I for one would find temporary parallel paths with one or more Team Andrax members on future treks exciting, acpartsman
Good Afternoon Base Campers!
SeriousCrunchers is my current team. We are in challenges. Quite a few. sujo1 has an appetite ...
Looking at the list of teams we compete with, one catches my eye:
Public Libraries of America
It says in their team page:
The team where your library's public-use computers contribute to World Community Grid projects.
Isn't that nice?
I wish that the computers at my local library in Denmark did that.
The captain is PCLBookworm. I noticed him visiting our Forum today. Whether he is just one person or an umbrella for a lot of librarians, is hard to know. And I have seen no team page for recruiting and communication. Maybe it is unnecessary with the networking libraries may have in so many ways.
At any rate, PCLBookworm is the only one on the member list.
The team is just one month old.
And it’s gaining ground. Fast. Look at the run time graph:


Those of you Base Campers who went on the Hungary trek will know libraries are worth visiting – not only for their books, but often for their architecture as well. This is the Library at the University of Copenhagen
and mermaids are avid readers …
So … rather than trying in vain to get into contact with that captain in Mexico whom NAP2614 also had no luck getting in touch with, I think we should contemplate visiting Public Libraries in America when we have collected our collective strength after touring Colorado.

One public American library I visited regularly and which taught us about deeds, building permits, well drilling, leech fields and had a biography about young Mr Trumpf and how the Panama Canal was built and much, much more is the
Mayor Salvatore Mancini Union Free Library Central Library in North Providence, Rhode Island.
North Providence and much of Rhode Island is very Italian. The Patriarca family.


Later on when we had applied all the knowledge about deeds and so on, the Glocester Manton Public Library in a genuine New England colonial style building in Chepachet became my local library

but I still went to North Providence because their selection was better.
The Chepachet one was more hyggeligt, though.

Do you think they would notice we were there?

The Librarians seem a bit fishy to me. It will be interesting to see if they suddenly cease to produce indicating that someone got caught overstepping their authority in making use of library computers.

Good Afternoon Base Campers!
I appreciate the inputs of TLD and acpartsman. I'm sure you are so much better at picking up the vibrations than I am.
I joined Team Public Libraries of America and I e-mailed my new captain to inquire about the organization of the team, explain what Base Camp is and what we do, and ask if he would be interested in a visit and if it would make sense at all.
I’ll let you know what he answers if/when he does.

This may be the rational method of contacting prospective host teams. I could even have contacted cjslman this way
– and maybe I shall if the libraries don’t work out.

I came to think of the method I used when I was down for several years in order not to go completely under. The ’pulling-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps’ method. Why not apply it now to see if it works? I have changed taking the medicine I suspect of inducing supernatural fatigue to a nighttime schedule hoping it makes a difference, and I need to be able to do more than being fatigued and sleepy in front of the computer.
So I took Rosie for a drive. 30 km/20 miles – not long, but long enough to test if I could be as attentive a driver as I used to be and want to be instead of driving in a near-sleep-trance to visit an art museum where I wanted to see their special called
*The Pictures of the Revolution* - photos and posters from the Russian Revolution in 1917 and the time after.

Comrades! Workers, Peasants, Cossacks, Mountain Farmers and Other Peoples!
Join the Red Cavalry as Volunteers, 1920.
It’s the Caspian Sea.

I wasn’t dangerous in the traffic – it all went OK, I could concentrate on the displays, it felt good to be out for something I had decided to do myself even as I had to hit the bed upon my return.
Pulling-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps is easier to do when your mood works, there is something you want, and you can find joy at what you do

I’m curious about whether the librarian makes contact as well.
So far nothing, but the work week for librarians has only just begun.
Good Afternoon Base Campers!
Yes, I was lucky with the test drive, acpartsman.
In contrast my ’Books in English’ session today was no success I nodded off more than once but then again, the book we discussed was ’Orlando’ by Virginia Woolf. Difficult stuff at any rate, although her language is adorable.

And yes, museums can be interesting. I have visited many, and I have a handful of favorites which I revisit whenever they have an exhibition which sounds interesting. When I go to one of those exhibitions, I take the opportunity to look at the permanent collections as well. In the case of Sorø Kunsmuseum one backbone is a collection of Russian art and a large number of Russian icons; another is Danish art representing the development through 350 years. Their new addition to the old building is a work of art, too. The facades are covered with hardburnt flat tiles installed clapboard style

and the interior – which you will be able to see if you KliK around on the website is done in a simplistic and sought tough and rugged design; you may call it brutalism. I like to come there, and like most places they have a café where you can enjoy a meal, coffee or whatever while digesting what your eyes just took in.

I enjoy these outings, and I prefer to make them alone and be free to linger as long as I like in front of the works that captivates me that particular day.
And I like that I don’t have to talk with anyone – believe it or not. Just look and think. In silence.

The photo section of the special exhibition yesterday had photos by Alexander Rodchenko
This particular photo is the reverse of the stairs in Odessa as seen with bodies strewn all over them in the movie ’The Battleship Potemkin’ – a study in light and shadow centering on the baby cradled safely in his mother’s arms.