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1. Total Time outstanding this period = 724 hours
2. Click Here⁵ for Actual Detail Summary (2007 - 2026) by Sub-Project
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1. Thesis - Reading / Writing (Total Hours = 10)
   • "Chivers (Tom) - Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World" (Read, 5.5 hours)
   • "Loose (Jonathan), Menuge (Angus) & Moreland (J.P.) - Substance Dualism and Its Physicalist Rivals" (Read, 0.25 hours)
   • "Ramakrishnan (Venki) - Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and Longevity" (Read, 0.25 hours)
   • "Swinburne (Richard) - Are We Bodies or Souls?" (Write, 4 hours)
2. Thesis - Research Repositioning
   • "Admin - Thesis Planning+Admin (Oct - Dec)" (0.75 hours)

1. Thesis Background - Reading / Writing
   • "Grossman (Vasily) - Life and Fate" (Read, 2.75 hours)
2. Thesis Background - Status
   • 26Q3 Status Reports: Thesis (1.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Thesis Planning+Admin (Oct - Dec)" (1.25 hours)

1. Website - Bridge Maintenance
   • Bridge - Website - Results Database Maintenance (1.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Admin" (1.5 hours)
2. Website - Development
   • Website - Generator - Timeline software¹⁰: Coxes Farm - Photos of New Cracks (8.5 hours)
     → See "Software Development - Website - Development" (8.5 hours)
3. Website - Education
   • "PC Pro - Computing in the Real World" (0.25 hours)
4. Website - Infrastructure (Total Hours = 0.5)
   • iPhone - Torch & passcode issues (0.25 hours)
   • Microsoft Windows & MS Office - Releases, Bugs & Periodic Re-boots (0.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Website - Admin & Maintenance" (0.5 hours)
5. Website - Maintenance
   • 26Q3 Status Reports: Website (0.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Website - Admin & Maintenance" (0.5 hours)

• "Software Development - Small Bridge Sites - Development & Maintenance" (0.25 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	13/11/2030	682 Days Behind	09/10/2035
  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	14/03/2029	714 Days Behind	18/03/2033
  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	18/02/2027	689 Days Behind	19/08/2027

  
  
• "Fudge (Edward William) - The Fire That Consumes: A Biblical and Historical Study of the Doctrine of Final Punishment" (Read, 0.75 hours)
• "Stuhlmacher (Peter) & Janowski (Bernd), Eds. - The Suffering Servant: Isaiah 53 in Jewish and Christian Sources: Preface" (Read, 0.5 hours)

1. Religion Background - Admin
   • 26Q3 Status Reports: Religion (1.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Religion - Admin" (1.75 hours)
2. Religion Background - Discussions (Total Hours = 3)
   • BBC: Beyond Belief - New Atheism (0.5 hours)
   • Interaction - Discussions with Mike, Sylvia & Julie (2 hours)
     → See "Interaction - Religion - Discussions" (2.5 hours)
   • Interaction - Discussions with Pete re BBC: Beyond Belief - New Atheism. Etc (0.5 hours)
     → See "Interaction - Discussions with Pete" (0.5 hours)

1. Music - Administration (Total Hours = 7.5)
   • 26Q3 Status Reports: Music (1.5 hours)
   • Enigma Ensemble - Admin (4.5 hours)
   • Enigma Ensemble: Travel, Lunch, Interaction (1 hour)
     → See "Admin - Music - Administration" (7 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Music Score OCR & Editing Software - Selection & Use" (0.5 hours)
2. Music - Oboe (Total Hours = 5)
   • Oboe - Enigma Ensemble (1.5 hours)
   • Oboe - Enigma Ensemble - Practice (3 hours)
   • Oboe - Enigma Ensemble - Practice - Bach Organ Sonata No. 4.II (Andante) (0.5 hours)
     → See "Practice - Oboe - Enigma Ensemble - Playing & Practice" (5 hours)
3. Music - Recorder
   • "Priestley (Edmund) & Fowler (Fred) - The School Recorder Book: Part 1" (0.25 hours)

1. Bridge - Reading / Writing
   • "Reading - Bridge - Magazines" (Read, 0.25 hours)
2. Bridge - Admin (Total Hours = 16.5)
   • 26Q3 Status Reports: Bridge (5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Admin" (5 hours)
   • Admin - Bridge - Mountnessing Village Hall (MVH) Trusteeship (1.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Mountnessing Village Hall Trusteeship" (1.75 hours)
   • Admin - Mayflower DBC - NICKO Organisation (0.5 hours)
   • "Admin - Mayflower DBC - Secretarial & Signatory Duties" (3.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Planning CiN SIMS Sessions with Dave T, Etc. (0.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Planning EBU & ECBA Sessions for 2026 (0.25 hours)
   • Bridge Database - Maintain Essex, Herts & Beds, etc NGS Capture for MK (4.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Admin" (6 hours)
3. Bridge - Play (Total Hours = 19.75)
   • Bridge - Cumbria - RealBridge (Dave T) (2.25 hours)
   • Bridge - EBU OODGP Swiss Pairs - RealBridge (Dave T) (5.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Mayflower (Colin) (6.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Milton Keynes - RealBridge (Dave T) (5.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Playing" (19.75 hours)
4. Bridge - Study (Total Hours = 16.25)
   • "Bridge - Handle" (4.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - Colin (1.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - Dave T (5 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - Colin (1 hour)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - Colin - CC Update (0.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - Dave T (2.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - Dave T - CC Update (1.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Study" (12 hours)

• 26Q3 Status Reports: General Culture (1.25 hours)
  → See "Admin - General Culture - Admin" (1.25 hours)
• BBC - Miscellaneous iPlayer and Podcasts: Magpie Murders 2:1 (Read, 0.75 hours)
• BBC - Miscellaneous iPlayer and Podcasts: Magpie Murders 2:2 (Read, 0.75 hours)
  → See "BBC - Miscellaneous iPlayer and Podcasts" (1.5 hours)
• "LPOC - Listed Heritage: The Listed Property Owners' Club Magazine" (Read, 0.25 hours)
• "Todman (Theo) - Investigating Problems & Developments at Coxes Farm" (6.75 hours)

1. Languages - Admin
   • 26Q3 Status Reports: Languages (1 hour)
     → See "Admin - Languages - Admin" (1 hour)
2. Languages - Greek (Classical)
   • "Wenham (John) - The Elements of New Testament Greek" (0.25 hours)
3. Languages - Hebrew (Classical)
   • "Lambdin (Thomas) - Introduction to Biblical Hebrew" (0.25 hours)

1. Chess - Admin
   • 26Q3 Status Reports: Chess (1 hour)
     → See "Chess - Admin" (1 hour)
2. Chess - Training
   • Chess - Chess Dot Com - Puzzles (1.5 hours)
     → See "Chess - Chess dot Com" (1.5 hours)

1. Mathematics - Reading / Writing
   • "Shapiro (Stewart) - Intuitionism: Is Something Wrong with Our Logic?" (0.5 hours)
2. Mathematics - Admin
   • 26Q3 Status Reports: Mathematics (0.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Mathematics - Admin" (0.5 hours)

• 26Q3 Status Reports: HiQ (0.5 hours)
  → See "ISPE - HiQ Societies - ISPE" (0.5 hours)
• "Wiener (Norbert) - Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth" (0.5 hours)

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