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Status: Priority Task List (2026 - July)

(Work In Progress: output at 14/07/2026 03:57:25)

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Introduction


Sections
  1. Daily Tasks
  2. Top 10
  3. Thesis
  4. Website
  5. Religion
  6. Music
  7. Bridge
  8. GeneralCulture
  9. Languages
  10. Chess
  11. Mathematics
  12. HiQ
Detailed Lists
  1. Daily Tasks (2.75 hours) / day
    1. Bertie: Walk x 2: 75 minutes
    2. Bridge: Handle / PlayMyBoard: 15 minutes
    3. Chess: "Chess - Chess dot Com" - Daily puzzles or rapidplay game: 5 minutes
    4. Computer: Read "PC Pro - Computing in the Real World": 5 minutes
    5. Coxes Farm: Read "LPOC - Listed Heritage: The Listed Property Owners' Club Magazine": 5 minutes
    6. Music - Aural: "Earmaster - Ear Training & Sight-singing": 5 minutes
    7. Music - Oboe: Practice: 30 minutes
    8. Music - Piano: Practice ("Faber (Nancey) & Faber (Randall) - Faber Piano Adventures: Adult Piano Adventures All-in-One Lesson Book 1: Spiral Bound"): 5 minutes
    9. Music - Recorder: Practice: 5 minutes
    10. NT Greek: "Wenham (John) - The Elements of New Testament Greek" & "Wenham (John) - Key to the Elements of New Testament Greek": 5 minutes
    11. OT Hebrew: "Lambdin (Thomas) - Introduction to Biblical Hebrew" & "Williamson (H.G.M.) - Annotated Key to Lambdin's Introduction to Biblical Hebrew": 5 minutes
    12. Rowing Machine: 5 minutes
  2. Top 10 Items
    1. Complete documentation and redevelopment of my Backup3 routines
    2. Complete documentation of Photos Timeline Software4 (Timelines to be added to this list when this task completed)
    3. Complete documentation of Thesis Technology5
    4. Import all recently-acquired pdfs into my database, Notes reading-lists and Thesis Chapters
    5. Complete the redevelopment of the ‘Internal Links’ Spider6
    6. Rewrite External Links Spider
    7. Move password management to Bitwarden
    8. Complete updating London Review of Books7 Note
    9. Restart / catch up with Aeon8 Note
    10. Learn the Tenor Recorder
  3. Thesis9 (16 hours per week)
    1. Continue with my Thesis10; in particular
      1. Spend an hour a day updating the Thesis Document11 itself.
      2. Spend half an hour a day writing something original; namely, essays on:-
        → The difference between Forward and Backward Psychological Continuity12.
        → The persistence of Androids13.
      3. Continue filling out those sections of my Thesis that I can write something on without further research, using books / papers already analysed.
    2. Continually review the Note describing my Current Beliefs14 on the topic of Personal Identity.
    3. Regularly review and update of the Notes I’ve created on Personal Identity.
    4. Complete the outstanding actions in the Appendix to my Thesis:-
    5. Make progress on specific Chapters of my Thesis, using the tasks outlined in my Thesis Dashboard112, using the materials listed113 in the Chapters and underlying Notes.
    6. Read and comment on114 the following remaining PhD Theses relevant to my own Thesis:-
      1. "Baggini (Julian) - Psychological Reductionism About Persons: A Critical Development",
      2. "Eddebo (Johan) - Death and the Self: A Metaphysical Investigation of the Rationality of Afterlife Beliefs in the Contemporary Intellectual Climate",
      3. "Gendler (Tamar Szabo) - Imaginary Exceptions: On the Powers and Limits of Thought Experiment",
      4. "Keles (Serap) - Personal identity and persistence over time : the hybrid view with regard to hylomorphism",
      5. "Kotak (Aakash) - The Hybrid Theory of Personal Identity" (MPhil Thesis)
      6. "Lechthaler (Manuel) - Composition and Identities",
      7. "Lybaert (Fauve) - Personal Identity and the Formal Self",
      8. "Paez (Eze) - Abortion: What We Ought to Believe - An Ontological and Normative Analysis",
      9. "Parsons (Josh) - Theories of Persistence",
      10. "Rau (Philipp) - The Author, Not the Tale: Memory, Narrative, and the Self",
      11. "Skow (Bradford) - Once Upon a Spacetime",
      12. "Southgate (Susan Jane) - Personal Identity: The Simple View",
      13. "Trakas (Marina) - Personal Memories", and
      14. "Woods (Evan Thomas) - The Problems of the Many".
    7. Apply the issues raised by recently-read PhD Theses relevant to my own Thesis to my various Notes:-
      1. "Atkinson (Thomas) - Human organisms and the survival of death: a systematic evaluation of the possibility of life after death given animalism", see also the Section on Resurrection below
      2. "Hodson (Sommer) - A Hybrid View of Personal Identity",
    8. Follow up on Keith Augustine's comments on my review of "Hershenov (David) - Review of Nancey Murphy's 'Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?'".
