Alexander 6, V69.

The heaviest part now is gone. I've booked my place in the B&B in Ireland, and now just waiting for the receipt. Next step now is to work on the tickets and the visa. I think I will pick the Turkish airlines this time as well, like last year. I wouldn't bear sitting for like 12 hours in the airplane in one line from Abu Dhabi to Dublin!

I was supposed to this phone call to book the place since last Thursday but my laziness did not allow it to happen! Anyway, after calling several times today, it went through later on. They told me they will call me at 10 O'clock, which is like 12 O'clock for me. I was hesitated to get busy with anything fearing that they might call (in like 20 minutes from my first call), but then I couldn't help it and I fell asleep on the couch to recharge my batteries to get back home later! They called however after almost one hour or so and thank God I didn't yawn while doing this!

After some back pains yesterday and putting many sprays and a sticker, which reduced the pain a bit, I had to take one Cataflam pill to put down the pain and sleep, and the effect lasted until this morning and I barely woke up. Well, I slept in the office which is normal by now with or without any medicine!
I've been surfing the net thinking seriously of getting a VR head now, and calculating what possibilities I have in here and there. There are many stuff, but mainly one brand that got my attention and that was Novoflex. They got plenty of types in various prices, but nevertheless, not cheap to an average user like me!

 

Something like this is what I need for decent panoramas.

Now, I'm hoping and wishing that I would be able to buy this and get it before going to Ireland. The main awkward point is, for such tripod heads, the weight is always a matter of concern. The above head for example may weight almost 1 kilogram. Not something sweet in your bag containing your camera tools. You would already have a similar weight from the lenses in your bag.

My lab panorama is still under attack with my approaches and yesterday's trial with SmartBlend plugin didn't work out. It is baffling for now and seems no escape from doing a heavy job in Photoshop for correcting the stitching errors. Meanwhile, I do want to work more on the previous images taken from Ireland, and also to play some games that I've downloaded and forgot!

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1633. Alexander asked Biryári: and what shall be done there?
1634. Biryári replied: I could not understand the texts clearly,
1635. but the words say "and the red haired hero shall be there,
1636. where the three moons stand upon the mounts, he will be there,
1637. and to the help he shall come, as he always did and does"
1638. and the only place I know where the moons are like that,
1639. is the valley of peace where the moons remain on mounts
1640. Alexander asked then: and text did not mention who to help?
1641. but the old man nodded with his head for the opposite
1642. Alexander then requested some guidance from Biryári
1643. and Biryári wished to travel with the hero as a guide
1644. but the hero refused that and said: O good old man,
1645. if you come with me to there, who shall feed your wife?
1646. give me the way and I shall try it myself O good man
1647. and back to his reason and mind, Biryári agreed
1648. so Biryári guided Alexander to the Ring Mountains
1649. where they lie at the eastern boundaries of the forest
1650. and Alexander asked Biryári: are there lot of creatures?
1651. then Biryári said: none occurred to me while I work,
1652. but be careful of anything when night time comes,
1653. always settle down and keep a fire burning
1654. thus Alexander asked: and how to make a fire there?
1655. and Biryári smiled and said: you forgot that I am a woodsman?
1656. then Biryári helped the hero to get ready for the trip

Alexander 6, V68.

New week begins with new problems on the photography field. I got some back pains today out of sudden so I'm feeling a bit awkward and not feeling like working at all.
I spent the weekend however mangling with those pictures that I didn't touch so far (or maybe touched but re-touched them now) from Ireland, and while doing so, I was going all over the new pictures of the lab that I've recently captured last Thursday. The work was not all smooth and still not done perfectly. Many breakages and I think the parallax error played a major role here because of the narrow space of the lab itself and that many objects scattering around which makes it hard to stitch. Just at this moment while typing this, I've thought of converting all files into a tone-mapped JPG (the usual) and using the SmartBlend plugin in PTGui to try to minimize the effects of the parallax. SmartBlend plugin is supposedly a new (relatively) feature that comes in a plugin form and can be added to PTGui to help on overcoming the parallax error, but unfortunately, doesn't work though for big size images and/or the HDR files.
Just now and because of all these problems with stitching, I'm thinking seriously of getting myself a VR head whatever the costs are. I wish also to have it as soon as possible before going to Ireland!

I had to go out for a little while today to get an international calling cards to reserve my place in the B&B by phone for September! I hate it when it becomes so much complicated like that... I was supposed to call back on Thursday and now because of my sluggishness, I have to wait until tomorrow, since Sunday is an official holiday (duh!).

The work with the new words suddenly stopped now and I need some grease to move on with it. A weird feeling came over me making me for days now, making me checking some reggae and rap songs all over. I know, it's not weird at all for some people but for someone who is not fond of these styles, it sounds a bit weird!

