3/8/2020
(Above: The grill is now right outside of the kitchen door. That will make for a much more pleasant grilling experience than up at Oldhouse where I had to walk a good 70-80 feet between kitchen and grill.)
Active Summary: This morning began in darkness due to the time change, but it commenced as usual nevertheless. I began with calisthenics, writing, and a ride around the beef pasture with Padre. More writing ensued before I took a trip down to the Harbison Farm Market where I procured plenty of produce. After putting away that produce, I visited with Padre at his Studio for about an hour before harvesting some greens from the garden and heading up to Oldhouse for lunch.
(7:24 PM Update:) Afternoon activities consisted of putting together a price-chart for the Weber Family Farm website, venturing outside to help Padre, and on finding that it was to be a light afternoon, returning indoors where I rested for 22 minutes and 22 seconds* before finishing chart-work and beginning today’s entry. When computer-time was complete, I stepped back outside and helped out via feeding bovines / shoveling feed / completing a beef herd check with Padre. End-of-evening activities included: moving the grill out to Jacobhouse, moving the smoker to near the Master Blend freezer room, and rearranging the freezer room’s new furniture.
TIL: Today I learned that the ancient Greeks considered the number 1 to be neither fully odd nor fully even. This was due to ‘1’ taking on spiritual significance in form of the Monad or the Absolute (as in the Absolute energy from which all things are derived). Perhaps the numeral 1 was neither even nor odd when utilized in such a manner, but when used as the start of a standard number sequence, these proofs find that 1 is in fact an odd number**:
- even ± even = even
- even ± odd = odd
- odd ± odd = even
- even × even = even
- even × odd = even
- odd × odd = odd
Interestingly, these same functions may be utilized to prove that 0 is not a true number.
Commentary: The sunrise this morning was quite incredible. It began as a little ‘blip’ of orange on the horizon that I could barely see through the trees but then proceeded to bloom, shedding first a delicate pink and then a fiery orange across the entire eastern sky. I took a picture of it from Jacobhouse’s back door, but the resultant image was no match compared to the actual scene.
Final Note: Tomorrow I reckon I will complete at least one Macroeconomics assignment, shim the piano in Jacobhouse so it does not wobble, help Madre cut a dryer vent hole into the side of her workshop, and possibly procure a hose and sprinkler for the new bag/bucket garden.
*The number ‘2222’ is very easy and efficient to input into my timer, and with it taking me about 2 minutes to reach sleep-state, it means I get an almost exact 20 minute rest.
**I actually found myself running ‘1’ through all of these along with a few other numbers to check the proofs’ validity. They are indeed accurate, though it should be noted they only work with whole integers.