    9. Teletransportation115 (Update Note using the following):-
      1. "Science Unbound - Teleporters: The Death Machines You Don't Want": Complete reading / reviewing relevant passages in these follow-up items
      2. "Hanley (Richard) - The Metaphysics of Star Trek"
      3. "Gribbin (John) - Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality"
      4. "Kaku (Michio) - Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel"
      5. "Krauss (Lawrence M.) - The Physics of Star Trek"
      6. "Penrose (Roger) - The Emperor's New Mind"
      7. "YouTube - Video - The Trouble with Transporters"
    10. AI116
      1. "Birch (Jonathan) - The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI",
      2. "FT, ChatGPT - Five Books - The Best Books on Artificial Intelligence",
      3. "Google DeepMind - The Thinking Game: The inside story of the AI breakthrough that won a Nobel Prize",
      4. "Korhonen (Anna), Woodward (Sarah) - This idea must die: 'AI will outsmart the human race'",
      5. "McBain (Sophie) - Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?",
      6. "Milliere (Raphael) & Buckner (Cameron) - The Philosophy of Language Models",
      7. "Peckham (Jeremy) - Masters or Slaves?: AI And The Future Of Humanity",
      8. "Peckham (Jeremy) - AI, humanity and Christian ministry",
      9. "Peckham (Jeremy) - Living virtuously with AI chatbots",
      10. "Rawlinson (Nik) - ChatGPT vs The Rest",
      11. "Uria-Recio (Pedro) - How AI Will Shape Our Future",
      12. "Wikipedia - Large language model",
      13. "Wooldridge (Michael John) - This is not the AI we were promised"
    11. Resurrection117
      1. "Atkinson (Thomas) - Human organisms and the survival of death: a systematic evaluation of the possibility of life after death given animalism", a PhD Thesis noted above
      2. "Ayers (Michael R.) - Locke's Theory of Personal Identity",
      3. "Ayers (Michael R.) - Personal Identity Before the Essay",
      4. "Craig (William Lane) - Review of N.T.Wright - The Resurrection of the Son of God",
      5. "Cullmann (Oscar) - Immortality of the Soul or Resurrection of the Dead?",
      6. "Forstrom (K. Joanna S.) - John Locke and Personal Identity: Immortality and Bodily Resurrection in 17th-Century Philosophy",
      7. "Gasser (Georg), Ed. - Personal Identity and Resurrection: How Do We Survive Our Death?",
      8. "Graves (Shawn), Hereth (Blake) & John (Tyler M.) - In Defense of Animal Universalism",
      9. "Johnson (Mark) - Researchers have developed a model to explain the science of near-death experiences. Others have challenged it": Annotate
      10. "Locke (John) - Of Identity and Diversity",
      11. "Loose (Jonathan) - Constitution and the Falling Elevator: The Continuing Incompatibility of Materialism and Resurrection Belief",
      12. "Loose (Jonathan) - Materialism Most Miserable The Prospects for Dualist and Physicalist Accounts of Resurrection",
      13. "Marston (Paul) - After Death: The Intermediate State"
      14. "Marston (Paul) - Can Dead Believers Interact with the Living?"
      15. "Marston (Paul) - Death and ‘Hell’: What the New Testament Does and Does Not Teach",
      16. "Marston (Paul) - Hellfire and Destruction: What Does the Bible Really Say about Hell?",
      17. "Mavrodes (George I.) - The Life Everlasting and the Bodily Criterion of Identity",
      18. "Mooney (Justin) - The possibility of resurrection by reassembly",
      19. "O'Connor (Timothy) & Jacobs (Jonathan D.) - Emergent individuals and the resurrection",
      20. "O'Donnell (Patrick S.) - Death & Dying: A Select bibliography",
        → Also "O'Donnell (Patrick S.) - Human Nature, Personhood, and Personal Identity: A Select bibliography",
      21. "Olson (Eric) - Immanent Causation and Life After Death",
      22. "Olson (Eric) - Life After Death and the Devastation of the Grave",
      23. "Quinn (Philip L.) - Personal Identity, Bodily Continuity and Resurrection",
      24. "Quinn (Philip L.) - Some Problems about Resurrection",
      25. "Ramakrishnan (Venki) - Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and Longevity",
      26. "Stevenson (Ian) - Children Who Remember Previous Lives: A Question of Reincarnation",
      27. "Thompson (Evan) - Dying: What Happens When We Die?",
      28. "Thompson (Jon W.) - Individuation, Identity, and Resurrection in Thomas Jackson and John Locke",
      29. "Thompson (Jon W.) - Personal Identity and Resurrection: Early Modern Philosophical Perspectives",
      30. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - The Possibility of Resurrection",
      31. "Zeleznikow-Johnston (Ariel) - The Future Loves You: How and Why We Should Abolish Death",
      32. "Wright (N.T.) - Mind, Spirit, Soul and Body: All for One and One for All - Reflections on Paul’s Anthropology in his Complex Contexts": Annotate
      33. "Wright (N.T.) - The Resurrection of the Son of God", Read relevant chapters, ie:-
        → "Wright (N.T.) - Shadows, Souls and Where They Go: Life Beyond Death in Ancient Paganism"
        → "Wright (N.T.) - Time to Wake Up (1): Death and Beyond in the Old Testament"
        → "Wright (N.T.) - Time to Wake Up (2): Hope Beyond Death in Post-Biblical Judaism"
        → "Wright (N.T.) - Resurrection in Paul (Outside the Corinthian Correspondence)"
        → "Wright (N.T.) - Resurrection in Corinth (1): Introduction"
        → "Wright (N.T.) - Resurrection in Corinth (2): The Key Passages"
      34. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Bodily Resurrection: The Falling Elevator Model Revisited"
      35. "Zimmerman (Dean) - The Compatibility of Materialism and Survival: The “Falling Elevator” Model",
    12. Complete analysing the following papers118:-
      1. "Cofnas (Nathan) - Research on group differences in intelligence: A defense of free inquiry",
      2. "Corabi (Joseph) & Schneider (Susan) - The Metaphysics of Uploading",
      3. "Evin (Allowen), Etc - The emergence and diversification of dog morphology",
      4. "FT, Baggini (Julian), Warburton (Nigel) - Five Books - The Best Books on How To Think (Like a Philosopher)",
      5. "FT, Coyne (Jerry A.) - Five Books - The Best Books on Evolution",
      6. "FT, Dennett (Daniel) & Warburton (Nigel) - Five Favorite Books",
      7. "Frary (Mark) - Beyond Repair",
      8. "Galton (Francis) - Visualised Numerals",
      9. "Giusti (Elena) & Derbew (Sarah) - Decolonizing Blackness, alongside the Classics Curriculum: A conversation with Dr Sarah Derbew",
      10. "Gradesaver - The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie: Study Guide - Introduction", Etc.