As for now, I shall leave you with "some" pictures from Ireland...

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1609. in the morning the wife prepared the food
1610. and the old man woke Alexander up
1611. because of the tiresome times he had, it was not easy
1612. and the two gathered around the morning table
1613. while the old man was so excited to tell Alexander
1614. but he knew it is out of manners to talk before eating
1615. thus he just said: I have news for you, now be my guest
1616. both of them ate until their stomaches were full
1617. when the old man spoke with excitement to Alexander
1618. and this he said: from the books I got tips about you
1619. thus Alexander raised an eyebrow and said: me?
1620. the old man said: yes, you and only you,
1621. you are the old to look for the secret of life,
1622. and the one that will come from above then be raised,
1623. it is all mentioned here in the old books that i gained,
1624. they all talk about the red haired hero of the Charnagút
1625. then Alexander asked: and what is the Charnagút?
1626. Biryári answered: it is the key to the wisdom,
1627. I understand it opens something, but I could not know it,
1628. something that keeps a secret, the secret of wisdom,
1629. and as the books say, from above he comes, then he shall go,
1630. and I might have an idea about your next way to go!
1631. Alexander asked with excitement: and where to now?!
1632. Biryári said: The Ring Mountains and Peace Valley

Alexander 6, V67.

 It was a busy day indeed. I'm signing off from work earlier today, so I'm posting this as early as possible.
It was a weird day by its beginning... I didn't hear the alarm, No gas station was working fine while my gas tank was on "E" and drove all the way to work fearing it would stop suddenly. I filled it later anyway.
After arriving to work I've began putting samples into the freeze dryer at once, and then went out to fill some gas and when I came back I worked with my camera to snap some labs, as I've promised my boss.
The first lab was actually a narrow space and I'm still not sure that it would work fine anyway, but let's hope it will. In a narrow space, the chances for a parallax error increases, specially that I'm not using any specialized head for panoramas. However, it went on fine so far, but the real stuff will show up when I get back home and upload the images to my PC.
After finishing from this lab, or what we call sometimes, the anti-compton lab after a big device in this room, I moved to another room which actually was not planned for the shoot, but my colleague was working on the proposed lab that my director wanted me to shoot, so I took the chance now to try out my mini-tripod for real. I've never did before, but however, I'm not losing anything; if it worked, excellent, if not, I'm not bothering with it.
Thoughts went on and on for how to work with this mini-tripod now. The thing is that the body of the camera and lens together might make the legs not stable and eventually the mini-tripod would fall down altogether. Because of this, shooting in portrait position was not possible. Moreover, the room, or which we call the "sample room", is full of tables in the middle with samples and containers upon them, and that alone was  problem to shoot a panorama that way. I took the risk however, and mounted the mini-tripod with the camera fixed (with the remote which we shall always use) and I went over the tables! Thank God no one saw me there; I'm not ready for unnecessary comments.
In order to rotate the camera here of course, we cannot do it as it is the case with any big tripod, but instead, I had to rotate the whole legs of the tripod in a circular motion and keeping an eye on the front of the lens to measure, visually, a proper amount of angle to shoot. Of course I was using my fisheye lens here. Also, for easiness of use, I put a little bit of vaseline on the base of each leg, just a little bitty bit, for easiness of movement and to reduce the friction. I was planning on making some sort of disk with a scale to see how much I'm rotating my mini-tripod, but after thinking about it, it might be enough to check for this visually, for now at least. I had another idea though of how to make sure that the mini-tripod doesn't move so much off the center while rotating (that is the center of the first shot before rotating). Mainly, I think a thread and a coin would do. I can attach a thread to the bottom of the mini-tripod and let it down on a coin and make the thread be somehow on the center of the coin. By this while rotating and keeping an eye on the thread and the coin, we would somehow make some stability in position here, but not completely though. In stitching, the software is sometimes impowered with algorithms to compensate for such shift in position, but if such shifts are so large, then no use I can say.
Shooting then was completed in two rows; one as horizontal as it could be (since the mini-tripod has no scales) and the other row was done elevating the camera little bit. Finally, a zenith was taken.
The awkward thing about this experiment is that, when I elevated the level of the camera by some degree, I was not able to check the LCD screen to see for myself the cursors of the exposure brackets. Thus, I changed from completely Manual mode (where I stabilize the aperture and change the shutter speed), to Av Mode (automatic choice for the shutter accordingly). Another thing that was frustrating is to walk behind the camera on those tables filled with containers (and some glassware that I was about to break down with my feet!). Mainly, I was afraid that some part of my body would get captured while shooting because of the horizontal wide range of the fisheye lens, and I had to try as much as possible to be behind the camera and never beside it. Because of all of this fuss, I'm not sure this would be a good panorama, but it is something we can learn from at least!

