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1. Thesis - Reading / Writing (Total Hours = 162.25)
   • "Alma (Sam) - The problem of erring animals" (Read / Write, 2 hours)
   • "Ball (Philip) - How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology" (Write, 1.25 hours)
   • "Ball (Philip) - In Retrospect: What Is Life?" (Read / Write, 1 hour)
   • "Baron (Teresa) - A lost cause? Fundamental problems for causal theories of parenthood" (Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Baron (Teresa) - Nobody puts Baby in the container: the foetal container model at work in medicine and commercial surrogacy" (Write, 0.75 hours)
   • "Birch (Jonathan) - The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI" (Read / Write, 48.25 hours)
   • "Burke (Michael) - Persons and Bodies: How to Avoid the New Dualism" (Read, 1.25 hours)
   • "Burke (Michael) - Preserving the Principle of One Object to a Place: A Novel Account of the Relations Amongst Objects, Sorts, Sortals, and Persistence Conditions" (Read / Write, 5 hours)
   • "Chapman (Colin) - The Israel-Hamas war and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict" (Read / Write, 8.75 hours)
   • "Desmond (Abigail) & Haslam (Michael) - What is intelligent life?" (Read / Write, 2.5 hours)
   • "Finn (Suki) - Methodology for the metaphysics of pregnancy" (Write, 1 hour)
   • "Finn (Suki) - The Metaphysics of Surrogacy" (Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Fox-Leonard (Boudicca) - The Buck Stops Here" (Read / Write, 5.5 hours)
   • "Freedman (Sam) - Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It" (Read / Write, 5 hours)
   • "Geddes (Alexander) - Pregnancy, Parthood and Proper Overlap" (Read / Write, 4.5 hours)
   • "Gerits (Frank) - The route to progress" (Read / Write, 2 hours)
   • "Glaser (Eliane) - Me versus myself" (Read / Write, 2 hours)
   • "Gribbin (John) - Schrodinger's Kittens: Teletransportation" (Read / Write, 3 hours)
   • "Grose (Jonathan) - How many organisms during a pregnancy?" (Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Harari (Yuval Noah) - Disruption, Democracy & the Global Order" (Write, 0.75 hours)
   • "Harris (Charles B.) - Time, Uncertainty, And Kurt Vonnegut, Jr - A Reading Of Slaughterhouse-Five" (Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Hedebrant (Kare) & Herlitz (Agneta) - In more prosperous societies, are men and women more similar?" (Read / Write, 2 hours)
   • "Kakkar (Hemant) & Brady (Garrett L.) - How a ‘dominance’ mindset encourages leaders to put others at risk" (Read / Write, 1.25 hours)
   • "Kelly (Daniel) & Westra (Evan) - Moral progress is annoying" (Read / Write, 4 hours)
   • "Kingma (Elselijn) - Biological Individuality, Pregnancy, and (Mammalian) Reproduction" (Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Kingma (Elselijn) - BUMP: Better Understanding the Metaphysics of Pregnancy" (Write, 7.75 hours)
   • "Kingma (Elselijn) - Functions and health at the interface of biology and technology" (Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Kingma (Elselijn) - Were You Part of Your Mother?" (Write, 1.25 hours)
