Thread: My Brain Hurts

Hello All,

I have just finished re-writing Chapter 6, my Data Analysis Chapter - it was a more of a total overhaul. Anyway, it is all done now and even shifted from an independent working draft to being fully incorporated among all the previous chapters. All the Table of Contents, the List of Figures and the List of Tables now all correspond with each other in an appropriate manner.

The re-write of Chapter 6 Data Analysis made me revisit an earlier chapter where I wrote about indexicality and deixis. While re-writing Chapter 6 it became apparent that I followed indexicality and context not deixis. So that meant removing all traces of "Deixis" which had the flow-on effect of changing the pagination that caused orphaned sentences - something that I detest. Part of a sentence at the bottom of a page and the remainder located at the top of the next page - urk!

I also had to change all the numbering of the tables throughout the remaining pages because I had a deixis table. Once I removed the Deixis table it had a knock-on to the numbering and all references to "as show in Table ...".

Well 6 chapters down and three to go

I worked on Chapter 6 from 9:00 am Monday to 3:00 am Tuesday then a fair bit of the day. So I figure for the rest of today I am just going to take a wee break before digging out Chapter 7 ...

I go down to the big smoke to get measured and fitted with a new set of eyes (Mini Scleral rigid gas permeable contact lenses) next week. Then two weeks after that another trip down to pick up the new lenses. All the measurements and the "fit" have to get scanned and checked again before I can take the new lenses home.

I hope to have a much better outlook than I did from New Year's eve 2016 when my eyes first played up again. In short, the flaring up of an eye allergy for 12 months. Then my contact lenses not having a happy fit with my eyes for the latter part of 2016 makes 2016 a year pardon the pun - I was happy to see the back of.



Kind Regards
Lionel

re paragraph 5.....it's important to have a wee break.

I find working with a taut bladder concentrates the mind.
Cheers,
D

Originally Posted by Dark61

I find working with a taut bladder concentrates the mind.
Cheers,
D

A play on words .... Very droll Dark

I feel your pain Lionel. I'd love to help you but if I started delving into this kind of stuff my brain would certainly fry. Before it did though, it would have come up with a fourth category and that would cause you more pain. Not to mention causing a terrible imbalance.
So I'll just have to wish you luck. Don't forget to stop and empty your brain once in a while, because as you refill it, you hopefully, will leave some of the rubbish out.

Hello All,

I took today off instead of Friday.

The joys of rain, so lots of soil moisture, high temperatures and 2 acres of grass. Plus the nature strip. Bouncing around the paddock on the tractor while slashing everything level.

I might have accidentally bumped some branches that sort of got in the way of the ROPS frame. No doubt I will hear all about it tomorrow morning after Leeann takes the dogs for a walk in the paddock.

I cannot help it if plants leap out and try to attack the slasher. You know aerial and ground attacks, plants coming at me from everywhere - the tractor and slasher just had to defend itself!

Kind Regards
Lionel

Triffids ?

Hello All,

Here is Queensland ... I have just put Chapter 7 to bed amongst its six earlier written chapters before midnight January 29. 2017.

How come the shortest chapter was the damned most hardest to write? Instead of rolling smoothly from one point or section to the next - it was like it had square wheels. Lots of rearrangement and deletions, inclusions and polishing before it flowed reasonably.

Thank God for my now one week old "new" contact lenses - being able to see properly out of both eyes .... without needing to wear glasses as well is just heavenly.

Well two chapters to go and it is all over for the initial drawing blood out of stone.

Well nighty night every one

Kind Regards
Lionel