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1. Total Time outstanding this period = 232 hours
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1. Thesis - Reading / Writing (Total Hours = 102.25)
   • "Craig (William Lane) - Review of N.T.Wright - The Resurrection of the Son of God" (Read / Write, 2 hours)
   • "Cullmann (Oscar) - Immortality of the Soul or Resurrection of the Dead?" (Read / Write, 2.25 hours)
   • "Daeva (Elisha) - Before War: On Marriage, Hierarchy, and Our Matriarchal Origins" (Write, 2.5 hours)
   • "De Waal (Frans) - Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?" (Read, 4 hours)
   • "Glaser (Eliane) - Our narrative prison" (Read, 1 hour)
   • "Google DeepMind - The Thinking Game: The inside story of the AI breakthrough that won a Nobel Prize" (Read / Write, 3 hours)
   • "Lennox (John C.) - Oxford Professor Reads the Bible Differently After AI — Here's What He Found" (Read / Write, 1.75 hours)
   • "Longuenesse (Beatrice) - Kant on the identity of persons" (Read, 0.25 hours)
   • "Loose (Jonathan) - Constitution and the Falling Elevator: The Continuing Incompatibility of Materialism and Resurrection Belief" (Read, 0.25 hours)
   • "Ozanne (Charles) - If there is no resurrection of the dead … What then? An exposition of 1 Corinthians 15" (Write, 6.25 hours)
   • "Parfit (Derek) - We Are Not Human Beings" (Write, 0.25 hours)
   • "Penny (Sylvia) - The Resurrection Chapter: 1 Corinthians 15" (Write, 10.5 hours)
   • "Polkinghorne (John) - Science and Religion in Quest of Truth" (Read / Write, 1.75 hours)
   • "Rawlinson (Nik) - ChatGPT vs The Rest" (Write, 13.25 hours)
   • "RIP - The Royal Institute of Philosophy - Podcasts" (Write, 1.75 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - A A Long: What is the Matter with Matter (Write, 0.5 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - Alessandra Tanesini: How We Remember and Forget Online (Read / Write, 2.25 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - Brian Davies: ‘Aquinas On What God Is Not’ (Read, 1 hour)
   • RIP: YouTube - Catherine Wilson: Managing Expectations: The ‘Limits’ Theme in Locke (Read, 0.75 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - James Dawes: What is Trauma? From Ancient Greece to the Digital Age (Read, 0.5 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - Kathleen Higgins: Remembering the Dead (Read, 1.5 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - Peter Kail: Hume's 'Manifest Contradictions' (Read, 0.5 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - Richard Gipps: Who Gets to Call Whom Mad? And With What Right? (Read, 1.25 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - Tom Stern: Proust’s Theory of Memory and Knowledge (Read, 1.5 hours)
   • "Sider (Ted) - Four-Dimensionalism: Introduction" (Read, 0.5 hours)
   • "Spinney (Laura) - Proto: A New History of Our Ancient Past" (Read / Write, 4.25 hours)
   • "Sutskever (Ilya) - Ex-OpenAI Scientist Ilya Sutskever WARNS: 'You Have No Idea What's Coming'" (Read / Write, 1.25 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Resurrection" (Write, 11 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - 1 Corinthians: 15" (Write, 2.25 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Chapter 12 (Conclusion)" (Write, 5 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Current Position" (Write, 3.75 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Resurrection" (Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Wooldridge (Michael John) - This is not the AI we were promised" (Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Wright (N.T.) - Mind, Spirit, Soul and Body: All for One and One for All - Reflections on Paul’s Anthropology in his Complex Contexts" (Read, 3.5 hours)
   • "Wright (N.T.) - Resurrection in Corinth (1): Introduction" (Read, 0.25 hours)
   • "Wright (N.T.) - Resurrection in Corinth (2): The Key Passages" (Read, 0.5 hours)
   • "Wright (N.T.) - Resurrection in Paul (Outside the Corinthian Correspondence)" (Read, 0.25 hours)
   • "Wright (N.T.) - Shadows, Souls and Where They Go: Life Beyond Death in Ancient Paganism" (Read, 0.25 hours)
   • "Wright (N.T.) - The Target and the Arrows" (Read, 0.5 hours)
   • "Wright (N.T.) - Time to Wake Up (1): Death and Beyond in the Old Testament" (Read, 0.25 hours)
   • "Wright (N.T.) - Time to Wake Up (2): Hope Beyond Death in Post-Biblical Judaism" (Read, 0.25 hours)
   • "Zickgraf (Ryan) - The AI jobs-apocalypse is here: Prepare for the laptop-class revolt" (Write, 7 hours)
2. Thesis - Discussions
   • Interaction with Julie, Pete, Caro, Mike, Sylvia, Nev, Hazel, Willie & Gill on Holiday (2.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Thesis Planning+Admin (April - June)" (2.5 hours)
3. Thesis - Research Repositioning
   • "Admin - Thesis Planning+Admin (April - June)" (2.75 hours)