   • "Kingma (Elselijn) & Finn (Suki) - Neonatal Incubator or Artificial Womb? Distinguishing Ectogestation and Ectogenesis using the Metaphysics of Pregnancy" (Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Krznaric (Roman) - The disruption nexus" (Read / Write, 2.25 hours)
   • "Kunze (Peter C.) - For the Boys - Masculinity, Gray Comedy, and the Vietnam War in Slaughterhouse Five" (Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Lawrance (John) - Hosting Andrew" (Read / Write, 3.5 hours)
   • "Mallapaty (Smriti) - Human embryo models are getting more realistic — raising ethical questions" (Read / Write, 1 hour)
   • "Mavrodes (George I.) - The Life Everlasting and the Bodily Criterion of Identity" (Read / Write, 1.25 hours)
   • "McGrath (James F.) - Why 'Life Begins at Conception' Is Simply Not True" (Read / Write, 3.5 hours)
   • "Meincke (Anne Sophie) - One or two? A Process View of pregnancy" (Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Noble (Raymond) & Noble (Denis) - Understanding Living Systems" (Write, 0.75 hours)
   • "Penrose (Roger) - The Emperor's New Mind: Teletransportation & Fission" (Write, 2 hours)
   • "Phillips (Patrick) - Talking to the Animals" (Read / Write, 1.25 hours)
   • "Quinn (Philip L.) - Personal Identity, Bodily Continuity and Resurrection" (Read / Write, 1.75 hours)
   • "Quinn (Philip L.) - Some Problems about Resurrection" (Read / Write, 2.5 hours)
   • "Schrodinger (Erwin) - What is Life?" (Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Seldon (Anthony) - The Conservative Effect, 2010–2024: 14 Wasted Years?" (Write, 1.25 hours)
   • "Thucydides, Crawley (Richard), Warrington (John) - The History of the Peloponnesian War" (Read / Write, 3.25 hours)
   • "Velleman (David) - So It Goes" (Read / Write, 3.25 hours)
   • "Venkataraman (Vivek V.) - Lessons from the foragers" (Read / Write, 1.5 hours)
   • "Vonnegut (Kurt) - Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death" (Read / Write, 7.75 hours)
   • "Wallingford (John) - Building embryos" (Read, 0.5 hours)
   • "Wells (J'aime) - Language-Using Apes" (Read / Write, 1 hour)
   • "Wexler (Anna) & Feinsinger (Ashley) - Ethical challenges in translating brain–computer interfaces" (Read / Write, 1.75 hours)
   • "Woollard (Fiona) - ‘Utilitarianism for animals: deontology for people’ and the doing/allowing distinction" (Write, 0.75 hours)
   • "Woollard (Fiona) - Mother Knows Best: Pregnancy, Applied Ethics, and Epistemically Transformative Experiences" (Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Woollard (Fiona) - Philosophy can explain what kind of achievement it is to give birth" (Read / Write, 3.75 hours)
   • "Zinn (Anna K.) - You have multiple ‘social identities’ – here’s how to manage them" (Read / Write, 1.5 hours)
2. Thesis - Research Repositioning (Total Hours = 25.5)
   • "Admin - Catalogue Papers and Books (including Abstract improvements)" (12.5 hours)
   • "Admin - Thesis Planning+Admin (July - Sept)" (12 hours)
   • Interaction - Discussions with Pete (1 hour)

