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1. Thesis - Reading / Writing (Total Hours = 291.25)
   • "Aeon - Video - 4124.GreyKey" (Read / Write, 1.25 hours)
   • "Aeon - Video - 73 cows" (Read / Write, 1 hour)
   • "Aeon - Video - Are we living in a quantum sandwich?" (Read / Write, 0.75 hours)
   • "Aeon - Video - Changeling" (Read / Write, 19.25 hours)
   • "Aeon - Video - Pupil Diversity" (Read / Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Aeon - Video - Some Kind of Intimacy" (Read / Write, 0.75 hours)
   • "Aeon - Video - The return of the takhi" (Read / Write, 1.5 hours)
   • "Aeon - Video - Why Teleportation Isn't Total Science Fiction" (Read / Write, 1.25 hours)
   • "Anscombe (G.E.M.) - The First Person" (Read / Write, 7 hours)
   • "Ayers (Michael R.) - Locke on Living Things" (Read / Write, 6.25 hours)
   • "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Materialism with a Human Face" (Read / Write, 45.75 hours)
   • "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Review of 'What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology' by Eric T. Olson" (Read / Write, 8.75 hours)
   • "Black (Riley) - The dinosaurs didn’t rule" (Read / Write, 1 hour)
   • "Calkin (Jessamy) - A boy named Sophie" (Read / Write, 4.75 hours)
   • "Cave (Peter) - Few of us desire true equality - It’s time to own up to it" (Read / Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Cave (Peter) - Humour and Paradox Laid Bare" (Write, 0.75 hours)
   • "Cave (Peter) - Reeling and A-Reasoning: Surprise Examinations and Newcomb's Tale" (Write, 0.25 hours)
   • "Cave (Peter) - Too self-fulfilling" (Write, 0.75 hours)
   • "Chisholm (Roderick) - The First Person: Essay on Reference and Intentionality" (Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Frankl (Viktor E.) - Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust" (Read, 1.5 hours)
   • "Frary (Mark) - Beyond Repair" (Write, 0.75 hours)
   • "Gable (Robert S.) - Efforts to expand the lifespan ignore what it’s like to get old" (Read / Write, 1.5 hours)
   • "Galton (Francis) - Visualised Numerals" (Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Godfrey-Smith (Peter) - Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life" (Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Goranko (Valentin) - Temporal Logics" (Read / Write, 1.75 hours)
   • "Jaarsma (Ada) - Choose your own birth" (Read, 1.25 hours)
   • "Korhonen (Anna), Woodward (Sarah) - This idea must die: 'AI will outsmart the human race'" (Write, 1 hour)
   • "Kuhn (Robert Lawrence) & Barrett (Deirdre) - Video - Deirdre Barrett on dreams" (Read / Write, 1.5 hours)
   • "Love (Shayla) - How to connect with your future self" (Read / Write, 2 hours)
   • "Matthews (Gareth B.) - Accidental unities" (Write, 0.25 hours)
   • "Middleton (Anna), Welford (Megan) - The Ethics of Genomics" (Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Middleton (Guy D.) - The horrors of Pompeii" (Read / Write, 1.75 hours)
   • "Moreno Figueroa (Monica), Jolin (Lucy) - A world without oppression to you" (Write, 1.25 hours)
   • "Nagel (Thomas) - What is it Like to Be a Bat?" (Write, 0.25 hours)
   • "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Animals" (Read / Write, 49.75 hours)
   • "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Brains" (Read / Write, 7.25 hours)
   • "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Bundles" (Read / Write, 2 hours)
   • "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Constitution" (Read / Write, 12.5 hours)
   • "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Contents + References" (Write, 5.5 hours)
   • "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Nihilism" (Write, 1.25 hours)
   • "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Souls" (Write, 1.25 hours)
   • "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Temporal Parts" (Read / Write, 5.25 hours)
   • "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? The Question" (Read / Write, 38.5 hours)
   • "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? What Now?" (Write, 4.25 hours)
   • "Peckham (Jeremy) - AI, humanity and Christian ministry" (Write, 1 hour)
   • "Peckham (Jeremy) - Masters or Slaves?: AI And The Future Of Humanity" (Read / Write, 4.25 hours)
   • "Putnam (Hilary) - Brains in a Vat" (Read / Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Ramsey (William) - Eliminative Materialism" (Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Personal Identity" (Read / Write, 0.75 hours)
   • "Sinclair (David) - Lifespan: Why We Age – and Why We Don’t Have To" (Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Snowdon (Paul) - Some Objections to Animalism" (Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Sunar (Neesa) - I have no mind's eye: let me try to describe it for you" (Read / Write, 4.5 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Henry" (Write, 27.25 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - 1 Corinthians: 15" (Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Review - Roderick M. Chisholm - The First Person: An Essay on Reference and Intentionality" (Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Venkataraman (Vivek V.) - Lessons from the foragers" (Read / Write, 1.75 hours)
   • "Walker (Matthew P.) - Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams" (Read, 2 hours)
   • "Wiggins (David) - Personal Identity" (Read, 0.5 hours)
2. Thesis - Research Repositioning (Total Hours = 8)
   • Admin - Thesis - Outline & Initial Research (July - Sept) - Discussions at King's (0.5 hours)
   • Admin - Thesis - Outline & Initial Research (July - Sept) - Discussions of Irish 'Hate Speech' Bill (0.75 hours)
   • Admin - Thesis - Outline & Initial Research (July - Sept) - King's Reunion Follow-up (0.75 hours)
   • "Admin - Thesis Planning+Admin (July - Sept)" (6 hours)