Right, now I have to complete my work with the slideshow for a friend! 6 slides and almost took all day!

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1585. then Alexander asked Biryári: and where to go next?
1586. I do not know the lands, and I do not know my destination
1587. the old man then thought for some time and then he said
1588. "be my guest tonight, and I shall look in my old books,
1589. I might find the answers that you need for such questions"
1590. then Alexander said: and what about my Charnagút?
1591. Biryári replied: I shall search for it in the books as well,
1592. this weird looking sword certainly has a purpose in life
1593. thus the two agreed that Alexander shall rest that night
1594. and the food was prepared for the Cadid outside the hut
1595. while Alexander exchanged the ropes with chains
1596. and prepared some herbs by the help of the wife
1597. to treat the eye of the Cadid that was damaged before
1598. and the wife took care of his bed and prepared it
1599. while Alexander slept on it with the first hour of the set
1600. he felt like his backbone is going into pieces
1601. and his muscles felt the stream of blood rushing through
1602. Alexander did not have a night like this for months
1603. and never felt a bed other than the sands for months
1604. while the old man sat alone with his books
1605. flipping through the pages of the written history
1606. under the light of his little burning candle
1607. and he spent hours reading and reading
1608. until he raised up with a surprise on his eyes

Alexander 6, V66.

Feeling like chilling out today. No work on my Ayvarith, no nothing. Well, except of some sample preparation, so just to say I was not idle all the day actually.
Generally, the paperwork for the Ayvarith part of Alexander 6 is over now, i.e. I don't have to face the papers and type down words and other stuff into my documents. But, I have to refer back to them from time to time to correct some mistakes, and not only in papers, but even in the transliteration that I've made already. The document that I've just made right now, contains 12 pages of new words and additions or fixes notes for the present dictionary, but before adding that, as I said I have to correct the main thing in Alexander 6 transliteration, and also, I have to change the transliteration system in the already existing dictionary, where I'm starting to use the letter "ŧ" and "ħ" for the usual Ayvaric words, instead of borrowed words. That also means I have to flip back the words that already use such characters for other sounds, and make them use the underline instead.
Too much fuss going on and just thinking about it now makes me numb really. I want to relax now. But my relaxation is not so complete, because I have to plan for my vacation. I'm putting the pieces together and I don't want to push my luck further like last year when I was in a hurry to catch up with the trains and spent more than 20 hours without a decent nap! This time, I'm spending one day in every stop, and also hoping for more views to enjoy. Although Co. Tipperary is south a bit from Dublin and the distant is not (virtually) as far as Galway, but the trip to there seems tiresome. I've made my mind to settle in a B&B like the last year, a place called Thornbrook House. It is a place around the village of Cashel, and as the description says, it is few minutes walking away from the Cashel Rock, where one of my teachers told me and showed me some old castle there that went into ruins. My plan, if gone correctly, should be like this:

• 28/9 - To Dublin - rest.
• 29/9 - Railway to Cahir - rest. (a junction change is required as it seems and the way is not directly to Cahir).
• 30/9 - Going out by a cab or something from Cahir to Cashel where I shall stay.
• 14 days shall follow.
• 14/10 - Leave the place and head back to Cahir to stay.
• 15/10 - Get from Cahir to Dublin and stay for a night.
• 16/10 - Fly off.

Beside this plan, I must make out some essential papers for the visa and that thing is getting on my nerves a bit. Why it's not easy to get a visa in this area? Anyway, I'll manage.

My car is still in the garage after one month and one week, and one day. No news about it at all, and every time I call the sickening garage, no one answers. You think I will get it after getting backfrom vacation? I hope so...
Did you notice that the title is composed of "666" ? Yep, that's how I feel today...
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1561. Alexander then asked the old man of the white beard
1562. "and how this Cadid became like this? and why he attacked me?"
1563. thus Biryári answered: Cadid lives within you wherever you go,
1564. it only leaves your body in two ways known to me,
1565. either you succeeded to conquer your cruelty,
1566. and that made him mad so he attacked you,
1567. or he can be out of you with rituals,
1568. but sooner or later he shall be back to the body
1569. Alexander then asked: and what shall I do with him now?
1570. the old man said: killing him is the solution as I see it
1571. but Alexander refused and said: no, something inside me says no
1572. and Biryári then smiled and said: it is but your kind heart that said no,
1573. and after defeating your own Cadid, thus you are free of darkness,
1574. I see you tightened him like a slave already,
1575. thus I suggest you take him as a slave for your ways
1576. and Alexander thought that it is indeed a good idea
1577. then he said to the old man: but is he safe to be with?
1578. and Biryári answered: with some time, he will be tamed,
1579. just like your own twin walking with you wherever you go,
1580. but his animal side shall remain as it is I presume,
1581. but at least he can be of no harm to you later
1582. and Alexander accepted the advice of the old man
1583. and decided to make his own Cadid a slave
1584. he might be of enormous help in this world

Alexander 6, V65.

