Skiing

 Another great day of skiing but will take today off again. It is nice to be flying along the ski trail for sure but at 79 the pace is a good deal slower and the distance less than in my youth. But it was fun and we had a great time. Such simple pleasures in life but in reality everything costs a lot of money - the skis and the boots are relatively new; I think it is their third season now but we have had good fun skiing when we have had snow. Climate change is most painfully felt in the polar regions at this moment in time because it is winter and we are supposed to have winter with deep snow covering the ground. We need to pay attention to Mother Nature and protect the environment. 

Another Saturday as well and this week has flown by. Today I shall work on the Thomas Chart and finish off the book getting the publishing license in order and producing the *.pdf to put up on my website. Then I will have completed what I wanted to do with the Siderfin material ever since I discovered that there was a lot of material not in James Sanders' book but then he wrote it in 1912 and it is much easier to get to the repositories in this day and age over 100 years later. 

Returning to the Blake and Pincombe books is the next step but first I must create and publish the Pincombe/Pinkham Newsletter for the 1st of December - somewhat late but I was resolved to complete the Siderfin task before moving on to anything else and then Christmas time is always very very busy. 

As we slide towards New Years and 2025 I do wonder what the New Year will bring. How sad that Russia appears to have shot down a civilian airplane and killed dozens of people. Russia is certainly out of control and the Nazi Putin is the cause of all the problems in that part of the world. The people of Russia do need to do something about the Nazi Putin destroying their lives and he will continue to do so unless something occurs to change that. 

Tea time and then breakfast followed by Latin and the day begins. A somewhat late beginning but I did oversleep. Perhaps I was tired by all of that skiing. Likely, I am over 79.25 years of age now.