{"id":878,"date":"2022-10-03T20:10:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T20:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/?p=878"},"modified":"2025-06-01T21:39:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T21:39:18","slug":"early-fall-2022-overview-and-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/2022\/10\/03\/early-fall-2022-overview-and-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Fall 2022 Overview and Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-purple-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Monday, 13 October 2022<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since I last wrote &#8212; where I noted that post-Iceland the future seemed a bit unstructured &#8212; I&#8217;ve done or arranged several things for moving forward. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Geomorphology<\/strong>. I&#8217;m taking Geomorphology at the U from Andy Wickert. I&#8217;m enjoying it, and taking it pretty easy as I am not doing the labs, being uninterested in learning measurement and other field techniques, and also taking a &#8216;high level&#8217; approach to the math \u2013 not interested in being able to solve equations, just making sure I know what forces and interactions they include. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Writing<\/strong>. I&#8217;ve had my first essay course from the Loft; we&#8217;ll see how the content unfolds &#8212; such courses often have a more poetical or lyrical bent than is my won&#8217;t \u2013 but at the least I think it will spur to finish a few essays, reflect on my process, and perhaps codify the learning I&#8217;ve been doing from my reading courses. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Geology<\/strong> \u2013 I&#8217;ve just finished the &#8216;What is this Rock, 3,&#8217; course, which I describe in a separate post.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Yosemite Hiking<\/strong>. And I&#8217;ve arranged a 6-day trip to Yosemite for mid-October, where I will hopefully be able to get in some Tuolomne Meadow&#8217;s hikes, barring a very early arrival of snow in the high country. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve also been active in weeding and mulching garden beds, and beginning the process of clearing out the basement and getting rid of stuff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And my reading-with-friends &#8216;courses&#8217; continue (reading a book with one other person, a chapter at time, usually at one-chapter-a-week pace. Current books are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em><strong>Smellosophy<\/strong><\/em>, with RB<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Otherlands<\/strong>, with CS. We only have the final review, and then will move on to <strong>Alien Oceans<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Golden Age of American Essays<\/strong>, ed. Philip Lopate. With CT. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Entangled Life<\/strong>, by Merlin Sheldrake. With KC. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And we are also reading <em><strong>Mini makote<\/strong><\/em> in the book group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are also finally making good progress on the attic VoC issue. K has found and is  now testing out no-VoC (and VoC sealing) paints, with good initial results, and we are looking into HRV &#8212; Heat Recirculating Ventilation which promise to bring fresh air into the attic all winter, which not being ruinously inefficient vis a vis heat&#8230; and K is also showing less of a reaction to VoC&#8217;s, indicating that either some noxious components are finally curing\/disappating, or that her sensitivity is decreasing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<p>Views: 21<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, 13 October 2022 Since I last wrote &#8212; where I noted that post-Iceland the future seemed a bit unstructured &#8212; I&#8217;ve done or arranged several things for moving forward. 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