 Woho! Writing this in a hurry before leaving this place actually. I've spent most of the time shopping outside and doing some chores or talking to one of my teachers about traveling to Ireland and he gave me a valuable advice about some locations in Co. Tipperary, the county where I plan to stay. His advice was to stay in southern region of Tipperary, and in my previous inspection I found a nice place in the northern region of the county. However, I need to settle down at home and have a mug of herbal tea, the one I got today!, and do my research. The Euro is going down so this must be a good time to do my things. All the hassle is about the visa in fact.
I spent the whole time after that working on adding words to the list prior to adding them to the dictionary, and I just finished it all! For this, I'm typing this late now. Many, many, many things on my mind now that I just can't concentrate doing one thing at one time, and with me fasting now and not wanting to put down with it (yeah, I'm stubborn), I feel my body weak and I can't skip the afternoon's nap. Even my plans for photographs are not up to the level recently.

Well, time for me to put this down and pack my stuff...
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1537. the old man raised his eyes with thoughts in the mind
1538. while his fingers were tickling his long white beard
1539. then this he said to Alexander: listen O good king,
1540. I never knew about worlds other than our world,
1541. but I know one thing for sure, thus nothing is weird to me
1542. and Alexander said rapidly: and what is that O good man?
1543. Biryári said: people on these lands think they speak like each other,
1544. but I know that they are not the same in their tongues,
1545. I saw that written by the hands of the wise in this Uhir Daynur,
1546. because I could not imagine the whole Earth speak one tongue,
1547. but it is all because of one thing that they speak to each other,
1548. it is by the guardian angel whose name is Atheir,
1549. he who moves the words from one mouth to another,
1550. and makes the ears listen to what it should be
1551. Alexander now understood how people understood him
1552. and how his Caqobian tongue looked familiar to others
1553. then he asked Biryári: and what about the thing tied outside?
1554. and the old man said: Ah! I almost forgot O good young man,
1555. this is the black side inside yourself,
1556. this is your cruelty that goes into your blood,
1557. this is the beast that eats you slowly,
1558. this is what we call the Cadid!
1559. Alexander then kept silent and his thought raced
1560. about the meaning of all of these events

Alexander 6, V64.

Quiet day relatively, except of the continuous blabbering in the next office. Women.
Nothing special for today either, and back to fasting as for the previous 3 weeks. For my lack of time I couldn't try my little tripod yesterday! All what I was doing today is adding the usual words into the list for my dictionary. Along the way, I was looking around for songs for Cheb Mami on youtube and found some amazing stuff that I never listened to before. One of those songs was a dueto between Mami and an Italian singer that I didn't hear of before this time, Zucchero. I believe his style is cool as well, judging from this song (which is in fact sang by Zucchero originally, entitled "Cosi Celeste"):



I couldn't believe that Mami was in fact found guilty in some case for drugging his ex and trying to force her for abortion. There are some faces that sometimes, when you look at them, you can never believe any a criminal attitude or tendencies at all. However, he is jailed in France; a spot known for the hassle made of everything not French.

In the process, and while having a break from adding words, I wrote one piece after having words in my mind for days without specific order. I called it, I Believe. In this one, I've mixed some styles, wondering if it would look and sound good. Hope you like it.

Thinking now seriously of ordering that tripod head, but the options are wide and I don't know what to pick or what is right for me. They are filthy expensive, but it would be nice to have before traveling to any spot on Earth. A macro lens is also on the list, but, not so essential right now, since most of my work is with architecture and landscapes, and portraits sometimes. Portraits though, are not my favorite subject!

e-zmén hú yibraą vi-ayná a^šas aynátá, li-anná ayná arħak. ħayyúþáy yibnar ka-inan húþ xalá šardaqá

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1513. the wife served the food and the two ate
1514. while the creature called Cadid was outside
1515. it was tightened to a tree as Biryári asked
1516. and while the meal was served the two had a chat
1517. about living in the forest and what Alexander saw in it
1518. and the old man talked about his old adventures
1519. adventures when he was a young man still
1520. and when the two of them finished the meal
1521. the old man asked Alexander about his story
1522. thus Alexander went on telling his long story
1523. and how he met Shdáyur the smith to come up here
1524. then the old man asked about the village and its people
1525. but Alexander answered: I could not live much among them,
1526. because of the story of Birbuár as I told you before,
1527. I think they are nice people indeed, but nothing I could do
1528. and Biryári answered: yes, indeed, they are nice,
1529. and Birbuár was not the best of this village,
1530. thus please pardon them for hating you like that,
1531. but the deeds of Birbuár were unbearable
1532. thus Alexander smiled and said to the old man
1533. "O good old man, be sure there is no place in my heart,
1534. for hatred to these people that I do not know at all,
1535. but help me please with this quest in this Uhir Daynur,
1536. for I did indeed miss my people and my beloved"

Alexander 6, V63.

