I'm slowly recovering from my cold, which has brought me two weeks of hacking and coughing, congestion, weakness, and confusion. Some of my friends and co-workers also had it, and the progression is exactly the same for everyone who gets it. Thankfully, it is not the dreaded and still hypothetical bird flu, which I and thousands of others in Europe have panicked over in the last week. There have been just too many catastrophes this year, and we are all on edge.

I am back at work; due to the spacing of weekends, I only missed one day at work due to the cold. But I have been working at home to get my show in Massachusetts ready. When it is done I will give out the date of its opening, and a Web reference to it. I decided to drop the painting I was working on, which wasn't turning out so well, and substitute another really good one which I had from earlier in the year, my 9/11 tribute called "The Geometry of Remembrance."

I will have seven original paintings in the show and two prints, CITY OF DREAMS and CITY OF LIGHT, which you have probably seen in my "Art Gallery" on the main Pyracantha site. Much of this work could also go into a science fiction convention art show, and I intend to show it at my next convention. In fact, I think this show is worthy of a Worldcon, but I won't be going to a Worldcon for quite a while to come.

I regret to say that during the worst of my coughing and sputtering and panicking, I was not able to do any physics. I was too weak, confused, and distracted. But I have gone back to my book, and from sliding blocks I have now gone to spinning weights, which I have encountered before. The rest of the chapter is devoted to more Newtonian basics, so I will be revisiting the world of rotation and gravity.

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