      11. "Harari (Yuval Noah) - Disruption, Democracy & the Global Order" (update in the light of YouTube video and CSER summary),
      12. "Hume (David) - Treatise I.IV.VI: Of Personal Identity",
      13. "Jones (Thomas), LRB - Lords of the World",
      14. "Kobie (Nicole) - Neuralink: an old idea that could be the future of medicine",
      15. "Middleton (Anna), Welford (Megan) - The Ethics of Genomics"
      16. "Moreno Figueroa (Monica), Jolin (Lucy) - A world without oppression to you",
      17. "Mulhall (Stephen), LRB - Non-Identity Crisis",
      18. "Olson (Eric) - The Central Dogma Of Transhumanism",
      19. "Paris (J.J.) & Elias-Jones (A.C.) - Do we murder Mary to save Jodie?",
      20. "Putnam (Hilary) - Brains in a Vat",
      21. "Stenger (Victor J.), Lindsay (James A.) & Boghossian (Paul) - Physicists Are Philosophers, Too",
      22. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Materialism and the Psychological-continuity Account of Personal Identity",
      23. "Velleman (David) - Beyond Price",
      24. "Walker (Robert) - Mary And Jodie – The Case Of The Conjoined Twins",
      25. "Watkin (Christopher) - Christianity and critical race theory",
      26. "Zangwill (Nick) - Our Moral Duty to Eat Meat"
    13. Consciousness119
      1. "JCS - Journal of Consciousness Studies (Consolidated List)":
        1. This is a large project – I need to sort out all the volumes associated with author JCS. Some I have in hard copy. Others were once on-line for free, but now seem to have disappeared. Some I claim to have downloaded.
        2. For volumes I have in either hard copy or electronic form I need to 'burst' them into their constituent papers (at the least for the usual suspects).
        3. Ingenta seems to have the latest issue of JCS for free download: Ingenta - JCS.
        4. Imprint Academic - Journal of Consciousness Studies says its archive is available on Ingenta and is free for current subscribers. So, If I wanted to go ahead with this, it might be best to subscribe for a year (£102; £122 including print [not worth it]); but only if I can spare the time to address the archive!
      2. Aeon120: Read & annotate papers as they arise, especially ...
        1. "Chittka (Lars) & Wilson (Catherine) - Bee-brained": Write-up
        2. "Frankish (Keith) - The Consciousness Illusion": Write-up
        3. "Frohlich (Joel) - Frames of consciousness": Write-up
        4. "Parks (Tim) & Manzotti (Riccardo) - You are the world": Write-up
        5. "Pigliucci (Massimo) - Consciousness is real": Write-up
        6. "Seth (Anil Kumar) - How we build perception from the inside out": Write-up
        7. "Seth (Anil Kumar) - The real problem": Write-up
      3. Panpsychism:-
        1. Set up Note on Panpsychism (as above)
        2. "BBC, Bragg (Melvyn) - In Our Time - Panpsychism": Review / revise.
        3. "Goff (Philip) - A Change of Heart on Fine-Tuning": Re-read & comment
        4. "Goff (Philip) - Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness": Book. Read.
        5. "Goff (Philip) - Is the Universe a conscious mind?": Re-read & comment
        6. "Goff (Philip) - Panpsychism is crazy, but it’s also most probably true": Re-read & comment
        7. "Goff (Philip) - Purposeful universe": Re-read & comment
        8. "Goff (Philip) - Why? The Purpose of the Universe": Book. Read.
        9. "JCS - Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 13, Issue 10-11 (2006)": Book. Read.
      4. Action the following Books and Papers:-
        1. "Bonhomme (Vincent), Etc. - General Anesthesia: A Probe to Explore Consciousness": Read & write-up
        2. "Crane (Tim) - Elements of Mind - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind": Re-read and review notes.
        3. "Dehaene (Stanislas) - Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts": Read.
        4. "Dennett (Daniel) - Illusionism as the Obvious Default Theory of Consciousness": Read.
        5. "Donald (Merlin) - A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness": Read.
        6. "Eliot (Lise) - What's Going On in There?: How the Brain And Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life": Read.
        7. "Kammerer (Francois) - The Hardest Aspect of the Illusion Problem - and How to Solve it": Read.
        8. "Koch (Christof) - The Quest for Consciousness: A Nurobiological Approach": Read.
        9. "Metzinger (Thomas), Ed. - Conscious Experience": Burst out Papers and add Metzinger's Abstracts
        10. "Seth (Anil Kumar) - Being You: A New Science of Consciousness": Read.
        11. "Shapiro (Lawrence) - The Mind Incarnate": Read.
        12. "Strawson (Galen) - The Consciousness Deniers": Read & write-up
        13. "Tegmark (Max) - Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence": Write up Chapter 8: Consciousness
        14. "Veit (Walter) - A Philosophy for the Science of Animal Consciousness": Read.
    14. Ensure the annotations from recently-read Papers are added to the relevant Notes:-
      1. "Ayers (Michael R.) - Locke on Living Things"
      2. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Materialism with a Human Face"
      3. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Review of 'What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology' by Eric T. Olson"
    15. As background tasks:-
      1. Ensure all items in:-
        1. "Various - Papers on Desktop", and
        2. "Various - Papers in Desk Drawer"
        are either addressed or re-filed.
