Theo Todman's Web Page - Notes Pages

1. Total Time outstanding this period = 474 hours
2. Click Here⁵ for Actual Detail Summary (2007 - 2027) by Sub-Project
3. Click Here⁶ for (by Project)
   • Summary of Effort YTD & QTD
   • Time Analysis (YTD by Study-location)
4. Click Here⁷ for (by Project)
   • Plan versus Actual Effort Summary - Split (Previous Quarter & YTD)
   • Plan versus Actual Effort Summary - Actual (Previous Quarter & YTD)
   • Plan Summary (Next Quarter & Full Year)
   • Actual & Plan Summary (2007 - 2027)

1. Thesis - Reading / Writing (Total Hours = 47)
   • BBC: Mystery of wolf-type dogs solved with DNA test (Read, 0.5 hours)
   • BBC: 'The answer cannot be nothing': The battle over Canada's mystery brain disease (Read, 1 hour)
     → See "BBC - Miscellaneous iPlayer and Podcasts" (1.5 hours)
   • "De Waal (Frans) - Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?" (Read, 1.5 hours)
   • "Lyons (Siobhan) - Death and the Machine: Intersections of Mortality and Robotics" (Read, 5.5 hours)
   • "Mannix (Kathryn) - With the End in Mind: How to Live and Die Well" (Write, 0.75 hours)
   • "RIP - The Royal Institute of Philosophy - Podcasts" (Read / Write, 0.5 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - Peter Kail: Hume's 'Manifest Contradictions' (Read, 0.5 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - Robert Stern: Why Hegel Now (Again) – and in What Form? (Read, 1 hour)
   • RIP: YouTube - Rupert Read: Wittgenstein and the Illusion of ‘Progress’ (Read, 0.75 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - Sarah Broadie: Looking at Aristotle Through Lenses from Bernard Williams (Read, 0.75 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - Sarah Patterson: Descartes on the Errors of the Senses (Read, 0.25 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - Sebastian Gardner: Kant's Third Critique (Read, 1 hour)
   • RIP: YouTube - Simon May: Nietzsche and the Affirmation of Life (Read, 0.75 hours)
   • "Ritchie (George G.) - Ordered to Return: My Life After Dying" (Read, 2 hours)
   • "Ritchie (George G.), Sherrill (Elizabeth) - Return from Tomorrow" (Read / Write, 3 hours)
   • "Stevenson (Ian) - Children Who Remember Previous Lives: A Question of Reincarnation" (Write, 1 hour)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Mill on the Higher Pleasures" (Write, 1 hour)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Chapter 01 (Introduction)" (Write, 1.5 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Chapter 02 (What Are We?)" (Write, 0.25 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)" (Write, 0.75 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Personal Identity" (Write, 13 hours)
   • "Wohlleben (Peter) - The Inner Life of Animals: Surprising Observations of a Hidden World" (Read / Write, 9.25 hours)
   • "Yong (Ed) - An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us" (Write, 0.5 hours)
2. Thesis - Research Repositioning
   • "Admin - Thesis Planning+Admin (Jan - March)" (2 hours)

1. Thesis Background - Reading / Writing
   • "FT - Five Books - Various Subjects not covered elsewhere" (Read, 0.75 hours)
2. Thesis Background - Status
   • 25Q4 Status Reports: Thesis (6.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Thesis Planning+Admin (Jan - March)" (6.5 hours)

