Lady of the Big House" for Kindle, but didn't get a chance to start reading it. No time again for Podari Mne Zhizn or Anna Karenina. ============================================================== Sa 3/8/25 Another busy day. International Women's Day. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Instead got ready for chapter meeting. Chapter meeting: Alex Falconer, then some introductions, then announcements (no meeting next month, Eco Expo), then discussion of advocacy for lifting the nuclear moratorium. Tried to go to town hall (Alex Falconer, Lucy Rehm, Steve Cwodzinski, Carla Kotyza-Witthuhn). Unfortunately the room was full. Came home. about 3pm:, went to Centennial Lakes, took a walk around the park with Julia. 4:30pm: dinner with Julia at Big Bowl, for International Women's Day. No time again for Podari Mne Zhizn or Anna Karenina. ============================================================== F 3/7/25 Another very busy day. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 3:48pm home. At the U: Worked on slides. Taught at 10:10am and at 1:25pm, office hours at 1:25pm. Tech problem: Couldn't get LibreOffice Calc to work. System staff rebooted computer. Took a while to get everything set up again, but Calc was working. Got gradelines figured out and announced them to the class. Couple of students during office hours. Around 2:40pm took a call about battery storage. The person I spoke to just set me up for another call this coming Tuesday. Would like to draw from the grid off peak, and feed the electricity to my house on-peak. 3pm, met Ru-Yu Lai to discuss my evaluation of her class. It was very good. I have a draft of the report, which I should send to her and submit. Barely caught the 3:48pm bus, rode back with Jasmine Foo. At home: Very hungry, very tired. Got some dinner, then napped. Just had time to do the basics, including handling some email. No time for Podari Mne Zhizn or Anna Karenina today. Tomorrow will be busy, too: Chapter meeting, Town Hall, International Women's Day. Sunday should finally be a quiet day, followed by a week without classes: Spring break. ============================================================== Th 3/6/25 Busy day today and tomorrow and Saturday look busy, too. (Tomorrow, in addition to teaching, I need to do grade lines, meet with Ru-Yu and take a call about home battery electricity backup.) (Saturday, there's laundry, the chapter meeting and International Women's Day.) Next week is spring break, and should be a good time to recover. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Did a load of laundry, then workout, then met Alex for lunch at Detellos. He came back and we worked on taxes. There was one missing 1099-DIV (from NEIC). I got that eventually by email, entered the number and submitted the tax forms. Both federal and state were accepted a few hours later. Will work on property tax refund and Maxim's taxes when we go out to Litchfield on Sat 22 March. Did just a little shoveling today. Weather was warmer, with a lot of melt. Worked on slides for an hour or so at home. 6pm, went to see Maxim's team play in their playoff game. Horrible traffic -- 494 down to one lane in the middle of rush hour, so that they could clear snow. Maxim's team lost and, I think, is out of the tournament. Checking with Maxim on that. He'll probably play in another league next year. No time for Podari Mne Zhizn or Anna Karenina. ============================================================== W 3/5/25 Very tiring day. Lots of shoveling because of blizzard that came through. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Shoveled, tried to catch 6:45am to the U, but it was delayed because of road conditions. Finally drove in, and ran from the parking ramp to class to teach. Turned out the roads were fine. Left at about 3:55pm to go home. Problems paying the $15 at the ramp, so someone just opened the gate and let me through for free. Shoveled again when I got home. Very tired. Julia went to a wine-tasting, which means: a wine-buying. No time for Podari Mne Zhizn or Anna Karenina. No reading because I finished Parable of the Sower. ============================================================== Tu 3/4/25 Another busy day! No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Picked Dave Thomsen and Rod Fisher up, and we went to join Greg Jason and Tim Conners, to lobby Steve Cwodzinski on supporting a lifting of the MN nuclear moratorium. Met at Steve's office in the MN Senate Building, then had lunch at the Rathskeller Cafe in the Capitol. Key takeaway: Steve said he'd support lifting the ban "if the vote were held today". After lunch, headed home. At home, had a snack, then went to the library and worked on solutions to Midterm 1. Also at the library: double checked my grading of the two makeup exams. Found one small error and corrected it. Also at the library: worked for a little while on slides. L&B's on the way home: Milk, cheese, apples, a can of wild rice, an Amy's, some yogurt. Home: Dinner. No time for Anna Karenina. Continued s01e01 of "Podari mne zhizn'", Liñgöpie (50:22), third time. Started at 17:36, stopped at 23:14. Finished Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, except for some extra material at the end of the book. Currently reading an interview with the author. ============================================================== M 3/3/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 2:25pm home. Worked on slides. Taught at 10:10am and at 1:25pm, office hours at 11:15am. Spoke to Ben Brubaker about 5-year phased retirement. Will teach two courses in Fall 2025, then do committee work after that. 2pm, administered and then graded two makeup exams. Then came home. Home: Dinner -- very hungry, probably ate too much. Didn't sleep well last night, very tired. Hope to get a good night's sleep. Too tired for Podari Mne Zhizn or Anna Karenina. I read several pages of Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower", at 85%. The group has grown a lot. They've survived being chased by a fire and have come to a small lake. ============================================================== Su 3/2/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Weight is down, at 148.4. Library: Finished grading. Home: I read a little of Parable of the Sower No time for Podari Mne Zhizn or Anna Karenina. Get back to these tomorrow. I read some of Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower", at 75%. Just had a snack, and, later, dinner. Watched a story on 60 minutes about the desaparecidos of Argentina. Also worked through email. Listened to "Loch Lomond" with Martha Tilton in Benny Goodman's 1938 Carnegie Hall concert. ============================================================== Sa 3/1/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Weight is down, at 148.8. Got in line at Sports Clips, went home for a few minutes, went back, used a coupon to get a free MVP (haircut plus shampoo plus machine massage). Library: Graded. Only two problems left. Home: Discovered that "Legends of the Fall" has just been removed from Netflix. :-( Did a sexual misconduct training module. Took about 60 minutes. Did a little more grading. Only one problem left, then totaling and alphabetizing. No time for Parable of the Sower or Podari Mne Zhizn or Anna Karenina. ============================================================== F 2/28/25 Another busy day. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 2:25pm home. Taught at 10:10am and at 1:25pm, office hours at 1:25pm. Worked on slides, taught, and came home. School: Taught at 10:10am and at 1:25pm, office hours at 11:15am. Wrote first draft of teaching evaluation for Ru-Yu Lai. Picked up DRTC exams. Spoke to Ben about phased retirement. Wrote a message a little later which he answered. We need to work out a Memorandum of Understanding about my duties in the phase. I wrote back with a proposal to do committee work plus two courses over five years. We'll see if that's acceptable. Home: Started grading. Did I and II. Hope to grade III.1.-III.3. tomorrow, then finish grading on Sunday. Watched a few minutes of Legends of the Fall. Samuel has volunteered for a dangerous reconnaisance mission. Stopped with 1:31:12 left, out of 2:12:50. No time for Parable of the Sower or Anna Karenina or Podari Mne Zhizn'. ============================================================== Th 2/27/25 Busy day. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 8:40am to the U, 3:48pm home. 12:20pm-2:15pm, Went to Ru-Yu Lai's class. Good class, but she has a strong accent and not such great handwriting. At school: slides, picked up midterms. Moved retirement to money market funds, except for TIAA-CREF and the old Roth. Note: The old Roth has almost nothing in it. Didn't get any grading done today, didn't watch any of Podari, didn't look at Anna Karenina, didn't watch any of "Legends". I read some of Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower", at 69%. (I read on the bus.) 7pm-8pm, went to Maxim's basketball game. His team lost against the best team in the league. His team did very well for about the first 10 minutes of play, got way ahead. Then fell behind, then almost caught up (1 point behind), then fell behind again. Refereeing wasn't so good, several confusing calls. ============================================================== W 2/26/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 2:25pm home. Taught at 10:10am and at 1:25pm, office hours at 11:15am. Worked on slides, taught, rewrote draft of midterm, uploaded it to DRC, sent it to Carolyn, and came home. Busy day at work! Home: Reread a couple of paragraphs from p 5 of Anna Karenina. Continued s01e01 of "Podari mne zhizn'", Liñgöpie (50:22), third time. Stopped at 17:36. Started "Legends of the Fall" on Netflix. Edward Zwick, director. 1979 novella by Jim Harrison. 2:12:50 Brad Pitt. Tristan Ludlow. father Colonel. Alfred oldest brother. Samuel youngest. Tristan middle. Isabel Ludlow mother. Anthony Hopkins = Colonel William Ludlow. April 13, 1913. Montana. Fiancee of Samuel: Susannah Fincannon. Finn = dog. Aidan Quinn as Alfred Ludlow. Pet Decker = servant in the household (female). Isabel Two, 13 years old. Cornish immigrant family. One Stab, Cree character, played by Gordon Tootoosis Henry Thomas = Samuel Ludlow. Stopped with 1:44:44 left ============================================================== Tu 2/25/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Low weight: 149, at EPCC. Library: WSJ, Strib, slides. Home: Went through exam. Finished s01e01 of "Podari mne zhizn'", Liñgöpie (50:22), second time. Started again. Stopped at 11:28. I read some of Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower". At 65%. Watched episode s1e18 of Brooklyn 99. Reread through several paragraphs on p. 5 of Anna Karenina. ============================================================== M 2/24/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 2:25pm home. Taught at 10:10am and at 1:25pm, office hours at 11:15am. Worked on slides, taught, rewrote draft of midterm, and came home. Home: I read some of Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower". At 60%. Reread two long sections of p. 5 of Anna Karenina. Watched a few minutes of s01e01 of "Podari mne zhizn'", Liñgöpie (50:22) again. Stopped at 42:02. Watched episode s1e17 of Brooklyn 99. ============================================================== Su 2/23/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. 10:30am-3pm at West Metro Home Remodeling at Eisenhower Community Center in Hopkins. Tabled. Home: I read some of Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower". At 58%. Watched a few minutes of s01e01 (50:22) of "Podari mne zhizn'", Liñgöpie again. Stopped at 23:12. Reread a long section of p. 5 of Anna Karenina. Watched episode s1e16 of Brooklyn 99. ============================================================== Sa 2/22/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, Strib and slides Got some cheese and a protein bar L&B. Still no walnuts. Home: light lunch. Later, light dinner. Weight below 149 now. Should go lower tomorrow, fingers crossed. I read some of Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower". At 55%. Watched episode s1e15 of Brooklyn 99. ============================================================== F 2/21/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 2:25pm home. Taught at 10:10am and at 1:25pm, office hours at 11:15am. Worked on slides, taught, wrote draft of midterm, and came home. Shopping: milk, yogurt, soup, apples. L&B was out of walnuts, forgot cheese. Home: Ate half a can of soup, walnuts (leftover from last visit to L&B), yogurt, cheese (leftover from last visit to L&B), lots of milk. Watched s1e14 of Brooklyn 99. ============================================================== Th 2/20/25 Busy day. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, Strib and slides I read some of Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower". At 53%. Reread a couple of paragraphs of p. 5 of Anna Karenina. 12noon-1:30pm, delivered food to Ft Snelling. They rejected most of it. 3pm, Zoom call with Fernando. 7pm, Maxim's team lost at basketball. Probably won't make the tournament. :-( Worked on setting up plans to meet with Sen Cwodzinski on Tuesday 4 March at the Senate Office Building. Plan to discuss climate legislation. ============================================================== W 2/19/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 2:25pm home. Taught at 10:10am and at 1:25pm, office hours at 11:15am. Worked on slides, taught, did some committee work, set up plans for midterm with TA, and came home. Home: A snack, then Julia fixed some (store-bought) potstickers for her, and vegetarian vareniki for me. Apparently the potstickers were good. The vareniki were OK, but not great, because she fried them instead of boiling them. I read some of Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower". At 50%. Living on the outside is very dangerous. Restarted p. 5 of Anna Karenina, and read a couple of long paragraphs. Describing Oblonsky's personality and business connections. Then started the next few paragraphs on p. 5. Watched s1e13 of Brooklyn 99. Finished s01e02 (50:13) of "Podari mne zhizn'", Liñgöpie. Started s01e01 (50:22) of "Podari mne zhizn'", Liñgöpie again. Stopped at 10:48. ============================================================== Tu 2/18/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ and slides Home: I read some of Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower". At 47%. She's living on the outside, found three people from her community. All three have decided to head north. Restarted p. 5 of Anna Karenina, and read a couple of long paragraphs. Describing Oblonsky's personality and business connections. Rewatching s01e02 (50:13) of "Podari mne zhizn'", Liñgöpie. At 41:29. Watched s1e12 of Brooklyn 99. 6pm, watched half of the American Promise National Volunteer Launch. Just don't have the bandwidth to volunteer for their organization right now, but hope to in the future. Weight is at 150. Hope to get down to 147 by the end of the week. Maybe. Watched a 3Blue1Brown (Grant Sanderson) lecture on the distance ladder, with T Tao. Shows how cosmological distances were computed, bit by bit, over time. ============================================================== M 2/17/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 2:25pm home. Taught at 10:10am and at 1:25pm, office hours at 11:15am. Worked on slides, taught, and came home. Home: I read some of Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower". At 44%. Her enclave was overrun but she escaped. Told her family is dead and boyfriend is dead. Reread a paragraph of Anna Karenina, and read a couple of new ones. Getting to the bottom of p. 5. Rewatching s01e02 (50:13) of "Podari mne zhizn'", Liñgöpie. At 31:07. Watched s1e11 of Brooklyn 99. ============================================================== Su 2/16/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Home: Some cereal for breakfast. Library: WSJ and slides. Home: Rest. Worked on Arnold-Euler equation. Idea for Arnold-Euler equation: Let G be a Lie group. Nabla the flat connection on G for which right-invariant vector fields are parallel. Left-invariant vector fields have flow by right-translations, so Nabla_X and L_X (covariant derivative and Lie derivative) are equal when X is left-invariant. Then, for left-invariant X,Y, we have: Nabla_X Y = [X,Y]. Let TOR denote torsaion. Then, for left-invariant X,Y, we have: TOR(X,Y)=[X,Y]-[Y,X]-[X,Y]=[X,Y]. So the flat connection Nabla isn't torsion-free, but has a simple torsion formula. So the usual Riemannian first variation in energy isn't quite accurate, if we want to pull the path's tangent vector field into one tangent space (by right translation). However, because of the simple torsion formula, the usual first variation formula is easily modified, and leads to the Arnold-Euler equation. Thinking about using some office time to write up this observation. I read some of Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower". At 38%. Dystopian novel. Lauren Olamina is the main character, a teenager and a "hyper-empath" who lives with her family in a walled community in California, near LA. At this point in the novel, her brother (Keith) has been brutally murdered and her father has disappeared. She's planning to run north when she turns 18. Maybe with her boyfriend. Reread a couple of paragraphs of Anna Karenina, and read a couple of new ones. Oblonsky's friend, Levin, is making quite an impression. Still on p. 5. Rewatching s01e02 (50:13) of "Podari mne zhizn'", Liñgöpie. At 20:00. RSVPed yes to a meeting of American Promise on Tuesday at 7pm. Watched a few minutes of 60 minutes, with Julia. Story about Trump testing limits. Story about Germany's laws restricting speech. Watched s1e10 of Brooklyn 99. ANNUAL LETTER 2025: Julia's trips Iowa City: Th 17 April to Th 24 April Greenbush in NW MN: M 9 June to M 16 June DC (with me): F 18 July to F 25 July Spain: W 5 November to F 14 November ============================================================== Sa 2/15/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ and slides. Home: Worked on Arnold-Euler equation. Picked up prescription for lisinopril: $0.63 for 1-month supply. (It'd be $10 for a 3-month supply! Ridiculous.) Weight back down to 150.4. Reread a paragraph of Anna Karenina, then read new paragraph. Finished s01e02 (50:13) of "Podari mne zhizn'", Liñgöpie. I read some of Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower". At 35%. Watched s1e9 of Brooklyn 99. ============================================================== F 2/14/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 2:25pm home. Taught at 10:10am and at 1:25pm, office hours at 2:30pm. Went to the Boynton Trunk Sale at the Eye Clinic. Very expensive. Worked on slides, taught, and came home. Home: Ordered new glasses from Zenni. Only $69.90. Would have been over $200 at Boynton. Valentine's Day dinner at Buca: $20 off with coupon. Got the usual, penne alla vodka. Brought a lot home. With Julia, watched a Nova about archaelogy in Egypt, studying some of the third intermediate period (after the New Kingdom). Key observation: During this time, Nubian influence brought increased power to women. Fell asleep. Rewatched a few minutes of s01e02 (50:13) of "Podari mne zhizn'", Liñgöpie. Still at 21:47. Reread a couple of paragraphs of Anna Karenina. No forward progress, still on p. 5. No time for an episode of Brooklyn 99. No time to read from Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower". Still at 30%. ============================================================== Th 2/13/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. 8am: Breakfast with Vic. Vic and I talked about my time in Kansas City. Vic visited three locations in Vietnam with Kristi, starting in Hanoi. He also spent a few days in DC with Lydia. Library: WSJ, slides Some shopping at L&B, then home. Home: Watched another episode, s1e8, of Brooklyn 99. Rewatched to 16:57 of s01e02 (50:13) of "Podari mne zhizn'", Liñgöpie, and continued on to 21:47. Reread paragraph of Anna Karenina, and read a few new ones, but still on p. 5. I read some of Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower". At 30%. ============================================================== W 2/12/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 2:25pm home. Taught at 10:10am and at 12:20pm, office hours at 2:30pm. Worked on slides, taught, and came home. Home: Watched episode s1e7 of Brooklyn 99. Sent out chapter message about Pat's funeral, which will be on the 19th, one week from today. I will be working, and cannot attend. Finished another paragraph of Anna Karenina, on p. 5. Watched 16:57 of s01e02 (50:13) of "Podari mne zhizn'", Liñgöpie. I read some of Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower". At 25%. Rod Fisher suggested sending flowers to Pat's funeral, but the obituary says, "in lieu of flowers" to make a gift to PBS or MPR. Checking with Rod to see what he wants to do. Up early tomorrow to work out and get to breakfast with Vic. ============================================================== Tu 2/11/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, Economist, slides Home: Weight is at 150.6, after lunch. Hope to be about the same at bedtime. I read some of Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower". At 22%. 2:30pm-3:30pm, Met with Theresa Quain and Nicola Philpott to discuss what's happening in our CCL Chapter. I read a couple of paragraphs of Anna Karenina. Still on p. 5. Watched episode s1e6 of Brooklyn 99. Rewatched s01e01 (50:22) of "Podari mne zhizn'", Liñgöpie. Maybe start episode 02 tomorrow. ============================================================== M 2/10/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 2:55pm home. Taught at 10:10am and at 12:20pm, office hours at 11:15am. Worked on slides, taught, and came home. Home: Watched episode s1e5 of Brooklyn 99. I read some of Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower". At 20%. Continued p 5 of Anna Karenina Finished s01e01 (50:22) of "Podari mne zhizn'", Liñgöpie. Restarted it. Stopped at 9:35. ============================================================== Su 2/9/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. A little more snow shoveling. Home: light lunch Library: new Economist, and worked on slides. Home: I read some of Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower". At 14%. Rewatched some of Liñgöpie: "Podari mne zhizn'" s01e01 (50:22). Then continued on to 36:49. Watched an episode (s1e4) of Brooklyn 99. ============================================================== Sa 2/8/25 Heard from Bill Middeke that Pat Middeke died this morning. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library because had to get back for CCL Chapter meeting. Home: CCL Chapter meeting, 10:30am to 12noon. Shoveled snow! L&B's for shopping. On Claude Buettner's recommendation, watched "The Great Simplification" (Nate Hagens). Also wrote to Mr Hagens to see if he might do a show about CCL. ANNUAL LETTER 2025: Reading (The Great Gatsby, Parable of the Sower) I read some of Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower". At 12%. Watched the start of Liñgöpie: "Podari mne zhizn'" s01e01 (50:22). Then continued on to 23:14. Started p. 5 of Anna Karenina. Finished two paragraphs. ============================================================== F 2/7/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 2:55pm home. Taught at 10:10am and at 12:20pm, office hours at 1:25pm. Worked on slides, taught, and came home. Home: I read Anna Karenina. p. 4: Reread bottom half of p.4 Rewatched the start of Liñgöpie: "Podari mne zhizn'" s01e01 (50:22). Then continued on to 19:41. I read some of Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower". At 10%. Weight at 152.4 after dinner. Should be below 152 tomorrow, after workout, hopefully. ============================================================== Th 2/6/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: Slides, WSJ. Saw Lucy J Daldorph at TRIA for physical therapy for my knee injury. I read some of Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower". At 8%. I read a couple of paragraphs of Anna Karenina. p. 4. Reread half of p.4 Liñgöpie: "Podari mne zhizn'" s01e01 (50:22), watched again from start to 13:36. ============================================================== W 2/5/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 2:55pm home. Taught at 10:10am and at 12:20pm, office hours at 2:30pm. Worked on slides, taught, and came home. Very tired, didn't sleep well last night. Home: I read some of Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower". At 6%. I read a couple of paragraphs of Anna Karenina. p. 4. Started 7-day free trial of Liñgöpie, to develop spoken Russian. https://lingopie.com/app/show/episode/3988?back_to=catalog Cost will be about $70 per year if I continue. Selected "The Ratcatcher's Flute" (Drama) to start. Started watching s01e01 (44:33). Got to 3:15. Switched to "Podari mne zhizn'", "Give Me Life" (Romance) s01e01 (50:22). Got to about 6:30. Seems worth the cost, but very slow progress. Everything that I want is available, though: Story is okay, translations are excellent and in time with the video. Easy to stop-start-repeat. Easy to get info about particular words. ============================================================== Tu 2/4/25 Finished laundry. (A couple of hours of work to one month's worth of laundry.) Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Home for lunch, then library (WSJ and slides). Home: Napped. I read some of Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower". At 5%. I read several paragraphs of Anna Karenina. Still on p. 4. Weight is down below 153. Goal of <150. Watched s1e3 of Brooklyn 99. ============================================================== M 2/3/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 2:55pm home. Taught at 10:10am and at 12:20pm, office hours at 11:15am. Worked on slides, taught, and came home. Home: I read the first few pages of Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower". Now at 3%. Finished first episode of Brooklyn 99, and watched the second one. Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg). Rosa Diaz (Stephanie Beatriz), Charles Boyle (Joe Lo Truglio). Capt Raymond Holt (Andre Braugher). Reread a couple of paragraphs of Anna Karenina and read a couple of new ones. Now on p. 4. Continued laundry. Finished one load, second one is partially dried. ============================================================== Su 2/2/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. L&B: milk, Amy's (on sale), string cheese. Home: lunch. Library: Slides. Home: Napped for about an hour. Finished The Great Gatsby. Surprised by the positive view Nick has of Gatsby at the end. Plan to start Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower" tomorrow. Started laundry. One load washed. Finished drying workout clothes, nothing else. Reread part of a (complicated) paragraph from Anna Karenina. ============================================================== Sa 2/1/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ and slides. Caring bridge for Pat Middeke: See Bill Middeke's message of Friday 5 July 2024 for the link. (Search in gmail "middeke caring bridge".) Home: Ordered Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower". Will start it when I finish "The Great Gatsby". Axios: "Science fiction writer Octavia Butler wrote in her 1993 novel 'Parable of the Sower' that Feb 1, 2025, would be a time of fires, violence, racism, addiction, climate change, social inequality and an authoritarian president 'President Donner'. That day is Today." I read to p. 88 (out of 110) in The Great Gatsby. Climactic scene where Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan confront each other. Myrtle Wilson, Tom's mistress, is hit and killed by a yellow car. Everyone assume it was Gatsby. Reread a paragraph from Anna Karenina in Russian. Then started p. 3, and did a small part of a long complicated paragraph on that page. Watched a few minutes of first episode of "Brooklyn 99" on Netflix. ============================================================== F 1/31/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 12:35pm home. Taught at 10:10am and at 12:20pm. Worked on slides, taught, and came home. Home: Alex came out today, and put in new kitchen sink faucet. (Noticed a leak in kitchen sink faucet a few days ago.) I registered it, for warranty. Moen: (Model Number 87557SRS) (Serial Number 011625 2) Moen USA Customer Service 1-800-289-6636 moen.com Alex also gave us a new Roku, and got it installed. Julia and Alex and I went to dinner at Buca. Bonus cards used up. Still have over $100 in gift cards. I read a few pages of "The Great Gatsby". ============================================================== Th 1/30/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ and slides. Home: Napped about an hour Reread a couple of paragraphs of Anna Karenina. 6pm-7pm Eagan Community Center: watched Maxim play league basketball. He got 20 points, his team won the game with 60 pts. I read 11 pages of The Great Gatsby. ============================================================== W 1/29/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 12:35pm home. Taught at 10:10am and at 12:20pm. Taught, worked on slides, and came home. Tired -- napped on the bus ride home. Home: Watched Neflix movie "Whiplash". Mr Terence Fletcher (JK Simmons), Mr Kramer, Andrew Nieman (Miles Teller), Nicole Andrew's father played by Paul Reisner I read a couple of paragraphs of Anna Karenina. ============================================================== Tu 1/28/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 7mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Home: Tired -- rested for about an hour. Weight back down. Now under 152. I read to p. 55 of The Great Gatsby. Nick sets up a chance for Gatsby to meet Daisy. Reread some of Anna Karenina. ============================================================== M 1/27/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 12:35pm home. Taught at 10:10am and at 12:20pm. Taught, worked on slides, and came home. Reread a couple of paragraph from Anna Karenina, one of them very long. I read to p. 44 (out of 111) in The Great Gatsby. Jay Gatsby reveals his past during a drive, to Nick Carraway, the narrator. Nick seems to be falling for a woman named Jordan, the professional golfer, a "flapper". ============================================================== Su 1/26/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, People's Organic: Worked on slides. Knee not hurting much today. L&B: Milk and apples. Went to see Pat Middeke. She has gone off dialysis and is receiving hospice care. She expects to die in a few days. Very sad, but she's lived a wonderful life. Watched the end of Erin Brockovich. Better start than end, but good movie overall. I read to p. 33 of The Great Gatsby. Worked for a long time on slides. ============================================================== Sa 1/25/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 7mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Tried to reduce lateral movement in leg while running. Slowed down. Library: Strib. Worked a lot on slides for Monday. Went for car wash in Excelsior. (20 minutes each way.) Free with cupon from driving class. Home: I read a few pages from The Great Gatsby. On p. 23. Reread some paragraphs from Anna Karenina. Using stress-marking tool and google translate and Wiktionary. Knee seems to feel okay right now. Didn't start PT exercises. Maybe tomorrow. Started Erin Brockvich (2000) with Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart. (Director: Steven Soderbergh) kids: youngest Beth, Ed Masry. the real Erin Brockovich has a cameo as a waitress. the real Mr Masry has a cameo as one of the diners. Conchata Ferrell as Mr Masry's secretary. Albert Finney as Mr Masry. Stopped at 26:23, seems like a great movie. ============================================================== F 1/24/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 12:35pm home. Taught at 10:10am and at 12:20pm. Taught and came home. Started "The Great Gatsby". Realized that some of Endeavour "Ride" (s3/9, e1/4) is based on the start of "The Great Gatsby" Home: Reread some of Anna Karenina (on p 2). Asked Julia about "Lyubi katatsya...". "...lyubi i sanochki vozmit' " ============================================================== Th 1/23/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. 10am: Appt at TRIA to talk about knee. Got some physical therapy exercises. Knee injury. 1:40pm: Dental cleaning. Library: worked on slides. Home: Worked on slides and did some clothing repairs (gloves and one pair of pants). No time for anything else today. ============================================================== W 1/22/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 12:35pm home. First day of classes, taught at 10:10am and at 12:20pm. Went well. Just taught and came home. Did some shopping at L&B: Walnuts and apples Home: Did weekly finances (like every Wednesday). Weight is below 155 finally. Pretty tired, taxing day. Worked on slides. ============================================================== Tu 1/21/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U, 12:35pm home. At U: worked on slides. Home: Reviewed Euler equation for geodesics wrt left-invariant metric on a Lie group. Reviewed first variation formula for energy with endpoint fixed variations of a curve in a Riemannian manifold. Reviewed second variation formula for energy with endpoint fixed variations of a geodesic in a Riemannian manifold. Watched the movie "Pearl" on Netflix. Excellent, but too creepy -- may ruin my sleep ... I'm not like her ... no, really, I'm not ... :-) Diet: Weight finally back down to 156. Another couple of days to get comfortably inside 150-155. It's been high ever since getting back from Kansas City. Thinking about reading Saul Bellow's novel "Herzog". ============================================================== M 1/20/25 Strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library (closed for holiday). Went to People's Organic instead. At People's Organic: Started to read T Tao's blog post on the Hamiltonian formulation of the Euler equation for fluid dynamics. Home: Got an appt (on Th 23 Jan) at TRIA to have my knee looked at again. Will probably cost $125, but will call insurance tomorrow. Inauguration Day -- lots of executive orders, two emergency declarations. Finished "16 Candles". Incredibly silly movie. Lots of offensive lines. Spent more time learning about geodesics wrt left-invariant metrics on Lie groups a la Arnold. The Euler-Arnold formula now makes sense. Thinking about how to apply it to the Euler equation in fluid flow. ============================================================== Su 1/19/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Broke apart Constant Rank Theorem into small pieces. No library. People's Organic: worked on transition from Lagrangian to Hamiltonian formalism through Legendre transform. Home: Brief nap. Reviewed PNT (Prime Number Theorem). Started the movie 16 Candles (on Netflix). Stopped 53:02 ============================================================== Sa 1/18/25 Replaced Britta filter on room temperature water. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: New Yorker, spent a little time reviewing second variation formula for curve energy in Riemannian manifolds Reviewed SU(2) <--> Sp(1) --> SO(3), using quaternions. Kernel of second map is {\pm1}. Sp(1) is the unit quaternions. Since \C = span of {1,i} embeds in \H, we get a left action of \C on \H by multiplication, making \H into a left \C vector space, identifying \H with \C^{1\times2}. Since Sp(1) embeds in \H, we get a right action of Sp(1) on \H by multiplication. Identifying \H with \C^2, we get a right action of Sp(1) on \C^{1\times2} by linear transformations. The full algebra of (right-acting) linear transformations on \C^{1\times2} is \C^{2\times2}. This embeds Sp(1) in \C^{2\times2}. The image is SU(2). So Sp(1) <--> SU(2). Each element of Sp(1) acts by left-conjugation on V := {pure quaternions} = span of {i,j,k}. Identifying V with \R^{3\times1}, we get a left action of Sp(1) on \R^{3\times1} by linear transformations. The full algebra of (right-acting) linear transformations on \R^{3\times1} is \R^{3\times3}. This maps Sp(1) into \R^{3\times3}. The image is SO(3) and the kernel is {\pm1}. 11:15am: Donated blood Tried to watch the second "After" movie, but gave up after 10 minutes. ============================================================== F 1/17/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. 9am-1pm: AAA class for over 55 drivers, to get a discount. Some shopping. Still working on catching up on email. David Zelinski says it's all right for Julia to come. Got tickets for her to travel to DC. She'll head home after a week in DC, and I'll go on to Boston. Reread a big paragraph from "Anna Karenina". I read one new paragraph. Watched the first of the "After" movies on Netflix. Mostly trite, but curious enough to watch the sequel. Maybe. ============================================================== Th 1/16/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 7mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ. 1:30pm, spoke by Zoom with TA (Carolyn Stephen) about MATH 4242. 3pm, Zoom with Fernando, who will be traveling to LA to spend time with his son before our next talk. Gradually getting caught up on email. Watched an episode of Brokenwood. Crazy story about people who role play murder, until someone actually does it, while someone *else* fakes their death. ============================================================== ANNUAL LETTER 2025: Trip to Kansas Citiy, trip to DC and Boston Spent a week in Kansas City, MO. Julia got sick and couldn't come along. Arrived Wednesday (1/8). Thursday: Went to the Jazz Museum and the Negro Leagues Museum. Friday: Went to the Truman Presidential Library, the Truman Home, the Overland Trails Museum. Saturday-Monday: Mostly stayed in the apartment and worked on math. No sightseeing. Focused on a writeup by Nicolas James Marks Ford (https://nicf.net/articles/classical-em/) Tuesday: Visited the Eisenhower Presidential Museum, Home and Library in Abilene, KS. (Two hrs from Kansas City.) Wednesday: Drove home, unpacked, started to get caught up on everything. ============================================================== Tu 1/7/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 7mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Canceled my prescription for prednisone, decided the side effects weren't worth it. Library: I read a bit of an old WSJ, then left. Home: Packed for trip tomorrow. Old Chicago: Had an Oh my spaghetti pie. Donated my Tesla Wall Connector to Eco Expo. Dropped it off with Tim Conners. Home: I read a few paragraphs from Anna Karenina. ============================================================== M 1/6/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Took 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At the U: Got letters of recommendation sent off. Thought a lot about particle dynamics in a static magnetic field. Wondering about how to simplify that in the framework of circle bundles. Worked on changing over to AAA insurance. Got an email message from Gunnar Electric -- they might be able to install the Tesla Wall Connector. (Eventually decided to donate it to Eco Expo.) Home: Dinner at OC -- pub pizza. Urgent care for cough. Got a prescription for a cortical steroid for chest inflammation (Prednisone). Will fill it tomorrow. Planned trip to DC -- Alex got me airplane flights for only $250. MSP to Reagan on the 18th, Boston to MSP on the 28th. Sent email to David Zelinsky, Dave Bellecore, Mitch, Garrett and Pam. ============================================================== Su 1/5/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 7mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, People's Organic, cup of chili. Reviewed Chinese Remainder Theorem. key point: If I_1,...,I_n are ideals in a unital ring R, and if I_1+I_2 = I_1+I_3 = ... = I_1+I_n = R, then I_1 + I_2...I_n = R. Pf: Choose 1=a_2+b_2\in I_1+I_2, 1=a_3+b_3\in I_1+I+3,...,1=a_n+b_n\in I_1+I_n, and then get 1=(a_2+b_2)...(a_n+b_n)\in I_1+I_2...I_n. Note that, expanding (a_2+b_2)...(a_n+b_n), every term has at least one a, except b_2...b_n. Thus every term is in I_1, except b_2...b_n\in I_2...I_n. Nonunital doesn't work, because all products could be 0 in R, and could have: I_1 = 0 and I_2 = ... = I_n = R. 2pm, visited Pat Middeke. Gave her Robin Wall Kimmerer's new book "The Serviceberry". Kimmerer is the Potowatomi Professor! Pat had read part of Kimmerer's earlier book "Braiding Sweetgrass". Home: Getting ready for trip on Wednesday. Got all the reminder messages ready for the next two weeks. Worked on AAA insurance. Will finalize tomorrow morning. Found cheap train ticket ($47) from DC to Boston. Still need to look at car rental. ============================================================== Sa 1/4/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 7mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, Economist, spent some time on covariant formulation of the derivation of the Lorentz Rule (particle dynamics in an EM field) as the Euler-Lagrange equations for a well-chosen Lagrangian: v*v - a*v, where * is the 3,1-scalar product and a is a time-independent VF on spacetime. Thus the covariant formulation is just like magnetostatics in 3D. In particular, acceleration is Minkowski-perpendicular to velocity, so Minkowski-speed is constant. Home: Working on changing to AAA for insurance. Julia and I signed up for a 55+ driver's class. Also starting to plan the trip to DC in July. Tentatively, fly out on F 18 July, then take a train to Boston on F 25 July, and rent a car for the weekend. Then fly back from Boston to Mpls. (The open jaw isn't so crazy expensive, with Alex's discount.) ============================================================== F 1/3/25 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Instead went home to wait for call about insurance. 11am, Brian Skillingstad called to discuss quote for insutance. Will probably switch to AAA. Details will be finalized on Monday. Julia and I will need to take AARP driving course. Finished the last of Bender's lectures. They were given at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Canada. "Professor Carl Bender gives the first of fifteen lectures on Asymptotics and Mathematical Physics at the Perimeter Institute in 2011." Napped a couple of hours. I read a couple of paragraphs of Anna Karenina. ============================================================== Th 1/2/25 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 7mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Finished Bender Lecture 14. Started Lecture 15 (last lecture). stopped at 29:50. Spent some time thinking about EM. ============================================================== W 1/1/25 New Year's Day. Spent New Year's Eve in Litchfield. (Alex, Jordan, Maxim, Me, Irene, Troy, Max, Cadia, Irene's mom) I made Christmas Log, chokoladny' brevno. Arrived Tuesday just before noon, left today, around 3:30pm. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. On Tuesday (yesterday), did strength and running. Watched the end of Lecture 13 of Bender. Started Lecture 14 of Bender (only one more after this one). Stopped at 1:05:17 (Here's the answer!) ============================================================== M 12/30/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Watched to 49:10 in Lecture 13 of Bender Watched Professor M does science to get the basics of the quantum harmonic oscillator. Key point: If you find an operator a on Hilbert space s.t. [a,a^*]=1, then you can call a the "lowering operator", you can call a^* the "raising operator", you can call a^*a the "number operator", you can show that the eigvals of a^*a are the positive integers, you can show that a carries the n-eigsp for a^*a to the (n+1)-eigsp for a^*a, you can show that a^* carries the n-eigsp for a^*a to the (n-1)-eigsp for a^*a. This is the "ladder theorem" of Paul Dirac. Needed to start is that a^*a has an eigenvector, i.e., the discrete spectrum is nonempty. Hopefully the entire spectrum of a^*a is discrete. ( Hamiltonian is: h-bar omega (a^*a + (1/2) . Therefore: the eigsps of Hamiltonian are the same as the eigsps of the number operator a^*a. ) a := (1/\sqrt{2}) (... x + i ... p) first ... is \sqrt{m omega over h-bar} second ... is 1/\sqrt{m h-bar omega} Exercise: [a,a^*]=1. a applied to the 0-point energy state is zero is a first order differential equation. Exercise: solve that first order equation to show that the 0-point energy state is Gaussian. ============================================================== Su 12/29/24 Still slightly feeling the effects of the cold I had a couple of days ago. Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 7mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Went to get a haircut, but Sports Clips wasn't taking credit cards. Finished Lecture 12 of Bender. Main content of PNT is Ingham's Tauberian Theorem, which depends on Wiener's. Calculated net worth. $5.6M in retirement now. I read the first two paragraphs of p. 3 of Anna Karenina. Started laundry. ============================================================== Sa 12/28/24 Strength, slow running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 7mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library -- too tired, still recovering from cold. Also decided not to go to Paul and Mindy's party, because I'm still recovering. Finished Lecture 11 of Bender. Started Lecture 12, stopped at 36:57 Finished p 2 of Anna Karenina Started relearning the Prime Number Theorem, from Rudin Functional Analysis. Outline: ——- Instead of summing 1 at p, we sum log p at pⁿ. Need to show that the partial sums of log p at pⁿ are asymptotic to x. We analyze the Ingham Transform of these partial sums. Differencing the Ingham Transform produces the partial sums. The partial sums for log p at pⁿ are: log n at n. So the Ingham Transform gives the partial sums of log n at n. This can be estimated by the integral of log x at x. Now the result follows from the Ingham Tauberian Theorem: since the Ingham Transform is x ln x + x + o(x), we see that the original function is asymptotic to x, as desired. ——- ============================================================== F 12/27/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 11:45am home. At U: Starbucks, an impossible breakfast sandwich, looked at a little math. Reviewed my Perron-Frobenius notes. Should write them up. Grabbed Rudin's Functional Analysis, planning to review the PNT. Updated my flex spending account phone numbers, by a phone call. Home: Started Lecture 11 of Bender. stopped 1:05:28 3:30pm, called Mark Bruso and we spoke for about 30 minutes. I read a few pages of Hansen's "Storms" to 98%. Reread a few paragraphs of Anna Karenina, and a couple of new ones. Very tired tonight. Struggle to stay up to 9pm. Also dealing with a cough. Hope to feel better for Paul and Mindy's potluck tomorrow. ============================================================== Th 12/26/24 Feeling a little under the weather, slight cough. Decided to run slowly, not for very long. Strength, running (20 mins, 600 ft climb, 7mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. I read a paragraph from Anna Karenina. Watched Lecture 10 of Bender. Five more to go. I read a few pages of Hansen's "Storms" to 96%. ============================================================== W 12/25/24 Christmas No strength, no running (gym closed), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library (closed). I read a few pages of Hansen's "Storms" to 92%. 11:30am, went to my mom's for Christmas lunch. Her, Sally, Alex, Maxim, me. Home: Finished Endeavour "Ride", s3/9, e1/4, only time, 1:22:52 Antony Donn, Bixby, Elva Piper, Kay, Bruce. Albert Potter. Jeannie Hearns. Gerald Ashborne. Mr Newton, Roselle Brawton, Mr Swopes. Bix: Not now, Roddy. Harry. monkey is slang for 500 pounds (of British money). JB = Joss Bixby. Belvedere Casino. Harry Rose. Tony (Antony Donn). No more Endeavour for a while. Finished Lecture 9 of Bender. Six more to go. I read a couple of paragraphs of Anna Karenina. ============================================================== Tu 12/24/24 Christmas Eve. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Drove out to Alex's place, installed tuxmats, he showed me a lot aobut my car. We went for lunch at Chipotle, coffee at Caribou. Learned that I need to turn off the automatic wipers every time I engage cruise control. Very annoying. Continued Endeavour "Ride", s3/9, e1/4, only time, 1:22:52 stopped 9:20 I read a few pages of Hansen's "Storms" to 91%. Alex stopped by 7169 for dinner, takeout. (Penne Vodka from Buca.) He put on the front license plates on the Tesla. At Maxim's suggestion, we watched: Red One (Christmas movie with Dwayne Johnson and JK Simmons and Chris Evans and Lucy Liu). ============================================================== M 12/23/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, got the basic idea of why fractional ideals modulo principal fractional ideals is the same as the Picard group on spec of O_K. Idea: Can, instead, do ideals modulo equivalence. Each ideal factors and determines a divisor on spec of O_K. That divisor determines an invertible sheaf. Home: Tried calling Abby at State Farm -- hard to reach her. Finally called me back. Premium will be $640.70/6mo instead of the quoted $519.42/6mo. Looked into AAA, but it's almost as much. Will try to find a way to reduce premiums on all the cars. Started Lecture 9 of Bender, up to 47:19. Trying to finish up take home leftovers from last night. Finished Endeavour "Sway", s2/9, e3/4, only time, 1:22:30 Watched Endeavour "Neverland", s2/9, e4/4, only time, 1:22:11 Glory Be To the Father: "As it was in the beginning, It is now and ever shall be, ..." George Aldrich, Tommy Cork. ?Eric? Wainwright. Eric Patterson. Hilly. Gerry Wintergreen. Nicholas Myers. Henry. Clyde, dummy. Mrs McGarrett, secretary to Wintergreen. ACC Deare. Benjamin Arnold Topling. Henry Portmore, Hilary Spencer, brother Ed Spencer (killed himself). Petey Williams. Big Pete, Little Pete. Little Pete what? Big Pete went off, never came back. Dr Portmore. Angela. ***Little Pete is Peter Jakes***. Standish. Started Endeavour "Ride", s3/9, e1/4, only time, 1:22:52 Stopped 4:12 Maxim is home through Christmas, works again on Friday. ============================================================== Su 12/22/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, People's Organic. Started studying the Schroedinger equation for the hydrogen atom. Home: Continued Endeavour "Sway", s2/9, e3/4, only time, 1:22:30 Una stafetta in the captions, should be una staffetta. Female member of the Nazi Resistance in Italy. Stopped 58:51 Ordered a Tesla Mobile Connector, hope to have it before leaving for Kansas City, on the 8th. I read 1% of Hansen's "Storms". At 89%. He's doing fiction now. Finished Lecture 8 of Bender. He just did an asymptotic analysis of x^3y''=y as x --> 0. Will talk more about it in the next lecture. 5pm-8pm, visited my mom's for an early Christmas eve celebration. Gwen was there. Also, me, Maxim, Alex and Jordan. ============================================================== Sa 12/21/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, worked out why Hermite polynomials appear in the quantum harmonic oscillator Walmart: bought 18 pairs of socks. Continued Endeavour "Sway", s2/9, e3/4, only time, 1:22:30 stopped 24:33 Julia planned a trip for us to Kansas City. 3940 Roanoke Rd, Kansas City, MO 64111 Depart 8 Jan 2025, return 15 Jan 2025. Worked a little more on Christmas letter, then sent its link to the list of email addresses. ============================================================== F 12/20/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, Atlantic, trying to understand why the Gaussian cylinder measure on Hilbert space is only finitely additive. Shopping: $118. Protein bars (on sale), walnuts, milk, Amy's (on sale), string cheese, other cheese (on sale), facial tissues, candy bar, nonalcoholic drink to bring to Moms.. Worked a bit more on Xmas letter. I read a few pages of Hansen's "Storms" to 88%. Finished Endeavour "Nocturne", s2/9, e2/4, only time, 1:22:30 Russell Committee Charles Russell, report in 1966 "Report of the Committee on the Law of Succession in Relation to Illegitimate Persons" Started Endeavour "Sway", s2/9, e3/4, only time, 1:22:30 Ann Curran-Matthews SCR = Senior Common Room Dr Haldane lemniscate stopped 8:31 7pm-9:25pm, Unmapped, got together with CCLers Neil was there, and Alina, and an Iranian woman I met at the last Eco Expo spoke mostly to Nicola's husband, about his work as an infectious diseases doctor ============================================================== Th 12/19/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, Economist, some thinking about self-adjoint vs symmetric operators. Received license plates (RXV 296) and tabs (Nov 2025) for the Tesla Y. I plan to attach the license plates to the car tomorrow. Still waiting on the title. Applied for credit in the EZ Pass lanes. Will get something like $250 of credit because I bought an EV. Put $25 into account, to get it started. Acct number in numbers. Phone number Made plans to meet with Alex at his place on Monday to install the TuxMats and the accessory that goes on the front of the car. Watched some of Meet the Press, while Julia was at kickboxing. Wrote a draft of the Christmas letter, but the VPN service at the U isn't working, so I wasn't able to use Filezilla to transfer the file to my home laptop computer. May have to go to the U to send out the letter. Tech support had me run Cisco Secure Client Diagnostics and Reporting, which created a zipped file called a DARTBundle that apparently has some diagnostics. I sent it to them. Probably about 5 inches of snow -- shoveled for about 40 minutes, then, later, for about 10 more. ============================================================== W 12/18/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: Tesla financing snafu fixed: Eventually spoke to Josh at Affinity Plus (direct phone: 651-312-9308). The people at the Golden Valley Tesla store (763-656-6995) first told me that my financing was NOT through Affinity Plus, then, later, corrected that, and told me that it WAS through Affinity Plus. I gave information (my routing number and account number for ...1018 at Capital One) to Josh, who will email me a docusign. Affinity Plus will take out $637.30 each month (on the 25th, starting 1/25/2025), for 60 months. Fixed problem with Yifan Li's final exam grade; put the grade in Canvas Submitted grades to the registrar Home: Continued Endeavour "Nocturne", s2/9, e2/4, only time, 1:22:30 Econ post-grad at Wolsey. Blythe Mount School for Girls at Slepe. Miss Symes, head of the girls school Petra Briers, head girl. Miss Danby. Bunty Glossop, smart. Shelly Thengardi. Billy Carswell. Nocturne opus 9 no 1 in B flat minor by Frédéric Chopin. Lowell, Mr Gardiner. Blaise-Hamilton family (tea, India), July 1866. Robin Bulstrode at the College of Arms. DI Bart Church and bagman DS Bruce. Fitzowen, author. Superintendent Edgerton DI Langley, DC Cuff Joseph O'Connell Benjamin Pickstock, son Robert. Ordered Robin Wall Kimmerer's "The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World". Amazon. Should arrive by mid February. Order # 114-6064519-1134601. Paid $0 because I used reward points to buy it. Watched a few minutes of Bender, Lecture 8. Until 1:06:41 of Lecture 8 (ends at 1:23:58). ============================================================== Tu 12/17/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, NYT, did some calculations of quantum entanglement Finished Endeavour "Trove", s2/9, e1/4, only time, 1:22:31 Started Endeavour "Nocturne", s2/9, e2/4, only time, 1:22:30 Adrian Weiss, Terence Black, katar stopped 5:23 3:30pm, Unmapped, met up with Jon and Laurie Pryor -- Rod Fisher couldn't make it. 6pm, Old Chicago, met up with Alex and Jordan. Received two car loan rejection letters. Rejected because I have frozen my credit. One from Wells Fargo (12/13/24), the other from Capital One (12/12/24). I had thought my financing was with Tesla, at 0%. Will try making a few phone calls tomorrow: FI Connect (866-918-2898, see below) Tesla financing (844-837-5285) Tesla Golden Valley (763-656-6995) Wells Fargo (888-326-6787, M-F 7am-4pm Central)) ============================================================== M 12/16/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: Starbucks: butter croissant Totaled points, entered totals, set grade lines. The only thing left: submitting grades to registrar. Home: dinner. Continued Endeavour "Trove", s2/9, e1/4, only time, 1:22:31 stopped 1:02:57 I read a few pages of Hansen's "Storms" to 87%. Reread most of p. 1 of Anna Karenina in Russian. Watched a few minutes of Bender, Lecture 8. Until 22:08 of Lecture 8. ============================================================== Su 12/15/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. 