 After a severe period of diarrhea for some hours that almost looked like a complete day, or it is in fact one day as a whole, I decided that today I must not fast. I still feel the weakness in my body though. I'm spending most of the day trying not to drink anything else but water. Hopefully, I can get back to fasting by tomorrow.
Ideas been racing through my mind on how to expand my work with photography, and thinking of getting some specialized VR head for my tripod (to catch on with panoramas) and also a macro lens, despite the fact that I'm still planning to visit Ireland but not yet settled on a specific location! All of Ireland is beautiful...

I just realized that until this moment I was so busy with many things that I've forgot to test my small tripod until this moment! The guest room in my house has been changed, and problably worthy for a trial again. Since the little tripod is so hard to control, I was thinking of some way to rotate it without having to release the screw of the head, and this is maybe feasible only by rotating the tripod itself, and to do so, I need to check that the tripod won't move left and right (or at least to minimize the shake). It is time to do some inventional work here. My idea is to have some sort of disk fixed as a base for the tripod, and probably (depending on the opening of the tripod legs) a simple CD or DVD might fit in for this purpose. I might put pictures in here for it if it worked.

The word adding process is going smoothly despite some troubles with repititve words and some grammatical mistakes that I've discovered in classifying words. The text body of the grammar section might need a complete renovation! Not good news.
Just out of fun, I'm listing here some words that will come later in the dictionary (hopefully):

Sentence: qumunwT [qamanúþ] (n.f.).

Condition: (situation) see situation, (on argument) SurQAwpiya [šarąúŧiyá] (n.m.), to make ~ SurQAuP [šarąaŧ] (v.).

Conditional: SurQAwpY [šarąúŧí] (adj.).

Decent: juvQnwN [javnún] (adj.).

Gravestone: rusQkulQfwd [raskalfúd] (n.m.).

Important: caliya [cáliyá] (adj.).

Importance: caliT [cáliþ} (n.f.).

Shadow: palwC [ŧálúc] (n.m.).

Strangely: buRuzwziT [ba-ğazúziþ] (exp.).

Serious: gurQnwC [garnúc] (adj.).

Seriously: bugurQnwca [ba-garnúcá] (exp.).

Depend: Autus [ąatas] (v.), to not ~ (seek independency) muAQtus [maątas] (v.).

Dependance: AutwsuH [ąatúsah] (n.m.).

Dependant: miAQtas [miątás] (n.m.f.).

Independence: muAQtusuH [maątasah] (n.m.).

Independent: muAtws [maątús] (n.m.f.).

Law: qunQmuswN [qanmasún] (n.m.).

Natural: (of nature) panuwY [ŧánawí] (adj.), (normal) see normal.

Normal: RuyQlwbyM [ğaylúbím] (adj.).

Still waiting for news about my car after one month and 5 days almost...
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1489. Alexander then greeted the old man with a smile
1490. but the old man remained silent and scared
1491. Alexander asked him then: something wrong?
1492. the old man gathered his strength and this he said
1493. "who are you O young man?! Never saw your likes before,
1494. and in my whole life I never saw someone catching a Cadid!
1495. and not any Cadid, but his own Cadid!"
1496. thus Alexander replied: but O old man, I am a stranger,
1497. not from this land only, but from this world as well,
1498. would you please tell me, are you Biryári the woodsman?
1499. the old man raised his eyebrows and replied: yes, I am!
1500. I guess there is a long story behind you to tell O young man!
1501. come in into my humble home please, but keep this out!
1502. Alexander then asked in a hurry: that just reminds me!
1503. what is the Cadid you are talking about?!
1504. and how this thing has my own face on him?!
1505. and the old man smiled back at Alexander
1506. and he knew that Alexander was a complete stranger
1507. thus he calmed Alexander down and invited him
1508. to get into his home, but after tying the beast
1509. and the two agreed to tell the stories of each other
1510. after the food is served and Alexander is treated as a guest
1511. thus the two got inside the humble small house
1512. and the old man called upon his wife to cook

Alexander 6, V62

I don't know where to begin here, but it wasn't the most pleasant weekend I've ever had. No going out on Thursday, and Friday was OK, until I got a sudden attack from a severe diarrhea in what seems to be a food poisoning. For the first time now I wish if this day just ends and I go to work as healthy as before.

Spent almost 3 days working on excessive control points in PTGui, trying to fix the old panorama of the gamma lab, but seemed impossible to be done. Things get even worse by adding more points! Hence, I satisfied myself with a simple cylindrical QTVR instead.



