Theo Todman's Web Page - Notes Pages

1. Total Time outstanding this period = 465 hours
2. Click Here³ for Actual Detail Summary (2007 - 2026) by Sub-Project
3. Click Here⁴ for (by Project)
   • Summary of Effort YTD & QTD
   • Time Analysis (YTD by Study-location)
4. Click Here⁵ 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 - 2026)

1. Thesis - Reading / Writing (Total Hours = 308)
   • BBC: Mystery of wolf-type dogs solved with DNA test (Read, 0.5 hours)
   • BBC: Start the Week - Consciousness and Identity (Read / Write, 1 hour)
   • BBC: 'The answer cannot be nothing': The battle over Canada's mystery brain disease (Read, 1 hour)
     → See "BBC - Miscellaneous iPlayer and Podcasts" (2.5 hours)
   • "Biggar (Nigel) - Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning" (Write, 1.25 hours)
   • "Biggar (Nigel) - Reparations: Slavery and the Tyranny of Imaginary Guilt" (Write, 1.75 hours)
   • "De Waal (Frans) - Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?" (Read, 9.5 hours)
   • "Dick (Philip K.) - Blade Runner: do androids dream of electric sheep?" (Write, 0.75 hours)
   • "Dummett (Michael) - The Concept of Truth" (Read, 0.75 hours)
   • "Dummett (Michael) - Truth and the Past: Preface" (Read, 0.25 hours)
   • "Edwards (Dave) - The concept of race is a social construct" (Read / Write, 5.25 hours)
   • "Evin (Allowen), Etc - The emergence and diversification of dog morphology" (Write, 0.25 hours)
   • "Ferner (Adam) - Metaphysics and biology: a critique of David Wiggins’ account of personal identity" (Read / Write, 8.75 hours)
   • "Gill (Victoria), BBC - Our dogs' diversity can be traced back to the Stone Age" (Read / Write, 0.75 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, 4.5 hours)
   • "Han (Byung-Chul) - The copy is the original" (Read / Write, 1.5 hours)
   • "Johnson (Mark) - Researchers have developed a model to explain the science of near-death experiences. Others have challenged it" (Write, 1.75 hours)
   • "Lambrecht (Felix) - Reparative Justice for Historical Injustice" (Write, 0.75 hours)
   • "Lechthaler (Manuel) - Composition and Identities" (Read / Write, 9.5 hours)
   • "Lennox (John C.) - Oxford Professor Reads the Bible Differently After AI — Here's What He Found" (Read / Write, 1.75 hours)
   • "Lyons (Siobhan) - Death and the Machine: Intersections of Mortality and Robotics" (Read, 8.5 hours)
   • "Mannix (Kathryn) - With the End in Mind: How to Live and Die Well" (Write, 0.75 hours)
   • "Marcus (Gary) - The Massive Problems Facing AI & LLM Scaling" (Read, 0.75 hours)
   • "McBain (Sophie) - Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?" (Read / Write, 1.75 hours)
   • "Nwaubani (Adaobi Tricia) - My Great-Grandfather, the Nigerian Slave-Trader" (Read / Write, 1.25 hours)
   • "Ozanne (Charles) - If there is no resurrection of the dead … What then? An exposition of 1 Corinthians 15" (Write, 6.75 hours)
   • "Parfit (Derek) - We Are Not Human Beings" (Write, 0.25 hours)
   • "Peckham (Jeremy) - Living virtuously with AI chatbots" (Read, 1.75 hours)
   • "Penny (Sylvia) - The Resurrection Chapter: 1 Corinthians 15" (Write, 10.5 hours)
   • "Rawlinson (Nik) - ChatGPT vs The Rest" (Write, 13.25 hours)
   • "RIP - The Royal Institute of Philosophy - Podcasts" (Read / Write, 2.75 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - A A Long: What is the Matter with Matter (Read, 1 hour)
   • RIP: YouTube - Alessandra Tanesini: How We Remember and Forget Online (Read, 0.25 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - Anil Seth, Louise Antony, Maja Spener, Philip Goff: Can Consciousness be Explained? (Read / Write, 3 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - Arif Ahmed, Sara Conly, Rae Langton, Mary Leng, and Ritula Shah: What Are the Limits of Free Speech? (Read, 1.5 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 - Cheryl Misak: Cambridge Pragmatism (Read, 0.75 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - David Sedley: Plato’s Theory of Forms (Read, 1 hour)
   • RIP: YouTube - Derek Matravers: Choosing how we Represent the Past (Read, 1.5 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - Kathleen Higgins: Remembering the Dead (Read, 1.5 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - Marya Schechtman: Remember Who You Are: Personal Identity and Memory (Read, 1.5 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - Michael Beaney: The Analytic Revolution (Read, 0.75 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - Peter Kail: Hume's 'Manifest Contradictions' (Read, 1 hour)
   • RIP: YouTube - Rima Basu: The Importance of Forgetting (Read, 1.25 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, 1 hour)
   • 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)
   • RIP: YouTube - Susan James: Why Should We Read Spinoza? (Read / Write, 1.75 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - Tom Stern: Proust’s Theory of Memory and Knowledge (Read, 1.5 hours)
   • "Ritchie (George G.) - Ordered to Return: My Life After Dying" (Read / Write, 3.5 hours)
   • "Ritchie (George G.), Sherrill (Elizabeth) - Return from Tomorrow" (Read / Write, 6.5 hours)
   • "Rowlands (Mark) - A Season in Hell" (Read, 1.25 hours)
   • "Rowlands (Mark) - Beauty and the Beast" (Read, 2 hours)
   • "Rowlands (Mark) - Brotherwolf" (Read, 0.5 hours)
   • "Rowlands (Mark) - Distinctly Uncivilised" (Read / Write, 3.5 hours)
   • "Rowlands (Mark) - The Deceiver" (Read, 2.75 hours)
   • "Rowlands (Mark) - The Philosopher At The End Of The Universe: Philosophy Explained Through Science Fiction Films" (Read / Write, 9 hours)
   • "Rowlands (Mark) - The Pursuit of Happiness and Rabbits" (Read, 1.75 hours)
   • "Rowlands (Mark) - The Religion of the Wolf" (Read, 2.5 hours)
   • "Rowlands (Mark) - Time's Arrow" (Read, 2 hours)
   • Segundo‐Ortin (Miguel), Etc - Plant Cognition - A Methodological Primer: Theories, Methods and Challenges (Write, 0.75 hours)
     → See "Segundo-Ortin (Miguel), Etc - Plant Cognition - A Methodological Primer: Theories, Methods and Challenges" (26 hours)
   • "Stevenson (Ian) - Children Who Remember Previous Lives: A Question of Reincarnation" (Write, 1 hour)
   • "Sutskever (Ilya) - Ex-OpenAI Scientist Ilya Sutskever WARNS: 'You Have No Idea What's Coming'" (Read / Write, 1.25 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Mill on the Higher Pleasures" (Write, 1 hour)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Resurrection" (Write, 10.5 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - 1 Corinthians: 15" (Write, 10.75 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Chapter 01 (Introduction)" (Write, 1.75 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Chapter 02 (What Are We?)" (Write, 1.5 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?)" (Write, 1.25 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)" (Write, 1.25 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time)" (Write, 0.75 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)" (Write, 1.25 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It)" (Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Chapter 08 (Arguments against Animalism)" (Write, 0.75 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Chapter 09 (Arguments against the Constitution View)" (Write, 0.25 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments)" (Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Chapter 11 (Resurrection)" (Write, 1 hour)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Chapter 12 (Conclusion)" (Write, 3 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Consciousness" (Write, 2.75 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Current Position" (Write, 7.5 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Personal Identity" (Write, 55.25 hours)
   • "Wachowski (Larry), Etc. - The Matrix Comics" (Write, 1.75 hours)
   • Wandrey (Mona‐Marie) & Halina (Marta) - The Evolution of Animal Consciousness (Write, 0.75 hours)
     → See "Wandrey (Mona-Marie) & Halina (Marta) - The Evolution of Animal Consciousness" (0.75 hours)
   • "Wikipedia - Slavery in Africa" (Read / Write, 4.5 hours)
   • "Wohlleben (Peter) - The Inner Life of Animals: Surprising Observations of a Hidden World" (Read / Write, 9.25 hours)
   • "Wooldridge (Michael John) - This is not the AI we were promised" (Read / Write, 2.75 hours)
   • "Wright (N.T.) - Shadows, Souls and Where They Go: Life Beyond Death in Ancient Paganism" (Read, 0.25 hours)
   • "Wright (N.T.) - The Resurrection of the Son of God: Preface, Bibliography & Indexes" (Read, 1 hour)
   • "Wright (N.T.) - The Target and the Arrows" (Read, 0.5 hours)
   • "Yong (Ed) - An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us" (Read / Write, 17.25 hours)
   • "Zickgraf (Ryan) - The AI jobs-apocalypse is here: Prepare for the laptop-class revolt" (Read / Write, 4.25 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 (Total Hours = 13.75)
   • "Admin - Birkbeck - Socialising / Discussions" (0.25 hours)
   • "Admin - Thesis Planning+Admin (April - June)" (0.75 hours)
   • "Admin - Thesis Planning+Admin (Jan - March)" (6 hours)
   • Admin - Thesis Planning+Admin (Jan - March) - Cambridge Core (0.25 hours)
   • "Admin - Thesis Planning+Admin (Oct - Dec)" (6.5 hours)