1. Thesis Background - Reading / Writing (Total Hours = 6.5)
   • "Grossman (Vasily) - Life and Fate" (Read / Write, 2 hours)
   • "Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) - Aeon: 2019+" (Read, 0.75 hours)
   • "Plotinus, Mackenna (Stephen), Dillon (John) - The Enneads" (Write, 1 hour)
   • "Plotinus, Mackenna (Stephen), Page (B.S.) - The Six Enneads" (Write, 1.75 hours)
   • "Spencer (Nick) - Darwin and God" (Write, 1 hour)
2. Thesis Background - Status
   • 26Q1 Status Reports (2.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Thesis Planning+Admin (April - June)" (2.5 hours)

1. Website - Bridge Development (Total Hours = 20.75)
   • Software Development - Bridge Database - Add Dave T to NGS Capture (2.25 hours)
   • Software Development - Bridge Database - Revive Essex & Add Herts & Beds for NGS Capture (18.5 hours)
     → See "Software Development - Website - Development" (20.75 hours)
2. Website - Bridge Maintenance (Total Hours = 20)
   • Bridge - Website - Results Database Maintenance (6.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Admin" (6.75 hours)
   • Software Development - Bridge Database - Revive Essex & Add Herts & Beds for NGS Capture (13.25 hours)
     → See "Software Development - Website - Development" (13.25 hours)
3. Website - Education
   • "PC Pro - Computing in the Real World" (5 hours)
4. Website - Infrastructure (Total Hours = 11.5)
   • Bibleworks re-installation (2.75 hours)
   • Develop & maintain procedures for junking US Healthcare spam (1.25 hours)
   • Dropbox - Revitalisation (0.25 hours)
   • EE Broadband: Outbuildings Contract Renewal + WiFi Extender (2 hours)
   • Fitbit - Reviewing Fitbit Premium re renewal or cancellation (0.25 hours)
   • iPhone Cables (0.25 hours)
   • Julie's Laptop - Sundry troubleshooting (1.25 hours)
   • Kobo Clara Colour eReader - Connectivity problems (0.5 hours)
   • Microsoft Windows & MS Office - Releases, Bugs & Periodic Re-boots (1.5 hours)
   • MS Access table-row delete confirmation not working (0.5 hours)
   • PC Backups / OneDrive (1 hour)
     → See "Admin - Website - Admin & Maintenance" (11.5 hours)
5. Website - Maintenance (Total Hours = 3.5)
   • 26Q1 Status Reports (1.25 hours)
   • Website - PID Note, Book & Paper Usage¹⁰ Improvements (1.5 hours)
   • Website - Periodic Full Regeneration (0.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Website - Admin & Maintenance" (3.5 hours)

1. Website Others - A1WaspsAndBees
   • Advice to Colin on company websites (0.25 hours)
     → See "Software Development - a1WaspsAndBees - Website Investigation & Maintenance" (0.25 hours)
2. Website Others - Enigma Ensemble
   • Admin - Enigma Ensemble Website - Development, Admin & Maintenance (2.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Enigma Ensemble Website - Creation, Admin & Maintenance" (2.25 hours)
3. Website Others - Mayflower DBC Maintenance (Total Hours = 6.5)
   • "Admin - Mayflower Website - Admin & Maintenance" (1 hour)
   • Investigating PlayMyBoard.com security warnings from Norton (1.5 hours)
   • Mayflower Scoring Laptop - EBUScore & BridgeMate Control Software - Individual Tournament Set-up (2.5 hours)
   • Mayflower Scoring Laptop - Home Uploads (no internet at MVH) (0.25 hours)
   • Mayflower Scoring Laptop - Install Bridge Timer (1 hour)
   • Mayflower Scoring Laptop - Windows Updates (0.25 hours)
4. Website Others - Small Bridge Sites
   • "Software Development - Small Bridge Sites - Development & Maintenance" (0.75 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	05/07/2030	551 Days Behind	31/05/2035
  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	03/11/2028	583 Days Behind	07/11/2032
  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	10/10/2026	558 Days Behind	10/04/2027

  
  