At the current time I'm just so weak and barely can move whereabouts. I hope this all finishes soon.

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1465. by the fence Alexander stood and peeked
1466. he gazed through the windows and around him
1467. he could not find anything or anyone around
1468. thus he started to yell and say "anyone home?"
1469. no answered echoed back at him
1470. and he thought for a moment about what to do
1471. then he noticed a strange movement from the beast
1472. he was trying to untie the ropes on his hands
1473. thus he put his other hand on his Charnagút
1474. and when the creature saw this it calmed down
1475. and to the floor, it knelt down and looked up
1476. while a shout from his behind occurred to Alexander
1477. and the shout said: hey you! what are you doing!
1478. Alexander turned around to see an old man
1479. so old that his beard reached near his knees
1480. suddenly the man stopped and gazed upon Alexander
1481. Alexander looked at him and raised his eyebrows
1482. and the old man said: O God of Heavens! How!
1483. Alexander gazed around him and said: how what?
1484. the old man said in a stuttering voice: who are you?
1485. you did indeed catch your own beast?
1486. you did indeed captivated your own Cadid?!
1487. but Alexander did not understand a word
1488. and gazed upon his captivated beast

Alexander 6, V61.

One of those days that you just wanna sit at home and never go to work, just like that. And that's exactly what I did. In fact, I had a reason for this. Thanks to all the chatterers that kept me awake until a late hour of the night and I couldn't find time to sleep. I slept for 2 hours only then went to work and made my fingerprint and came back home to try to nap again. It wasn't a successful nap anyway and I kept waking up now and then, but after all, I didn't stay in the office and its boring atmosphere and had some rest for now. The uncool thing is that I have to go back just to fingerprint, as simple as that, and come back home again. Unfortunately, I didn't see some trustworthy people around to give them my own fingerprint to do the job for me.

Beside chatting, I was actually and mainly busy with something else. I didn't stay up too late just for a chat! I spent the time working on that new set of images that I shot for the Gamma Lab again. This time, I spent an excessive time putting more control points and taking the advantage of assigning "horizontal" and "vertical" lines in PTGui. It is an option that let's you specify two points in 2 adjacent images as being a straight line, either a vertical or a horizontal one. The result was awesome, and not only the main features were close to err-less, but even the checkered tiling came almost unique!

The Gamma Lab, from the second shoot.

The bad news here is that, the zenith image from the previous session did not fit here. Because of this problem, I'm working right now as I'm typing this on the previous session, which had the zenith in good proportions, and this time I'm putting a heavy load on control points assignments. If things went bad and could not be fixed like this one, then I would have to force myself to be satisfied with a simple cylindrical QTVR.

The above image was first manipulated in Photoshop before final tone-mapping in Photomatix. The only edition in Photoshop was to level down the exposure for the fluorescent lamps and make the rods obvious as much as possible while keeping the exposure as it is for the rest of the image. Of course, a simple Exposure Layer is all what we needed here with some strokes of the brush on the Mask of the layer. There is one point that I didn't pay much attention to actually in the two shoots, and that is my reflection on the glass of the cabinets, but I suppose it is not a hard deal to clean it up.

Since today is a restful day, and since my papers are in the office and didn't bring them back home with me yesterday, so I could not (and I doubt I would) work with the new words list.

Deciding where to go in a vacation, and alone, is a hard decision indeed...

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1441. the creature looked at Alexander with one eye
1442. while it was eating from Alexander's hands
1443. Alexander did see its fangs clearly from his mouth
1444. and he thought what kind of beast is this?
1445. after feeding the creature, Alexander asked him a many
1446. but no answer he got from the thing but only moans
1447. then the hero tore a piece of cloth from his clothes
1448. and tied it to the eye of the beast and covered it
1449. the beast showed something that seemed like a smile
1450. Alexander then released the beast from the tree
1451. but he kept the legs and hands tied together
1452. and he held the tip of the rope and walked
1453. because he wanted to know what is thing with his face
1454. and because he did not trust that thing, he tied him like that
1455. they walked to the north in the thick forest for days
1456. until the two of them reached a small hut in the middle
1457. with some smokes coming out from its chimney
1458. thus Alexander knew someone is inside
1459. and he knew he reached his final destination in here
1460. where the woodsman Biryári lives
1461. thus he approached with his new slave
1462. so slow watching out for dangers that might come
1463. while smelling a good smell of food
1464. until they reached the fence of the yard

Alexander 6, V60.

First thing first. How am I typing this, I don't know. Three hours of sleep only before coming to work, or might be four in an optimistic view. I think this day won't pass without a nap in the office after all.
I've been awake late trying to fix the panorama taken yesterday for the gamma lab (again), which is composed of two rows of images, and forgot to take the zenith for that one. The results primarily are fine so far, and the optimization in PTGui gives good results although the stitch go erratic afterward. There are some problems with the door, the long bench and little bit for the top of the closets.