1. Website - Bridge Maintenance (Total Hours = 6.5)
   • Bridge - Website - Theo Todman's Bridge Page¹⁰ Maintenance (1 hour)
   • Bridge - Website - Results Database Maintenance (4.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Website - Results Database Maintenance - Fixing Mountnessing Links (1.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Admin" (6.5 hours)
2. Website - Development (Total Hours = 5.25)
   • Website - Generator - Create Facility to update text in long Notes_Archive (that were created by Functors so are too long to be edited directly) (2.5 hours)
   • Website - Generator - Include Totals to Table of actual hours versus hours planned, by weekday in Status: Summary - Actual versus Plan ¹¹ (0.5 hours)
   • Website - Generator - Temp_Note_Timestamp column in Notes table should be x 1,000? (2.25 hours)
     → See "Software Development - Website - Development" (5.25 hours)
3. Website - Education
   • "PC Pro - Computing in the Real World" (1.5 hours)
4. Website - Infrastructure (Total Hours = 1.5)
   • Develop & maintain procedures for junking US Healthcare spam (0.25 hours)
   • Epson Inkjet - Problems with Duplex Unit (0.25 hours)
   • Logitech Mouse died (0.25 hours)
   • Microsoft Windows & MS Office - Releases, Bugs & Periodic Re-boots (0.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Website - Admin & Maintenance" (1.5 hours)
5. Website - Maintenance (Total Hours = 5.75)
   • 25Q4 Status Reports: Website (3.5 hours)
   • Website - Maintaining 'Websites' Page¹² (1 hour)
   • Website - Periodic Full Regeneration (1.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Website - Admin & Maintenance" (5.75 hours)

1. Website Others - Hutton DBC Maintenance (Total Hours = 12.25)
   • Admin - Hutton Website - Admin & Maintenance - Import from EBU (9 hours)
   • Admin - Hutton Website - Admin & Maintenance - Import from EBU (Wednesdays - St. Edith's) (3.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Hutton Website - Admin & Maintenance" (12.25 hours)
2. Website Others - Mayflower DBC Maintenance (Total Hours = 1.5)
   • Mayflower Scoring Laptop - Loading Deals (0.25 hours)
   • Mayflower Scoring Laptop - Reading EBUScore & BridgeMate Control Software Manuals (0.25 hours)
   • Mayflower Scoring Laptop - Windows Updates (0.25 hours)
   • Mayflower: Set up Google account & GMail address for Club (0.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Mayflower Website - Admin & Maintenance" (1.5 hours)
3. Website Others - Mountnessing DBC Maintenance (Total Hours = 45.75)
   • Admin - Mountnessing Website - Alaric re Recovery (11.5 hours)
   • Development of Mountnessing 'Small Site' (13 hours)
   • Development of Mountnessing 'Small Site' - Bug Fixes (3 hours)
   • Development of Mountnessing 'Small Site' - Data Conversion (5 hours)
   • Development of Mountnessing 'Small Site' - Data Grab (9.5 hours)
   • Mountnessing - Domain Name investigation (0.25 hours)
   • Mountnessing 'Archive' Site - Adjust links to new 'Small Site' and add text (3.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Mountnessing Website - Admin & Maintenance" (45.75 hours)
4. Website Others - Small Bridge Sites
   • "Software Development - Small Bridge Sites - Development & Maintenance" (2.25 hours)

• Below is a table showing the progress on my project to read the OT, LXX & NT in the original Hebrew and Greek.
• As of the beginning of August 2025, this project is in abeyance (again). I've decided to enhance my grammatical knowledge of Greek and Hebrew before proceding further.
• The table below has been corrected to reflect the second intermission. The Revised End Date is calculated as 'today' plus the amount of time needed to complete the tasks at the rate achieved during the second period of activity. Hence, it will advance by one day a day until I restart.
• The explanation after the first intermission is as below.
  1. I'm on my first pass through the OT & LXX and my second pass through the NT.
  2. I intermitted this project between August 2023 and April 2024 (inclusive; ie. 9 months); as well as deferring completion by 9 months, this has thrown out my completion-date algorithms somewhat. For now, I've amended the Completion Aims to reflect the intermission.
  3. I've calculated and used the daily rate of progress achieved prior to intermission to calculate the estimated completion date.
  4. I don't now have as much time to spare, so - as expected - this rate has fallen since the restart.
  5. I've therefore also calculated and used the daily rate of progress achieved since intermission to calculate the revised completion date.
• I've also read through the Koran, but mostly in English. One day I'll try to read the Koran in Arabic, maybe. Progress on this, and on my first run-through of the NT, is recorded in versions of this report prior to 25Q3.
  