      2. Maintain "Various - Papers & Books Yet To Be Logged", and log papers therein if they become important.
      3. Convert old PDFs to Notes:-
        1. Review the two reports:-
        2. PDF-précis,
        3. PDF-essays121.
        4. Determine how the first is produced, and why the pdfs aren't highlighted, and compare with Write-ups Notes Jump Table
        5. Convert outstanding Essays & Précises.
      4. Complete cataloguing the books downloaded from Springer,
      5. Read and comment on122 the Short Stories in "Somerset Maugham (W.) - Collected Short Stories: Volume 2".
      6. Continue / complete reading / annotating various books123 that have landed in my in-tray:-
        1. "Ball (Philip) - How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology",
        2. "Barash (David P.) - Through a Glass Brightly: Using Science to See Our Species as We Really Are",
        3. "Berns (Gregory) - What It's Like to Be a Dog: And Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience",
        4. "Biggar (Nigel) - Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning",
        5. "Biggar (Nigel) - Reparations: Slavery and the Tyranny of Imaginary Guilt",
        6. "Blatti (Stephan) & Snowdon (Paul), Eds. - Animalism: New Essays on Persons, Animals, and Identity",
        7. "Bliss (Rina) - What's Real about Race? Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society",
        8. "Bostrom (Nick) - Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies",
        9. "Bradley (Ben), Feldman (Fred) & Johansson (Jens) - The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death",
        10. "Clark (Andy) - The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality",
        11. "Daeva (Elisha) - Before War: On Marriage, Hierarchy, and Our Matriarchal Origins",
        12. "Dennett (Daniel) - Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking",
        13. "Dennett (Daniel) - I've Been Thinking",
        14. "Edmonds (David) - Would You Kill the Fat Man? The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong",
        15. "Erber (Joan T.) & Szuchman (Lenore T.) - Great Myths of Aging",
        16. "Green (Joel B.) - Body, Soul, and Human Life: The Nature of Humanity in the Bible",
        17. "Harari (Yuval Noah) - Nexus",
        18. "Hofstadter (Douglas) & Dennett (Daniel), Eds. - The Mind's I - Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul",
        19. "Kagan (Shelly) - How to Count Animals, more or less",
        20. "Korsgaard (Christine) - Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals",
        21. "Levitin (Daniel) - The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well",
        22. "Loke (Andrew Ter Ern) - The Origin of Humanity and Evolution: Science and Scripture in Conversation",
        23. "Lyons (Siobhan) - Death and the Machine: Intersections of Mortality and Robotics",
        24. "Martin (L. Michael) & Augustine (Keith) - The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life After Death",
        25. "Miller (Kristie) - Issues in Theoretical Diversity: Persistence, Composition, and Time",
        26. "Price (Huw) - Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time",
        27. "Ricard (Matthieu) - A Plea for the Animals: The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion",
        28. "Ritchie (George G.), Sherrill (Elizabeth) - Return from Tomorrow", also
          → "Ritchie (George G.) - Ordered to Return: My Life After Dying",
          → Reply to Faith Darch
        29. "Rowlands (Mark) - The Philosopher and the Wolf",
        30. "Sapolsky (Robert) - Determined: The Science of Life Without Free Will",
        31. "Schechtman (Marya) - Staying Alive: Personal Identity, Practical Concerns, and the Unity of a Life",
        32. "Schneider (Susan) - Artificial You",
        33. "Seung (Sebastian) - Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are",
        34. "Shermer (Michael), Gould (Stephen Jay) - Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time",
        35. "Spinney (Laura) - Proto: A New History of Our Ancient Past",
        36. "Walker (Matthew P.) - Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams",
        37. "Wasserman (Ryan) - The Paradoxes of Time Travel",
        38. "Wyatt (John) - Matters of Life and Death"
      7. Continue reading and reviewing papers issued by Aeon124 (and the occasional spin-off). In particular,
        1. Complete write-ups125 for 206 items: Follow this Link126.
        2. Add new items to the database as and when I have time to read and comment thereon, maintaining a 'top ten' Priority 1 items.
      8. Keep up with the Journals I have access to as a Cambridge Alumnus via via JSTOR, Cambridge Core & Project Muse. Update my Journals Note127.
      9. Listen to Royal Institute of Philoophy podcasts - usually while doing some tedious task. Update my RIP Note128 to show what I've audited, and add footnotes when I get the time.
      10. Keep up with the philosophical world by regular reviews of "Interaction - Philos-List", but only seriously pursue129 items relevant to my research.
      11. London Review of Books:-
        → Update my LRB130 Note to reflect the fact that I've downloaded all relevant items up to the end of 2024.
        → Develop a method of importing them into my database.
  4. Website131 (5 hours per week)
    1. Own Website: Priority 1 Items By Category:-
    2. Other Websites: Priority 1 Items By Category:-
  5. Religion169 (3 hours per week)
    1. Philosophy of Religion:
      1. "Antony (Louise M.) - Philosophers without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life": Continue reading,
      2. "Davis (Stephen T.) - The Mad/Bad/God Trilemma: A Reply to Daniel Howard-Snyder": Annotate,
      3. "Ginn (Roy) - According to the Scriptures": Complete write-up
      4. "Groothuis (Douglas) - Review of N.T.Wright - History and Escatology: Jesus and the Promise of Natural Theology": Read,
      5. "Howard-Snyder (Daniel) - Does Faith Entail Belief": Read,
      6. "Howard-Snyder (Daniel) - The Skeptical Christian": Read,
      7. "Howard-Snyder (Daniel) - Was Jesus Mad, Bad, Or God?…Or Merely Mistaken?": Annotate,
      8. "Hume (David) - Of Miracles": Annotate,
      9. "Insole (Christopher J.) - Realism and Anti-Realism": Read,
      10. "Kandiah (Krish) - Faitheism: Why Christians and Atheists have more in common than you think": Read,
      11. "YouTube - Video - Atheists deny reality": Annotate,
      12. "YouTube - Video - 'It’s impossible for atheists to do this!' …but It’s Not": Annotate.
    2. Science & the Bible:
      1. "Barbour (Ian) - When Science Meets Religion: Enemies, Strangers, or Partners?",
      2. "Instone-Brewer (David) - Science and the Bible: Modern Insights for an Ancient Text",
      3. "Loke (Andrew Ter Ern) - The Origin of Humanity and Evolution: Science and Scripture in Conversation",
      4. "Plantinga (Alvin) & Dennett (Daniel) - Science and Religion: Are They Compatible?",
      5. "Polkinghorne (John) - Encountering Scripture: A Scientist Explores The Bible",
      6. "Polkinghorne (John) - Science and Religion in Quest of Truth",
      7. "Spencer (Nick) - Darwin and God"
    3. Middle East:
      1. "Chapman (Colin) - The Israel-Hamas war and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict",
      2. "Chapman (Colin) - Whose Promised Land? The Continuing Conflict over Israel and Palestine",
      3. "Grossman (David), Schoffman (Stuart) - Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson",
      4. "Naziri (Micah Ben David) - Arabs Called 1927 Al-Aqsa Mosque Collapse God's Punishment": Read
      5. "Stackhouse (Ian) - Beyond Christian Zionism: A Travelogue of a Former Idealogue: A Travelogue of a Former Ideologue": Read
    4. Bible Reading:
      1. "Bibleworks - Bibleworks: OT & NT", and
      2. "Lanier (Gregory R.) & Ros (William A.) - Septuaginta: A Reader's Edition - Volume 1".
