Between blotch and blok

Read:

• Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomas De Quincey (cure for insomnia, if ever there was)
• The Rise and Fall of the Medieval Monastery, Christopher Brooke (50-th(-ish) book of the year)
• Undertow, Elizabeth Bear
• Tales from Earthsea, Ursula le Guin
• The Other Wind, Ursula le Guin

Submitted:

• TT280 ECA (all done)

Finished:

• Lori costume (for LL's school play)

Studied:

• Course intro. for AA302
• OpenLearn: Studying the arts and humanities

Ogled:

• Tutankhamen

Cooked:

• Cup cakes (for concert)
• Cup cakes (for class party)
• Mince pies (for Xmas fair)
• Rum butter (1/2 kg)
• Mince pies
• Xmas dinner (Xmas Eve)

Succumbed to:

• fever
• headache
• sore throat
• lost voice
• cystitis
• ...

Read:

•  Principles of Web Design, Joel Sklar
• Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage, Albert Glinsky
• Downriver, Iain Sinclair

Submitted:

• TT280 CMA 1 (100%)

Read:

• Peter S Beagle, The Folk of the Air
• Ruth Aylett, Robots: Bringing Intelligent Machines to Life

Studied:

• T184 Introduction
• T184 Moving and sensing
• T184 Things that think
• T184 How human?

Planted:

• Salsify
• Scorzonera
• Radish
• Carrots

Built:

• Pedro

Finished:

• one sock

• Alison Uttley, A Traveller in Time
• John Crowley, Aegypt
• Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Made:

• a start on several things ;-)

Studied:

• S199 Heating of the Earth by the Sun
• S199 Energy losses and the energy balance
• S199 The earth's atmosphere: composition and water content

Socks darned:

• 1 stripy pair in Cashmerino aran
• 1 lacy pair in Natural Dye Studio Sock Wool

• The Out-Of-Sync Child, Carol Stock Kranowitz
• War Zones: Granta 96
• The Political Animal: An Anatomy, Jeremy Paxman
• Nightmare Abbey, Thomas Love Peacock
• Desolation Road, Ian McDonald
• Fine and Private Place, Peter S Beagle
• Case of Conscience, James Blish
• Pavane, Keith Roberts

Made:

• book bag

[No, I don't believe in a single item bulleted lists either. Except maybe as a means of highlighting lack of progress.]