  Testament	Total Verses	Start Date	Intermission	Restart Date	Restart at	Elapsed	Read	V / D	Since Restart	Last Verse Read	Aim	Estimate	Ahead / Behind	Revised
  OT	23,143	13/05/2021	30/07/2023	05/05/2024	1 Samuel 9:25	808	7,469	9.2	4.2	1 Kings 10:22	31/12/2028	10/03/2030	434 Days Behind	03/02/2035
  LXX	28,986	13/05/2021	30/07/2023	05/05/2024	2 Esdras 5:3	808	12,596	15.6	5.9	2 Maccabees 10:5	31/03/2027	09/07/2028	466 Days Behind	13/07/2032
  NT2	7,956	26/12/2022	30/07/2023	05/05/2024	John 8:22	216	3,258	15.1	6.2	2 Corinthians 12:6	31/03/2025	15/06/2026	441 Days Behind	15/12/2026

  
  
• No activity this period

1. Religion Background - Admin (Total Hours = 1.5)
   • 25Q4 Status Reports: Religion (0.5 hours)
   • Offshoots Dinner - Tidy Up (1 hour)
     → See "Admin - Religion - Admin" (1.5 hours)
2. Religion Background - Discussions
   • Interaction - Discussions with Julie's Church Group (2 hours)
     → See "Interaction - Religion - Discussions" (2 hours)

1. Music - Administration (Total Hours = 27.25)
   • 25Q4 Status Reports: Music (2 hours)
     → See "Admin - Music - Administration" (2 hours)
   • "Dolmetsch (Carl) - Advanced Recorder Technique" (1.5 hours)
   • Enigma Ensemble - Admin (8 hours)
   • Enigma Ensemble - Admin - Advertising in The Resident (0.25 hours)
   • Enigma Ensemble - Concert Planning (5 hours)
   • Enigma Ensemble: Travel, Lunch, Interaction (3.25 hours)
   • Fixing Julie's Groove-e Boombox (0.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Music - Administration" (16.75 hours)
   • "Goodyear (Stephen F.) - The New Recorder Tutor: Book 2 (Descant or Tenor)" (0.75 hours)
   • MuseScore - Old Ned (0.5 hours)
     → See "Todman (Theo) - Music Score OCR & Editing Software - Selection & Use" (0.5 hours)
   • Music Copying / Filing (0.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Music - Administration" (0.25 hours)
   • "Nelson (Troy) & Currier (Scott) - Super Easy Recorder Sheet Music for Beginners: A Beginner Recorder Book for Adults and Kids" (1 hour)
   • Oboe reeds - research / purchase (0.5 hours)
   • Offshoots Dinner - General Discussions - Music (1 hour)
     → See "Admin - Music - Administration" (1.5 hours)
   • "Oosthuizen (Amanda) & Oosthuizen (Jemima) - Learn Recorder through Famous Classics" (1 hour)
   • "Practice - Recorder - General Practice" (1 hour)
   • "Priestley (Edmund) & Fowler (Fred) - The School Recorder Book: Part 1" (1 hour)
2. Music - Oboe (Total Hours = 10.5)
   • Oboe - Enigma Ensemble (4.25 hours)
   • Oboe - Enigma Ensemble - Practice (6.25 hours)
     → See "Practice - Oboe - Enigma Ensemble - Playing & Practice" (10.5 hours)
3. Music - Recorder (Total Hours = 1.25)
   • "Goodyear (Stephen F.) - The New Recorder Tutor: Book 2 (Descant or Tenor)" (0.5 hours)
   • "Priestley (Edmund) & Fowler (Fred) - The School Recorder Book: Part 1" (0.75 hours)