    5. Qur'an / Islam:
      1. "Asad ( Muhammad), Qur'an - The Message of the Quran: The Full Account of the Revealed Arabic Text Accompanied by Parallel Transliteration",
      2. "Burton (John), Qur'an - The Collection of the Qur'an".
      3. "Jones (Alan), Qur'an - Arabic Through the Qur'an", Note170
      4. "Omar (Abdul Mannan), Qur'an - The Dictionary of the Holy Quran: Arabic Words - English Meanings",
      5. "Qur'an - Easy Quran: Arabic Text With Word For Word English Translation",
      6. "Wansbrough (John), Rippin (Andrew), Qur'an - Quranic Studies: Sources and Methods of Scriptural Interpretation".
    6. Hinduism:
      1. "Flood (Gavin D.) - An Introduction to Hinduism",
      2. "Mascaro (Juan) - Bhagavad Gita",
      3. "Narayanan (Vasudha) - Understanding Hinduism: Origins, Beliefs, Practices, Holy Texts, Sacred Places", and
      4. "Parrinder (Geoffrey) - Upanishads Gita and Bible: A comparitive study of Hindu and Christian Scriptures"
    7. Background:
      1. Aeon: Read & annotate papers as they arise
      2. "Dolganov (Anna), Cotton (Hannah M.), Etc. - Forgery and Fiscal Fraud in Iudaea and Arabia on the Eve of the Bar Kokhba Revolt": Read
      3. "Ferguson (Matthew) - March to Martyrdom! (Down the Yellow Brick Road…)": Read
      4. "Finkelstein (Israel) & Silberman (Neil Asher) - The Bible Unearthed": Continue reading
      5. "Instone-Brewer (David) - Church Doctrine and the Bible: Theology in Ancient Context": Read
      6. "Instone-Brewer (David) - Techniques and Assumptions in Jewish Exegesis before 70 CE": Read
      7. "Longenecker (Richard) - Biblical Exegesis in the Apostolic Period": Read
      8. "McGrath (Alister) - Justification by Faith": Read
      9. "Moyise (Steve) - Was the Birth of Jesus According to Scripture?": Read
      10. "Schmidt (Thomas C.) - Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ": Read
      11. "Stewart (Kenneth) - Sermons"
        1. Update in the light of Samson & 1Cor. 15
        2. Reply to Jack on 1 Cor. 15 after checking / updating my OBT papers:-
          → "Todman (Theo) - Resurrection"
          → "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - 1 Corinthians: 15"
          → "Penny (Sylvia) - The Resurrection Chapter: 1 Corinthians 15"
          → "Ozanne (Charles) - If there is no resurrection of the dead … What then? An exposition of 1 Corinthians 15"
      12. "Taylor (Joan E.) - Jesus and Brian: Exploring the Historical Jesus and His Times Via Monty Python's Life of Brian": Review KCL Conference videos
      13. "Wright (N.T.) - Revelation for Everyone"
      14. "Wright (N.T.) - The Vision of Ephesians: The Task of the Church and the Glory of God"
      15. "Wright (N.T.) & Borg (Marcus J.) - The Meaning of Jesus"
      16. Incorporate downloaded David Instone-Brewer papers into my database.
  6. Music171 (7 hours per week)
    1. Administration
      1. Organise the Enigma Ensemble: dates, music & finances.
      2. MuseScore:-
        1. Use MuseScore to tidy up scans for:-
          → Orchestral Exercises
          → Bach Difficult Passages
          → Mike Mower pieces
          → Grade VI, VII & VIII piano-accompanied pieces: also extract piano accompaniments
        2. Review MuseScore Editing documentation.
        3. Investigate MuseScore Scores database: Use to provide more music for the Enigma Ensemble.
          → Handel - O Ruddier than the cherry
          → Jenkins - Palladio
          → Purcell - Chacony in g minor
          → Purcell - Dido’s Lament
    2. Oboe:-
      1. Practice the oboe for one 30-minute session each and every day172 – focussing on the items below and …
      2. Occasionally add an extra half-hour session to help build up stamina further.
      3. Read "Gebrian (Molly) - Learn Faster, Perform Better: A Musician's Guide to the Neuroscience".
      4. Enigma Ensemble: attend the fortnightly sessions and practice any difficult pieces.
      5. Continue to try to get a grip on the oboe's high notes, especially above high D. Use:-
        → YouTube: Oboe Files - How to play high notes; 2nd/3rd octave with Fingerings!, and
        → Oboe Files - How to: high notes on the oboe (Fingerings and tips for the 2nd/3rd octave with video tutorial)
      6. Work through, and perfect, scales & arpeggios173 for Grades I-VIII, using
        → "Trinity Guildhall - Trinity Guildhall Scales & Arpeggios for Oboe (Grades 1–8)",
        → "ABRSM - Scales and Arpeggios for Oboe, Grades 1-8 (ABRSM Scales & Arpeggios)", and ... more entertaining ...
        → "Hinke (Gustav Adolf) - Elementary Method For Oboe".
      7. Improve sight-reading by playing through
        → "Trinity Guildhall - Sound at Sight Oboe Grades 1-8", and
        → "Davies (John) & Harris (Paul) - 80 Graded Studies for Oboe: Book 1".
