Today’s Business: 2009-12-06
Today’s Chores
- Cat duty
- Processing all pending and complete laundry loads
- Showering
- Dispensing Mom’s meds
Log
09:20 AM: I’m up. Mostly sunny so far. The temperature reached down to 26 degrees this morning; the coldest morning so far this season I think. It’s nice and warm in here though; 66 degrees.
10:20 AM: Posted the Message Notification Feature piece to this, the Tom’s Diary blog.
11:15 AM: Working the Household Organization, 2009 project today. See today’s comments, there, for more details.
02:30 PM: Categorized a few more posts. But I’m running low on steam. Time for a Sunday afternoon nap, to rest up for the second half of the day.
04:50 PM: I’m up once again. Mom’s making sauerkraut with pork for supper.
06:45 PM: Posted the Card Box of Memories piece to this, the Tom’s Diary blog.
07:00 PM: Worked the ICANN Record Updating: 2009-12-06 project.
07:10 PM: Moved the Ongoing Power Outages project to completed status, as we’ve had no power outages since they made the changes the engineer discussed with me, at the substation up the road. Hopefully, I’ll not have to reopen this.
09:05 PM: Skimmed through the early November episodes of Dr. Phil on the DVR, but did not watch many of them as they pertained to parenting and families; a topic that is currently outside my relationship focus. But I did watch the 2009-12-02 episode in its entirety, because it focused on a subjec for which I hold great interest. This episode dealt with the ethical, and social pros and cons of using growth hormone to make a child grow taller, or manipulating the genetics in any way to shape the child into more of the perceived societal ideals. Good show. But I don’t think I’d opt for genetic or chemical manipulation to make a child “better,” because I agreed with the people there who felt that “building” this “better” baby promotes and sustains societal prejudices surrounding short people or those with other genetically removable “problems.” Like them, I feel that we should fix errant perceptions and beliefs to accommodate the differences rather than alter the child with drugs and genetic manipulation, so as to make them fit the society’s expectations. It’s that society needs to be more accepting, and not that different people should be more conforming.
09:10 PM: Calling [Emmy].
11:40 PM: Categorized 30 more posts in this, the Tom’s Diary blog; 670 more to go.
11:50 PM: Just posted the list of added and / or revised Toms Diary blog posts for today, here.
01:10 AM: Spent the past hour-plus iPodding. Didn’t listen to any songs repeatedly. So there are no repeater songs to report today. However, a few songs that got me to linger at their slot in the playlist for their entire duration were:
- Dream On by Aerosmith
- House of the Rising Sun by The Animals
- I’m Not Gonna Let It Bother Me Tonight by The Atlanta Rhythm Section
- Java by Al Hirt
These are all great repeater song candidates. But I was sort of tired tonight, and so didn’t wish to stay focused on any one song for very long. But perhaps some other day, one or more of these will actually make the repeater song list.
01:50 AM: Just posted the list of added and / or revised Tom’s Love Quest blog posts for November, 2009 here.
02:00 AM: Headed for bed now. Later.