week 10 progress report

 This was my first week that I managed to meet my goals for both Durham and LTU hours. I also met my exercise goals, and goals for everything else save music (choir didn't happen this week as our conductor was on holiday, and I haven't tuned my dulcimer since getting back from Durham, so haven't been playing) and sleep (8 hours sleep a day was never a reasonable goal, but better to leave it that high and thus have somewhere the extra hours needed elsewhere can come from, than to set other things higher than achievable).

Goal:	56	25	20	20	20	15	10	2
	sleep	useful tasks	Durham	LTU	social	exercise	entertainment	make music
Week 10	46	31	21	20	22	17	12	0

My focus for this week 10 Durham work has been writing the section of the introduction on the steatite objects listed in the Swedish Historical Museum's database,starting in the north, and working my way south. So far I have finished the sections for:

• Lappland (5)
• Norrbotten (1)
• Västerbotten (0)
• Jämtland (3)

These were fairly quick and easy compared to what some of the southern provinces will be (*cough*Birka*cough*) as they had so few steatite objects, which makes this a good choice in work flow, since it has given me a chance to get used to how the database functions, what information can be obtained by pushing which button, and how I want to organise the information in the thesis.  As I go I am putting in entries onto GoogleEarth, so I will be able to present a map for all of the locations.

I am adding keywords to every entry in the research section, and linking the written text to both the figure caption list and the original note card for each (which has a photo of the object, if available).

It is worth noting at this stage that while most of the objects with photos so far are a pinkish brown colour, and, at least from the photo look likely could have come from the same source, two are dark green, and most certainly came from somewhere else.  It will be interesting to see if any other different colours appear as I work my way further south. I would like to wait and decide which objects to analyse until after this section of the background research is done.  However, I am also worried about how long this part of the project may take and the resultant delays if I am not analysing anything yet.

I did do my first spot analyses of a random bit of soapstone we had laying around the house on Tuesday (2018-03-06), however, I didn't have time to do the data processing last week while in the office, and didn't bother to VPN to that computer from home but instead kept plugging away at the database. Therefore this week's goal for office time includes looking at those results.