1. Thesis Background - Reading / Writing (Total Hours = 35.75)
   • BBC - The Lord of the Flies (Read, 2 hours)
     → See "Golding (William) - Lord of the Flies" (2 hours)
   • "Dennett (Daniel) - I've Been Thinking" (Read, 1 hour)
   • "Desmond (Adrian) & Moore (James) - Darwin" (Read, 0.25 hours)
   • "FT - Five Books - Various Subjects not covered elsewhere" (Read, 1.5 hours)
   • "Golding (William) - Lord of the Flies" (Read / Write, 1.25 hours)
   • "Grossman (Vasily) - Life and Fate" (Read, 0.75 hours)
   • "Jain (Anubhav), Etc - Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM)" (Read / Write, 1.25 hours)
   • RIP: Heisook Kim - Individual Freedom in the Post Pandemic Era (Read, 1.25 hours)
   • RIP: Jesse Norman - The Wisdom of Mentor (Read, 1.5 hours)
   • RIP: Joseph Chan and Brian Wong - Treating legal transgressions as a response to state injustice (Read, 1.25 hours)
   • RIP: Lea Ypi - Amnesty For Immigrants (Read, 1.75 hours)
   • RIP: Myisha Cherry - Anti-Racism Training (Read, 1.75 hours)
   • RIP: Rajeev Bhargava - For State-Funded Multi-Religious Education (Read, 1.5 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - Axel Honneth: Work – A Short History of a Modern Concept (Read, 2 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - Heather Douglas: Differentiating Scientific Inquiry and Politics (Read, 1.5 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - Is 'Ethical AI' a Fantasy? (Read, 2 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - Kwame Anthony Appiah: Why do Religions Divide Us? What Can We Do About it? (Read, 1.5 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - Linda Martín Alcoff: The Return of Cultural Racism (Read, 1.5 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - Sally Haslanger: What is a Social Practice? (Read, 1.5 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - Thaddeus Metz - For Reconciliatory Sentencing (Read, 1.25 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - Thi Nguyen: Value Collapse (Read, 1.5 hours)
     → See "RIP - The Royal Institute of Philosophy - Podcasts" (21.75 hours)
   • "Shelley (Mary) - Frankenstein" (Write, 3 hours)
   • "Spencer (Nick) - Darwin and God" (Write, 0.75 hours)
   • "Wikipedia - Elizabeth, Lady Hope" (Read / Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Wikipedia - Religious views of Charles Darwin" (Read / Write, 1.5 hours)
   • "Williams (John) - Stoner" (Write, 0.25 hours)
2. Thesis Background - Status (Total Hours = 12.75)
   • 25Q3 Status Reports (3.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Thesis Planning+Admin (Oct - Dec)" (3.75 hours)
   • 25Q4 Status Reports: Thesis (6.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Thesis Planning+Admin (Jan - March)" (6.5 hours)
   • 26Q1 Status Reports (2.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Thesis Planning+Admin (April - June)" (2.5 hours)