1. Thesis Background - Reading / Writing (Total Hours = 46.75)
   • "Dostoyevsky (Fyodor), Magarshack (David) - The Brothers Karamazov" (Read / Write, 15.25 hours)
   • Dostoyevsky (Fyodor), Magarshack (David) - The Brothers Karamazov - Discussons at King's (Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Figes (Orlando) - The Story of Russia" (Read / Write, 13 hours)
   • Figes (Orlando) - The Story of Russia - Discussions at King's (Read, 0.5 hours)
   • "Interaction - Philos-List" (Read, 1.5 hours)
   • "Lawrence (D.H.) - The Prussian officer and Other Stories" (Write, 0.25 hours)
   • "Orwell (George) - George Orwell Omnibus: The Complete Novels" (Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Plokhy (Serhii) - Lost Kingdom: A History of Russian Nationalism from Ivan the Great to Vladimir Putin" (Write, 0.75 hours)
   • "Plokhy (Serhii) - The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine" (Read, 1.25 hours)
   • "Somerset Maugham (W.) - Collected Short Stories: Volume 2" (Read / Write, 13 hours)
   • "Somerset Maugham (W.) - The Razor's Edge" (Write, 0.25 hours)
2. Thesis Background - Books Admin
   • "Admin - Catalogue Papers and Books (including Abstract improvements)" (0.25 hours)
3. Thesis Background - Status
   • 23Q2 Status Reports (3.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Thesis Planning+Admin (July - Sept)" (3.25 hours)

• Aeon: Aldhouse-Green - The secret life of Druids (Comments; Read / Write, 2 hours)
• Aeon: Alexander & Bunschoten - Crème de la crème (Comments; Read / Write, 1.25 hours)
• Aeon: Gray - It’s not only political conservatives who worry about moral purity (Comments; Read / Write, 1 hour)
• Aeon: Hassett - How to grow a human (Comments; Read, 0.5 hours)
• Aeon: Hoeg - Aphantasia can be a gift to philosophers and critics like me (Comments; Read, 1 hour)
• Aeon: Minton - Do not forget them (Comments; Read, 0.25 hours)
• Aeon: Video - A journey to Viking Iceland with Kári Gíslason (Comments; Read / Write, 1.75 hours)
• Aeon: Video - Chinoiserie (Comments; Read / Write, 0.5 hours)
• Aeon: Video - Kowloon Walled City (Comments; Read / Write, 1 hour)
• Aeon: Video - Takrar (Comments; Write, 0.25 hours)
• Aeon: Video - The jury theorem (Comments; Read / Write, 0.75 hours)
• Aeon: Video - The Physics of Music (Comments; Read, 1.25 hours)
• "Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) - Aeon: 2019+" (Write, 13.25 hours)

