{"id":5648,"date":"2013-12-10T22:13:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T02:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=5648"},"modified":"2013-12-10T22:21:52","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T02:21:52","slug":"cold-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=5648","title":{"rendered":"Cold! Mission!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still very cold and damp here.  I&#8217;m trying to stay inside as much as possible.  I&#8217;m glad it started clearing off! Sure was beautiful this evening.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-121013\/i-NLFt8rX\/0\/M\/IMG_3456-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-121013\/i-hwVNCbk\/0\/M\/IMG_3458-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Enjoyed working with the kids at the mission.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-121013\/i-TtjLKWn\/0\/M\/IMG_3445-M.jpg\" alt=\"a\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They like my Perpleus puzzle.  I&#8217;m still stuck at obstacle 20.  The total puzzle has 125 steps.  Nearly got 20 twice today.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-121013\/i-8KHXWbM\/0\/M\/IMG_3450-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Are you smarter than a second grader?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-121013\/i-j9Xn4jv\/0\/M\/IMG_3452-M.jpg\" alt=\"4\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many of my Bengali kids are still wearing flipflops.  It was in the low 40s.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-121013\/i-vtMZm8z\/0\/M\/IMG_3459-M.jpg\" alt=\"d\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Admin duties now.  Spent over an hour uninstalling programs and deleting add ons in my browser to stop the problem I was having uploading pictures.  Sure does take time to figure stuff out.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoying reading Smarter Than We Think&#8221; by Clive Thompson.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-121013\/i-C6JJ9rx\/0\/M\/IMG_3442-M.jpg\" alt=\"f\" \/><br \/>\n  A very up beat book about how technology is improving our lives.  I totally agree.  I like his term &#8220;infinite memory.&#8221; Relates to how we can look anything up in a matter of seconds and how people are so archiving their lives that their memory approaches the infinite.  Fascinating stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Also liked Bill Gates&#8217; editorial article in Wired magazine this month.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-121013\/i-sL5L8bD\/1\/M\/IMG_3441-M.jpg\" alt=\"g\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to figure out what causes this zipper formation on con trail clouds.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-121013\/i-4dPFgTz\/0\/M\/IMG_3443-M.jpg\" alt=\"d\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These are from two different planes.  Only certain areas get this pattern.  I think it has to do with the engines in the plane synching up momentarily which produces a more concentrated section.  Like oscillations on a pendulum.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-121013\/i-QVD4Qfp\/0\/M\/IMG_3454-M.jpg\" alt=\"w\" \/><\/p>\n<p>High level ice crystals give the moon a halo.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-121013\/i-W3Df3Vp\/0\/M\/IMG_3460-M.jpg\" alt=\"m\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still very cold and damp here. I&#8217;m trying to stay inside as much as possible. I&#8217;m glad it started clearing off! Sure was beautiful this evening. Enjoyed working with the kids at the mission. They like my Perpleus puzzle. I&#8217;m still stuck at obstacle 20. The total puzzle has 125 steps. Nearly got 20 twice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5648"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5653,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648\/revisions\/5653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}