Previous panorama for the gamma lab in Little-Planet projection, 

taken in two rows but not in HDR mode. The lines here seem to be fitting more with less errors.

The process is still not finished however, and I'm trying to fix it step by step by adding control points at the places where stitching errors occur, and specially control points defined as "vertical" or "horizontal" lines, to let PTGui know where to fit things. As for the flooring and tiles, I would give hope from now with this one already, because by experience, I don't think there is any use in wasting time on fixing the alignments of these lines. The more lines you have, the harder to stitch them together. I'm abit concerned now with the main features in the panorama, like the bench and the closets. When in little-planet projection it is always easy to see how lines fit together easily with not much of a stitching error (but they might occur). I think the more you grab your panorama to the center, the lesser the errors would be, and that what makes the LP projection type awesome for the eye and unique, but unfortunately, in case you want to make up a QTVR, this is not useful at all. You do need a flat spherical panorama.

The process went as: a) add control points in places of error, b) align the images again in PTGui; it's an automatic process done with a click, c) do optimization and try to get it to a "good" level, d) check everything is OK in the preview window, e) stitch a small sized one, f) check it out to see if everything fits. Sometimes, step (b) would not be a good option to do after adding control points, and it happened to me one time when, after adding control points, I clicked align and the whole thing got screwed up in some unreasonable manner! I don't know why this happened, but thank God there is an "Undo" option. I love the Undo option!

The main problem in PTGui preview window, or might be the thing that cannot be done with the available abilities at the current time, is that in the case of an HDR panorama, the preview window cannot blend your images together and give you a flat view of the panorama. All what you would see is slices overlapping that are not so good for the eyes' view and for judging the quality. Thus, you must stitch and view the result elsewhere, and for this purpose I do a small-sized stitch and view in Photomatix (I don't want to run Photoshop to eat up some of my memory!).

The final result until this moment is OK so far. The door had been almost fixed, with a little nudge here and there that might be easy to clone out and the bench is fixed completely. Will see afterward, if the zenith from a previous session, would fit more.

The "pinning" down of the new words are going smoothly, despite the fuss. There are remarks that I've wrote down and I wouldn't know what is going on until I organize these words alphabetically and add them to the dictionary. I don't want to organize now since it's all will be like a tiresome task to do now and then. I doubt there had been some repeated words, as I stated yesterday, but that would show only later. Shaky.

I'm waiting here with all my patience to get out of this "jail" and head back home and take some rest, that is if I didn't fall down sleeping already after posting this...

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1417. the morning arrived with its light to the forest
1418. Alexander woke up and hurried to check the shadow
1419. he traced a line of blood on the ground slowly
1420. until he reached the body of a black thing near a tree
1421. he saw two horns on the top of his head
1422. while the thing was asleep and looking down
1423. Alexander approached slowly to see the black thing
1424. then he gasped and held his breath with surprise
1425. because he just saw his face on another body
1426. he stood without feeling anything with his senses
1427. and when he got his mind back he started to think
1428. what creature is this that takes his image in black?
1429. and while he was thinking, the creature woke up
1430. and started to groan and moan like an animal
1431. Alexander asked: who are you? what are you?
1432. but the creature kept on moaning and groaning
1433. thus Alexander realized that such thing is not a man
1434. but he could not understand how he had his face
1435. and since the creature was injured in the eyes
1436. and he was moaning from the pains
1437. Alexander's heart could not stand the situation
1438. thus, Alexander got some food out for the creature
1439. and fed the thing with his own hands
1440. while the creature was tied to a tree

Alexander 6, V59.

A Monday. Full stop.
I decided to take my camera set today to re-shoot the lab in another way today. This time, I decided to make it only two rows. The two rows go around in increments of 30 degrees. For the top row, the camera is elevated at 30 degrees (with 0 degrees on the top of the vertical line dividing the dial), while the lower row is on -30 degrees. The are in the middle which was taken solely in the previous time will be shared in between the rows, the bottom of the upper row, and the top of the lower row. I was thinking, maybe too much details is not so good for the computer to overlap images and assign control points, or in other words, the software gets confused for the number of details and hence things go nasty afterwards. I shall give this a try instead of the previous trial that drove me nuts. In my haste, I've forgot to take a zenith snap, but I think I will try to take the zenith from the previous trial. It might work.
I was almost going into a disaster when the battery was exhausted and needed to be changed while working on the top row of images. Hence, after finishing, I've changed, as careful as it can be, the batteries. I've found out that the other batteries were exhausted as well! I've forgot to recharge them the last time! Here comes my Monday. I've already started with a disaster when I came to work and forgot all the keys in the other car, but Gracefully, the keeper was around to open the doors for me. My life is going into a real mess and I just can't hold the brakes.