8am: Breakfast with Vic at Hope Breakfast Bar. Still getting used to my new Tesla Y. It's a snowflake car, in the snow. Beeps and whines a lot. At library: Finished grading finals. Still have to do totaling. Stopped at Buca. ($20 off $40.) Got a large Penne alla Vodka. Continued Endeavour "Exeunt", s9/9, e3/3, third time, 1:33:55 Mors cum teorore novo venit. Rewatching Season 2. Started "Trove", s2/9, e1/4, only time, 1:22:31 stopped 24:00 I read Anna Karenina to p. 2, Hansen's "Storms" to 86%. Watched Bender, finished Lecture 7. ============================================================== Sa 12/14/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. 10:30am, CCL Chapter meeting 11:30am, went to library, worked on grading. Looked at yesterday's WSJ briefly. Shopping: apples, soup, milk, one Amy's Finished "Exeunt", s9/9, e3/3, second time, 1:33:55 "Mors cetra[sic], hora incerta" 28.6.72 "Theodore Conklin" anagram for "One took children". Started "Exeunt", s9/9, e3/3, third time, 1:33:55 Thamwood: We therefore commit his body to be consumed by fire Worship text and resources > Common Worship > Death and Dying > An Order for the Burial of the Dead (modified for cremation) Minatur innocentibus qui parcit nocentibus. (He) threatens the innocent, (the person) who spares the guilty. Stopped 3:25 ============================================================== F 12/13/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: Napped -- very tired. Gave final to one student. Did some grading. Picked up last final from Disability Resources Center. Burrito at Chipotle. Home: No time for Endeavour, Hansen, Bender. 6pm-9pm, met Chris Prouty at Pizza Karma, chatted for a long time. ============================================================== Th 12/12/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Briefly at library: WSJ. Home: 1:30pm, Zoom with Fernando Continued "Exeunt", s9/9, e3/3, second time, 1:33:55 stopped 47:18 Finished grading III1 and III2 for Section 010 of MATH 4242. Will work on III1 and III2 for Section 030 tomorrow. I read a few pages of "Storms of my Grandchildren" by James E. Hansen. At 84% now. Watched a little of Bender's perturbation theory. Got to 48:40 in Lecture 7. ============================================================== W 12/11/24 Big day. Tracy's birthday. Took my Tesla Y home today. Gave my final exams today. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, no juggling, pen spin. (Not enough time for juggling.) No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: Gave final, and graded Definitions and True-False. Julia drove me to the Tesla store in Golden Valley. Drove it to Aurelia's, bought a Tres Leches Home: Learning to input accents in TeX, e.g., é is done by: ctrl-x 8, enter, 'e, enter. Location: Placing Tesla backup key card inside my checkbook in backpack. Second one in Tesla folder in the basement filing cabinet No time for Endeavour or Hansen's book or Bender's lectures. Spending time learning about my Y. ============================================================== Tu 12/10/24 Didn't sleep well last night. Spent time adjusting some of the slides about Singular Values. Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Used a bonus card at Old Chicago. Everything was a big hassle, as usual. 1:45pm, Discount Tires, replaced TPMS sensors on all tires, except the one that was replaced on 10/15/24. cost: $169.30 ($10 discount on each of the three) fell asleep waiting for the car. Home: Napped a little more. Finished Endeavour "Exeunt", s9/9, e3/3, second time, 1:33:55 DS Bennett bagman to DI Lott Death's Head Motorcycle Club: Cochise, Snakebite, Raymond Kennit = Tomahawk (big Pete) All Saints -- church where wedding is to take place. Wednesday special? Watched a little of Bender's perturbation theory. Finished Lecture 6 (out of 15). I read a few pages of "Storms of my Grandchildren" by James E. Hansen. At 83% now. Started relearning "Canción del Pirata" by José de Espronceda. Started Endeavour "Exeunt", s9/9, e3/3, third time, 1:33:55 Stopped 7:50 ============================================================== M 12/9/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: Taught last classes of the semester. (Final on Wednesday the 11th.) Worked on final exam, uploaded to the Disability Resource Testing Center. Got insurance on my Tesla Y set up. Insurance premiums: $ 86.57/mo for Tesla $ 34.60/mo for Protege $ 90.74/mo for Prius $ 51.21/mo for Volt $171.35/mo for Home $ 24.08/mo for Umbrella Total: $458.55/mo (Total before Tesla was $371/mo.) Abby gave me this info, and sent me my new insurance cards to put in the Tesla. Stopped in at Old Chicago, to use my new bonus cards. Turns out they no longer work with Happy Hour, but they made an exception. I'll use them up and not order any more. Maybe can get the Oh My Spaghetti Pie. Watched 47 minutes of Lecture 6 of Carl Bender's lectures on perturbation theory. Worked through a paragraph of Anna Karenina Tomorrow: Discount tires appt for Volt Wednesday: pick up Tesla Y Started Endeavour "Exeunt", s9/9, e3/3, second time, 1:33:55 Reopen Cowley under DCI McNutt. 31:25 music: Requiem in D Minor by Mozart. (K 626: Communio. Lux aeterna - Cum sanctis tuis) (K 626: Communion. Light eternal - with your saints) legless = extremely drunk (British slang) Stopped 39:57 ============================================================== Su 12/8/24 Strength, running (20 mins, 600 ft climb, 7mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. People's Organic: bowl of chili, worked on slides. Finished Endeavour "Exeunt", s9/9, e3/3, first time, 1:33:55 dead: Mickey Flood unknown man (Andrew Lewis aka Edward Thomas aka Edward Thompson) at Beaumont College Brenda Lewis (Andrew Lewis's mother) Prof Edwin Robert Bevin, death made to look like accidental fall down the stairs Dr Rupert McMurdo, fell from train Tomahawk (aka Peter Williams) (Big Pete) DI Arthur Lott killers: John Bingley for Bevin and McMurdo Fred Thursday for Tomahawk Len Dury's tripe-hounds for Mickey Flood ??? for Andrew and Brenda Lewis, possibly Len Dury's tripe-hounds, too Death's Head bikers for Lott Len Dury was the guy in the trilby in London. not flogging a watchtower: not prostelytizing door-to-door like Jehovah's Witnesses (who use literature called "The Watchtower" in their canvassing). mors cum teorora novo venit Raymond Kennit aka Tomahawk Chopin Prelude in E minor Faure's requium Cast: Reverend Thamwood (Mo Sesay), does the funeral service at the start Jephthah Claypole (Brian Pettifer), undertaker Hal Claypole (Will Brown), undertaker's grandson Theo Conklin (Christopher Godwin), old man who reads gravestones as a hobby Violet "Vi" Bingley (Victoria Alcock), Runs Violet's Delights, married to John Bingley, handyman Dr Andrea Massey (Meg Kubota) (woman who says we should tell people if they mean something to us) Dr Adam Fortescue (Jo Stone-Fewings), brave Horatio at the gate Peter Jakes (Jack Laskey) (Little Pete) Snakebite (Joseph Macnab) Lance Stockley (Tomi Ogbaro), bartender who finds Tomahawk DI Chesney Finch (Richard Ridings), meets Thursday early and tries to convince him to drop Blenheim Vale Libby Ventnor (Laura Branigan), at the Mail, in a wheelchair, handles the death notices for the Mail "Libby on the phone: 'Hello, hello. Is this Claypole Funeral Directors?' " John Bingley (Philip Wright), handyman Tomahawk (aka Big Peter, aka Peter Williams), Jack Hamilton DI Arthur Lott (Danny Webb) Reverend Theodore Affcott (at the wedding rehearsal) (Ross Green) Charlie Thursday (Phil Daniels) Chief Superintendent Dominic Prettyman (Rufus Wright) Finished Lecture 5 of Carl Bender. I read a few pages of "Storms of my Grandchildren" by James E. Hansen. At 82% now. Started Endeavour "Exeunt", s9/9, e3/3, second time, 1:33:55 ruched means: gathered into folds Stopped 16:19 ============================================================== Sa 12/7/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. First time running fast since injuring my knee on 11/16/24. Library: A few minutes with WSJ. Made a few slides. Finished Endeavour "Uniform", s9/9, e2/3, third time, 1:30:24 Started Endeavour "Exeunt", s9/9, e3/3, first time, 1:33:55 Thamwood: Remember not the sins and offenses of my youth Psalm 25:7 An order for the burial of the dead (modified for cremation) Violet's Delights Dr Adam Fortescue: Then out spake brave horatius ... (Thomas Babington Macaulay) Peter Jakes (Little Pete) DI Finch from Cable Street in the Smoke Centavo Holding (Bermuda, Lionel Godfrey Chambers) Prof Edwin Robert Bevin. Newel post. Lance at the bar. Mother takes murderer back idiot - maniac. mother ma, murderer (can) back(wards) is niac. not sure why idiot. Kidlington secondment for Jim Strange. DI Chesney "Ches" Finch McMurdo put in the death notice. Miss Libby Ventnor. cousin (police cadet) in Newcastle, Robert. Hal, Dennis, Violet "Vi". John Bingley, Naylor's Stopped 1:33:55 Watched "Thank you for Smoking" with Maxim. Jan Levinson (played by Melora Hardin)from the office was in it. Played an interviewer Watched a few minutes of Carl Bender. Stopped Lecture 5 35:16 8:17pm, Julia returned from her trip to Sicily. ============================================================== F 12/6/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: taught, office hours, made a few slides, accepted financing for Y and set up payment process for Y Old Chicago, tried out gift cards, they worked. (Pub pizza and a stout.) Used up one $10 bonus card, and about $10 from my $100 gift card. I have three more $10 bonus cards. L&B: apples, walnuts, milk, protein bars. Home: Ate a little (some milk, an apple, two protein bars, some walnuts) Watched a few minutes of Carl Bender's lectures on perturbation theory. I read a couple of paragraphs of Anna Karenina. Continued Endeavour "Uniform", s9/9, e2/3, third time, 1:30:24 stopped 1:00:08 ============================================================== Th 12/5/24 Strength, slow running (20 mins, 600 ft climb, 7mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. 12noon: VEAP, delivery to Veteran's Home Library: slides Home: Some food. Started Endeavour "Uniform", s9/9, e2/3, third time, 1:30:24 Director, Phil: "Cut, cut, cut! Sorry, sorry -- plane!" Stopped 45:15 Watched just a little of Carl Bender's lectures on perturbation theory Stopped in lecture 4 at 41:17 out of 1:24:46. read a few pages from "Storms of my Grandchildren" by James E. Hansen. ============================================================== W 12/4/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: taught, office hours. 1:30pm, Met with Mike Weimerskirch about 4242. Tried to look at chairs -- ergonomic office not open. Made appt for W 11 Dec. Finished Endeavour "Uniform", s9/9, e2/3, second time, 1:30:24 Wotcher: whatchaupta? Spent a lot of time thinking about my charging arrangement for the new Tesla. Also went through the financing again. I'd like to have something printed, showing how they came to $632 per month for 60 months. Got a message from Leslie Libunao at FI Connect (subject: Tesla Application #7829262) Said to call 866-918-2898 (M-Sa 7am-8pm) Needed to remove my credit freeze for a few minutes on Experian so that they could check my credit rating. Said I should hear back in 24 hours. ============================================================== Tu 12/3/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: Car and Driver says Ioniq 5N is Car of the Year. Worked on slides. Ordered my Tesla "Y" today. Picked up $360 in gift cards from Barbette. 2:30pm, Zoom with Terry Quain and Nicola Philpott about the CCL Chapter. Started Endeavour "Uniform", s9/9, e2/3, second time, 1:30:24 In credits at start, "Kenneth Sellers as Supt. Jolyon Jolliphant". Not sure where Kenneth Prior came from -- maybe some editing mistake. Dorothea Frazil says "I've just come from seeing Kenneth "Call me Kenny" Prior at the Oxford Empire. dosser = homeless person keys thrown to Morse by DeBryn. Cowley Station closed. Thames Valley = merger of Oxford's City and County departments. Castle Gate is the new stateion, locaed in Thames Valley tearaway = young person, usually male, who is often causing trouble (troublemaker) Play Dead = play that Kenneth Sellers is in at the Oxford Empire Capability Brown stopped 45:12 Watched a the end of Bender's second lecture. Quantum theory is not quantized from the perspective of perturbation theory. Watched the 3rd lecture to 1:08:54, out of 1:26:48. ============================================================== M 12/2/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: Taught, office hours. Made appt for test drive of "Y" tomorrow in Golden Valley. Annual letter: Tesla Y Finished Endeavour "Uniform", s9/9, e2/3, first time, 1:30:24 dead: Hugh Sellers (old homeless man), Raymond "Ray" Astin (aka Raymond Swann, actor), Paul Baynard (illustrator), male body at Blenheim Vale (Josiah Landesman), female body at Blenheim Vale (Brenda Lewis) killers: Kenneth Sellers for Hugh Sellers and Raymond Swann, the four young punks for Baynard (accident). unknown for bodies at Blenheim Vale 1:13:10 Morse: Who was it killed Andrew Lewis. Lott: ... should've kep his nose out. Morse: Who was it did for [Brenda Lewis]? And Landesman. Lott: Dead men tell no tales. the four punks beat up Hugh Sellers, before Kenneth Sellers finished him off. Freya and Paul Baynard David Astin, six Kent Finn novels. Ormolu clock: Ormolu = gilt bronze (apply gold-mercury amalgam to bronze, drive off mercury in a kiln) You corks! corker = sth good, attractive, funny 99 flake = kind of Cadbury ice cream cone, popular in Britain. Hugh Sellers to cadge = to impose money for jam = money easily obtained old lag = person who's been in prison several times, habitual criminal Oxford 2947 (Morse's phone number) bog standard = basic, ordinary the four punks (Debonairs): Lord (Archie) Ormsby-Gore (Shifford Estate, landscaped by Capability Brown) Viscount (Raphael) Henley Lord Freddie Mulcaster the Honorable Henry Brockhurst Stevens and Adams (from County) stop Morse Cast: Kenny / Superintendent Jolliphant = Kenneth Sellers = Kenneth Prior (Kevin R McNally) DI Chance = Richard Leoncouter (Leo Starr) Sergeant Wilkins = Ted ("Teddy") Pickersgill (Richard Hope) Frederick Mulcaster (Jake Kenny-Byrne) Lord Archibald Ormsby-Gore (Bill Skinner) Honorable Henry Brockhurst (Todd Bell) Raphael Damon = Viscount Raphael Henley (Milo Mackenzie), not sure where Damon appears in the text Miss Hatch, librarian (Shaheen Khan) Freya Baynard (Ayesha Antoine) David Astin (Michael Keane) Mike Gatwood, producer of "Jolly for Short" (Paul Bazely) Uniform Stevens, heavy from Count, punches Morse (Laurence Spellman) Peter Jakes (little Pete), wotcher? (Jack Laskey) ============================================================== Su 12/1/24 Gearing up to buy a Tesla Y, put in another charger in the garage. Probably keep the Volt. Wrote to get info on the insurance increase. Will stop by Telsa place tomorrow, maybe put in the order then. Did a load of laundry. Strength, slow running (20 mins, 600 ft climb, 7mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. 3:30pm, Karl Narveson's piano recital, with the other "Southwest Metrognomes". At Schmitt music in Bloomington. Kirk Johnson: Chopin's "Raindrop". ChunChi (June) Chang: Scriabin (Etude op 8 no 12), excellent. Karl: slow movement from Beethoven's Pastorale sonata. (Sonata no 15) L&B: milk, more protein bars (on sale), some Amy's (on sale), some cheese (on sale), candy bar (on sale) Home: At an Amy's, bag of popcorn, two protein bars. Working on finishing the spiked egg nog. More than halfway through. Finished Endeavour "Prelude", s9/9, e1/3, third time, 1:30:13 Started Endeavour "Uniform", s9/9, e2/3, first time, 1:30:24 Detective Superintendant Jolyn "Jolly" Jolliphant, played by Kenneth "Kenny" Sellers aka Kenneth Prior. DI Steve Chance, played by Richard Leoncouter. Sgt Wilkins, played by Ted "Teddy" Pickersgill. Constable Banks, played by Raymond Swann aka Raymond Astin "what happened to DCI Blaze". Kent Finn writes the Jolly books. The four young punks: Raphael, leader of young punks. Mulcaster, cymbals, what-ho! Archie, nervous, stuttering. ?? Stopped 5:24 Watched a little more of Carl Bender's perturbation theory lectures. Worked for a few minutes on slides. ============================================================== Sa 11/30/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. 12:45pm, gave Julia a ride to the airport, she's off for a week to Sicily. Annual letter: Julia to Sicily Dropped off a food container at my mom's. I still have one more to get to her, along with a couple of Women's Gopher's mugs. Library: worked on slides. Continued Endeavour "Prelude", s9/9, e1/3, third time, 1:30:13 Ace Private Inquiries, Headington Stopped 1:08:08 I read just a couple of pages from "Storms of my Grandchildren" by James E. Hansen. Watched a few minutes of Carl Bender's lectures on math physics. Starting to understand perturbation analysis. I read a paragraph of Anna Karenina. ============================================================== F 11/29/24 Strength, slow running (20 mins, 600 ft climb, 7mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: briefly looked at NYT. Worked on slides. Very tired, napped for about an hour. Went with Julia to Buca for a large Penne alla Vodka, brought about half home. Special: 50% off. With the tip, cost was only about $35. Looked into buying a Tesla. Model III would cost $38,990 (after $7500 point-of-sale tax credit). Might keep my Volt and have another charger put into the garage on Maxim's side. ============================================================== Th 11/28/24 Thanksgiving. Gym closed, library closed. Met Alex at Champps for lunch, then he installed the new router (gateway). Went on a drive and listened to Vance and Joe Rogan do the bro thing. Vance sneered at how some people seem to think we should eliminate the use of fossil fuels. Went to G&S's for Thanksgiving dinner. Brought home apples, cranberries, some pomegranite sparkling juice, wild rice. Had some wine, and some of the spiked egg nog. Should be a quiet day tomorrow. Started Endeavour "Prelude", s9/9, e1/3, third time, 1:30:13 Oxford 2831, the Thursdays phone number Stopped 30:59 ============================================================== W 11/27/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 2:35 (not an express) home. Mowed back yard. At U: taught 4242, office hours. Saw Jeff and his son on the bus on the way home from the U. Son is freshman here at UMNTC. May major in stat. Maybe math as well. May take MATH 4242 in the summer. Daughter is finishing Cornell this year, econ and ?German? She speaks Mandarin, Cantonese, English, French, German. I think. Home: Finished Endeavour "Prelude", s9/9, e1/3, second time, 1:30:13 Some shopping at L&B: flowers for Mom, nonalcoholic sparkling drink, protein bars on sale. Tried to watch the movie "Frances Ha", but got bored. I read a few pages from "Storms of my Grandchildren" by James E. Hansen. Now at 77% ============================================================== Tu 11/26/24 Julia's birthday. Forgot to do last part of laundry -- maybe tonight after 9pm. Strength, slow running (20 mins, 600 ft climb, 7mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: briefly looked at WSJ and new Economist. Worked on slides (Jordan canonical form.) Shopped. EP Liquors: wine, egg nog Home Depot: file for lawnmower. Vacuumed out car. Took Julia out for dinner at Kyoto. Continued Endeavour "Prelude", s9/9, e1/3, second time, 1:30:13 Ronnie Box says: copped a dose? = caught venereal disease? Mr Harry Treadle Stopped 1:14:57 9pm-10:10pm: Finished laundry. ============================================================== M 11/25/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 2:35 (not an express) home. Mowed back yard. At U: taught, office hours. 5:30pm, went to going away party for Dean Phillips, but, by the time I arrived, no good seating, so I left. Saw Rod and Nancy on my way out. I went for a tres leches at Aurelia's. Finished Endeavour "Prelude", s9/9, e1/3, first time, 1:30:13 Cast: Fergus Brathwaite (James Anderson), maybe strings player who is friends with John Graham-Scott John Graham-Scott (Nicholas Boulton), bass player Sir Alexander Lermontov (Nicholas Farrell), director Donald Fischer (Rob Ostlere), orchestra manager Lindsay Trench (Leaphia Darko), principal second violin, black Mabs Portman (Imogen Daines), friend of Margeaux Quincannon, who turns out to be the killer Margeaux Quincannon (Tamsin Newlands), orchestra leader Christina Poole (Kirstin Louie), guest violinist Madame Belasco (Jane Lapotaire), owner Belasco academy Mrs Pat Treadle (Jenny Galloway), staff for the orchestra Mr Lee (James Doherty), shoe salesman (also in the episode "Sway", as the same character) Started Endeavour "Prelude", s9/9, e1/3, second time, 1:30:13 Stopped 31:57 Continued laundry, should finish tomorrow morning. ============================================================== Su 11/24/24 Strength, slow running (20 mins, 600 ft climb, 7mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. People's Organic, day olds. Worked on slides. Raked, mowed the front yard. Finished "The Devil's Own" Tom O'Meara (Harrison Ford) Rory Devaney (Brad Pitt) Sheila O'Meara (Margaret Colin) Edwin Diaz (Ruben Blades) Billy Burke (Treat Williams) Peter Fitzsimmons (George Hearn) Chief Jim Kelly (Mitchell Ryan) Megan Doherty (Natascha McElhone) Sean Phelan (Paul Ronan) Harry Sloan (Simon Jones) Continued Endeavour "Prelude", s9/9, e1/3, first time, 1:30:13 dead: unknown man (Andrew Lewis aka Edward Thomas aka Edward Thompson) at Beaumont College, Mickey Flood, Margeaux Quincannon, Rose Garland killer: Portman for Quincannon, unclear for Andrew Lewis and Mickey Flood. Garland committed suicide, driven to it by Quincannon and Portman Donald Fischer. John "Jack" Graham-Scott (bassist). Mickey Flood. Selsey Bill, Bracklesham Bay, Isle of Wight, Shanklin (Wavecrest) pulmonary edema, laryngeal edema. edema = swelling. antihistamine = H_1-antihistamine which binds to H_1-histamine receptors. Lindsay Trench. Camelodunon Military Prison is actually Surbiton Golf Studio in Long Ditton Rose Garland, swimming accident. Fergus affair with Margeaux Quincannon Stopped 1:08:14 Mowed front yard. Started laundry. Finished whites, coloreds are in dryer, darks are in washer. ============================================================== Sa 11/23/24 Strength, slow running (20 mins, 600 ft climb, 7mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, slides. Home: Finished Endeavour "Terminus", s8/9, e3/3, third time, 1:30:11. Started Endeavour "Prelude", s9/9, e1/3, first time, 1:30:13 Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor Morse was in Lyme Regis Mrs Treadle, Miss Margeaux Quincannon, Jack, Mabs (Margs) Portman. Madame Belasco. John "Jack" Graham-Scott: "Her voice was ever soft, gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman." (King Lear) Ave, Imperator, morituri te salutant. Detective Superintendcy at Carshall New Town. Stopped 13:13 short nap Started "The Devil's Own" Frankie, kid. (Republican Sympathizer) Margaret Colin, Treat William, Reuben Blade, George Hearn, Mitchell Ryan, Natascha McElhone. story by Kevin Jarre Directed Alan J Parkula Frankie McGuire Belfast, Sept 1992 Newark, Feb 1993 Mr Fitzsimmons. Mr O'Meara. Morgan. Rory. Shiela. Bridget. Billy Burke. stopped 36:59 read a couple of paragraphs of Anna Karenina to practice Russian ============================================================== F 11/22/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. Rode to the U with Jasmine Foo. At U: taught, reviewed Maru Sarazola's class, met with her, wrote up review Taught Ramagrog today. Office hours. Home: I read a few pages of "Storms of my Grandchildren" by James E. Hansen. Now at 68%. Short nap. Continued Endeavour "Terminus", s8/9, e3/3, third time, 1:30:11. Morse could go to Sussex, to a place run by Wain, to recover from alcoholism Masquerade Fancy Dress Ball 1963: House Cawdor at Table 11 L Yaeger, P Stanton, P Walsh On paper in Hobbes' pocket: "12.11.71", "Haddonfield", "WSW3MA" Reunion booked for 23 February "Get the shampoo on ice STOP" ============================================================= Th 11/21/24 Continuing gradual improvement in knee. Strength, slow running (20 mins, 600 ft climb, 7mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, slides. Home: short nap. Finished "Deadly Alliance: Leopold and Loeb" "The Perfect Crime" Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb Wednesday 21 May 1924: murder of Bobby Franks Evidence: toroiseshell glasses with unusual hinge Almer Coe Company employee goes through 50000 records, finding three suspects including Nathan "Babe" Leopold. Underwood portable typewriter (defective "t" and "f" keys; "after") thrown in Jackson Park lagoon car in garage Leopold's red Willys-Knight sedan "George Johnson" (made up name) author of ransom notes, typed on the Underwood typewriter. Franks: Flora Franks, mother. Jacob Franks, father. Jack Franks, brother. Authors: Candace Fleming (Murder Among Friends) Erik Rebain (Arrested Adolescence) Nina Barrett (The Leopold and Loeb Files) Penny Wilson (Nothing but the Night) Stephen Dolginoff (Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story) Other experts: Paul Durica (Chicago History Museum) Leigh Bienen (Northwestern University School of Law) Sarah Imhoff (Indiana University in Bloomington) Leopold graduated UofC at 19, about to go to Harvard for law school. Leopold questioned at the LaSalle Hotel. Leopold taught birding classes at Wood Lake. Kirtland Warbler. Search of Leopold Loeb: letter to Richard "Dickie" Loeb, 18 years old. Albert Loeb, father, VP of Sears Roebuck. Loebs and Franks related by marriage. Loeb graduated high school after two years, then wild, immature. Entered college at 14. 1920, 2nd year at UofC, Loeb meets Leopold. Pretty boy Richard. Loeb transferred to U of Michigan. Loeb graduated UMich at 17, youngest grad. 1923: grad students back at UofC. State's Attorney Robert Crowe. Chicago Daily news reporters (James Mulroy and Alvin Goldstein, grad students at UofC, win Pulitzer) Law students who had worked with Leopold, one had typed notes from Leopold, same typewriter) Leopold family chauffer (Sven England) says the Willys-Knight sedan was in the garage. Pretty boy Richard "Dickie" Loeb cracks when told about car. wttw.com/chicagostories chisel, hydrochloric acid, rope. Morton D Ballard fake name: rented blue sedan. Loeb called Franks over, to talk about tennis racket. both would pull on rope, equally culpable Phrenology: Loeb weak feminine, Leopold strong masculine. (Loeb 5'9", Leopold 5'6") train trip to Loeb family's Charlevoix Michigan palacial estate Nathan Leopold confesses to homosexual tendencies Richard Loeb confesses to criminal tendencies Nathan Leopold believes in Nietzsche, sees Loeb as a fellow superman On Bobby Frank's tomb: "Life is because God is infinite, indestructible and eternal" Sept 19, 1090 - May 22, 1924 (seems that the last date is wrong) 21 July 1924. Judge John Caverly. Closing argument 23 August 1924. Sentencing: 10 September 2024. James Day stabbed Loeb 56 times, killing him. Loeb was 30 years old. Leopold paroled after 33 years, in 1958. Moved to Puerto Rico. N.F. Leopold "Checklist of Birds of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands" Leopold died of heart attack at age 66. I read a couple of pages of "Storms of my Grandchildren" by James E. Hansen. Continued Endeavour "Terminus", s8/9, e3/3, third time, 1:30:11. Bridge of Sighs Stopped 21:25 ============================================================== W 11/20/24 Knee still slightly stiff, but improving. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling except kicking, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. Rode to the U with Jasmine Foo. At U: taught, office hours, made a few slides. During ride home, spoke with Jeff from China -- Ben Brubaker introduced us. Jeff is in ISyE, joined UMN a couple of months ago. Jeff grew up near Shanghai, grad school at Northwestern, daughter at Cornell, taught in Hong Kong for a while, then moved back to Shanghai, then to the US. Son is at UMN. Home: napped just a little. Finished Endeavour "Terminus", s8/9, e3/3, second time, 1:30:11. Roland David Churchyard. 23 Feb 1963. House Cawdor. Cawdor Castle in Scotland, setting of start of Macbeth. Treble Chance: Players given a list of matches, attempt to pick a "line" of eight. On Stanton's blackboard: 1,9,13,22,23,34,35,37,40,46 Started Endeavour "Terminus", s8/9, e3/3, third time, 1:30:11. Boarded the 33 at stage 2 in town bugger all = nothing bugger all else here, except the boneyard = nothing else here except the graveyard. Stopped 5:00 Started "Deadly Alliance: Leopold and Loeb" "The Perfect Crime" Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb May 1924, Wednesday Stopped 5:01 ============================================================== Tu 11/19/24 Strength, slow running (20 mins, 600 ft climb, 6mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling except kicking, pen spin. Library: slides, skimmed some of JD Vance's book "Elegy" before returning it. Weight went up over 160 yesterday. Now it's back down close to 155. Continued Endeavour "Terminus", s8/9, e3/3, second time, 1:30:11. Ballymurphy in Belfast, site of a 1971 massacre "Belfast's Bloody Sunday". A few months later the same unit had another massacre in Derry. PVC Mac = polyvinyl chloride macintosh Stopped 34:54 3:30pm, Unmapped, get together with Rod and Jon and Laurie. Grabbed a few empanadas, brought leftovers (and a tres leches) home. cleaned dishwasher filter ============================================================== M 11/18/24 Left knee is improving. Using compression to bring down the swelling. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling except kicking, pen spin. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. Rode to the U with Jasmine Foo. At U: taught, office hours. Finished Endeavour "Terminus", s8/9, e3/3, first time, 1:30:11. dead: Patrick Stanton, Norbert Hobbs, Lawrence Yeager killer: Bruce-Potter and Travers and Peckett for Stanton. probably Peckett (who took Grant to lie down, and then was unaccounted for) for Hobbs probably Bruce-Potter for Yeager Driver Faradoon at Cowley Bus Depot. Heddonfield. WSW3MA, WYCH, 9 46 cufflinks. 37 22 cufflinks -- Stanton's had 40. when shall we three meet again, in thunder lightning or in rain, when the hurly burly's done, when the battle's lost and won. WYCH=Walsh-Yeager-Churchyard-Hobbs. Missing Stanton. herkos odonton = a barrier of teeth (means: mum's the word) Flavian Creech (the Devouer, Beast of Belgravia) Belgravia = rich area of N London. Strangmoor. khazi = toilet. Johnny Divine, singer. Roland Paker. Fancy Dress outfit. R D Churchyard. cast: Les Grant (Adam Ewan), conductor Prof Patrick Stanton (Will Sebag-Montefiore), prof Linda Travers (Anna Burnett), shop assistant Richard Blake (Adam Mirsky), student John Peckett (Ray Emmet Brown), black driver Asif Faradoon (Chirag Lobo), another driver Lawrence Yeager (Martin Hutson), solicitor Hilda Bruce-Potter (Marion Bailey), retired, previously postmistress Percy Walsh (Matthew Marsh), retired, previously with the Exam Board Norbert "Nobby" Hobbs (Ben Bishop), bit of this, bit of that Mrs Elsie Watson (Estella Daniels), no info on work, black Dr Gillian Nicholls (Jennifer Kirby), doctor Flavian Creech (Anthony Flanagan), in prison, Beast of Belgravia Started Endeavour "Terminus", s8/9, e3/3, second time, 1:30:11. "Don't have any more Mrs Moore", song by Lily Morris 1926 Stopped 3:54 I read a couple of paragraphs of Anna Karenina and a couple of pages of "Storms of my Grandchildren" by James E. Hansen. ============================================================== Su 11/17/24 Left knee is improving. Using compression to bring down the swelling. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling except kicking, pen spin. 8am, breakfast with Vic at Hope Breakfast Bar. Watched Meet the Press. Interview with Markwayne Mullin and Hakim Jeffries. I read a few pages from James Hansen's book "Storms of my Grandchildren". Finished Endeavour "Scherzo", s8/9, e2/3, third time, 1:29:49. Micah (prounced MY-cah) 5:15: And I will execute vengeance with anger and fury upon the heathen such as they have not heard. Started Endeavour "Terminus", s8/9, e3/3, first time, 1:30:11. Bleeding brass monkeys; it's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass moneky. cannonballs stored on a brass tray or brass "monkey". the brass would contract more than the iron cannonballs in the cold, causing them to fall off the tray Grant, conductor, Mrs Moore. Chipping Compton, end of the route Tafferton Park Prof Patrick Stanton, maths Wolsey College Dr Nicholls Tafferton Park Hotel Peckett, Linda Travers Mrs Bruce-Potter, Lawrence Yeager, Norbert Hobbs (Nobby), Richard Blake (Richie) (student) Mrs Elsie Watson (black), Percy Walsh (previously with the exam board), driver John Peckett, conductor Les. Loomis boy. Stopped 33:09 ============================================================== Sa 11/16/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling except kicking, pen spin. No library. 11:15am, donated blood. Tried to go on nature walk with CCL (Julia came along), but fell and hurt my knee. Knee injury. Went to TRIA and they took three images. Said it was just a bad bruise. Seems to be getting better. Continued Endeavour "Scherzo", s8/9, e2/3, third time, 1:29:49. Stopped 1:11:22 6pm-8:30pm, went to a "Majority in the Middle Event". Interesting, but I don't think I'll join. ============================================================== F 11/15/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. Rode to the U with Jasmine Foo. At U: taught, office hours, made a few slides. 2:30pm, meeting of the Instruction Review Committee Continued Endeavour "Scherzo", s8/9, e2/3, third time, 1:29:49. Stopped 50:55 7pm-9pm, Vic had a party for Ezra Miller (colloquium speaker, on nonlinear CLT) Home at about 9:15pm. Time for bed. ============================================================== Th 11/14/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: brief look at WSJ, worked on slides. Wrote to Natalie Orozco protesting discontinuation of state lobbying by CCL national. Finished Endeavour "Scherzo", s8/9, e2/3, second time, 1:29:49. Lynn Parry: Cyw, Joan, Birdie, Siwan, Fy Nghyw Bach Bach = small, seems as if Cyw and Nghyw are synonyms, maybe. I read a couple of pages from James Hansen's book "Storms of my Grandchildren". Started Endeavour "Scherzo", s8/9, e2/3, third time, 1:29:49. Keith Garrett, Morse's sister's (Joyce's) fiance. Living at Witney. Stopped 27:10 ============================================================== W 11/13/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48 home. Rode to the U with Jasmine Foo. At U: taught, office hours, made a few slides. Sent solutions to the exam to Casey, along with Gradelines. Continued Endeavour "Scherzo", s8/9, e2/3, second time, 1:29:49. Stopped 1:02:40 ============================================================== Tu 11/12/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Briefly at library to glance at WSJ and work on slides for teaching. Thinking a lot about how to efficiently explain minimizing quadratics using linear algebra. Troy Holm loaned me a new router and Alex (by phone -- he's in Atlanta) helped me to set it up. It worked with no trouble -- plug and play. So our access to internet is back. Ordered a new router (Cloud Gateway Ultra) for $150.87 (including tax and shipping). Shipped earlier today -- hope to see it by the end of the week. Alex will be back from Atlanta on 22 November and will help me to set up the Cloud Gateway Ultra soon after that. Then I'll return the loaners from Troy. (He also gave me a second one to try in case the first one didn't work.) 2:30pm Zoom with Nicola and Terry Quain. Watched about half of Meet the Press. I think I'll start skipping the panel discussions most weeks. Interviews with John Barasso and Bernie Sanders. Talking points never change. Greg Jason wrote that CCL is putting a hard stop to state lobbying. Don't know why. Started Endeavour "Scherzo", s8/9, e2/3, second time, 1:29:49. Stopped 16:27 I read just a couple of pages from James Hansen's book "Storms of my Grandchildren". ============================================================== M 11/11/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48 home. At U: taught, office hours, made a few slides. Finished grading: very poor scores. Not sure why. Finished Endeavour "Scherzo", s8/9, e2/3, first time, 1:29:49. Commander Len Dury, Ches Finch DI Nesbitt, DS Sneed Ifan Roberts, Patty Grady (Del Grady's wife) Micah (prounced MY-cah) 5:15: And I will execute vengeance with anger and fury upon the heathen such as they have not heard. Cast: Alison Appleby (Lucy Aarden) Baz Appleby (Nicholas Shaw) Clarry Haynes (Fraser James) Lynn Parry (Lottie Tolhurst) Major Jones (Andrew Woodall) Del Grady (Arthur Sylense, credited as as Joe Gallina) Brian Frussell (Ian Hallard), money on the "gee gees" Patty Grady (Kirsty Oswald) Lee Timothy (Shadrach Agozino) Gwen Morse (Lynda Rooke) Joe North (Oliver Johnstone) Ann Lunn (Amy Griffiths), second wife of Dudley Lunn Pauline Lunn (Andrea Lowe), first wife of Dudley Lunn Mark Lunn (Regan Garcia), son of Dudley Lunn Ifan Roberts (Wayne Cater) Lesley (Jessica Layde), young, black actress Laurel Maynard (Issy Van Randwyck), Mrs Roisin Walsh (Catherine Cusack), housekeeper for Father Mahoney Commander Len Dury (Matt Rixon), in London Julia did something with the electrical box in the basement and shut down the internet in our home. The edgerouter wouldn't restart -- it's probably kaput. ============================================================== Su 11/10/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. People's Organic (day-old pastries): grading Library: more grading, nothing else Home: finished grading, but not totaling. Contined Endeavour "Scherzo", s8/9, e2/3, first time, 1:29:49. dead: cabbie (Dudley Lunn), priest (Father Francis Mahoney), Mr Maynard, Del Grady. killer: Ifan Roberts for Lunn and Mahoney and Maynard. Grady suicide. Hovelle Wood def gen = definitive information, maybe the etymology is: gen = general information Fenella (daughter of cabbie killed), Pauline Lunn (first wife of cabbie killed) Major Jones, Alison Appleby, Barry "Baz" Appleby, Mark Lunn, Ann Lunn Ifan, Siwan (Sean, Birdie) (Fy nghyw bach, Welsh for my little chick) cock linnet (cock = male of any species) (linnet is a passerine i.e. perching bird) Joe North (cabbie). Clarry Haynes (cabbie). Brian Frussel (cabbie) Brian Frussel mentiones money on the gee gees. gee gees = horses, gee hup is a command to spur a horse on Ruth Ellis: convicted murderer, last woman executed in the UK Ostrich Fanciers Club. Aga Khan = imam of the Nizari Isma ili Shias Ismaili Muslims, branch of Shia, who believe Ali was the true successor to Muhammad. Shia, short for a translation of "followers of Ali" Branches of Shia: Twelver, Ismaili (Sevener), Zaydi (Fiver) flutter = small bet Lynn Parry, model Mrs Roisin Walsh, rectory = rector's house, rector = Episcopalian clergyman heading up a parish Lee Timothy, 3 Sidings Jericho, 1950 trilby (type of hat), Donal (step-brother, half-brother of dead rector) stopped 49:23 ============================================================== Sa 11/9/24 Busy day, and I didn't sleep so well last night. Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Ran chapter meeting 10:30am-11:30am. Barbette with Alex and Jordan, then went to Jordan's place for a few minutes. Home: Finished grading III.1 and III.2. Will do more tomorrow. Finished Endeavour "Striker", s8/9, e1/3, third time, 1:29:49. 3rd inst = 3rd day of the current month Started Endeavour "Scherzo", s8/9, e2/3, first time, 1:29:49. Mr and Mrs Appleby, Baz Stopped 5:20pm With Maxim, watched an episode of Starting 5. This one was about the All-Star game, and how Jimmy Butler and Domantas Sabonis (who weren't selected) spent their time. Jimmy Butler is mourning his father's death. ============================================================== F 11/8/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48 home. At U: taught, office hours, made a few slides. Started to grade exams -- not looking good. Few people even know the definition of dimension. Dinner at Chipotle (free side of queso) Did some more grading. Spoke to Mark Bruso by phone. Continued Endeavour "Striker", s8/9, e1/3, third time, 1:29:49. wee buck eejit: wee = small buck = lively person eejit = idiot or fool shmutter = ragged clothing in the pudding club = pregnant Lucius Stamfield, but parcel addressed to G. W. Stanfield 59 and 11 means 59 shillings and 11 pence shilling = 1/20 pound (analogous to a nickel) pence = 1/12 shilling Stopped 46:55 ============================================================== Th 11/7/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: slides. 1:30pm, Zoomed with Fernando Finished Endeavour "Striker", s8/9, e1/3, second time, 1:29:49. 1897+75=1972, Fenner is Wanderers chairman. Finished "First Man", about Neil Armstrong. I think I'll watch it again. Leaving Netflix soon. Started Endeavour "Striker", s8/9, e1/3, third time, 1:29:49. Stopped 9:27 ============================================================== W 11/6/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48 home. At U: taught, office hours, made a few slides. Continued Endeavour "Striker", s8/9, e1/3, second time, 1:29:49. Miss Maggie Widdowson's sister, Mrs Frieda O'Rourke. jumper = sweater, aka pullover, jersey. Stopped 53:34 Julia went out to a winetasting. Glanced at Meet the Press, but it was all pre-election, so out of date. Deleted it. Switched to "First Man" and watched until Julia got home. ============================================================== Tu 11/5/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Finished laundry. No library, voted. Chipotle: worked on slides. Brief stop at home. 2pm-9pm, served as election judge. ============================================================== M 11/4/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Started washing sheets to my bed and a few other items. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48 home. At U: taught, office hours, finished Midterm 2 and sent it to DRC, made a few slides. Julia was at a Machine Learning event at the U (at the alumni center). We caught the same bus back, then had pub pizzas at Old Chicago. I went to Aurelia's for Pan Tres Leches (whole milk, evaporated milk, condensed milk). Worked on some slides about back propagation. Home: Finished drying sheets to my bed. Continued Endeavour "Striker", s8/9, e1/3, second time, 1:29:49. Angry Brigade: far left British anti-Vietnam war terrorist group, 1970-1972, resurfaced later. Stopped 11:50 ============================================================== Su 11/3/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, Sunday. People's Organic (day old pastries): Slides. Finished Endeavour "Striker", s8/9, e1/3, first time, 1:29:49. Valentine's Day Cards, one at bedsit from fiance Noel Baxter, the other at the office. By John Sarson, MA thesis "Reader, I controlled hte means of production" Towards a ... understanding of ... class and sex in "Pride and Prejudice" from a Marxist perspective. Loyalist: Working class Ulster Protestant unionist The Order: The Orange Order (Protestant unionist association) The Twelfth: Orangemen's Day, 12 July commemorates victory of William III (Protestant) over James II (Catholic) at Boyne, 1690 Stuart restoration: Commonwealth of England --> House of Stuart (Charles II William III = William of Orange Pipes and Drums = war pipes By Order of the Brigade Staff (the Blacknecks) UVF Brigade Staff = "blacknecks" because of their uniform Taigs' war chest Taig anglicized version of Tadhg, slur for a stage Irishman (Paddywhackery, stereotyped potrayal of drunken Irishman) also a general derogatory term for Irish Catholics Cast: Jack Swift (Julian Moore Cook) John Paul Martinelli (Gabriel Tierney) Maggie Widdowson (Mia McCallum) John Sarson (Angus Yellowlees), Marxist student Prof Lucius Stamfield (Andrew Havill) Miss Newell (Harriet Thorpe) Dan Lofthouse (John Hollingworth), manager Robert Fenner (Joseph Millson) Cecily Fenner (Eleanor Fanyinka) Ray Jubba (Elliot Levey) Frida O'Rourke (Roxanne Palmer) Eamonn Andrews (Lewis MacLeod) Sarah Sellars (Ruth Bradley) Mrs Swift (Jacinta Mulcahy) George Sellars (Killian Coyle) Marmaduke "Duke" Ward (Colum Convey) Brigitte Eriksson (Evelina Jarrebring) DS Bill Shaw (Christopher Brand) Noel Baxter (Tom Spink), fiance to Maggie Widdowson Started Endeavour "Striker", s8/9, e1/3, second time, 1:29:49. Minnows Cowley Town v Oxford Wanderers Stopped 4:13 ============================================================== Sa 11/2/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ and slides. 11:30am, Barbette: Alex and Jordan, Max and Cadia, Maxim, Lou and George, Irene and Troy, me. Cadia is a parole officer and photographer. Has other jobs, too. Spent $272+240=$512. Irene and Troy covered $100, and then ordered a few more mimosas. Shopping: Milk, Amy's (sale), crackers (sale), razors ($25.99 for four). Continued Endeavour "Striker", s8/9, e1/3, first time, 1:29:49. dead: Maggie Widdowson, John-Paul Martinelli. killers: Robert Fenner for Maggie Widdowson, George Sellars for John-Paul Martinelli. ???no explanation for misspelled name (Stanfield) on the box contining the bomb??? Paisley = Iain Paisley, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party from 1971 to 2008 Cowley Town, touch of the tarbrush. George Sellars. Robert Fenner. Ray Jubba. Wanderers. Ray, Lofthouse conversation. Ray agent, Lofthouse manager. Marmaduke "Duke" Ward. Frieda O'Rourke. Maggie Widdowson. Sarah Sellars, George Sellars. Whippet = dog breed. John-Paul Martinelli. Brigitte Eriksson. Bill Shaw. Stamfield: John Sarson. 7:51: Word out of Barnet is they charged a bloke on Saturday with bombing the employment minister's place. referenced later, 43:06: Barnet arrest on Saturday 43:06. Graham Trestle. Stopped 54:56. ============================================================== F 11/1/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48 home. At U: taught, office hours. Looked more at machine learning. Finished Endeavour "Zenana", s7/9, e3/3, third time, 1:30:03. Started Endeavour "Striker", s8/9, e1/3, first time, 1:29:49. Alf. Jack Swift. Postal strike. Mr John Sarson. Miss Maggie Widdowson. Miss Newell. Stopped 5:37 Signed up for a VEAP shift on Th 21 Nov at noon. ============================================================== Th 10/31/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ and slides. I read a couple pages of James Hansen's book "Storms of my Grandchildren". Shopping: Halloween candy, some Amy's, walnuts, string cheese. Halloween -- about 20 kids came by for candy. Listened to some music on youtube. ============================================================== W 10/30/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48 home. At U: taught, office hours. Made a few slides. Started Endeavour "Zenana", s7/9, e3/3, third time, 1:30:03. Near start, at death of Petra Cornwell, Thursday mentions Naomi Kane, seems to mean Naomi Benford. Stopped 50:29 I read a couple pages of James Hansen's book "Storms of my Grandchildren". Napped just a few minutes. ============================================================== Tu 10/29/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ and slides. Home: I read a page or two of James Hansen's book "Storms of my Grandchildren". Napped a few minutes. Finished Endeavour "Zenana", s7/9, e3/3, second time, 1:30:03. Morse: Wolf's Head at Watlington Strange: Aspen Park Drive California Amity Redemption and Disbursement, Garratt St, Holborn, London Inquest into the death of Pippa Tetbury ... a dancer lately returned from Beirut E De ?Vere?, Executive Director of California Amity Redemption and Disbursement Completion attached, V Talenti Morse meets Ludo at Brompton Cemetery, which is in London, not Venice. Ludovicus Talenti, sacerdos (priest), MCDLX-MDXXVII (1460-1527) Started Endeavour "Zenana", s7/9, e3/3, third time, 1:30:03. Stopped 5:00 ============================================================== M 10/28/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48 home. At U: taught, office hours. Made a few slides. Home: quite tired -- napped a little. I read a few pages of James Hansen's book "Storms of my Grandchildren". Continued Endeavour "Zenana", s7/9, e3/3, second time, 1:30:03. 1949 Wolf's Head at Watlington. two girls and boy living with aunt, uncle and cousin. Phillis, Doris, Johnny Linden. Bess, Joe, Kevin. connected: George Fontayne, who went missing from Pierton. Molly Malone: Now her ghost wheels her barrow, through streets broad and narrow, crying cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh. Stopped 44:02 Continued laundry. One load left, partially dried. Should finish tomorrow morning. ============================================================== Su 10/27/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. 12noon, visited my mom's, had a nice lunch, she sent home some green tomato bread. tired, short nap. knocked about 7 or 8 doors, no one home. Finished Endeavour "Zenana", s7/9, e3/3, first time, 1:30:03. Thursday: I'm appointing Siddle bagman. Crossword misanthrope: like Scrooge, he rouses phantom's ire phantom's ire anagram for misantrhope Dorothea Frazil: Wolf's head at Watlington, three children Aspen Park Drive. Phyllis Linden, put away George Fontayne missing Phyllis Linden = Jenny Tate Johnny Lindend = Carl Sturgis Joe and Bess died in fire, Bess's sister's kids: the Lindens, Phyllis and Doris and Johnny Noah Sturgis, Johnny's grandfather. L -- Leicester U -- Uttoxeter D -- Dover O -- Oxford Mrs Carrie Bright Cast: Magdalena Byrne, Maggie, Mags (Marianne Oldham), admin Juliet Baring (Lucy Black), top admin, warden (3:58) Dr Nancy Deveen (Naomi Yang) Bridget (Flora London) Carl Sturgis (Sam Ferriday) Coroner (Don Gallagher), examination of the ladder on which he stood shows that it was old (2:55) Petra Connolly (Charlotte Potter) Elaine Fairchild (Jessica Hayles), called Sandra in subtitles picture online of Jessica Hayles seems to match Elaine Fairchild character her dad was killed by the block-and-tackle Violetta Talenti (Stephanie Leonidas) Dai Ferman (Richard Harrington) Jenny Tate (Holli Dempsey) Ludo Talenti (Ryan Gage) Landlord (Andy Williams), owner of The Wolf's Head (also rents out flats above it) Apollo Voices Manager (Chris Foster) ??? (online it says he was also in "Oracle") Opera Singers (Susan Legg, Ben Alden, Michael Bundy) Started Endeavour "Zenana", s7/9, e3/3, second time, 1:30:03. Stopped 6:20 Started laundry. ============================================================== Sa 10/26/24 Strength, running (10 mins, 100 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Went to VEAP to do a shift, aimed to arrive about 15 mins before my 12noon shift. 494 was closed, had to detour to 62, arrived barely on time just about 11:55am, then found out they needed me about 30 mins early to get to a site by noon. Went to the site and there was almost nothing available to bring to VEAP. Too bad, mostly a wasted trip. Consold myself with a BK Impossible Whopper, then went for fries and a raspberry malt at Snuffy's. Knocked about 5 doors, no interesting conversations this time. Finished a turf. Alex Falconer sent me a new turf to work on tomorrow. Finished Endeavour "Raga", s7/9, e2/3, third time, 1:29:38. Started Endeavour "Zenana", s7/9, e3/3, first time, 1:30:03. dead: Molly Andrews, Bridget Mulcahy, Petra Cornwell, Dr Nancy Deveen, Carl Sturgis, Carrie Bright (Mrs Bright) dead from earlier episode: Molly Andrews and Tony Jakobssen killer: Sturgis for Andrews and Jakobssen and Mulcahy and , Ludo for Deveen made to appear as accident, and for Mrs Bright Morse for Sturgis in fight Vivaldi, "Four Seasons" Zenana = the part of the house for the seclusion of Muslim women Ave Maria ... Gratia plena ... Maria Gatia ... plena murder at Corax House Make believe you loved me darling, make believe you cared ... by Matthew Slater Cortina d'Ampezzo, skiing Cousin Kevin, I like necks. Stopped 31:36 I read a few pages of James Hansen's book "Storms of my Grandchildren". Watched two episodes of "Starting 5" (on Netflix) with Maxim. Covers: LeBron James, Jimmy Butler, Anthony Edeards, Jayson Tatum, Domantas Sabonis. ============================================================== F 10/25/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48 home. At U: taught, office hours. Made a few slides. Home: quite tired -- napped a little. Car renewals, new total premium: 371.85/mo (15 Dec 2024 to 15 Jun 2025). Home and Umbrella will probably not update until 15 Jun 2025. Continued Endeavour "Raga", s7/9, e2/3, third time, 1:29:38. Stopped 1:08:20 ============================================================== Th 10/24/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: slides. 3pm, crown at Dr Witte's. Feels very strange, but I expect I'll get used to it. Continued Endeavour "Raga", s7/9, e2/3, third time, 1:29:38. Stopped 36:29 ============================================================== W 10/23/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U. At U: taught, office hours. Made a few slides. Accidentally took the wrong bus from the U, ended up in Bloomington. Mom came and rescued me, we had a malt at Snuffy's and chatted. She took me to my car. I did a little shopping on the way home: soup, apples, Amy's, yogurt, milk, popcorn. Ate an apple, made some popcorn. Finished Endeavour "Raga", s7/9, e2/3, second time, 1:29:38. Started Endeavour "Raga", s7/9, e2/3, third time, 1:29:38. Stopped 10:55 ============================================================== Tu 10/22/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ and slides. At home: Worked more on slides. Finished Meet the Press. 