1. Website - Bridge Development (Total Hours = 32.5)
   • Software Development - Bridge Database - Add Dave T to NGS Capture (2.25 hours)
   • Software Development - Bridge Database - Add extra NGS Information for Results Export (2.5 hours)
   • Software Development - Bridge Database - Improve efficiency of NGS & Results Hyperlink calculation for Results Export (4 hours)
   • Software Development - Bridge Database - Revive Essex & Add Herts & Beds for NGS Capture (23.75 hours)
     → See "Software Development - Website - Development" (32.5 hours)
2. Website - Bridge Maintenance (Total Hours = 27)
   • Bridge - Website - Theo Todman's Bridge Page⁸ Maintenance (2 hours)
   • Bridge - Website - Results Database Maintenance (23.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Website - Results Database Maintenance - Fixing Mountnessing Links (1.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Admin" (27 hours)
3. Website - Development (Total Hours = 14)
   • Move Historic Actuals from Status: Consciousness Studies⁹ to Status: Personal Identity¹⁰ (1.5 hours)
   • Website - Generator - Timeline software¹¹: Coxes Farm - Old Photos (3.25 hours)
   • Website - Generator - Compress Ling Pages for Kobo (2.5 hours)
   • 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 Thesis Tasks Appendix in Status: Priority Task List¹² (1.25 hours)
   • Website - Generator - Include Totals to Table of actual hours versus hours planned, by weekday in Status: Summary - Actual versus Plan ¹³ (0.5 hours)
   • Website - Generator - Reinstate Daily Task Reporting in Status: Priority Summary Task List¹⁴ (0.25 hours)
   • Website - Generator - Temp_Note_Timestamp column in Notes table should be x 1,000? (2.25 hours)
     → See "Software Development - Website - Development" (14 hours)
4. Website - Education
   • "PC Pro - Computing in the Real World" (12.5 hours)
5. Website - Infrastructure (Total Hours = 26.25)
   • Bibleworks re-installation (0.25 hours)
   • Brother Laser Printer & Scanner - Disposing of, together with loads of old electrical junk (2 hours)
   • Commissioning Scanner on Epson Printer (0.25 hours)
   • Cross-checking Windows Defender (0.25 hours)
   • Develop & maintain procedures for junking US Healthcare spam (2 hours)
   • Epson ET-2850: iPhone Epson Smart Panel App to check Ink Levels (0.5 hours)
   • Epson Inkjet - Problems with Duplex Unit (0.25 hours)
   • Fitbit - Reviewing Fitbit Premium re renewal or cancellation (0.25 hours)
   • Fitbit Watch - Comissioning (1 hour)
   • Install what3words on iPhone (0.25 hours)
   • Installing GIMP Image Manipulation Program on new Laptop (0.25 hours)
   • Investigating, Purchasing & Commissioning New Wondershare PDF Element (3.25 hours)
   • iPhone Cables (0.25 hours)
   • Julie's Laptop - Sundry troubleshooting (1.5 hours)
   • Laser Printer - Brother HL-6050D drivers dropped by Windows 10 (and Windows 11) (1.5 hours)
   • Logitech Mouse died (0.25 hours)
   • Microsoft Windows & MS Office - Releases, Bugs & Periodic Re-boots (6 hours)
   • Namesco Renewals (1.5 hours)
   • Namesco Renewals: Plan to move to Hostinger? (0.25 hours)
   • PC Backups / OneDrive (1 hour)
   • XMas Mug - photos & formatting (1.5 hours)
   • XMas Newsletter - editing, photos, formatting & printing (2 hours)
     → See "Admin - Website - Admin & Maintenance" (26.25 hours)
6. Website - Maintenance (Total Hours = 19)
   • 25Q3 Status Reports (1.25 hours)
   • 25Q4 Status Reports: Website (3.5 hours)
   • 26Q1 Status Reports (1.25 hours)
   • Website - PID Note, Book & Paper Usage¹⁵ Improvements (2.25 hours)
   • Website - Theo Todman's Home Page (Home Page) (0.25 hours)
   • Website - Bring my Philosophy Page¹⁶ up to date (5 hours)
   • Website - Maintaining 'Websites' Page¹⁷ (1 hour)
   • Website - Mothball my Philosophy Research Page¹⁸ (1.5 hours)
   • Website - Periodic Full Regeneration (3 hours)
     → See "Admin - Website - Admin & Maintenance" (19 hours)

