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madgravityFriday 08- I did my stretches and ran a mile.
Today’s Weather was: Temps of around 38 and 60 degrees, slight breeze, humidity around 36 percent, overcast skies.
According to the National Weather Service: “Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 64. West northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm. Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 39. Calm wind becoming west northwest around 6 mph.”
Stoney called needing a jump for his SUV because he left his parking lights on overnight. I went on over and we quickly got the motor running. He was going to Staters in Twentynine Palms to do some shopping and asked if I wanted to go; I sure did, I’m running low on yogurt and fruit. I picked up some other items while I was there and I’m good for another month.
I got back home and went on my evening walk listening to a new Astronomy Cast lecture: Ep. 160: Eclipses: Eclipses, Transits, and Occulations of different celestial bodies. I remember when I was nine or ten years old I was a student at Newton Elementary School in Torrance California and we saw a partial eclipse watching it through smoked glass that we made in class; pretty cool!
I practiced my guitar; I think I’m getting better.
I read aloud from the textbooks: “Astronomy Today”; a discussion on telescopes: refraction vs. reflector telescopes, and their optics. And “The Cell: a Molecular Approach”; the four classes of organic compounds: Carbohydrates, Lipids, Proteins, and Nucleic Acids (I only read through to carbohydrates and lipids. Proteins and nucleic acids I’ll read tomorrow). It’s interesting how many ways hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon can connect to each other. It’s funny that reading these aloud is helping me understand and learn these complicated ideas.
I updated the Copper Mountain Mesa Website and sent out the Newsletter, and then finished the evening reading “The Letters of Richard Feynman”.
For the last few weeks I’ve had a nice fire going in the woodstove and it has kept the house nice and cozy while I read.
I did my stretches and lifted weights; wrote to my journal, posted it to the web, and called it a night.
Today’s Weather was: Temps of around 38 and 60 degrees, slight breeze, humidity around 36 percent, overcast skies.
According to the National Weather Service: “Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 64. West northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm. Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 39. Calm wind becoming west northwest around 6 mph.”
Stoney called needing a jump for his SUV because he left his parking lights on overnight. I went on over and we quickly got the motor running. He was going to Staters in Twentynine Palms to do some shopping and asked if I wanted to go; I sure did, I’m running low on yogurt and fruit. I picked up some other items while I was there and I’m good for another month.
I got back home and went on my evening walk listening to a new Astronomy Cast lecture: Ep. 160: Eclipses: Eclipses, Transits, and Occulations of different celestial bodies. I remember when I was nine or ten years old I was a student at Newton Elementary School in Torrance California and we saw a partial eclipse watching it through smoked glass that we made in class; pretty cool!
I practiced my guitar; I think I’m getting better.
I read aloud from the textbooks: “Astronomy Today”; a discussion on telescopes: refraction vs. reflector telescopes, and their optics. And “The Cell: a Molecular Approach”; the four classes of organic compounds: Carbohydrates, Lipids, Proteins, and Nucleic Acids (I only read through to carbohydrates and lipids. Proteins and nucleic acids I’ll read tomorrow). It’s interesting how many ways hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon can connect to each other. It’s funny that reading these aloud is helping me understand and learn these complicated ideas.
I updated the Copper Mountain Mesa Website and sent out the Newsletter, and then finished the evening reading “The Letters of Richard Feynman”.
For the last few weeks I’ve had a nice fire going in the woodstove and it has kept the house nice and cozy while I read.
I did my stretches and lifted weights; wrote to my journal, posted it to the web, and called it a night.
