Some books

16°C, clear, typical bright autumn day.


New books: the last Amazon order is arriving bit by bit this week which is fun.

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This one arrived in a coincidence which may even be Ironic. I was still fuming after an insidiously christain charity presentation when I opened this, chapter headings like "why there definitely isn’t a God" (or something like that). Fine timing. Frustratingly, it will have ot wait, the present book is going to take a while to read. Especially as I will make headway into tthe Kafka book kindly loaned by a generous soul.

Post Secret

5°C, grey & cold again…

CDs: The Books: "Thought for Food"

Clogs: " Stick Music".

Also delivered was

Post Secrets, the book. A volume that’s much bigger than the expected post card size I’d assumed.


Frustration: getting that Flash pre-loader is not running smoothly. It just skips over the frame with the pre-loading animation even though there is a stop(); script in that frame. I don’t get it.

 

This page is unintentionally left blank

11°C, dry
That Cosmology book was delivered today. It’s got 4 pairs of blank pages. No wonder they were selling it cheaply.
 I feel a negative comment coming on.
On a day where two +ve comments have appeared  to those!
thanks.

Turpentine: started two new ones! Underpainting is ready on the smaller one; the ground is ready for  the second. I have missed doing them over the last week.
Here is a doodle made in today’s training day.

 

neat! I just found out that you can link an image in the blog entry that’s saved in your photo album.

Cosmology

8° getting cooler. Rain then clearer.

Got rained on going to work today. that’s ok, except when you pull your still-wet clothes on to ride back home. Got here quickly though because of a generous tail-wind.

Ordered some new books.
"Cosmology: The Science of the Universe"
Edward Harrison; Hardcover; £23.00

I used to have this on repeat loan from the local ibrary, that went on for months. At the time I didn’t have the £30 to buy my own copy, but now I do. I recall it having some pretty probing stuff, with thought provocing posers at the and of each chapter. This issue has been updated, and so I can’t wait to see it- it should arrive early since it’s actually second-hand. The last 2nd hand book I bought arrived after only 2 days.

 


  Had a great staff training session after work today. I had arrived feeling annoyed- another compulsory meeting, just when the Animation club usually runs. All I wanted was to meet the Ani’ group. Actually, felt cross.
  By the end thought, I was feeling almost high- it was very stimulating, despite quite an intellectual lecture style delivery. It was about the high ability pupils can be afraid of risk taking, and terrified of failure so that they never learn the use that failure can bring. They therefore don’t have that dogged determination to find alternative solutions, alternative to those that suited that is; they give up. they say things like " I can’t do …".
My explanation here sounds dull, but this guy hit the spot- inferring things we instinctively felt for a while.

My notepaper reveals quite a decent doodle, I did suggest I would scan it and upload it to my site. It definitely proves that my sketches are better in interesting meetings.

School planner

27°C;x10;small clouds minding their own business, shy winds

Scanned some pages from my school planner as well as various meetings agenda. Moswen left a message in a previous entry who got a scolding for "defacing" her planner, well, this is to prove that teachers do it too! I’m going to add a folder of these next – look under the "photos" panel. As we said in the various messages, I concentrate better in meetings when I doodle. I can listen better and think of contributions clearly too.

As for listening- playing "The Walkmen" right now.

Jutland

18°C;NW gusty;3/10 cloud;occasional drizzle

New book, tricky one to decide which to get as there are so many. Only read the intro’ so far, but it already contains some juicy words:

"Flens"= flay, or slice up
"Stygian"= as in River Styx, a watery route to the isle of the dead. Heading towards the Isle of the Dead, but who takes them there in the greek myth?