      8. Occasionally review Grade VI pieces, in particular
        → "Boni (Giovanni) - Sonata in G" (Prelude, but also 2nd, 3rd & 4th movements for interest),
        → "Davies (John) & Harris (Paul) - 80 Graded Studies for Oboe: Book 2" (Blatt - Study No. 52),
        → "Morricone (Ennio) - Gabriel's Oboe (Piano Solo Or Oboe/Piano)"
        → "Miller (Vojislav) & Liebermann (Winfried), Eds. - Test Pieces for Orchestral Auditions (Orchester Probespiel) - Oboe" (Eroica, Aida, Der Freischutz),
        → "Nielsen (Carl) - Two Fantasy Pieces, Op. 2" (Romanze only)
      9. Prepare Grade VII pieces, in particular174
        → "Albinoni (Tomaso) - Concerto in D Minor Op. 9/2 for Oboe & Piano", 1st movement (but also 2nd & 3rd for interest)
        → "Bach (J.S.) - 105 Difficult Passages from the Works of J. S. Bach. For oboe", Items 49 & 70
        → "Cimarosa (Domenico) - Oboe Concerto in C minor", All, but particularly 1st & 4th movements
        → "Davies (John) & Harris (Paul) - 80 Graded Studies for Oboe: Book 2" (Ferling - Study No. 62)
        → "Fiocco (J.H.) - Arioso - Oboe + Piano",
        → "Head (Michael) - Presto for Oboe & Piano",
        → "Hinke (Gustav Adolf) - Elementary Method For Oboe", Items 14 & 18
        → "Miller (Vojislav) & Liebermann (Winfried), Eds. - Test Pieces for Orchestral Auditions (Orchester Probespiel) - Oboe" (Mozart Jupiter, Tchaikovsky Pathetique, Stravinsky Pucinella),
        → "Mower (Mike) - The Good Tempered Oboe" (Nos. 28 & 35: 'Jauntless Jig' & 'May The Fourth Be With You'; also No. 30: 'Answer the Question'),
        → "Nielsen (Carl) - Two Fantasy Pieces, Op. 2" (Humoresque),
        → "Saint-Saens (Camille) - Sonata Op.166 in D Major for Oboe & Piano" (1st Movement),
        → "Schumann (Robert) - 3 Romances, Op. 94 for Oboe and Piano" (1st & 3rd Movements; 2nd for interest).
      10. Prepare Grade VIII pieces, in particular175
        → "Bach (J.S.) - 105 Difficult Passages from the Works of J. S. Bach. For oboe", Items 62, 66 and 28
        → "Davies (John) & Harris (Paul) - 80 Graded Studies for Oboe: Book 2" (Harris - Study No. 74; Luft - Study No. 77)
        → "Miller (Vojislav) & Liebermann (Winfried), Eds. - Test Pieces for Orchestral Auditions (Orchester Probespiel) - Oboe" (try various),
        → "Mower (Mike) - The Good Tempered Oboe" (No. 44 - 'Dop Dop Doobah'; also No. 45: 'Enlightenment'),
        → "Saint-Saens (Camille) - Sonata Op.166 in D Major for Oboe & Piano" (2nd & 3rd Movements),
      11. Read and apply oboe practice techniques recommended by:-
        → Martin Schuring, and
        → "Benedetti (Nicola) - My five tips for learning an instrument".
      12. Read "Caplan (Stephen) - Oboe: The Breathing Book".
    3. Tenor Recorder: Learn to play the instrument!
      1. "Practice - Recorder - General Practice",
      2. "Nelson (Troy) & Currier (Scott) - Super Easy Recorder Sheet Music for Beginners: A Beginner Recorder Book for Adults and Kids", and
      3. "Oosthuizen (Amanda) & Oosthuizen (Jemima) - Learn Recorder through Famous Classics".
    4. Piano: Try to develop some minimal competence as an aid to theory, so:-
      1. Continue practicing "Rhodes (James) - How to Play the Piano" (Bach's Prelude #1),
      2. Work through "Faber (Nancey) & Faber (Randall) - Faber Piano Adventures: Adult Piano Adventures All-in-One Lesson Book 1: Spiral Bound",
      3. Work through "ABRSM - Selected Piano Exam Pieces 2009-2010: Grade 1", and
      4. Try to play by ear, using for inspiration:-
        → "Cannel (Ward) & Marx (Fred) - How to Play the Piano Despite Years of Lessons: What Music Is and How to Make It at Home".
    5. Theory: Prepare for Grade 5 Theory, so:-
      1. Study
        → "Taylor (Eric) - The AB Guide to Music Theory - Part 1", and
        → "Taylor (Eric) - The AB Guide to Music Theory - Part 2",
      2. Whiz through176 the exercises in
        → "Taylor (Eric) - Music Theory in Practice: Grade 1",
        → "Taylor (Eric) - Music Theory in Practice: Grade 2",
        → "Taylor (Eric) - Music Theory in Practice: Grade 3",
        → "Taylor (Eric) - Music Theory in Practice: Grade 4", and
        → "Taylor (Eric) - Music Theory in Practice: Grade 5",
    6. Aural:
      1. Run through:-
        → "Trinity Guildhall - Trinity College London Aural Tests Book 1 (Initial to Grade 5) 2017", and
        → "Trinity Guildhall - Trinity College London Aural Tests Book 2 (Grades 6 to 8) 2017".
      2. Get a grip on the process of ear-training by
        → Reading "Deutsch (Diana) - Absolute Pitch", and related material177, and
        → Seriously engaging with "Earmaster - Ear Training & Sight-singing".
      3. Read "Sutton (Christopher) - Musicality: How you too can learn music like a gifted prodigy, unlock your musical instinct, and unleash your inner natural" for inspiration and enlightenment.
      4. Also follow up items in:-
        → "Various - Music - Aural - Various On-line Training".
  7. Bridge178 (22 hours per week)
    1. Play:-
      → Mayflower: Weekly on Tuesdays, with David P.
      → Milton Keynes - RealBridge - Wednesdays with Dave T.
      → EBU On-line One Day Pairs GP events - monthly with Dave T or Colin
    2. Play "Bridge - Handle" daily.
    3. Directors' Training - Read (or re-read):-
      → "World Bridge Federation - The Laws of Duplicate Bridge 2017"
      → "EBU - Club Director Training - Days 1 & 2 course books & Assessment"
      → "EBU - Blue Book: EBU Player Handbook: Revised 2024"
      → "EBU - 2024 White Book: Technical Matters"
      → "EBU - Various Papers on Duplicate Bridge Movements"
    4. Bridge Admin:
      → Chairman, Secretarial, Scoring and Website duties for Mayflower Bridge Club.
      → Mayflower AGM (14th July): Agenda, minutes & actions.
      → Maintain website for Hutton Union.
      → Maintain my Bridge Page179.