7pm-8pm, North Winds Zoom call Continued Endeavour "Raga", s7/9, e2/3, second time, 1:29:38. Ludo says "He's no Robert Danvers". Robert Danvers, character played by Peter Sellers in "There's a Girl in My Soup". Vain, womanizing and wealthy host of a high-profile TV cooking show, just like Oberon Prince. stopped 1:03:37 ============================================================== M 10/21/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: taught, office hours, finished typing. No new printout, profs and grant paper done for now. Continued Endeavour "Raga", s7/9, e2/3, second time, 1:29:38. stopped 37:52 ============================================================== Su 10/20/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. People's Organic, worked on slides. Started Meet the Press 2pm, went to meet with Pat Middeke. She was sleeping, so I came back at 3:30pm. In between, went to a nearby Noodles and had a light meal. I read some of James Hansen's book "Storms of my Grandchildren". Bill Middeke arrived at 3:30pm, too, and the three of us chatted until about 5pm. Come home. Finished Endeavour "Oracle", s7/9, e1/3, third time, 1:30:24. Watched Endeavour "Raga", s7/9, e2/3, first time, 1:29:38. dead: Iqbal Aziz, Oberon Prince, Gerwazy Radowicz killer: Rafiq Sardar for Aziz, Prince. Unknown for Radowicz; general gang violence. Raga = melodic framework for improvisation, within Indian classical music Jolly Rajah restaurant Vote Gorman. Johnny Simba, wrestler. Oberon Prince, wishing you "Bon Apetit". Farook Sardar, son of the old confused man, doctor. Radovich, hair salon. Gary Radovich. Gary Rogers. Gerwazy Radowicz. 15 yrs old. Mrs Aziz, wife of delivery man (Iqbal Aziz), she doesn't speak English. Mrs Nuha Sardar, translator. Mendip Gardens West? Flat 10, Tiffin Court. Miss Ilsa Trent (later: daughter of Gorman), in Flat 8, Tiffin Court. Jolly Rajah proprietor: Uqbah Sardar, confused. "off his game recently" Rafiq Sardar, brother of Uqbah. Rafiq's nephews: Dr Farook Sardar, younger brother Salim. Rosemary Prince, first wife of Oberon. Vrakonisi, Oberon Prince's place in Greece "La cura per l'amore" - Tregola due bicchieri - two glasses Miss Ilsa Trent: Nobody here, only me (on phone). I miss you ... locations the Brights lived in India: Calcutta, Pankot, Chandrapore Uqbah Sardar, sleepwalking, Salim's wife (Nuha Sardar) says: looking for Ammu. Who is Ammu??? Rowdy table: Mr Stanley Nayle. Wrestlers: Stanley Nayle, Bobby ("He was taking the mickey") Adam and the Noble Brothers went to a drinker -- "Adam (Danger Man) Sloane)" Stan, gaffer for the wreslers. BEA=British European Airlines Cast: Bridget Mulcahy (Flora London) Martin Gorman (Jason Merrells), politician Bobby Singh (Harki Bhambra), wrestler "I suppose I just said 'Knock it off!' or something like that." Johnny Simba (Buom Tihngang), wrestler (Black) Adrian Sloane (Graeme 'Grado' Stevely), "Danger Man", wrestler Stanley Nayle (Ted Robbins), wrestling organizer, "gaffer" Farook Sardar (Sia Alipor) Gerwazy Radowicz, aka Gary Rogers (William Allam) Uqbah Sardar (Madhav Sharma), confused Rafiq Sardar (Pal Aron) Oberon Prince (Neil Roberts) Salim Sardar (Shane Zaza) Carl Sturgis (Sam Ferriday) Mrs Radowicz (Rebecca Saire) Nuha Sardar (Hiftu Quasem) Ilsa Trent (Deva Waering) Rosemary Prince (Emma Cunniffe) Started Endeavour "Raga", s7/9, e2/3, second time, 1:29:38. gay wrestler, the headliner: Adams "Danger Man" Sloane Sloane defeats someone (maybe Bobby Singh), then fights Johnny Simba ============================================================== Sa 10/19/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Knocked about 10 doors, on Kerry Lane. Walk with Julia at Bredesen. Then went to school, made a few slides, and typed in redmarks. Another hour of typing, and I should finish with the profs and grants paper. Watched a the first episode of a Netflix documentary ("Starting 5") with Maxim. Covers: LeBron James, Jimmy Butler, Anthony Edeards, Jayson Tatum, Domantas Sabonis. Continued Endeavour "Oracle", s7/9, e1/3, third time, 1:30:24. Stopped 46:08 ============================================================== F 10/18/24 Very little sleep last night. Very tired all day today. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: taught, office hours, some redmarking, some typing. Starbucks: chocolate croissant. meal at Sweetgreen Home: another full meal. Weight is up: 159. Napped. I read a few pages of James Hansen's book "Storms of my Grandchildren". Surprisingly, it seems very childish to me. I'll probably move on to something else. Continued Endeavour "Oracle", s7/9, e1/3, third time, 1:30:24. Stopped 32:36 ============================================================== Th 10/17/24 Continued Endeavour "Oracle", s7/9, e1/3, third time, 1:30:24. Stopped 20:08 Drove over to Paul and Mindy's to leave off the jar that had the chutney that Mindy gave me. Chatted for a while. Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Stopped briefly at the library. Only had time to glance through the WSJ. 3:15pm, Went for a walk with Julia at Hyland Lake Park. 7pm, Met Alex for dinner at Big Bowl, then came back home for tea. He left around 9pm. He dropped the news that he has a boyfriend, named Jordan, different from his friend Jordan. He's on his way to Thousand Oaks, CA on Wednesday the 23rd, back on the 30th. I'll see him at Barbette's on the 2nd. ============================================================== W 10/16/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: taught, office hours, worked on slides, some redmarking. Starbucks: chocolate croissant. Home: Very hungry when I got home. Pad Thai (Amy's), milk, yogurt, walnuts, bean soup (Progresso), string cheese. Finished Endeavour "Oracle", s7/9, e1/3, second time, 1:30:24. Ray Douglas, producer of the mathematics TV show, "quite flamboyant" according to Jim Strange. Started Endeavour "Oracle", s7/9, e1/3, third time, 1:30:24. Stopped 6:36 Watched "Nothing in the Dark" episode of Twilight Zone, 25:08 1962, with Robert Redford old woman afraid of "Mr Death" ============================================================== Tu 10/15/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Discount Tires, About 9:30am-11:30am, 126,903 miles on odometer new tires ($954, 80,000 mile warranty) alignment ($89.99) The alignment should have been about $100 more, but they made a mistake in quoting the price. Alignment cost is higher for electric vehicles, for some reason. replaced TPMS sensor that was failing (free) Continued Endeavour "Oracle", s7/9, e1/3, second time, 1:30:24. Calloway '54, La Traviata from La Scala La Scala = Teatro alla Scala, an opera house in Milan. La Traviata is an opera by Giuseppe Verdi, based on La Dame aux Cam\'elias, by Alexandre Dumas fils Main character Marguerite Gautier wears a red camelia when menstruating (so she's unavailable), white otherwise. La Dame aux Cam\'elias is known as Camille in English. St Christopher, carried the Christ child across a river. Patron saint of travelers. stopped 1:03:58. I read a few pages of James Hansen's book "Storms of my Grandchildren". Some redmarking. Made a few slides for my Linear Algebra class. ============================================================== M 10/14/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: taught, office hours, lunch at Chipotle with Maxim, made slides. Home: I read a few pages of James Hansen's book "Storms of my Grandchildren". Replaced Britta water filter today. The sensor has stopped working so it won't turn red anymore. (Replaced: 10/14/24.) (Turned red: 9/12/24.) (Replaced: 7/31/24.) (Turned red: 6/13/24.) (Replaced: 4/15/24.) Julia ordered 6 more Britta filters for $114.05 Finished Endeavour "Oracle", s7/9, e1/3, first time, 1:30:24. Cast: Carl Sturgis (Sam Ferriday) Dr Jeremy Kreitsek (Reece Ritchie) Molly Andrews (Lucy Farrar) Ludo Talenti (Ryan Gage) Violetta Talenti (Stephanie Leonidas) Jenny Tate (Holli Dempsey), clairvoyant Tony Jakobssen (Oliver Boot), exposer Dr Dai Ferman (Richard Harrington) Prof Blish (Angus Wright) Mrs Blish (Lucy Briers) Dr Naomi Benford (Naomi Battrick) Saward (John Hales), faith healer for Mrs Bright Mrs Carlin (Beberly Klein) ???, maybe the third member of the cleaning crew? maybe Molly's grandmother, saying "She did like the college-y ones". 47:09, Win Thursday: "It was Reet's granddaughter, Bridget, who found her not me" Reet Ellison (Nicola Duffett) Bridget Mulcahy (Flora London) Started Endeavour "Oracle", s7/9, e1/3, second time, 1:30:24. David Clemens, keep fit fanatic, copycat 14:58, Crossword, 10 across: Where you may see articles about a variety crime. America. a crime a anagram for america Kipling: The female of the species is more deadly than the male. stopped 32:23 ============================================================== Su 10/13/24 Was out of town at the CCL Regional Conference at Lakeside Labs in Millford, IA, on Lake Okoboji. Arrived Friday, left Sunday. Lots of information. Particulary good talk by Rick Knight. Good food, good company. Ordered (by Kindle), and got a start on James Hansen's book "Storms of my Grandchildren", recommended at the conference. Also spent a lot of time grading the first midterm for my linear algebra class (MATH 4242). Got home around 4pm, and finished up grading (except entering scores into Canvas). Friday and Saturday: No strength, no running, no stretch, no tongue, no flash cards, no juggling, no pen spin. Today: No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, no flash cards, no juggling, no pen spin. Will get back to my usual schedule tomorrow. ============================================================== No entries on F 10/11, Sa 1/12 ============================================================== Th 10/10/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Back home to meet tech from Sedgwick Heating and A/C, to renew my contract. Three years at $808.35. Afterward, went to library. WSJ, some redmarking, slides. Looked a little at Pemantle-Picciotto. Did a little shopping at L&B: apples, cheese curds, Amy's. Started a bean soup (Progresso), and had the Amy's and some of the cheese curds. Also, a yogurt and walnuts. Annual letter: Finished "A Civil Action", Jonathan Harr. Excellent book. Continued Endeavour "Oracle", s7/9, e1/3, first time, 1:30:24. dead: Molly Andrews, Tony Jakobssen, Naomi Benford. killer(s): Carl Sturgis for Molly Andrews and Tony Jakobssen. Donald Blish for Naomi Benford. Tony Jakobssen exposes himself on towpath. On research team: Donald Blish, Jeremy Kreitsek, Dai Ferman, Naomi Benford. Saward, faith healer for Mrs Bright. From Mozart's Don Giovanni: "Perch\`e questi sospiri?" "Why these sighs?" Abraham Petrovsky, skipper of the Rosie Jugg. creche = nursery for babies and young children. Ludo Talenti, Violetta Talenti stopped 45:49 Will be out of town Friday and Saturday, returning Sunday. Going to the annual CCL Regional Conference. This year it's at Lakeside Labs, in Millford, IA Annual letter: Regional conference. ============================================================== W 10/9/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: taught, office hours, made slides, some redmarking. Had a look at Robin Pemantle's book (with Henri Picciotto). Brought it home. Napped on the bus home. Stopped at L&B on the way home: milk, yogurt, a couple of Amy's (still on sale) At home: Very tired. I read a couple of chapters of "A Civil Action", Jonathan Harr. Only about 10 pages left. Worked on Wednesday finances. Julia left for a seminar on buckthorn removal. Finished Endeavour "Deg\"uello", s6/9, e4/4, third time, 1:22:42. Started Endeavour "Oracle", s7/9, e1/3, first time, 1:30:24. New Year's Eve 1970, Teddy Copycat killer (whistling the wrong song) was David Clemens, keep fit fanatic at the Morris plant, who found Molly Andrews. Clemens whistles "In Dublin's fair city", also known as "Molly Malone" or "Cockles and Mussels". Carl Sturgis, the original killer, would whistle "Antonio" aka "Oh! Oh! Antonio" aka "Jos\'e Antonio" aka "Caballo de paso" (in the tondero style from Peru). ============================================================== Tu 10/8/24 Strength, running (slower than usual, but more than 7.5 mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, slides. At home: I read a couple of chapters of "A Civil Action", Jonathan Harr. 3pm, met with Rod and Jon at Unmapped. Continued Endeavour "Deg\"uello", s6/9, e4/4, third time, 1:22:42. navvy = unskilled laborer, esp at a construction site origin: navigator, used to describe construction workers at canals in the 18th century. Folder from the Duke of Bedford Library must be the list of books from the Phi Collection that Nicholson was looking at. Meittner-Hahn group discovered nuclear fission. stopped 1:03:50 out of 1:22:42 ============================================================== M 10/7/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: taught, office hours, made slides. Sent exam to DRC and to Casey Garner, my TA. Robin Pemantle's (with Henri Picciotto) book arrived. Home: A light dinner. Went for a walk with Julia around the neighborhood. I read a couple of chapters of "A Civil Action", Jonathan Harr. Continued Endeavour "Deg\"uello", s6/9, e4/4, third time. "Do you know what a shem is?" emet=truth, mavet=death Deborah Teagarden is based on Aurora Teagarden, a character created by Charlaine Harris. Dulcie: Bright's daughter who died in India. Written on the well: HAVRIETIS AQVAS IN GAVDIO DE FONTIBVS SALVATORIS Latin: Haurietis aquas in gaudio de fontibus salvatoris English: With joy, you will draw water from the fountains of the savior stopped 30:31 ============================================================== Su 10/6/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. 7:30am, Karl Narveson's: coffee and then cheered the Twin Cities Marathoners. People's Organic: day old pastries, a little time with the Strib, redmarking. 2pm, Pat Middeke at Riley Crossing. Knocked about 6 doors. Walk at Riley Creek Park (in Mtka) with Julia. Watched a couple of episodes of Van den Valk with Julia. Some girlfriend from the past he has to trust. ============================================================== Sa 10/5/24 Strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, Strib, Economist, New Yorker. Redmarking. Reviewed Lax-Milgram: an operator T from Hilbert space H to itself is inner-product-coercive if there is c>0 s.t. for all v in H, \ge c|v|^2. inner-product-coersive implies image-dense and norm-bdd-below. norm-bdd implies Lipschitz, norm-bdd-below implies reverse-Lipschitz. norm-bdd and norm-bdd-below implies biLipschitz. biLipschitz and domain-complete implies image-complete. a complete subset of a metric space is closed. inner-product-coercive and bdd implies surjective (because image-complete and image-dense). inner-product-coercive implies injective (because norm-bdd-below). inner-product-coercive and bdd implies bijective (because injective and surjective). inner-product-coercive and bdd implies inverse-bdd (because bijective and bdd-below). Home: I read a few pages of "A Civil Action", Jonathan Harr. Watched an episode of Moonflower Mysteries with Julia Wrote some slides. Long chat with Maxim. ============================================================== F 10/4/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. In the morning, saw a mouse in the basement, in the furnace room. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: taught, office hours, made slides. Redmarking. Reviewed Cantor-Bendixson Theory: Any Polish space decomposes as perfect disjoint-union countable. Perfect means every point is a limit point. The "perfect kernel" is the set of condensation points. A high enough countable Cantor-Bendixon derivative of the set yields its perfect kernel. Any perfect Polish space contains a compact subset homeomorphic to the Cantor set. The Cantor set has infinitely many closed subsets. So any uncountable Polish space has infinitely many closed subsets. This fact allows us to create, in any uncountable Polish space, a continuum of pw-dj Bernstein sets. In particular, on [0;1], there is a continuum of pw-dj subsets of outer measure 1. Dinner at Noodles: Pesto cavatappi, rice krispie bar. Home: An apple, some cheese. More redmarking. 40 winks. Set traps to catch the mouse. Copied key to the door between the laundry room and the garage. This time they work. (See "waste" below.) Maxim visiting for the weekend. ============================================================== Th 10/3/24 Rosh Hashanah Did a small load of laundry, including my sheets. Strength, running (20 mins, 500 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Lots of redmarking. Starting at the start of the paper. Worked out: If X is a topological space with closed one point sets, and if the cardinality of X is \ge continuum cardinality (cc), then the cardinality of the set Y of open subsets of X is also \ge cc. ((Proof: Assume, for contradiction, card Y < cc. Choose x_1 in X, and make an open neighborhood U_1 in X of x_1 s.t. C_1:=X\backslash U_1 has card \ge cc. If no such exists, then the union of the complements would be of card < cc, i.e., X\backslash{x_1} would have card < cc. Choose x_2 in C_1, and make an open neighborhood U_2 in X of x_2 s.t. C_2:=X\backslash(U_1 \cup U_2) has card \ge cc. If no such exists, the the union of those complements would be of card < cc, i.e., X\backslash(U_1\cup{x}) would have card < cc. Choose x_3 in C_2, and make an open neighborhood U_3 in X of x_3 s.t. C_3:=X\backslash(U_1 \cup U_2\cup U_3) has card \ge cc. Continue. Then, for each subset S of \N, let V_S be the union, over i\in S, of U_1. Then S \mapsto V_S is an injection from the set of subsets of \N to the set Y of open subsets of X. It follows that the cardinality of Y is \ge cc. However we are assuming (for a contradiction) that the cardinality of Y is < cc. Contradiction QED )) 1:30pm, Zoomed with Fernando. He'd visited NY City, done the US Open, and went to "The Book of Mormon" on Broadway. Mentioned the Argentinian empanada place Del Sur. Argentina's national anthem refers to Argentina as: las Provincias Unidas del Sud. Del sud and del sur seem both to mean "of the south". about 3pm, went to library. Worked on slides. Then Chipotle, then tres leches at Aurelia. Got home around 7pm. Very tired and have to get up early tomorrow! ============================================================== W 10/2/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: taught, office hours. Starbucks: butter croissant Went for a walk with Julia around the neighborhood (to the nature walk around Purgatory Creek) Property taxes: $3,109.91 on 10/15/24 for six months Registration renewal for Volt: $188.25 for one year Monthly insurance premium: $381.71 to State Farm (covers Home, Umbrella, Cars) Long time chatting with Julia, bed at 12:50am ... uff da! ============================================================== Tu 10/1/24 Strength, running (20 mins, 500 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. 10am appt at Dr Witte's to be fitted for a crown. Followup in three weeks. Shopping: envelopes, milk, walnuts, yogurt, more Amy's Got front door key copied ($16) then found out that the key I had copied is an old key. Complete waste. Watched Meet the Press (recorded last Sunday), except the last segment on an unjustly incarcerated man. Library: Worked on slides a little while. Went for a walk with Julia near the Minnetonka Community Center. At home... Started Endeavour "Deg\"uello", s6/9, e4/4, third time. stopped at 20:19 Worked a little more on slides. ============================================================== M 9/30/24 Finished most of laundry. Still have to do my sheets and a few other small items. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: taught, office hours. Redmarking, typing, printing. Starbucks: butter croissant Sweetgreen: Brussels sprouts Home: read a couple of chapters of "A Civil Action", Jonathan Harr. Light dinner: soup, yogurt, nuts, milk, cheese. Rested, pretty tired. Watched Endeavour "Deg\"uello", s6/9, e4/4, second time. Searched Pages flat? Why? Burrowes, looking for the information about what happened to Deborah Baumgarten. In particular, for the stamp from Mittelbau-Dora Mr Jenkins, Porter. Burrowes, Nicholson feud over someone Nicholson was supposed to save (Deborah and Emil Baumgarten). Page, Burrowes also rowed, according to Miss Paroo. Burrowes left something at the library, Page didn't know where it was. It was something related to Burrowes efforts to find out what happened to Deborah Baumgarten. Page, Binks alliance. Emil Baumgarten (Teagarden) notebooks. Deborah Baumgarten died at Mittelbau-Dora. Ms Lansbury -- assistant to Councillor Clive Burkitt Wicklesham quarry near Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SW of Oxford about 25 km Burrowes left the messages for Nicholson hiding to nothing means no chance of winning 6 to 1 means $6 if you win, $1 if you lose hiding to nothing means a beating if you win, nothing if you lose. missing persons file: Hollis Binks. ============================================================== Su 9/29/24 Strength, running (20 mins, 500 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. People's Organic: day-old pastries, worked on slides, redmarking. Home: Late afternoon meal. Doorknocked 4 doors. Home: Dinner. I read several chapters of "A Civil Action", Jonathan Harr. Watched a couple of segments of 60 minutes with Julia. Fraud by insurance companies after Hurrican Ian in 2022. The WNBA, coming off a strong season. Started Laundry. Working on planning the annual Barbette outing. Saturday 2 Nov at 11:30am, maybe. Finished Endeavour "Deg\"uello", s6/9, e4/4, first time. cowson = cow's son approx equal to son of a bitch Osbert Page knew Hollis Binks (HB) as a fellow rambler (walker) Binks disappeared, Page was looking into it. Cast: Councillor Clive Burkitt (Alexander Hanson) Olive Reynolds (Faith Omole) Sandra Reynolds (Zaris-Angel Hator) Deborah Teagarden (Laura Donoghue) Osbert Page (Michael Jenn) Lucy Paroo (Precious Mustapha) Professor Ernest Borrowes (Paul Jesson) Dr Jasper Nicholson (Aidan McArdle) DCI Ronnie Box (Simon Harrison) DS Alan Jago (Richard Riddell) Viv Wall (Alison Newman) Mr Jenkins (Ian Saynor), porter News Reporter (Tom Gordon), at start? Yes, I think so. ACC Bottoms (Colin Tierney) George McGyffin (Ian Burfield) ============================================================== Sa 9/28/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ. Worked on slides, redmarking. Doorknocked 6 doors. Couple of good conversations with very conservative people. Home: Light meal. Weight is back down under 155. Watched an episode of Moonlight Mysteries with Julia, but fell asleep. I read a couple of chapters of "A Civil Action", Jonathan Harr. Continued Endeavour "Deg\"uello", s6/9, e4/4, first time. Cranmer House refers to Ronan Point, a tower block that collapsed in 1968 Map of Gower. (Gower peninsula in Wales.) In Greek: "anemoi", wind gods. "H.B." Rag Week - fundrasing week. People are ragged (nagged) to give money. emet = truth, mavet = death, shem, dora executed body from Cranmer House: magdalen cabs, specs from dinkley's in the High, HB Hollis Binks. Viv Wall and Joan Thursday. Burrows: lost inventory. Hollis Binks. Happy Wanderers Walking Club. Sandiego de Compostella (in Galicia in Spain) Faringdon Sponge Gravel, part of the Greensand, formed in the Cretaceous. Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous = Mezozoic The Met = Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), largest police force in the UK Four Winds Aggregate, out at Wicklesham, George McGyffin's firm. stopped 54:43 ============================================================== F 9/27/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: taught, office hours. Late lunch at 1:20pm, with Vic and Robin Pemantle, who is visiting from U Penn. Home: Had a little dinner (weight is up a bit), then did some more redmarking, and catnapped. I read a couple of chapters of "A Civil Action", Jonathan Harr. Watched an episode of Madame Blanc mysteries with Julia. Watched a little of a travel program (traveling in Canada) with Julia. Finished Endeavour "Confection", s6/9, e3/4, third time. Started Endeavour "Deg\"uello", s6/9, e4/4, first time. Dead: Osbert Page, Hollis Binks, DS Alan Jago Killer: McGyffin's heavies did for Page and Binks, Box shot Jago Jago killed George Fancy Deg\"uello = bugle call, march by the Mexican Army during the Siege and Battle of the Alamo indicates no quarter will be given, all captive's throats will be slit. Matthew Slater also wrote a piece called Deg\"uello. Described as a mariachi ballad. "You will know me by your sorrow // and I will know you by your smile // ... vaya con Dios, Felina ... For the bugler is playing Deg\"uello" Also, the title of the episode, Deg\"uello, deriving from the Spanish verb "degollar" meaning to cut the throat, decapitate or behead has a Masonic connection, in my opnion. Deg"uello indicates no mercy, no quarter. Councillor Clive Burkitt, Planning and Housing Dept, Cranmer House, Martyr's Field Mrs Olive Reynolds and daughter Sandra, Home in the Sky Garstang College, Teagarden bequest, Teagarden family Memoirs of a Voluptuary (Phi Collection - books branded with a Phi for being obscene). Librarians: Osbert Page, Lucy Paroo. R/T = radio / telephone -- communication device. the full gen = all the information. gen = general information In the library: Professor Burrowes, Professor Nicholson ============================================================== Th 9/26/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, Atlantic (article about Joe Rogan). Worked on slides. No redmarking. Had another image done of my implant. Ready for a crown. Appointment one week from today, on the 3rd. Get-together with Rod and Jon (at Unmapped) is deferred until the 3rd. Got a new turf from Alex Falconer. He left off some literature. Went for a walk around the neighborhood. Started Endeavour "Confection", s6/9, e3/4, third time. Watched a couple of segments from 60 minutes with Julia. The fentanyl epidemic. Lina Khan, head of the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) on "Greedflation". ============================================================== W 9/25/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: taught, office hours. A little redmarking. Typed redmarks and got a new printout of the end of the paper. I read a couple of chapters of "A Civil Action", Jonathan Harr. Finished Endeavour "Confection", s6/9, e3/4, second time. Regnante Carolo = Charles, being king. some nothing job like old Reg. Reg=Reginald Bright, chief superintendent spiked bayonet, medieval misericorde, rondel-dagger, Japanese sai misericorde delivers the mercy stroke, killing the wounded rondel dagger has a round pommel sai is a melee weapon, used in close combat Sir Julian Fitzalan ============================================================== Tu 9/24/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, Atlantic (article about Joe Rogan). Worked on slides. No redmarking. Went for walk at Bredesen with Julia. Home: Napped, reread a chapter of "A Civil Action", Jonathan Harr, then read a couple of new chapters. Started Endeavour "Confection", s6/9, e3/4, second time. Stopped 31:01 ============================================================== M 9/23/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: taught, office hours. At home: Worked on slides. Reread a chapter of "A Civil Action", Jonathan Harr. ============================================================== Su 9/22/24 No strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 7.5mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. People's Organic: day old pastries. Did some redmarking. Julia and I went for walk at Riley Creek. Rested for a little while. Reread a couple of chapters of "A Civil Action", Jonathan Harr. Did a little redmarking. Worked on slides. ============================================================== Sa 9/21/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. 10:30am, went on a tour of the light-rail system in Eden Prarie. Met at Golden Triangle Station. 12:30pm, lunch at Smashburger. Overate ... 1pm, Donated blood Very tired, napped part of the afternoon, and felt groggy the rest of the evening. Did some redmarking, will work on slides tomorrow. I read a couple of chapters of "A Civil Action", Jonathan Harr. Jan Schlictmann went to tell the families that he was not going to pursue the case, but then Reverend Young brought up a source of funding and another team of lawyers who could help. Schlictmann is joining forces with Anthony Roisman from Trial Lawyers for Public Justice. On the other side: Jerome Facher of Beatrice Foods and William Cheeseman fo WR Grace. Maxim came out this weekend (missed last weekend because of work). ============================================================== F 9/20/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: taught, office hours, typed, new printout, some redmarking. Starbucks: chocolate croissant Back to EP. Chipotle burrito. Shopping: walnuts, milk, yogurt, cheese. At home: a yogurt with walnuts, some more walnuts, couple of glasses of milk. Julia went to an SPCO concert. Very tired, a little nap. I read a chapter of "A Civil Action", Jonathan Harr. Finished Endeavour "Confection", s6/9, e3/4, first time. Crossword: Slaughter horse and worry about it. Carnage. slaughter horse - nag worry about it - care nag + care = carnage Sir Julian Fitzalan (CS Bright and Home Office Pathologist Dr Max DeBryn discussing 2nd opinion for Mrs Bright's lung cancer diagnosis) Murray to Ru: I've kept quiet. Ru=Rupert. Clemmie listening at the door. Isla, Henry's mom. poxy = of little value you had me giving you two-bob thruppenny bit two-bob = the squits (diarrhea), thrupenny bit = the shits blimey is shortening of "cor blimey" or "gor blimey" which means "God blind me" ?humane killer? Cast: Michael Murphy (Joe Bone), the baker PC Rich Potter (Oliver Fanrworth) John Hazel (Christopher Harper), the postmaster Letty Clamp (Sophie Stanton), Sara Clamp's mother Isla Fairford (Olivia Chenery) Rupert Creswell (Ben Lamb) Sara Clamp (Katie Goldfinch) Clemmie Creswell (Claudia Jolly) Murray Creswell (Jack Hawkins) Charles Shepherd (Christopher Bowen), the vet Mrs Bright (Carol Royle) Judith Neal (Tilly Blackwood), the gossip columnist Maxim here for the weekend ============================================================== Th 9/19/24 Woke up in the middle of the night very hungry. Cheese, yogurt, milk, nuts. Julia fixed guacamole and I had a little with cracker, before leaving to work out. Strength, running (25 mins slower than usual, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. During running felt lightheaded, slowed down to a walk for a while. Maybe lingering effects of vaccinations. Library: WSJ, redmarking. Home: Dinner: Amy's, cheese, milk. Finished "Meet the Press". Watched the start of the Newshour. I read two chapters of "A Civil Action", Jonathan Harr. Added a few more class slides. ============================================================== W 9/18/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. Finally over the inoculations, maybe -- feeling good today, but hope to get a good night's sleep. Heard from Mom that Mitzi died on 1 February. At U: teaching and office hours. A little slide prep. Some redmarking. At home: Did Wednesday finances, as usual. Met Alex at Buca and had Penne alla Vodka and Tiramisu. Alex took the leftovers. Alex did a little work cleaning out the port of my phone. We'll see if it connects better now. Alex stayed and (after a short nap on the couch) watched an episode of Journeys in Japan with me. It was an episode we'd seen before, about Isabella Bird FRGS and her travels in Japan. ============================================================== Tu 9/17/24 Another busy day, very tired. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, no flash cards, no juggling, no pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: led seminar on quantum entanglement. Alice, Bob, Casino, God, LabRat. Talked with Seamus Manzke after the seminar. Seminar organizer: Lina Liu He wanted some advice about 4603. Got my desktop up and running. Lots of little issues after the re-imaging, but they seem to have worked out. Matlab was working, too. Got my slides from yesterday posted. On the way home: stopped in at Crumb, had a veggie sandwich. Home: Watched a travel show with Julia. I read a chapter of "A Civil Action", Jonathan Harr. Did a little redmarking and worked on slides for class tomorrow. ============================================================== M 9/16/24 Busy day, very tired. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, no flash cards, no juggling, no pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: taught classes. Held office hours (no students). Around 10:15am, got flu shot and COVID shot, at Boynton. Lunch with Steve Barbo. Re-imaging of computer started at noon, and finished up around 3pm. Spent the next half hour trying to get the system back online. Some glitches, but Ian (CSE staff) has suggestions to try tomorrow. Hoping Matlab will start working. Couldn't post class slides because of the glitches. Hopefully tomorrow. Home: With Julia, watched a Moonflower Murders, and a 60 minutes. The 60 minutes gave a searing look at the 1/6 attack at the Capitol. I read a chapter of "A Civil Action", Jonathan Harr. Drifted off to a light sleep for an hour or so. The COVID shot probably is leaving me wiped out, will probably sleep well tonight. ============================================================== Su 9/15/24 Some strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library -- closed until noon on Sunday. Went to People's Organic instead. Worked on slides. I read a chapter of "A Civil Action", Jonathan Harr. Worked more on slides for class. Found a version of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition with Viktor Hartmann's pictures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8z1_A-Zlbw ============================================================== Sa 9/14/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library -- had to head home to run a CCL chapter meeting. 10:30-noon CCL Chapter meeting noon-1pm, national call. some information on modeling of the permitting reform bill by Manchin and Barrasso then Dan Ariely, a professor of Psychology and Behavioral Econ at Duke did a little redmarking napped a little, very tired 5:30pm-9:30pm, went to The Russian Museum of Art with Julia. Looked around a while: Baskakov Milkmaids (doyarki) Then listened to an excellent concert: Denis Evstuhin played Tchaikovsky's Children's Album, then Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition Encore: Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C# minor ============================================================== F 9/13/24 Friday the 13th. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: teaching, canceled office hours to meet (at 2:45pm) with systems person to implement Matlab. 2:15pm, Systems staff stopped by (Nik and Ian), but couldn't get Matlab running Systems staff is now recommending "re-imaging" my computer. Should take a few hours on Monday. Hopefully 12noon to 3pm, roughly. Home: Watched an episode of Murder She Wrote, with Julia. Did a little work on slides. Mostly handled email. ============================================================== Th 9/12/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: redmarking, slides. 1pm-2:30pm, postcarding for get out the vote, vote on climate. 6:30pm-7:45pm, League of Women Voters Forum for candidates from SD 49. Britta water filter turned red today (Turned red: 9/12/24.) (Changed: 7/31/24.) (Turned red: 6/13/24.) (Changed: 4/15/24.) ============================================================== W 9/11/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: teaching, canceled office hours to meet (at 2:45pm) with systems person to implement Matlab. Turns out we'll need to reinstall Matlab, so they'll meet with me again on Friday. At home: I read a chapter of "A Civil Action", Jonathan Harr. Prepared slides on determinants. Light dinner (cheese, yogurt, soup, milk) -- the only food I ate today. ============================================================== Tu 9/10/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: redmarking, slides. Shopping: honey crisp, walnuts, soup, milk, cheese, yogurt, chocolate bar Watched recording of Meet the Press, from Sunday. I read a chapter of "A Civil Action", Jonathan Harr. More work on slides. ============================================================== M 9/9/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: teaching, office hours. 1:25pm, met with Casey to see how to put slides into Canvas site that he built. At home: light dinner, worked on redmarking and class slides. Thinking about how to present determinants in class. ============================================================== Su 9/8/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Drove to the U. Worked on slides, typing, new printout. Then drove home. Some dinner, then worked more on slides. ============================================================== Sa 9/7/24 Maxim's 23rd birthday. Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Around 1pm, finished up the dessert from yesterday's dinner. 1:30pm, Took Maxim to Tokyo Sushi on Roberts for birthday lunch. Afterward, Julia and I took a walk at 9 mile creek. Home around 5pm. Did a little redmarking. Looked for a few minutes at the props for Quantum Entanglement and the CHSH game. I'll be speaking about this in the Math Club on Tuesday. ============================================================== F 9/6/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At the U: Teaching and office hours. Typed, printed. Julia and I used my birthday coupon at Buca's. Got a huge Penne alla Vodka and a huge ice cream and brownie, all for about $30 (including tax and tip). Brought home some of the dessert and about half of the Penne. At 7pm yesterday, suddenly felt exhausted. Managed to get teeth brushed, then collapsed into bed for 11.5 hours, mostly sleeping. This entry was written on 9/7/24. ============================================================== Th 9/5/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Visited EP High School to see if there really are tampons available in the mens rooms. There are not. Long time at the library making teaching slides for linear algebra. Also, WSJ and Economist. 6pm-8pm, Deb York's meet and greet for Stacy Bettison, running for 49A. Very nice event. ============================================================== W 9/4/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At the U: First day of teaching. Small issues, but mostly went well. Printing is working again. Printed, redmarked, typed, printed. Heard from Dave Bellerose, who was in a dorm room close to mine when I was in college. (Sperry Hall, 1978-79.) "Wildman Dave" :-) Lives in Sturbridge, MA, near Boston, If I go to Boston after the Lobby Day in June, I'll try to connect with him. Back in Eden Prairie: Chipotle, with free bag of chips. At home: ate apple, yogurt, some wallnuts. Still over 155. Will exercise tomorrow. Finished Meet the Press from Sunday. Wrote to Deb York about Cwod's bill. ============================================================== Tu 9/3/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: Typed, printed, redmarked, typed. Unable to print -- some kind of glitch in the printing system. CSE is working on it. Starbucks: butter croissant Back in Eden Prairie: Pub pizza at Old Chicago, used my $5 reward, only cost a little over $2. Filled up gas tank, car wash, vacuuming inside car. Added air to tires. Shopping: Milk, chocolate bar, apples, bean soup (not progresso this time -- something on sale) Dinner: Ate the chocolate bar, drank some milk, had an apple, had some of Juila's salad Spent the rest of the evening working on slides. Tomorrow is first day back to teaching. Annual letter: First time teaching in 1.5 years, maybe last year of teaching. ============================================================== M 9/2/24 Labor Day. EPCC closed, library closed. Finished laundry and finished mowing. Showered and had something to eat. Alex stopped by around 5:30pm, and we went to dinner at Old Chicago with Julia. Then the three of us went for a walk around Staring Lake. Alex came home and we had some tea. I deleted all my slides for class, and started over. Starting to plan math club talk on 12 September. ============================================================== Su 9/1/24 10:30 met Mom, and she bought me two pairs of Sketchers for bday present. They seem to be excellent shoes. Then she and I went to lunch at a fast-food taqueria "Cieleto Lindo" (Beautiful Sky) 12:30pm, visited Pat Middeke at Chapel View. She's having trouble talking. After a while several people from her church (including Winnie Lindstam) showed up. Then Bill Middeke and their daughter showed up, and I left just after. Around 3pm, Julia and I went to pick up my new headlamp at REI Bloomington. Then we went to Wood Lake for a walk. Home around 5:30pm. Dinner at home, then worked on slides for class. Started laundry. ============================================================== Sa 8/31/24 Quiet day, finally some good weather Mowing: front yard, some of back. Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Sportclips haircut Smashburger: veggie burger, fries and shake Redmarking Eminem: Houdini Kendrick Lamar: Not Like Us ============================================================== F 8/30/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. 8am: Breakfast with Vic at Hope Breakfast Bar. He told me about the faculty retreat and the picnic. After, drove to school. Went to classrooms and tested technology. Everything worked. Spoke for a while to Chief Sustainability Officer Shane Stennes at an event on the quad. Worked the rest of the day on typing up redmarks, and got new printout. At home, did a little redmarking. ============================================================== Th 8/29/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, no juggling, no pen spin. Library: WSJ and redmarking. at home: more redmarking. 1:30pm, Zoom with Fernando. He'll be going to the US Open soon. One of the companies he works with invited him. 3pm, Unmapped, with Rod and Jon. Both are busy with Democratic politics. 7:15pm, Julia and I went to Godavari Indian Restaurant in Eden Prairie, for dinner. South Indian. The have Dosas. I had a Masala Dosa and Masala Chai, Julia had a whole fish. We shared rice and naan. ============================================================== W 8/28/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, no juggling, no pen spin. Barely ate anything today -- weight is back down below 155. One protein box at Starbucks, and a couple of handfuls of walnuts. Not hungry. 9:30am, went on a paddle with three rangers. Very nice weather, but I had a lot to do. Right afterward, drove Julia home, and went straight to the U. Met with Casey Garner, my TA, and planned out the course a little better. Finished and submitted syllabus. Typed in redmarks and got a new printout. At home: started working on notes for the first class. Did a few more redmarks. Very little time for anything else. ============================================================== Tu 8/27/24 My 65th birthday today. Strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, no juggling, no pen spin. Drove in early to work on my syllabus. Heard from Bonny Fleming. Power came back on while I was at the office. Everything working fine after power was restored. No internet troubles this time. 12:15pm, After snafu, met G&S for lunch. (Last minute change of plans sent me to the wrong location. They moved from Jensen's to Ze's in Mendota Heights, but I didn't understand that change of venue.) I was about 45 minutes late, but had a good time once I got there. Gifts: sketchers, coffee card. Good breakfast (at lunch time). Power outage 7:36am to 10:23am. 5pm, Kyoto, dinner with Julia, Alex and Maxim. Maxim came home for a while and we watched the first couple of episodes of "How I Met Your Mother". Good show. Then Maxim headed out. Called Mark Bruso and spoke with him for about an hour. ============================================================== M 8/26/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, no juggling, no pen spin. Started Meet the Press. 12noon, met Eric Johnson for lunch, then home. Worked on redmarking 7pm, major storm, power outage until about 10:30am on the 27th. Did redmarking by the light from my phone. Recharged it with my recharging pack. ============================================================== Su 8/25/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, no juggling, no pen spin. Drove in to the U and worked all day, redmarking, typing, printing. 5pm, Dinner with Alex. Tried to go to Khao Hom Thai (looking for Massaman Curry!). Unfortunately it's only open for takeout in September. Went across the street to Charrito Lindo Taqueria, which was fine. No tres leches, though. Tried to get in to Joe's work place to get a new power cord for the edgerouter, but it was locked. Alex has a trip planned to Southern CA. (Thousand Oaks, NW of LA.) Went back to the U, and did a little more redmarking and typing and printing. Then headed home at about 8pm. ============================================================== Sa 8/24/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, no juggling, no pen spin. Library: WSJ, Economist, redmarking. 5:30pm, "Garden Party" at Vic's place. Spent a while talking to Naomi's boyfriend -- civil marriage, I think. Also got a chance to speak briefly to Naomi. Not as busy as yesterday, but, still, very little time for "contemplation". ============================================================== F 8/23/24 No strength, no running, no stretch, no tongue, no flash cards, no juggling, no pen spin. No library. Incredibly busy day. Caught 6:45am to U. Worked on typing and printing. 9:30am, V354, met David DeMark to discuss his "modules" 11:30am, Bona, met Karl Narveson for lunch. 1:30pm, V354, met my TA, Casey Garner, to talk about the course generally Caught free shuttle bus to the Fair. Milk shake, cheese curds, corn on cob, Kiwanis Malt. 5pm-9pm, Eco Experience, shift showing EVs at the State Fair Caught free shuttle home from the Fair to SW Station. ============================================================== Th 8/22/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. Only had time at the U to type up changes and print. Former student (Andy Yu) left me a gift, with a grad student (Pranjal), who dropped it off at my office. Some really nice tea. Rainy most of the day, at the U. Went over to Coffman to find out about shuttle to the Fair, but they didn't have info. Will just have to go see tomorrow. Maxim will pick me up from the Fair tomorrow, and take me home. Big day tomorrow: Meet David DeMark at 9:30am, Vincent 354 Meet Karl Narveson at 11:30am, Bona Meet Casey Garner at 1:30pm, Vincent 354 Eco Experience shift, 5pm-9pm, at the Fair At home: Internet was down, took hours to fix. Julia had had some kind of problem that required fooling with the breaker switches. Seems to have "broken" the internet in our home. In the end, the edgerouter power cable seems to have been the problem, though I'm not completely sure. It was wrapped around other wires. I straightened it out and everything started working. Also, at home: Did just a little redmarking. No time for Endeavour. Need to get some sleep to get up early again tomorrow. ============================================================== W 8/21/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Got caught up on email from the week away. A technician came out to repair the glass on my windshield. (A pebble hit it when we were driving home.) Discovered leaking in my irrigation system. Lost 7600 gallons of water over the last week. Turned off water in basement in the mechanical room. Leak stopped. Have an appt to have it looked at on Monday. 1pm, met with Terry Quain to talk about the chapter. Finished Endeavour "Apollo", s6/9, e2/4, third time. scarper = run away. Started Endeavour "Confection", s6/9, e3/4, first time. Dead: Woman (Mandy Jane Bell) shot with shotgun, unknown man (overdose, heroin with quinine). Greville Creswell ("Pa"). Farmer Rennett Bell. Sarah Clamp's grandmother. Rufus Bura. Murray Creswell. Killer: Isla Fairford for Murray Creswell. Rufus Bura committed suicide. Mandy Jane Bell killed by her husband, who also killed Greville Creswell, then himself. Overdose not solved; related to George Fancy, maybe) In the still of the night, I drift away, And in that twilight hour ... Unclear who sang the song. Similar to a song by the Five Satins, but not the same. DNA Music Ltd hired Tom Kelly (I'll Stand by You, Like a Virgin) to write the song, and Tom Dickinson to sing it. Bunce cockney slang for money. (Bunsen burner, rhymes with earner.) Creswell's confectionery. 12 gauge means, I think, 12 mm diameter. 12 bore means, I think, that a ball of lead weighing 1/20 lb will fit in the barrel. Murray Creswell, wife Clemmie, younger brother Rupert, his fiancee Sarah Clamp. Vet Shepherd. Mrs Fairford. Henry little boy. Isla. Mr Swann's farm. Chigton in '63. Cousin of Sara Clamp: Rufus. Ezekiel, Farmer Rennett Bell, Hangman's Wood. Constable Potter. Brother of woman killed: Baker Michael Muphy. cards: Mr Chou, the confectioner. Mr Carraway, fishmonger. Sarah Glamp's grandmother died. Nocturne in E Flat Major, Chopin RA (Royal Academy) "At the Hill Station". Miss Neal in personnel = Miss Ling who writes a Dear Abby like column (Miss Ling's Problem Page) Mandy Jane Bell and Constable Potter. Sarah Clamp threw a drink over Mandy Jane Bell. Hescott College, Jago's got the "gen". (Generals??) Rufus Bura, research fellow. "Alles in ordnung" = "Everything's in order". Mahler. John, postmaster. Mrs Clamp: Rufus mother in Australia: Brenda. Mr Carraway, the fishmonger stopped 43:32 With Julia, watched an episode ("Crushed Dreams") of "My Life is Murder". About winemaking. ============================================================== Tu 8/20/24 Annual Letter: trip to Willmar. Away for a week, in Willmar at an airbnb, with Julia. (Left Tu 13 Aug, returned today, Tu 20 Aug.) There's an Aldi there, went shopping twice. W 14 Aug: Schwanke Car and Tractor Museum -- excellent. W 14 Aug: Chocolates from Mr B's Chocolates Th 15 Aug: Went to Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center. Lots of trails around the area. Restoration of native plants and prairie grasses. F 16 Aug: Also went to Foxhole Brewery on US 71. Very expensive. Awful mac and cheese. F 16 Aug: Went to the Kandiyohi County Historical Society on a rainy day. Fun riddle: 12 pears hanging high, 12 men passing by, each took a pear, left 11 pears hanging there. (first took the pear, second took it from the first, third took it from the second, ...) What can go down a chimney up, but not up a chimney down? An umbrella. Willmar has a Kaffe Fest. This year it was 19-23 June. ? ?? ???: Went a couple of times to Sibley State Park. One of the times, went on a ranger walk, lots of talk about trees. Oak Savannah area. Su 18 Aug: Tried to see some outdoor music in Spicer (on Green Lake, N of Willmar), but the band was sick. :-( Found a brewery in New London that had some live music. (Goad Ridge Brewing Co) Had an excellent "Wild Goat Salad", with wild rice. M 19 Aug: Did a walk around Willmar. Saw the library, the Chief Kandiyohi statue. Had Boba Tea. Went to Lu Lu Beans coffee several times. Tried to go to Harberts Ice Cream, but it was closed. :-( Found another ice cream place, very nice. Forget the name. Fun Fact: the nearby city of Kandiyohi was almost made the capital of MN. Bill was vetoed by the governor at the time. Back home today. Burrito at Chipotle. Figured out derivation of the Rifleman's Rule. Shopping at L&B: milk, walnuts, cheese, yogurt. Weight was 159.2 earlier today, need to diet. Starting to get caught up on email. Continued Endeavour "Apollo", s6/9, e2/4, third time. Gidby, Drake, Marilyn, Humboldt. Gabriel Van Horne. stopped 44:12 ============================================================== M 8/11/24 Only got 4 hours of sleep last night. :-( No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: redmarked, typed, printed, redmarked more, typed more, printed again. Napped a little. Printed the whole paper. Butter croissant at Starbucks. Did a little more redmarking at home. Napped a little more, very tired. Knocked about 10 doors, put up one lawnsign for Alex. Leaving tomorrow for a week in Wilmer with Julia, will miss Alex Falconer's primary party. Last night, I prepared calling reminders for two weeks. Started Endeavour "Apollo", s6/9, e2/4, third time. The Bridge of Sighs, Hertford Bridge joins two parts of Hertford College over New College Lane in Oxford Stopped at 24:15 ============================================================== Su 8/10/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent almost), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library -- People's Organic, day-old pastries, lots of redmarking. At home, continued redmarking. At about 4pm, Julia and I drove to Wood Rill, walked the trails, then went to Primo Plates & Pours for dinner at 5:15pm. Julia had a $40 groupon. She got a lobster ravioli, I got cheese ravioli. Knocked about 10 doors. Went through email, scheduled reminders for calling program, for the next two weeks, since Julia and I will be out of town from this Tuesday (the 13th) to next (the 20th). Very late (midnight) and I need to get up at 4:15am tomorrow to go to the U to do more typing of redmarks. ============================================================== Sa 8/10/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent almost), no stretch, no tongue, no flash cards, no juggling, no pen spin. CCL chapter meeting with Stacy Bettison, running for SD 49A. Spent much the rest of the day with Fernando, Andry, Julia. We went to the U, walked around campus, then to Dinkytown, spent some time at the Starbucks there. Then back to the U, drove them back to the Hewing Hotel and went home. Julia and I had dinner at Pizza Karma, then tres leches dessert at Aurelia's. Extremely tired when I got home -- straight to bed. ============================================================== F 8/9/24 Yet another nice weather day. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: redmarked, typed, printed. Protein box at Starbucks. Did a little more redmarking at home. 5:30pm, picked up Fernando and his girlfriend, Andry, at the airport. Had dinner at Big Bowl then walked around Centennial Lakes. Took them to their hotel (Hewing Hotel, 300 N Washington Ave) ============================================================== Th 8/8/24 Nice weather again today. Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent almost), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ and redmarking. Home: more redmarking. 2pm: Went to visit Pat Middeke at Chapel View, in Hopkins. She's in good spirits, but still has a long way to go in recovery. Met her pastor at Immanuel Lutheran -- very nice guy. Bill Middeke and Dave Thomsen were there, too. Pat mentioned the book Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer Knocked about 9 doors. Long conversation with someone who grew up both in Spain and MN. Lots of support for Alex Falconer. Also talked quite a while with someone who might come join Citizens' Climate Lobby (John C Countryman). ============================================================== W 8/7/24 Some nice weather finally. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: redmarked, typed, printed. At home: more redmarking. knocked 9 doors. Went for a walk around the neighborhood with Julia. Weight back down -- just over 155 at bedtime. Plans: Visit Pat Middeke tomorrow. Pick up Fernando at the airport Friday. Chapter meeting on Saturday morning (Stacy Bettison). Spend a BOGO coupon with Julia on Sunday or Monday; combine with walk at Wood Rill. Tuesday: Leave for Wilmer with Julia. ============================================================== Tu 8/6/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent almost), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Weight back down below 155. Library: WSJ and redmarking. Home: more redmarking. Watched a little "Murder She Wrote" with Julia. 