{"id":98,"date":"2019-08-23T14:09:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T14:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomeri.org\/blog\/?p=98"},"modified":"2024-08-10T21:40:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T21:40:52","slug":"friday-august-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/2019\/08\/23\/friday-august-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscellany &#8212; Life, activity, planning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-purple-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Sunday 25 August 2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"from-then-to-now\">From then to Now<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Friday and Saturday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We had planned a late lunch at Sea Salt with K&amp;C but that fell through because they failed to account for having to deal with a yard and a half of dirt for their landscaping. I went over and helped C spread it out; K was inside doing her job work, which of course had intensified just before they were going to leave to go up north.  &#8230;Due to the shoveling I deferred the pleasant chat with CAH that had previously been deferred to today, so that was the social activity for the day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Katie and I went to Specs to look for new frames (and updated prescriptions) for both of us. I was amazed that the person who helped us remembered our names (Katie&#8217;s for sure, and guessed mine right), and also recalled we used different last names &#8212; other people clearly have got much better memories than I. I got a pair of duo-colored (part cobalt blue) frames that I&#8217;ve noticed for a long time, and we perhaps assuage my longing for the cobalt blue frames lost in Yosemite long ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Katie and I went back Saturday morning, and she decided to get buffalo horn frames (with a two-color blue\/white layering), a second pair of striking &#8216;secretary glasses&#8217; and a pair of sunglasses that give her great coverage of her eyes. Afterwards, Katie decided to walk home and do some shopping on the way &#8212; an indication of how much her visual system has improved &#8212; and I went for a run at Minihaha Creek. I am up to running for 1:15-20 minutes at a time, although the problem with Minihaha is that cell reception is bad and I don&#8217;t get reliable distance estimates. I&#8217;d guess I&#8217;m doing between 5 and 6 miles &#8212; and what&#8217;s nice is that my legs feel fine the next day. No heel stiffness, no muscle soreness. I would like  to get my running up to 90 minute, which would put me at or just over 10K\/6 miles, and then plateau there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We invited K over for dinner &#8212; since she is on her own as C has left for up north &#8212; but she later realized she had too much to do and couldn&#8217;t make it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I spent the afternoon doing four things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Working on systematizing my piano practice. (In truth, I started this last evening on the porch.) What I want to do is make sure that I keep practicing things &#8212; particularly technical things &#8212; that I know I will need to know in the future. Examples include trills and tremolos, playing a repeated note with multiple fingers, doing rolled chords, remembering techniques for playing chords, etc. I also want to write down musical terms that I will want to know but will likely forget: ostinato, rondo, etc. Finally, I want to start learning that chord names for inversions, so I can tell them at a glance. Right now I can &#8216;see&#8217; the base chord, but not the inversions. Perhaps there is some sort of online flash card thing that can help me&#8230; or perhaps I should just practice writing the notes. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some small household tasks &#8212; fixed security system, finished cleaning window fan, put in cleaned air condition filters, went to store for more sparkling water etc. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Getting my office under a bit more control, by paying bills, filing things, and cleaning up my desk<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And making notes on rocks I collected on the north shore trip, and working on a good way to document them with photos. I&#8217;m unsure of many of the ID&#8217;s I made, and think that maybe I&#8217;ll be able to find help at the GSM meeting, or perhaps I should bring them along on the field trip. &#8230;Perhaps I will make the rock documentation another blog post. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"now-sunday\">Now (Sunday)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are a number of planning things I want to work on today<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Plan to do the J T*g ACM Fellow endorsement<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Planning a long hike somewhere more distant some day this week<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Looking into Yosemite trip<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See how long to next DYL meeting<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Monday: Scheduling a dermatology appointment<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Monday: Contacting MacPhail<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Views: 10<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday 25 August 2019 From then to Now Views: 10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federate","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,19,20],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily_entry","tag-glasses","tag-piano","tag-rock-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1081,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}