Before I talk about the next day of the trip, I want to say something about measurements. This occurred to me first
in thinking about measuring the circumference (if that can be used for non-circles) of island nations. It seems like this measurement could
be quite variable depending on the detail at which it is taken. If you're looking at a map that covers a large area, and you tried to measure
it from that, you'd be on the low end, because there are all sorts of little irregularities in there that aren't on the map. The same is true
to a smaller degree on a larger map just of that island, it includes a lot more of the smaller inlets and protrusions. What if you went further,
down to the level of tiny little protrusions, rocky areas or beach areas that are just big enough to add maybe 100 or 200 feet to the perimeter.
At this level the measurement will go up again, but by a larger or smaller amount than the first transition from smaller map to bigger map?
Probably smaller, but then again, it's kind of hard to say. Then we could go even further, to irregularities of just a few feet--now we're
not adding much to the measurement, but then again there are a whole lot of these little things. Then even further down, to tiny little areas,
and further, down to the perimeter going around the shape of a few grains of sand, to one grain of sand, going down the shape of each molecule,
and down to each atom. Of course it gets a bit silly down at that scale, since you've got tides going in and out, but still, it's fun to imagine
a measurement getting that crazy. I guess the increase in the measurement as the detail increases, would slow down and look like an asymptotic
function, but not truly asymptotic, because there's no one number that it could never reach.

Lastly, I have finally started up again my project for a dictionary of obscure, rare and arcane words. I have to finish
it before july, which is when I think I'll lose my access the online OED. Tonight I was able to make pretty good progress and finish the letter
F. I've gone through 9000 of the 27,425 words in the search query that I'm using, and selected about 600 of them for inclusion in my dictionary.
I think if I keep going at a steady pace now, I should be able to finish it.