1pm-4pm: VEAP, Mobile Pantry Season's Park. Gave out a lot of food. 7pm, knocked 5-10 doors. Shopping: Milk, cheese, yogurt, almonds. Still no walnuts. ============================================================== M 8/5/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. Accidentally got on the wrong bus, but transferred to Green Line, arriving at the U pretty close to the usual time. At U: typed and printed. Took all day -- lots of typing. Starbucks: chocolate croissant and a biscotto. Home: Amy's, cheese, almonds, milk. Weight is slowly going back down after visit from Tracy and his family. Redmarking. Signed up for a VEAP shift, tomorrow at 1pm (Mobile Pantry, Season's Park). With Julia, watched a Baratunde Thurston show about penguins, reindeer and climate change. No time for Endeavour, today, but hope to get back to it soon. Rainy day, no doorknocking. ============================================================== Su 8/4/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent almost), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. People's Organic: day-old pastries. Library: weekend WSJ, a little redmarking. Home: Napped, some mroe redmarking. 2:30pm and again at 7:30pm, Knocked about 10 doors in total. checked Julia's smoke detector. Sun 4 Aug 2024: fully charged Sat 4 May 2024: fully charged Sat 3 Apr 2024: fully charged Wed 20 Dec 2023: fully charged Sat 30 Sep 2023: replaced regular battery with a recargeable 9V battery. Sat 1 Apr 2023: regular battery (not rechargeable), at 80% Thu 30 Jun 2022: changed the battery (regular battery, not rechargeable) Wrote to Thomas following up on a Timberwolves contact for Maxim. Scheduled calling reminders. ============================================================== Sa 8/3/24 My mom's 90th birthday. Busy day, very tiring. Annual Letter: My mom's 90th. No Strength, no running, stretch, no tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No time for library or Endeavour or canvassing. My brother (Tracy), some of his kids (Riley, Maddy, Cooper) and his wife's parents (Rich and Diane) in town. Surprise yesterday. Today we spent a lot of time at the mall, lunch at the Rainforest Cafe. Then went home to rest. A little time redmarking. Out to my mom's to chat, then dinner at Tokyo Sushi on Robert St. I spent a lot of time talking to Rich, Tracy's father-in-law. ============================================================== F 8/2/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent almost), stretch, no tongue, flash cards, no juggling, no pen spin. 12:15pm, surprise birthday party for my mom at Axel's. (Her birthday is tomorrow, surprise today.) Rich, Diane, Tracy, Riley, Maddy, Cooper, my mom, Sally, me, Julia, Alex, Maxim, Shari, Cathy. Afterward came home and rested. Watched an episode of "My Life is Murder", a murder mystery series set in New Zealand and Australia (not Brokenwood). Alex came out and we watched some of a Journeys in Japan about the use of wood in Japanese architecture. Then spent a few hours at my mom and Sally's. Tomorrow we'll get together at MOA Legoland at 10:30. Did a little redmarking before going to the gym, but no time for much else. ============================================================== Th 8/1/24 Very little sleep. Rainy day, drizzle. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Caught 7:48am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: Watched one of the REU talks. Typed, printed, redmarked, typed, printed. At Starbucks: chocolate croissant. At home: Chipotle (free guac), chips and queso. Some more redmarking. Watched a few minutes of the Newshour. Knocked about 5 doors. Put up a lawnsign. ============================================================== W 7/31/24 Very little sleep. Hot, humid rainy day with thunderstorms. Cooling this evening. New razor in gym bag. Replaced Britta water filter on room temp water. (Changed: 7/31/24, today.) (Turned red: 6/13/24.) (Changed: 4/15/24.) No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, no Endeavour, no canvassing. Caught 7:48am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: Watched one of the REU talks. Tried to nap a little. Typed, printed, redmarked, typed, printed. At Starbucks: chocolate croissant. At home: Chipotle (free guac), chips and queso. Some more redmarking. Watched a few minutes of the Newshour. Tracy and family gets in tomorrow night. Surprise party on Friday. ============================================================== Tu 7/30/24 Strength, running (20 mins, 400 ft climb, 7mph equivalent almost), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Brief library: redmarks, WSJ, Economist 1pm, visited Pat at Methodist. She'll transfer to rehab soon, be there for weeks. Hope to visit her there. Rod couldn't make it -- canceled at the last minute. Finished Endeavour "Apollo", s6/9, e2/4, second time. Knocked exactly 10 doors. ============================================================== M 7/29/24 Still hot but slightly better today. Strength, running (20 mins, 400 ft climb, 7mph equivalent almost), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Finished laundry. Voted in the primary, in-person early voting, at EP City Center (i.e., City Hall). Lunch at Crumb. Napped for a couple of hours, very tired. Lots of redmarking. Won't get to the U until Wednesday this week, because I'll be seeing Pat Middeke in the hospital tomorrow. Rod says he'll go along, and will drive. He'll pick me up around 12:45pm at my home. Knocked about 10 doors today. ============================================================== Su 7/28/24 Hot day, temps near 90. Strength, running (20 mins, 400 ft climb, 7mph equivalent almost), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No Meet the Press this week. 9am, breakfast with Paul, Mindy and Thomas Knecht at Hope Breakfast Bar. Thomas is doing corporate litigation, lives in Minneapolis, walks to work, recently did a trip to the Black Hills. Said that Devil's Tower is the highest point between the Rockies and the Pyrenees. Wikipedia says it's Black Elk Peak (at 7244 ft elevation) After, did a little walk with Paul and Mindy around Centennial Lakes. Paul and Mindy went to the CCL Conference and Lobby Day, then drove around Nova Scotia for a week or so. sweet cream milkshake at Cold Stone Creamery Brief stop at the library: WSJ and redmarking. Shopping: Milk, almonds, cheese, Amy's home: lunch, then very tired, napped. Watched something about aquafarming with Julia. Some more redmarking. Started laundry. ============================================================== Sa 7/27/24 Mowed the lawn in the morning and evening. Strength, running (20 mins, 400 ft climb, 7mph equivalent almost), stretch, tongue, no flash cards, juggling, no pen spin. No library. Drove to the U. Typed, printed. Grilled cheese at Starbucks. Watched Super 8. Great movie. No time for Endeavour. Exhausted. ============================================================== F 7/26/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 7:48am to U, 3:48pm home. At the U: typing, printing, redmarking. Good progress. New toner arrived, but haven't installed it. Want to find out if we need to return the old toner. At home, more redmarking. 7pm-8:30pm, Went with Julia to see a Celtic band at Staring Lake Amphitheater. Lots of energy. Drummer (Sam) seemed a little surly. No doorknocking on Fridays, but I have a new list now. Virgin territory. Maybe tomorrow. Need to mow. On Sunday need to do laundry. ============================================================== Th 7/25/24 Sally's birthday (1945) (79 years old) No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 7:48am to U, 3:48pm home. At the U: typing, printing, redmarking Printer probem temporarily fixed, and new toner ordered. Only one theorem seems to require significant work now, and will work on that a lot tomorrow. Everything else is in pretty good shape. At home, made a quick stop at L&B and picked up 7 more Amy's on sale. No time to go vote, though -- maybe tomorrow. Can't canvass because the current list includes a lot of doors that have already been knocked. I tried for a while, but got frustrated. Need a new list number for a completely different turf in the VAN. At 7:20pm or so, stopped by Boom Island Brewery to say hi to DFL 49. Alex Falconer was there and he said he'd get me a new list with about 100 doors. No time for Endeavour. ============================================================== W 7/24/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent almost), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ and redmarking. Home: more redmarking, finished AEW Mason's short story "The Crystal Trench" Alfred Edward Woodley Mason, English author and MOP. L&B: Amy's on sale (bought many), milk, chocolate bar on sale, Progresso bean soup Knocked 5 doors. The 6th was already knocked, but somehow didn't show up that way. Turned out that Alex had knocked it with someone else earlier. Alex is going to get me a "clean" turf. Sent me a new one, but it seems to have some addresses I already knocked. Very odd. Started Endeavour "Apollo", s6/9, e2/4, second time. stopped 18:29 ============================================================== Tu 7/23/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At the U: typing, printing, redmarking Difficulty with new toner; had to use another printer. Another new toner requested. No time for Starbucks. At home: some more redmarking, about 10 doors, couple of good conversations Talked a lot with Julia about immigration. Note: Trump's graph shows "encounters", which includes expulsions. ============================================================== M 7/22/24 Strength, running (20 mins, 300 ft climb, 7mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, some redmarking. Home: Continued redmarking. Finished The Sun Also Rises. Not a fan of bullfighting ... Finished Endeavour "Apollo", s6/9, e2/4, first time. Cast: Professor Adam Drake (Ben Wainwright), the moon man Dr Elliot Wingqvist (Oliver Chris), I thought you were bloody brilliant Natalie Wingqvist (Alice Orr-Ewing), wife Mrs Trellis (Charlotte Bradley), domestic servant to the Wingqvists Dr Larry Humbolt (Sargon Yelda), I thought you could have mentioned Britian's role Flora Humbolt (Sasha Willoughby), daughter Matthew Humbolt (Gabriel Payne), little boy, son Isobel Humbolt (Sophie Winkleman), wife Jeff Slayton (Matthew Cottle), TV show director Hildegard Slayton (Mary Stockley), ?sister?, "the real brains of the operation" Christine Chase (Katie Faye), Adam Drake's girlfriend Eric Charles Gidby (Robert Hands), works puppets on the TV show Marilyn Gidby (Terenia Edwards), wife, also works puppets Mac Honeydew (Ross Boatman), auto mechanic Gabriel Van Horne (Blake Ritson), runs the Single Way Institute Thunderstorms stopped any doorknocking. Watched the finale for Season 3 of Professor T. I read something that said that Season 4 is greenlit. ============================================================== Su 7/21/24 Busy day, but got a lot done. Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. 12noon, went to my mom's for lunch. Alex and Maxim were there, too. A little time at the library, redmarking, reading a New Yorker. Knocked approximately 5 doors. I read a chapter of The Sun Also Rises. About 90% done now. Finished Endeavour "Pylon", s6/9, e1/4, third time. Started Endeavour "Apollo", s6/9, e2/4, first time. Dead: Adam Drake, Christine Chase, Eric Charles Gidby, Patricia (Eric Gidby's first wife). Killer: Hildegard Slayton for Drake and Gidby. Drake for Patricia. Puccini, La boh\`eme, first act, tenor aria: Rudolfo to Mimi: "Che gelida manina, se la lasci riscaldar" "What a frozen little hand, let me warm it back to life" Apollo 11. Peter interviews Prof Adam Drake. Gabriel. Christine (Adam's girlfriend). Larry (more of the part played by Tom Bacon, fuel cells). Larry = Laurence Humbolt. Christine = Christine Chase = Chrissy. Elliot Wingqvist (Let the Fens claim him ... I thought you were bloody briliant) The Fens: former marshland including most of Cambridgeshire Young eel, 5 letters: Elver common or garden RTA. RTA = Road Traffic Accident. Nevil Shute Norwary, English novelist and pilot and aeronautical engineer. Pen name: Nevil Shute. Winsome Welshmen: Dudley and Dunston, front for Eddie Nero. Mac: Thames Valley Constabulary auto mechanic He (Nero?) did a moonlight when he went west, so you won't get any change there. nondy: something (usually person) of no importance, a "nobody" Arrivederci Roma: popular Italian song from 1955, sung by Renato Rascel released as Seven Hills of Rome in English. Dr Laurence Humbolt, owned car in crash. About 19:30. Isobel Humbolt, wife of Laurence. (Everyone thinks I have the perfect life...) Mrs Trellis: Mrs Natalie Wingqvist is upstairs. Jeff Slayton, sister Hildy (the real brains of the business) Moonrangers: Rock. Station X-1-9. Luna. Barbara. Eric Charles Gidby (I didn't really know her), wife Marilyn, works with him. Flora supposed to get the tennis balls. Masque of the Red Death: Edgar Allen Poe story. Single Way Institute. Mr Gabriel Van Horne. Harmony. Howard Pyle, the Garden Behind the Moon. "But why you may ask, should anybody want to go to the moon? That I will tell you. The reason is that behind the moon, there lies the most wonderful, beautiful, never-to-be-forgotten garden the mond can think of." REME = Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers hit and run in Wallingford killed Patricia, Eric's first wife. Matthew and Flora Humbolt. What's wrong with lino? It's how things are. Funny. There's a compere spot going down the legion, but I wouldn't hold your breath. compere introduces acts. Fred's brothers: Charlie and Billy. Hosea: unfaithful wife. Dinky. Licensing deal. ============================================================== Sa 7/20/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. weight now at 153.2. Library: today's WSJ, and some redmarking. At home: nap, more redmarking. 1pm, donated blood (Memorial Blood Center in EP) Knocked about 5 doors, almost no one home. Hot outside. read a couple of chapters of The Sun Also Rises. Robert Cohn is beating people up ... Man gored by bull. (codigo) L&B: milk, shaving cream (on sale), 2 Amy's, can of Progresso bean soup, string cheese, regular cheese, yogurt. Ate one of the Amy's, one yogurt. no time for Endeavour. ============================================================== F 7/19/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At the U: typing, printing, redmarking, typing, printing Starbucks: chocolate croissant At home: some more redmarking Went to see a drummer and guitarist at Staring Lake amphitheater. High energy, lots of fun, good musicianship. Weight back down, < 155. No doorknocking -- Friday night. No time for Endeavour or reading. ============================================================== Th 7/18/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb, 8mph equivalent), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. weight is coming down slowly: 156.2 No library. Drove to U. Typed, printed, redmarked, typed, printed. 2:50pm, Dental cleaning appt at Dr Witte's. Ridiculous traffic on 4th. Avoid in the future at all costs. Arrived about 25 minutes late, so there wasn't a lot of time, and there was bad staining from the chlorhexadin glutonate rinse I had to use in conjunction with oral surgery (implant). She did the best she could in the time she had -- looks a lot better now. Knocked about 8 doors. Watched a few minutes of a murder mystery series with Julia. Set in Australia, maybe New Zealand. Silly. Fell asleep. No time for Endeavour or reading. ============================================================== W 7/17/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At the U: typing, printing, redmarking, typing, printing Starbucks: coffee cake At home: Some more redmarking Knocked 5-10 doors on Gerard. Fairly big dinner, weight is up. With Julia, watched a Prof T (British). "Conference" No time for Endeavour. ============================================================== Tu 7/16/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, redmarking. 3pm: Unmapped with Rod and Jon. Knocked about 10 doors. Listened to video, Dr Adam Simon, about safe mining. He seems to support the Twin Metals mining project in the BWCA watershed. Very little statistics presented about failure of tailings dams. Highlights that downstream tailings dams are safer than upstream or centerline, but doesn't say anything about their absolute level of safety. No time for Endeavour. ============================================================== M 7/15/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At the U: typing, printing, redmarking, typing, printing. Starbucks: chocolate croissant. Home: a little more redmarking. Ate Progresso bean soup, yogurt, walnuts, milk, string cheese, cheese and crackers. Knocked 10-15 doors. Shopping: walnuts, milk, string cheese, Centrum vitamins (sale price), chocolate (sale price), one Amy's. No time for Endeavour. ============================================================== Su 7/14/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), no stretch, no tongue, some flash cards, no juggling, no pen spin. No library. No Endeavour. Drove up to Duluth. Stopped for breakfast at the Perkins on County Rd D just east of 35W. Had lunch with Julia and Joe Gallian. Tried Sir Benedict's but it's now closed on Sundays. Went to Tavern on the Hill, instead. Joe should retire soon, maybe after this year. After lunch, Julia and I went to the Great Lakes Aquarium (a freshwater aquarium). Neither of us had been there before. Cost was $20 for Julia (adult), $19 for me (senior). Good enough to be worth the price. Then we went back to her airbnb, and she made some dinner. Then drove home. Stopped at Tobies, hoping to charge car for a while there, but it was only Tesla charging. Had a little dessert. Weight is back up. Got home at 10pm. Very tired. ============================================================== Sa 7/13/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. CCL chapter meeting at 10:30am. Home: Redmarking Started Endeavour "Pylon", s6/9, e1/4, third time. gaff = senior supervisor. 52:45 "warrant for his gaff" gaff can also mean: pole with a hook "his gaff" probably means his being held in the police station, as if he were hooked on a pole. gaffer (in film) holds lighting on a pole stopped 1:06:10 Caught up on email and scheduled calling reminders for next week. ============================================================== F 7/12/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, rode home with Maxim, leaving at 3pm. At U: Typed, printed, redmarked, typed, printed. Butter croissant at Starbucks. L&B: Amy's, cheese, toilet paper, Progresso soup, 4 yogurts. Home: Medium dinner, weight at 156, should be normal after exercise tomorrow. Home: more redmarking. Knocked 5 doors, no one home. Decided Friday evening isn't a good time for canvassing. No time for Endeavour. No time for reading. Getting ready for CCL chapter meeting tomorrow. Wrote to Bernardo about Fernando coming to town. Offered to do Farmers Market Pickup for VEAP, but not sure if they need me. Maxim now watching a new show: Brooklyn 99. Internship involves answering phone and occasional "projects". He described one project -- involved reorganizing data. ============================================================== Th 7/11/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Met Vic for breakfast at 7:30am, then went on to the U, until 11:30am, then back home. Vic: Kristi and Lydia are in Alaska, traveling. The REU has "wranglers" who try to make sure that "everyone is heard". Lydia still in Dallas, but moved from AT&T to Capital One, and will be moving to the DC area sometime soon. Naomi is now in a civil union with her boyfriend, which helps in seeking French citizenship. 4:30pm, Zoom with Fernando. He'll be in town F 9 August to W 14 August. Seeing a former coauthor, who is starting a startup, and has asked Fernando to be on the Board. Watched Endeavour "Pylon", s6/9, e1/4, second time. Overate: Lots of ice cream, cheese and crackers, big breakfast, finished the Progresso black bean soup, lots of milk. Weight is up to 157 or so. Careful tomorrow. Reread last chapter of The Sun Also Rises, started the next one. ============================================================== W 7/10/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, had to hurry back for 15 minute phone call with Nicola and Terry Quain. Redmarking. I read a chapter from The Sun Also Rises. Started Endeavour "Pylon", s6/9, e1/4, first time. Dead: Ann Kirby, Stanley Clemence Killed by: Ann Kirby hit by a car driven by Maggie Skynner, Stanley died of drug overdose (heroin mixed with quinine). Missing: Emily Bayard (1966) = Sophie, Rosie Johnston Kidnapper: Dr Lester Sheridan Martyrs' Field, A Home in the Sky Banbury Junior School. Black Beauty. Investiture: I, Charles, Prince of Wales, do become your liege man of life and limb and of earthly worship... investiture is ceremony where awards are bestowed, e.g., knighthoods Pat, Karen Kirby, Ann Kirby (missing child), Jeanette. Puccini "Vissi d'Arte" Morse: Woodstock, CID Closed (budget), uniform or nothing. Gazetta: Interdepartmental Forward-Planning Steering Committee. Fred Thursday busted down a rank. Joanie: Trainee with the Welfare. Mr Tingwell. Alfred Skynner. Horse: Connemara. 15 hands, grey. around the 10 minute mark, a piece written by Matthew Slater. Sheridan. 7 snuffboxes, 2 lighters, silver. Sophie, teenager. Sheridan's not-daughter. Lucy Clayton charm academy. Tallis's "Spem in Alium" (eight choirs of five voices each). Spem in Alium = hope in other I have never put hope in any other except God Emily Bayard, July 1966 case, Berkshire. Alice band missing. Stanley Clemence, 17, aunt in Torquay (on southern coast of the the SW Peninsula). Philip Clemence, father, killed mother. Alan Jago -- Viv Wall -- Pendleton Hearing. Alfred Skynner, slaughter man. Maggie "Mags": Library's in Blaydon Alfred Skynner: same lad? Laurel Dulce domum = home sweet home, sweetly homeward Red Leb = variety of cannabis from Lebanon. Fair, Beethoven's 9th Bottoms, Alan Jago, Box, Thursday, Morse Rosie Johnston from Cowley, Panama Hat Allegri's "Miserere mei, Deus". Have mercy on me, O God. Johnny Morris -- television presenter (lots of presentations of animals) making fun of Bright and his ad with a pelican music played at Blenheim fete: Beethoven's 9th in D Minor op 125 "Choral" Il Molto Vivace Books took out: Caring for Your Pony, Ride Like the Wind, Blue Ribbon for Binky, Gypsy Wins Through 1:19:05, poster -- Celebrating the Retirement of: Insp. C. Dexter Cast: Stanley Clemence (Aston McAuley), died of overdose spiked with quinine Ernest Croglin (Mike Grady), photographer "my little bookworm" Ann Kirby (Ava Masters), girl hit by car, placed in field Wizard (Ed Coleman), sells drugs to Stanley Clemence (2:55) Karen Kirby (Fiona Skinner), Ann Kirby's mother Mick Haynes (Khali Best), ???, black actor the bus driver, interviewed by Strange and Morse, 49 minute mark in the British version important scene -- mention of 'Weeping Cross', key clue. scene was deleted from the American version ACC Bottoms (Colin Tierney), ACC = Assistant Chief Constable Reverend Postill (Hugh Sachs), vicar at the church Maggie Skynner (Katharine Bubbear), driving the car that hit Ann Kirby Mr Tingwell (Simon Hepworth), missing a horse near the start, later mentions that he was choirboy with Phil Clemence at St Christopher's apple doesn't fall far from the tree. (Pack of Woodbines.) Alfred "Alf" Skynner (Tom Canton), horse slaughterer and glue boiler, husband of Maggie Skynner Dr Lester Sheridan (Roger May), kid pornography photographer, Panama hat Emily Bayard (Elizabeth Wells), missing since 1966, returned to parents also known as Sophie, pretend daughter of Lester Sheridan DS Alan Jago (Richard Riddell), asst to Ronnie Box Joseph "Joe" Kirby (Daniel Boys), Ann Kirby's father Viv Wall (Alison Newman), Joan Thursday's boss Laurel Skynner (Holly Giles), Maggie and Alfred Skynner's child Chris (Kit Young), young man who shows Morse to Stanley Clemence's room: "don't you need, like, a warrant, or something?" Gilbert Sipkin (Adam De Ville), pedophile Thursday beats up Rhapsody Dickenson (Lindsey Campbell), librarian at bookmobile Rosie Johnston (Abby Barnes), girl who disappeared from the fair Started Endeavour "Pylon", s6/9, e1/4, second time. 23:08 ============================================================== Tu 7/9/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: Typed, printed, redmarked, typed, printed. At home: Finished Endeavour from Masterpiece Mystery s7e1 "Venice". Also, doorknocked about 10 doors. Lots of pleasant conversations. Lots of support for Alex. Ate lots of ice cream. Also, some Progresso bean soup. A few walnuts. Reread part of the last chapter of The Sun Also Rises. They're in Pamplona, the bulls are being released. Mike is mean to Robert. Julia called from Duluth -- found a nice trail. Skyline Trail, I think. Alex will probably arrive there Th, leave Sat. I'll go up on Sunday, I think. ============================================================== M 7/8/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Julia left between 10am and noon for a week in Duluth. I might run up to join her for part of the day this coming Sunday, the 14th. 10am-12noon, went to training for election judge. Lunch at Crumb. Home: Slowly getting caught up on email. Just a little redmarking. Watched Endeavour "Icarus", s5/9, e6/6, third time. Daktari was an American TV show based on the movie Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion. The TV show, in its second season, tied in ratings with Bewitched. Very popular. Long-firm fraud = a firm ordering goods on credit with no ability or intention to pay for them George Fancy's cover was going door-to-door. Trewlove indicates makes no sense, since they weren't living there at the time of the crime. Fancy: I wouldn't know that, though. Finished Meet the Press Knocked 10 or so doors. Lots of interesting conversations. Watched a little of Endeavour from Masterpiece Mystery s7e1 "Venice". ============================================================== Su 7/7/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Annual Letter: Trip to Plymouth, WI (around 4 July), Chris and Kara Waller Got back yesterday from spending time in Plymouth, WI, where Chris Waller lives. He and his wife, Kara, and their son live there. Tom and Sue came, and their son, Gabe, was there for a day or so. Lots of time to talk. I read about 10 pages from The Sun Also Rises. Knocked about 10 doors, on Stonewood, just off Cardinal Creek Road. A number of good conversations. Scheduled this week's messages to callers to Dean Phillips' office. Finished Endeavour "Icarus", s5/9, e6/6, second time. Dak = post or mail, in the days of the Raj. "dak runner" Watched an episode of Professor T (British version) New DCI, who fires Prof T, but then reinstates him on probation. ============================================================== W 7/3/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: Atlantic(Dubai and Africa), WSJ, redmarking. 5pm, Buca di Beppo with Julia for dinner free cake (with an order of soup), $20 off of >=$50 bill. Spent about $70-20+10=$60, brought home lots of leftovers. Home: Send a message to Ekopura explaining that FEDEX lost my package. I read a chapter from "The Sun Also Rises". Jake and Bill are fishing. Tried to watch an episode of Paris Murders, but fell asleep. Did a little more redmarking. Started Endeavour "Icarus", s5/9, e6/6, second time. two-up and back-to-back: housing, with two rooms upstairs and very close to the next house, I think in other words, very crowded the smoke = London because the air was so polluted there 26:30 ============================================================== Tu 7/2/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At the U: typed, printed, redmarked, typed, printed. Got the 4242 syllabus and book (Olver and Shakiban). 7pm, knocked 9 doors. Two long conversations, one with a former Democratic voter who has fallen away. The other was a mother of a special needs child, autism spectrum. She took a lawn sign. Her key issue: more support for special needs children transitioning to adulthood, from school to job. Finished Endeavour "Icarus", s5/9, e6/6, first time. Stanlow Mark I. "mark" is a method of designating a version of a product. e.g. Ford Mondeo Mark I, Ford Mondeo Mark II, Ford Mondeo Mark III sometimes there's a marked modification plate on each device. Rene, Win's family, I think. Ravenna Mackenzie and Blackwell. Alun Bodnor: "On your way, Clunchfist ... You too, Rackway ... and Mr Queach" Rackway: Qui non nobiscom adversus nos est, sir. On package: J I John Ivory, Ros Rose Cottage Col Coldwater School Zec (all: adsum) kissing gate = gate in a U-shaped or V-shaped enclosure (so only one person can go through at a time). Departmental Ditties by Rudyard Kipling: Overland Mail. Dak (Hindi: post or mail) Arthur Hugh Clough's poem "Say not the Struggle naught Availeth" Say not the struggle naught availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain. The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been, they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase even now the fliers, And but for you, possess the field. For while the tired waves, vainly breaking Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back through creeks and inlets making Come silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light. In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. Cast: Kate Ivory (Caroline Martin), married to the disappeared Mr Ivory Stanlow (Aldo Maland), boy, bullied Rackway (Sam Clemmett), boy, bully Queach (Jojo Macari), boy Ravenna Mackenzie (Lily Lessor, Anton Lesser's daughter?), headmaster's ?daughter?, administrator Mr Mackenzie (Michael Simkins), headmaster Mr Blackwell (Felix Scott), mean teacher Mr Alun Bodnar (Andrew Buckley), kind teacher Summerhead (Barnaby Taylor), boy Gaudibund (Xander Classey), boy Eddie Nero (Mark Arden), criminal Brett Nero (Anson Boon), boy, Eddie Nero's son Clunchfist (Louis Strong), boy Morris Minor (Thomas Panay), boy Mrs Seymour (Madeleine Worrall), matron, killer Cromwell Ames (David Jonsson Fray), criminal ============================================================== M 7/1/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: Economist, WSJ, redmarking. Home: rest, a little more redmarking. Called D Phillips' office to advocate for the PROVE IT Act. Finished Endeavour "Quartet", s5/9, e5/6, third time. Never clear why the key ended up in Sebastian Fenix's office. Started Endeavour "Icarus", s5/9, e6/6, first time. missing: John Ivory dead: Rowntree (boy) (overdose, from drugs supplied by Ivory), Nero, Cromwell Ames, George Fancy. killer: Mrs Seymour killed Ivory. Unclear about Rowntree. Unclear about Nero, Ames, Fancy. Lux Aeterna, Gy\"orgy Ligeti (2nd movement used in 2001) Lux aeterna luceat eis, Domine, cum sanctis tuis in aeternum quia pius es. Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine; et lux perpetua luceat eis. ... Christe, eleison. May everlasting light shine upon them, O Lord, with thy saints in eternity, thou art merciful. Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and may everlasting light shine upon them. ... Christ have mercy. Coldwater. Foxhole. Alun Bodnor, teacher. St Bastards. John Ivory, missing. Kate Ivory. Agnes ?Davis? (Agnus Dei, lamb of god). Rackway, boy. Clarence Stanlow, bullied boy. "squit". praetorian privilege: to beast the squits. adsum = here I am (Latin). Brett Nero, parent: Edmund Nero. House: Foxhole. Rifleman's rule: R_S = R_H ( 1 - tan(delta theta) tan(alpha) ) sec(alpha) Aggravine, Babcock, Clunchfist, Dakin (choir), Gaudibund, Morris Minor (Morry Thou = Morris Thousand), Nero, Queach, Rowntree (Rackway: absum = absent, abest = away, ..., expelled), Summerhead, Zec (choir). ((never calls on Rackway)) Ravenna Mackenzie = daughter of headmaster. Lower Sixth. Sixth form = final two years of secondary school. Lower Sixth = younger of those two years. Bamfylde. ruby anniversary = 40th. Dak = Daktari, vet in Africa, lion called Clarence Cinna: O Ceasar, - Caesar: Hence! wilt thou lift up Olympus? Decius Brutus: Great Caesar, - Caesar: Doth not Brutus bootless kneel? Casca: Speak, hands for me! Matron: Mrs Seymour. Ivory and Blackwell. Blackwell teaches kids shooting. Rackway, bully kid. Blackwell, bully teacher. Knocked about 10-15 doors. Good conversations at the start, hostile places at the end. Stopped by Alex Falconer's and picked up more lit. ============================================================== Su 6/30/24 Busy day! Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, no juggling, no pen spin. Finished mowing the lawn. Did all of my laundry. Short time at the library: NY Times book review, WSJ weekend edition. Redmarking. More redmarking at home. Julia and I went for a walk around Hyland Lake. Knocked 12 doors. Julia and I watched an episode of the British Professor T. Jasper Tempest is released from prison. Annual Letter: Doorknocking. Annual Letter: Maxim's internship Continued Endeavour "Quartet", s5/9, e5/6, third time. Dangerman: a 1960s British TV series, starring Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. 57:53 ============================================================== Sa 6/29/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, no pen spin. Mowed front lawn and some of back. Haircut. Cleaned upstairs bathrooms. Clipped nails and emptied small garbages. Went for walk around Staring Lake Park. Knocked 6 or 7 doors on Butterscotch, then went to Alex Falconer's party at Shady Oak Beach. Lots of fun. Started Endeavour "Quartet", s5/9, e5/6, third time. Furthers and betters = more information Erpetoichthys horrida = estuarine snakefish ============================================================== F 6/28/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. Maxim won't be here until tomorrow. At the U: Just typed, printed, redmarked, typed, printed. At home: redmarked, rested. Watched a little TV with Julia. Weight was high in the morning, almost 160. Chocolate croissant at Starbucks. Light dinner -- some soup, cheese, yougurt, walnuts, goldfish crackers. Weight back down below 155 just before bed. Finished Endeavour "Quartet", s5/9, e5/6, second time. Vespertine. Lab 4. Rock (ambergris), key to Woodstock Inn. Map. Radio. NEWS --> NSEW, north south east west ??? Not sure how the key ended up with Sebastian Fenix. Started Endeavour "Quartet", s5/9, e5/6, third time. ============================================================== Th 6/27/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. 9am-12:30pm, VEAP. Did South Metro Mobile Pantry. Distributed food this time, at their end-of-year event. Had an Impossible Whopper and fries at Burger King. Watched an episode of Cold Case, with Julia. Very tired, napped for about 30 minutes. Continued Endeavour "Quartet", s5/9, e5/6, second time. Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula, former parish church of the Tower of London, a royal peculiar (meaning under the jurisdiction of the monach, not the diocese or province in which it's found) buy British, get Boris if you focus on Britain, you connect with a lot of "Boris"es (i.e., communists), because Britain has so many communists in its government de Gaulle determined to keep Britain out of the EU suggesting de Gaulle was a communist dupe. back to jail??? Cromwell Ames: I am come to set a fire upon the cane maybe: set all the sugar cane on fire cane is a synedoche for the established economy in a region sugar cane is important in Caribbean islands? burn down everything important Started to go canvassing, but rain deterred me. Maybe tomorrow. 8pm, Biden-Trump debate. Watched an hour, couldn't take any more. ============================================================== W 6/26/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Went to get my driver license renewed -- took an hour. New license should arrive in the mail in a couple of weeks. Afternoon around 1pm, went for a walk at Wood Rill with Julia. 3:30pm, Zoom with Nicola, Terry, Tim Connors, Kathleen Lowry. Kathleen might be our new liaison with Dean Phillips' office. Lots of discussion about Paul Douglas. Doorknocking, 10 doors -- no one home. Finished Kerry and Melody. Started Endeavour "Quartet", s5/9, e5/6, second time. Music: Zadok the Priest. brolly = umbrella ============================================================== Tu 6/25/24 Very tired today. For some reason I barely slept last night. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. 12noon, met Thomas Knecht for lunch at Kieran's just off the light rail (away from the river) in Warehouse district. Moved back from DC in April. I had the veggie "pub curry", excellent. I think Thomas said he's living in the North Loop. At U: typed, printed, redmarked, typed printed. The final sections of the paper are beginning to take shape. At home, finished Meet the Press. Presidential debate on Thursday. Very tired, napped. Feel the beginnings of a sore throat. Gargling repeatedly. No time for Endeavour or reading. ============================================================== M 6/24/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, no juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, Atlantic, redmarking. Finished Endeavour "Quartet", s5/9, e5/6, first time. Dead: Karl Pfuscher, Werfeli Killer: unidentified, I think. Someone connected to Russia, probably. trying to stop Pfuscher from revealing their informants, Elsie and Joe Dozier. PT = Pediatric Thoracic. 6:56, Max DeBryn: "He's the best PT man in the country." thoracic = middle part of spine cervical, thoracic, lumbar sections; sacrum, coccyx bones 8:09, "VT back to 5:21:30" meaning of VT? Video Time? Julian announcer at the event Swiss: Matthias Werfeli, subbed. William Wordsworth: Composed Upon Westminister Bridge,...1802 Earth has not anything to show more fair: ... St Vitus Cathedral, Prague. Mrs Zoe McLean. Boy: Steven McLean. A "D-Notice". DSMA-Notice (Defense and Security Media Advisory) Dr Schneider: Danulka, Samantha Smith or Jones or Brown..., Prof Alexander Richmond Mr Singleton: "wear an evening suit", watching Morse punting, Louis. wardens in ordinary at St Peter ad vincula, ("in chains") Sebastian Fenix. Lab 4. Schneider: Ms Bagshot. Miss Borgia, martini. HMG = "Her Majesty's Govt"? The Yellow House (Dutch: Het gele huis), painting by van Gogh. Mr Bingley's rented estate is Netherfield Park in Pride and Prejudice. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Mr Mullion. Elsie and Joe Dozier. NS Richmond and Mullion. EW Elsie and Joe Dozier. On the microfilm. Cast: Steven McLean (Hector Bateman-Harden), little boy Zoe McLean (Jennifer Tollady), mother Prof Alexander Richmond (Richard Duren), recruiter of spies, Russian agent Julian Calendar (David Reed), announcer at games Albert Mullion (Ian Bartholomew), porter at Beaufort Elsie Dozier (Mary Roscoe), beaten up, Russian spy Joe Dozier (Andrew Paul), husband, wife-beater, Russian spy Claudine (Claire Ganaye), Morse's girlfriend Singleton (Brendan Patricks), warden in ordinary Dr Gerhardt Schneider (Nico Rogner), gives info about Karl Pfuscher Louis (Leander Deeny), ?warden in ordinary? Sebastian Fenix (Paul Ready), owns factory Millie Bagshot (Ellie Haddington), head spy, British, language coach Cromwell Ames (David Jonsson Fray) ============================================================== Su 6/23/24 28th Wedding anniversary (anniversary of US Marriage) Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No time for library. 12noon, anniversary lunch at Big Bowl. Walked around Lake Harriet twice. Julia listened to some music at the bandshell. Then home. I napped a bit. Canvassing, about 10-15 doors. Watched a Professor T (British). He's in prison, in a brief fulough he solved a murder of a woman who drowned in a pool at her wedding. Finished Endeavour "Colours" (one of my favorite episodes), s5/9, e4/6, third time. Started Endeavour "Quartet", s5/9, e5/6, first time. Henry V: Act 4, Prologue Now entertain conjecture of a time When creeping murmur and the poring dark Fills the wide vessel of the universe. From camp to cmap, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, that the fixed sentinels almost receive The secrret whispers of each other's watch. Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames Each battle sees the other's umbered face; Steed threatens steed in high and boastful neighs ... Zadok the priest (by Handel, for the coronation of George II 1727) ============================================================== Sa 6/22/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ. Redmarking. Knocked 14 doors today. Several fairly long conversations. Mostly around International School, on Beach Rd and Beach Circle. Started Endeavour "Colours" (one of my favorite episodes), s5/9, e4/6, third time. Music: Tango Passion, Fran\,cois Hardy (Comment Te Dire Adieu) Locked-room mystery ============================================================== F 6/21/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, no juggling, no pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. At U: typed, printed, redmarked, typed until I ran out of time, printed. Ate too much at the 5 guys burgers and fries place next to SW station. Peanut butter milkshake, fries, peanuts. 5:30pm, met Chris Prouty for dinner at Coconut Thai in Edina, near 50th and France. Tom Kha and Massaman Curry, brought a lot home. Talked to Chris about many things: shoes, ships, sealing wax ... Lots about politics: He's very negative on Biden, climate skeptical. Got home about 9:15pm, not much time to do everything I usually do. Lots of time on care for the implant: salt water rinses, chlorahexadine guconate rinse, amoxicillin. Continued Endeavour "Colours" (one of my favorite episodes), s5/9, e4/6, second time. Imjin River. Mrs Bright, rounds in Mayfair. Browning L9A1 9mm (gun), checked out by McDuff. Bayonet, made for the K98 rifle, Wermacht issue. Spode and Webley. Roderick Spode: fictional character in Jeeves novels by PG Wodehouse. Everard Webley: leader of the BFF in Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley BFF = Brotherhood of British Freemen. ---- Vita Lampada, second stanza: The sand of the desert is sodden red, Red with the wreck of a square that broke, The Gatling's jammed and the Colonel's dead. And the regiment blind with dust and smoke. The river of death has brimmed his banks. And England's far and Honour a name, The voice of a schoolboy rallies his ranks. "Play up! Play up! And play the game!" (Slightly modified but close.) ---- Bodged it together with a running repair. King's Regs: You don't salute NCOs. ============================================================== Th 6/20/24 Quiet day. Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: new Economist magazine, new Atlantic magazine. Redmarking. Home: continued care of implant and stitches. More redmarking. Only got to 2 doors canvassing, then it started to rain. Started Endeavour "Colours" (one of my favorite episodes), s5/9, e4/6, second time. Army barrack up at High Wood. Your son's there ... Charity Mumford (Lady Bayeswater): husband's nickname Paddy non-U means non-upper-class jimmy = urination, Cockney: short for jimmy riddle, rhymes with piddle ============================================================== W 6/19/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Met Vic for breafast at Hope Breakfast Bar in Edina. 8am, met Vic at Hope Breakfast Bar. Vic spent time in San Diego and had lots of chances to talk with Brendon Rhoades, who has a complicated view of DEI initiatives. Worries that they are anti-Asian. I think he said that Kristi is in Lake Tahoe, and will visit Lydia. Naomi isn't happy with her job, is looking to become a French citizen so that she can apply for more jobs. Naomi's boyfriend seems to be planning to leave academics. (Physicist.) Vic and I walked around Centennial Lake, talked a lot about Professors and Grants. Watched Meet the Press, while Julia away having stitches removed (from her tooth extraction). Did Wednesday finances. After MT trip, credit card bill is now at $4400. Also includes Airbnb costs for trip to Wisconsin on 4th. 3:30pm, got together with Rod and Jon. No game this time. I talked a lot about getting to know my brother better in MT. Rod did his psilocybin trip in ?Oregon? Jon is getting into his coaching. Laurie may join us next time. 7:15pm, Doorknocking, 10 doors Watched an episode of British Prof T, Jasper just went to jail Helped an innocent man get released from prison ============================================================== Tu 6/18/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. No problems with implant, but care takes a fair amount of time. Will be done with all the care tasks in one week. Salt water rinse (1/4 tsp into 8 oz=1 cup) 4 x per day, chlorhexadine gluconate rinse 2 x per day, amoxicillin (500 mg) 3 x per day. Small amount of bleeding yesterday night, nothing today. Took one ibuprofen yesterday after the surgery, no more painkillers needed. 12noon, went to the Faculty Club for lunch with Bryan Mosher. Discussed MATH 4242. He just wanted to be sure I understood and accept that it's not a theoretical course. I completely do. Said I'd probably have 80 to 120 students, split between two sections. Typed, printed, redmarked, typed, printed. The last few sections are looking much better. 5pm, stopped by my mom's for a light dinner and rhubarb pie. Mmm. Home: Just a few minutes for Meet the Press. maybe more tomorrow. No time for Endeavour. Continued working through email backlog. Four messages left, all news feeds. A little more redmarking. ============================================================== M 6/17/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No time for library or redmarking today. Implant done, no problem. Lots of running around to get prescriptions filled. (Chlorahexadine Gluconate mouthrinse and amoxicillin.) Zoom with Fernando. Talked a lot about Montana and seeing Tracy. Finished Endeavour "Colours" (one of my favorite episodes), s5/9, e4/6, first time. intercostal region = space between two ribs Private Ossie Oswald, black Corporal Thursday, Geordie, Sgt Major Davies, Mr Carmichael ?Pvt Collier = Geordie? Lt Carmichael Battle of Cannae, 2nd Punic War. Hannibal (Carthage) defeated a much larger Roman army. Lt Col McDuff D\'egage! = Get lost! Sgt Major Davies Private Collier, 2nd Lt Charmichael, Sgt Major Davies. Colonel Proserpine commanding officer in the South Oxforshire Regiment in the 30s, his daughter = Eleanor = Moira Creighton-Ward's mother, father was Col Johnny Champion maybe that daughter was married to Paddy Creighton-Ward. maybe Paddy Creighto-Ward = Lord Bayeswater Paddy Chreighton-Ward, adultery with Charity Mudford. maybe he married her after Eleanor's death, and she became Lady Bayeswater Marcus Williams = Marcus X. ???Ossie calls CSM Davies by the name "Color". And what are my lot like, Color? ---- Henry Reed, Naming of Parts Today we have naming of parts. Yesterday, We had daily cleaning. And tomorrow morning, We shall have what to do after firing. Japonica Glistens like coral in all of the neighbouring gardens, And today we have naming of parts. ---- Cast: Debating Society President (Jules Robertson) Lady Bayswater (Caroline Goodall) Marcus X (Marcus Griffiths) Pvt Oswald (Ray Sesay), Ossie, Gannon, black private Pvt Collier (Lee Armstrong), white private, maybe ?Geordie? Lt Col McDuff (Ian Pirie), hero of the regiment, "Mad Jack" McDuff Col Johnny Champion (William Scott-Masson), head of regiment Maj Mungo Coward (Robert Portal), 2IC in the regiment 2nd Lt Charmichael (Bert Seymour), Farridge slaps Charmichael on the arm Kit Hutchens (Greg Austin), threw flour at Lady Bayeswater Hazel Radowicz (Rebecca Saire), runs the salon with the "No Coloured" sign. Justin Farridge (Sam Marks), photographer, murdered CSM Davies (Dominic Carter), drill sergeant CSM = Command sergeant major, most senior member of a battalion or higher Dr Rex Laidlaw (Dominic Thorburn), murderer, teacher Jean Ward (Leo Hatton), model, murdered Mr Barker (Steven Elder), Charity Mumford's butler ============================================================== Su 6/16/24 Father's Day! Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, went to People's Organic instead. Had three day-old pastries for $5. Did some redmarking. Home. Julia and I met Alex for lunch at India Palace, we all three had their "Lunch Thali". We each brought home a box of food. Julia paid, because: It's Father's Day! Back home. Maxim and I went to Chipotle. I just had chips and salsa, still pretty full. Doorknocked for the first time in years. Exhausted when I got home -- napped. Maxim and I went to G&S's for Rhubarb Pie. Maxim drove because: It's Father's Day! Home. Weight was at 157. Big eating day. Tomorrow should be better. Did I mention: It's Father's Day! Continued Endeavour "Colours" (one of my favorite episodes), s5/9, e4/6, first time. dead: Jean Ward, Justin Farridge, Lt Col McDuff killer: Rex Laidlaw Colonel Johnny Champion, CO (Commanding Officer) 2IC (Second in Command) Major Mungo Coward lance corporal below the rank of corporal Jean Ward = the Right Honorable Moira Creighton-Ward = daughter of Lord Bayswater and his first wife = stepdaugther of Charity Mudford Charity Mumford = Lady Bayswater Drummer Hawkins, Mboto Gorge, Victoria Cross. Mboto Gorge, fictional battle in Upper Volta 1892, from Blackadder, a BBC sitcom Dr Rex Laidlaw on secondment from Lonsdale. Berchtesgaden = municipality in Bavaria Mungo Coward, McDuff, Johnny = Colonel Johnny Champion stopped at 21:33 ============================================================== Sa 6/15/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. At library: WSJ, brief look at Barron's article on energy investing, redmarking. Very focused on limits at the boundary of the Delta finite set. Was going to start doorknocking, but got rained out. Maybe tomorrow (which should be hot and humid, but sunny) Digging through all the backed up email (from the MT trip). Everything done but old news feeds. Looked at everything back to 10 June. 23 messages to go. Started Endeavour "Colours" (one of my favorite episodes), s5/9, e4/6, first time. Tango Pasi\'on is "a tango show that began touring in 1992 ... evolved into a celebrated stage performance". this green and pleasant land, from Wm Blake's poem "And did those feet in ancient time" basis for hymn "Jerusalem" director Robert Quinn volunteers, High Wood at 1100. Dr Rex Laidlaw. impi=Zulu regiment. debouche=emerge laager=encampment, esp one protected by circle of vehicles Justin Farridge, photographer canny good skive, skive = hookey from school or other obligations canny = shrewd, astute Jean Ward, one of the models. (Vesperseed perfume ad) howay = general cry of encouragement, something like "let's go" Mr Hutchens young guy who threw flour at conservative debater. Conservative debater: Lady Bayswater, I think, and maybe same as Charity Mudford. Holloway = area N of London. Interned under Defense Regulation 18B. 18B in Britain allowed internment of suspected Nazi sympathizers without habeas corpus Lord Bayswater, late viscount, father of Lady Bayswater. British Union of Fascists. Collier one of the volunteers recruited by Sam. White. Justin Farridge says "Come on Suki make yourself useful" le flic = the cop stopped at 11:13 ============================================================== F 6/14/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm home. Maxim won't be here until tomorrow. At the U: No time to eat. Just typed in redmarks and got a new printout. At home: Light dinner. Still trying to catch up on email. Finished Endeavour "Passenger", s5/9, e3/6, third time. East Pitherbury. Marsdson Branch Line. Nondy = nondescript vehicle (police slang for vehicle used for observations) Obs = observation = stakeout, Sarnie = sandwich the minstrels = the black and white minstrel show, TV show from 1958 to 1978. wooden-top = uniformed officer, plonk = female police officer ?????at 34:57, at a hotel, Don Mercer is there, older women nodding at younger one who calls Cowley Police Station not sure what this is about. Later, in a flasback (1:12:50): same younger woman pulls a key and gives it to Don Mercer who is with Jilly Conway nicker = pound (unit of money) ============================================================== Th 6/13/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No time for library. Weight is actually down to 154 from 157 when I left for MT. Good news! 2pm: Met with Alex Falconer to talk about canvassing. Plan to start on Monday. On 4/15/24: changed both Britta water filters in the kitchen. Note: need to reset the right hand button, not the left. Note: Today (6/13/24), noticed that the one outside the refrigerator is now red. Started Endeavour "Passenger", s5/9, e3/6, third time. haulage side: Thursday and Strange. stopped 20:55 ============================================================== W 6/12/24 Back from MT. No strength, no running, stretch, no tongue, no flash cards, no juggling, no pen spin. No library. No reading, No Endeavour. Flight arrived at about 6pm, Julia picked us up. Departed at about 9pm on the 5th, arrived early morning on the 6th. Got to the Airbnb and crashed. Did a small hike near to the Airbnb. Met Tracy later that day, and spent some time at Bozeman Hot Springs -- very pleasant. On Friday the 6th, spread the ashes. (Tracy, Alex, Maxim and I.) Then went to Yellowstone: Lower Geyser Basin, Old Faithful, Lone Star Geyser. Got rained on on the way back from Lone Star Geyser. Got a chance to see Old Faithful erupting, but not Lone Star Geyser. Stopped in at Mammoth Hot Springs. Went to Maps for dinner (a brewery near the Airbnb). On Saturday the 7th, Tracy and Alex and Maxim and I went to Helena and walked through the Capitol building. No tours because it was the weekend. Saw statues of Thomas Francis Meagher and Jeanette Rankin. Had a very nice dinner at a Thai restaurant. On the way back to Bozeman, stopped in at Missouri Headwaters State Park. On Sunday the 8th, Tracy went on to visit with his family in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. On Monday the 9th, Alex and Maxim and I went back to Helena to see a tour of the Capitol building. Good tour! They were filming an episode of Yellowstone while we were there. Then we went for a hike up Mt Helena, with good views. On Tuesday, Alex and Maxim and I went back to Yellowstone to go to Artist's Point. Then did a hike to Sublime Point. Then came back, dropped Maxim off at the Airbnb, and went back to Maps. On Wednesday, did a short hike near the Airbnb, then went to a crepes place in Bozeman, then got some Huckleberry ice cream at Sweet Peaks Ice Cream. Then went to the airport and flew back. Exhausted! Didn't sleep well last night, and the travel is tiring, too. ============================================================== No entries 6/6/24 to 6/11/24, because on vacation. Traveled to MT = Montana. ============================================================== W 6/5/24 No strength, no running, stretch, no tongue, no flash cards, no juggling, no pen spin. No library. 