1. Website Others - A1WaspsAndBees
   • Software Development - a1waspsandbees - Website Maintenance (1.25 hours)
     → See "Software Development - a1WaspsAndBees - Website Investigation & Maintenance" (1.25 hours)
2. Website Others - Enigma Ensemble
   • Admin - Enigma Ensemble Website - Development, Admin & Maintenance (5.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Enigma Ensemble Website - Creation, Admin & Maintenance" (5.25 hours)
3. 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)
4. Website Others - Mayflower DBC Maintenance (Total Hours = 25.25)
   • "Admin - Mayflower Website - Admin & Maintenance" (7.25 hours)
   • Mayflower Scoring Laptop - EBUScore & BridgeMate Control Software - Individual Tournament Set-up (2.5 hours)
   • Mayflower Scoring Laptop - Install Bridge Timer (1 hour)
   • Mayflower Scoring Laptop - Loading Deals (0.25 hours)
   • Mayflower Scoring Laptop - Manual Scoring (1.75 hours)
   • Mayflower Scoring Laptop - Problems with EBUScore & BridgeMate Control Software (4.75 hours)
   • Mayflower Scoring Laptop - Reading EBUScore & BridgeMate Control Software Manuals (0.25 hours)
   • Mayflower Scoring Laptop - Windows Updates (6.75 hours)
   • Mayflower: Set up Google account & GMail address for Club (0.75 hours)
5. Website Others - Mountnessing DBC Maintenance (Total Hours = 66.25)
   • Admin - Mountnessing Website - Alaric re Recovery (14.5 hours)
   • Development of Mountnessing 'Small Site' (17.25 hours)
   • Development of Mountnessing 'Small Site' - Bug Fixes (3 hours)
   • Development of Mountnessing 'Small Site' - Attendance Page (4.5 hours)
   • Development of Mountnessing 'Small Site' - Control Page (4.25 hours)
   • Development of Mountnessing 'Small Site' - Data Conversion (5 hours)
   • Development of Mountnessing 'Small Site' - Data Grab (9.5 hours)
   • Development of Mountnessing 'Small Site' - Photos Page (4.5 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" (66.25 hours)
6. Website Others - Small Bridge Sites
   • "Software Development - Small Bridge Sites - Development & Maintenance" (7.5 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	10/06/2030	526 Days Behind	06/05/2035
  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	09/10/2028	558 Days Behind	13/10/2032
  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	15/09/2026	533 Days Behind	16/03/2027

  
  
• Kenneth Stewart - Kenneth Stewart - Death swallowed - Sermon 1 (Read / Write, 2.75 hours)
• Kenneth Stewart - Kenneth Stewart - Death swallowed - Sermon 2 (Read / Write, 1 hour)
  → See "Stewart (Kenneth) - Sermons" (3.75 hours)
• Isaiah 9:6 - 'Unto us a child is born' (Read, 0.25 hours)
  → See "Interaction - Discussion with Mike" (0.25 hours)
• Stewart (Kenneth) - Sermons - 1 Cor 15 - Reply to Jack H (Write, 0.25 hours)
• Stewart (Kenneth) - Sermons - Samson - Reply to Jack H (Write, 1 hour)
  → See "Stewart (Kenneth) - Sermons" (1.25 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)
• "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.) - 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)