    5. Study: Re-read Hand-counting papers, focussing on
      → Papers in Counting the Hands180,
      → "Bourke (Tim) & Smith (Marc), Bird (David) - Countdown to Winning Bridge"
      → "Lawrence (Mike) - How to read your opponents' cards: The bridge expert's way to locate missing high cards", and
      → "Lawrence (Mike) - How to Play Card Combinations"
    6. Read "Kelsey (Hugh) & Glauert (Michael) - Bridge Odds for Practical Players".
    7. "Reading - Bridge - Magazines".
  8. GeneralCulture181 (4 hours per week)
    1. Continue / complete reading various books that have landed in my in-tray182:-
      1. "Allison (Graham) - Destined for War: can America and China escape Thucydides’ Trap?",
      2. "Doyle (Andrew) - The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World",
      3. "Freedman (Sam) - Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It",
      4. "Fry (Stephen) - The Ode Less Travelled: A guide to writing poetry",
      5. "O'Sullivan (Maurice), Forster (E.M.) - Twenty Years A-Growing",
      6. "Ryback (Timoth W.) - Takeover",
      7. "White (Martin) - A Life Unfinished"
    2. Read intersting papers as they arise:-
      1. "Giordano (Guido), Etc. - Unique formation of organic glass from a human brain in the Vesuvius eruption of 79 CE"
      2. Wikipedia: Jeffrey Epstein
      3. Wikipedia: Peter Mandelson
    3. Aeon183: Restart, catch up, and continue collecting, reading and reviewing papers issued by Aeon & Psyche (and the occasional spin-off).
    4. "FT - Five Books - Various Subjects not covered elsewhere": Continue collecting, reading and reviewing relevant books.
    5. "BBC - Miscellaneous iPlayer and Podcasts": Continue listening / watching and try to write up brief notes.
    6. Sort our "LRB - London Review of Books".
    7. Coxes Farm: Read:-
      1. "Barratt (Nick) - Tracing the History of Your House: The Building, the People, the Past",
      2. "Brunskill (R.W.) - Vernacular Architecture: An Illustrated Handbook"
      3. "LPOC - Listed Heritage: The Listed Property Owners' Club Magazine",
      4. "Yorke (Trevor) - Timber-Framed Building Explained", and
      5. "Yorke (Trevor) - Tudor Houses Explained"
    8. "Todman (Theo) - Investigating Housing Developments near Coxes Farm".
  9. Languages184 (2 hours per week)
    1. General:
      1. Brief Thoughts on Language & Languages185
    2. Thai
      1. "Juyaso (Arthit) - Read Thai in 10 Days": Complete
      2. "Mondly - Learn Thai": Continue
      3. "Baidun (Alex) - Mastering Thai in Just One Month: My 155-Hour Journey": Further review in the light of the above.
    3. Brush up on Biblical Hebrew & Greek and learn Qur'anic Arabic:-
      1. "Lambdin (Thomas) - Introduction to Biblical Hebrew", and
      2. "Williamson (H.G.M.) - Annotated Key to Lambdin's Introduction to Biblical Hebrew"
      3. "Wenham (John) - The Elements of New Testament Greek", and
      4. "Wenham (John) - Key to the Elements of New Testament Greek", and
      5. "Jones (Alan), Qur'an - Arabic Through the Qur'an"
    4. Other Scripts: Thoroughly get to grips with:-
      1. Armenian: "Andonian (Hagop) - Beginner's Armenian",
      2. Hindi: "Snell (Rupert) - Beginner's Hindi Script",
      3. Khmer: "Hok (Dara) - Cambodian Alphabet"
      4. Korean: "Go (Billy) - Korean Made Simple: A beginner's guide to learning the Korean language: 1",
      5. Lao: "Lao Lessons - How to Write in Lao: Lao writing workbook"
      6. Persian: "Farzad (Narguess) - Complete Modern Persian",
      7. Urdu: "Delacy (Richard) - Read and Write Urdu Script".
    5. Priority 1
      1. French:
        → "Ling - Learn French"
      2. German:
        → "Tenberg (Reinhard) & Ainslie (Susan) - Deutsch Plus",
        → "Ling - Learn German"
      3. Greek (Modern):
        → "Matsukas (Aristarhos) - Complete Greek Course",
        → "Ling - Learn Greek"
      4. Italian:
        → "Freeth (Mariolina) & Checketts (Giuliana) - Contatti 1: A First Course in Italian",
        → "Ling - Learn Italian"
      5. Portuguese:
        → "Whitlam (John) - Modern Brazilian Portuguese Grammar: A Practical Guide",
        → "Ling - Learn Portuguese"
      6. Spanish:
        → "Gordon (Ronni L.) & Stillman (David M.) - The Ultimate Spanish Review and Practice",
        → "Ling - Learn Spanish"
      7. Thai:
        → "Mondly - Learn Thai",
        → "Ling - Learn Thai",
        → "Becker (Benjawan Poomsan) - Thai for Beginners",
        → "Juyaso (Arthit) - Read Thai in 10 Days"
      8. Ukrainian:
        → "Bekh (Olena) & Dingley (James) - Complete Ukrainian Beginner to Intermediate Course",
        → "Lonely Planet, Pavlyshyn (Marko) - Lonely Planet Ukrainian Phrasebook & Dictionary",
        → "Ling - Learn Ukrainian",
        → "Wikipedia - Ukrainian Alphabet",
        → "Wikipedia - Ukrainian Language"
    6. Priority 2
      1. Arabic (Modern):
        → "Ling - Learn Arabic"
      2. Chinese:
        → "Ling - Learn Chinese"
      3. Hebrew (Modern):
        → "Raizen (Esther) - Modern Hebrew for Beginners: A Multimedia Program for Students at the Beginning and Intermediate Levels",
        → "Ling - Learn Hebrew"
      4. Hindi:
        → "Ling - Learn Hindi"
      5. Japanese:
        → "Lammers (W.P.) - Japanese the Manga Way: An Illustrated Guide to Grammar and Structure",
        → "Ling - Learn Japanese"
      6. Turkish:
        → "Celen-Pollard (Asuman) & Pollard (David) - Turkish (Teach Yourself Complete Courses)",
        → "Ling - Learn Turkish"
      7. Urdu:
        → "Ling - Learn Urdu"
    7. Priority 3
      1. Amharic:
