Ideal Gas Laws

still thinking about how I showed this to Colin and Woody and encouraged them to take chemistry and physics in their junior and senior year...

and that just makes me think about education...

rather than Ideal Gas Laws, I think if Charles and Boyles Law... or the relationship between pressure, temperature and volume...

and kind of telling Colin and Woody how so much of our knowledge is the last 100 years... but is it... or is it the application of 19th century science???

if you were to drop names... Copernicus, Newton, then I don't think it is fair to drop just say one name a century... whose name would you drop... Lavoisier/Priestly, Pasteur, Dalton, Darwin, Mendel, Maxwell and finally Thomson discovering the electron...

that brings you up to the 20th Century...

makes me think the 19th century was the real explosion that took us from animal power and cave men to all kinds of technology... I don't think of Einstein as really changing technology...

it was 19th century chemisty, genetics and the electron really changed the world... I think of the 20th century as one of accuracy... precision manufacturing...

20th century computers are speed... but day in day out pasteurization saved lives... I mean the discovery of bacteria etc... and I think we'd still have computers etc. without Einstein... we just maybe wouldn't have nuclear weapons...

that would be an interesting novel or thesis... stop scientific knowledge at 1899... unlike the book by Edward Bellamy... LOOKING BACKWARD... just take what we know in 1899 and refined it without the 20th century theoretical additions... how much is
19th century... maybe we wouldn't have anti-lock brakes, but we'd have good brakes...

what if we stopped all scientific knowledge and all theory at 1899... but we could use everything known then in a technological sense... does DNA and cloning really matter to us??? do we use our knowledge of DNA in everyday medicine???

I'm not trying to be a Luddite...

anyway, just superfluous thoughts... just thinking maybe so much is superfluous...

but then again, that is to be human... to be above survival... animals don't have superfluous thoughts or activities... altho I think they do have "play"...

Lilly and I talked about that... that Colin and Woody "play"...

:)


well, maybe I'm off the subject...

feeling my age

Colin hopes that he and Woody will both go to college at UK...

cause thay are young and they make me think about the meaning of life... not that I don't think about it all the time... I do... but then if Woody plays tennis for another 40 years, he'll still be younger than I am now...

it isn't that I am so sad or regret being so old, but I sure do feel physically old now...

I didn't feel old at 50... actually, it kind of crept up on me the last three years... maybe mid 50's was the real decline... I could feel it before my kidney operation in Aug '07...

I could go back and outline a lot of steps toward old age... but I won't... was just thinking of them... but I do wonder if my diet could change things... guess the worst part of my diet is sugar... cookies and cokes... I should substitute fruits and juices...

anyway, just hard not to think about it... and hard not to feel like I have THREE lives... OH, KY and FL...

nice to have Woody here for a week to kind of make life seem a little more "continuous" for lack of a better word...

I guess maybe it is nice to tie things together... people, places and things...

and thinking about Sarah and Lucy... this is quite a year... with Lucy in Europe and Sarah getting married... is a big and busy year for everyone... 2009...

Tuesday

time sure flies...

Colin, Woody, Lilly and I had another fun filled day...

Woody played tennis for an hour with some really really good 25 year old boy we met at the Venice tennis courts... this guy and Woody were just crushing balls back and forth to each other... older players kind of sat around and watched in amazement... you cold hear the older tennis players talking... they'd say, "yeah, those boys must be from Bolleterries..."

we went to the beach to cool off afterwords... then we came home for a chicken breast spaghetti and center slice of ham dinner... Colin liked the spaghetti best and Woody the ham... Lilly took the boys to BLOCKBUSTER to rent a couple movies and fixed brownies for a snack... while they were out getting the movies, I called and talked to Nana for half an hour...

so the day just seemed to fly by...

hope everyone reading this is having fun...

my love...

Old

wow, after looking at the photos I posted, I am feeling old... it is tempting to take the photos down... feeling like THE OLD MAN IN THE SEA...

what to eat

still can't decide what I'm hungry for, but after looking at Lucy's photos, I thought I'd post a couple more from today...

off to snack...

more diet

after being up a couple of hours I was about to write how I am struggling not to go into the kitchen and get COOKIES !!! then, I got distracted by awesome photos posted by Lucy on her blog...

so, I brushed my teeth... do I make Sunflower seed bread toast, pancakes or just eat cookies??? wow, I didn't even consider an apple...

still can't get over Lucy's pictures from Berne...

and was just thinking how wild life is... Nana was telling me how much she enjoyed Sarah's call and hearing all about Sarah's wedding plans etc... and Woody is here... and now reading Lucy's blog... it is all so wild and wonderful...

diet

oh, I woke up thinking my diet has slipped away from me...

eating too many cookies and sweets and junk food... instead of healthier fruits and veggies... I kind of see the pattern... for a couple weeks I ate more apples and orange juice etc... but now I've slipped back to cookies and cokes etc... I can feel the difference... need to exercise a little willpower...

so, I'll see what I can do... by writing this maybe I can shift back to better eating... I'll report back in a week and see if I have made progress...