1. Religion Background - Reading / Writing (Total Hours = 16.25)
   • "Flood (Gavin D.) - An Introduction to Hinduism" (Write, 0.75 hours)
   • "FT, Borkataky-Varma (Sravana) - Five Books - The Best Books on Hinduism" (Read / Write, 3.5 hours)
   • "Kandiah (Krish) - Faitheism: Why Christians and Atheists have more in common than you think" (Read / Write, 2.5 hours)
   • "Mascaro (Juan) - Bhagavad Gita" (Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Muller (Max) - The Upanishads - Part I" (Write, 1 hour)
   • "Muller (Max) - The Upanishads - Part II" (Write, 1 hour)
   • "Narayanan (Vasudha) - Understanding Hinduism: Origins, Beliefs, Practices, Holy Texts, Sacred Places" (Read / Write, 2 hours)
   • "Parrinder (Geoffrey) - Upanishads Gita and Bible: A comparitive study of Hindu and Christian Scriptures" (Write, 1 hour)
   • Patheos - Naziri - Arabs Called 1927 Al-Aqsa Mosque Collapse God’s Punishment (Read / Write, 0.75 hours)
     → See "BBC - Miscellaneous iPlayer and Podcasts" (0.75 hours)
   • Pete's Workshop on the Structure of Acts - Pre-reading (Read, 0.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Religion - Admin" (0.75 hours)
   • "Sivaraman (Krishna), Ed. - Hindu Spirituality I - Vedas Through Vedanta" (Write, 0.75 hours)
   • "Sundararajan (K.R.) & Mukerji (Bithika), Eds. - Hindu Spirituality II - Postclassical and Modern" (Write, 0.75 hours)
   • Walker - The Anglican Church's split: When the culture wins over Scripture (Read / Write, 1 hour)
     → See "BBC - Miscellaneous iPlayer and Podcasts" (1 hour)
2. Religion Background - Admin (Total Hours = 9.25)
   • 25Q3 Status Reports (1.75 hours)
   • 25Q4 Status Reports: Religion (0.5 hours)
   • 26Q1 Status Reports (0.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Religion - Admin" (3 hours)
   • Admin - St John's Notice Sheets (0.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Catalogue Papers and Books (including Abstract improvements)" (0.25 hours)
   • OBT Weekend Preparation & Admin (5 hours)
   • Offshoots Dinner - Tidy Up (1 hour)
     → See "Admin - Religion - Admin" (6 hours)
3. Religion Background - Discussions (Total Hours = 34.75)
   • Interaction - Discussions with Julie's Church Group (2 hours)
   • Interaction - Discussions with Mike, Sylvia & Julie (10.25 hours)
     → See "Interaction - Religion - Discussions" (12.25 hours)
   • Interaction - Discussions with Pete, Caro & Julie (0.75 hours)
   • Interaction with Julie, Pete, Caro, Mike, Sylvia, Nev, Hazel, Willie & Gill on Holiday (18.75 hours)
   • Planning & Interaction with Pete, Julie, Sylvia, etc, re Holiday (2.5 hours)
     → See "Interaction - Discussions with Pete" (22 hours)
   • Sylvia re Sumerian Brian Bilston (0.5 hours)
     → See "Interaction - Religion - Discussions" (0.5 hours)

