I always seem to have an excuse don't I? Between Sam's birthday and trying to get these 320's done each night I now find less time to post. I guess dedicating 1 hour to something other than the "have too's" in my life is showing me just how much time I am wasting in my day. Today I tried my hardest to finish an assignment, and work on solving the problem of a certain figure in my article that should have been written by now. This plot is really making me angry. Either my analysis is wrong, the code is wrong, or I don't understand the result, because right now it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

So just how is the 32o's going for me? Monday was great, Tuesday I forgot to do one of them, so tonight I am trying to make it up. The idea was to do 3 X 20 minutes of something you want to do daily but just haven't managed lately. I also said you have to do all 7 hours. So I am doing all 7 hours, even though last night fell apart.

I am not being fully honest the main reason last night fell apart, was that I watched "An Inconvenient Truth". However, I am not sorry that I watched it. Although, I thought that some of the ways in which the data was presented were borderline alarmist. Overall I liked it and am still giving it a lot of thought. There really is a lot I could be doing personally right now to consume less energy and produce less carbon dioxide. But now I want to know how I can help as an engineer. I really want my next project or the one after that to be directly related to finding a way to capture carbon, or change it from a gas into another element or into dirt, or something. Or a way to decrease energy use, or increase efficiency, or something...I know it sounds vauge, but so are most beginnings. I just feel like if I don't get involved in some way that I am sort of missing the point of the message and letting my kids down in some way. Letting myself down in some way. Lets all pledge to start "consuming" less. As a kid one of the things my boy scout leaders always said was "Leave no trace". From a philosophical standpoint it's impossible to "leave no trace" of ones existence, but leaving a small one is a lot less annoying to future generations.

My 320's aren't going great because I have been starting them so late in the day...note to self: make improvements to ones self requires an alert mind, so start earlier in the day.

Productivity:
I don't really know because I haven't been tracking this as well as I did last week, but here is a guess.
9-12 article and listened to npr in one ear about the IQ2 debates
12-1 lunch and break with Jesse
1-2 Learned about spatial solutions to the boundary layer using the Orr-Sommerfeld equations
2-3 picked up race tickets and started homework
3-6 worked on homework, it seems to be working, now just need to answer questions.

At work 9 hours, productive for 7, actually not too bad. I guess when I don't "complete" something in a day I feel sort of like it was wasted.... whatever.