1. Website - Bridge Maintenance (Total Hours = 10.25)
   • Bridge - Website - NGS Data Gathering & Recalculation (8 hours)
   • Bridge - Website - Results Database Maintenance (2.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Admin" (10.25 hours)
2. Website - Development (Total Hours = 18.5)
   • Website - Generator - Timeline software¹⁰: Add photos for Henry's Biography (0.25 hours)
   • Website - Generator - Timeline software¹¹: Complete Documentation (2 hours)
   • Website - Generator - Consolidated Site-Hits: Review Webalizer Methodology & Consolidate Stats (1.75 hours)
   • Website - Generator - Create Link-out pages for Books and Papers (2.25 hours)
   • Website - Generator - Functor 21 (Parameters 21 & 5; Ling Language Vocab Phrase List): Error 3047 (Record > 4k) (1.5 hours)
   • Website - Generator - Investigate & implement shorter & meaningful URLs (for Notes & Papers). (2 hours)
   • Website - Generator - Reduce size of Web_Generator_Performance database (7.25 hours)
   • Website - Generator - Use Edge for Spider (1 hour)
   • Website - Generator - WebRefs Documentation improvements (0.5 hours)
     → See "Software Development - Website - Development" (18.5 hours)
3. Website - Education
   • "PC Pro - Computing in the Real World" (2.75 hours)
4. Website - Infrastructure (Total Hours = 11.75)
   • Investigate & Install Password Manager: Bitwarden? (0.5 hours)
   • iPhone Photos: Install FastStone Image Viewer (0.25 hours)
   • iPhone Photos: Upgrade Julies iPhone to iCloud+ (0.25 hours)
   • iPhone Photos: Upgrade to latest version of iCloud for Windows (1.25 hours)
   • Kindle - Scrambled Screen problems (0.25 hours)
   • Lenovo Laptop spare charger (0.5 hours)
   • Microsoft Office 365 - Renewal + Family (0.5 hours)
   • Microsoft Windows / MS Office / Norton - Releases, Bugs & Periodic Re-boots (1.5 hours)
   • MS Office disks for DP (0.5 hours)
   • PC Backups / OneDrive (3.75 hours)
   • Replacement TV Remote (Bertie attack) (0.5 hours)
   • Set up Facebook Messenger on iPhone (0.25 hours)
   • Toshiba Laptop - Occasional Windows Update (1 hour)
   • USB Charger Plugs (0.25 hours)
   • Wondershare PDFelement - Upgrade to V10 (0.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Website - Admin & Maintenance" (11.75 hours)
5. Website - Maintenance (Total Hours = 10.75)
   • 23Q2 Status Reports (1.75 hours)
   • Website - Generator - WebRefs - Manual / Automatic URL Checks & Fixes (0.5 hours)
   • Website - Home Page, Etc, Maintenance (4.25 hours)
   • Website - Periodic Full Regeneration (2.25 hours)
   • Website - Run Web Spider (2 hours)
     → See "Admin - Website - Admin & Maintenance" (10.75 hours)

1. Website Others - ECBA Maintenance
   • "Admin - ECBA Website - Admin & Maintenance" (0.25 hours)
2. Website Others - Mayflower DBC Maintenance
   • "Admin - Mayflower Website - Admin & Maintenance" (1.25 hours)
3. Website Others - Mountnessing DBC Maintenance
   • "Admin - Mountnessing Website - Admin & Maintenance" (3.75 hours)
4. Website Others - Small Bridge Sites
   • "Software Development - Small Bridge Sites - Development & Maintenance" (3.75 hours)