        → "Halcomb (T. Michael W.) - Introducing Amharic: An Interactive Workbook",
        → "Ling - Learn Amharic"
      2. Armenian:
        → "Schumann (Johannes) - Armenian for beginners",
        → "Ling - Learn Armenian"
      3. Danish:
        → "Koefoed (H.A.) - Teach Yourself Danish",
        → "Ling - Learn Danish"
      4. Dutch:
        → "Shetter (William) - Introduction to Dutch - A Practical Grammar",
        → "Ling - Learn Dutch"
      5. Khmer:
        → "Hok (Dara) - Cambodian Alphabet"
        → "Wikipedia - Khmer Script"
        → "Wikipedia - Khmer Language"
      6. Korean:
        → "Ling - Learn Korean"
      7. Lao:
        → "Lao Lessons - How to Write in Lao: Lao writing workbook"
        → "Wikipedia - Lao Script"
        → "Wikipedia - Lao Language"
      8. Persian:
        → "Ling - Learn Persian"
      9. Polish:
        → "Ling - Learn Polish",
        → "Lonely Planet, Czajkowski (Piotr) - Lonely Planet Polish Phrasebook & Dictionary",
        → "Wikipedia - Polish language"
      10. Russian:
        → "West (Daphne) - Russian",
        → "Ling - Learn Russian"
      11. Swahili:
        → "Wood (Laurence) & Shadrack (Jaba Tumaini) - Learn Swahili Quickly and Easily: The theory made simple",
        → "Ling - Learn Swahili"
      12. Swedish:
        → "McClean (R.J.) - Swedish: A Grammar of the Modern Language",
        → "Ling - Learn Swedish"
    8. Priority 4
      1. Coptic:
        → "Layton (Bentley) - Coptic in 20 Lessons: Introduction to Sahidic Coptic with Exercises and Vocabularies"
      2. Egyptian:
        → "Collier (Mark) & Manley (Bill) - How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Step-by-step Guide to Teach Yourself Hieroglyphs"
      3. Latin:
        → "Duolingo - Duolingo Latin"
      4. Syriac:
        → "Robinson (Theodore) - Paradigms and Exercises in Syriac Grammar"
  10. Chess186 (0 hours per week)
    1. "Grigoryan (Avetik) - ChessMood", focusing on - in priority sequence:-
      1. "Grigoryan (Avetik) - ChessMood - Courses: Openings",
      2. "Grigoryan (Avetik) - ChessMood - Courses: Tactics": Puzzles
      3. "Grigoryan (Avetik) - ChessMood - Courses: End Game",
      4. "Grigoryan (Avetik) - ChessMood - Improvement Plans", and
      5. "Grigoryan (Avetik) - ChessMood - General Reading"
    2. Chess Training - Play & Review:-
      1. Chess.com: Game analysis & On-line play,
      2. LiChess: Investigate and consider migrating from Chess.com. LiChess is the platform recommended by ChessMood.
      3. "Studer (Noel) - Next Level Chess": Read new articles as they arise weekly, and catch up on the older ones.
      4. Complete review of 2018/19 season's games,
      5. Complete review of 2019/20 season's games,
      6. Train Tommy as opportunity arises.
    3. Chess Study / Reading187: Focus on ChessMood but hold the following in reserve:-
      1. "Hansen (Carsten) - Back to Basics: Chess Openings: A comprehensive guide to chess openings and opening play",
      2. "Kuljasevic (Davorin) - How to Study Chess on Your Own: Creating a Plan that Works… and Sticking to it!",
      3. "Ris (Robert) - Crucial Chess Skills for the Club Player: Volume 1",
      4. "Ris (Robert) - Crucial Chess Skills for the Club Player: Volume 2", and
      5. "Willemze (Thomas) - The Chess Toolbox: Practical Techniques Everyone Should Know".
    4. Update my Chess Page188.
    5. Why Play Chess?:
      1. Seriously consider the issues raised by "Ramon y Cajal (Santiago) - On Chess".
      2. Counter this with responsibiity to the local chess scene, now I've made contact, and with training Tommy
  11. Mathematics189 (2 hours per week)
    1. General
      1. Aeon190: Read papers as they arise.
      2. "Gowers (Timothy), Barrow-Green (June) & Leader (Imre), Eds. - The Princeton Companion to Mathematics": Browse.
    2. Competence improvement
      1. "Admin - Math Trainer": Try out191
      2. "Cummings (Jay) - Proofs: A Long-Form Mathematics Textbook": Read.
      3. "Polya (George), Stewart (Ian) - How to Solve IT: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method": Read.
      4. "UKMT, du Sautoy (Marcus) - The Ultimate Mathematical Challenge": Try the puzzles.
    3. Philosophy
      1. "Shapiro (Stewart) - Thinking about Mathematics - The Philosophy of Mathematics": Complete reading.
      2. "Smith (Martin) - Why Throwing 92 Heads in a Row Is Not Surprising": Analyze.
      3. "Yau (Shing-Tung) & Nadis (Steve) - The Gravity of Math: How Geometry Rules the Universe": Read.
    4. Probability192
      1. "Chivers (Tom) - Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World",
      2. "Wikipedia - Normal Distribution",
      3. "Wikipedia - Cauchy Distribution",
      4. "Wikipedia - Prosecutor's fallacy"
    5. Bridge
      1. "Wikipedia - Principle of Restricted Choice", and relevant Chapters in:-
        → "Kelsey (Hugh) & Glauert (Michael) - Bridge Odds for Practical Players", and
        → "Reese (Terence) - The Expert Game"
      2. "Wikipedia - Monty Hall Problem"
      3. "EBU - Various Papers on Duplicate Bridge Movements"
  12. HiQ193 (0 hours per week)
    1. ISPE
      • Investigate & take part in ISPE Ning.
      • Investigate & take part in Tim Ryan's Sunday ISPE / TNS / Prometheus Zoom meeting.
      • Investigate ISPE's use of Goodreads.
      • Read "ISPE - The Thousander",
      • Read "ISPE - Telicom",
      • Consider submitting articles on my research to Telicom as a way of getting feedback.
    2. Mensa
      • Nothing planned.
    3. General IQ Investigation


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