1. Thesis Background - Reading / Writing (Total Hours = 22.5)
   • "Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) - Aeon: 2019+" (Write, 7.25 hours)
   • "Interaction - Philos-List" (Read, 10 hours)
   • "Somerset Maugham (W.) - Collected Short Stories: Volume 2" (Read / Write, 5.25 hours)
2. Thesis Background - Books Admin
   • Admin - Filing Sort Out - Philosophy Papers & New Filing Cabinet (3.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Catalogue Papers and Books (including Abstract improvements)" (3.25 hours)
3. Thesis Background - Status
   • 24Q2 Status Reports (2.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Thesis Planning+Admin (July - Sept)" (2.75 hours)

1. Website - Bridge Development
   • Software Development - Bridge Database - Locked (0.5 hours)
     → See "Software Development - Small Bridge Sites - Development & Maintenance" (0.5 hours)
2. Website - Bridge Maintenance
   • Bridge - Website - Results Database Maintenance (3 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Admin" (3 hours)
3. Website - Development (Total Hours = 61)
   • Reinstate the Enigma Ensemble Website (5.5 hours)
   • Website - Bridge Generator - Fatal Database Errors: ‘Cannot open any more databases' - Fixes for Bridge Statistics Processing (5 hours)
   • Website - Bridge Generator - Fatal Database Errors: ‘Cannot open any more databases' - Fixes for Small Systems Processing (5 hours)
   • Website - Bridge Generator - Fatal Database Errors: ‘Cannot open any more databases: Run-time error 3048' (1.25 hours)
   • Website - Generator - Timeline software¹⁰: Complete Documentation (5.25 hours)
   • Website - Generator - Timeline software¹¹: Data Entry - Coxes Farm - Bakers Phase 3 (0.75 hours)
   • Website - Generator - Amend Functor_21 (Option 31) to allow for gaps in Reading of NT/OT in Greek + Hebrew (0.5 hours)
   • Website - Generator - Document Backup Systems¹² (31.5 hours)
   • Website - Generator - Document Spider¹³ (0.5 hours)
   • Website - Generator - Documention Review & Filing (4.25 hours)
   • Website - Generator - Improve Daily and Top 10 Task Reporting in Status: Priority Task List¹⁴ (0.5 hours)
   • Website - Generator - Ling - Output pages for individual languages (0.25 hours)
   • Website - Generator - Ling - Output pages for individual languages - Bug Fixes (0.75 hours)
     → See "Software Development - Website - Development" (61 hours)
4. Website - Education
   • "PC Pro - Computing in the Real World" (4.75 hours)
5. Website - Infrastructure (Total Hours = 20.25)
   • EE - New Contract + Hub (Outbuildings): Purchase & Installation (4 hours)
   • FreeSat TV Box: Investigation, Purchase & Installation (& Sky Cancellation) (1.5 hours)
   • Inkjet Printer: Investigation, Purchase & Installation of Epson EcoTank (6.25 hours)
   • Install BibleWorks on Desktop (0.75 hours)
   • Microsoft Windows / MS Office / Norton - Releases, Bugs & Periodic Re-boots (1.5 hours)
   • Microsoft Windows: External CD Drive (0.75 hours)
   • Microsoft Windows: New Outlook (2.75 hours)
   • PC Backups / OneDrive (2.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Website - Admin & Maintenance" (20.25 hours)
6. Website - Maintenance (Total Hours = 4.75)
   • 24Q2 Status Reports (0.5 hours)
   • Website - Generator - Consolidated Site-Hits: Review Webalizer Methodology & Consolidate Stats (2 hours)
   • Website - Generator - WebRefs - Manual / Automatic URL Checks & Fixes (1.25 hours)
   • Website - Periodic Full Regeneration (1 hour)
     → See "Admin - Website - Admin & Maintenance" (4.75 hours)

1. Website Others - Mayflower DBC Maintenance
   • "Admin - Mayflower Website - Admin & Maintenance" (3.75 hours)
2. 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.
  1. I'm on my second pass through the NT. I've also read through the Koran, but mostly in English. One day in Arabic, maybe.
  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.
  6. We'll see how it goes!
  
  

  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	23,142	13/05/2021	30/07/2023	05/05/2024	1 Samuel 9:25	808	7,469	9.2	4.4	2 Samuel 2:26	31/12/2028	13/03/2029	72 Days Behind	03/02/2034
  LXX	28,982	13/05/2021	30/07/2023	05/05/2024	2 Esdras 5:3	808	12,596	15.6	6.7	Judith 10:4	31/03/2027	15/06/2027	76 Days Behind	04/01/2031
  Koran	6,236	08/11/2022				159	6,236	39.2		114:6	30/06/2023	16/04/2023	(Complete) 75 Days Ahead
  NT	7,954	26/04/2021				498	7,954	16		Revelation 22:21	30/09/2022	06/09/2022	(Complete) 24 Days Ahead
  NT2	7,954	26/12/2022	30/07/2023	05/05/2024	John 8:22	216	3,258	15.1	6.8	Acts 14:2	31/03/2025	02/06/2025	63 Days Behind	30/03/2026

  
  
• Bibleworks Greek NT: Acts (Read, 6.5 hours)
• Bibleworks Greek NT: John (Read, 1.5 hours)
• Bibleworks Hebrew OT: 1 Samuel (Read, 9.5 hours)
• Bibleworks Hebrew OT: 2 Samuel (Read, 1.25 hours)
  → See "Bibleworks - Bibleworks: OT & NT" (18.75 hours)
• "Chapman (Colin) - The Israel-Hamas war and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict" (Read / Write, 2.5 hours)
• "Lanier (Gregory R.) & Ros (William A.) - Septuaginta: A Reader's Edition - Volume 1" (Read, 9 hours)
• "Various - Patheos" (Read, 0.75 hours)
• "Warnock (Adrian) - Wes Streeting: Cancer Survivor, UK Health Minister, Christian, Gay, and Realist" (Write, 1.75 hours)

