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Life without Henry
I'm settling into new patterns now and starting to adapt.
I'm definitely watching less TV at present - that was a social activity between me and Henry that allowed us both to comment on the show afterwards. I'm still watching some Firefly and Buffy and doubtless other stuff over time.
Making progress on my e-mail backlog, which is generally indicative of both physical and mental health occuring at the same time. I can never clear many in a day even when I'm at my best (overdoing typing can be very dangerous for me), but the last three or four days have seen steady inroads. I'm currently at 60, which isn't fantastic, but is a heck of a sight better than it was. When I get below 40 I generally reckon I'm doing really well.
Steady progress on the garden. I'm managing an hour's work most days when I'm not going on a long walk. Weeded around the herbs (rescued a load of chives from rampant oregano) and trimmed a bit more of the hedge.
I'm getting stuck into the Open University work now. Very interesting, but hard going. I find my concentration starts to waver after half an hour, so I'm getting into a pattern of doing half an hour study interwoven with half an hour embroidery. The embroidery relaxes the mind wonderfully.
I'm getting more proactive on the OU questions, reading the question sheet before I start studying the relevent chapter. The questions are as evil as ever, designed to catch you out and never to have simple answers even thought they are supposedly True/False. I have to select three false statements out of nine options (and explain why I have chosen them) but the real catch is that some of them are ambiguous. eg. "The high productivity of the spring bloom is a result of phytoplankton being kept in the warmth of the surface mixed layer." Well, this is true, but only upto a point. The bloom is also due to increased light intensity and a good supply of nutrients. So, I need to judge if the other statements are MORE false.
It's interesting and it keeps me mentally awake and is a welcome return to stuff that I studied long ago and have mostly forgotten (or in some cases never learnt in the first place, as we know massively more about some oceanic matters now than we did 25 years ago)
I'm definitely watching less TV at present - that was a social activity between me and Henry that allowed us both to comment on the show afterwards. I'm still watching some Firefly and Buffy and doubtless other stuff over time.
Making progress on my e-mail backlog, which is generally indicative of both physical and mental health occuring at the same time. I can never clear many in a day even when I'm at my best (overdoing typing can be very dangerous for me), but the last three or four days have seen steady inroads. I'm currently at 60, which isn't fantastic, but is a heck of a sight better than it was. When I get below 40 I generally reckon I'm doing really well.
Steady progress on the garden. I'm managing an hour's work most days when I'm not going on a long walk. Weeded around the herbs (rescued a load of chives from rampant oregano) and trimmed a bit more of the hedge.
I'm getting stuck into the Open University work now. Very interesting, but hard going. I find my concentration starts to waver after half an hour, so I'm getting into a pattern of doing half an hour study interwoven with half an hour embroidery. The embroidery relaxes the mind wonderfully.
I'm getting more proactive on the OU questions, reading the question sheet before I start studying the relevent chapter. The questions are as evil as ever, designed to catch you out and never to have simple answers even thought they are supposedly True/False. I have to select three false statements out of nine options (and explain why I have chosen them) but the real catch is that some of them are ambiguous. eg. "The high productivity of the spring bloom is a result of phytoplankton being kept in the warmth of the surface mixed layer." Well, this is true, but only upto a point. The bloom is also due to increased light intensity and a good supply of nutrients. So, I need to judge if the other statements are MORE false.
It's interesting and it keeps me mentally awake and is a welcome return to stuff that I studied long ago and have mostly forgotten (or in some cases never learnt in the first place, as we know massively more about some oceanic matters now than we did 25 years ago)
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