Today I mostly worked on a lesson plan and presentation for tomorrow’s online science class with my ongoing Outschool student. We’re heading towards basic atomic theory, after don some experiments with chemical reactions, and talking about the early experiments of 18th century chemists like Antoine & Marie-Anne Lavoisier. The goal for tomorrow is to get up to John Dalton’s formulation of atomic theory, and then leave some dangling questions that will lead into atomic structure in future weeks.
I did a 5k run after breakfast, before the day warmed up too much. Sydney reached 27°C today, and was 28°C yesterday – very warm for this early in spring. The mean maximum for September is only 20°C, but the forecast this week sees every day above that.
I went to pick up Scully from my wife’s work at lunch time. On the way I stopped to take a photo of this plant fibre snake thingy that is used to delineate the edge of a path through a park. Someone has put eyes on it, which makes it look amusing.
I stopped in at the local hardware store on the way home to look for that wood offcut I want to make a laundry shelf out of. But unfortunately when I asked to go through their offcuts bin, the guy told me that someone had just come in before me and bought everything that was in there! I looked and it was indeed totally empty. oh well, I’ll just have to keep trying until I find what I want.
Tonight I made calzones for dinner, with spinach and ricotta filling and some tomato sauce to pour over the top. I forgot to add some mozzarella to the stuffing, which I normally do, but they still turned out well.