1. Bridge - Reading / Writing
   • "Reading - Bridge - Magazines" (Read, 2 hours)
2. Bridge - Admin (Total Hours = 25.5)
   • 25Q4 Status Reports: Bridge (2.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Admin" (2.5 hours)
   • "Admin - Bridge - Mountnessing Village Hall Trusteeship" (4.75 hours)
   • Admin - Mayflower DBC - NICKO Organisation (0.25 hours)
   • "Admin - Mayflower DBC - Secretarial & Signatory Duties" (14.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Emails / Calls to David P (0.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Emails to / Discussions with Albert (0.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Emails to / Discussions with Dave T (0.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Emails to Angie (1.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Emails to Robert (0.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Planning EBU & ECBA Sessions for 2026 (0.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Admin" (3.75 hours)
3. Bridge - Play (Total Hours = 51.75)
   • Bridge - Cornell Trophy (David P) (6.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Cumbria - RealBridge (Dave T) (2.25 hours)
   • Bridge - EBU OODGP Swiss Pairs - RealBridge (Dave T) (6.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Mayflower (Bernard K) (3.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Mayflower (David P) (9.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Mayflower (Linda) (3.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Mid-Essex - Friday (Albert) (3.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Milton Keynes - RealBridge (Dave T) (14 hours)
   • Bridge - NICKO Round 2 (Mayflower vs Cambridge B) (2.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Playing" (51.75 hours)
4. Bridge - Study (Total Hours = 35)
   • "Bridge - Handle" (10.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - Albert (0.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - Bernard K (1 hour)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - Dave T (6.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - David P (6.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - Linda (1.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - Albert (0.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - Bernard K (0.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - Colin (0.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - Dave T (4.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - David P (2 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - Linda (0.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Study" (24.5 hours)

• 25Q4 Status Reports: General Culture (1 hour)
• HSBC Pensioners Association (0.5 hours)
  → See "Admin - General Culture - Admin" (1.5 hours)
• Interaction - Discussions with Julie's Church Group (2 hours)
  → See "Interaction - Discussion with Mike" (2 hours)
• "LPOC - Listed Heritage: The Listed Property Owners' Club Magazine" (Read, 0.5 hours)
• "LRB - London Review of Books" (Read, 1 hour)
• New Year's Do - Politics + Quiz (Write, 3 hours)
• Offshoots Dinner - General Discussions - Politics (1 hour)
• Reading Wikipedia: Jeffrey Epstein (Read, 1.25 hours)
• Reading Wikipedia: Peter Mandelson (Read, 0.5 hours)
  → See "Admin - General Culture - Admin" (5.75 hours)
• "Todman (Theo) - Investigating Housing Developments near Coxes Farm" (Read / Write, 7 hours)

1. Languages - Admin
   • 25Q4 Status Reports: Languages (1 hour)
     → See "Admin - Languages - Admin" (1 hour)
2. Languages - Greek (Classical)
   • "Wenham (John) - The Elements of New Testament Greek" (3.25 hours)
3. Languages - Hebrew (Classical)
   • "Lambdin (Thomas) - Introduction to Biblical Hebrew" (3.75 hours)
4. Languages - Japanese
   • FT - Five Books - The Best Books to Learn Japanese recommended by Kazuki Morimoto (0.5 hours)
     → See "FT - Five Books - Various Subjects not covered elsewhere" (0.5 hours)

• 25Q4 Status Reports: Chess (0.75 hours)
  → See "Chess - Admin" (0.75 hours)

1. Mathematics - Reading / Writing (Total Hours = 1.5)
   • Accounts Roll-over to 2026 (0.25 hours)
   • Mortgage Refinancing Calculations (1 hour)
   • Reading Wikipedia: George Green (mathematician) and related items (0.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Mathematics - Admin" (1.5 hours)
2. Mathematics - Admin
   • 25Q4 Status Reports: Mathematics (0.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Mathematics - Admin" (0.5 hours)

• 25Q4 Status Reports: HiQ (0.75 hours)
  → See "ISPE - HiQ Societies - ISPE" (0.75 hours)

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