1. Religion Background - Admin (Total Hours = 1.25)
   • 24Q2 Status Reports (0.75 hours)
   • Julie's Freedom In Christ Copying (0.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Religion - Admin" (1.25 hours)
2. Religion Background - Discussions (Total Hours = 6)
   • Barnabas Fund Investigations (0.5 hours)
   • Interaction - Discussions with Chris & Abi (3.25 hours)
     → See "Interaction - Religion - Discussions" (3.75 hours)
   • Interaction - Discussions with Julie, Pete & Caro (1.25 hours)
     → See "Interaction - Discussions with Pete" (1.25 hours)
   • Interaction - Discussions with Mike, Sylvia & Julie (1 hour)
     → See "Interaction - Discussion with Mike" (1 hour)

1. Music - Administration (Total Hours = 50.5)
   • 24Q2 Status Reports (1 hour)
   • Enigma Ensemble - Admin (15.75 hours)
   • Enigma Ensemble: Travel, Lunch, Interaction (3.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Music - Administration" (20.25 hours)
   • MuseScore - Bach - Sheep May Safely Graze (3.5 hours)
   • MuseScore - Bach - Sonatina (0.75 hours)
   • MuseScore - Debussy - Girl with the Flaxen Hair (4 hours)
   • MuseScore - Peter Maxwell Davis - Farewell to Stromness (11.5 hours)
     → See "Todman (Theo) - Music Score OCR & Editing Software - Selection & Use" (19.75 hours)
   • Musical discussions with Julian (6.25 hours)
   • Oboe - Andy McFarlane re Repairs & Servicing (3.5 hours)
   • Oboe reeds - research / purchase (0.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Music - Administration" (10.5 hours)
2. Music - Aural
   • "Earmaster - Ear Training & Sight-singing" (1.25 hours)
3. Music - Oboe (Total Hours = 26.5)
   • 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)
   • Davies (John) & Harris (Paul) - 80 Graded Studies for Oboe: Book 2 - Blatt - Study No. 52 (0.25 hours)
   • Davies (John) & Harris (Paul) - 80 Graded Studies for Oboe: Book 2 - Ferling - Study No. 62 (0.25 hours)
   • Davies (John) & Harris (Paul) - 80 Graded Studies for Oboe: Book 2 - Harris - Study No. 74 (0.25 hours)
     → See "Davies (John) & Harris (Paul) - 80 Graded Studies for Oboe: Book 2" (0.75 hours)
   • "Fiocco (J.H.) - Arioso - Oboe + Piano" (0.25 hours)
   • "Head (Michael) - Presto for Oboe & Piano" (0.25 hours)
   • "Morricone (Ennio) - Gabriel's Oboe (Piano Solo Or Oboe/Piano)" (0.25 hours)
   • Mower (Mike) - The Good Tempered Oboe - 'Answer the Question' (0.25 hours)
   • Mower (Mike) - The Good Tempered Oboe - 'Jauntless Jig' (0.25 hours)
     → See "Mower (Mike) - The Good Tempered Oboe" (0.5 hours)
   • Nicholas (Morgan): Rhapsody for Oboe and Piano (0.25 hours)
     → See "Practice - Oboe - General Practice" (0.25 hours)
   • Oboe - Enigma Ensemble (4.5 hours)
   • Oboe - Enigma Ensemble - Practice (11.25 hours)
   • Oboe - Enigma Ensemble - Practice - Bach Organ Sonata No. 4.II (Andante) (6.5 hours)
     → See "Practice - Oboe - Enigma Ensemble - Playing & Practice" (22.25 hours)
4. Music - Piano
   • "Faber (Nancey) & Faber (Randall) - Faber Piano Adventures: Adult Piano Adventures All-in-One Lesson Book 1: Spiral Bound" (0.25 hours)

