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Mar. 28th, 2010 06:58 pmToday's progress report: tried my hand at "active" reading (see my other blog for a definition of what I mean by that, and for a summary of the first couple of sections of the paper I read thusly). So far I've spent one hour reading any typing up my paraphrased version of each paragraph in the first five pages. It will be interesting to see how long this technique takes for the entire 17 pages of the paper. It takes a fair bit longer than just reading, but I think my teacher was correct when she said that we'd get much more out of it.
This morning I went for a short rollerblade excursion, stopping at a huge grocery store on the far side of the train tracks (only 22 minutes away by skate--it is normally a 35+ minute walk) to pick up a few things (I wasn't even sure it would be open--most grocery stores in Milan are closed on Sundays). I look forward to the day when I no longer live in a city, and heading out of the house to get some exercise doesn't automatically mean combining the trip with an errand that involves spending money. It will be nice to live somewhere pretty enough that I want to head out to see it, rather than only because my body needs to move and I'm getting low on needed supplies.
This afternoon I manged to fix the problem with my trike that I mentioned a few days back. The part has now been successfully extracted, sanded down a bit (I *like* having access to a shop with a lathe!) and properly inserted into the frame. The seat has been reattached, and I even put air into the two tires which didn't get damaged in transit. As soon as the replacement wheel arrives and I get it attached in place of the broken one, it will be possible to pedal myself places too. I'm looking forward to that. (Why is is that two hours of hard work so easily reduces itself to a single paragraph?)
Tomorrow I'm scheduled to use the microprobe; I hope that the data I generate helps answer some of the questions we are trying to solve--it would be nice to have something concrete to say in the speech I'm working on for the confrence I'll be attending in a couple of weeks.
This morning I went for a short rollerblade excursion, stopping at a huge grocery store on the far side of the train tracks (only 22 minutes away by skate--it is normally a 35+ minute walk) to pick up a few things (I wasn't even sure it would be open--most grocery stores in Milan are closed on Sundays). I look forward to the day when I no longer live in a city, and heading out of the house to get some exercise doesn't automatically mean combining the trip with an errand that involves spending money. It will be nice to live somewhere pretty enough that I want to head out to see it, rather than only because my body needs to move and I'm getting low on needed supplies.
This afternoon I manged to fix the problem with my trike that I mentioned a few days back. The part has now been successfully extracted, sanded down a bit (I *like* having access to a shop with a lathe!) and properly inserted into the frame. The seat has been reattached, and I even put air into the two tires which didn't get damaged in transit. As soon as the replacement wheel arrives and I get it attached in place of the broken one, it will be possible to pedal myself places too. I'm looking forward to that. (Why is is that two hours of hard work so easily reduces itself to a single paragraph?)
Tomorrow I'm scheduled to use the microprobe; I hope that the data I generate helps answer some of the questions we are trying to solve--it would be nice to have something concrete to say in the speech I'm working on for the confrence I'll be attending in a couple of weeks.
