Saturday, May 18, 2024

9:50 I am very busy these days with a project. Today the people from the complex had a party across the alley. There was a HAPPY BIRTHDAY sign and balloons colored red and black. Angela went to the stores and i went to smoke and they were a bunch of kids and short adults passing by the open door in the back.

Then a "Mexican" came to with a bottle and was drinking looking at me. Then i felt a smell, but i thought it was by the front door. Change of patterns. I didn't go to search for it while they were partying. Mostly children yelling, very loud.

After Angela came and got darker the smell was unbearable so i went. At the SW bin there was again a blue open bag kinda hidden in the hanging slider (don't know the real name) outside the bin. Hard to pick, i tried with a stick then i went around the bin, squeezing really hard between the bin and the wire cage, then i threw it. Like always lately there was a guy in a car idling next to it. I went and searched for more at the other bins for a while and came back.

After i washed my hands once, i started to do the dishes. Trouble. When i was trying to rinse them, they were still slippery no matter how long or hard i tried. I threw the sponge, grabbed a new one, the same. Then i i used a towel and wiped my hands really hard and they the dishes became less sleepery but could never get whatever it was out of them.

10:27 The project i'm working on. I am on a deadline and cannot afford more time to play with the very complicated formulas of moon phase and distance. So an idea came to me which seems the unthinkable. To get them from Stellarium. Is very simple, i open a small Stellarium window next to my sheet, put in the date and then i get phase (illumination) and distance. However it's awkward. I  had to input the date as three fields +  hour, and then to get the two, round them in my mind, etc.

I was sure i made numerous mistakes and started over to correct them when this idea came to me. I cannot paste the date into Stellarium, but i can paste the Julian date. So i  had to invent a formula to convert date +  hour into Julian date which took me half day but now it's much easier and less prone to mistakes cause i copy the JD from my sheet, paste it into Stellarium so i cannot possibly put in wrong numbers and then i get the values. However because i don't use minutes, there is an error of up +/-0.2% for the phase cause the distance is less sensible with minutes.