dancing fun and files found
Jul. 15th, 2011 12:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaTonight was the annual Medieval Banquet at the Tarremah School here in Tasmania. They have been doing this for at least 6 years that I know of--one of the grades, I forget which, does a several week course on the Middle Ages, with the learning and research culminating in their banquet. The SCA normally does at least one day time demo where we show off various arts and crafts +/- fighting, depending on who is available that year during that segment of study, and we come along to the banquet and run the dancing. Harlequin, the local Medieval Band I am so fond of, has connections with the school, so they were doing the music. This made it a special treat for me, since I got to see them so soon after my arrival back here. In addition, the two people running the dance this year were some of the group of uni kids who joined and got active when I was doing my PhD down here, it was great to see them (I am very fond of them both, though we haven't really kept in touch since I have been gone), and it was a joy to see them to the point where they are the ones teaching dancing to a room full of school kids and their parents. And it was just plain fun to dance with them. I danced with her for the first set of dances, and with him for the second set.
I am, as always, impressed with what a good job the students (along with their teachers, of course) did with the banquet. They were quite formal in their presentation of all of the dishes, and they all participated in much of the evening's entertainment, which included them singing Past Times with Good Companye, some of them playing Gaudete and one other period tune whose name I have forgotten on a bunch of instruments, a group recital of The Lady of Sharlot, the dancing (which nearly everyone in the hall participated in!) and a few other things. Most of the costumes were part of the Barony's Gold Key collection, and many cudos to B, who is willing to spend the time each year to find out what sizes are needed and drive them all down there for their use. She drove me down to the event, and it was really nice to catch up with her. However, I rode home with the dance teachers, so that I could catch up with them, too. I am trying to make time for as many people as possible in as short of time as possible, since I don't know when I will be heading back to Sweden, and I want to see so many people as I can before I go. If I wind up staying longer I can always see some of them more than once, which would be a nice compensation for not going home as soon as I might like.
My progress report for today is somewhat shorter than I care to admit to, in that I not only slept in till 06:00 (I have been getting up around 05:00 so as to have a bit of time to chat with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
archinonlive before he goes to sleep), I was also terribly slow to transition from reading email over breakfast to working. In addition to catching up on LJ, FB, and email I also made time to cook food and do some housecleaning before I finally found the necessary motivation to get to work. However, while I had fewer hours available to work than I should have, I did accomplish one very important task. I found the files that I was seeking!
My record of what tasks I accomplished each day while working on my PhD is reasonably complete--pretty much every time I created a new spreadsheet to keep track of some sort of information I would state that I had done so in my log. Alas, for most of the time I was doing the PhD that is all I said--that I had created it, and what sort of information it contained. I did not have the foresight to actually mention the file name or what folder it was in and how to find that folder. Presumably because at the time I knew where it was, and didn't think I would ever forget. However, the data I have been seeking this week was being elusive. I knew that I had a spreadsheet which listed all of my Thermocalc results, what settings were used when doing the calculations, and which analysis points were used. However, when I checked a few logical places where such a thing might be I could find that sort of data for only one region (Collingwood River), not any of the others (including the south west coast). Since the SW coast samples are the ones which I really need to look up that information now, I had been getting kind of worried about not finding it anywhere.
Eventually I did a search of that log for "thermocalc" and found a variety of useful things, including the description I had typed up on how to use that program to do these calculations. However, I found only the statement that I had created the spreadsheets--that day's log didn't mention where, nor what I had called it. So I persisted and continued looking at the other instances of that search term (44 mentions of that word in the log), and eventually I found something that gave the name of the working folder. I checked there, and sure enough, there was another folder in which I had all of the data for each sample's final calculations *and* the spreadsheets I had been looking for. I didn't leave myself time to do anything with those spreadsheets today, but that isn't tragic because the plan is to look at that data with my erstwhile adviser tomorrow morning (he wasn't available to meet today) and see if we think any of it is usable for the paper or if we have to do more microprobe work before we write the paper.
Tomorrow in the early evening I will be meeting up withbaronsnorri so that I can give him the musical instrument (bombard) a certain music laurel on the mainland asked me to return to him, along with a couple of songbooks and CD's of the laurel's music (including some for which baronsnorri composed the words. With luck I will also get to see a mountain-climbing SCA friend, if he has energy when he gets off of work.