• Bibleworks Greek NT: John (Read, 2.75 hours)
• Bibleworks Hebrew OT: 1 Samuel (Read, 3.75 hours)
  → See "Bibleworks - Bibleworks: OT & NT" (6.5 hours)
• "Lanier (Gregory R.) & Ros (William A.) - Septuaginta: A Reader's Edition - Volume 1" (Read, 3 hours)
• "Rampton (Martha) - Miracles not magic" (Read / Write, 2.25 hours)
• "Rubenstein (Richard E.) - When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity During the Last Days of Rome" (Read, 1 hour)
• "Various - Patheos" (Read, 1.25 hours)
• "Williams (Rowan) - Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction" (Read, 0.25 hours)

1. Religion Background - Admin
   • 23Q2 Status Reports (0.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Religion - Admin" (0.75 hours)
2. Religion Background - Discussions (Total Hours = 8.25)
   • Interaction - Discussions at King's (1 hour)
   • Interaction - Discussions with Julie, Mike & Sylvia (4.5 hours)
     → See "Interaction - Discussion with Mike" (5.5 hours)
   • "Interaction - Discussions with Pete" (1 hour)
   • Interaction - Emails to Nat (1.75 hours)
     → See "Interaction - Religion - Discussions" (1.75 hours)

1. Music - Administration (Total Hours = 15.5)
   • YouTube: Howard Skempton - Lento & Wikipedia: Lento (Skempton) (1.75 hours)
   • 23Q2 Status Reports (0.75 hours)
   • Family re YouTube: Bach Partita No.2 in D minor BWV 1004 - Chaconne - Maxim Vengerov (Auschwitz) (0.5 hours)
   • Music Copying / Filing (0.75 hours)
   • Oboe - Enigma Ensemble - Admin (8.25 hours)
   • Oboe - Enigma Ensemble: Travel, Lunch, Interaction (3.25 hours)
   • Oboe reeds - research / purchase (0.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Music - Administration" (15.5 hours)
2. Music - Oboe (Total Hours = 16.5)
   • Cimarosa (Domenico) - Oboe Concerto in C minor - 1st Movt (Introduzione: Larghetto) (0.5 hours)
   • Cimarosa (Domenico) - Oboe Concerto in C minor - 2nd Movt (Allegro) (0.5 hours)
   • Cimarosa (Domenico) - Oboe Concerto in C minor - 3rd Movt (Siciliana) (0.5 hours)
   • Cimarosa (Domenico) - Oboe Concerto in C minor - 4th Movt (Allegro giusto) (0.5 hours)
     → See "Cimarosa (Domenico) - Oboe Concerto in C minor" (2 hours)
   • "Fiocco (J.H.) - Arioso - Oboe + Piano" (0.5 hours)
   • Mower (Mike) - The Good Tempered Oboe - 'Answer the Question' (0.25 hours)
   • Mower (Mike) - The Good Tempered Oboe - 'Dop Dop Doobah' (0.25 hours)
   • Mower (Mike) - The Good Tempered Oboe - 'Enlightenment' (0.25 hours)
   • Mower (Mike) - The Good Tempered Oboe - 'Jauntless Jig' (0.25 hours)
   • Mower (Mike) - The Good Tempered Oboe - 'May The Fourth Be With You' (0.25 hours)
     → See "Mower (Mike) - The Good Tempered Oboe" (1.25 hours)
   • Nicholas (Morgan): Rhapsody for Oboe and Piano (0.5 hours)
     → See "Practice - Oboe - General Practice" (0.5 hours)
   • Oboe - Enigma Ensemble (3.75 hours)
   • Oboe - Enigma Ensemble - Practice (4.25 hours)
   • Oboe - Enigma Ensemble - Practice - Pachelbel's Canon (4.25 hours)
     → See "Practice - Oboe - Enigma Ensemble - Playing & Practice" (12.25 hours)

