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Sunday, September 4, 2011

Pi's daily routine

Sunrise to mid-morning:
wake up
prayers
breakfast for Richard Parker
general inspection of raft and lifeboat, with particular attention paid to all knots and ropes tending of solar stills (wiping, inflating, topping off with water)
breakfast and inspection of food stores
fishing and preparing of fish if any caught (gutting, cleaning, hanging strips of flesh on lines to cure in the sun)

Mid-morning to late afternoon:
prayers
light lunch
rest and restful activities (writing in diary, examining of scabs and sores, up keeping of equipment, puttering about locker, observation and study of Richard Parker, picking at of turtle bones, etc.)

Late afternoon to early evening:
prayers
fishing and preparing of fish
tending of curing strips of flesh (turning over, cutting away of putrid parts)
dinner preparations
dinner for self and Richard Parker

Sunset:
general inspection of raft and lifeboat (knots and ropes again)
collecting and safekeeping of distillate from solar stills
storing of all foods and equipment
arrangements for night (making of bed, safe storage on raft of flare, in case of ship, and rain catcher, in case of rain)

Night:
fitful sleeping
prayers

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