6:45am to U, 3:48pm back. Went through several iterations of the paper. Got a printout to bring to MT. Will keep working there. Veggie sandwich, chips, coleslaw, choc chip cookie at Crumb. Did finances. Printed new auto insurance cards. New cost is $380/mo, up from $330/mo. Need to catch flight today at 9:55pm. Trying to get everything ready. ============================================================== Tu 6/4/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 200 ft, slow), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ and redmarking. Finished Endeavour "Passenger", s5/9, e3/6, second time. Robert Kennedy assassination on W 5 June 1968 Kilorran whiskey is probably a reference to Kilkerran Scotch whiskey, from the Glengyle distillery in Campbeltown, Scotland. Thursday to Morse: "Can you keep the railway ticking over?" Don't know what that means. ????? Maybe: there's the Cromwell Ames and Burt Hobbs and Eddie Nero investigaton, and there's the railway murders investigation. Thursday and Strange can work on the former, Morse on the latter. "ticking over" just means not stalled. Next, Morse goes to the nursing home. Packed for departure tomorrow, going to MT. Returning on the 12th. ============================================================== M 6/3/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 200 ft, slow), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ and redmarking. Talked a little about reserving the Bluestem Room. Reservations came through a little later. Annual letter: Trip to Montana Annual letter: Endeavour bingeing. Finished Endeavour "Passenger", s5/9, e3/6, first time. dead: Linda Gresham (1964), Burt Hobbs (truck driver), Frances Porter (actually Jilly Conway), Anoushka Nolan, Lloyd Collins, Cedric Naughton (suicide) murderer: Cedric Naughton killed Linda Gresham in 1964, and tried to kill Heather Paterson. Burt Hobbs and Lloyd Collins probably killed by people working for Cromwell Ames. Frances Porter and Noel Porter killed Jilly Conway and Anoushka Nolan. Linda Gresham, 1964, teenager, Headington, Slepe Bridge station, Prince Charming, took shoes. Mr Don Mercer. Kings Oak Station. Lloyd Collins. Rennan Street Market, MOT failure of a band, 43B Hartford Rd. Kilorran whiskey, Morse's Calloway album Lloyd Collins, West Indian, Jamaican possibly, record stall in Brennan Street Market, MOT failure of a van, 43B Hartford Rd MOT = annual test of vehicle safety, roadworthiness, emissions sells Lime Whip to earn his crust. (Gidbury's desserts) Cal. Tommy Brock = badger. Rex, rexy, dog. Dog belongs to the man in the park who discovers Anoushka Nolan. Rarse = "up yer ass" (Jamaican). Mary Quant: British fashion designer. Claudine, photojournalist. Cromwell Ames. Ali Baba: Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves added to 1001 Arabian Nights. "Open Sesame". Shabeen on Kingston Street. Shabeen = illicit bar or club. Ferdy. Sundown, Home for the Aged. Mrs Conway. Frances married to Noel Porter. Mrs Greshem. piano teacher, Mrs Naughton, proably Cedric Naughton's mother Cedric Naughton was jealous of Linda Gresham whose piano teacher was his mother Linda was talented, but he wasn't Cedric Naughton also gets mad at the station master, plans to attack his wife. Mrs Heather Paterson had a baby, will be named Georgina, not Morse. Cedric Naughton (Simon Scardifield), train enthusiast Don Mercer (Jacob Fortune-Lloyd), cheating on his wife with Frances Porter (who turns out to be Jill Conway) Frances Porter (Lydea Perkins), picture of Lydea Perkins shows the person who was killed, not the killer. Matron (Siobhan O'Carroll)???, mabye the same as Mrs Gresham?? Lillian Conway (Judy Clifton), elderly lady in the nursing home. credits show "Lilian", but subtitles show "Lillian". Burt Hobbs (John Biggins), lorry driver Noel Porter (Edwin Thomas), husband -- he and Frances are killers Jilly Conway (Rosalie Craig), picture of Rosalie Craig shows the killer, not the person killed. DI Ronnie Box (Simon Harrison), County DS Patrick Dawson (Thomas Coombes), County Mr Hammond (Colin Mace), boss of Burt Hobbs, truck driver who was beaten to death. Marty Bedlo (Hadley Fraser), runs Alice's Marmalade Cat Anoushka Nolan (Celeste Dodwell), works at Alice's Marmalade Cat Jill (Nicola Millbank), probably the receptionist at the hotel, who shows Morse the room that Jilly Conway and Don Mercer used; never named in the episode, I don't think. Station Master Cal Paterson (Justin Edwards) Ticket Inspector (Jason Hall) Heather Paterson (Lizzy Watts), wife of the station master (Cal Paterson), woman attacked by Cedric Naughton near the end Lloyd Collins (Mark Asante), West Jamaican, sells records, whiskey, stolen goods, killed by Cromwell Ames gang Claudine (Claire Ganaye), possible love interest for Morse, met at party, slaps someone Ferdy (Leon Stewart), bartender at the Shabeen on Kingston Street. 6:45pm, went to pick up Maxim at the airport. ============================================================== Su 6/2/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 200 ft, slow), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ and redmarking. A little time with an Economist magazine. Talked a little about reserving the Bluestem Room. No walks today -- a little rainy. Very tired, napped for about 1.5 hrs. With Julia, watched a Lucy Worsley episode about the creation of the Anglican church. Never realized before that Oliver Cromwell was related to Thomas Cromwell. More redmarking at home. Watched Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street off Netflix. Put it at 1.5 speed and skipped parts. Not sure why people think it's so good. Continued Endeavour "Passenger", s5/9, e3/6, first time. Lorry hijack at Waddington Junction. Cycle into the Chilterns, Frances Porter bell-ringing All-Souls' on Southmore Rd. Jilly Conway. Fran (Frances Porter) works at Alice's Marmalade Cat, boutique. Richardson's Depot at Bister. Hammond and Sons in Abingdon. Burt Hobbs. coopered across to another vehicle. DI Ronnie Box, DS Dawson -- from Robbery. Mr Hammond. Marty Bedlo at Alice's Marmalade Cat, boutique. Anoushka Nolan. Frances Porter was meeting Don. Mr Smith, chalet 9. Beige 4-door saloon. Possibly Rover P-6. MDP668F. Miss Conway = Jilly Conway. Gidsbury's Desserts, Ajax House, Soulihull. Kings Oak Station. Morse interviews someone at Norborough. Parly. ghost trains. 22:15 special. trainspotter, railway enthusiast Cedric Naughton: Chadwick, Hamingwell Halt, Pudham, Whimperley, East Pitherbury, Waddington Junction. East Pitherbury. the old Marsdon Branch line. GIBBET'S ND. Probably GIBBET'S END, but "E" fell off. Insects at the station. Stopped 24:52. ============================================================== Sa 6/1/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 200 ft, slow), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Had to pick up Sally (back from CA) at the airport at noon. Dropped her off at her place, then came home. Walk with Julia at Riley Creek. Lots of bugs! Prepared all the monthly calling messages for the next two weeks, to cover the time I'll be in MT. Heard back from Alex Falconer about canvassing. I need to transfer some of the responsibility for the clean energy forum to someone not so involved. Also, he mentioned that Kissy is running in the primary, which is a little awkward. I've doorknocked for her in the past, but she doesn't have the endorsement. Should probably talk to Rod about that. Did a little shopping at L&B. More cheese, more walnuts, a raspberry almond chocolate bar, an Amy's and a couple of Progresso soups. Chris Prouty wrote asking: What is the probability of a streak of 15 heads in a row somewhere in 1000 flips of a fair coin? I think I have a recursive formula for answering that: EITHER you have 15 Hs in a row somewhere in the first 985 flips OR you *don't* have 15 Hs in a row anywhere in the first 984 flips, then T, then 15 Hs. These two possibilities are exclusive. ============================================================== F 5/31/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Instead, 6:45am to the U, and 3:48pm back. Maxim is in CA, so no ride back from him. At the U: Chocolate bread at Starbucks. At the U: typed, printed, redmarked, typed, printed redmarked, typed printed. On the way home: Stopped at Crumb for a veggie sandwich. At home: cereal, cheese, some salad Julia made, milk. More redmarking. Long messsage to Nick Kleese about mathematics and climate. Finished Endeavour "Cartouche", s5/9, e2/6, third time. Mammoth Pictures Studios with Morse Code beeping. Production compaines for Endeavour: Mammoth Screen and Masterpiece for ITV studios Tobruk: coastal city in eastern Libya. Siege of Tobruk: 10 April 1941 to 27 November 1941. 9th Australian Division besieged by German and Italian forces. "Rats of Tobruk". Relieved by British 8th Army. "What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over." Started Endeavour "Passenger", s5/9, e3/6, first time. Norborough train station, 80 miles N of London. Lillian. Picture of young woman who is with man who says "Shake a leg, Love". Cedric with model trains. Young woman catches train. Robbery / man beaten up. Joan: Wednesday flat-warming. Cowley Police Station. Stopped 6:17 ============================================================== Th 5/30/24 Finished mowing. Strength, running (25 mins, 200 ft, slow), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Instead, went to Pizza Karma. Redmarking. Very tired -- napped for about 1.5 hrs. More redmarking. No walk today even though good weather. Exercise, mowing, nap took up a lot of the day. Continued Endeavour "Cartouche", s5/9, e2/6, third time. Stopped at 48:08 ============================================================== W 5/29/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. spent about an hour mowing. 12noon, gave Maxim a ride to G&S's. Stayed for lunch. He heads to CA tomorrow, with Sally. Sally will return on Saturday. I'll pick her up at the airport, then pick Maxim up when he returns, on Sunday. At home: a little redmarking. Spent almost an hour figuring out how to set a trickle charge on Maxim's car. 6pm, Party for Laurie Pryor Continued Endeavour "Cartouche", s5/9, e2/6, third time. Stopped 36:26 ============================================================== Tu 5/28/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to the U and 3:48pm back. Typed, printed, redmarked, typed, printed. Butter croissant at Starbucks. A little more redmarking on the bus home, and at home. Julia's guac, omelette for dinner, with some cheese, cheese&crackers, milk, walnuts. Mowed for about 45 minutes in the evening. Tomorrow, no hot water at the Community Center again. :-( I read Ch 2&3 of The Sun Also Rises. Jake meets up with Lady Brett. Wathced Endeavour, pilot, third time vet's name: Cyril Wright (played by Michael Matus) Hermes typewriter. Hertford Bridge, Bridge of Sighs, resmebles the Rialto Bridge. Ian McLeash is Morse's office mate, friend. Ibycus's killers went to Corinth, just W of Athens Only at Taurus. Aries Taurus Gemini, Cancer Leo Virg,o Libra Scorpio Saggitarius, Capricorn Aquarius Pisces (Aries March 21-April 19) starts at the spring equinox brava bravissima divina Continued Endeavour "Cartouche", s5/9, e2/6, third time. 4429 number on ticket stopped 11:59 ============================================================== M 5/27/24 Memorial Day. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. People's Organic: cup of chili, redmarking. L&B: milk, cheese, some Progresso bean soup. home: ate some of Julia's omelette, half a treat that Alex brought back from Japan, some cheese and Carr's crackers. Walk with Julia near Round Lake Park. Got rained on a little. Rain eventually turned to small hail. ate some cheese, some cereal. more redmarking. Watched a Paris Murders (Profilage) about a brother who pimps and murders and gets his brother to take the blame. Finished Endeavour, pilot, second time Fyfield ... Eight Cairngorms = UK's largest national park. at scene of Tremlett's death: FLA 17...B or 8... watch 8.10.64. Valerie Quillen's crowd (includes Jenny Crisp, daughter of DCS Donald Crisp). Johnny Franks, car mechanic. Teddy Samuels. "All Valerie's gang go there" 248 RPA on the red Jaguar. Same as the car in Morse. (UFF 325 on the black Jaguar. Later episodes: KAN 169) Johnny Franks: Mary's boyfriend was Miles Percival. Brian Lomax (flatmate): Mary broke it off with Miles six months ago. Lomax indicated she was seeing Dr Rowan Stromming. Alexander Reese and Stomming and Mary decided to play a game and see if they could convince the Bursar that she was an undergraduate. wheeze = clever scheme (British slang) "Abingdon 4185" Sir Richard Lovell "Flaxman 1788" Morse: Boundless and bare, the lone and level snads stretch far away I met a traveler, from an antique land, who said two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert. And on the pdestal these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works ye mighty, and despair! chevron pattern: ziz-zags, usually alternating black zig-zag, white zig-zag, black zig-zag, ... Miles Percival date of birth 8.10.43. 64-43=21. 21st birthday. Pony up = pay, a pony on the first of the month = a payment on the first of the month hooky MOTs, MOT = annual test of vehicle safety, roadworthiness, emissions maybe Ministry of Transport employees are "hooky" meaning that they don't review Teddy Samuels's business. Odalisque. Jenkins. Welsh. Fed ... for pleasure. Sharon Veelie and Teddy Samuels, summer '49. Ian McLeash tracks down the shops where the dress might have been bought. (Thursday says: "local stockists".) Cyril Wright (Michael Matus), vet Rosalind Stromming (Flora Montgomery), wife of Rowan Stromming, opera singer, Morse's crush Richard Lovell (Patrick Malahide), Sir Richard, peer, goes to the parties DC Ian McLeash (Jack Ashton), Morse's office mate and friend Jenny Crisp (Daisy Head), DCI Crisp's daughter, student at the school Valerie Quillen (Holly Ridley), student at the school Anne Porter (Lisa Backwell), girl who tells Morse about Mary Tremlett's friendship with Valerie Quillen, says "no fear" and calls them tarts??? Miss Tench (Jenna Harrison), ?teacher at the school? DS Arthur Lott (Danny Webb) Dr Rowan Stromming (Richard Lintern), don Brian Lomax (Sam Reid), flatmate of Miles Percival, in Rowan Stromming's class Miles Percival (Harry Kershaw), murdered, Oxford student, in Rowan Stromming's class Mrs Crabbin (Maggie Ollerenshaw), Morse's landlord Stan Tremlett (Ian Gelder), father of Mary Tremlett looks a little like John Spencer, who plays Leo McGarry, chief of staff on The West Wing. Sharon Veelie (Emma Stansfield), turns out to be Mary Tremlett's mother Teddy Samuels (Charlie Creed-Miles), owns the garage, turns out to be Mary Tremlett's father Johnny Franks (Jamie Blackley), worker at garage Alexander Reese (Christopher Brandon), old friend of Morse's from college, don DCS Crisp (Terence Harvey) Mary Tremlett (Rachael Heaton), murdered ============================================================== Su 5/26/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 200 ft, slow), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Day old pastries at People's Organic. Redmarking. Walk with Julia and Alex at Murphy-Hanrehan Park near Savage, MN. Then dinner at Pho Mai in Asia Mall. Dessert at Keefer Bakery in Asia Mall. Bought some mushroom crisps at the Asian grocery store at Asia Mall. At home, had some Teelings Single Pot Still whiskey, also a mochi that Julia bought. Also some tea. Watched a couple of Journeys in Japan. Watched a Technology Connections about freezers that open at the top. (Very efficient.) More efficient to have a refrigerator with the freezer above than below. Finished Endeavour, pilot, first time "Where most the gypsies by the turf-edged way pitch their smoked tents" answer 6 and 4 Bagley Wood From "The Scholar Gypsy" by Matthew Arnold In autumn, on the skirts of Bagley Wood -- Where most the gypsies by the turf-edged way Pitch their smoked tents How many cowgirls, 5 letters answer Eight. "Eight maids-a-milking" DCS Donald Crisp. Cherrits Farm. vet: bowling legspin (cricket terminology -- ball spins from right to left, bowler's perspective) (for right-handed batter, away from the leg side. leg side: side of the field corresponding to the batsman's non-dominant hand) Glympton, Home Service on the news. Jenny Crisp, daughter of DCS Donald Crisp. Miss Tench. Wolvercote. Val. (Val ?=? Valerie Quillen) Teddy Samuels car dealer. Hooky MOTs. Odalisque. FLA 17. ??? and Teddy Samuels: FLA 1788 Flaxman. Sir Richard Lovell. Un bel di\`i, vedremo: Madame Butterfly, Puccini One fine day, we'll see. Cio-Cio San is the geisha Madame Butterfly Started Endeavour, pilot, second time dead: Mary Tremlett, Miles Percival murderer: Rosalind Calloway, now Stromming captioning: "Funding for Ma". red Jaguar, black Jaguar. Sir Richard Lovell, at party with girls. Vet, with blood. Bus to Woodstock. McLeash. Rowan Stromming lecturing about Ibycus and the cranes. Miles Percival killed in Thrupp stopped 9:01 ============================================================== Sa 5/25/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft, faster running, 3.11 miles), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: weekend WSJ, redmarking. Mowed lawn -- in violation of "no mow May". Worried about not having enough time to get it done before leaving on the 5th. If it were to rain on the 1st and a couple of days afterward, it could get awkward. Did about 2/3 of the front lawn. Tomorrow plan to finish the front and start on the back. No roster calling this month -- because no Chapter meeting. Next month should be the last, because we'll reach the end of the roster. Annual Letter: Finally finished Grant's autobio. Next up: The Sun Also Rises. I read "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemmingway (not a fan of bullfighting). I read short story "The Crystal Trench" by AEW Mason, mentioned in "The Sun Also Rises" Annual Letter: Retirement plans. Endeavour bingeing. Julia's trips to Portugal and Ireland and Italy. Annual Letter: Trip to NZ. Trip to MT. Alex to Japan. Alex's Tesla. Ecclesiastes 1: ... Everything is meaningless ... Generations come and generations go ... The sun rises and the sun sets ... Is there anything of which one can say "Look! This is something new?" ... No one remembers the former generations ... Finished Endeavour "Cartouche", s5/9, e2/6, second time. PBS Passport THE CIVIL WAR was fought in ten thousand places! Started Endeavour "Cartouche", s5/9, e2/6, third time. captioning: "toni" "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" = "Let's drink from joyful cups". brindisi from La Traviata (Verdi, libretto: Francesco Maria Piave) brindisi = Italian for toast, drinking song. Italian derived from German ich bringe dir's, meaning: I offer it to you. Inspector Atwill Rosalind Calloway (on record cover) Stopped at 7:30 Endeavour Discovered the pilot episode on PBS Passport, first time woodstock bus Rosalind Calloway. resignation. Mary Tremlett, 15, disappeared. Carshall Newtown officers bused in to help. Faure Requiem. DS Lott. McLeash. Rowan Stromming: Ibycus (pederastic poet of Samos, Aegean Island, off Anatolian coast, 6th century BC) "Those birds will be my avengers." from the Byzantine encyclopedia Suda Mrs Crabbin, landlord for Endeavour. Mr Bleaney at the Bodleian. Mr Goldberg, Mr McCab. ( Morse; Carshall, Newtown. ) Valerie Quillen. Oxford Book of English Verse, A Shropshire Lad, Betjeman Collected John Betjeman 1906-1984 English poet, writer, broadcaster. Poet Laureate of UK 1972-death left Oxford without degree, poems often humorous Mary Tremlett's father works on the GMC Assembly Line Mrs Sharon Veelie nee Tremlett, eldest sister of Mary Tremlett, lives in Droitwich. Thrupp suicide. Webley Mark VI gun. Miles Percival, Jericho. Brian Lomax, Percival's flatmate. Lonsdale tutor, Dr Rowan Stromming. Alex (Alexander Reese), old friend from Lonsdale Morse was in Royal Signals, not the Foreign Legion. Miss Rosalind Calloway, now Mrs Stromming now. rusticated = expelled or suspended Turandot by Puccini, "Signore, ascolta!" "My lord, listen!" soprano aria sung by slave girl Li\`u to Prince Calaf, whom she loves. Arthur Lott. Bagley Wood. Nine stone six pounds = 132 pounds. 5'2''. whelks = kind of snails. "no fear" = "for sure" or "absolutely" Johnny Franks, boyfriend. Teddy Samuels, car dealer. Alexander Reece. Odalisque = female slave or concubine in a harem. implying overweight. stopped at 41:17 ============================================================== F 5/24/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to the U and 3:48pm back. (Maxim needed to run an errand on the way here, so I opted to go by bus.) Typed, printed, redmarked, typed, printed, redmarked, typed, printed. Butter croissant at Starbucks. At home: More redmarking. Section on unordered addition is pretty much complete, section on Boltzmann averaging getting better. Only one section after that, about using Boltmann to calculate grant probabilities. That last section should be almost identical to the finite grant sets version, given all the work on Boltzmann theory. Emerald Ash Borer treatments were today. Rainbow Treecare. Total price (to me) was $527.16. This is after a discount from the city of Eden Prairie. See the proposal in email on 2/7/24. Next treatment should be in 2026. Cheese and crackers, walnuts, milk, corn chowder. Weight going back down. Chipotle: WEEBLES WOBBLE but they do not fall down! Continued Endeavour "Cartouche", s5/9, e2/6, second time. British slang: skinful = enough alcohol to get drunk snap = food gaff = place, often someone's house, but not always Who is Jason? Mentioned by the producer Mr Zoltan Xarkoff. Jason Curwen, famous actor. Plays Steven in the film. Victoria, female lead. The Pharaoh Rises. Steven Flynn plays Jason Curwen, who plays a Steven. Montresor in "The Cask of Amontillado". (Poe: Immurement of Fortunato by Montresor.) Stoll Moss circuit. United, split up, then reunited. stopped 44:23. Timberwolves 108, Mavericks 106, 13 seconds left. Wolves had a significant lead starting the 3rd quarter. Then, for a while Mavericks were in the lead. Finally, the Timberwolves lost by one point, on a 3 pointer. :-( ============================================================== Th 5/23/24 Strength, running (26 mins, 125 ft, faster running, 3.11 miles), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: a few old NYers, todays WSJ, redmarking. about 1:15pm, Hope Breakfast Bar in St Louis Park, not too expensive, very good. I had the brioche with cheese and beer cheese soup. Home: more redmarking. I read some more of Grant's autobio, p. 806 of 835, 96%, chap 69 received approval for spreading ashes at Dailey Creek. Finished Endeavour "Cartouche", s5/9, e2/6, first time. Dead: Ronald Beavis, Leslie Garnier, Liam Flynn, Armand De Vere (in the fire) Murderer of Garnier and Beavis: Edmund Gordon (doorman, commissionaire) Murderer of Liam Flynn unknown commissionaire = uniformed door attendant Miss Copperstone at box office of Roxy. Armand De Vere, manager Roxy. "The river Tiber foaming with much blood" from Enoch Powell (MP Wolverhampton) 1968 speech. Isis = alternate name for the River Thames, esp near Oxford Brown's Cafe, Beavis' last meal. Arson on the Watt Court estate. yob = lout, uncultured person. Charlie Fred's brother, Paulette Charlie's wife. Our daughter, Carol. The Sheldonian = theatre at Oxford University. Strychnos nux vomica - strychnine tree. Strichnine vs arsenic vs cyanide??? Whakahari = White Island, near NZ. Disaster in 2019. Betty Persky, usherette at Roxy. Mr Kegworst, the projectionist. Mr Jephson, Sr wants to hold onto the Roxy. Mr Leslie Garnier, organist at the Roxy. Dr Shoukry, Pitt Rivers Museum. half-cut = slightly intoxicated, British slang Mr Zoltan Xarkoff (producer), at party at the Roxy, with Miss Veronique Carlton, leading lady. Jason, Mr Nero. "Jason Curwen", "played blind violinist" in a movie with Doris Day. "Two Weeks in August". Emil Valdemar, MC. MC = military cross. middle brother Charlie. Chez Andr\'e. Charlie runs a warehouse, Shadwell Basin, Thursday and Co. Mr Kenneth Bullings. ABH = assault with bodily harm. affray = public fight. Guilia Gallo. Liam Flynn "Except the Lord keep the city, the Watchman waketh but in vain." Psalm 127 without the Lord's help, nothing anyone else does will work. Cast: Betty Persky (Abby Wilson) Ronald Beavis (Iain Stuart Robertson) Dr Moharram Shoukry (Christopher Sciueref) Inspector Atwill (Ray Polhill), on the screen, "someone in this room is a murderer" Lambert Kegworth (Alan David) Leslie Garnier (John McAndrew) Armand De Vere (Simon Dutton) Kenneth Bullings (Luke Hornsby) Guilia Gallo (Sophia Capasso) Pop Gallo (Pano Masti) Liam Flynn (Alister Hawke) Commissionaire Edmund Gordon (David Shaw-Parker), one-armed Molly Copperstone (Robin Weaver) Emil Valdemar (Donald Sumpeter) Carol Thursday (Emma Rigby) ?related to Sean Rigby? Paulette Thursday (Linette Beaumont) Charlie Thursday (Phil Daniels) Veronique Carlton (Betty Denville) Zoltan Xarkoff (Michael Levi Harris) Jason Curwen (Steven Flynn) Started Endeavour "Cartouche", s5/9, e2/6, second time. Who killed Beavis, why? Why did he steal the scarab? 25:39 ============================================================== W 5/22/24 Strength, Running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ today, redmarking At home: some lunch (getting near the end of the peanut butter Maxim left), redmarking. I read a little of Grant's autobio. 40 pages left. What a slog. watched Endeavour "Muse", s5/9, e1/6, third time. charger: a medieval war horse was called a charger. 3pm, met Rod and Jon. Jon might get a new furnace and heat pump. Rod is thinking about going someplace for a psilocybin experience, but without Jon. Played a co-op game called Daybreak about teaming up to beat climate change. Next time: Think carefully about helping out the majority world. Morse in Morse code: --/---/.-./.../. ??Endeavour episodes end with that signaling, then theme music.?? frazil: slushy ice formed by accumulation of ice crystals in turbulent water. D Frazil --> de-ice --> Thaw D Frazil played by Abigail Thaw, daughter of John Thaw. Started Endeavour "Cartouche", s5/9, e2/6, first time. Emil Valdemar. Roxy. Music: "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" from "La Traviata". Pop, Guilia. Mr Nero. Mrs Lupin. Nayland Smith = rival to Dr Fu Manchu. Ronald Beavis. Pitt Rivers. (Pitt Rivers Museum: archaeological and anthropological collections of the U of Oxford.) DS Ronald Beavis, retirement 3/6/59. stopped 7:39. ============================================================== Tu 5/21/24 Strength, Running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ today and last weekend, Economist (cover: breakdown of the old world order), glance at Atlantic, redmarking weight just over 155 (with about 1 lb clothes), coming down. L&B shopping: English muffins, milk, cheese, chocolate with raspberries and almonds, corn chowder, cereal. finished Endeavour "Muse", s5/9, e1/6, second time started at 44:31. Simon Lake: glider flyer. Mock Turtle: melancholy character from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Sits by the sea and reminisces. Altdorf is the capital of the Swiss canton of Uri. alt=old dorf=village. this one is probably Altdorf bei N\"urnberg, in east Germany. More than one Altdorf; several in Germany, one in France, three in Switzerland. Piven employee at Shiplake Chase. In book: Even Thorne RA XX Weibermacht RA = Ruth Astor, not Royal Academy Golden Age of Classic Christian Art. (Weibermacht = Power of women.) Joey Sikes was the driver for the stag party, not part of the party. Drove the girls there. Simon Lake (Tom Durant-Pritchard) Gerard Pickman (Tom Wisdom) Cassie Pickman (Nathalie Buscombe) Eddie Nero (Mark Arden) Master (Robin McCallum) Joey Sikes (Victor Gardener) Even Thorne (Charlotte Hope) Robin Grey (Roger Barclay) DC George Fancy (Lewis Peek) Spencer Bell (Rhys Isaac Jones) Ruth Astor (Antonia Clarke) Jasmine Genouille (Tanya Fear), maybe the woman who works at the telephone exchange. Lucy Grey (Emily Barber), Robin Grey's wife Adrian Croxley (David Newman) Tancred Howlett (Samuel Crane) Paula Ellis (Cassie Clare), "Delilah" in the dressing room Lefty Townsend (Geoffrey McGivern), booking agent Mrs Greville (Hazel Ellerby), ??? Ron Piven (Harry Gostelow), hotel employee, Shiplake Chase With Julia, watched an episode of Murders in Paris (Profilage). Something about an adopted guy who discovers that his birth parents were pedophile murderers. With Julia, watched an episode of 60 Minutes. Segment on Hakeem Jeffries. Segment on two girls with "trigonometric" proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem. Segment on a private equity firm that specializes in buying up a firm and then making it employee owned. (The firm is KKR, its principal is Pete Stavros. ============================================================== M 5/20/24 Timberwolves won game 7 against Denver last night! :-) On to the Western Conference Finals. Dow 40,000! :-) No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to the U, and 3:48pm from the U. 1:30pm: Stephanie Lawson's retirement party. She was a student at the U in the 60s, started working at the U in 1977 and came to the math dept in 1990. End of an era! Vic was there, also saw Bernardo, but no chance to talk to either of them. Typed, printed, redmarked, typed, printed redmarked, typed, printed. At home: more redmarking. Finished up the ice cream at home, weight is up. :-( The next few days should have a lot of chance to exercise. No time for Endeavour. ============================================================== Su 5/19/24 Strength, Running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, spent time instead at People's Organic, reading the Strib and redmarkign. Three day-old pastries. Watched Meet the Press. Marco Rubio, Gov Wes Moore (D-MD). Panel Kelly O'Donnell, Symone Sanders-Townsend, Brendan Buck. Interview with Michael Phelps, which I skipped. I read a little of Grant's autobio. Just started the part on Lee's surrender. finished Endeavour "Muse", s5/9, e1/6, first time started 32:19. Luncheon meat in the Thursday's sandwich, not sure what day. not Monday or Thursday or Friday. Simon Lake, Robin's best man. Delilah = Paula Ellis. Dance of the Seven Veils, Salome's dance before King Herod Antipas Lefty Townsend. ENSA = Entertainments National Service Association. Lew and Leslie = talent agency founded in 1943. Lew and Leslie Grade were brothers. Lefty: "... very successful Dick at Eastbourne."Englebert at Blackpool." Eve Thorne. Simon Lake: 15 Holywell Lane. Beheaded. Bertram Povey. A Spy in the House of Love, by Ana\"is Nin (female). 1954. Main Character: Sabina. Stranger follows Sabina. Sabina's husband: Alan. Olympia model: Victorine Meurent, artist. Pickman, army, Altdorf, national service, knew Simon. Shiplake Chase Hotel. "SC". music: "La Traviata" aria Satie's "Gnossiennne No 2" Tancred Howlett pays for gas and electric at Simon Lake's flat. Tancred Howlett, don at Lonsdale, lives on same stair as Grey. St Alfredus. Berserkers. Adrian Croxley was at the stag. Robin Grey married Lucy, Tancred Howlett had hoped for her, too. Tufty club: Tufty Fluffytail, squirrel cartoon character to teach kids about road safety in the UK. Furryfolk friends: Policeman Badger, Willy Weasel, Minnie Mole, Mrs Owl. 24 Tobacco Yard: Eddie Nero's Magdalen Cabs. Weibermacht = Power of women. 1:12:55: NOTE: Jack Swift on Panhurst employmnent bureau list. Jack Swift is the striker in s8e1 "Striker". Ruth Astor. "A.C. 0000". Scenes painted by Artemisia Gentileschi. Jael slew Sisera (spike through skull), Samson (blinded by Philistines), Holofernes (beheaded). started Endeavour "Muse", s5/9, e1/6, second time Shirl = Shirley Trewlove Monday April 1 (April Fools) at start. Thursday April 4 (MLK assassination) at end. 938126 message service. Next day would be Tuesday. Easter in 1968 was on April 14. Luncheon meat would probably be Tuesday, Thursday's sandwiches. glassed = attacked (with, e.g., glass from broken beer bottle) Joey Sikes was killed after driving Eve Thorne to a party. (He was a cab driver for Magdelen Cabs.) stopped at 44:31 ============================================================== Sa 5/18/24 Strength, Running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, had to get to the native plants walk in Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden at 10am. First time to that garden, very interesting. Tour of garden given by John. 1:15pm, donated blood. Next appt on Sat 20 July at 1pm. Around 3pm, Discount Tires, tire rotation. Replaced valve-stem in one tire. Treads are getting near their two tires at 4/32'', two at 6/32''. 2/32'' is dangerous. Will probably need new tires in a few months. Careful during rain. mileage 121,938. Oil at 98% note: next rotation at 126,938 to 127,938 note: tires were replaced at 43,352 and were warrantied for 70,000 miles. someone at Discount Tires told me the mileage was at 80,264 miles when the tires were replaced, but the invoice emailed to me on 1/18/2019 says 43,352. note: 119,622 on Sun 17 Feb 2024, oil at 20% 120,995 on Sun 14 April 2024, oil at 94% (oil change on 29 Feb) 121,936 on Sat 18 May 2024, oil at 89% continued Endeavour "Muse", s5/9, e1/6, first time Adrian Croxley: chartreuse at Robin's good luck bagging a Matildabeest. rowing blue: blue is someone who is on the University team for a sport. a very Messalina. Messalina = third wife of the Roman emperor Claudius. Great and powerful woman, but executed for plotting against Claudius. Grey died In Grey's flat, "Delilah 68239" Robert = Robin. Robin Grey. Simon Lake. Glider. good friends with Robin Grey, national service together. enventually turns out that the two met Gerard Pickman in nat'l service in the army. reluctant to give away who owns the egg. Windmill, artist Gerard Pickman (rides motorcycle): Cassie wife, son Alec. In the artists' studio: Nevinnost' = innocence. Kent Finn again. Manet, Olympia. Scandalized the Paris Salon. Model = Evie = Eve Thorne. Stopped 32:19 ============================================================== F 5/17/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to the U, and rode back with Maxim. At the U: typed, printed, croissant at Starbucks, redmarked, typed, printed, redmarked, typed, printed. Found out that the Twolves crushed the Nuggets last night. :-) Last game of the series will be in Denver. Sunday, I think. At home: very hungry, ate a lot. Redmarking. Napped for about 45 minutes. 5:45pm: Half-off pizza at Buca with Julia. Approx $20 with $7 tip. Watched a Murder in Paris with Julia. Black-white for a 1940s murder, color for a present day murder. Lots of parallels. No time for Endeavour today. Lots of eating today. Trying to finish up the ice cream. Weight is up -- over 157. ============================================================== Th 5/16/24 Strength, Running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: today's WSJ, redmarking. finished Endeavour "Harvest", s4/9, e4/4, second time. started Endeavour "Muse", s5/9, e1/6, first time dead: Joey Sikes (on Holywell Lane), Robert Grey, Simon Lake murderer: Ruth Astor music: Mendelssohn "Elijah" sit pax in valle tamesis = may there be peace in the Valley Thames (valle pronounced wallay) Thames Valley Constabulary on the shield. meaning of "ER"? Elizabeth Regina = Queen Elizabeth. of vertu = of interest because of it antiquity, beauty, etc Robert Grey, Simon Lake (art dealer) George Fancy Jack Horner: he put in his thumb / and pulled out a plum / what a good boy am I. Eddie Nero -- Magdalen Cabs "in his shell-like". shell-like = ear (an ear looks like a shell) I'll have your cobblers for a key-fob. (I think I understand ...) Joan's flat in Park Town. (Park Town is a suburb, N of Oxford) Spencer Bell, student Life model, knows the tutor, Gerard Pickman. stopped at 26:08 Worked a little on writing something for the journal Climate Literacy in Education. ============================================================== W 5/15/24 Strength, Running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: today's WSJ, redmarking. continued Endeavour "Harvest", s4/9, e4/4, second time. started at 11:10. to doss = to bed down. continued to 27:22. Julia helped me order more ekopura vegan omega-3. Julia and I went for a walk in Wood Rill near Long Lake. Mosquitoes were bad, so we hiked back to the car for some bug spray. Then we went for Mother's Day dinner a few days late, at Primo Plates and Pours in Long Lake. (She had a groupon.) Wednesdays are Lasagne night, excellent lasagne and a good mushroom insalata. Also had tiramisu. Pretty full. Watched some of The Voice -- down to 5, not including Madison Curbelo. Finals are next week. Twolves lost again, last night, I think. Down 2-3 to Denver Nuggets. If they lose again in this series, it ends the season. Watched 60 minutes: Israel's multi-front war (Hezbollah, Iran, Gaza), someone helping N Koreans try to defect -- crazy story about a faked kidnapping. Watched "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner". mens sana in corpore sano = a healthy mind in a health body Jerusalem: hymn by Sir Hubert Parry and Sir Edward Elgar based on "And did those feet in ancient time" poem by William Blake ============================================================== Tu 5/14/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, pen spin. No juggling today. No library. Caught 6:45am to the U, and 3:48pm back. Typed, printed, Starbucks (croissant), redmarked, typed, printed, redmarked, typed, printed. Voted for Heather Edelson in the special election for Hennepin County Commissioner. dinner: milk, English muffins with Jif, some of Julia's mushroom omelet, some walnuts, ice cream. Redmarked at home. I read a little of Grant's autobio. ============================================================== M 5/13/24 Strength, Running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ weekend, today's WSJ, a little of a recent Economist, redmarking Shopping at L&B: Milk, English muffins (to eat up Maxim's Jif), bucket of ice cream (will use the container for compost). 2pm: Call about chapter development with Terry Quain and Nicola Philpott. They don't so much like the 1 hour speakers. They don't so much like highlighting the 60 seconds / month calling program. Around 4pm, Julia's plane got in and I went and picked her up. Stopped at Trader Joe's so she could get some milk, etc. I got a frozen dinner: paneer tikka masala. Spent over an hour watching the Voice. Madison Curbelo is still in it. ============================================================== Su 5/12/24 Strength, Running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Worked at People's Organic -- day old pastries. Went to my mom's for Mother's Day. Stopped off at Everest and got takeout to bring. Alex and Maxim met me there, and we helped out with various things around their house after lunch. Good time, but it was hot outside -- 80 degrees F. Back at home, crashed for an hour or two. Then did some redmarking. Watched the Wolves lose to Denver again. :-( Laundry. Dishwasher. Julia back tomorrow. No time for Endeavour. ============================================================== Sa 5/11/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. No time for Endeavour, no time for a walk. Nice weather today, though. 10:30am, ran CCL chapter meeting. Lee Dilley came up from Northfield, and gave a very interesting talk on a range of topics. He left me with two "tree-range" chickens, which I gave to Kathleen Lowry. After the chapter meeting, not a very productive day. Very tired from getting in late last night after aurora hunting with Alex. Napped for an hour or two, but still very tired. Did a little redmarking, not much else. Hope to sleep well tonight. ============================================================== F 5/10/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Beautiful day. Took 6:45am to the U, rode back with Maxim at 3pm. Starbucks: butter croissant. Type, print, redmark, type, print. At home: Shopping: walnuts, milk, cheese, two bars chocolate with cherries and almonds. Fixed a little dinner: Cheese and crackers, cereal, corn chowder, milk, one of the bars of chocolate. More redmarking, read a little of Grant's autobio, rested. No time for Endeavour. Watched Timberwolves Nuggets game with Maxim. Wolves lost badly. :-( Series is now Wolves 2, Nuggets 1, so they're still ahead, fingers crossed! Annual Letter: Northern Lights! Went for late night drive with Alex, looking for the Northern Lights. Left around 11pm to go to his place. Successful! First time seeing them, and I got a nice picture, too. Very late night, though. Back after 3am. I have to run a CCL chapter meeting at 10:30am tomorrow. ============================================================== Th 5/9/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, NY Times book review, redmarking Catnapped. Fairly long walk around the neighborhood. About 45 minutes. Watched some of the Newshour. Finished Endeavour "Harvest", s4/9, e4/4, first time. Morse appt: 11am, Tintagel House. Found Dr Laxman with a geiger counter. Tristan Berger is one of the cultists. Seth Chattox gave Sadler the coat. Scarecrow named Old Job. white-haired person and a tall bearded person. In car with Levin: Prof Bagley, Dr Warren (the hitchhiker, recites Revelation) tie a bowline. Joan in hospital, lost baby. George Medal: awarded for gallantry in circumstances where military honors not appropriate George Cross and George Medal. George Cross at same level as Victoria Cross, a military award. George Medal: Frederick Albert Thursday, Endeavour Morse. Detective **Sergeant** Morse. Dr Matthew Laxman (Alex Mann) Nigel Warren (Simon Meacock) Dowsable Chattox (Sheila Hancock) Alison Laxman (Natalie Burt) Prof Donald Bagley (Michael Pennington) Selina Berger (Joanna Horton) ?Morag Morrison? (Jane Wittenshaw), maybe the shopkeeper, first person Morse meets at Bramford. Seth Chattox (Christopher Coghill) Ros Levin (Emily Forbes) Zebulon Sadler (Ghahame Fox) Dr Tristan Berger (Sam Hoare) Dr Jon Levin (Alex Wyndham) ?Sgt Troy Martin? (Sam Redford), maybe at the gate ?Quizmaster? (Phillip Edgerley) Elliott Blake (Adam Levy) Ray Morton (from "Lazaretto" episode) (Matthew Walker) ?Doctor? (Raj Paul) Started Endeavour "Harvest", s4/9, e4/4, second time. ============================================================== W 5/8/24 No strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: today's WSJ, recent Barrons, redmarking Finished Endeavour "Lazaretto", s4/9, e3/4, third time. Maxim came home in the afternoon, to work at Gina Maria's. Will spend the night. Started Endeavour "Harvest", s4/9, e4/4, first time. dead: Matthew Laxman (disappeared 5 years earlier, in 1962). murderer: Seth Chattox (shepherd) music: Dies irae by Mozart, K 626, sung by BBC Singers. Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 JS Bach. Paint It Black, Rolling Stones klaxon = warning horn Sept 1962 at start, Bramford 2.5 then Sept 1967: open the seventh seal, seven trumpets second advent = second coming of Christ Dies irae, dies illa, solvet saeclum in favilla, tested David cum Sibylla. Oxpens, Matthew Laxman, botanist, Wolsey; hitchhiker Nigel Warren, Bramford Mere, Bramford Village mere = shallow lake, pond, wetland, esp in Great Britain (like la mar, in French) wife of Matthew Laxman: Alison Laxman. DS Lott, Courtenay College. Professor Donald Bagley at Wolsey. Anne, wife of Bagley, died (leukemia). Nigel Warren: reciting Revelation, hitchhiker. Morris Men, Goddess bless thee Morris dance, form of English folk dance. tabret = small tabor drum. Mrs Ros Levin, husband Jon, American from Omaha NE Miss Dowsable Chattox, grandson Seth, gravestone Agnes Chattox (1623-1645) 11 April Joan Thursday's bday. thou shalt not suffer a witch to live, Zebulon Sadler, Sexton of All Souls. sexton = person who looks after church and churchyard (bellringer, gravedigger) klaxon from nuclear power plant. Dr Tristan Berger, "Our sexton ... can lay it on a bick thick, esp with strangers". surgeon (sawbones), clinic in King's Abbot, lives in Bramford. sister: Selina Berger. Atomic Energy Authority, MOD = Ministry of Defense, probably, permanent undersecretary's office DI Strange: Frank Saul???; DI Craddoc, Tintagel House; Hendon; ??shirl?? Selina Berger: "return my books to Boots", Boots Circulating Library black Morris Oxford came off the road film about a Borstal boy becomes a runner (Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner) borstal = youth detention centre in the UK, commonwealth, and Republic of Ireland Elliott Blake, director of Bramford Reactor Goldenrod = new reactor, Bramford B Mr Blake: Joint Computing Network, Jon Levin: SCRAM Thursday: 589 Lima, Foxtrot Tango nonce: person who commits a crime involving sex, esp with a minor chokey, choky = prison (from Hindi cauk\-i, shed or lockup) Prometheus Unbound by Shelley, something to do with Donald Bagley. Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound, Prometheus Unbound, Prometheus the Fire-Bringer. second only in fragments, third only one line (Quiet, where need is; and talking to the point) reimagines the myths of Prometheus in Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days On the wall, when Donald Bagley is talking to Allison Laxman: In Piam Memoriam In Priam Memoriam, by Geoffrey Hill (in piam memoriam = in pious memory) Scarecrow has radiation measuring device (film badge dosimeter) and tarot card: The Hierophant hierophant = priest in ancient Greece Miss Dowsable Chattox: Bram = the stream through the valley in Bramford Maize field belongs to Zebulon Sadler Stopped at 46:19 Went for a short walk in the neighborhood. Watched a little of BBC News and the Newshour. Conflicted on the anti-war movement. ============================================================== Tu 5/7/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library: caught 6:45am to the U, 3:48pm from the U. At the U, worked on typing, printing, redmarks, more typing, another printout. Focused on the last 20 pages or so. Added a section on infinite summation. Starbucks: butter croissant. Worked a little in Keller CS and EE bldg. Drizzly in the morning, but cleared up in the afternoon. Some quinoa risotto, milk, walnuts, oranges, Amy's pakora, string cheese (4 pieces), cherries and almonds chocolate bar. 6pm, watched about 15 minutes of the Newshour. 6:15pm, short walk in the neighborhood. Started Endeavour "Lazaretto", s4/9, e3/4, third time. Matthews Gang. Bakewell turning Queen's evidence. Sir Merlyn Chubb. chokey, choky = prison (from Hindi cauk\-i, shed or lockup) Mr Zacharides lost: diamond tie pin. Gall bladder. Informant beaten up: Gil. Gives up Scotch Tam from "Aberdeen or swh". tam o' shanter = "tammie" = Scottish bonnet worn by men Tam may be a version of Tom, e.g., the song "Tam Pierce" = "Tom Pierce" whip-around seems to mean something like passing the hat sweet peas are the flowers on the beds -- sweet peas ward in the former hospital Lester Fagen: mother was a patient, ex-wife? Fred Thursday as a desk jockey: Yes, sir, no sir ... three bags full sir. Baa, baa, black sheep, Have you any wool? Yes, sir, yes, sir, Three bags full; ... Fred say to Win: A week at Rena's. Councilor Rooney. bowls club. bowls = lawn bowling, a sport. boules. bocce in Italian. stopped 44:51. ============================================================== M 5/6/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. 11am, Implant consult. Implant scheduled for M 17 June at 11:20am. Library: WSJ, redmarking. 2:30pm, 7 Corners Coffee, met with LTE group -- Greg O couldn't make it. Nicola just got her tax return, and made some money but getting a heat pump and a heat pump water heater. 4:30pm, short walk around the neighborhood. Bought ant killer and put it down in the master bathroom. Finished Endeavour "Lazaretto", s4/9, e3/4, second time. Molly Keenan, girl who died while Dr Powell and Sister MacMahon were carrying on. M. Keenan signature on letter to Ethel Zacharides. Ruby Hiscutt, got the blame for Molly Keenan's death ============================================================== Su 5/5/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, went to People's Oranic instead. Day old pastries. Last Sunday's Strib. Redmarking. Checked Julia's smoke detector. Battery at 100%. Gave Julia a ride to the airport, to catch her flight to Ireland. She'll be there until Monday, a week from tomorrow. Did all of my laundry today, in the afternoon. Cleaned up a bit, ate some of the leftovers. 1:30pm-2:30pm, Unmapped, did postcard writing for the Environmental Voter Project. Finished Endeavour "Lazaretto", s4/9, e3/4, first time. dead: Mr Greeley, Arthur Carpenter (dug up), Terence Bakewell, the Zacharides (Ethel and husband), Scotch Tam Fraser and his driver parrot: Jeremiah. murderer: Jo-Beth Mills, cousin of Molly Keenan: Greeley, Bakewell, the Zacharides murderer: unknown for Scotch Tam Fraser and his driver. Mills also wrote the letter, went to visit killed Ethel Zacharides, killed her. Sister Clodagh MacMahon, tough. Nurse Flora Byron, young, blond. Nurse Jo-Beth Mills, competent. Student nurse Daisy Bennett. Dr Dean Powell -- good-looking, the nurses are interested in him. squash = non-alcoholic beverage, sometimes called a cordial. can be mixed with an alcoholic beverage Edgar (no change) Bryce-Morgan. Susan, daughter. porter: Lyle Capper patient: Burt Talbot another playing card. Burt Talbot (Glen Davies) Jo-Beth Mills (Sara Winter) Lester Fagen (Robert Wilfort) Lyle Capper (Morgan Jones) Daisy Bennett (Celine Buckens) Flora Byron (Ciara Charteris) Caroline Bryce-Morgan (Phoebe Nicholls), wife of Edgar Sir Merlyn Chubb (David Yelland) Dr Malcolm Kane (Edward Macliam) Clodagh MacMahon (Amy Marston) Dr Dean Powell (John Hopkins) Terence Bakewell (Alex McSweeney) Ms. Donna Zacharides (Claire Lichie), Ethel Zacharides' daughter Gilbert Sisley (Mark Phoenix) Murray Booth (Sion Alun Davies) Ray Morton (Matthew Walker) Started Endeavour "Lazaretto", s4/9, e3/4, second time. Stopped 11:56 ============================================================== Sa 5/4/24 No strength, running (about 10 mins), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, New Yorker, The Atlantic (article about Scot Peterson, coward of broward). Redmarking. Napped for an hour or so. Short walk in the neighborhood with Julia. Watched Endeavour "Canticle", s4/9,e2/4, third time. Aldous Huxley's book "The Doors of Perception" about psychadelic experience with mescaline May 1953. Huxley's final novel: "Island" (utopian) Started Endeavour "Lazaretto", s4/9, e3/4, first time. Lazaretto = an isolation hospital for people with infections diseases, esp leprosy or plague quarantine station for maritime travelers. etymology: lazzaretto = derived name of Santa Maria di Nazareth, a Venetian island. nazzaretto --> lazzaretto --> lazaretto St Lazarus Nightfly on Radio Carillon Nurse May's Dilemma by Ola Goldfeather Olayinka Goldfeather was a graphics assistant for four episodes in 2017 Lester Fagen signing off. Mr Greely died in hospital bed 10 in Fosdick Ward. Leamington 3492. Mr Bryce-Morgan. Sir Merlyn. Mr Talbot. Powell. Mrs Ethel Zacharides. "Evil Old Cow" Jeremiah, parrot. tocsin = alarm bell or signal. vale, vigile = farewell, watchman. Terence Bakewell, in handcuffs, from Farnleigh Prison to Cowley General. peterman on Robsons' Jewelers job. peterman = safe cracker. Matthews Gang. chitty = voucher for money owed. Sister MacMahon. Sister Clodagh (tartar) Caroline and Edgar Bryce-Morgan: knows Morse, at the hospital. Edgar's had a very bad stroke. Byers Hall. William visiting Susan and Henry. Henry is Susan's husband, I suppose. Displaced Morse in Susan's affections, I suppose. Henry's at New Carthage, head of law faculty. Perforated peptic ulcer peptic = related to digestion esp using pepsin pepsin: an endopeptidase to break down proteins Stopped 16:28 ============================================================== F 5/3/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Caught 6:45am to the U, rode back with Maxim, leaving at 3pm. He stopped off at People's Organic to do some shopping. Watched Endeavour "Canticle", s4/9,e2/4, second time. Oxford 2947 Leamington Miss Thursday Mimi (Sharlette Henry) Rev Mervyn Golightly (Paul Brown) Mrs Joy Pettybon (Sylvestra Le Touzel) Steve Carter (Phil Rowson) Pippa Leyton (Sophie Simnett) Emma Carr (Ella Hunt) Ken Wilding (Michael Fox) Chrisotpher Clark (Jonathan Barnwell) Lee "Stix" Noble (Dario Coates) Nick Wilding (Will Payne) Norris Randall (William Ilkley) Bettina Pettybon (Pearl Chanda) Dr Bakshi (Sagar I M Arya) Dudley Jessop (Matthew Needham) Ralph Spender (David Sturzaker) Mrs Finch (Rebecca Lacey) Anna-Britt Clark (Kajsa Mohammar) Julian Calendar (David Reed) ============================================================== Th 5/2/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Will do no strength, no running tomorrow. (Going to the U.) Buildings at the U reopened at noon today -- closed because of pro-Palestinian protests. Library: WSJ, wrote up notes on derivative of X^rho S_beta^vep is - X^{rho+1} S_beta^vep Slept really well last night, 8.5 hours without interruption. Watched an episode of Blue Bloods. Had some more quinoa risotto. Finished Endeavour "Game", s4/9,e1/4, third time. Host: Alan Cumming, FRSE, Scottish actor. Erik Satie wrote 3 gymnopedie's. Modern sound, but written just before 1900. First and third written earlier than second. Satie friends with Debussy. Smalls worked at the pump station. come the old acid = speak sarcastically or caustically note: caustic usually refers to basic, not acidic. :-) I'll stick her on and have her up before the beak beak or beck = magisrate read drum ---> rude dram Forbin 66 refers both to Fortan 66 and to a movie called Colossus: The Forbin Project. Amory Gould Gibbs Castle. Rhyming: years --> donkey's ears --> no one's been here in donkey's ears --> no one's been here in donkeys. To get stuck on --> to get in trouble with the law?? Shopping: milk, Carr's crackers (on sale), some Progresso soup (one corn chowder, one bean soup), goldfish crackers (on sale). Watched Endeavour "Canticle", s4/9,e2/4, first time. dead: Barry Finch, Reverend Mervyn Golightly. almost: Nick Wilding murderer: Emma Carr. prie-dieu, furniture for kneeling on during prayer Mrs Joy Pettybon (Keep Britain Decent), daughter Bettina she mailed the letter to herself, partial print under the stamp. music: Make Believe song by Matthew Slater All Things Bright and Beautiful Schubert: Death and the Maiden Verdi's "Messa Da Requiem" Mimi. Kiss me. Mimi's special guests: The Wildwood Manager of the Wildwood: Ralph Spender. "The Wildwood are nice clean boys." Ken Wilding, Nick Wilding, Chris (Christopher Clark), Stix Noble (Lee?). Mr Steve Carter, Barry Finch's friend and co-worker. Maplewick Hall. Mount Street in London. Bruno = Ralph Spender's driver. Phyllis = Ralph Spender's mother. Tr\`es Riches Heures du Duc de Berry. 1412-1416. 