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Today’s Business: 2010-01-04

Monday, January 4th, 2010

Today’s Chores

  • Cat duty.  DONE.
  • Dispensing Mom’s meds.  DONE.
  • Shower.   DONE.
  • Send out five pending memorial checks for the   WPSBC Alumni Association.
  • Take meds and grocery inventories.  DONE.
  • Do all pending laundry (3 loads).  DONE.

Log 

10:00 AM: I’m up.

11:00 AM: Starting the laundry now.

02:15 PM: Installed the   attic fan bypass switch   today.

03:30 PM: Received mail:

  • A memorial check request from the   WPSBC Alumni Association.  Member   Etta Lockhart Burge,   class of 1951, passed away recently.
  • 2010-01 issue of Promo Only’s Modern Rock CD series.

 

04:00 PM: Categorized and edited posts on this, the   Tom’s Diary   blog throughout today.  There are now just 245 of them left ot categorize. Once this is done, I’ll begin the same work on the   Tom’s Love Quest   blog.

05:30 PM: For supper, we had baked chicken breast seasoned with Buffalo sauce along with some leftover taco dip from last week.

06:00 PM: Watched today’s episodes of   Dr. Phil,  Pittsburgh Today Live,  and   The Young and the Restless   on the DVR.

07:00 PM: [Emmy]  is packing to leave here tomorrow for home, and we’re putting away all  the laundry done today.

08:00 PM: Nap time.

09:00 PM: We’re up once more, and hanging out here in the office, discussing what we each hope to accomplish in the new year. 

12:35 AM: [Emmy]   and I listened to the CBS Radio Mystery Theater, to the following episode:

  • 1974-03-18   Sea of Troubles

 

12:50 AM: Posted today’s list of added and revised posts   here.

01:00 AM: It’s bed time.  So, I’m off of here for now.  Catch you tomorrow, and do stay warm.

Tom Hesley

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Diary Revisions: 2010-01-04

Monday, January 4th, 2010

Today, I either added or modified the following posts in  the   Tom’s Diary    blog for improved brevity, clarity, categorization, appearance,  and search-ability:

  • Attic Fan Bypass Switch
  • Bandwidth Usage: 2009-12
  • Mom’s Status: 2010-01-04
  • Today’s Business: 2010-01-04
  • Today’s Business: 2010-01-03
  • Diary Revisions: 2010-01-03
  • Mom’s Status: 2010-01-03
  • Today’s Business: 2010-01-02
  • Diary Revisions: 2010-01-02
  • Weight Loss: 2010
  • Today’s Business: 2009-12-06
  • Today’s Business: 2009-11-07
  • Weekly Backups: 2009-11-08
  • Today’s Business: 2009-10-30
  • October, 2005 Done
  • February, 2005 Done
  • November, 2004 Done
  • May, 2004 Done
  • April, 2004 Done
  • Mom’s Okay
  • March, 2004 Done
  • February, 2004 Done
  • January, 2004 Done
  • August, 2003 Done
  • July, 2003 Done
  • March, 2003 Done
  • November, 2002 Done
  • New Bandwidth High: 2009-04-21
  • June, 1999 Done
  • Philly Train Trip Scheduled
  • August, 2001 Done
  • March, 2001 Done
  • February, 2001 Done
  • September, 2000 Done
  • Site Map Files Extended
  • Gas Heaters Follow-Up #3
  • Updating Cher
  • Hiding QuickTime Windows
  • Ellie’s Hard Times
  • Updating Carl on Lions Club Bingo
  • Reimbursement
  • Alumni Bylaws Updates
  • Bosses
  • Carl’s Deck Work
  • Fun Day Visit
  • Morra Met Mom
  • Mouse Droppings?
  • How Often I Do Laundry
  • Mobile Home Status
  • Over my Knee You Go
  • “Javing”
  • Stock Markets Down
  • Tracking Nasdaq Market
  • Lynn’s Flood
  • Software Release Tonight
  • I’m Back from the Dentist
  • Sleeping Bears and Goading
  • Getting Up Early
  • Figuring Out One’s Day
  • Kennett Square [KS]
  • Work Almost Done: 2000-01-05
  • Dear Lynn: 1999-11-23
  • Dear Larry
  • Leaving 623 North Third Street

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    Attic Fan Bypass Switch

    Monday, January 4th, 2010

    02:00 PM: I installed a bypass switch on the attic fan, because the fan wouldn‘t run enough when it got very cold, though these times are precisely when it should run the most, to keep excess humidity and moisture out of the attic. 

    Before the switch, temperatures below 30 degrees tripped the thermostat OFF, even when set to the coldest activation setting possible.  Therefore, the fan would not operate when temperatures plummeted too low. So, as frigid as it’s been the past few days, we’ve seen little fan operation.  Correspondingly, there’s also been an increased buildup of condensation in the attic, intensified by our vent-less gas heaters in the basement. 

    To better combat this dampness, I wired the bypass switch in parallel with the thermostat.  Now, moving the switch into the ON position bypasses the thermostat.  Thus, the fan operates, even when the thermostat is OFF.  That is: when in bypass mode, the fan runs, regardless of the setting of the thermostat.  Eventually, I plan on installing a humidistat, which would activate the fan when the humidity in the attic reaches an appropriate level.  But, until I can bring myself to spend the $50 that a good humidistat costs, the bypass switch should make a good stop-gap measure.  True, with the humidistat, the fan might not run as much as it will when in bypass mode.  But it’s a small fan and consumes little electricity.  So I doubt that adding the humidistat would pay for itself in electricity savings any time soon.

    Tom Hesley

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    Bandwidth Usage: 2009-12

    Monday, January 4th, 2010

    Used 1944.93  MB for this cycle. That’s down from 2177.98 MB last month, by 233.45 MB.  No record highs this time, and I suspect that due to the holiday rush, I wasn’t writing as much, and people weren’t downloading as many pages.  Thus, we consumed less bandwidth than in November of 2009.  Hopefully next month however, we’ll get back up above 2 GB of usage now that presumably, folks have returned to their normal web browsing patterns and I have returned to my normal work schedule.

    Tom Hesley

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    Mom’s Status: 2010-01-04

    Monday, January 4th, 2010

    Pending Appointments And Issues

    1. Order more Novolog (log) insulin.
    2. Friday, 2010-01-15 @ 1:30 PM: Appointment with her PCP.
    3. Thursday, 2010-02-04 @ 11:30 AM: Appointment with orthopedist for a quarterly checkup on the progress of healing of her charcot foot.

    Log 

    10:15 AM: Dispensed Mom’s morning meds, including 40 units of N insulin.

    10:20 AM: Blood sugar: 189.  Covered with 12 units of log insulin.

    02:15 PM: Dispensed Mom’s after-lunch meds.

    02:20 PM: Blood sugar: 131.  Good!

    06:15 PM: Blood sugar: 175.  Covered with 10 units of log insulin.

    06:20 PM: Dispensed Mom’s supper-time meds.

    09:30 PM: Blood sugar: 78.  She covered this and her supper with 15 units of log insulin.

    11:00 PM: Dispensed Mom’s night-time meds.  She only took 30 units of the N insulin.  I suppose I’ll have ot put that insulin up here, so I can be sure she doesn’t confuse this with the fast-acting log insulin and take too much, or take too little. 

    Tom Hesley 

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