{"id":558,"date":"2016-06-06T01:31:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T06:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=558"},"modified":"2016-06-07T09:03:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T14:03:22","slug":"update-for-652016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2016\/06\/06\/update-for-652016\/","title":{"rendered":"Update for 6\/5\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Project updates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Math relearning<\/strong> &#8211; Since K overlaps a lot with pre-K in EngageNY, I tried a few different approaches to the Kindergarten material last week, but I didn&#8217;t settle on one until Saturday, so I&#8217;m going to take another week on it before my next break. I posted some of my thoughts so far in <a href=\"\/wiki\/Math_Relearning\/EngageNY\/GK\/Module_1:_Numbers_to_10\">Kindergarten Module 1<\/a>, and I added a <a href=\"\/w\/index.php?title=Math_Relearning%2FEngageNY%2FGPK%2FModule_1%3A_Counting_to_5&amp;diff=223&amp;oldid=222\">missing part<\/a> of pre-K Module 1 that has the first propositional concept list and an explanation of those lists (not sure how I left it out).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Diet<\/strong> &#8211; I was in a much better mood last week, and despite all my bellyaching, I&#8217;ve actually been cooking more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dietdoctor.com\/recipes\/lchf-pancakes-with-berries-and-whipped-cream\">pancakes<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thekitchn.com\/3-faster-ways-to-cook-a-chicken-breast-tips-from-the-kitchn-216141\">chicken breast<\/a> with steamed asparagus, squash, and zucchini, which were better than I expected; taco salad with ground beef, which I make fairly often, so it wasn&#8217;t hard; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verywell.com\/low-carb-muffins-2241714\">low-carb blueberry muffins<\/a>, which I&#8217;m now addicted to, though in mine the blueberries sank to make a soggy mush on the bottom, so next time I&#8217;ll try placing them on top so maybe they&#8217;ll sink to the middle. For the sugar substitute in the muffins I used a combination of equal-ish parts saccharine, sucralose, and monk fruit extract, which was a good blend. This week I want to get around to making my low-carb version of my mom&#8217;s potato and sausage dish.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Daily routine<\/strong> &#8211; Doing my devotions and walk right after dinner worked well last week for the most part. My sleep schedule is still all over the place, and I&#8217;d like to figure out how waste less time sitting around.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Books<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Magicians-Novel-Trilogy\/dp\/0452296293\">The Magicians<\/a><\/em> &#8211; My library&#8217;s digital audiobook service told me this book my coworker Matt had recommended was available, and I didn&#8217;t know when I&#8217;d get a chance to check it out next, so I reluctantly interrupted my podcast catch-up and went for it, and I&#8217;m so glad I did. Usually I have to push myself to get through an audiobook in a month or two, but the writing and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thinkulum\/status\/738032166458662914\">audio narration<\/a> on this one were so good that it only took me three days. I don&#8217;t want to spoil too much, but think an American, slightly older Harry Potter who grew up reading the Narnia books, and you&#8217;ll have the basic premise. Now I&#8217;m waiting on seven other people to get through the next book in the series.<\/li>\n<li><em>Philosophy<\/em> &#8211; My pursuit of a metaphysics intro book has continued, and I debated ordering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Survey-Metaphysics-J-Lowe\/dp\/0198752539\">the one I settled on<\/a> because, well, metaphysics isn&#8217;t relevant to anything I&#8217;m doing right now, but I did anyway because honestly I really want to round out my philosophy collection. In the process of researching I did find a few books on the philosophy of mind and of cognitive science that are more relevant, so I might order a couple of those soon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Finances<\/strong> &#8211; Church giving updated! Next up: investing, I guess. I&#8217;m kind of scared of it, but I do have a plan, and I need to get it over with eventually.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dusk<\/strong> &#8211; Tonight I was in the neighborhood of a forest preserve I&#8217;d wanted to test out for dusk photography, so after picking up dinner I put off eating it to explore, and the result was another incredible experience with nature. I felt rich living near such places, and I wondered why I&#8217;d wasted the past 20 years not visiting them more often.<br \/>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50.0% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BGTSNPYo-eG\/\" target=\"_blank\">Taken 6\/5\/16. Another local forest preserve at dusk.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A photo posted by Andy Culbertson (@thinkulum) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-06-06T05:29:16+00:00\">Jun 5, 2016 at 10:29pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 37.4537037037% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BGTV85wo-U0\/\" target=\"_blank\">Taken 6\/5\/16. Another local forest preserve at dusk.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A photo posted by Andy Culbertson (@thinkulum) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-06-06T06:02:00+00:00\">Jun 5, 2016 at 11:02pm PDT<\/time>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 37.4537037037% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BGTWPWvI-VO\/\" target=\"_blank\">Taken 6\/5\/16. Another local forest preserve at dusk. Photos are nice, but this place was amazing in person.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A photo posted by Andy Culbertson (@thinkulum) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-06-06T06:04:31+00:00\">Jun 5, 2016 at 11:04pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 37.4537037037% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BGTWuXeo-WJ\/\" target=\"_blank\">Taken 6\/5\/16. Another local forest preserve at dusk. Did you know an average cumulus cloud weighs 1.1 million pounds?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A photo posted by Andy Culbertson (@thinkulum) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-06-06T06:08:45+00:00\">Jun 5, 2016 at 11:08pm PDT<\/time>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 37.4537037037% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BGTXJ8AI-W9\/\" target=\"_blank\">Taken 6\/5\/16 at Rivendell.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A photo posted by Andy Culbertson (@thinkulum) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-06-06T06:12:31+00:00\">Jun 5, 2016 at 11:12pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Life updates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Music<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattpetersonmusic.com\/\">Matt Peterson<\/a><\/em> &#8211; The reason I was in the neighborhood of this forest preserve was that I&#8217;d just been to a nearby piano concert by a guy who used to play on a worship team at one branch of our church, though he was more of a rumor to me because he moved away before I ever met or even saw him in person, so I went to the concert to do both. He&#8217;s a composer, and the concert was for his work <a href=\"https:\/\/play.spotify.com\/album\/5R5G5E8ZZfkykEm7P172mz\"><i>Paradise Suite<\/i><\/a>. I also got to catch up with one of my old professors who was there and who walked over during the intermission and greeted me by name, to my surprise, since I didn&#8217;t think he&#8217;d even remember me.<\/li>\n<li><em>schmoyoho<\/em> &#8211; The past couple of weeks I&#8217;ve had some old songs by the Gregory Brothers stuck in my head, and I made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLosGxWwxFmpdmOJNAFQeBq41CAZtWRvb7\">playlist<\/a> to share them. They do a lot of brilliant little things in those videos, in my semi-informed opinion, and I want to study their melodies and styles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project updates Math relearning &#8211; Since K overlaps a lot with pre-K in EngageNY, I tried a few different approaches to the Kindergarten material last week, but I didn&#8217;t settle on one until Saturday, so I&#8217;m going to take another &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2016\/06\/06\/update-for-652016\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,46,117,112,124,58,100,125,6,123,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-cooking","category-daily-routine","category-diet","category-dusk","category-life_updates","category-math-relearning","category-music","category-philosophy","category-photography","category-project-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}