206 leaves of parchment. ("My Sweet Lady Kate".) Based on poem by Beaudelaire: Goldhawk Road. Pippa Leyton. Emma Carr. Anna-Britt Clark, Chris' wife. Emma Carr = Emma Jennifer d'Arblay Carr. Dr Bakshi. Stopped 19:54. Julian Calendar, TV host. Dudley Jessop ("The Exciting Times"). Reverend Golightly. Dudley Jessop, describing Mrs Joy Pettybon: Harridan hat, Hedda Hopper glasses. brass neck: extremely confident, but doesn't understand their behaviour is unacceptable. hemorrhage, leading to heart failure hypomagnesemia = magnesium deficiency, an electrolyte disturbance. YEMKTTHL 4099 Yet each man kills the thing he loves From "Ballad of Reading Gaol" 4099=Oscar Wilde's prison number in Reading Jail. I cast myself down upon the prie-dieu, and while aloud I open my heart to the Eternal. Roland in a still crueler manner intensifies, upon the hindquarters I expose to him his vexactions and his torments. From "Justine" by Marquis de Sade Charles Baudelaire: "One should always be drunk" Huxley: pacifist, mescaline, dystopia and utopia Major Ralph and Bruno and Pippa Friday = Corned beef, Thursday's sandwich. Leamington calling. Another playing card. ============================================================== W 5/1/24 No strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, no juggling, pen spin. No time for juggling. Library: WSJ, NYer, redmarking. Handwrote a couple of useful lemmas. Haircut, around noon. Went for walk with Julia, leaving from near Lake Bryant, behind International School. She found some mushrooms, and made quinoa risotto with mushrooms, very good. Weight is back down, <155. Very tired, did a short nap. 7pm Science group, at Larry Stickler's senior home. Jamie's daughter presented (on Zoom) about Medieval trials of animals, particularly pigs. She's pursuing a PhD in History of Animals. Chatted with Jeff Klepfberg afterward. His older son is back living with them, didn't do so well in college. His younger son is off to college next year, maybe U of Utah, maybe Madison. No time for Endeavour. ============================================================== Tu 4/30/24 Strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to the U. Everything on the main quad shut down because of Gaza protest encampment. Wrote to Katherine who suggested I check with the desk on the second floor of Lind. Also talked with Ben Brubaker. Eventually found out I could use a computer in a lab in Lind Hall. Printer there, too, so everything worked out well. May need to do that again on Friday. Typed redmarks only from end section, printed, more redmarks, one more printout. Did some more editing, but don't like the effect, will STET those. Went for short walk in the flats. I read just a little of Grant's autobio. Breakfast at Brueggers, yogurt at Starbucks, more food at Caribou. Veggie sandwich at Crumb. At home, had Julia's salad, some nuts, couple of glasses of milk, granola bar. Weight is up. :-( Watched a couple of segments of 60 minutes. One about teamwork between Russian hackers and English speaking hackers. Something like "Spider's web"? Another about sightings of the extinct Tasmanian tiger. Found out we have the room at Immanuel Lutheran for the 11th. Sent out announcement. Also reminded Nicola to advertise in EPLN. Also sent out assignments for calling the roster. Getting toward the end. Started Endeavour "Game", s4/9,e1/4, third time. Host: Alan Cumming, FRSE, Scottish actor. Erik Satie wrote 3 gymnopedie's. Modern sound, but written just before 1900. First and third written earlier than second. Satie friends with Debussy. Stopped 11:28. ============================================================== M 4/29/24 28th anniversary of my US wedding No strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Went to Mallards, for anniversary lunch. Rainy day, no walk after lunch, but I went for a walk on my own around the neighborhood a little later. Started to drizzle again, though, so it was a short walk. Some redmarking. I read a little more of US Grant's autobiography. Watched Endeavour "Game", s4/9,e1/4, second time. Mick Mitchum (at the slipper baths, Cowley baths). Ragnar\"ok = Norse end times. "Goodnight, Vienna" is English slang for "It's all over". Denial: Daniel. Vicar's bitch: Palfrey. Empty envelopes: Mail, i.e., Oxford Mail Handbag: Found in tunnel next to RxN checkmeat. How did Castle kill Tessa Knight when he was with Morse and Thursday that night?? Ruled out Castle, with him at time of Knight's death?? Rupert Gibbs, father of Dr Clifford Gibbs. "Take your pick" was a British game show. (One box included a key to box 13.) Napoleon's dictum: It is better to fight against a coalition than to fight as part of one. Dr Bernard Gould, second in command at JCN Dr Clifford Gibbs (Abram Rooney), takes over from Castle to program machine Judith Leighton-Asbury. Dr Leighton-Asbury, wife Judith Les gueules cass\'ees Alexander Leighton-Asbury went to live with a family named King. (King's gambit) RAMC = Royal Army Medical Corps Penelope Leighton-Asbury. Playing card right at end. Watched a little of the Voice. Madison Curbelo not performing tonight. ============================================================== Su 4/28/24 Strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, People's Organic instead. Day old pastries. 11am, walk around Lake Nokomis, with Terry, Nicola and her family (husband Mark, and kids), Cecilia. Mindy didn't make it. Watched Meet the Press. Interviews with Senator Mitch McConnell, Senator Tim Kaine (Hilary Clinton's running mate), Ruby Bridges (whose Louisiana school was integrated in 1960 when she was 6 years old). Panel: Geoff Bennett of the PBS Newshour, Jonathan Martin of Politico, Jen Psaki of "Inside with Jen Psaki", Marc Short former chief of staff to Pence. Much discussion about Gaza, Ukraine, Trump's legal troubles. Some redmarking. Watched a little from Blue Bloods, episode about police boxing, use of AI to deepfake voices. Finished "In Search of Palestine", E Said. Hebron. Land grab. Watched Endeavour "Game", s4/9,e1/4, first time. captioning: "Endeavour," beginning tonight on Mas(thunder). Mas = Masterpiece Theatre, I guess. Music: Satie's "Gymnop\'edie No 1. Dead: Prof Richard Nielsen (Lovelace College), Miss Palfrey (in service), Edison D Smalls (worker at pumping station), Tessa Knight (reporter). Murderer: Dr Broderick Castle verruca = plantar wart, spread by communal pools. (Planta = sole of the foot) lady slipper = orchid shaped like a slipper Archimedes' sand reckoner, Archimedes' attempt to calculate the number of grains of sand needed to fill the universe. (Not a computer.) Torquetum of Jabir ibn Aflah (analog computer for celestial computations) Jason = computer. (JCN = Joint Computing Nexus) Prof Amory. Jason v Prof Yuri Gradenko. Amory's daughter Dr Patricia Amory. Ormalu clock. Ormalu = gilt bronze = bronze gilded with gold. Brogues are Irish boots. Welt is between the sole and the upper. Katz bookshop. Superintendant Jolliphant. Magdalen Bridge, pronounced maudlin. "And one was fond of me / And all are slain" AE Housman, Ask me no more, for fear I should reply in the Cherwell. Cherwell is a tributary of the Thames. Lovelace College. slipper baths: Miss Palfrey. perimortem = at or around the time of death. Tessa Knight, Oxford Mail. to be in service = to be a servant. Kronsteen Variation of Queen's Gambit Declined. Dr Nielsen drowned. Mr Mick Mitchim, Mona Davies, Mr Smedley works at the baths. Wilkins Youth Club. King's Gambit e4 e5 f4. billets-doux = sweet letters worked for doctor Aston or Ashford out by Binsey. Ashcourt, Ashton, Leighton-Asbury Danny or Daniel. Kent Finn, mystery writer Penelope Leighton-Asbury. Mick Mitcham (Daniel Attwell) Mona Davies (Katherine Kingsley) Ruth Hargreaves (Natalie Grady) Prof George Amory (James Laurenson) Dr Bernard Gould (Tristan Sturrock) Dr Patricia Amory (Gillian Saker) Dr Clifford Gibbs (Abram Rooney) Dr Broderick Castle (Chris Fulton) Tessa Knight (Ruby Thomas) Kent Finn (Adam James) Prof Yuri Gradenko (Robert Luckay) Adelaide Smalls (Dawn Hope) Grantly Smalls (Geff Francis) ============================================================== Sa 4/27/24 No strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, new Economist, redmarks. Home: More redmarks. Finished The Way We Were. Dir: Sidney Pollack. Screeplay and novel: Arthur Laurents (based on experiences at Cornell). JJ (Bradford Dillman), Carol Ann (Lois Chiles) George Bissinger (Patrick O'Neal), Paula Reisner (Viveca Lindfors) Short walk in the neighborhood, over in Candyland. Shopping L&B: milk, cheese, soup, walnuts. Started "In Search of Palestine" a 1998 documetary about Edward Said's past, and the origins of the Palestinian diaspora. Leukemia. Edward Said's father was a cricket wicket-keeper (like a catcher) Wadie, fathers name and son's name, too. St George's School where the father was a cricket player. Also Edward Said (ES) was a student there until forced to move in Dec 1947. Bombing of King Daivd Hotel. Child of 10. Jewish classmate. David Ezra. Ibrahim ?Abuluhud?, ES's oldest Palestinian friend. Deir Yassin, April of 1948. ES was in Cairo. Mahmoud Darwish, "Palestine's national poet", interviewed by ES. Ilan Papp\'e, interviewed by ES, about the expulsions of 1948. Daniel Barenboim, Israeli pianist, friend of ES. Jahalin eviction filmed. Calvary = great suffering. 1993 Oslo agreements. PA has autonomy in some areas. Zone C is 72% of the west bank fully controlled by Israel. stopped 30:28. ============================================================== F 4/26/24 Strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. Cold and rainy day. (Dark and stormy night, purple prose, Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Paul Clifford.) Caught 6:45am to U. Typed redmarks, printed, more redmarks in last section, more printing. Met Alex at 12:40pm to go to Francis Burgers for lunch with Joe Bove. Chatted for several hours. Alex drove me back. More redmarking. Watched an hour of The Way We Were. 42 mins left. ============================================================== Th 4/25/24 Strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Library: WSJ, NYT, redmarking. Home: More redmarking. Started Endeavour "Coda", s3/9,e4/4, third time. cortege = corg\`ege = solemn procession esp for funeral. "eyes down for a full house" said at start of Bingo. Full house=winning card. Harry Rose both in "Coda" and in "Ride"(s3/9, e1/4) Mourning Becomes Electra, play by Eugene O'Neill, retelling of Oresteia by Aeschylus, the name Electra is changed to Lavinia. Oedipus complex | Electra complex Hedda Gabler, play by Henrik Ibsen. Marlock says, "Just having a gasp, Tom." Tom = Tommy Thompson. Weekend floats. Sometimes money goes from one account into another. It appears in the new account before it disappears from the old one, because of time delays in communication. "Float" is money that appears in two accounts at once. The kid (who shot the police officer): Kenny Stone. Gillian: "Charlott own ... Charlott without an `e' ", she's transcribing the cipher. Went for a walk with Julia at Riley Creek. Started The Way We Were. ============================================================== W 4/24/24 No strength, running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. Weight is back down, well under 155. For now. Library: WSJ, NYer, redmarking. Home: more redmarking. Continued Endeavour "Coda", s3/9,e4/4, second time. Wages snatch in Holywell Street. Saveloy is a bright red sausage, common in England. NAAFI = Navy Army and Air Force Institutes Larry into warehouse. Bernie, informant. Gillyflower, fragrant flower. abiding = enduring, continuing. Nina Burton married to Felix Lorrimer. Stopped at 25:03 5:15pm, pub pizzas at OC with Julia, then a walk around Staring Lake. Continued Endeavour "Coda", s3/9,e4/4, second time. Money for old rope = money earned very easily. viva = viva voce = living voice = PhD defense Kenny Stone. Larry Nelson. Mr Gidderton. Ronnie Gidderton. Mods teacher --> Honour Moderation examination at the end of the first part of some degree courses (e.g. Greats or Literae Humaniores) William son of the bank manager, Howard Foryce. Cole bank robber. Toerag -- despicable or worthless person refers to a poor person who can't afford shoes, uses rags on his feet to keep toes warm Stroke is the rower closest to the stern of the shell, the most important position. Cole and Pete at standoff at end. lead me up the garden path = give me misleading clues or signals. Tipoff came from Larry Nelson. Doesn't *always* do as he's told. ============================================================== Tu 4/23/24 Strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library, caught 6:45am to U. 10:15am, appt to see Dr Granja (who did my hernia repair in August 2023). He says my situation is normal, and that I'm feeling the mesh, not another weakness. Breakfast at Brueggers (egg and cheese, hash browns). Butter croissant and yogurt-granola at Starbucks. While at school, typed redmarks, printed, did more redmarking, more typing, another printout. Napped, very tired. 3:48pm bus back home. Shopping at L&B. Milk, high protein yogurt, high protein Progresso soup. Ate some of the yogurt and one can of soup at home. Also some walnuts, some string cheese, some bars. Weight is up now. More redmarking, still very tired. Rewatched Madison Curbelo (Puerto Rican, from Westfield, MA) on The Voice, singing Fleetwood Mac song Landslide. Turns out that she didn't make it past the blinds in 2021 on Season 20 (singing Don't Worry, Be Happy), then came back and got a 4-chair turn. Started Endeavour "Coda", s3/9,e4/4, second time. Eights Week or Summer Eights. Oxford's intercollegiate rowing event of the year. Bumps race. Men's and women's eights (eight rowers and a cox) compete. Try to bump boat in front, while not getting bumped from behind. Danny La Rue, OBE, Irish-English singer and entertainer. Drag performer. Bingo calls are standardized, e.g., Christmas cake = 38. Can find lists of them online. "Looks to be a wages snatch." Clissold had gotten payroll, which was stolen when he was shot. Mrs Abbot asking after an order book. Blue films. Stopped at 8:40. ============================================================== M 4/22/24 No strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. 1pm-2:30pm, VEAP, Metro South Mobile Pantry driver. 3:20pm, RSV Vaccine Home: Some more redmarking. Finished Endeavour "Coda", s3/9,e4/4, first time. Wages snatches to the rough boys??? Paul Marlock, bingo, fraud. Pete Murray's turntable Felix Lorrimer. Kenny Stone, car thief and stock car racer. Jim Clark, F1 race car driver, died in racing accident age 82, in 1968. Bernie Waters, Tommy Thompson, Larry Nelson (small fry, crumbs after Peter Matthews). Peter Matthews' wife Shiela slaps the widow of Harry Rose. Peter Matthews having affair with widow. Cole and Peter gone to see their mother. Mr Fordyce. Mr Gidderton brought the Clissold account at the start. Weekend floats. Wages snatch, Mods teacher: Felix Lorimer. Sgt Vimes, Cable Street, Thursday's old governor. British slang: A grass = a squealer. Peter Matthews (Tom Mothersdale) Cole Matthews (Tom McKay) Bernie Waters (Bronson Webb) Tommy Thompson (Jimmy Walker) Paul Marlock (Robbie Carpenter) Nina Lorrimer (Samantha Colley) Felix Lorrimer (Mark Heap), Ronnie Gidderton, asst (Harry McEntire) Howard Fordyce, bank manager (Conor Lovett) Jerome Hogg, friend of Morse's from college days (Kevin Trainor) Gillian Stoddard, one of the hostages (Pearl Appleby) Went for walk with Julia along nature trail near home. Watched just a little of The Voice. Very impressed by Madison Curbelo's performance of the Fleetwood Mac song Landslide. ============================================================== Su 4/21/24 Strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, pen spin. No library. 12noon-2pm, Earth Day Celebration at Weber Park in Edina. Met Nick Kleese, Center for Climate Literacy (330 Peik) Should write to him sometime about writing an article for his Climate Literacy in Education journal At home, watched Meet the Press, while Julia was at the gym. Interview with Zelensky, Steve Kornacki, panel, interview with Doris Kearns Goodwin. Panel: Cornell Belcher, Matt Gorman, Andrea Mitchell Watched Endeavour "Prey", s3/9,e3/4, third time. Georgina Mortmaigne (Stefanie Martini) Julia Mortmaigne (Amy McCallum) Geoff Craven (Darrell D'Silva) Philip Hathaway (Rob Callender) Guy Mortmaigne (Ben Lambert) Ingrid Hjort (Eleanor Williams) Dr Hector Lorenz (Milo Twomey) Hodges (Peter Forbes) Mark Bryden (Sam Coulson) Turnbull (John Draycott) Cassie Watkins (Hermione Corfield) Ricky Parker (David Burnett) Professor Kemp (Hugh Simon) Started Endeavour "Coda", s3/9,e4/4, first time. Music: Rachmaninoff's Morceaux de fantaisie, op 3, no 2, Idil Biret (pianist) Silence is Golden, The Tremeloes Anton Arensky's Quartett Fuer 2 Violinen, Viola U. Violoncello, Quatuor Parrenin (quartet) Dead: Cedric Clissold, Clissold Fashions. Tommy Thompson, Bernie Waters, Peter Matthews Sr, Cole Matthews, Matthews family. Funeral for Harry Rose. Mr Clissold. Cedric Clissold. Dr Lorimer "All my sins remembered" Hamlet, not long after 2beornot2be: Soft you now,/The fair Ophelia. - Nymph, in thy orisons/Be all my sins remembered Twenty Guards (Guards is a brand of cigarettes) "We have heard the chimes at midnight" from Henry IV, Part II Harry. Bernie. Cole and Peter Matthews. Fitton's. Gillyflowers. Detective Superintendant Crowthorne, Detective Sergeant Craig Nina Burton, Paul Marlock. Mr Kitteridge, estate agent. Stopped at 25:03. ============================================================== Sa 4/20/24 No strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), no stretch, no tongue, no flash cards, no juggling, no pen spin. No Endeavour. No library. Very busy day. Woke up a little later than usual. Did running at the gym, then went to Eco Expo to table for Citizens' Climate Lobby. 9:45am-2pm at Eco Expo. Lots of interesting conversations. Saw our mayor, Ron Case. Also Steve Cwodzinski. I talked to another tabler a lot about ground source heat pumps. It'd probably be something like $40,000 to have one installed. Also talked to his boss (the owner of the company) who also owns a liquor store and is getting into the THC movement. Talked about "Delta-9", a THC isomer. THC=tetrahydrocannabinol, a terpinoid. Terpinoids are derived from isoprene: five carbons, start with C-C and attach a double bonded C and a single bonded C on the left, and a double bonded C on the right pointing opposite the double bond on the left. Michelle Frost showed up to Eco Expo, hadn't seen her in a while. Jim and Greg Jason relieved Nicola and me at Eco Expo. Spent the rest of the day with Alex. Drove out to Schaar's Bluff, did a walk out there, drove back. Watched a Technology Connections about heat pumps, and the overpricing of heat pump installation. Also a lot about how furnaces are commonly oversized for homes. Then had dinner at Asia Mall, at Dosirak. Then Uni Uni Bubble Tea for dessert. All pretty expensive. We also went to the shopping area and Alex got some snacks. Then home and watched a couple of Journeys in Japan, with Julia. A few minutes chatting with Maxim, and that was the whole day. Fun, but skipped stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling, Endeavour, library. :-( ============================================================== F 4/19/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling except under legs, pen spinning. No library. Caught 6:45am to the U. 8:15am, appt with Dr Ofstedal, regular physical. Possible hernia repair eventually, but I hope to delay it while I'm working on the dental implant. Will see the surgeon who did my last repair, Dr Granja, on Tuesday, just to talk about options. Julia is going to need another implant, too, so that will about use up the flex spending account, next year, maybe. Worked on typing in redmarks, printout, more redmarks, more typing. Breakfast at Brueggers (egg and bagel, hash browns), lunch (chocolate croissant) at Starbucks. Lots of food out for the Riviere-Fabes conference, and I took some just before heading home. Missed ride back with Maxim, so took the 3:48pm bus back. Some shopping at L&B: milk, cheese, some snack bars, legal envelopes. Some of the corn chowder for dinner, a couple of the bars, Julia's salad. Watched some you tube videos: Alexandr Misko (Africa), Malachi Bayoh (Pie Jesu), Merrick Hannah (robot dance), Itzhak Perlman (Schindler's List) (director Gustavo Dudamel, LA Philharmonic), Jay Ungar and Molly Mason (Ashokan Farewell), Tracy Chapman (Fast Car), Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs (Fast Car, Grammys). More redmarking at home. ============================================================== Th 4/18/24 Strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling except under legs, pen spinning. Library: yesterday's and today's WSJ, redmarking, glance at the New Yorker, new Economist. 4:30pm-6pm, long chat with Fernando. A lot about above ground carbon storage. System uses sodium carbonate. Creates a slurry. Some magnesium, too. Found out that he did postdoctoral work in Greece. Materials. Finished Endeavour "Prey", s3/9,e3/4, second time. Music: Agnus Dei, Bach's B-Minor Mass, BWV 232 Slavonic Dances, op 72no2, Dvorak Don Giovanni, Mozart 6 Gnossiennes for Piano, no 3 - Lent, by Erik Satie Backdrop: 1967 attacks, Israel and Egypt and Jordan, June 5 Turnbull, taxidermy hobby. Q: How did Hector Lorenz die? No details -- seems that the tiger just got him. Who called Ingrid Hort? What was the phone call? Dr Lorenz called her, according to Mark. Where's the rest of Ricky Parker? never found. What is Hodges job? Clears the grounds of the school? Park-keeper. What ever happened with Goggins? He kept the tiger. It killed him. manita -- little sister not man-eater. former au pair was, in fact, Georgina. Dolly, wife of Hodges. Julia with Milo, her son, in the maze. Hemorrhaging. ============================================================== W 4/17/24 No strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling except under legs, pen spinning. Library: yesterday's WSJ, redmarking. Finished Endeavour "Prey", s3/9,e3/4, first time. Dead: Ricky Parker (tiger), Dr Moxem (tiger), Ingrid Hjort (tiger, accident: musk from Georgina), Sandra Jordan (Turnbull), Hector Lorenz (tiger, ?Georgina?) Philip Hathaway, boyfriend, he denies. Craven, Yell's man, land agent. Sandra Jordan. to mither about = to fuss over or moan about. Mr Turnbull, caretaker. Porthcawl, had a caravan there. Porthcawl is on the coast, on Bristol channel. Tutor Bryden. caretaker Turnbull. Phillip Hathaway, classmate, groundsman at Crevecoeur. GPO = General Post Office, in the UK, has sole responsibility for telecommunications. Ricky Parker, dismembered. Professor Kemp, home office pathologist. DeBryn flyfishing on the Tay. Diatom test, gold standard test in drowning cases. diatom cells: microalgae unicellular organisms, cell wall made of hydrated silicon dioxide (frustule). If drowning, then diatoms will be found in the body. Apparently not if submerged after death. Hector Lorenz, lab scientist. Mr Gregory, pools collector (betting pools collector). Dr Moxem, bird watcher, missing, from Wolsey College. Wytham (W of Oxford, quite close). Wytham woods is in Wytham. Mr Hodges. The off-license = place where alcoholic drinks are sold for consumption elsewhere. Mrs Parr, house near Crevecoeur, livestock taken. Beast of Binsey. order Carnivora, family Felidae, genus Panthera. Sister of Philip Hathaway. crepuscular = active at twilight. subaltern = below captain, typically second lieutenant Pankot, India -- near Nepal. Pangoot. In Uttarakhand. 6510 feet. man-eater of Kot Kindri -- McKendrick. Hector Lorenz' au pair: Ingrid Hjort. Dr Lorenz, Mortmaigne Chair. George female -- Georgina. Brutus, a Bengal, mauled George. Julia's husband died, boating accident during honeymoon. Dr Lorenz using Guy. the Mortmaigne family: Guy, Julia, Georgina Mortmaigne. Goggins was in charge when Georgina was attacked. Leopard Man of West Africa: Nigeria, Sierra Leone. Batti Yelli. Vial of musk missing from lab. Challer in India. Boffin = scientific expert. Turnbull: wallet, Mark: Ingrid-Lorenz lovers. taffs = soldiers of Welsh origin. Porthcawl is in Wales. Hodges' alibi. First week in June '63: Porthcawl. Fire. Place was closed. Watched a little of Rick Steves in Northern Ireland. Ulster is 9 counties: 6 in Northern Ireland, 3 in the Republic of Ireland. [[Orange Loyalist Protestant Unionist black-and-tan Londonderry v Republican Nationalist Catholic half-and-half Derry]] ============================================================== Tu 4/16/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling except under legs. Rained all day, quite cold. Cegodnya nipogoda! No library, caught 6:45am to the U. Typed redmarks, new printout, more redmarks for the end, another printout of the end. Deposited money that Maxim gave me as a refund, because he canceled his old deal with Toyota for regular maintenance. (His old car was totaled.) Lunch at Bruegger's (bagel and cream cheese, and potato chips and hash browns). Butter croissant at Starbucks. Caught 3:48pm home. Shopping: milk and cheese. Dinner: soup, cheese and crackers, three glasses of milk. Watched the end of Endeavour "Arcadia", s3/9,e2/4, third time. Suzy Flett one of the women on the tills, Lorraine Figgis (poisoning victim) was her cousin. "There's a turn-up" means "There's something unexpected". Started Endeavour "Prey", s3/9,e3/4, first time. (Agnus Dei, Bach's B-Minor Mass). Ingrid Hjort. Sam's Aunt Reine had a turn. Dr Lorenz. stopped at 6:18. ============================================================== M 4/15/24 No strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling except under legs. Library: WSJ, Sunday WSJ, redmarking. Home: A little more redmarking. Yesterday and today: changed both Britta water filters in the kitchen. Note: need to reset the right hand button, not the left. Watched the end of Endeavour "Arcadia", s3/9,e2/4, second time. Arcadia = place of rustic innocence and simple, quiet pleasure. Et in Arcadia Ego painting by Nicolas Poussin ("Even in Arcadia, there I am", says Death) Last of the red-hot livers ~ The Last of the Red-Hot Lovers (Neil Simon play) Maisirlou by Martin Denny, Mrs Robinson takeoff, seduction scene. music: Nocturne, Cis-Moll (Cis=C sharp, moll=minor), Op 27 no 1, Chopin Adolf Drescher, after saying good-bye to Peter Jakes (little Pete). References to The Graduate: Seduction scene with Mrs Richardson ~ Mrs Robinson. Scene in the car with Mike and Verity. Mike went to Harvard and everyone asks his plans for the future. Also, the couple departing on the bus. Maddoxes and Richarsons ~ Braddocks and Robinsons. Mackintosh's Good News chocolates, one particular flavour is "Savoy Truffle". Ivor Maddox (Chris Larkin) Prudence Maddox (Joanna Roth), his wife Mike Maddox (Tom York), their son Annette Richardson (Genevieve O'Reilly) Leo Richardson (Richard Dillane), her husband Verity Richardson (Gala Gordon), their daughter Cuthbert Mukamba (Charles Babalola) Ayesha (Amelia Clarkson) Gideon Finn (Max Bennett) Marion Brooke (Elisabeth Hopper) Suzy Flett (Amalia Vitale), at the till at Richardsons Started Endeavour "Arcadia", s3/9,e2/4 third time. Dead: Lorraine Figgis (poisoned, arsenic, by Simon Hallward), Simon Hallward (explosion set by Verity and Ayesha) Watched just a little of The Voice, with Julia. Knockouts. ============================================================== Su 4/14/24 Strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling except under legs. People's Organic: three day-old pastries. Worked on redmarking. 2pm-6:30pm, tabled at Nicola's film screening, "The Smell of Money", about huge hog farms, and their ways of disposing of hog manure. Good film, and a number of interesting conversations. Watched a few minutes of Endeavour "Arcadia", s3/9,e2/4, second time. Shirley Trewlove (Dakota Blue Richards). Anette, Pru, Ivor, Mrs Richardson, Miss Treadwell, Finn, Ayesha, Simon, Maddox. ============================================================== Sa 4/13/24 No strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling except under legs. 10:30am-1pm, ran this month's CCL chapter meeting. Heather Edelson (running for Hennepin County Commissioner) was our speaker. Excellent discussion. The national call was less interesting this time -- discussion about how to connect with people, with the usual commentary that people don't like facts, but they do like stories. Lots of new faces at the meeting, including several young people. 2pm-4pm, Alex's birthday dinner at Tokyo Sushi out near my mom's. Julia and I went for a walk afterward on Pike Island (in Ft Snelling State Park), where the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers meet. Watched two episodes (the second a continuation of the first) of Death in Paradise. Nevill Parker accused of murder but it turns out to be his girlfriend Sophie who framed him. No time for Endeavour. No time for library today. ============================================================== F 4/12/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling except under legs. Took 6:45am to U, met Maxim at 3pm for a ride back. Worked a lot on the last part of profs / grants. Repeated redmark / type / print. Croissant at Starbucks, bagel and hash browns at Bruegger's. 5:30pm, met Chris Prouty for dinner at Birch's on the Lake at Long Lake. Talked for hours. Just sent him three new calculations to do for profs / grants. Very grateful for his help. Daughter is in 2nd grade. Sharon works at Ameriprise. Kids have been a handful, but things are getting easier, slowly. Chatted for an hour with Maxim. No time for Endeavour. Very late, going to bed after midnight. ============================================================== Th 4/11/24 Strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling except under legs. Library: WSJ, some redmarking. Julia went to kickboxing. I watched a little of DW, a news show. Finished Endeavour, "Ride", s3/9,e1/4, third time. There's a reason magicians always use doves and white rabbits in their act. (So that they can replace one by another without the audience knowing. In the case of Roddy Farthingale and Charlie Greel, they can be told apart -- diamond point bow tie vs club round.) James Green and Co. "It's not a patch on Ganus Greel and Conrad." British: "not a patch on" = "not nearly so good as" Maybe: something excellent broke, and got patched together, but this isn't even a good as that. It's so far from excellent that it's not even patched up version of something excellent that broke. Conrad stole Bruce's car, killed Hearne with it, then planted the car back on Bruce's estate. Watched Endeavour "Arcadia", s3/9,e2/4, first time. Richardsons supermarket. Anette. Pru. Savoy truffle. Ivor. Monica Hicks (Shvorne Marks). Constable Nixon. Our daily bread. Help Amnox stop feeding hungry children??? Amnox portmanteau of Amnesty International and Oxfam. Simon Hallward. Mrs Cravat landlady. turps=turpentine. Shirley Trewlove. Runners and riders??? The turf = The Turf Tavern. Miss Treadwell. Brother Gideon Finn. Boar's Hill. On his usual Radfords. Radford = Radford Ale. AGM for the Oxford Trogs. AGM = annual general meeting. Trog = hooligan, lout (British). Ayesha. Ayesha = Thelma Anne Davis. House Beautiful. Matthew 6:28-33. And why take ye thourght for raiment? Consider the lillies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: ... End illegal regime. No sugar from Rhodesia. Support Amnox. Mr Mukumba. Constance Morse. Thunderbird two. Mid-1960s film and TV series: Thunderbirds. Named after International Rescue vehicles called Thunderbirds. Hallward's art supplier has place at Osney (just W of Oxford center). Bloater paste. Coregonus hoyi aka bloater is a herring-like fish. Paste from bloaters is bloater paste. Ivor. Ivor Maddox. Leo Richardson. Maddox and Richardson. Manager of the Cowley branch is called Maddox. Maddox' son was a stretcher bearer killed at Mons. Mrs Richardson approx equal to Mrs Robinson. husband: Leo, wife: Annette, daughter: Verity. Librium. Dr Amthor. Dentist's surgery in Summertown. Summertown N of central Oxford. Howard League for penal reform. Mrs Maddox. Minister we call it. Still your mind. Marion Brooke. Verity Richardson. Simon Hallward. Gin and bitter lemon with Simon Hallward. Mike Maddox. Marion Brooke. Dziva, Thinking of you Cuthbert. Cuthbert Mukumba. Zimbabwean (Rhodesian) tribal god: Dzivaguru. Chthonic (underworld) goddess. Great Creatrix of the Shona (Bantu ethnic group, Zimbabwean) people. Hope and Peter Jakes (little Pete). "The world was all before them, where to choose their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, through Eden, took their solitary way." John Milton, Paradise Lost Book 12. The World was All Before Them, 1919 painting by Charles M Russell. ============================================================== W 4/10/24 Alex's birthday, 27 years old. Very tiring day. No strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling except under legs. No time for Endeavour. Library: WSJ, some redmarking. 2pm-5:30pm: VEAP deliveries. Made four deliveries. Very tiring. One of the people had the address wrong, and it cost me about 30 minutes to check on it, and, even then, ended up going to the wrong place first. Eventually, though I did find the location. On the other hand, the VA deliveries are easy now because I do know how to find the right building. Afterward, went to Burger King and had an Impossible Whopper and fries, and water. Got home, did a little more redmarking, rested a few minutes. Rewatched Astrid "Fermi Paradox". Delivery driver did the murder. Murder happens at secure govt facility called Epsilon. Jean Charpentier (Gary Grines) was a delivery driver to Epsilon. He was a murderer at Srebrenica. Sophia Lenoir (Alysson Paradis), who was a child at Srebrenica, with repressed memories. She subconsciously recognized him. He knew she recognized him. He tried to kill her. A man named Marc Brody (no credit) intervened in the attempted murder. Charpentier killed the Brody. Sophia Lenoir got blamed for the murder. Reference to Mr Tanaka. Reference and flashbacks to Raphaelle's brother Benjamin (no credit) Stanley knife = utility knife with a folding or retracting blade. Maiutic method = relates to the Socratic method where inquiry brings out ideas. etymology: maieutikos means obsetric, the method is like midwifery. Fermi paradox: aliens probabilistically likely, so why no evidence of them? Vincent David runs abductee support group. Reference to David Vincent in The Invaders, an old TV series. Mid-level police detective Rapha\"elle Coste (Lola Dewaere) Prosecutor Mathias Forest (Hubert Delattre). Crimial Records Office worker Astrid Nielsen (Sara Mortensen) ============================================================== Tu 4/9/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling except under legs. No time for library. Caught 6:45am to U. Typed redmarks, print, more redmarks, print, more redmarks, print. Yogurt and granola at Starbucks, penne rose at Noodles. Back on the 3:48pm from U. Very light eating until about 7pm. Went for walk, came across Anar with his dogs at his house. Talked for quite a while. Younger daughter teaches preschool, Susan teaches STEM, son and older daughter living in southern CA. Older daughter finishing up training as a vet. Middle kid (Daniel?) is the head of "food innovation" at Taco Bell. Lives near the older daughter in southern CA. More redmarks. Discovered that for some Boltzmann distributions, the range of average values doesn't always go from the inf of the image to the sup, because the sup might be infinity even though there's a finite maximum average value. Working on writing that up. However, the average value is strictly decreasing in beta, and tends, at infinity, toward the minimum of the average value. So can construct situations where the distribution of energies is unclear, since there's no appropriate Boltzmann parameter beta. Watched an episode of "Murders in Paris" with Julia. Father accused of mistreating son, but turns out wife was wrong. The grown up son killed the mother. I sort of guessed it early on. Lots of psychobabble. No time for Endeavour. ============================================================== M 4/8/24 Finished laundry. No strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling except under legs. Library: WSJ, The New Yorker, a little redmarking. Finished Endeavour, "Ride", s3/9,e1/4, second time. "brief" is slang for "solicitor", i.e., "lawyer". Kathy (Kay) wrote goodbye note to Charlie Greel. ("You're my heart, Charlie Greel. ... We let the stars go.") Conrad killed Charlie. Outis and Lord Bruce Belborough played golf. Conrad was in the shadows. Charlie was a star. However the billing was for Conrad, since it sounded more "classy". A coin flip decided who would be the start and who would live in the shadows. Conrad took advantage of Kathy, Charlie came on them. Kathy and Charlie left, then she left Charlie, writing the note. Charlie decide to become rich and famous, as Joss Bixby. Meanwhile Conrad became Swopes, Mr Greel (the father, Janus Greel) became Zambezi. Started Endeavour, "Ride", s3/9,e1/4, third time. Reference (9:43) to Julius Hanbury, who is featured in Inspector Morse episode "Ghost in the Machine" got his dabs all over it = got his fingerprints all over it. Stopped at 43:34. Watched just a few minutes of The Voice with Julia. ============================================================== Su 4/7/24 Strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling except under legs. People's Organic: chili & day old pastries. Did redmarking. Finished Endeavour, "Ride", s3/9,e1/4, first time. Dead: Jeannie Hearne (run over); Gerald Ashborne (overdose); Conrad Greel (shot), not Roddy Farthingale, not Joss Bixby; Conrad Greel; Roddy Farthingale. Conrad Greel killed Jeannie Hearne and Charlie. Gerald Ashborne ODed, got his drugs from Harry Rose. Conrad was killed by his father, Janus. Roddy was killed by Conrad, planning to put him in the lake, but that got interrupted by Morse Harry Rose, go out Thursday. Harry Rose: slots, drugs, racketerring. Elva, Kay. Bruce = Lord Belborough. Blackshirt = member of fascist organization having a black shirt as part of uniform (Italy) Rigoletto "V'ho ingannato" Verdi. Rigoletto is the hunchback jester of the Duke of Mantua "v'ho ingannato" means "I deceived you". Juan-les-Pins, town near Antibes, which is between Marseille and Nice. Very close to Cannes. dodgems = bumper cars (British), Doug. Tony Donn. clippie = bus conductor/conductress. Brother-in-law, Mr Swopes. Mr Newton, Andrew. Clem. Gave Herne the monkey. moules = mussels, often made with fries. bunce = extra profit, often made through shady dealings. Charlie Greel, Kathy. Bixby not dead. Roddy Farthengale. David Bailey was an East End barrow boy who bacame a world famous photographer ("snapper"). polyurethane, rosin, copal isoproyl alcohol, silica. get finger out (of arse) = get to work, stop sitting around. Mr Outis. Diamond-point bowtie, club round. Newton. Janus Greel and Conrad. Mr Newton = Zambezi = Janus Greel. Charlie and Conrad Greel. Conrad has glasses. Kathy and Charlie fell in love. Odysseus use pseudonym Outis to fight Polyphemus. Outis means nobody. Chief Constable (Nick Sampson), Joss Bixby (David Oakes), Jeannie Hearne (Meghan Treadway), Harry Rose (Vincent Riotta), Albert Potter (Lewis Rainers), Roddy Farthingale (Louis Maskell), Zambezi (Hilton McRae), Roselle Brawton (Crystal Leaity), Anthony Donn (Samuel Barnett), County PC (Martin Bassindale), Bruce Belborough (Ben Mansfield), Kay Belborough (Jemima West), Elva Piper (Margaret Clunie), Clem Skivett (Joe Simms), Bursar (Robin McCallum) Watched part of an episode of Murders in Paris, but I had to tend to the laundry, couldn't pay attention. Started Endeavour, "Ride", s3/9,e1/4, second time. Mozart, Lacrimosa. Materials sealed for 50 years (Chief Constable). Donald Malcolm Campbell CBE died on Coniston Water in the Lake District, 4 Jan 1967. Verdi Requiem. Best bib and tucker = best clothes. Not now, Roddy. Harry! Started laundry. ============================================================== Sa 4/6/24 No strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft climb), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling except under legs. Library: WSJ, Economist, redmarking. Finished Endeavour, "Neverland", s2/9e4/4, third time. Dead: Patterson, Aldridge, Wintergreen, Standish Mrs McGarrett killed Wintergreen. Deare killed Standish. ?County? killed Patterson and Aldridge. Tommy Cork saw Adridge's murder. Aldridge's cellmate: Parker. "Nosey" Parker (Martin Hancock) Savile Row (London): place known for bespoke clothing. 5,6 of us. And Petey Williams. Peter Williams. (Tomahawk.) (Big Peter) Me (Nick), George, Benny, Ed, Henry and the two Petes. (Big pete, little pete.) Three men alleging Wintergreen interfered with them: Nick, Benny, Henry. Placeman: derogatory term in British English for a person who hold public office, implies corruption DI Gregson of Kidlington CID arrests Morse for murder of Chief Constable Rupert Standish Henry Portmore (Oliver Coleman). Hilary Portmore (Sara Beck Mather) FME = Force Medical Examiner (Nick Waring) Prison Officer Wainwright (Mark Flitton) Chief Constable Ruper Standish (Derek Hutchinson) Hazel Wintergreen (Sarah Woodward) Angela McGarrett (Emma Hiddleston) Dr Jasper Fairbridge (Paul Ridley) DI Hugh Chard (Vince Leigh) Started Endeavour, "Ride", s3/9,e1/4, first time discovered later: partially based on the Great Gatsby. (Joss Bixby <--> Jay Gatsby) Donald Campbell, speed record, tragedy. HMP Towson. Verdi Requiem. Bib and Tucker. Bruce, second cousin, Loosehead in the Varsity Match. (Loosehead&tighthead are rugby positions.) East Indies Steamship Company. Tony. Baronets are ten a penny at Annabel's these days. Annabel's is a private club in London. Kay (like Daisy Buchanan, from Great Gatsy), Elva Piper (like Jordan Baker, from Great Gatsby). Anthony Donn = Tony Donn, Bruce. Bixby. Albert Potter took Jeanie Hearne to the fair. chancer = person who takes too many risks (chiefly British) Jeannie Hearne's body at Lake Silence. Gerald Ashborne (overdose). Carlisle College. Killed on Good Friday morning. Roselle Brawton. And Mr Swopes (his brother-in-law). punter = people who pay for a ticket to attend an event, customer people who travel in a punt (kind of boat) are customers generalize -- synechdoche Rich as Croesus (king of Lydia). Rijksmuseum (national museum of the Netherlands) Berkeley Square, the Belvedere. Roddy. Harry. North Oxford Golf Club. "Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume." St Augustine Augustine of Hippo (Hippo Regius ancient name of Annaba, Algeria) Numbers 32:23. You have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your sin will find you out. Sergeant Strange. Not piles, eh? Piles = hemorrhoids. posh set by the lake over Cacklebury. Harry Rose. Tony. Bruce. Joss Bixby. Lord Belborough and his wife, Lady ... Kay Stopped at 33:57. ============================================================== F 4/5/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling except under legs. No library. Caught 6:45am bus to the U. Worked for about an hour on typing redmarks. Then caught light rail to downtown and walked to the Minneapolis Convention Center for the Twin Cities Auto Show. Volunteered from 9:45am to 1pm talking to passers-by about EVs. Back at the U, finished typing redmarks, got new printout. Met Maxim at 3pm for a ride home. Julia and I went for a walk at Hyland Lake Park Reserve. Finished Endeavour, "Neverland", s2/9e4/4, second time, starting at 4:13. Four-legs-good view of the world, reference to Animal Farm. Animals say "four legs good, two legs bad". Other famous quote: "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others." Four-legs-good indicates a dogmatic ideology that can be molded into whatever the demagogue wants it to be. Angela Farnleigh McGarrett killed Wintergreen. Later Deare, then herself. Ending: Digging by Nick, Ben, Henry, Hilary. Then empty chair at the nick. Then Morse in prison. Started Endeavour, "Neverland", s2/9e4/4, third time. Gloria Patri (Glory Be to the Father) choir piece at start doxology = short hymn of praise, paean Chief Constable Rupert Standish: We're all so very grateful to ... Comp\`ere: a person who introduces performers or contestants in a variety show ============================================================== Th 4/4/24 Strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling except under legs. Library: WSJ, redmarks. Lunch with Julia at Taste of India, we both had their Thali. Walk at Bredesen. Called T-Mobile about messages I've been getting claiming that I needed to respond to verify my address, or be disconnected. Was told to ignore them, and that they would be blocked. Started Endeavour, "Neverland", s2/9e4/4, second time. Hilly (Hilary Spencer): The lost boys. (Neverland island, JM Barrie, Peter Pan, leader of the Lost Boys.) Perambulator = pram = baby carriage. DI Bart Church and Fred spoke. Chief Constable Standish. DI Hugh Chard. Rupey = Rupert Standish, Gerry Wintergreen Mrs McGarrett. Clive Deare. Stopped at 49:13. ============================================================== W 4/3/24 No strength, running (25 mins, climbed 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, no juggling. Library: WSJ, redmarks. Late lunch at Chipotle. Home: power outage, a few hours. Lots of trouble restarting Arris S33 Modem. Sent a troubleshooting message about it. Finished Endeavour, "Neverland", s2/9e4/4, first time. Started around 28:11. Alderman Gerald "Gerry" Wintergreen, George Aldridge escapee Arson. A41: All for one ... Three Musketeers. Athos, Porthos, Aramis, D'Artagnian (APAD) Alderman Wintergreen, dead Thursday talks with DI Bart Church), who is retiring, and advises Thursday to drop the inquiries. backhander = secret illegal payment Nicholas Myers, junior clerk. "Nick". Radio teletype RTTY, Radio Automatic Teletype RATT. Nick, it's Henry. Be there. Benny and Clyde, only Ben goes. Gerry Wintergreen's secretary, Mrs. McGarrett. Angela McGarrett. Benjamin Arnold Topling (Benny and Clyde) Doc Fairbridge. Mrs McGarrett. Mrs McGarrett remembers George Aldridge. Mrs McGarrett bumped into Henry in the High. Henry Portmore, academic at Pellam. Henry Portmore married to Hilary Spencer, whose brother Ed had a nervous breakdown, hanged himself from a tree at Blenheim Vale. "In the high" mean on High Street, in Oxford. 5,6 of us. And Petey Williams. Peter Williams. (Tomahawk.) (Big Peter) Me (Nick), George, Benny, Ed, Henry and the two Petes. (Big pete, little pete.) George = George Aldridge. Gerry Wintergreen was a Governor at Blenheim Vale. Ed = Ed Spencer. Dr Portmore. Henry Portmore. Nick = Nicholas Myers. Nick and Ben at Nick's place Angela divorced, not widowed. Father: Dr Fairbridge. Sanctuary. Angela McGarrett. Neolithic barrow. Barrow = burial place = tumulus. Burial mound. DI Hugh Chard and Peter Jakes. Peter Jakes = little Pete dry cleaning: coat belonged to the Doc (Doc Fairbridge) DI Chard tried to kill Morse. Morse got away in his KAN 169 car. Ensanguining the skies ... Clive Deare: Where be your gibes now ... (from Poor Yorick in Hamlet) Deare strangles Rupert Standish with Morse's scarf. Angela kills Deare and her father (Doc Fairbridge) and herself. ============================================================== Tu 4/2/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling except under legs. No library. Caught 6:45am to U, 3:48pm back. Worked on typing, redmarking, typing, redmarking, typing. Chocolate croissant at Starbucks. Home: Watched Endeavour, "Sway", s2/9e3/4, third time. Shears, 32 Watling St, Colston Dishwasher hold-all = large rectangular bag, handles, shoulder strap Started Endeavour, "Neverland", s2/9e4/4, first time. "Nati(choir singing)" not sure of meaning of "Nati". Henry Portmore. Seige Perilous seat at the Round Table. Davey Cork: Get inside, Tommy. Wessex Savings Bank. Alderman Wintergreen. Tommy Cork (Louis Ashbourne Serkis). Mona Cork (Abby Ford). Nicholas "Nick" Myers (Andrew Gower). George Aldridge. Gerald Wintergreen (Gordon Kennedy). Constable Standish. Eric Patterson. Josiah Landesman (Richard Dixon). Benny Topling (Oliver Lansley). Benny and Clyde. Clive Deare (James Wilby). Police Widows and Orphans. Compere: Gracie Craig Dancing Company. Benny and Clyde. Empire Theatre: 11 year old Tommy Cork, Davey Cork's boy, done a bunk from home. George Aldridge absconded from Farnleigh. Saturday sandwich. Everything "on tick". On tick means on credit. (British, old-fashioned.) Peter Jakes: Never Never Land. Dave's canaries, no pets. Thames Valley. ACC (Asst Chief Constable) Clive Deare. Monday, cheese and pickle, Thursday's sandwich. Creche, British: Nursery. A.P.A.D.A41. TC. Clyde is the dummy. Eric Patterson, dead. Journalist. Goodnight Irene (American folk song partially about suicide) HQ at Kidlington. Alderman Wintergreen. Mr Hugh Chard. Wainwright, guard. HMP. Benny Topling. Sky Pilot = chaplain in military service. Thompson and Beard, Saville Road. Blenheim Vale closed in '55, when Boxgrove opened. Dry cleaning tag on George Aldridge. Given to Peter Jakes. He eventually runs it to ground, and finds that the coat belongs to Doc Fairbridge. Hilary Spencer at Blenheim Vale. Married to Henry Portman. McNutt might take on Morse. ============================================================= M 4/1/24 No strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling except under legs. Library: Sunday WSJ, redmarking. Home: More redmarking. Short walk with Julia, out through Candyland to Valley View, and back. Shopping at L&B: Milk, walnuts, marble jack cheese, travel toothbrush, pretzel nuggets, Carr's crackers (about $50) Finished Endeavour, "Sway", s2/9e3/4, second time. Mozart's Lacrimosa. Dead: Parkis, Shears, Haldane, Curran-Matthews, Merchant, Flo Huggins. Killer: Roy Huggins To Miaow-Miaow from Rufus. Greeks: Apeiross, Anaximander: apeiron, endless DI Hugh Chard: Merchant, Curran-Matthews OYT 446 at start, with hand sliding down glass: Vivienne Haldane. Roy Huggins' car. Isobel Merchant, daughter at Belbury Tech Ann Curran-Matthews pseudo-stranglers (probably sex act) Joey Lisk (Max Wrottesley) Charlie Highbank, Huggins, Quinbury, Alan Burridge, Mrs Armstrong Roy Huggins and Barry Dobbs. Barry Dobbs (Rob Compton) lives at home. In all evening, parents will vouch. Charles Highbank (Adrian Schiller), window dresser. Ex-Merchant Navy. Rum, bum and concertina. Rum, bum and 'bacca (tobacco). Rum, sodomy and the lash. Lupo cold-cocked Fredo, Hugh Armstrong. Ugo. Una staffeta una staffetta = female partisan, dispatch riders, responsible for flow of information. Jellicoe seems to have been the pilferer. Mr Quinbury took stuff, too, but paid for it. Parkis grew up at Blenheim Vale. Luisa, Francesca, Fredo. Joey Lisk -- green car, lighter, Galois cigarette. Died of wounds. They said they'd spare Francesca. I should have died at Villa Casabianca. ... Remember the girl you knew, and forgive her. We were young, it was the war, Amore mio, Luisa Mr Jellicoe (Paul Lacoux), Monica Hicks (Shvorne Marks), Sam Thursday (Jack Bannon) ============================================================== Su 3/31/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, no juggling. No library yesterday or today. Was in Litchfield part of yesterday and part of today. Left around 9:30am yesterday, arrived back around 5pm today. Maxim drove. Played a very complicated, very long board game yesterday. Fixed Indian: butter chicken and sookee aloo. Alex was there with his Tesla, charging from the garage. Talked a lot with a visitor, Dave. Electrical engineer who worked for Medtronic, and recently retired. He's thinking of buying a home in Florida. He pointed me to Feynman's "penguin diagram" and had a story about how Feynman lost a bet and was required to use the word penguin in his next paper. (Turns out it was a different physicist, John Ellis.) Julia and I just watched some 60 minutes episodes. One on the boarder crisis. One on book bans. One on getting Americans back to the Moon. Seems to be a race with China -- who gets to claim a base on the south pole of the Moon. Did just a little redmarking, yesterday and today. Finished up the redmarking third section, just started the second. No time for Endeavour, the past two days. Maybe tomorrow. ============================================================== F 3/29/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling except under legs tricks. Just being careful to heal before starting juggling under legs (and exercises) again. No library. Went to U on 6:45am bus. Typed edits, printed, typed more edits, printed again. A few more edits and one more printing. Rode home with Maxim -- he met me at 3pm. Two NY Reviews of Books arrived today -- subscription will soon expier. Litchfield tomorrow. Watched the rest of Endeavour, "Sway", s2/9e3/4, first time. Started at 35:52. Opera music at Morse's: St Matthew Passion: Part II: Nr.47 Arie: Erbarme Dich, mein gott by JS Bach Mr Lisk, stocking supplier. Other suppliers? Mr Jellicoe. Mr Lee (James Doherty) -- no poppy. Goldfarb, Ligourin. Mrs Shears. April and Clare, daughters. Car and WPC. WPC = Woman police constable. Mr Talfryn Pugh (Brian Lipson), blind piano tuner for Mr Haldane. Lemniscate, John Wallis, mid-17th century, infinity. Ouroboros - snake devouring its tail. Norman Parkis, stock clerk. Jellicoe, former police officer, fired. John Gorman back off leave. ADC Aide-de-Camp. PARs from the staff. PARs = Police Accident Reports. Norman Parkis was at Blenheim Vale. [[Alan Burridge]] [[Mr Quinbury]] Sweet on Gloria (Glo) Deeks, whose husband in in prison "Her ways to roam" The Soldier, by Rupert Brooke Blind Mr Pugh piano tuner. Mufti = plain clothes police. (Includes Jim Strange.) Go nice with a Mackesons -- Mackesons Stout. Jim Strange nicks J Lisk, attacking Gloria Deeks (Gina Bramhill). Black nurse, Morse's girlfriend: Monica Hicks (Shvorne Marks). Joey Lisk (Max Wrottesley) = Mr Lisk of Goldfarb-Ligourin, supplier le minou noir, Don Juan. Rock chalk. Mr Roy Huggins (Rob Jarvis). Flo's (Flossie Huggins') favorite jazz song. Luisa Armstrong (C\'ecile Paoli). ============================================================== Th 3/28/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling except alternating between legs. Some groin pain, decided not to exercise and to minimize juggling. Library: WSJ, redmarking. Finished redmarking at home. Tomorrow will type in edits. Saturday: Litchfield. Julia had kickboxing today. Watched Newshour: Evan Gerskovich has spent 1 year in prison. Sam Bankman-Fried given 25 years. Started Endeavour, "Sway", s2/9e3/4, first time. Mozart's Lacrimosa Sway is a song sung by Dean Martin "?Qui\'en ser\'a?" was written by Luis Demetrio and Pablo Beltr\'an Ruiz. "Sway" is the same song, but with new lyrics written by Norman Gimbel. At start: "Nation (tuning single note)" meaning of Nation? captioning: At start of next episode "Nati" meaning of Nati??? Morse typing up Bright's appraisal of proposed amalgamation of police districts. Home Secretary's opinion mentioned. Home Secretary in charge of safety -- something like Interior Minister, I guess. apeiros, Anaximander (pre-Socratic philosopher) of Miletus (in Ionia in modern Turkey), apeiron Remembrance Day, Anne Curran-Matthews, 43. DI Hugh Chard. Curran-Matthews, Merchant Vivienne Haldane, 43, husband: Rufus Haldane (Michael Thomas), Maths Don at St Saviour's. On remand. Haldane: Prue, Audrey, Josephine. Isobel Merchant, 38. Le minou noir. Le minou -- the pussy cat. Onomatopoeia (cat sound: minou, minou, minou) 17 and 6 means: 17 shillings and sixpence (17/20 pound plus 6/240 pound) (17*12+6 pence) (17.5 shillings) quid = pound, bob = shilling. Norman Parkis (Matthew Wilson), Mrs Armstrong. Ham and Tomato, Thursday, Thursday's sandwich. Silver wedding anniversary = 25th. 19 not equal to 13 + 5. Curran-Matthews. Alan Burridge (Joe Bannister), Mr Brian Quinbury (Tim McMullan). Gents Lighter. Ronson. Engraved Mr Jopling, principal cutter. Sergente Gioved\`i, Fredo. Mrs Armstrong. Back at the nick. Mr Quinbury: 11 group. Spits. Kenley. Green car outside Mrs Haldane's. Mrs Merchant getting into green car. Mr J Lisk, Goldfarb-Ligourin, supplier of le minou noir stockings. gypsum = calcium sulfate dihydrate, plaster, fertilizer. "They asked me how I knew ... Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" manjarie (?dinner date?, going out to eat?), ciao bella Glo, swisher, Steve, Charlie = swisher Major Hugh Armstrong, Ugo, farmer's boy, the facist. malato d'amore for Francesca. una staffetta = female partisan, dispatch riders, responsible for flow of information. Bonfire night. OYT 446 picks up Glo. Stopped at 35:52. ============================================================== W 3/27/24 No strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Library: Atlantic, National Geographic, redmarking Julia went to a herb presentation at Chanhassen Public Library. Came home with some seeds. Bought lots of chocolate, too, don't know why. And flax. Continued redmarking at home. Finished Endeavour, "Nocturne", s2/9e2/4, second time. Dead: 1800s: family, nursemaid, governess. Killer: Robert Pickstock (Blaise-Hamilton's son) current time: Adrian Weiss, Maud Ashenden. Killer: Terence Black. Rebuses: heraldic jokes Escutcheon sable, heraldic for Black, upper sinister quadrant: pickaxe or pick, lower dexter quadrant: flowers of genus Matthiola longipetela = stocks Entwined around the bar sinister is leafed stem of camellia sinensis (a tea plant) denotes bastardy "the bastard laid upon Pickstock's" 50 rupees per month to Robert's mother in India Miss Symes also a claimaint to the fortune. Ring handed down to Terence Black. Watched Endeavour, "Nocturne", s2/9e2/4, third time. ============================================================== Tu 3/26/24 Strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Just a few minutes at the library. WSJ and a little redmarking. 