1. Music - Administration (Total Hours = 159.5)
   • 25Q3 Status Reports (2.25 hours)
   • 25Q4 Status Reports: Music (2 hours)
   • 26Q1 Status Reports (0.75 hours)
   • Enigma Ensemble - Admin (83 hours)
   • Enigma Ensemble - Admin - Advertising in The Resident (0.25 hours)
   • Enigma Ensemble - Admin - Musescore Renewal (0.25 hours)
   • Enigma Ensemble - Admin - Musescore Upgrades (0.25 hours)
   • Enigma Ensemble - Concert Planning (8 hours)
   • Enigma Ensemble: Travel, Lunch, Interaction (15.75 hours)
   • Fixing Julie's Groove-e Boombox (0.25 hours)
   • Fixing Julie's Violin pegs (0.25 hours)
   • Flyers for Offshoots (0.75 hours)
   • Investigating piano for Lili (1.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Music - Administration" (115.25 hours)
   • MuseScore - Bach - Air on a G String (5.5 hours)
   • MuseScore - Binge - Watermill (1.5 hours)
   • MuseScore - Gounod - Marionette - Oboe Score Adjustment (1 hour)
   • MuseScore - John Ireland - Downland Suite - Minuet (0.5 hours)
   • MuseScore - Miller of Dee (0.5 hours)
   • MuseScore - OBT Oboe-Violin Duets (3 hours)
   • MuseScore - Old Ned (0.5 hours)
   • MuseScore - Trombey - Eye Level (Piano part) (1 hour)
   • MuseScore - Various New Items (1 hour)
   • MuseScore - Warlock - Boccherini - Minuet & Trio (Sax parts) (0.75 hours)
   • MuseScore - Warlock - Capriol - Danse (4 hours)
   • MuseScore - Warlock - Capriol - Pavane (Tenor Sax) (0.5 hours)
     → See "Todman (Theo) - Music Score OCR & Editing Software - Selection & Use" (19.75 hours)
   • Music Copying / Filing (8.5 hours)
   • Music Copying / Filing - Offshoots (0.75 hours)
   • Oboe reeds - research / purchase (0.75 hours)
   • OBT Weekend - Oboe / Violin Duets - Organisation (3.5 hours)
   • Offshoots Dinner - General Discussions - Music (1 hour)
   • Opera - Carmen (5.5 hours)
   • Opera - Madama Butterfly (4.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Music - Administration" (24.5 hours)
2. Music - Aural
   • "Earmaster - Ear Training & Sight-singing" (1.25 hours)
3. Music - Oboe (Total Hours = 76.25)
   • Mower (Mike) - The Good Tempered Oboe - 'Dop Dop Doobah' (0.5 hours)
   • Mower (Mike) - The Good Tempered Oboe - 'Enlightenment' (0.25 hours)
     → See "Mower (Mike) - The Good Tempered Oboe" (0.75 hours)
   • Oboe - Corelli - Christmas Pastorale (1 hour)
   • Oboe - Enigma Ensemble (21 hours)
   • Oboe - Enigma Ensemble - Practice (42 hours)
   • Oboe - Enigma Ensemble - Practice - Bach Organ Sonata No. 4.II (Andante) (1 hour)
   • OBT Weekend - Oboe / Violin Duets - Practice (10.5 hours)
     → See "Practice - Oboe - Enigma Ensemble - Playing & Practice" (75.5 hours)
4. Music - Piano (Total Hours = 1.25)
   • "Faber (Nancey) & Faber (Randall) - Faber Piano Adventures: Adult Piano Adventures All-in-One Lesson Book 1: Spiral Bound" (0.75 hours)
   • Piano (0.5 hours)
     → See "Practice - Piano" (0.5 hours)
5. Music - Recorder (Total Hours = 12.25)
   • "Dolmetsch (Carl) - Advanced Recorder Technique" (1.5 hours)
   • "Goodyear (Stephen F.) - The New Recorder Tutor: Book 2 (Descant or Tenor)" (1.5 hours)
   • "Nelson (Troy) & Currier (Scott) - Super Easy Recorder Sheet Music for Beginners: A Beginner Recorder Book for Adults and Kids" (1 hour)
   • "Oosthuizen (Amanda) & Oosthuizen (Jemima) - Learn Recorder through Famous Classics" (1 hour)
   • "Practice - Recorder - General Practice" (1.25 hours)
   • "Priestley (Edmund) & Fowler (Fred) - The School Recorder Book: Part 1" (6 hours)