After tonight's event I was in such a bouncy good mood, and it is such a pretty moonlit night that I went for a short walk before doing my evening yoga. Not many stars out, between the moon and the city lights, but it was nice to see the Southern Cross again--it has mostly been cloudy since I arrived, and any nights it hasn't been (if any) I was inside (probably asleep) and didn't notice.
I am, as always, impressed with what a good job the students (along with their teachers, of course) did with the banquet. They were quite formal in their presentation of all of the dishes, and they all participated in much of the evening's entertainment, which included them singing Past Times with Good Companye, some of them playing Gaudete and one other period tune whose name I have forgotten on a bunch of instruments, a group recital of The Lady of Sharlot, the dancing (which nearly everyone in the hall participated in!) and a few other things. Most of the costumes were part of the Barony's Gold Key collection, and many cudos to B, who is willing to spend the time each year to find out what sizes are needed and drive them all down there for their use. She drove me down to the event, and it was really nice to catch up with her. However, I rode home with the dance teachers, so that I could catch up with them, too. I am trying to make time for as many people as possible in as short of time as possible, since I don't know when I will be heading back to Sweden, and I want to see so many people as I can before I go. If I wind up staying longer I can always see some of them more than once, which would be a nice compensation for not going home as soon as I might like.
My progress report for today is somewhat shorter than I care to admit to, in that I not only slept in till 06:00 (I have been getting up around 05:00 so as to have a bit of time to chat with
archinonlive before he goes to sleep), I was also terribly slow to transition from reading email over breakfast to working. In addition to catching up on LJ, FB, and email I also made time to cook food and do some housecleaning before I finally found the necessary motivation to get to work. However, while I had fewer hours available to work than I should have, I did accomplish one very important task. I found the files that I was seeking! My record of what tasks I accomplished each day while working on my PhD is reasonably complete--pretty much every time I created a new spreadsheet to keep track of some sort of information I would state that I had done so in my log. Alas, for most of the time I was doing the PhD that is all I said--that I had created it, and what sort of information it contained. I did not have the foresight to actually mention the file name or what folder it was in and how to find that folder. Presumably because at the time I knew where it was, and didn't think I would ever forget. However, the data I have been seeking this week was being elusive. I knew that I had a spreadsheet which listed all of my Thermocalc results, what settings were used when doing the calculations, and which analysis points were used. However, when I checked a few logical places where such a thing might be I could find that sort of data for only one region (Collingwood River), not any of the others (including the south west coast). Since the SW coast samples are the ones which I really need to look up that information now, I had been getting kind of worried about not finding it anywhere.
Eventually I did a search of that log for "thermocalc" and found a variety of useful things, including the description I had typed up on how to use that program to do these calculations. However, I found only the statement that I had created the spreadsheets--that day's log didn't mention where, nor what I had called it. So I persisted and continued looking at the other instances of that search term (44 mentions of that word in the log), and eventually I found something that gave the name of the working folder. I checked there, and sure enough, there was another folder in which I had all of the data for each sample's final calculations *and* the spreadsheets I had been looking for. I didn't leave myself time to do anything with those spreadsheets today, but that isn't tragic because the plan is to look at that data with my erstwhile adviser tomorrow morning (he wasn't available to meet today) and see if we think any of it is usable for the paper or if we have to do more microprobe work before we write the paper.
Tomorrow in the early evening I will be meeting up with
baronsnorri so that I can give him the musical instrument (bombard) a certain music laurel on the mainland asked me to return to him, along with a couple of songbooks and CD's of the laurel's music (including some for which baronsnorri composed the words. With luck I will also get to see a mountain-climbing SCA friend, if he has energy when he gets off of work. After tonight's event I was in such a bouncy good mood, and it is such a pretty moonlit night that I went for a short walk before doing my evening yoga. Not many stars out, between the moon and the city lights, but it was nice to see the Southern Cross again--it has mostly been cloudy since I arrived, and any nights it hasn't been (if any) I was inside (probably asleep) and didn't notice.
