Day Twenty-Nine: Presentation Preparation Sensation is Sweeping the Nation...

It will be as pleasing to the reader to hear as it is for me to tell that, after a great number of productive and, in my mind, fascinating, diversions and tangents this past week - of both an astronomical and ancient document nature, the reader will recall, today nevertheless saw a prudent advisable renewal of my presentation preparation. This introduction, and an assertion that I am very pleased with my progress and work, will have to suffice for the time being - regardless of the fact that the space I give it here does not give justice to the eight hours I spent at this activity - for fear of divulging too much to my August 24th audience...

Having finished scanning the individual pages of the auction catalog that I mentioned in Friday's entry for Dr. Easton, it remained only for me to stitch the thirty-five images together into one continuous document as he requested. Dr. Easton came to the computer lab to remind me of this pending task at 11:00 today, and wishing to complete this task for him as soon as possible, I halted my presentation preparation to tend to this work. The computer have worked on for the past several days to complete this aforementioned task, the reader will recall, logs itself off Dr. Easton's account after periods of inactivity. It was with grim awe that, when I went to request Dr. Easton's help in logging in to this computer, I instead found emergency medical personnel stooping over him as his lay sprawled in front of his office door! Although I do not which to dwell on this solemn experience, I must say it was a painful realization for me of the severity of his bicycling injury. It seems only fitting that I stop here by saying that I do hope his condition quickly improves...

It seems as if I will not be finishing the said task for a spell...

While returning from the library after an unsuccessful attempt to copy Digital Image Processing by A.K. Jain for use of its pictures in my presentation (to copy a page on the library copiers requires use of a working RIT ID card on which money has been placed, and of course the reader will recall from my inability to borrow a book from the library - which was the reason for my attempt to copy a single page in the first place - that my card does not work), I happened across a shelf of old books discarded by the library and available free of charge to any one who wished to have them. I have not mentioned this before, but my bedroom and my portion of our basement at home contain collectively about 700 second-hand books on a good number of shelves; only an eighth of the books I own, maybe, were new when I came about them. Used books, especially for free, were something I could not turn up, especially when most of the books focused on chemistry, a subject that I will be taking this coming school year. A German-English dictionary for chemists and a chemistry textbook, even if from 1978, ended up being the only "loot" I carried away, owing to the small capacity of my book-bag, but I do anticipate another visit to this shelf soon...

I am off for home, where I hope to continue filling out my Early Decision application to Princeton, if that is of any interest to the reader.

Joe...as I have said, the map in the computer lab is old.

But I have not said that today's "Classical Piece of the Day" is...
Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man

Good Day,
Tyler C. Lucero