1. Bridge - Reading / Writing
   • "Reading - Bridge - Magazines" (Read, 9.5 hours)
2. Bridge - Admin (Total Hours = 214)
   • 25Q3 Status Reports (7.75 hours)
   • 25Q4 Status Reports: Bridge (2.5 hours)
   • 26Q1 Status Reports (2.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Admin" (13 hours)
   • Admin - Bridge - Mountnessing Village Hall (MVH) Trusteeship (7 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Mountnessing Village Hall Trusteeship" (7 hours)
   • Admin - Mayflower DBC - EBUScore Training (1.25 hours)
   • Admin - Mayflower DBC - ECATS SIMS Preparation (0.75 hours)
   • Admin - Mayflower DBC - Lunch with DP & AK (3.25 hours)
   • Admin - Mayflower DBC - Lunch with DP & JMcC (3 hours)
   • Admin - Mayflower DBC - Lunch with DP, AK & TC (3.5 hours)
   • Admin - Mayflower DBC - Lunch with DP, AK, JMcC & TC (11.75 hours)
   • Admin - Mayflower DBC - NICKO Organisation (8.75 hours)
   • Admin - Mayflower DBC - Planning Zoom Meetings (0.5 hours)
   • "Admin - Mayflower DBC - Secretarial & Signatory Duties" (125 hours)
   • Admin - Mid Essex - Fletcher Organisation (0.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Discussions with Chris (0.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Emails / Calls to Colin (0.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Emails / Calls to David P (5 hours)
   • Bridge - Emails / Calls to DV (0.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Emails / Calls to Tim C (0.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Emails to / Discussions with Albert (1.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Emails to / Discussions with Dave T (2.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Emails to Angie (2.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Emails to Robert (0.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Marc Chawner re ECBA Selection (0.5 hours)
   • Bridge - MK Payments (0.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Planning EBU & ECBA Sessions for 2026 (5 hours)
   • Bridge - Planning EBU Sessions with Dave T (2.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Planning EBU Sessions with David P (2.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Ranked Masters - Admin (4.25 hours)
   • DP Bridge Party - Meal & Socialising (4 hours)
   • Tony French's Funeral + Wake (4.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Admin" (69 hours)
3. Bridge - Play (Total Hours = 323.5)
   • Bridge - Chelmsford (Albert) (3 hours)
   • Bridge - Cornell Trophy (David P) (6.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Cumbria - RealBridge (Dave T) (7.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Cumbria - RealBridge (David P) (2.5 hours)
   • Bridge - DP Bridge Party (13.75 hours)
   • Bridge - EBU National Pairs East Qualifier - RealBridge (Dave T) (6.25 hours)
   • Bridge - EBU National Pairs Final - RealBridge (Dave T) (12 hours)
   • Bridge - EBU OODGP Swiss Pairs - RealBridge (Dave T) (25.75 hours)
   • Bridge - EBU Ranked Life Masters Pairs - RealBridge (Dave T) (11.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Leighton Buzzard - RealBridge (Colin) (2.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Leighton Buzzard - RealBridge (David P) (6.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Mayflower (Bernard K) (3.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Mayflower (Colin) (9.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Mayflower (David P) (71.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Mayflower (Linda) (6.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Mayflower (Tim C) (3.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Mid-Essex - Friday (Albert) (13.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Milton Keynes - RealBridge (Dave T) (102.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Milton Keynes - RealBridge (David P) (10.75 hours)
   • Bridge - NICKO Round 1 (Mayflower vs Deva BC E) (3 hours)
   • Bridge - NICKO Round 2 (Mayflower vs Cambridge B) (2.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Playing" (323.5 hours)
4. Bridge - Study (Total Hours = 247.5)
   • "Bridge - Handle" (61.5 hours)
   • Bridge - NICKO Round 1 (Mayflower vs Deva BC E) - Setup, Socialising & Session Reviews (0.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Mayflower DBC - Secretarial & Signatory Duties" (0.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - Albert (4.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - Bernard K (1 hour)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - Colin (4.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - Dave T (60.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - David P (42 hours)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - DP Bridge Party (1 hour)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - Linda (1.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - Tim C (1.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - Albert (2.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - Bernard K (0.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - Colin (5 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - Dave T (36 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - David P (19.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - Linda (1 hour)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - Robert (1 hour)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - Tim C (1 hour)
   • Bridge - Systems Reviews - DP Bridge Party (1 hour)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Study" (184.5 hours)
   • "Chawner (Marc) - Defense" (0.25 hours)
   • "Chawner (Marc) - Know Your Percentages" (0.25 hours)
   • "Chawner (Marc) - No Trump Declarer Play" (0.25 hours)
   • "Chawner (Marc) - Playing in a Suit Contract as Declarer" (0.25 hours)

• 25Q3 Status Reports (1.5 hours)
• 25Q4 Status Reports: General Culture (1 hour)
• 26Q1 Status Reports (0.75 hours)
  → See "Admin - General Culture - Admin" (3.25 hours)
• "BBC - Miscellaneous iPlayer and Podcasts" (Read, 0.25 hours)
• BBC - Miscellaneous Programmes (Journey to MIke & Sylvia's) (Read, 1.5 hours)
• BBC - 'Outrageous' (Mitford sisters) (Read, 1.25 hours)
• "Bearman (Robert) - Stoneleigh Abbey: The House, Its Owners, Its Lands" (Read / Write, 11.75 hours)
• "Cambridge - CAM (Cambridge Alumni Magazine)" (Read, 0.75 hours)
• Downton Abbey Film (Read, 2.5 hours)
  → See "Admin - General Culture - Admin" (5.25 hours)
• "FT - Five Books - Various Subjects not covered elsewhere" (Read, 0.5 hours)
• "Harris (Robert) - Dictator" (Read / Write, 0.75 hours)
• "Harris (Robert) - Fatherland" (Read / Write, 10.75 hours)
• "Harris (Robert) - Imperium" (Read / Write, 0.75 hours)
• "Harris (Robert) - Lustrum" (Read / Write, 0.75 hours)
• HSBC Pensioners Association (0.5 hours)
  → See "Admin - General Culture - Admin" (0.5 hours)
• Interaction - Discussions with Julie's Church Group (2 hours)
• Interaction - Discussions with Mike, Sylvia & Julie (4 hours)
  → See "Interaction - Discussion with Mike" (6 hours)
• Investigations into treatment of injured foxes (0.5 hours)
  → See "Admin - General Culture - Admin" (0.5 hours)
• "LPOC - Listed Heritage: The Listed Property Owners' Club Magazine" (Read, 5.75 hours)
• "LRB - London Review of Books" (Read, 2 hours)
• "Mann (Thomas), Lowe-Porter (H.T.) - Lotte In Weimar" (Write, 0.25 hours)
• "Mann (Thomas), Lowe-Porter (H.T.) - The Holy Sinner" (Write, 0.25 hours)
• Martin White - Correspondence (Write, 6.5 hours)
• Memories of King's (Write, 1.25 hours)
• New Year's Do - Politics + Quiz (Write, 3 hours)
• OBT Murder Mystery (3 hours)
• OBT Quiz (2 hours)
• Offshoots Dinner - General Discussions - Politics (1 hour)
• Oppenheimer (Read, 2 hours)
  → See "Admin - General Culture - Admin" (18.75 hours)
• "O'Sullivan (Maurice), Forster (E.M.) - Twenty Years A-Growing" (Read / Write, 12 hours)
• Reading Wikipedia: Jeffrey Epstein (Read, 1.25 hours)
• Reading Wikipedia: Peter Mandelson (Read, 0.5 hours)
• Rebecca Delong on Facebook (Read / Write, 0.75 hours)
• Reply to King's re Frank Greaney (Write, 0.5 hours)
  → See "Admin - General Culture - Admin" (3 hours)
• "Ryback (Timoth W.) - Takeover" (Read, 1.5 hours)
• St John's Quiz (6.5 hours)
• Steve Levy - Correspondence (Write, 0.25 hours)
  → See "Admin - General Culture - Admin" (6.75 hours)
• "Todman (Theo) - Investigating Housing Developments near Coxes Farm" (Read / Write, 44.25 hours)
• "White (Martin) - A Life Unfinished" (Read / Write, 1.75 hours)
• Wikipedia: Franz Schubert (Read, 1 hour)