1. Bridge - Reading / Writing
   • "Reading - Bridge - Magazines" (Read, 4.5 hours)
2. Bridge - Admin (Total Hours = 30.25)
   • 24Q2 Status Reports (0.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Admin" (0.75 hours)
   • Admin - ECBA AGM (2.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - ECBA Committee Involvement" (2.75 hours)
   • "Admin - Mayflower DBC - Secretarial & Signatory Duties" (15.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Emails / Calls to David P (1.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Emails to / Discussions with David T (2.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Emails to Angie S (0.5 hours)
   • Bridge - ULEZ Charge Investigations (0.5 hours)
   • DP Bridge Party - Meal & Socialising (1.75 hours)
   • Robert's Bridge Party - Quiz, Meal & Socialising (4.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Admin" (11.25 hours)
3. Bridge - Play (Total Hours = 69)
   • Bridge - Chelmsford (Albert) (7.25 hours)
   • Bridge - DP Bridge Party (7 hours)
   • Bridge - ECBA Club Pairs (David P) (9.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Mayflower (Albert) (32 hours)
   • Bridge - Mayflower (David Tennet) (3.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Robert's Bridge Party (3.5 hours)
   • Holiday - Estimation Whist (6.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Playing" (69 hours)
4. Bridge - Study (Total Hours = 41)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - Albert (14.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - David P (5.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - David Tennet (0.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - DP Bridge Party (0.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - Robert's Bridge Party (0.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - Albert (7.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - David P (4.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - Graham (0.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - Robert (0.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review (Strong Diamond) (2.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Reviews - DP Bridge Party (1.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Reviews - Robert's Bridge Party (2.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Study" (41 hours)

1. Chess - Reading / Writing (Total Hours = 4)
   • Studer (Noel) - Next Level Chess - eBook: The Art of Chess Training (Read, 3.5 hours)
     → See "Studer (Noel) - Next Level Chess" (3.5 hours)
   • "Studer (Noel) - The Art of Chess Training" (Read, 0.5 hours)
2. Chess - Admin (Total Hours = 1.25)
   • 24Q2 Status Reports (0.75 hours)
   • Chess - Discussions with Chris (0.5 hours)
     → See "Chess - Admin" (1.25 hours)
3. Chess - Training (Total Hours = 15.75)
   • Chess - Chess Dot Com - Playing weak Bots (0.75 hours)
     → See "Chess - Chess dot Com" (0.75 hours)
   • Chess - Teaching / Playing Tommy (Age 6) (0.25 hours)
     → See "Chess - Training" (0.25 hours)
   • "Grigoryan (Avetik) - ChessMood - Courses: Openings" (11.75 hours)
   • "Grigoryan (Avetik) - ChessMood - Courses: Tactics" (2.75 hours)
   • "Grigoryan (Avetik) - ChessMood - General Reading" (0.25 hours)

• 24Q2 Status Reports (0.75 hours)
  → See "Admin - General Culture - Admin" (0.75 hours)
• Britain's Choice (Comments; Read, 0.5 hours)
• Britain's Choice: The Quiz (Comments; Read, 0.25 hours)
  → See "Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) - Aeon: 2019+" (0.75 hours)
• "Bury (J.B.) - A History of Greece: To the Death of Alexander the Great" (Write, 0.75 hours)
• "Bury (J.B.) & Meiggs (Russell) - A History of Greece: To the Death of Alexander the Great" (Read / Write, 3.5 hours)
• Discussing politics with Robert the Rumanian plumber (Write, 0.25 hours)
  → See "Todman (Theo) - Coxes Farm: Issues with e.on Next" (0.25 hours)
• Interaction - Discussions with Mike, Sylvia & Julie (2 hours)
  → See "Interaction - Discussion with Mike" (2 hours)
• "LPOC - Listed Heritage: The Listed Property Owners' Club Magazine" (Read, 4 hours)
• "Ryback (Timoth W.) - Takeover" (Read, 1.75 hours)
• "Todman (Theo) - Coxes Farm: Issues with e.on Next" (Write, 33.5 hours)

1. Languages - Admin
   • 24Q2 Status Reports (1 hour)
     → See "Admin - Languages - Admin" (1 hour)
2. Languages - Arabic
   • "Ling - Learn Arabic" (0.5 hours)
3. Languages - Hebrew (Classical)
   • "Lambdin (Thomas) - Introduction to Biblical Hebrew" (10.5 hours)
4. Languages - Swahili
   • "Ling - Learn Swahili" (0.25 hours)
5. Languages - Thai (Total Hours = 11.5)
   • "Juyaso (Arthit) - Read Thai in 10 Days" (2.25 hours)
   • "Mondly - Learn Thai" (9.25 hours)

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