1. Languages - Admin
   • 23Q2 Status Reports (1.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Languages - Admin" (1.25 hours)
2. Languages - French
   • "Ling - Learn French" (1.75 hours)
3. Languages - German
   • "Ling - Learn German" (2.25 hours)
4. Languages - Greek (Modern)
   • "Ling - Learn Greek" (2.25 hours)
5. Languages - Italian
   • "Ling - Learn Italian" (2.75 hours)
6. Languages - Portuguese
   • "Ling - Learn Portuguese" (2.25 hours)
7. Languages - Russian
   • "Ling - Learn Russian" (0.25 hours)
8. Languages - Spanish
   • "Ling - Learn Spanish" (2 hours)
9. Languages - Thai
   • "Ling - Learn Thai" (11.5 hours)
10. Languages - Ukrainian
    • "Ling - Learn Ukrainian" (0.25 hours)

• No activity this period

1. Bridge - Reading / Writing
   • "Reading - Bridge - Magazines" (Read, 6 hours)
2. Bridge - Admin (Total Hours = 59.75)
   • 23Q2 Status Reports (2.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Admin" (2.5 hours)
   • Admin - ECBA AGM (2.25 hours)
   • "Admin - ECBA Committee Involvement" (2.25 hours)
   • "Admin - Mayflower DBC - Secretarial & Signatory Duties" (8.75 hours)
   • "Admin - Mountnessing DBC - Committee & Secretarial Duties" (34.75 hours)
   • "Admin - Mountnessing/Mayflower - Bridge Kit - Admin, Maintenance & Scoring" (5.5 hours)
   • Admin - Vikings - ECBA League Organisation (0.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Emails to David P (0.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Emails to David T (1.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Emails to Graham (0.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Emails to Robert (0.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Emails to Tony French (0.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Admin" (6 hours)
3. Bridge - Play (Total Hours = 36.5)
   • Bridge - ECBA Club Pairs (David P) (4.25 hours)
   • Bridge - ECBA Handicap Pairs (David P) (4.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Mayflower (David P) (9.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Mountnessing (David Tennet) (3.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Mountnessing (Graham) (3.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Mountnessing (Robert) (6.5 hours)
   • Holiday - Estimation Whist (5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Playing" (36.5 hours)
4. Bridge - Study (Total Hours = 24)
   • Bridge - Laws and Alerting - Bernie (0.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - David P (7.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - Graham (0.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - Robert (2.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews (David Tennet) (1 hour)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - David P (5.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - Graham (2.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - Robert (2.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review (Strong Diamond) (1.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Study" (24 hours)

1. Chess - Admin (Total Hours = 2.75)
   • 23Q2 Status Reports (0.25 hours)
   • Chess - Chess Dot Com - Annual membership renewal (0.25 hours)
   • Chess - Digging out Email Addresses (0.5 hours)
   • Chess - Discussions with Chris (0.25 hours)
   • Chess - Discussions with Rob Kileen (0.75 hours)
   • Chess - ECF - Annual membership renewal (0.75 hours)
     → See "Chess - Admin" (2.75 hours)
2. Chess - Training
   • Chess - YouTube Videos (1.25 hours)
     → See "Chess - Chess - YouTube Videos" (1.25 hours)

• 23Q2 Status Reports (0.25 hours)
• Discussions at King's with Malcolm MacCallam & Ken Moody (0.5 hours)
• Discussions with Chris re Jamie studying Maths at University (0.25 hours)
  → See "Admin - Mathematics - Admin" (1 hour)

• "YouTube - Video - The Sad Story of the Smartest Man Who Ever Lived" (1.25 hours)
• ISPE - New Committee (0.25 hours)
  → See "ISPE - Telicom" (0.25 hours)
• "Wallace (Amy) - The Prodigy: A Biography of William James Sidis" (1.25 hours)

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