• Kenneth Stewart - Kenneth Stewart - Death swallowed - Sermon 1 (Read / Write, 2.75 hours)
• Kenneth Stewart - Kenneth Stewart - Death swallowed - Sermon 2 (Read / Write, 1.5 hours)
  → See "Stewart (Kenneth) - Sermons" (4.25 hours)
• "Groothuis (Douglas) - Review of N.T.Wright - History and Escatology: Jesus and the Promise of Natural Theology" (Read, 0.5 hours)
• "Instone-Brewer (David) - Church Doctrine and the Bible: Theology in Ancient Context" (Write, 0.75 hours)
• "McGrath (Alister) - Justification by Faith" (Write, 1.5 hours)
• "Polkinghorne (John) - Encountering Scripture: A Scientist Explores The Bible" (Write, 0.5 hours)
• Stewart (Kenneth) - Sermons - 1 Cor 15 - Reply to Jack H (Write, 1 hour)
• Stewart (Kenneth) - Sermons - Samson - Reply to Jack H (Write, 1.75 hours)
  → See "Stewart (Kenneth) - Sermons" (2.75 hours)
• "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - 1 Corinthians: 15" (Read, 1 hour)
• "Wright (N.T.) - General Issues in the Easter Stories" (Read, 0.25 hours)
• "Wright (N.T.) - Hope in Person: Jesus as Messiah and Lord" (Read, 0.25 hours)
• "Wright (N.T.) - Hope Refocused (3): Non-Canonical Early Christian Texts" (Read, 0.25 hours)

1. Religion Background - Reading / Writing
   • Pete's Workshop on the Structure of Acts - Pre-reading (Read, 0.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Religion - Admin" (0.75 hours)
2. Religion Background - Admin (Total Hours = 8.75)
   • 26Q1 Status Reports (0.75 hours)
   • Admin - St John's Recruitment (0.5 hours)
   • OBT Weekend Preparation & Admin (7.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Religion - Admin" (8.75 hours)
3. Religion Background - Discussions (Total Hours = 22)
   • Becky re John Polkinghorne (1 hour)
     → See "Admin - Religion - Admin" (1 hour)
   • Interaction - Discussions with Pete, Caro & Julie (0.25 hours)
   • Interaction with Julie, Pete, Caro, Mike, Sylvia, Nev, Hazel, Willie & Gill on Holiday (18.75 hours)
   • Pete & Mike re Ascention versus 'taking up' (2 hours)
     → See "Interaction - Discussions with Pete" (21 hours)

1. Music - Administration (Total Hours = 51.25)
   • 26Q1 Status Reports (0.75 hours)
   • Enigma Ensemble - Admin (22.25 hours)
   • Enigma Ensemble - Admin - Advertising in The Resident (1 hour)
   • Enigma Ensemble - Admin - Musescore Upgrades (0.25 hours)
   • Enigma Ensemble: Travel, Lunch, Interaction (5.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Music - Administration" (30 hours)
   • MuseScore - Bach - Air on a G String (2.5 hours)
   • MuseScore - Binge - Watermill (1 hour)
   • MuseScore - Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (3.75 hours)
   • MuseScore - OBT Oboe-Violin Duets (3 hours)
   • MuseScore - Water Music - Sax (2.5 hours)
     → See "Todman (Theo) - Music Score OCR & Editing Software - Selection & Use" (12.75 hours)
   • Music Copying / Filing (0.5 hours)
   • OBT Weekend - Oboe / Violin Duets - Organisation (2.5 hours)
   • Opera - Carmen (5.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Music - Administration" (8.5 hours)
2. Music - Oboe (Total Hours = 29.5)
   • Oboe - Enigma Ensemble (6.75 hours)
   • Oboe - Enigma Ensemble - Practice (13.25 hours)
   • OBT Weekend - Oboe / Violin Duets - Practice (9.5 hours)
     → See "Practice - Oboe - Enigma Ensemble - Playing & Practice" (29.5 hours)
3. Music - Recorder
   • "Practice - Recorder - General Practice" (0.25 hours)
4. Music - Theory
   • YouTube: Bach's Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 (1 hour)
     → See "Admin - Music - Administration" (1 hour)