12:30pm, Alex came out and got Julia's Federal Tax PIN set up. He and I then went to India Palace for lunch. They had a nice $16 special: three small dishes, one naan, rice, dessert. Came back and watched a few Journeys in Japan, then a little of the PBS special on Dante. Alex left around 5pm. Some shoveling today. Looks as if the snow has finally stopped. A little more Endeavour, "Nocturne", s2/9e2/4, second time. DI Bart Church and bagman DS Bruce. Shelly Thengarti skilled on piano, not liked by anyone. Symes Danby. Petra Briers, blond. Glasses. Smaller, shorter - Edwina. Club girl (Phillipa Collins-Davidson). Boring, broke the day. Bunty = Smart observant girl. Shelly Thengarti. Girl with glasses warns them Ms Danby's coming up. Missing gold watch of Adrian Weiss's. ...were discovered on the 27th instance at about 6 in the evening by Samuel Blaise-Hamilton ... In commercial English, it used to be common to refer to a date in the current month as "instant". So: the 5th instant means the 5th of the current month. Ultimo = previous month, Proximo = next month. Edwina (young, small, short) fetches Ms Symes Chopin Nocturne no 1 B flat minor Museum of Natural History, Dr Rowse on holiday, Watched a few minutes of The Voice with Julia. Battles. ============================================================== M 3/25/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. No time for library, took 6:45am bus to the U. Met Maxim and got his keys to borrow his car to go over to Cedar Drug to pick up low cost lisinopril -- 90 day supply at about $2. Got Maxim's keys back to him. Typed in redmarks and got a new printout. Starbucks: egg and cheese protein box, then more redmarks, then another printout. Took 3:48pm bus back to EP. Stopped in at L&B. No walnuts, for some reason. Lots of flax, lots of coffee, TP, Milk, cheese, one Amy's. Over $90. At home, had Amy's, milk cheese. Weight is just under 155. Did more redmarking, catnapped. Watched a little of The Voice with Julia. Dave Homans' letter (on offshore wind) got published in the Strib. Good team effort. No time for Endeavour today. ============================================================== Su 3/24/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 500ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. No library (Sunday, doesn't open until noon). According to forecast: Snow will continue to tomorrow. Then rain for a day, then more snow. Three day-old chocolate croissants at People's Organic. Redmarked. Home: continued redmarking. Weight seems to be well below 155. Conflict: I invited both Lee Dilley and Heather Edelson to speak to my CCL Chapter. Sent email to Lee and called him at his number (507-581-0226). Eventually Lee agreed to speak in May. Finished Endeavour, "Nocturne", s2/9e2/4, first time. Started second time through. Two dead: Adrian Weiss, Maude Ashenden, both killed by Terence Black Tried to watch an episode of Death in Paradies, with Julia, but fell asleep. The episode took place on St Barnabus. ============================================================== Sa 3/23/24 No strength, running (25 mins, 600ft) , stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Library: WSJ, The New Yorker, redmarking. More redmarking at home. Watched some of Endeavour, "Nocturne", s2/9e2/4, first time. captioning: "Nation (birds chirping)" meaning of Nation? singing "Kyrie Eleison" (Lord have mercy) Kyrie vocative case of Kyrios in Greek. Septuagint (70 translators) is a translation of the Hebrew Bible to Greek. hymn, short prayer, part of Bach's Mass in B Minor irrelevant: Mr Mister (band 1982-1990, Richard Page et al) song Terence Black, Clubbing girl (?), Adrian Weiss Rattin = Antonio Ratt\'in. Argentine footballer. midfielder. The Argentine skipper. Adrian Weiss died, Terence Black (Daniel Ings) (postgrad, Wolsey, econ). Katar, Indian dagger. niece of Adrian Weiss: Daisy Weiss (Kate Lamb) Blythe Mount School for Girls in Slepe, out beyond Carterton. Rouge Dragon Pursuivant, a junior officer at the College of Arms College of Arms = Heralds' College heralds apptd by sovereign, acts for the Crown on matters of heraldry Miss Symes. Miss Victoria Danby (Susy Kane). Petra Briers (Lucy Boynton), head girl. Miss Bronwen Symes (Diane Fletcher) swots like Bunty Glossop (Nell Tiger Free) (swot=nerd, hard studier), Shelly Thengardi (Emily Warren = Emily Ren\'ee) (Mahratta = ruling/warrior class) Billy Carswell (Tom Prior), groundsman's son. Wilf Karswell (Struan Rodger) Bunty: "It may if it chooses, we have no objection contrariwise." - Tweedledee visitors book: Mr and Mrs Gardiner from Kingsport, MA. Nahum Gardiner (Michael Shannon), Tabby Gardiner (Lynn Farleigh) Phillipa Collins-Davidson (Anya Taylor-Joy), smokes, blond, long hair Antonia Lockwood (Eve Perry), Stephanie Hackett (Maya Gerber) Bunty also long blond hair, 'What if we see it again' Chopin Nocturne playing. Music box. Museum of Natural History Blaise-Hamiltons bequeathed the Katar. Scry = peeping or seeing. A fortune-teller scries by, say, looking into a mirror. Opera music at Morse's: Traume (from Wesendonk-Lieder) by Wagner July 1866 date for Blaise-Hamilton. Jackson's Oxford Journal predates the Oxford Mail (Dorothea Frazil, Abigail Thaw) Brunette girl: Gin fizz, Fish-Nor! Jaldi, jaldi! Jaldi, jaldi! means Quick, quick! Fish-Nor: explained later, cruel nickname for Shelly Thengardi. Stands for for "neither fish nor fowl", because she's Anglo-Indian Shrive Hill House: F 27 July gruesome discovery Bermondsey Horror The 27th instance s/b the 27th instant, meaning the 27th of this month. Samuel Blaise-Hamilton, Inspector Langley. Charlotte Blaise-Hamilton survived. Cendr\'ee Wyvern Pursuivant = Robin Bulstrode (Thomas Arnold), Sir Hilary on holiday Short brunette (Edwina) and Petra went to look for Bunty Edwina Parrish (Imogen Gurney) Argent between three pellets a battleaxe gules, escutcheon of Morse College (at Yale) motto: In Deo Non Armis Fido, "In God, not arms, I trust". gules: red, as a heraldic tincture argent: silver, as a heraladic tincture "Here comes a candle to light you to bed" from Oranges and Lemons, a nursery rhyme Ending: "Here comes a candle to light you to bed / And here comes a chopper to chop off your head! / Chip chop chip chop the last man is dead". Bunty Glossop and Maud Ashenden (Eleanor Northcott) Caroline girl of the American, son of Mr and Mrs Gardiner Mr Fitzowen knew Adrian Weiss. Stephen Fitzowen (Desmond Barrit) Edgerton, Langly, Cuff investigators in the 19th century murders Joseph O'Connell poacher Benjamin Pickstock. Pickstock's 'son' Robert turns out to be illegitimate child of Samuel Blaise-Hamilton. Charlotte committed to Holmwood Park Sanitorium. Dr Rowse, Senior Curator, away (the Museum of Natural History) Double date: Jim Strange, Maureen (Mo), friend (turns out to be Joan Thursday), Morse Edwina missing "Plighted Cunning" about Blythe Mount, Blaise-Hamilton's were "of their time". about murders at Shrive Hill House, by Stephen Fitzowen plighted = promise of loyalty, often promise to marry Burke and Hare murders, 1828, Edinburgh. Sold corpses to Robert Knox. "Point duty" means traffic control Maud Ashenden, 12 years old Maud, Bunty, Edwina: played ghost of Charlotte Morse saw Maud in the attic. Maud wrote "SAVE ME". Terence Black & Miss Danby (Vicky Danby). A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD (Deuteronomy 23:2) Samuel Blaise-Hamilton has child (Robert) with Indian mistress Unsuccessful Indian uprising against the British in 1857 (the Indian Mutiny) Benjamin Pickstock, gameskeeper. Hat and check (sometimes around G), Masonic symbol DI Bart Church (Simon Kunz), Monica Hicks (Svorne Marks) ============================================================== F 3/22/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. No library. Caught 6:45am to U. Lunch (egg&cheese protein box) at Starbucks. Typed in redmarks, made more redmarks, typed them in, made more, typed them in. Rode home with Maxim. Finished Endeavour, "Trove", s2/9e1/4, third time through. What have they been feeding you out at Witney? Witney = County, I guess. Torc = large rigid neck ring in metal "MOD Lydd Barracks": checking on Archie Batten, maybe. Introductions by: Alan Cumming. ============================================================== Th 3/21/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Library: NY Times, someone showed me New Yorker, but they don't have New York Review of Books. Redmarking. Finished redmarking at home. Will type tomorrow, at school. Short Zoom with Fernando. He was stuck in traffice, so we didn't get to start until about 5:15pm, and had to finish at 5:45pm. Still has some pain. Preparing talk on carbon capture. Around 6pm, left for TMORA. Spent a little time there. "Milkmaids, Novella" (1962) by Nikolai Nikolaevich Baskakov. Vladimir Dikarev (painter), Zoran Mojsilov (sculptures), Olga Volchkova (iconic painting, but with naturalist subjects). There was aslo a group of women singing Russian folksongs. There was a card with a map of Zoran Mojsilov's installations around the Twin Cities. Gave it to Julia. Finished second time through Endeavour, "Trove", s2/9e1/4. Copley-Barns just a jerk, not a murderer. Dead: Pettifer, Frida Yelland. Both killed by Tony Frisko, with Todd and Batten ============================================================== W 3/20/24 Strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Library: WSJ, NY Times, redmarking. Finished up corn chowder from yesterday. 3pm, Alex came out and we finished up taxes. No property tax refund this year, because in-plan Roth conversion pushed my income up a lot. Pretty much broke even, in terms of taxes owed to state, and refund from Federal. Then Julia and Alex and I went to Old Chicago for pub pizzas. Then Alex and I went to MN EV Owners group meeting at the new (huge) Tesla store in Golden Valley. Alex did a test drive of a new Model S, and I rode along. Saw a Cyber Truck. Tour was very interesting. Left about 7:30pm and headed home. Watched just a little of Endeavour, "Trove", s2/9e1/4. ============================================================== Tu 3/19/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. No library, caught 6:45am to the U. Typed redmarks, printed, made more redmarks, printed again. Lunch at Starbucks, egg & cheese protein box. Home on the 3:48pm. Piece of string cheese. Julia's salad. Couple of glasses of milk. Bowl of corn chowder. Lots of nuts, snacking. Started Endeavour, "Trove", s2/9e1/4 Diana Day (Jessica Ellerby), Ms. Great Britain in newspaper. Burridge's spring into summer fashion collection Dr Malcolm Speight (William Mannering): King Harold had to straightway hurry south from Stamford Bridge to repel the Norman Invasion Frida Yelland (Tieva Lovelle) of Wantage in Oxforshire, stepdad Bernard Yelland (Philip Martin Brown), mom Elspeth Yelland Frida's father died in WW II, Pacific Tom Duggan, vote Labour Barbara Batten (Beth Goodard) || Diana, Mrs Todd, Mu (not Moo) ValMu from Val and Muriel Todd Muriel Todd (Pooky Quesnel), Val Todd (David Westhead) FME = Force Medical Examiner. no side=no arrogance, no pretentiousness the ABC said that she handed in her cards, ABC = Aerated Bread Company??? Wikipedia (Aerated Bread Company) ABC name disappeared when the company ceased operation in 1982 missing notebook: maybe the Masons got it. Hinted at the end. "Things go missing all the time" in reference to the cigar butt. Picture of notebook being handed from gloved man to man with ring (we only see their hands) Morse: "I can't help feeling I've missed something". Maybe: the missing notebook Mr Yelland, from Wantage (SxSW of Oxford), came into Witney (W of N end of Oxford) salmagundi = kitchen sink salad Mr Todd, Diana no boyfriend, Danny Griffon (race car driver), Tone Oxford heat, show goes on lido = open air swimming pool or beach (British) Eric Fisher and Sons, gas station Walter Fisher one of the sons (Nigel Cooke) Raymond Meeker (alias), 8pm, early 40s, biggish, driving Lincoln Continental, dentist Uttoxeter Racecourse, home to annual Midlands Grand National horse race Uttoxeter N of Birmingham, which is NW of Oxford, which is NW of London Jeremiahs say to me Barbara (Batten) ... jeremiah is one who is pessimistic about the present and forsees a calamitous future Captain and Mrs Batten. Mr Batten, paint factory on Botley. Saucies = Worcestershire Regiment (Burma) (Thursday: N Africa, Italy) Kitty Batten (Jessie Buckley) = girl that shot paint gun, attends Lady Matilda, Beaufort tutor is Copley Barnes Running Blue, Cupper (won some kind of cup), prospect for Mexico in the 800 Barbara and Archie Batten (Jonathan Coy), Barbara is the politician. Garage at Shotover (E of Oxford) Thursday: ham and tomato Tony Frisko to Diana: Don't let Muriel catch you. Monica with the moped, gas is gone, tanner = sixpence Ring-rusty is a fighters term, rusty from being out of the ring, i.e., not fighting Dr Copley Barnes (Jamie Parker), bonnet, Macullen Chair, Medieval Studies Dr Malcolm Speight (William Mannering), senior research fellow in Anglo-Saxon Antiquities thegn, high-ranking housecarl in the retinue of King Harold Godwinson thegn = aristocrat owning land (ranking in society: king, then ealdormen, then thegn, then ceorl?) houscarl = manservant in Anglo-Saxon England Secondary modern = schools in Britain for ages 11-16, focus on practical skills grammar school more broad education Wolvercote Trove, tarnhelm helmet spearhead Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, Hendon curriculum. Hendon is a secondary school. Historia ecclesiastica completely irrelevant: 335 years before 1066. 1913 Mary Richardson, National Gallery, Rokeby Venus Mr John Pettifer, London address, Soho Chipperfield Studios, Tony Frisko, Mr Todd's asst, Val = Mr Todd, affair with Diana Day stage name Simon Dee = Cyril Nicholas Henty-Todd, TV interviewer show: Dee Time Mr Whe'e's on the phone from Play-Tone who was waiting for Morse at Pettifor's office: Mr Batten hit Morse, but not so skilled as Tony Frisko Lydia Martin (Emily Plumtree), secretary Mallory one of the assailants, inspector, Vine St Mallory's wife hired Pettifer, trying to catch her husband cheating 15-58-16-03 years of Elizabeth Tudor reign I fetched you this out, Muriel Todd, wotcher=what cheer Mu and Tony; Tony Frisko Croydon, maisonette in Purley Justin Delfarge (James Palmer), Thomas, ValMu promotions clobber = clothes and accessories Lane at SCDP Private Joe Spurling killed in action, Frida Yelland's father Capt. Archibald Batten Opera music: Lucia di Lammermoor (Mad Scene), by Donizetti Trill Mill (sewer system) out of bounds, murophobic = fear of mice and rats Frida Yellen found in the Trill Mill, murdered, by blow to the head, very similar to Pettifer, same killer. Copley Barnes, Imogen. Put you up = put you up for the night. 8/1086 date of first draft of Domesday book Raid on Justin Delfarge and Thomas (Right Hon Gideon Bartholomew Thomas Fyffe-Drummond) Muriel tells Val: It's Lane at SCDP Morse's neighbor, Monica Hicks (Shvorne Marks): You're just blue. Eric Fisher and Sons. Funderland, Oxford. Saloon car, British for sedan, meaning three-box configuration: separate compartments for engine, passengers, cargo Secret handshake. 98018 is a lodge number: Doomsday Arms. Val Todd, Archie Batten, Tony Frisko at the place where Frida Yellen was killed. Pettifer observed the killing that the three did. Tony Frisko good with hitting people on the head with a "cosh". Mr Batten hit Morse, but not so skilled as Tony Frisko. Tripehound: Dog who is so unimportant that it's only fed tripe contemptible person Luncheon meat, some day, Thursday's sandwich Watched a few battle on the Voice with Julia Didn't get a lot of sleep last night -- expecting to sleep well tonight. ============================================================== M 3/18/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Library: WSJ, redmarked profs / grants. Watch Endeavour, "Home", s1/9e4/4 a third time. Made appointment for tomorrow for my eye to be looked at, at the Boynton Eye Clinic, with Dr Hergott, OD. The left eye seems to be having "spots" and "flashes". OD = Doctor of Optometry. OD=optometrist. DO (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine) is very similar to MD, and, with correct specialization, a DO or an MD may be an opthomologist. Have been working on pen spinning for the last few days. Starting to get a little easier. Finally realized that the pen doesn't really spin about the thumb. It spins about its center of mass, and the thumb is in the way, forcing it to go around the thumb. This is why it *looks* as if it's going around the thumb. If the thumb isn't at the center of mass, it won't work. ============================================================== Su 3/17/24 St Patrick's day. No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. No library, drove to the U, typed up redmarks on profs / grants. Printout, more redmarks, then another printout. Significant changes. More t_n theorems, with t_n-n alpha bdd. Finished second time through Endeavour, "Home", s1/9e4/4. Finished second draft of LTE on offshore wind. ============================================================== Sa 3/16/24 Strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Library: Strib, Barron's, redmarking profs / grants. Shopping: Milk, one whips yogurt, more English muffins, Carr's on sale. Finished almond butter from Julia. 1:15pm, donated blood. Home: a little more redmarking, short nap. Finished Endeavour, "Home", s1/9e4/4, and restarted. ============================================================== F 3/15/24 Beware the Ides of March! No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Library: WSJ, Strib, redmarking profs / grants. 1:30pm, LTE group, good session, lots of ideas. Wrote a draft, some before, some after the meeting. Rather than trying to key off of an article that upsets me, tried to find one I thought to be positive, to say positive things. Dave, Greg O, Cecilia, Nicola and me. Finished third time through Endeavour, "Rocket", s1/9e3/4. Started Endeavour "Home", s1/9e4/4. First piece of music: Requiem Op 48 by Gabriel Faur\'e. Prof Coke Norris lecture. Before the gates of Troy, refers to Iliad. Odysseus was king of Ithaca. Oedipus kills his father on the road to Thebes. A young man on a journey from innocence to experience: William Blake: Songs of Innocence and of Experience originally two sets of poems, one on innocence, one on experience Booth Hill, Landesman Construction. Also used at the end of the last episode. Jazz: I'd die for you. Guy being beaten up -- Charlie, owner of club. Forced to sell to Vic Kasper. Navy cut vs ribbon cut, ways of "cutting" pipe tobacco. Bright says "truck" not "lorry". Botley Road -- truck stolen, with 10K pounds of cigaretts. Trachiniae, tragedy by Sophocles. Heracles lies to and betrays his wife, Deianeira. She gets him to wear a robe coated with what she thinks is a love potion. Turns out to be poison. Play ends with him being taken to Zeus' peak to be burned alive, to put him out of his misery. Fitton's from Fitton's Promotion Syllabus Police manual for Constable to Sergeant. Authors Frank Fitton and Kenneth Sloan. Fitton can also be a lier or cheat Also an accidental ejaculation into one's own face! Prof Coke Norris (Paul Venables). Alistair or Al. Wife Millicent (Poppy Miller). Daughter Audrey, in accident, Ian Kern (Jamie Glover) searching Norris' rooms. Baedeker (travel book) menions being a "C.O. in the last show". conscientious objector maybe? Morry at the club. Cynthia Riley, too. Whelk stall -- small enterprise that is easy to run Twenny Guards: Guards a brand of cigarette. Twenny = 20, probably. Joyce (Endeavour's sister), Gwen Morse (Lynda Rooke), Constance (Endeavour's mother, died 1950) bob (currency) = shilling = 1/20 of a pound (cf nickel to dollar) five bob = 1/4 of a pound = crown (cf quarter to dollar) sixpence = 1/2 shilling (cf half a nickel to a dollar) Miss Lila Pilgrim, singer JV Oxford 38802 Judy Vallens (Louise Dylan). Matildabeeste - Lady Matilda's flatmate: Georgina "Gina" Bannard, works (cigarette girl) at The Moonlight Rooms, club off the Broad. Jolyon Frobisher, master ad Badeley Millie speaking with Ian Kern. At 6s and 7s: English idiom to describe a state of confusion or disarray seems to originate from a dice game "hazard". Booth Hill: originally owned by Alistair's family. "Blooding" (in fox hunting): initiation ceremony, face of novice smeared with blood of first fox they see killed. Vince Casper (Nick Court) Cynthia Riley (Kelly Adams) and Vince's conversation indicates that he was responsible for the "lorry-load of smokes" being stolen. Only importance: They continue in criminal activities, even though Vic wants to retire. Margate, N of Dover, on the coast. Because of Carter (Mickey Carter.) Meeting booked with Mark Carlisle (Edmund Kingsley), senior planning officer Thorpy on the phone, Vin. Vin ne Vic Kasper (Clive Wood). Vic Kasper father; Vin Kasper son. The place is a midden. Midden = heap of dung. Cynthia Riley, hostess. Morry. Morris Cubit (Richard Hawley) Sid and Gerald Fletcher. Fletcher brothers. Farrago = a confused mixture That's Cyn's side. (Cynthia Riley) Georgina Bannard used Judy Valens in a mews in Bayswater mews = converted from stables or made to look that way Carlisle "had it in" for Coke Norris Mrs Carter --> Mrs Wilkins They come at you through what you care about. Gwen Morse (Lynda Rooke), Joyce Morse (Sonya Cassidy), Cyril Morse (Alan Williams). Three murders: Prof Coke Norris, Georgina Bannard, Prof Kern One killer: Millicent Coke Norris ============================================================== Th 3/14/24 Pi Day! Strength, running (25 mins, 550 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. No library. 11am, prep meeting for lobby meeting with Lucy Rehm. 12:45pm-1pm, lobby meeting, went well. Sent followup inviting her to speak to our chapter. Around 3pm, went for walk with Julia at Hyland Lake Park Reserve. Watched to the end of Endeavour, "Rocket", s1/9e3/4. 2nd time through. ============================================================== W 3/13/24 No strength, running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. At library: WSJ, worked on profs / grants. Significant change: will include a theorem studying the probability of X_n=epsilon_0, given that X_1+...+X_n=t_n, where t_n-na is bounded in n, where a is the common mean of all the X_i. Up to now, we've always had X_1+...+X_n=na. Worked on Wednesday finances, not a payday. 3pm, met Rod and Jon at Unmapped. Played the Greenhouse Game. about 6pm, went for walk in the neighborhood with Juila. Spent a lot of time working to plan CCL the meeting tomorrow at 12:45pm, with MN Rep Lucy Rehm. Only 15 minutes. Also will have a Zoom planning meeting at 11am. Got caught up on email. ============================================================== Tu 3/12/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Got very little sleep last night, very tired. No library, caught 6:45am bus to the U. Worked all day on profs / grants. Caught a one hour nap, too. Typing, printing, a little redmarking, more typing, more printing. Home on the 3:48pm bus. Shopping (about $70): milk, tissues, string cheese, English muffins, tea, yogurt, some Amy's on sale. Around 6pm went for a walk in the neighborhood with Julia. Red marks on profs / grants. Watched a little from 60 minutes. Repeat on Caligula, whose gardens were discovered in Rome in digging for a parking ramp. Story about Faro Island in Newfoundland. Time zone 30 minutes off from mainland. Cod has made a comeback, and now they have shellfish. Also some hydroponics. ============================================================== M 3/11/24 Strength and running (25 mins, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Three weeks of laundry, took about 4.5 hrs (4:30am-9am). Then to EPCC. No time for library. Short nap at home. 2pm-3pm, Zoom with Terry Quain and Nicola Philpott Wrote to Mike Myhrom (who now teaches math at DeLa Salle), to see if he has time to speak with Tony Smirna about a possible MN climate activation project. 6:30pm-9:30pm, Unmapped with Paul and Mindy. Trivia night -- very loud, so we moved to Boom Island Brewery. Talked a lot about our trips to New Zealand. They spent 2 weeks on N island, 4 weeks on S island, then 4 weeks Borneo (Malaysia side). N island = Te Ika _a M_aui. S island = Te Wai Pounamu Pounamu = greenstone (nephrite jade, bowenite, serpentine) ============================================================== Su 3/10/24 Daylight Savings Time. Strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. No time for library. Visited G&S, 11am-1:30pm. Surgery for Duputyen's Contracture on M 18 March. Worked a little on profs / grants. Maxim got a speeding ticket on his way home. Cited at 79 in a 60 zone. :-( Started laundry. Hope to finish it tomorrow morning. 7pm, concert at TMORA, "A Woman's Love and Life", probably related to International Women's Day. Pianist: Denis Evstuhin, Soprano: Karin Wolverton. Shumann, Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (!), Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovski. Last piece was the Letter Scene from Eugene Onegin. In the galleries at TMORA: Vladimir Dikarev (painter), Zoran Mojsilov (sculptures), Olga Volchkova (iconic painting, but with naturalist subjects) ============================================================== Sa 3/9/24 No strength, running (25 min, 600 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Library: WSJ was missing, looked briefly at Barron's business magazine. Worked on redmarking profs / grants. 2pm-4pm, Strawbale house tour was a lot of fun. On S Bryant near 22nd. At home, did more redmarking profs / grants. ============================================================== F 3/8/24 Very tiring day. Didn't get a lot of sleep -- got up at 4:15am. Sent reminder of Strawbale House tour on Saturday. Some strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. No library. Rode bus to U, and caught ride back with Maxim. Worked on profs / grants. Went to bookstore and bought new backpack, $80. Small Impossible egg and cheese sandwich at Starbucks. Called Comcast to ask about the recent increase in biling. Got a new reduction, good for one year, $168.48/month. Printed out my tax forms (which Alex filled out on Wednesday. Spent so long on phone arranging this that I was late meeting Maxim. He was just barely on time for work, but had to drive straight home, couldn't drop me off at my car. Julia drove me to my car. 5:30pm-7pm, went to Big Bowl with Julia for International Women's Day. Then stopped at Trader Joe's for milk. Went to Menards to get more compostable bags, but they were out of the small ones. Got a pack of 24 LED bulbs for about $25. When I got home, I ordered 200 small compostable bags from Amazon, $50.96. Maybe lifetime supply?? Organized the tax forms that I printed at my office, and then filed them away in the filing cabinet downstairs. Alex and I still need to work on the amendment for MN taxes and on the property tax refund. Maybe get that done on the 19th. No time for Endeavour today. Roman 26, Russian 33, Greek 24 (alphabet size) ============================================================== Th 3/7/24 Some strength, running (25 mins), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Library: WSJ and red marks on profs / grants. 12noon-2pm, VEAP: Mobile Pantry, Ft Snelling delivery only Home: red marks on profs / grants, short nap. 8:30-9:30 approx: State of the Union address. I thought it was good. ============================================================== W 3/6/24 Strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Library: redmarks on profs / grants, WSJ Walk at Lake Smetana with Julia, about 30 minutes. On my paycheck, withholding was changed and I don't know why. Called and was promised that I'd get an email message about it, hopefully within a week. (Eventually got a message saying that the "withholding tables" changed.) Received a ticket for speeding in New Zealand. Just an automated system. Hope there aren't more tickets on the way. Was traveling 63 km/hr in a 50 zone, apparently. Alex came out and we worked on taxes. I forgot one form (there were two Roth in-plan conversions and I forgot about one of them), and we didn't realize it until after we submitted taxes, so we needed to submit an amendment. We couldn't amend the MN Taxes, amendments aren't open yet for the state. So we'll have to work on that sometime later. The federal amendment reduced my refund by $609, so I had to submit a check for that amount, along with the amendment, by mail. My recharing power bank system (UGreen PD100W Max) arrived. Alex and Julia and I went to Best Buy to get a "charger" (i.e. plug) so that I can plug in the power bank. Julia got a car charger; she'd lost her last one, in New Zealand. Alex and Julia and I went to Pizza Karma -- been a while. Alex and I watched an episode of Blue Bloods, while Julia went to a wine-tasting. Alex shared some candy from Japan with Julia and me. No time for Endeavour today. ============================================================== Tu 3/5/24 No strength, running (25 minutes), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. No library, drove in to the U. Starbucks (butter croissant), redmarking. Typed up redmarks. New printout. Drove home. Walk at Staring Lake Park with Julia. Some goldfish crackers, walnuts, string cheese, colby jack, Amy's. Did some more redmarking profs / grants. Watched about 30 minutes of Endeavour, "Rocket", s1/9e3/4, second viewing. Voted in presidential primary at Wooddale Church. Would have forgotten, except for reminder from GOP 49. :-) ============================================================== M 3/3/24 Strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Library: Glanced at today's WSJ. Mostly worked on redmarking profs / grants. Chris sent me another computation and I added it into profs / grants. Finished Endeavour, "Rocket", s1/9e3/4, first viewing. Started second viewing. Went for a short walk in the neighborhood. Very light eating today. Watched a little of The Voice with Julia, about 45 minutes. ============================================================== Su 3/2/24 No strength, running (25 mins), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. This week is spring break at the U. Maxim will be home. No library, drove to U, typed up redmarks on profs / grants, got new printout. Also napped a few mintues. Home: finished peanuts, had some crackers, piece of string cheese. Also, napped a few minutes. Started redmarking new printout. Walked around the neighborhood. Evening: Piece of cheese, milk. Very light. Planned to go to Big Bowl with Julia for International Women's Day. Endeavour, "Fugue", s1/9e2/4, third viewing. Started Endeavour, "Rocket", s1/9e3/4. Percy Malleson (James Merry) clocks in. Princess Margaret, Mr Henry Bloom Crown Prince Nabil (Darwin Shaw) of the United Hashemite Kingdom. In real life: Hashemites or House of Hashim are the royal family of Jordan, which they have ruled since 1921. Pathe mob: Path\'e or Path'e fr\`eres is a media company that dates back to 1896. Founded in Paris on 28 Sept 1896 by four brothers, last name Path\`e. Charles \'Emile Th\'eophile, Jacques. wog = offensive for nonwhite, esp. from the Middle East Johnny = Little boots (Nora Broom's nickname for him) Little boots in latin is Caligula Johnny: Quoting Dickie. Alice Vexin (Maimie McCoy). Johnny Broom (James Northcote) Nora, ex-wife of old man (Henry Bloom (Martin Jarvis)), chauffer Michael Reg Tracepurcel (Craig Parkinson, killed them all), Lenny Frost (Jack Roth), "Comrade Reg", Dick = Dickie = Richard Broom (William Houston). Dickie (Richard Broom) son of Nora and Henry, also Johnny, Estella daughter Reg Tracepurcel talking with Lenny Frost, who was suspended Frost to Tracepurcel: "I know who landed me in it, and so do you." Lenny Frost connects with Prince Nabil. Dr Volk. British Imperial. Nora Broom, Henry Broom --> Richard, Estella, John, Harry = Henry Estella Broom (Rosalind Halstead) General Fitter, Percy Malleson (James Merry) Dead: Olive Rix, Percy Malleson, Lenny Frost Henry's personal asst, Alice Vexin Reg Tracepurcel = Shop Steward Harry, late brother of the three siblings, aneurysm in the brain Time and motion: spying for management Alice Vexin, up at Oxford with Morse Curtis's arm crushed, Lenny Frost's fault ?We make a last (cast?) of each of our customers taking into account any idiosyncracies of the foot: Hallux Valgus, Polydactyly, Syndactyly Eustace Kendrick, student at Curtmantle, connected to that "Rix girl". Dorothea Frasel: County investigation, Olive Rix, Bernardo's girl, from the midlands. Bernardo's: British charity founded 1866 Morse finds a relative of Eustace Kendrick's, Lavinia, in hospice. Staff points him to a niece who claims Eustace was too gentle to have killed anyone. BIEC = British Imperial Electric Company shufti = quick look around (military slang) Entente Cordiale 1904 Anglo-French diplomatic agreement Morse tried to like "Trad, the Angries, Sartre": Trad Jazz, meaning Traditional Jazz the Angry Young Men (writers like John Osborne, Colin Wilson) Osborne: Look Back in Anger, play (1956) Wilson: the new existentialism Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialism (study of meaning, purpose and value of human existence) perfidious albion approx Sleazy England Estella mentions Sara Crewe, character in A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Burnett wrote Little Lord Faundleroy and The Secret Garden. Sara Crewe is the heroine, a child whose rich father dies and leaves her penniless, at the mercy of her guardian, Miss Minchin, at a boarding school. Opera in Morse's apartment after finding Olive Rix Henry Purcell (libretto: Nahum Tate) Dido and Aenas - When I am laid in Earth (aka Dido's Lament). very old (1688?), much is uncertain, original score lost Based on Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid recounts love of Dido (Queen of Carthage) for Aeneas (Trojan hero). At 1:04, after discovering body of Olive Rix, Endeavour listens to: Hyoid bone, horseshoe-shaped bone just under the chin, in anterior (front). Not very susceptible to fracture, except murder by strangulation. Only bone in the body not connected to any others nearby. Vivat regina! Long live the Queen. Probably irrelevant: Play by Robert Bolt. About Mary, Queen of Scots and Queen Elizabeth I. Elizabeth has Mary beheaded. (The two never met.) Robert Bolt also wrote A Man for All Seasons. I might live with one dead murderer, but not a brace. Meaning?? British meaning of "brace": pair of suspenders. maybe "brace" is slang for "pair". brace is a pair of animals that are hunted together. brace is two things that help support one another. found a whole website on how to decide between "brace" and "pair". Thursday: "Not every question gets an answer." nem con = nemine contradicente = unanimously a cod and two penneth = fish and chips Killer: Reg Tracepurcel ============================================================== Sa 3/2/24 Strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Library: Consumer Reports, profs / grants redmarking Home: a little more redmarking, short rest. Walk around the neighborhood, 4:30pm-5:30pm. Very light dinner: piece of string cheese, small glass milk. Noon, had peanuts, fair helping of goldfish crackers, milk. Rewatched Endeavour, "Fugue", s1/9e2/4, second viewing. ============================================================== F 3/1/24 No strength, running (25 mins), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Library: WSJ, Economist, Consumer Reports, profs / grants redmarking Home: a little more redmarking Started Endeavour, s1/9e2/4, "Fugue", first time. Woman dead on train, Evelyn Balfour (Kelly Price). Elderly woman dead in home, botanist -- flora of the subcontinent, Grace Agnes Madison (Lavinia Bertram), niece Faye (Laura Rees), Faye Madison explains: Grace Agnes Madison was married to "Uncle Cedric". Niece's brother Phillip Madison (Will Featherstone), piano recital (Moonlight 3rd movement). Appt with Mr Nimmo, journalist Verdi's Otello last-line: Un bacio ancora, one kiss more. some bint: a contemptuous term used to refer to a woman or girl. Thursday: After north Africa, Reggio, Cassino (nits=lice) fingerprint: Roy Adamson, Headington. Datura stramonium, Thorn Apple, Devil's Snare, poisonous Ici loin du monde r\'eel: Lakm\'e by Leo Delibes (set during British Raj) Lakme is an Indian princess, dies by datura stramonium Dr Daniel Cronyn psychiatrist. (Really: Mason Gull.), Kine (collective of cows, cattle), reared to slaughter Lemuel Oakshott (Robert Blythe), on tractor: Drover's Rest, slaughteryard, old Ben Nimmo's place. Aida, Ramames' final aria, entombed alive immurement = walling up Mikado, Koko's song, "As someday it may happen that a victim might be found". Koko, Lord High Executioner to the Mikado. Dr Daniel Cronyn (Geoffrey Streatfeild): Mason Gull Keith Miller, I'm the killer, anagram Cnezhnaya Koroleva, ?3-O.C.P. 0, Rimskij-Korsakov. Oxford City Police. Snegurochka = snow maiden EGBDF Evelyn, Grace, Ben, ?, ? NO ALIBI ERR BADLY - NEAR BY LIBRA IDOL: Two anagrams for Bodelian Library Bodelian Library ||| bin on Catte St by the library. SOME COPPERS HAVE NO BRAINS | ALL COPPERS ARE BASTARDS | \therefore Modus Bocardo syllogism --- Bocardo Prison Bocardo OAO: sOme are nOt, All Are, so sOme are nOt bOcArdO --> OAO All Are --> A, no arE --> E, some are --> I, sOme are nOt --> O Memorial on the Broad, Martyr's Memorial, all three in Bocardo Prison, by St Michael in North Gate, Martyr's cell door can still be seen in display in the church tower. D not Debbie, Debbie Snow, but Daniel. Daniel Cronyn. (Not Mason Gull, but the real Daniel Cronyn.) aqua regia = royal water = nitro-hydrochloric acid = mixture of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid brass bung; bung=stopper or cork Dorothea Frazil's old editor Sid Mears 1943: Mason Gull and mother ran coaching inn by Wolercote killed American general who took a shine to Mrs Gull. Giacomo Puccini's Tosca (opera in 3 acts) playing on phone DI Foxley investigated murder of Mrs Gull two witnesses for the prosecution: slaughterman Benjamin Nimmo barmaid Getrude Tate, with 8-yr-old daughter Evelyn (later Evelyn Balfour) case heard by Mr Justice Madison (father? of Faye and Phillip Madison) Balfour's wife, Evelyn Tate, had maiden name Tate. TOSCA = The Oxford Scholars Choral Association Alfredus College home to TOSCA Scarpia. F not Faye, but Fred Thursday Second act: sprat, mackerel, death of Scarpia (by knife), corrupt venal chief of police at Tosca's hand Spoletta (a police agent in Tosca), La commedia \`efinita Sprat to catch a mackerel, saying. Beethoven Schindler, Haydn Griesinger recital on C. Beckstein piano, Phillip practices on a Chappell Gerry Olderby (Paul Bullion), Roy Adamson (Lex Shrapnel), Linda Snow (Joanna Horton) ============================================================== Th 2/29/24 No Strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Very busy day. Drove in early to get charging at the U. Plugged in, but, for some reason the charging didn't start, and I didn't notice. It's happened once before, but I did catch it that time. Annoying. Dr Witte's called to let me know that the new essex mouthpice was ready, but asked that I set an appointment to come see Dr Witte. I asked if that was really necessary, and was promised a call back. Worked until about 11am on typing in redmarks on profs / grants. Then gave Maxim a ride to the U. Then went back to profs / grants until about 2:30pm, got a new printout, and then went to meet Maxim to give him a ride home. Then drove over to Dr Witte's and asked again about the essex. Took a long time but the front desk person eventually brought it to me, and I left. Called Alex and he said we could do the oil change a little earlier than we'd planned (3:15pm instead of 4pm). Did the oil change, then he let me plug into his brand new (installed by Adam Wortman yesterday) charger. Went for a 29% off on 2/29 at Buca. I got Penne alla Vodka, he got something with meat. He ended up with lots of leftovers. I gave him my leftovers, not so much. Went back to his place and he put the leftovers in his refrigerator. Then went and picked up Maxim to go see Dune 2. Got parked early enough to go for a short walk on Nicollet Island. Then watched Dune (pretty good!), dropped off Maxim, and went back to Alex's. My car was fully charged. Drove home and have been trying to get ready for bed since. ============================================================== W 2/28/24 Strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Extremely tired last night, slept well. Quiet day. about 10:15am, haircut. Library: WSJ, Economist, redmarking profs / grants. Home: continued redmarking. Watched 30 minutes or so of Endeavour, "Girl", s1/9e1/4, third time through. Alexander Pope quote: Hope springs eternal in the human breast Man never is, but always to be blest The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. from An Essay on Man, Alexander Pope (Man never feels lucky (blest), but is always hoping to become lucky in the future.) (expatiate can mean to move freely more typical meaning of expatiate: to add details to clarify) Barber: "anything for the weekend sir" means "do you need any condoms" digitalis = foxgloves, a genus of flowering plants (NOT called "deadly nightshade") NOTE: deadly nightshade is Atropa Belladonna solenacae = nightshade, a family of flowering plants nightshade includes: tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant, bell peppers Wrote to Paul and Mindy: Get together about NZ? Fernando? ============================================================== Tu 2/27/24 No strength, running (25 mins, 500 ft), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Library: WSJ, Economist, redmarking profs / grants. Home: continued redmarking. Watched old Booknotes (2001) with Edward Said. Very sick with leukemia, died in Sept 2003. Prof at Columbia. Only taught literature, and doesn't talk politics during class. Book under discussion: Reflections on Exile Most famous book: Orientalism Studied at Northfield Mount Hermon School in Gill, MA. Then Princeton for college, PhD in Literature at Harvard. Member Palestinian National Council, legislative side of the PLO. Finished Endeavour, "Girl", s1/9e1/4, second time through. 5pm-9pm, Caucus convenor for DFL 49. 4 attendees, lots of candidate visits. Tiring, but very good people attending. Lots of interesting resolutions. ============================================================== M 2/26/24 No strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. 6:10am, drove to the U, expecting to drive to Dr Witte's to drop off essex. He called and said they're making a new one from scratch, hopefully ready by Friday. Left around 10:30 and went home. Typed up edits to profs / grants and got new printout. Worked a lot on redmaring new version at home. Short catnap. Long walk in the late afternoon, 4:30pm-5:30pm. Started again on Endeavour, "Girl", s1/9e1/4, second time. Thursday was given amphetamines in the army to keep alert and jokes that the German 88s served the same purpose. Cowley Parade (where Morse first saw Pamela), Beaufort College (fictional), Godstow (death of Frank Cartwright) Derek Clark says that Margaret Bell was looking for a husband, "some blue with prospects". Not sure about where that use of "blue" comes from. Probably blue blood = noble birth. "left point of the supra-orbital ridge", "median point of the left parietal-occipital suture line", supra-orbital ridge = brow ridge = bony ridge above eye sockets. parietal-occiptal suture line = lambdoid suture that separates parietal and temporal bones from occiptal bone. cruciverbalist = crossword puzzle enthusiast Morse was a cipher clerk in the signal corps running over a dune is an effort, 9 letters (ENDEAVOUR) "over a dune" anagram for "endeavour" after beard teased, an exclamation of surprise will bring you home, 11 letters beard anagram for bread. exclamation of surprise, "Oh, Crumbs!" will bring you home, hansel and gretel drinamyl amphetamine GCCS = golf cheese and chess society = government code and cipher school Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you Greaves (John Flanagan) had his gas meter broken into. ?Son? is a barber. Margaaret Bell (Fiona Ryan), typist Denis Bradley (Alan Morrissey), boyfriend, sent accusatory letters to Sir Edmond Sloan Bill Prentice (Mark Bazeley), Frank Cartwright partners Pamela Waters (nee Sloan) (Sophie Stuckey) and Bobby, never really married Gerald Walters Gerald Waters ICI=Imperial Chemical Industries, husband of Pamela Walters, though that eventually turns out to be a lie Frank Cartwright (Dominic Taylor), Helen Cartwright (nee Sloan) (Olivia Grant) Sir Edmund Sloan (the atom man) (Jonathan Hyde) Derek Clark (luke Allen-Gale), Wallace Clark (Albert Welling) La gazza ladra = the thieving magpie, by Rossini Reverend Ranulf Monkford (Jonathan Guy Lewis), St Elegius -- his bike at Godstow. ============================================================== Su 2/25/24 Strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. No time for library. 10:50am-1:45pm, was at the West Metro Home Remodeling Fair. Jamie showed up, and Rod. Lots of good conversations. Watched Meet the Press, with Kristen Welker. Gavin Newsom, Jake Sulilvan, Rep Byron Donalds (Trump supporter). Panel: Chuck Todd, Yamiche Alcindor, Lanhee Chen, Stephanie Cutter. Made plans to get together with Alex on W 6 Mar at 3pm to do taxes. Worked on profs / grants, redmarking. Watched a new episode of Blue Bloods. Joe Hill getting integrated into the family. Watched a little of the end of Endeavour Exeunt. Rewatched Endeavour Exeunt with Julia. Watched Bertolucci's The Dreamers. Michael Pitt, Eva Green, Louis Garrel Matthew American Blond Venus, Marlene Dietrich, 1932 ============================================================== Sa 2/24/24 No strength, running (25 mins), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Library: profs / grants, WSJ, Economist. 12noon, visited G&S. Alex was there and we had lunch together. My mom is now dealing with Dupuytren's contracture and will have surgery to correct the problem. It runs in families, so I should keep that in mind. Warm day coming up on Monday, and Alex might break out the motorcycle. Just a few minutes on Endeavour Exeunt. Scheduled reminders to call Dean Phillips. Worked on profs / grants, and spent a little time reading my new NY Review of Books. Not time for much else. Planning to see Dune 2 with Alex and Maxim. In Dune, it's all about the spice trade -- spice is a psychotropic substance. Needed for interstellar travel. Leto Atreides on Arrakis (desert planet). Timothee Chalamet is Paul Atreides, heir of House of Atreides. House of Harkonnen trying to take Arrakis from House of Atreides. Leto's consort is Lady Jessica of the Bene Gesserit sisterhood. Fortress stronghold on Arrakis is Arrakeen. Chani is the girl in Paul's visions. Zendaya plays Chani, a young Fremen warrior. Fremen are the indigenous people of Arrakis. Dune and Boy and Heron both have Dave Bautista and Florence Pugh. ============================================================== F 2/23/24 Strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Caught the 6:45am to the U, missed the 3:48pm return bus, but caught the next one about 30 minutes later. Worked all day on profs / grants except: Walked to Dr Witte's to pick up fixed Essex (mouthpiece). It broke again within a couple of hours. Also had a grilled cheese at Starbucks. After getting home, rushed around to get a few things done. No time for any TV today. 6pm, dinner party with Julia's Russian friends. We played a card game ("Durak") after dinner and I left at 8:30pm. Julia stayed on. ============================================================== Th 2/22/24 Strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Library: Economist, WSJ, profs / grants redmarking. Shopping: Milk, English muffins, chocolate soy milk, some toothpaste. Watched a few minutes of Endeavour Exeunt. More redmarking of profs /grants. A little catnap, too. Los Amigos at 4:30pm, Fernando is working hard on getting people to recognize that above ground carbon sequestration is more clearly verifiable. Talked a little about Argentina under Milei (lots of executive actions, but could be overridden by Parliament), about Rio Tinto (whose stock price fell a lot, but F says it's simply correlated to the price of commodities falling, not nearly as bad as when he was in the industry). Talked about my missing tooth. Went to Zoom Caucus Convenor training, 7pm-8:30pm. Will convene a caucus this coming Tuesday. Feeling just a little tickle in my throat -- hope I didn't catch anything from Alex, who was not feeling so well yesterday. ============================================================== W 2/21/24 No strength, 25 minutes running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Did finances: nearing $20,000 in checking account. Spent just a little time at the library -- Economist, WSJ, a little time on profs / grants redmarks. Then drove to Dr Witte's and dropped off mouthpiece. Then on to Alex's and we went to Ramen Kawae in Minneapolis. Alex drove and paid parking, I paid for the meal. We talked about MT, about Time of Day tariff for car chargin, about doing an oil change on my car, about my watch and its recent error messages (running out of space). Then Alex and I went to see "The Boy and the Heron", a movie by Hayao Miyazaki. English dubbing voiced by Christian Bale (playing the main character's father, Shoichi), Mark Hamill (playing the Granduncle), Dave Bautista (playing the Parakeet King), Willem Dafoe (playing the Noble Pelican). Main character: Mahito Maki. Mahito's mother (Hisako) dies and his father remarries, and the evacuate to avoid the Pacific War bombing of Tokyo. Mahito has fantastical adventures, saving his stepmother (Natsuko), and meeting a young version of his mother (Himi) who has pyrokinetic powers. Came home and went to the MN EV Owners meeting (online), with Matthew Blackler of ZEF Energy (which installs fast charging stations). They've been through a difficult time, but have some optimism that things are finally starting to improve. Alex also joined, and raised hand with a question, but, when they finally got to him, he must have fallen asleep. Long conversation with Julia about profs and grants at the BUA. She seemed interested. ============================================================== Tu 2/20/24 Strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Caught 6:45am bus to U, 3:48pm bus back. Worked on profs / grants. New printout, edits, then another new printout. At home, more edits. Rewatched Endeavour "Girl" s1/9e1/4, second time. First death, Margaret Bell (Fiona Ryan), by amphetamines supplied by Derek Clark (Luke Allen-Gale), the clerk. Second death, Frank Cartwright (Dominic Taylor), Derek's supplier, killed by Derek's father Wallace Clark (Albert Welling). Threatening letters sent by Denis Bradley (Alan Morrisey), Margaret Bell's boyfriend. Third death, the Vicar, Rev Monkford (Jonathan Guy Lewis) also killed by Wallace Clark. There's a website credit in IMDB for Will Richards playing Brian Powell, but I'm not sure which character that is. Can't find any mention in the script of Brian or Powell. Periodic table: 74 17 18 19 W Cl Ar K ============================================================== M 2/19/24 No strength, Running 25 mins, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Library closed for President's Day. Finished redmarking profs / grants. Typed in some of the redmarks. Rewatched Endeavour Exeunt. Will watch one more time. Also discovered that I can watch old episodes on computer, with PBS Passport. Watched Endeavour, s1/9 e1/4 "Girl", first time. The shopkeeper and his son Derek done it. Son was selling amphetamines (drinamyl), and a girl died from them. This was the first victim. Covering tracks, they killed two more. Vicar left clues by periodic table. 74=Tungsten=Wolframite=W, 17=Chlorine=Cl,18=Argon=Ar, 19=Potassium=K. "Yes, well, he would say that, wouldn't he." ref Mandy Rice-Davies. Death in Paradise, Murder on the High Seas, old boyfriend of victim killed her. Hid in hold, when they left the boat, he killed her and then swam to shore. He was angry because she left him to be attacked in Miami years earlier. The others didn't hear her cries because it happened while they were motoring toward shore. ============================================================== Su 2/18/24 Nice quiet day. Strength, no running, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Library: redmarks on profs / grants. Economist. Wall Street Journal. Late breakfast at People's Organic. Also had corn chowder at home, finished the cashews that Julia gave me. Overall, ate too much, and weight is up, at 163 around bedtime. Finished Endeavour Exeunt, and restarted, just a few minutes on the restart. More redmarking on profs / grants, at home. Set up Zoom for Thursday, with Fernando. ============================================================== Sa 2/17/24 No strength, Run (27 mins), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Library: redmarks on profs / grants. Economist. Wall Street Journal. Just a little time to watch some of Endeavour Exeunt. Rested a little at home, also did a little more redmarking. 3pm, Sabathani Community Center in Mpls (near Russian Art Museum, but on the other side of 35W), snowman protest. Some shopping: TP and some trail mix to bring to Paul and Mindy's. 5:15pm, picked up Greg Jason, went to Paul and Mindy's for a party for Bill McKibben. He was interested in the snowman protest. ============================================================== F 2/16/24 Strength, no run, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Caught 6:45am bus to the U. Ned Mohan died a few days ago and Jukka Kukkonen is interested in doing something to remember him. Thought a little about that, and made inquiries with his department to see if there are any plans. The Assoc Dept Head, Jarvis Haupt, pointed me to the Administrative Manager, Kyle Dukart. I'd worked with him before on IDrive. He asked Apurva Nadkarni to help me with the website for it. Haven't heard anything back from Kyle yet. Worked on profs / grants. Typed up redmarks on the last few sections, re-printed, redmarked again, re-typed, re-printed. Left at 3pm, rode back with Maxim. Watched the end of Endeavour, Uniform. Deleted. Next up: Exeunt, the finale. Relaxed for a while, did redmarks on part of the last section. Over the weekend will mark up the whole thing. Planning to type on Monday, printout on Tuesday. The mouthpiece's tooth separated from the rest of it this evening. I'll need to call on Monday about it. Watched an episode of Death in Paradise (s12e2, "The Communal Death"). Victim: Kit Martin played by Elander Moore. DS Naomi Thomas played by Shantol Jackson. Trainee Officer Darlene Curtis played by Ginny Holder. Killer: Charlie Banks (played by Joplin Sibtain = Chook Sibtain). Banks lowered poisoned coffee to Martin in a blind spot for the camera. Officer Marlon Pryce (Tahj Miles) applied for Sergeant, but Commissioner Selwyn Patterson (Don Worthington) suggested waiting. DI Neville Parker played by Ralf Little. Love interest Sophie Chambers (Chelsea Edge) hurt in silly jet-ski accident. ============================================================== Th 2/15/24 7 inches of snow overnight. Shoveled before going off to the gym. Strength, 20 minute run, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. At the library: Some redmarks to profs / grants, the Economist, the WSJ. Alex returned today. Jukka wrote to me about Ned Mohan passing away. Short nap in the afternoon. Some shopping: walnuts, milk, yogurt, Progresso corn chowder. At home: watched end of Endeavour Uniform and restarted. Almost watched the entire thing a second time -- will finish soon, then delete. Did a few more redmarks on profs / grants. ============================================================== W 2/14/24 No strength, 25 minute run, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. 