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a slow start to the day
Jul. 4th, 2020 11:38 amI didn't get the last load of wash out of the machine last night till well after midnight, and didn't manage to put down my phone and go to sleep till nearly 02:00, so it was no surprise that I slept till nearly 09:00. I have been making it to bed well before midnight all week, since J needs to be at work by 07:00, and I try to go to bed when she does, so that I can get more accomplished with my morning.
But this weekend her aunt in Kalix (about 45 minutes drive north of here) is getting married and J and the Priest's daughter are the only two witnesses. So she took off Friday after work, and I spent the evening mostly being useful (and a little reading DW and FB) and stayed up considerably later than has been my habit since she arrived in early June.
I woke up thinking about my research and the program fotoalbum, which will let one set it up so that it automatically assigns key words to the photos based on the names of the folders in which they are in. I haven't been using photoalbum for my laser maps yet--so far I have only used it to organise the museum artefacts. But, of course, it is a great tool, and if I really want to have a good understanding how how the different quarry samples are similar and how they are different I really should use it.
So instead of starting my day with a workout, as I have for the past seven days, I sat down to the computer and started creating the folder structure. I already have a table which organises the samples first into the orogeny (mountain building episode) in which the rocks were formed, their sub unit, which county, which quarry, which sub quarry (if any), the sample name, the sample number, and the date(s) they were analysed, so I just followed that structure from left to right, making a folder for everything in the first column, then opening each folder in turn and making a sub folder for everything in the next column, and so on. Till I got to the hard part, when I got down to the level of the folders for each analytical session. Then I have to pay attention, because, often, I analysed more than one sample on a given day, and for this to work for getting the sample name into the keywords, I need to have the data for each sample in its own appropriately located folder. This means opening each folder and copying over the relevant files to the new folder (better to copy, so I don't risk losing anything by getting distracted somewhere in the middle of this).
I managed to get the first seven (of 34) samples copied over, and then got hungry, so I took a break to eat, at which point I opened DW to read the new posts while I ate the last of that yummy Pear and Mango Custardy cake that I made the other day. Somehow that lead to also having some cheese, and some thinbread (the paper-thin Swedish yeast bread that I eat like crackers, but David breaks into small chunks and covers with milk for breakfast), and also reading one set of FB (till I hit the note from SocialFixer saying that if I want to keep reading another 50 posts I should press this button). I opted not to press that button, but instead commented on a couple of posts here, and decided to do my own post, as a way of letting myself know that I am done with social media for now, and should do other things next.
My alarm has been going off for a while to remind me that I should still do that workout, so my plan is to do that, and then either resume the coping of data into those folders straight away, or, perhaps, carve a bit on my soapstone pot first. Wish me luck that the rest of the day is a bit more productive.
But this weekend her aunt in Kalix (about 45 minutes drive north of here) is getting married and J and the Priest's daughter are the only two witnesses. So she took off Friday after work, and I spent the evening mostly being useful (and a little reading DW and FB) and stayed up considerably later than has been my habit since she arrived in early June.
I woke up thinking about my research and the program fotoalbum, which will let one set it up so that it automatically assigns key words to the photos based on the names of the folders in which they are in. I haven't been using photoalbum for my laser maps yet--so far I have only used it to organise the museum artefacts. But, of course, it is a great tool, and if I really want to have a good understanding how how the different quarry samples are similar and how they are different I really should use it.
So instead of starting my day with a workout, as I have for the past seven days, I sat down to the computer and started creating the folder structure. I already have a table which organises the samples first into the orogeny (mountain building episode) in which the rocks were formed, their sub unit, which county, which quarry, which sub quarry (if any), the sample name, the sample number, and the date(s) they were analysed, so I just followed that structure from left to right, making a folder for everything in the first column, then opening each folder in turn and making a sub folder for everything in the next column, and so on. Till I got to the hard part, when I got down to the level of the folders for each analytical session. Then I have to pay attention, because, often, I analysed more than one sample on a given day, and for this to work for getting the sample name into the keywords, I need to have the data for each sample in its own appropriately located folder. This means opening each folder and copying over the relevant files to the new folder (better to copy, so I don't risk losing anything by getting distracted somewhere in the middle of this).
I managed to get the first seven (of 34) samples copied over, and then got hungry, so I took a break to eat, at which point I opened DW to read the new posts while I ate the last of that yummy Pear and Mango Custardy cake that I made the other day. Somehow that lead to also having some cheese, and some thinbread (the paper-thin Swedish yeast bread that I eat like crackers, but David breaks into small chunks and covers with milk for breakfast), and also reading one set of FB (till I hit the note from SocialFixer saying that if I want to keep reading another 50 posts I should press this button). I opted not to press that button, but instead commented on a couple of posts here, and decided to do my own post, as a way of letting myself know that I am done with social media for now, and should do other things next.
My alarm has been going off for a while to remind me that I should still do that workout, so my plan is to do that, and then either resume the coping of data into those folders straight away, or, perhaps, carve a bit on my soapstone pot first. Wish me luck that the rest of the day is a bit more productive.