1. Bridge - Reading / Writing
   • "Reading - Bridge - Magazines" (Read, 2.5 hours)
2. Bridge - Admin (Total Hours = 64.5)
   • 26Q1 Status Reports (2.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Admin" (2.75 hours)
   • Admin - Bridge - Mountnessing Village Hall (MVH) Trusteeship (5.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Mountnessing Village Hall Trusteeship" (5.75 hours)
   • Admin - Mayflower DBC - Lunch with DP, AK & TC (3.5 hours)
   • Admin - Mayflower DBC - Lunch with DP, AK, JMcC & TC (5 hours)
   • "Admin - Mayflower DBC - Secretarial & Signatory Duties" (43.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Emails / Calls to Colin (0.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Emails / Calls to David P (0.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Emails / Calls to David Tennet (0.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Emails to / Discussions with Albert (0.25 hours)
   • Bridge - MK Payments (0.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Planning EBU & ECBA Sessions for 2026 (0.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Planning EBU Sessions with Dave T (0.25 hours)
   • DP Bridge Party - Meal & Socialising (2 hours)
   • Wallingford EBED Results upload mess-up (0.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Admin" (12.75 hours)
3. Bridge - Play (Total Hours = 89.25)
   • Bridge - DP Bridge Party (6.75 hours)
   • Bridge - EBU National Pairs Final - RealBridge (Dave T) (12 hours)
   • Bridge - EBU OODGP Swiss Pairs - RealBridge (Dave T) (6.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Mayflower (David P) (25.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Mayflower (David Tennet) (3.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Milton Keynes - RealBridge (Dave T) (35.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Playing" (89.25 hours)
4. Bridge - Study (Total Hours = 65.75)
   • "Bridge - Handle" (19 hours)
   • Bridge - PlayMyBoard (1 hour)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - Dave T (21 hours)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - David P (7.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - David Tennet (1 hour)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - DP Bridge Party (0.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - Colin (0.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - Dave T (6 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - David P (7.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - David Tennet (1.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Reviews - DP Bridge Party (0.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Study" (46.75 hours)

• 26Q1 Status Reports (0.75 hours)
  → See "Admin - General Culture - Admin" (0.75 hours)
• "Bearman (Robert) - Stoneleigh Abbey: The House, Its Owners, Its Lands" (Read / Write, 9 hours)
• "Fry (Stephen) - The Ode Less Travelled: A guide to writing poetry" (Read / Write, 2.25 hours)
• King's Obituaries (0.25 hours)
  → See "Admin - General Culture - Admin" (0.25 hours)
• "LPOC - Listed Heritage: The Listed Property Owners' Club Magazine" (Read, 2.5 hours)
• OBT Murder Mystery (3 hours)
• OBT Quiz (2 hours)
  → See "Admin - General Culture - Admin" (5 hours)
• "O'Sullivan (Maurice), Forster (E.M.) - Twenty Years A-Growing" (Read / Write, 12.75 hours)
• Pete re King's: Herbert Huppert & Simon Goldhill (1.25 hours)
• Reply to King's re Frank Greaney (Write, 0.5 hours)
• St John's Quiz (3.5 hours)
  → See "Admin - General Culture - Admin" (5.25 hours)
• "Todman (Theo) - Investigating Housing Developments near Coxes Farm" (Write, 2.25 hours)

1. Languages - Admin
   • 26Q1 Status Reports (0.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Languages - Admin" (0.5 hours)
2. Languages - Greek (Classical)
   • "Wenham (John) - The Elements of New Testament Greek" (0.75 hours)
3. Languages - Hebrew (Classical)
   • "Lambdin (Thomas) - Introduction to Biblical Hebrew" (0.5 hours)

• Chess - Chess Dot Com - Puzzles (1 hour)
  → See "Chess - Chess dot Com" (1 hour)

1. Mathematics - Reading / Writing (Total Hours = 16)
   • Becky's Loan Calculations (0.5 hours)
   • Bridge: NGS Sopp & SOF calculations / reconciliation (2.75 hours)
   • Gas+Electric rise calculations (0.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Mathematics - Admin" (3.5 hours)
   • "Shapiro (Stewart) - A Potpourri of Questions and Attempted Answers" (2.5 hours)
   • "Shapiro (Stewart) - Formalism: Do Mathematical Statements Mean Anything?" (1 hour)
   • "Shapiro (Stewart) - Logicism: Is Mathematics (Just) Logic?" (4 hours)
   • "Shapiro (Stewart) - Near Opposites: Kant and Mill" (2.75 hours)
   • "Shapiro (Stewart) - Plato's Rationalism, and Aristotle" (2 hours)
   • Tax on HSBC Loan Interest (0.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Mathematics - Admin" (0.25 hours)
2. Mathematics - Admin
   • 26Q1 Status Reports (0.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Mathematics - Admin" (0.75 hours)

• "Wiener (Norbert) - Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth" (2 hours)

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