Still studying my options for my vacation right now and I'm afraid that I'm running out of time for the time being! The visa procedures would need at least one month to be processed (if done with no mistakes). I have to prepare everything and reserve everything, then get the tickets, and then prepare for the visa. A long procedure that I do ask myself if I really am into all of this. One second I'm up to it, the other I'm just down and not willing to do anything.

 As for today, I've started with enlisting the words in the usual format that I usually use for the dictionary, preparing them to be added later on to the HTML dictionary. The process in the beginning was not as easy as I thought, specially with some technical awkward moments with the software. I'm using the OpenOffice Writer now, and forgetting about all the fuss in the Microsoft Word. It's free! It needs some work on some aspects, but never the less, you would give up some options for a free complete set of softwares that run parallel to the Microsoft stuff, like Word or Excel or even PowerPoint. However, I'm preparing myself for more difficulties soon, as there might be some words that are duplicated (i.e. one English word with same meaning having 2 Ayvarith words). Such things happen all the time. Just for fun, I post here the words enlisted in the first page of the new words of the dictionary (who knows, I might add more later on here...) - Remember, words between the square brackets [...] are the pronunciation. The exact Ayvarith text won't appear if you don't have the Ayvarith font installed.

Company: muRwTa [mağúþá] (n.f.), (commercial) SQgwrzakixiT [šgúrzákiħiþ] (n.f.).

Accompany: muyuR [mayağ] (v.).

Companion: muRQlaN [mağlán] (n.m.f.).

Capital: (city) ramQmuAyriT [rámmaąíriþ] OR ramWAyriT [rámmaąíriþ] (n.f.).

Khanate: XanwtiyaTa [xánútiyáþá] (n.f.).

Tower: burQgul [bargal] (n.m.).

Castle: qiculQxiyaTa [qicalħiyáþá] (n.f.).

Meditate: AuSQvuM [ąašvam] (v.).

Meditation: AuSQvamuH [ąašvámah] (n.m.).

Golden: DuhurY [ðaharí] (adj.).

add: harsh: (touching) guSwb [gašúb] (adj.).

Own: muduA [madaą] (v.).

Owner: madwA [mádúą] (n.m.f.).

fix: supply: n.m.

Guest: quyQfa [qayfá] (n.m.f.).

Hospitality: quyafiT [qayáfiþ] (n.f.).

Real: (true) xugyC [ħagíc] (adj.), (not imaginary) muXQwwN [maxwún] (adj.).

Reality: muXwniT [maxúniþ] (n.f.).

Really: bumuXQwwN! [ba-maxwún!] (exp.).

Respect: xubWyM [ħabbím] (n.m.), to ~ xubuM [ħabam] (v.).

Respectively: bunuzaruH [ba-nazárah] (exp.).

add: order: (scheme) nuzaruH [nazárah] (n.m.).

fix: order: system

Fall: suful [safal] (v.).

add: welcome: (exp.) boqQliya [buqliyá]

Bind: ausur [asar] (v.)

Bound: aaswr [ásúr] (n.m.).

Serve: xulus [ħalas] (v.).

Servant: xalws [ħálús] (n.m.f.).

Server: xulys [ħalís] (n.m.).

Safe: SalwM [šálúm] (adj.).

Safety: SQlamiT [šlámiþ] (n.f.).

Hurt: RulQbuM [ğalbam] (v.).

Mortal: auduM nujwr [adam najúr] (adj.).

Immortal: ma munQjwr [má manjúr] (adj.).

Grow: gudux [gadaħ] (v.).

Grown-up: gudyx [gadíħ] (adj.).

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1393. something held the neck of Alexander tightly from his back
1394. the press was so tight on the hero's neck and he could not breath
1395. while Alexander held the thing and tried to resist
1396. the shouts of Alexander filled the forest with echo
1397. while the black thing shouted in same manner
1398. and the saliva of the shadow dropped on Alexander
1399. Alexander tried hard to turn his face and look at that thing
1400. but the force on his neck was so fierce and did not move
1401. and Alexander bent his body up and stretched his legs
1402. then used his legs against the face of the shadow
1403. the shadow fell down screaming out loud
1404. and covered his eye with his own hands
1405. but Alexander could not see a thing of his shape
1406. because it was dark but only with the moons' lights
1407. the shadow got up to run away from Alexander
1408. but in a fast move the hero captured his legs
1409. and with a rope he had in his sack he tightened him
1410. and to a tree he had him tightened and unable to move
1411. thus Alexander relaxed and closed his eyes calmly
1412. and decided to check the identity of this shadow later
1413. while the shadow was moaning from the pain
1414. and had no power to move at all after this kick
1415. because it was directly into his eyes
1416. and he might not see again from now on