1. Languages - Admin (Total Hours = 3)
   • 25Q3 Status Reports (1.5 hours)
   • 25Q4 Status Reports: Languages (1 hour)
   • 26Q1 Status Reports (0.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Languages - Admin" (3 hours)
2. Languages - Chinese
   • "Lamping (Alwena) & Yu (Feixia) - Talk Mandarin Chinese Pack" (2.75 hours)
3. Languages - French
   • "Ling - Learn French" (0.25 hours)
4. Languages - Greek (Classical)
   • "Wenham (John) - The Elements of New Testament Greek" (5.5 hours)
5. Languages - Hebrew (Classical)
   • "Lambdin (Thomas) - Introduction to Biblical Hebrew" (9 hours)
6. Languages - Italian
   • "Ling - Learn Italian" (0.25 hours)
7. 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)
8. Languages - Portuguese
   • "Ling - Learn Portuguese" (0.25 hours)
9. Languages - Spanish
   • "Ling - Learn Spanish" (0.25 hours)
10. Languages - Thai
    • "Ling - Learn Thai" (0.25 hours)

1. Chess - Admin (Total Hours = 2.5)
   • 25Q3 Status Reports (1.5 hours)
   • 25Q4 Status Reports: Chess (0.75 hours)
   • Chess - Discussions with Chris (0.25 hours)
     → See "Chess - Admin" (2.5 hours)
2. Chess - Training (Total Hours = 2)
   • Chess - Chess Dot Com - Playing weak Bots (0.25 hours)
   • Chess - Chess Dot Com - Puzzles (1 hour)
   • Chess - YouTube Videos (0.25 hours)
     → See "Chess - Chess dot Com" (1.5 hours)
   • "Studer (Noel) - Next Level Chess" (0.5 hours)

1. Mathematics - Reading / Writing (Total Hours = 35.75)
   • Accounts Roll-over to 2026 (2.5 hours)
   • Becky's Loan Calculations (0.5 hours)
   • Bridge: NGS Sopp & SOF calculations / reconciliation (5.75 hours)
   • Inheritance Tax Planning & Calculation (0.5 hours)
   • Mathematics of Bridge Movements (4.5 hours)
   • Mortgage Refinancing Calculations (8.75 hours)
   • Pension & Finance Calculations (0.75 hours)
   • Reading Wikipedia: George Green (mathematician) and related items (0.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Mathematics - Admin" (23.5 hours)
   • "Shapiro (Stewart) - A Potpourri of Questions and Attempted Answers" (3 hours)
   • "Shapiro (Stewart) - Logicism: Is Mathematics (Just) Logic?" (2 hours)
   • "Shapiro (Stewart) - Near Opposites: Kant and Mill" (2.75 hours)
   • "Shapiro (Stewart) - Plato's Rationalism, and Aristotle" (2 hours)
   • "Shapiro (Stewart) - Thinking about Mathematics: Preface" (0.25 hours)
   • "Shapiro (Stewart) - What Is So Interesting about Mathematics (for a Philosopher?)" (1.75 hours)
   • Tax Code change XChk (0.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Mathematics - Admin" (0.5 hours)
2. Mathematics - Admin (Total Hours = 3)
   • 25Q3 Status Reports (1.75 hours)
   • 25Q4 Status Reports: Mathematics (0.5 hours)
   • 26Q1 Status Reports (0.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Mathematics - Admin" (3 hours)

• 25Q3 Status Reports (1.5 hours)
• 25Q4 Status Reports: HiQ (0.75 hours)
• Admin - HiQ Societies - ISPE - Joining Goodreads Group (0.5 hours)
• Admin - HiQ Societies - ISPE - Membership Dues (0.25 hours)
• Communication from new President (0.25 hours)
  → See "ISPE - HiQ Societies - ISPE" (3.25 hours)
• "Wiener (Norbert) - Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth" (0.75 hours)

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