8am, left to take Julia in for colonoscopy. Came home and waited for he call to go get her. Watched Meet the Press from last Sunday, with Alejandro Mayorkas (just before he was impeached), Secretary of Homeland Security. Also Mitch Landrieu, who is running Biden's campaign. Also, Chris Christie, who says his biggest mistake was endorsing Donald Trump. Panel: Peter Alexander, Brendan Buck, Amna Nawaz, Jen Psaki. Started re-watching Endeavour, "Uniform". Picked up Julia. Went to breakfast at People's Organic. Later, went for walk at Wood Lake Nature Center in Richfield. Very tired when I got home, just rested most of the day. Watched an episode of All Creatures Great and Small. Mrs Audrey Hall (played by Anna Madeley) decides to leave, then changes her mind. James Herriot (played by Nicholas Ralph) is off in the war. Helen (played by Rachel Shenton) has a scare that she might have lost her baby. James Anthony-Rose plays Richard Carmody. Siegfried Farnon played by Samuel West. Watched an episode of Travels with Darley. In northern VA. Prince William Forest Park. National Museum of the Marine Corps. Tasting menu from a chef who used to work at The Inn at Little Washington, a Michelin 3-star restaurant in northern VA. Will spend a little time on profs / grants, then bed. ============================================================== Tu 2/13/24 No strength, 10 minute run, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Caught 6:45am bus to the U. Worked on profs / grants, with new printout. 12noon, met Rich and Steve Barbo for lunch at Caspian Bistro. Rich is going to Puerto Rico for a wedding. His brother-in-law, Mike, was connected to the Financial Math Program a long time ago, but now lives in Puerto Rico. I think it's a relative living there that's getting married. Back on the 3:48pm bus. Very tired -- rested. I read just a little from US Grant's autobiography. Did some redmarks on profs / grants. Chris Prouty sent me some new computations, and I added them to the writeup. Heard back from Lina Liu about talk to undergrad math club about Quantum Entanglement. Probably sometime in the fall semester. Sent invite to Fernando for Los Amigos on Thursday. Julia's colonoscopy is tomorrow. Leave around 8am. Happy Valentine's Day! ============================================================== M 2/12/24 Did 3 weeks worth of laundry, took about 3 hours. No strength, 23 minute run, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. 3pm, met with Jon and Rod, played Greenhouse Game. Rod mentioned that Alex Falconer looks like a good candidate to run for Laurie Pryor's seat. Went for a short walk after getting back home. Walked through the Scotland area nearby. ============================================================== Su 2/11/24 No strength, short run (10 mins), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. 11:30am, met Hawon, Taesung and Dongjin. They're going on to Chicago and will see a Bucks game in Milwaukee. Won't see Hyejin on this trip. She did internship in CA, then worked in Austin, then NY city. Now she's in New Haven, CT, and is getting a master's degree with Syracuse U. Dongjin is very tall. I'll see if he has time to join Maxim in pickup basketball tomorrow. Didn't work out. Worked a little on prof / grants. Will spend tomorrow typing in edits. Started laundry. Lots to do. Sent off another computation for Chris. Chatted with Maxim. Lots of info about Suits -- Mike has left the show. (Michael James Ross played by Patrick J Adams.) Gabriel Macht plays Harvey Reginald Spencer. ============================================================== Sa 2/10/24 No strength, no run, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. No time for library. Did some shopping instead, and got Maxim a couple of nasal sprays. 10:30am-1pm, chapter meeting. Only 10 people or so, but good meeting. Hilda Martinez, chair of the Edina Energy and Environment Commission told us a little about what Edina is doing. New member named Jim, seems likely to engage. Sam Daley-Harris was on the national call. Starting to think about another energy innovation political forum. Did some more marking up of profs / grants. Napped a few minutes in the afternoon. With Julia, watched Endeavour s9e2 "Uniform". The upperclass punks didn't actually kill anyone, though they ran over the illustrator and didn't help him -- he eventually died. The young actor killed by the older one. Bodies found at Blenheim Vale. Illustrator left clues about them. Guy at the shop: David Astin, played by Michael Keene. Older actor Kenny Pryor = Kenneth Sellers (Superintendent Jolyon "Jolly" Jolliphant), played by Kevin McNally. Pryor is stage name, Sellers is birth name. Actor playing DI Chance is Dicky (or Richard), played by Leo Staar. Drunk who was beaten, then killed (turned out to be brother of Kenneth Sellers) is Hugh Sellers. No credit I could find. Young actor is Raymond Swann who plays PC Constable Banks, birth name Raymond Astin brother of David Astin. No credit I could find. Artist is Fred Baynard. No credit I could find. Daughter of Artist is Freya, played by Ayesha Antoine. Sam Thursday played by Jack Bannon. Joan Thursday is played by Sara Vickers. Ronnie Box is played by Simon Harrison, ends up headed to Johannesburg, which I took to mean in South Africa. At the end, Peter Jakes (played by Jack Laskey) shows up. He was one of the abused kids at Blenheim Vale. ============================================================== F 2/9/24 No strength, short run (<10 min), stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Took the 6:45am bus to the U, came back at 3pm with Maxim. Didn't see Bernardo. Worked the entire time on profs / grants. New printout. Still working to get a good example with the BUA (Best University Anywhere). Realized that the sections on rational expected payouts were pointless; can just change units of money to make any rational payout become integral. Restarted Endeavour s8e3 Terminus, for the third and last time. Started marking up profs / grants. Watched a NOVA with Julia about Easter Island = Rapa Nui. Rapa Nui was annexed by Chile in 1888. Population of the island is about 7,750 (2017 census). Large statues called Moais. All were toppled in late 1700s, but have been put upright over recent years. Moai platforms are called ahu. On the NOVA show, a lot of researchers on Rapa Nui are very worried about allowing a Western narrative to describe their history. ============================================================== Th 2/8/24 Strength, no run, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Spent a little time at the library, reading the economist and the Wall Street Journal. Returned some materials for Julia. 1pm-4pm, volunteered at VEAP, did mobile pantry to Yorktown. Got home about the same time as Julia went to kickboxing. Rewatched Endeavour, Terminus s8e3. Tafferton Park Massacre. Drunk on the bus turned out to be Morse. Need to better understand the English football pool system. Professor Patrick Stanton, played by William Sebag-Montefiore, first one killed, eyes xed out. WYCH=Walsh-Yeager-Churchyard-Hobbs. The letter with WYCH is written to Stanton, seems WYCH plays the role of a return address. Odd because Churchyard is already dead at the time of the mailing. WSW3MA?=When shall we three meet again? (From start of Macbeth.) Prodigy student, who was unfairly put away: Warren Loomis. Cufflinks have code to get into the safe. Bus conductor: Les Grant, played by Adam Ewan. Bus driver: John Peckett, played by Ray Emmet Brown. Linda Travers, played by Anna Burnett, sister of Loomis Hilda Bruce-Potter, played by Marion Bailey, grandmother of Loomis Student Richard Blake, played by Adam Mirsky. Innocent of anything. Percy Walsh, played by Matthew Marsh, part of WYCH. Norbert Hobbs, played by Ben Bishop, part of WYCH Dr Gillian Nicholls, played by Jennifer Kirby. Innocent of anything. Churchyard was killed years before. ============================================================== W 2/7/24 Strength, run, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Spent a little time at the library making edits to profs/grants Shopping: Got yogurt to pair with amoxicillin. Also some trail mix. 7pm, went to a wine tasting with Ebb&Flow, principal: Matt Scarlett. Watched an episode (#12.1) of Death in Paradise, about an astronomy professor (Betram Sworder) who turns out to be a fraud. Fakes his own death, but then is actually killed by his wife, Miriam. Stole a theory developed by his friend, Jeremy Herbert. Ends with Sophie Chambers kissing Neville Parker. Ralf Little=DI Neville Parker, Shantol Jackson=DS Naomi Thomas, Sarah Woodward=Miriam Sworder, Christopher Villiers=Bertrand Sworder, Amit Shah=Sunil Singh Kirmani. Sunil turned out to be Bertrand Sworder's illegitimate son. Grad student (Sally Blake, played by Alexandra Moloney) with crush on Bertrand Sworder seems to have had nothing to do with anything. Ginny Holder=Training officer Darlene Curtis. ============================================================== Tu 2/6/24 Short run (10 mins), no strength, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Working on antibiotics and mouth rinse. Getting used to retainer system in mouth. Feels much better without it. Caught 6:45am bus to U. Finished typing in edits, printed. Then edited last 15 pages, reprinted those. Then repeated that process. Breakfast (oatmeal) at Starbucks, then lunch (egg and cheese protein box) at Starbucks. At home, Progresso corn chowder, yogurt, more antibiotics. Need to finishe one more antibiotics (500 mg pills, 3 pills per day). Need to do mouth rinse once more. (Chlorhexidine 0.12% rinse, 15ml twice per day.) ============================================================== M 2/5/24 Run, strength juggling, stretch, tongue, flash cards. Tooth extraction at 8:30am. dental. Filled prescription, now on antibiotics (amoxicillin 500 mg 3 x daily). Also, a mouth rinse. Shopping: yogurt because of the antibiotics. Also got lots of progresso corn chowder. Very good Also, some ice cream. Julia finally went to urgent care, got antibiotics. Lots of work on typing edits to profs/grants. Put in the code that Chris Prouty sent to me. In an appendix. Watch Morse Terminus s8e3 finale. Snowstorm various people ended up at an old hotel where there was a mass killing eight years earlier. Started an episode of All creatures Great and Small, but only watched a few minutes of it. ============================================================== Su 2/4/24 Run, no strength, juggling, stretch, tongue, flash cards. Library was closed and my usual Starbucks closed down permanently. Went to People's Organic -- very expensive, though. Worked on redmarks to profs/grants. I read to the end of a chapter in US Grant's autobiography. About 80% finished with the book. Called roster members. Sent reminder of meeting, announcing the book exchange and the pass-the-hat for Eco Expo. Scheduled calling reminder messages for this week. Chris Prouty sent me the code he used to do his computations, and I will put it into an appendix tomorrow. Finished my last time through Endeavour "Sherzo", and watched Meet the Press today. Otherwise just a quiet day. Tooth extraction at 8:45am tomorrow. Plan to meet Hawon and Taesung a week from today, in Mpls. ============================================================== Sa 2/3/24 Strength, no run. Juggling, stretch, tongue, flash cards. Feeling much better today. Julia sounds terrible, but that's been true for weeks. No time for library today. Spent most of the afternoon at Loppet, engaging with people about climate, at a CCL tabling event. Met a very interesting person, Lee Dilley, who lives in Northfield. Hope he can speak to our chapter sometime -- he's a Retired Peace Corps Volunteer, like Paul Thompson, who was also at the table. Lee knows a lot about regenerative ag, and has also spent some time doing homebuilding and home restoration. He owns a small farm which he, I think, leases out to someone else. He helps his tenant with the farming, so he gets to practice regenerative techniques. He's installed heat pumps both on his regular home and on the farmhouse. High quality and oversized (150%). Multi-speed. His balance point is around 10 degrees, he said. Very knowledgeable person. Chris Prouty figured out all the blanks in profs/grants related to Boltzmann computations. I need to take him out for dinner. April. I've been making redmarks to profs/grants. Hope to spend a lot of time on it in the morning tomorrow. Monday: Tooth extraction at 8:45am. ============================================================== F 2/2/24 No gym, running or strength. No juggling. Stretch, tongue, flash cards. Alex made it to Hokkaido today. Drove on the left, while tired, in snowy conditions. Safe so far, though. Spent the day at the U, took the 6:45am bus in and the 3:48pm bus back. Maxim couldn't meet me because of his internship. It's 9:30pm, and he's still out. Lots of edits to profs/grants. Had to catch some shuteye, though -- just very tired. Had egg and cheese protein box and a croissant, before heading home. Met Chris at McCormicks Pub and Restaurant on Wayzata Bay in Lake Mtka. His boy (Bertrand) is showing some signs of oddity, but only in pre-K, so there could be a lot of changes. Girl in 2nd grade. Wife (Sharon) works at Ameriprise. We spent most of the time talking about profs and grants. He coded up the computations for the BUA on Earth-inaccessible-cardinal. As it turns out: 43% of profs have 0+0, while 0.01% of profs have 4+4. Weight is okay, a little over 156 right now. ============================================================== Th 2/1/24 No gym, running or strength. Juggling, stretch, tongue, flash cards. Got to the gym for shower today. Tomorrow going to the U, but, on Saturday, will hope to get back to usual, with strength training. Sore throat is almost gone. I can just barely feel it when I swallow, but even the little tickle is going away. Went for long walk today around the neighborhood. Julia not feeling well, so she stayed home. Signed up for Loppett on Saturday. Will table. Wrote to Yael Karshon about her recent talk at the UMN Colloquium. Proposed an answer to a question about the Sikorski differential structure of an irrational line on the torus. Typed in more edits to profs/grants. Will print tomorrow. Current weight: 156.4. ============================================================== W 1/31/24 No gym. No running or strength. No juggling. Showered at home. Stretch, tongue, flash cards. Sore throat update: Felt awful in the morning and most of the early afternoon. Started to improve in the late afternoon. Spent a lot of time just resting. Julia and I went for a short walk around the neighborhood and I was feeling much better by the time we got back, and I went for a second short walk on my own, again, just around home. Not hoarse ... yet. Just started to feel a little tickle in my throat again. Weight was way down in the morning: 153.4. Ate a lot today, and it was at 159.8 at about 6pm, but I stopped eating then. It's now around 159.4. Canceled plans to go to the U and to get together with Alex for lunch. Didn't want to infect him. Shopping: Got some soups. Particularly liked Amy's Tom Kha Phak. About $4/can at L&B's. Also, gallon of milk, a lot of toothpaste, and a chocolate mousse yogurt. Crest pro-health (with stannous fluoride) was on sale. Finished Endeavour "Sherzo", and started one last time through it. Typed in a few more edits to profs/grants. ============================================================== Tu 1/30/24 Still sick, sore throat. A little more energy, though. No gym. No running or strength. No juggling. Did do stretch, tongue and flash cards. Weight got under 155 just before dinner. Now it's around 156.4. I only went outside for a few seconds, to get the mail. Finished Endeavour, Scherzo for the second time. Watched an episode of All Creatures Great and Small. New vet, Richard Carmody is classic nerd stereotype, offending people for no reason, but knows everything. Watched a couple of segments from 60 Minutes. One about the disarray at the Bureau of Federal Prisons. The other about Interpol. Snowman protest got canceled for lack of snow -- ironic. Interesting travel article in the newspaper with Linda Ronstadt's recommendations for Tucson. Typed up to p. 41 of the redmarks for profs/grants. Will do a little more before bed. ============================================================== M 1/29/24 Was very sick yesterday, sore throat, no energy. I used to say that I never get sick, and that was true for decades, but maybe things are changing. I basically laid in bed the whole day yesterday, except to take medicine and gargle and snort listerine to combat nasal congestion. Same thing today. I did go to the gym today, but didn't work out. Yesterday I didn't do any of my usual activities. Today I did Stretch, flash card, tongue, juggling. Spent just a little time working on redmarks to profs/grants. Watched Meet the Press. Rewatched part of s8e2 "Scherzo". Micah 5:15 "And I will execute vengeance with anger and fury aupon the heathen such as they have not heard." Isaiah 1:18: "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool". Went for a long walk, over an hour. Weight is down to near 156. Hopefully below 156 tomorrow. We'll see if I'm up for a run tomorrow. Set up plans to meet with Rich Reardon and Steve Barbo on the 13th, at Caspian Bistro at 12noon. ============================================================== Sa 1/27/24 Run, no strength. Stretch, flash cards, tongue, juggling. No time for library. 12noon, Visited Mom and Sally for lunch (waffles and orange slices). Talked a lot about Adam and his family, about travel to MT, about Alex going to Japan. Quiet time at home. Rested for an hour or so. Trying to avoid eating. Weight down to 161, and want it below 160 by the end of the weekend. Some redmarks on profs/grants. Started LTE about Community Solar, telling my point of view. Big changes being proposed to the subscription process, maybe even ending it. Watched Endeavour s8e2 "Scherzo". Cab dispatcher saw his daugter in a blue film, went after the people who were involved in making the film. Silly thing: semaphore clues with her name in Welsh. Not sure why the episode is called "Scherzo". ("a vigorous, light, or playful composition, typically comprising a movement in a symphony or a sonata") Boy who's father is the cabby that was shot at the start is named Mark, played by Regan Garcia. Maxim with friends tonight, but expect to see him tomorrow morning. ============================================================== F 1/26/24 No strength, no run. Stretch, flash cards, tongue, juggling. Caught 6:45am bus to the U. Oatmeal at Starbucks. No lunch with Bernardo, he suggested next week. Worked all day on profs/grants writeup. Didn't think about whether low information for average events works in L^1. Napped for about 45 minutes in my office. Heard from Mike Myhrom that no one took up his activation project. Invited him to join CCL. 3pm, rode home with Maxim. 6pm, met Alex at India Spice House in EP. (Jon Cheng says it's #1 Indian in Twin Cities.) Then got headlights for Julia and installed them. Also ordered batteries and made reservations for an airbnb near Bozeman, MT. Watched a couple of episodes of Journeys in Japan. Had tea. Chatted with Maxim. Pretty tired. ============================================================== Th 1/25/24 Strength, no run. Stretch, flash cards, tongue, juggling. No time to go to the library. 11:30am-2:30pm, VEAP, Van Driver 1. Rewatched "Prelude" (s9e1) Endeavour. The co-leader killed the leader, in spite of being BFFs. Put an allergen (nuts) on her rosin. Mickey Flood and the young man killed at the start both remain mysteries. Collin Dexter is the salesperson at Burridges. At the start, Morse is just back from Lyme Regis where he has been working on his alcolhol problem. Co-leader: Mabs Portman played by Iogen Daines. Madame Belasco played by Jane Lapotaire. Visiting soloist Christina Poole, played by Kirstin Louie. Leader Margeaux Quicnannon played by Tamsin Newlands. Leader and Co-leader, as kids, in 1949, persuaded another girl (Rose Garland) at Belasco academy to commit suicide. Not sure who plays Rose Garland. Ronnie Box played by Simon Harrison, is a PI in this episode. 6pm, Unmapped, met with Michael Tate to chat. Lots of fun. He's still running -- funny story about coming in first only to find that a female, who started 3 minutes later, finished 2 minutes behind him, so she got a better time than he did. He's got a spot at the Hawaii Ironman. Divorcing, new partner, moving to Mpls. Still works for Great River Energy, works on telecommunications between various energy producing systems. We saw Cwod at Unmapped, spent a little time chatting with him. ============================================================== W 1/24/24 No run, no strength. Went to the U, 6:45am bus. Stretch, flash cards, tongue, juggling. Worked on profs / grants. Typed up some of the countably infinite case. Took out inverse limits. Thought more about whether low information for average events works in L^1, but no solution. 12noon, met Steve Barbo for lunch. He paid, like always. Came home on 3:45pm bus. Started rewatching s9e1 "Prelude" Endeavour. Unclear how the young man at the start died. Unclear about Mickey Flood. ============================================================== Tu 1/23/24 Run, no strength, tongue, stretch flash cards, juggling. Library: Thought a little about whether low information for average events works for all L^1 variables. Still unsure. Glanced at economist, then ran out of time. 1:30pm, met Greg Olson and talked about LTEs. Planning to reduce and rewrite the one I wrote to MinnPost and then submit to the Daily. Also thinking about writing a response to the 22 Jan article in the Strib "A community solar plan would save Xcel customers money - but cost some cities and schools millions". Used street-view to drive around Eureka MT. Sounds as if we'll keep a home base near Bozeman. Tried to get a pass to Yellowstone, but they need the licence plate number, and we'll be renting. Will call tomorrow to see if there's a way around that. Will see Steve Barbo tomorrow. Made plans to get together with Michael Tate on Thursday. Hope to see Alex on Friday to finish some more MT planning. Finished rewatching s8e1 "Striker". Two murders, and a third attempted murder thwarted. First was to silence blackmailer (killing secretary with a bomb). Second was jealousy. Third was politics. Second and third both involved George Sellars as the killer or attempted killer. Julian Moore-Cook as Jack Swift the striker, and target of the attempted murder (third). Sara Vickers as Joan Thursday. Angus Yellowlees as John Sarson, nerdy guy with crush on blown-up secretary. He was a total red herring, except that he did notice someone leaving her office early in the morning. Killian Coyle as George Sellars who was the killer / attempted killer in the second and third cases. Joseph Millson as Robert Fenner who left the bomb for the secretary. Secretary Maggie Widdowson played by Mia McCallum. NOTE: Sue Widdowson was a central character in Last Bus to Woodstock. Coincidence? I suppose. Watched s9e1 "A prelude to the end" of Endeavour. Violinist killed via nut allergy; nuts added to her rosin by girl who knew her since childhood. They persuaded another girl to kill herself. Need to go back to watch s8e2 (Scherzo) and s8e3 (Terminus). ============================================================== M 1/22/24 Strength, no run. Tongue, stretch, flash cards, juggling. No time to go to library, yesterday or today. Maybe tomorrow. Watched a little more of Eneavour, "Striker", 3rd time through. Will finish this time and delete. 11:45am, left to go to Stillwater to look at the Snowsculpting Championship. The competition was this past weekend, but the sculptures will be up for several more days. My favorite was "Unmasked", a person taking off a mask, with tears. Somehow, though, it didn't win a prize. Weight keeps going up. 163. May need to start running every day again. Took away the induction cooktop. Not sure what I'll do with it, but it doesn't seem to work any better than the stovetop. I boiled water in 5 minutes, 30 seconds on the stovetop, compared to 6 minutes on the induction cooktop. ============================================================== Su 1/21/24 Run, no strength. Tongue, stretch, flash cards, juggling. 1:15pm, met at Emily's with Madhu, Julia, Alex and Maxim. Took the induction system 6 minutes to boil the usual amount of water. Will time it again with the regular system. Starting to learn about stable distributions, to get a sense of generalizations of the Central Limit Theorem. Never enough time. Re-watched the end of the Endeavour episode "Striker", then restarted it. This'll be my third time through, and I should more or less understand it. Then on to s8e2. ============================================================== Sa 1/20/24 No run. Strength, stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. At library: economist and a little on profs/grants. Induction cooktop arrived, seems to work as advertised. Probably more efficient than regular cooking, but I'm not sure that it's faster, using the pans that we have. https://www.aceee.org/files/proceedings/2014/data/papers/9-702.pdf indicates that, with properly sized cookware, induction is *less* efficient than coils. (EPRI=Electric Power Research Institute) 1:15pm, donated blood. 2:30pm, met Alex at Chipotle. Then we went for a drive in my car, while his charged. Then we spent some time on Journeys in Japan from NHK World-Japan (Nippon Hoso Kyokai). We also talked a little about MT plans. Considering just having a home base near Bozeman. I also found some info about the old homestead. Will print it on Tuesday, if I'm at the U. Alex left a little before 8pm. ============================================================== F 1/19/24 No running or strength. Went to the U, caught 6:45am bus, and returned with Maxim. Bernardo probably didn't come in to his office today, didn't see him. Wrote a message, though. Stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Worked a lot on profs / grants, esp. the case of degeneracies. Next step: countably infinitely many states. May add a section for the nondegenerate case, bdd below but with infinitely many energy levels. Wrote a small section on inverse limits, to mention Ising models. Watched an episode of All Creatures Great and Small. Set in Yorkshire, in N England. Written by Alf Wight under pen name James Herriot. Samuel West as Siegfried Farnon. Nicholas Ralph as James Herriot. Rachel Shenton and Helen Herriot (ne\'e Alderson). Anna Madeley as Mrs Audrey Hall, housekeeper. This episode had Siegfried hiring a manager who didn't like animals, then having to let her go. (She said she quit.) Little exercise today, but trying to lower weight. Came in at 163.3, but was down to 160.8 by dinner time. Now a little over 161. Considering going back to strength and running on the same day. ============================================================== Th 1/18/24 Running, no strength. Stretch, tongue, flash cards. Only did alternating under legs juggling, no time for the rest. At the library, a little work on profs / grants, and a little time reading the new Economist. Had to leave quickly to get to oral surgery consult. 12pm, dental, Oral surgery consult. Will try an implant. Tooth removal scheduled for M 5 Feb. 4:30pm, Los Amigos. Talked a lot about the IRA's focus on underground CO2 sequestration. 7pm, Town Hall with Steve, Laurie, Carlie. Laurie announced retirement after this session. ============================================================== W 1/17/24 Strength, no running. Stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. At library, a few red marks on profs / grants, and some time looking over some Economist magazines. Reasonable sleep, but still not great. Maybe 5-6 hrs. Worked through Wednesday finances, not a payday. Lots of time on the phone, trying to understand the new system for reporting flex spending claims. Also found out that the debit card from HSABank is for our FSA, not for an HSA. HSABank is just the name of the company. Call 844-650-8936 if difficulties. Steve Barbo contacted me by email -- we'll get together this coming Wednesday, I think. 3pm-5pm, Unmapped, played "Pandemic" a coop game, with Rod and Jon. We beat the pandemic. Dinner at Chipotle, weight is up, 162. Started typing in red marks to profs / grants. ============================================================== Tu 1/16/24 No running or strength. Stretch, tongue, flash cards. For juggling, only did the juggling under alternating legs. Got almost no real sleep last night. Drove in to the U for my dental cleaning. Made a few small edits to profs / grants. Dozed off just a little in my office. Gave Maxim a ride to his classes, since I was using the parking ramp. Went to my dental appt, then gave Maxim a ride back to his home and then drove home. Rewatched just a little of Endeavour, Striker, s8e1. Just too tired. Feel asleep for a couple of hours. Hope I can sleep tonight. Not such a productive day. Weight is up, too just over 160. :-( ============================================================== M 1/15/24 Did running, no stength. Tongue, stretch, juggling, flash cards. Small amount of time at the library, a few redmarks on profs/grants. Alex arrived about 11:30am and spent most of the day with him. He swapped the failed battery on Julia's car (cost: $153). Then the three of us went to Smith Coffee. Then watched some "Journeys in Japan", since Alex will be traveling to Japan in a couple of weeks. Then he and I went to Pizza Luc\'e. Then we watched some Blue Bloods. Also, got a ride in his Tesla, for the first time. Had some wine. He and I also talked a little about the trip to MT in June. I'd like to go to Eureka to see where my mother's father grew up. My mom should get me some information about that. He left around 8pm, and I've been getting ready for bed since then. ============================================================== Su 1/14/24 Did strength, no running. Tongue, stretch, juggling, flash cards. Spent some time at the library, did a little redmarking of profs / grants. Got caught up on email, finally. Julia is trying to cover the damage to the rental car through her Capital One credit card insurance. It'll be interesting to see if that works. Ordered an induction single cooktop ($70, after tax) -- we'll see if we use it much. I *think* it should work with our current teakettle, because magnets stick to the bottom of it. Ferromagnetic materials include iron and nickel, both of which are in stainless steel. (Steel = iron + carbon) (Stainless steel typically is steel + chromium + nickel). Chromium is not ferromagnetic. Ferrous means "with iron", although some people seem to use ferrous to mean ferromagnetic, and might say that nickel is a ferrous metal. Colloquially, ferromagnetic is called magnetic, and magnetic materials are the ones that are attracted to a permanent magnet. Permanent magnet vs magnetic material: I read about hysteresis. Ferrite = iron + other metals. Hysteresis is the dependence of the state of a system on its history. Need to learn about "hysteresis loops". Also, "remanence". Also, "Curie temperature" and "coercivity". Some ferromagnetic elements: iron, cobalt, nickel, neodymium, samarium, dysprosium, holmium The last four are rare-earth = lanthanides, with yttrium and scandium Went out to G&S for dinner. Watched most of the Timberwolves game, against LA Clippers, they were ahead when we headed home, and we found out later that they did win, rah! Alex says he'll come visit tomorrow, on his way back from Litchfield. ============================================================== Sa 1/13/24 Back from New Zealand on Th the 11th. Been too busy to write the last two days. Annual Letter: Trip to New Zealand. Flew to Auckland, departing on 26 Dec arriving on 28 Dec, but crossed the International Date Line so that added a day. The whole trip was on the north island (Te Ika-a-Maaui). Did not go to South Island (Te Waipounamu). Stayed at the Auckland Rose Park Hotel in Auckland, Th 28 Dec to Sa 30 Dec. Stayed at the Heads Hokianga in Opononi, Sa 30 Dec to Su 31 Dec. Big Pohutukawa tree (New Zealand Christmas Tree) Opononi is N of Auckland on the W side of NZ. On the way to Opononi we stopped in to see Kauri Forest and went to the Kauri museum. Lots of info about Kauri gum. Stayed at BK's Pohutukawa Lodge in Whangarei, Su 31 Dec to M 1 Jan. Very basic hotel, not even breakfast. Lucky to find a place open on New Year's Day. Whangarei is a little S of Opononi on the E side of NZ. Pohutukawa is the New Zealand Christmas Tree. It was in full bloom while we were there. Saw several of them. (Also, lots of Australian Magpies.) Stayed at the 18th Ave Thermal Motel in Tauranga M 1 Jan to Tu 2 Jan. Tauranga is S of Auckland on the E side of NZ. Stayed at the Ambassador Thermal Motel in Rotorua, Tu 2 Jan to W 3 Jan. Rotorua is S of Tauranga a little E of the center but inland. Between Rotorua and Taupo, near Taupo, Orakei Korako: geothermal park on the Waikato River, boat dropped us off at the springs and we explored, met the boat to come back to the other side of the river. Stayed at the Cottage Mews Motel in Taupo, W 3 Jan to F 5 Jan. Mews -- style of housing based on living above stables with horses Taupo is on the large Lake Taupo, S of Rotorua in the center. Ngatoroirangi Mine Bay Maori Rock Carvings in Lake Taupo. Stayed at the Edgewater Motor Lodge in Napier, F 5 Jan to Sa 6 Jan. Napier is S of Rotorua and S of Taupo on the E side of NZ. Went to vineyards near Napier. Stayed with Adam and Misbah in Reikorangi, Sa 6 Jan to W 10 Jan. Reikorangi is near Wellington, near the south end of the N island. Their address is 139 Rangiora Rd, Waikanae 5391 NZ. Not sure of the relationship between Reikorangi and Waikanae. Stayed at the Sylvia Park Motel near Auckland, W 10 Jan to Th 11 Jan. Incredible trip. Highlight was a Maori performance by a family at their compound in Taupo. Also tried the hot mineral waters at a couple of the hotels, but it can be very hot, and it's very smelly. In Wellington, we visited their Botannic Gardens. In Wellington, also went to the Te Papa museum which is huge. Learned that Adam and Misbah moved to NZ after doing a cost-benefit analysis. Part of it centered on avoiding cold slippery weather. Nothing about getting away from the US Govt and its secrets, although Adam did work on security for NASA before they left. Cyclone knocked down their trees a couple of years ago, so they've logged them and are selling the firewood. Will replant. The have a goat named Billy who liked to butt with people for fun. Also a couple of cows. They've stopped raising chickens. Maya was there for the first night. She's in school in Dunedin (dunEEdin) Studying Clinical Psych at the University of Otago in Dunedin, close to the south end of the South Island. Maha is becoming a lawyer, lives in Auckland. Didn't see her. She's at the University of Auckland, Law. She seems to be very well connected, politically, and has been climate active, but needs to figure out how to balance that against developing a career. Misbah is Deputy Principal at Onslow College, a high school. Teaches math. Adam does IT consulting work, but I forget for whom. Decided to move out of security, does systems architecture now. Also earning a lot by logging. They rent out a small house that's on their property. While we were there, on the 8th, Julia got a text from Danya that their father, Ivan, died. Very sad. Back on Th the 11th. Maxim met us at the airport, gave us a ride home. After getting back, have spent a lot of time digging through email. Slowly getting over jet-lag. Went to the U on Friday. Added information about degeneracy to profs and grants. Also started adding information about infinite sets of states. Went to the gym on Saturday (today), running slow and steep, 15 minutes. No strength. Did juggling, flash cards, tongue, stretch. Then to Starbucks, made redmarks on profs and grants. Greg Jason ran the CCL chapter meeting today. Very well organized. Some hope to do something like an Environmental Voter Project, but here in MN. I got in touch with Mike Myhron to see if he could give some advice. Plans for LTE Writing Party on Tuesday 23 Jan, West Metro Home Remodeling fair on Sunday 25 Feb, Straw House tour on Saturday 9 March, Eco Expo on Saturday 20 April. The DFL Convention is also on Saturday 20 April and Claude is looking at tabling there; I might help. Julia's car battery died but AAA got it started. Hope no damage to the battery. She ran some errands and it started a few times, but we'll see about overnight. Made plans to see Madhu on the 21st for lunch. Sent message to Gary Hatfield, maybe another get-together. Tonight we watched Endeavour (s8e1 Striker). Feel asleep, need to watch it again. About sectarian violence in Oxford related to the Troubles in Ireland. While in NZ, at one of the Museums, saw a model of Cook's HMS Endeavour, after whom Endeavour Morse is named. Caroline O'Neill plays Win Thursday, Abigail Thaw plays Dorothea Frazil. James Bradshaw plays Max DeBryn. Julian Moore-Cook plays the footballer (striker) Jack Swift. ============================================================== M 12/25/23 Christmas Day. This will be the last entry until my return from New Zealand. Get back on 11 January, but might not write that day. No strength or running -- community center closed for Xmas. Did do flash cards, juggling, stretch and tongue. Maxim and I went to my mom's for lunch. (Left at 11:30am.) Alex was there. He's bought a Tesla Model Y, hopes to install Level 2 charging in his garage, but needs to talk to the association. Hope it works out. G&S might buy his Ioniq. Finished typing in my redmarks to profs/grants, and printed out the new verison -- will take along to NZ. Everything was closed today, and it was very rainy, so just stayed in. Watched S7E3 of Endeavour, titled Zenana. (Zenana, in India and Iran, is the part of the house for the seclusion of women.) Violetta Talenti played by Stephanie Leonnidas, who, in addition to acting, wrote children's books. Violetta shot by Ludo, Ludo shot by Thursday. Lots of people, including Mrs Bright, killed in accidents that were arranged by people working for Ludo. Copycat killer (whistling the wrong song) was David Clemens, keep fit fanatic at the Morris plant, who found Molly Andrews. Clemens whistles "In Dublin's fair city", also known as "Molly Malone" or "Cockles and Mussels"). Carl Sturgis, the original killer, would whistle "Antonio" aka "Oh! Oh! Antonio" aka "Jos\'e Antonio" aka "Caballo de paso" (in the tondero style from Peru). The cook, Tony Jakobssen, was killed by Carl Sturgis, but I'd like to see that scene again, because there was a woman involved, and I'm not sure what happened to her. ============================================================== Su 12/24/23 Ran steep and slow, for 19 minutes. No strength. Juggling, flash cards, stretch tongue. At the library, I did a little more redmarking of profs/grants. Back at home, started typing up the redmarks. Watched s7e2 ("Raga") of Endeavour. Ends with him seduced by Violetta Talenti (played by Stephanie Leonidas), and something more happening on the towpath. Fred Thursday (Roger Allam) keeps following Carl Sturgis (aka Johnny Linden, played by Sam Ferriday). "It's the boyfriend, I know it is, I can feel it in my corns". Ryan Gage plays Ludo Talenti. Gary Rogers (aka Gary Radowicz, played by William Allam) is killed. Mother, Hazel Radowicz, played by Rebecca Saire, who in real life is Roger Allam's wife. She also appears in "Colours". Christmas Eve! Spent the evening out at my mom's pumpkin (squash?) soup, cranberries, Christmas log, ham (for others), wild rice. We brought champagne. Presents: AAA membership, coffee card. I gave my mom the latest EPCC shirt. ============================================================== Sa 12/23/23 Strength, no running, flash cards, juggling, stretch, tongue. Library: Made redmarks on profs / grants. Also read NY Times and Economist. Also picked up an item for Julia. Shopping: More milk, cheese, yogurt, Amy's. Fixed some popcorn and watched about half of Endeavour "Raga" (s7e2). DS Morse played by Shaun Evans. Fred Thursday played by Roger Allam. William Allam, Roger Allam's son, has his acting debut as Gary Rogers, a kid susceptible to the racist rantings of the politican Martin Gorman (played by Jason Merrels). Gary Rogers mother, a hairdresser names Hazel Radowicz, is played by Rebbeca Saire. Went for a short walk around the neighborhood, on my own. Julia went to the community center to spend time with her friend there. Some swimming and sauna. Watched the movie "Boy A" with Andrew Garfield and Shaun Evans. Andrew Garfield's first movie. Very well acted, well written. Very disturbing. ============================================================== F 12/22/23 Caught early bus to the U. No strength or running. Did stretch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Did a little work in my office on the Xmas letter. Wrote up letter of recommendation for Ms Xiaohan Zhu, and submitted it to a few places. Didn't know her that well -- she didn't come to office hours and didn't write messages. Got an "A-", and was a pretty good student, with a lot of ambition. Starbucks: Yogurt, then egg and cheese protein box. Worked on pts of density. Caught a nap in my office. 12noon, met Bernardo for lunch, at the Tea House. Spent the rest of the time (at the U) working on profs / grants. 3pm, caught a ride with Maxim back to EP. Did some shopping. More Amy's, a deal on popcorn, more yogurt, more walnuts, some petroleum jelly, two Centrum vitamins for 50+. Another short nap at home. Worked more on on profs / grants. Julia and I watched Lucy Worsley discuss Agatha Christie. Much of the episode focused on Christie's disappearance. Finished talking about her divorce and, after it, her travels to the Orient. Finished up Xmas letter, and posted it. Took all the earlier letters and posted them, too, so now we have a full archive, going back to 1996. (Somehow I didn't get a 2006 letter written.) ============================================================== Th 12/21/23 Quiet day, but a lot to do. Ran slow and steep, for 17 minutes. No strength. Juggling, flash cards, stretch, tongue. In the morning, Julia worked on our travel documents. Mostly ready, but a few things need to be done in the last 24 hours. Passports are uploaded. Got a message about an explanation of benefits and spent over an hour figuring out what it was about. Turned out to be informing me that I'll pay $35 for the office visit to see Dr Patrick Morris in sports about my knee. I already knew that. Very annoying. Set up some tentative plans with Katie Jones to see her Straw House, a Passive House. Looped in Nicola. Tried to get gift cards for Buca, but they now require me to use an app called inKind, and I didn't like it so I asked for a refund, which, evidently was granted. I'll have to check my credit card in a couple of days. Got all my medications organized for travel, except the antibiotic Cephalexin. Spent a little time at the library, but only looked at Strib and The Economist. Haircut. 4:30pm, Zoom with Fernando. Talked a lot about Bernardo, who may be going through a rough patch. Also discussed New Zealand. Finished redmarking profs/grants. In the evening, with Juila, watched Endeavour "Oracle" one more time. Then a little bit of 60 minutes. First segment about Gaza hostage release efforts. Second one was about plundering of art in Cambodia in the 1970s, 1980s, and earlier. Also about efforts by the Cambodian government to get the artworks (from temples) back. Tooth is feeling much better, probably because of antibiotics. ============================================================== W 12/20/23 Busy day again. strength, no running, tongue, stretch, flash cards, juggling. At EPCC: Lois. Also Pravin. after EPCC went to Caribou on Shady Oak and worked a little on profs/grants. 8am met Vic for breakfast at Yum. With Kristi, he goes to Dallas, then on to San Diego, leaving on the 5th. Will visit Lydia in Dallas. Kristi will fly back from San Diego and he'll stay there for the semester. Took Julia back to MSP airport so she could file a complaint to get her bag fixed. Then we went for a walk on Pike Island in Ft Snelling State Park. Got an appointment for consultation on Th 18 January, soon after returning from NZ. Will see Dr Timothy J Neuner DDS about oral surgery: removing tooth 25 and, later, doing an implant to replace the tooth. I wish I could put some money in flex spending to cover this. Did net worth. Retirement: made $1M in 2020 and another $1M in 2021. Lost $1M in 2022. Gained $1M in 2023. Tomorrow, will transfer just $10,000 by in-plan Roth conversion. Just want to see the effect on taxes. Next year, I might do more. Also tomorrow: haircut, annual letter. ============================================================== Tu 12/19/23 Busy day again. Drove in to school because of late afternoon dental appointment. Worked most of the day on profs/grants, new printout is looking pretty good. More redmarks. Plan to run back in tomorrow for yet another printout, and to do letters of recommendation. 9am, Promotion meeting, run by Jasmine Foo, with Peter Webb, Dmitri Bilyk, Lisa Evans. 4:30pm, dental appt, Dr Witte. He described how my rate of production of root is not keeping up with the rate of destruction. Will have to have tooth (tooth #25) removed, root canal and an implant. Process will probably take about a year. He gave me a referral to an oral surgical team, same one that did Maxim's wisdom teeth. Will call tomorrow. Also now taking a prophylactic antibiotic. 40 pills, 500mg Cephalexin. Says 4 pills per day, but that would only last 10 days. Will call Witte for clarification. Didn't see Vlad Karassev at the get-together at Boom Island Brewing, so I sent him a message to see if he's interested in the data analyst offer. (Later Vlad indicated he'd like to help, and I connected him with Ricky Bradley, CCL's Senior Director fo Information Technology.) Dinner at Noodles. Then went to CVS to pick up my cephalexin prescription. ============================================================== M 12/18/23 Busy day. No strength or running. tongue, stretch, flash cards, juggling. Mouth continues to feel bad. Happy to see dentist at 4:30pm tomorrow. Worked at the U to get new printouts of annual letter and profs/grants. Started redmarking profs/grants. Made changes to pts of density, but decided to stop editing it. That one is done for now. Will go in to the U tomorrow (by car) and will continue working on profs/grants until dental appt. Met Alex and we went to metal recycling, then to Punch Pizza. He won't be able to come on Christmas Eve, but maybe will see him on Christmas morning. 7pm CCL meetup at Boom Island Brewing Company. Paul and Mindy were there, Nicola brought her family. Kids are into math. Greg Jason and Greg Olson were there, too. Also Cecilia. At about 8pm, Julia texted that she'd landed, so I went an picked her up. Got back home around 9. Time for bed. ============================================================== Su 12/17/23 Quiet day, finally. Watched Old Dads (a Bill Burr movie), with Maxim. Not very good. One-note theme, hard to root for anyone in the movie. Everyone a caricature. Run, no strength, tongue, stretch, flash cards, juggling. Late lunch at Chipotle. Free chips. A little of Courtney's chocolate. Missed Karl Narveson's recital. He said something about a part-time job. Typed in many changes to profs/grants. Typed in minor changes to pts of density. Small changes to Christmas letter. Will show to Julia when she gets back. Julia arrives tomorrow at 8:08pm. ============================================================== Sa 12/16/23 Strength, no running, stratch, tongue, flash cards, juggling. Went to the U and worked a lot on profs/grants, editing a lot of new stuff toward the end. Spent just a little time on pts of density, only making red marks on a few pages. Protein box at Starbucks. Back at home, had an Amy's, some of the salad, some yogurt, some milk, some of the chocolate that Courtney sent. Finished third time through Endeavour "Oracle". May watch a fourth time with Julia, when she gets back. Maxim wants to watch "Old Dads" with Bill Burr tomorrow. I'll probably join him. Finished laundry. Christmas letter is mostly done. I'll type in some red marks, and then let Julia read it. Went through about half of the file on Bryan Mosher's promotion. Not sure what a "contract full professor" is, but I'll likely vote in favor of the promotion. ============================================================== F 12/15/23 Went in to the U today, 6:45am bus. No running or strength. Did stretch, tongue, flash cards and juggling. Breakfast at Starbucks, lunch at D'Amico. D'Amico is pretty expensive. Eye appointment. Clean bill of health -- no macular degenration. Doctor said that zeaxanthin and lutein probably won't help much in *preventing* macular degeneration -- it can slow it down after it's started significantly, but, in my case, it hasn't started at all. He sees signs I'll eventually need cataract surgery, probably. Got new glasses prescription, but I'll probably make do with what I have. Apparently not much change in my eyes. Next appt 2 years. Doctor recommended reading glasses, pretty inexpensive and makes a big difference for small print. New printout of pts of density. Very few changes. Worked a lot on profs / grants. Developing some general theorems so that I don't repeat the same kinds of arguments over and over. For exmample, a general result about Pr[X_n=epsilon|T_n=na]-->Pr[X=epsilon], where, X_1,X_2,... is iid modeled on X, and where T_n=X_1+...+X_n, and where X has mean a. So there's a lot of reorganization going on, should take a few more days to settle down. Didn't meet Bernardo for lunch -- somehow he didn't get to the U until kind of late, and I had to catch a ride back with Maxim at 3. Tried out "Five Guys" restaurant. Good shakes, but not very healthy food. Watched the Newshour, but feel asleep! Canceled appointment to have someone from Comcast look at the TV. Seems to be working fine now. ============================================================== Th 12/14/23 Slow steep running for 13 minutes, no strength. Flash cards, stretch, tongue and juggling. At the library for about an hour. Finished redmarking pts density, had a look at an Economist. Finished scheduling all the emails for Dean Phillips calling to go out during my time in NZ. Should doublecheck that everything is set for 8am, and on the right dates. Need to check both scheduled emails and the email-snoozing. Did a little shopping. Amy's still on sale, so I got a bunch of them. Also some tea bags. Also more milk. Also bandaids. Alex came out and we met at OC at 3pm for pub pizzas. Finished off my gift card. Then we went for a walk at Purgatory Creek Park. Then he headed off for some shooting. Finished draft of the Christmas letter. Watched PBS Newshour. Interesting Canvas report about the band "Rush". Rush: Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, Neil Peart. Virtuosos. Peart died in 2020 from glioblastoma, just before the pandemic. Freewill ("I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose Freewill") Re-watched a little of "Oracle" episode of Endeavour. TV seems to be working again, so I canceled the Comcast appointment tomorrow. Should remember, if the problem happens again, to see if it's happening on all channels, or just PBS. Typed in all of the edits to pts of density and some of the edits to profs/grants. ============================================================== W 12/13/23 Strength, no running, flash cards, stretch, tongue and juggling. Got paperwork submitted for new title to the car that Maxim uses. The title is in my name. Paid sales tax of $1215.29. Wasn't expecting that. Didn't have time to get to the library. Rewatched some of Oracle, S7E1 of Endeavour. Spent whatever time I could on profs and grants. Also did a little on pts of density. Wrote to B Zhang about using Chebyshev to go from probabilities for an individual to probable distribution across the whole population. Scheduled a few more Dean Phillips calling messages, for while I'm away in NZ. Should have them all scheduled in a few more days, well before we leave. Made plans to visit Alex this coming Monday at noon for lunch. Should also go to metals recycling. Did finances today. The claim for Maxim's car appeared in my bank account. I wrote out a check for that amount plus the $2000 deductible and will give to G&S when I see them on Saturday. So the cost (to me) of the accident currently stands at $1215.29 + $2000. Had brief moment of panic, thinking that the return trip from NZ was booked on the 10th instead of the 11th. I also had an old note about plans to come back on the 13th, which I should probably have deleted a long time ago, so that added to the confusion. We will be leaving NZ on the 10th in Minneapolis time, but on the 11th in NZ time. My phone shows the 10th, but, I expect that, when we get to NZ, it will change to the 11th. Should double check all this with Julia, when she gets back. (She's in Italy until Monday.) Trouble with the TV. Comcast will send a technician on Friday. Probably need to replace the cable box. Picture and sound keeps cutting out, then back in. I probably spent 1.5 hours on the phone with people from Comcast. ============================================================== Tu 12/12/23 First day in a while without a lot on my schedule. No strength or running. Did stretch, tongue, flash cards and juggling. Caught the 6:45am bus to school. Worked a little on pts of density and a lot on profs chasing grants. Breakfast at Starbucks, protein box. Lunch at d'Amico was expensive (approx $15), because there was no vegetarian soup option. Scheduled several email messages to monthly callers, for the time that I'll be away in NZ. Need to do about 25 more before we leave. Caught a 698 bus back a little earlier than usual, to be home in time for my 4pm Zoom. 4pm, Zoom: Trevor Potter, former FEC (Federal Election Commission) chair, currently works at the Campaign Legal Center. American Promise President Jeff Clemens did introduction. Clements was very proud of successful ballot initiative in Maine to outlaw foreign money in Maine elections. The initiative is facing a court challenge. Trevor Potter was on the Colbert Report, see Youtube videos. On our zoom, he spoke about history of campaign finance laws, and about how Citizens' United (2010) came about. Citizens' United overruled Austin v Michigan Chamber of Commerce (1990). Problems started early, with Buckley v Valeo (in 1976). History should also mention some provisions Taft-Hartley (1948) anti-union act, which barred unions and corporations from making independent expenditures in support of or in opposition to federal candidates. Potter described how super-pacs (which have unlimited money) can be funded by "dark money" through certain kinds of 501c's. The 501c is named, but its donors are not. Watched BBC News and some of the News Hour. Zelensky spoke to Congress about the continued need for money. Delay to "secure our southern border". Continued redmarking pts of density and profs / grants. Tried piano. Got through Pachelbel Canon and Gigue. Made it most of the way through Moonlight first movement. ==============================================================