Archive for January 7th, 2010

Today’s Business: 2010-01-07

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Today’s Activities

  • Cat duty. DONE.
  • Dispensing Mom’s meds.  DONE.
  • Shower. DONE.
  • Send out five pending memorial checks for the   WPSBC Alumni Association.
  • Attend the monthly Lions Club general membership meeting tonight.  DONE.

Log

09:30 AM: I’m up. My weight today is 181.5 pounds.  So far in the new year, I’ve lost 2 pounds.  Hey, it’s a start.  :-)

12:25 PM: Spent a couple hours revising the   Molly’s Last Visit   piece, which is located in the   Tom’s Love Quest   blog.

04:15 PM: Watched yesterday’s and today’s episodes of   The Young and the Restless   on the DVR.

04:25 PM: Received mail today includes the following:

  • Change in terms notice from 1 credit card company.
  • Enhanced accessibility advertisement from another credit card company.
  • Some forms from my financial advisor, involving a transfer of funds that I initiated last month.

 

07:40 PM: I’m back from the Lions Club meeting.  A short one it was tonight, as folks wanted to return home in time for the college football championship game at 8:00 PM.  Lots of great food there too, and though I had two plates of beef, gravy, mashed potatoes, mixed vegetables with cheese sauce, filling, and a roll, I avoided dessert, which was cheese cake with cherries.  I shouldn’t gain any weight from this, as I ate very little else today (a bowl of Cheerios with raisins).

07:45 PM: Mom just announced that she’s ordered a white pizza and asked if I wanted some.  I declined, thankful that I just filled up and so, won’t be tempted to have pizza.

08:25 PM: Posted the piece about   June Dillon passing away today.

08:40 PM: [Emmy] called a few moments ago to say that the Penguins are losing by three points.  But I’m so sleepy; probably from the mashed potatoes I ingested at the Lions Club meeting earlier.  So I’m off for a nap.  See you in a bit.

10:00 PM: I’m back up again, and categorizing more posts.

10:55 PM: Categorized a few tens more posts in this, the   Tom’s Diary   blog.  Just 200 uncategorized ones left to do.

12:05 AM: Posted the list of additions and revisions to this, the   Tom’s Diary   blog,   here.

12:15 AM: Posted the list of additions and revisions to the   Tom’s Love Quest   blog,   here.

01:15 AM: Bed time.  Take care, and see you tomorrow.

Tom Hesley

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Diary Revisions: 2010-01-07

Thursday, January 7th, 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:

  • June Dillon Passed Away Today
  • Mom’s Status: 2010-01-07
  • Today’s Business: 2010-01-07
  • Today’s Business: 2010-01-06
  • Diary Revisions: 2010-01-06
  • Perhaps No Camp This Year
  • Internet Shopping: 2010-01-06
  • Mom’s Status: 2010-01-06
  • Weight Loss: 2010
  • Significant Dates
  • Maine Cost of Living
  • Get Another Kitty
  • The Dow and Nasdaq
  • Cleaning Lady in Mobile Home
  • Apollo 13 Movie
  • Play Performance
  • I Miss Philly
  • Cat Tails
  • Coming Back as a Cat
  • Redding Up
  • Zip Drives
  • Yelling and Screaming
  • Fixed Chairs
  • Band of Gold
  • Camp Forms
  • Lynn’s Vacation Pictures
  • Adobe Acrobat
  • Figure Out Your Day
  • Program Shortcuts
  • PPS File Viewing
  • PHP File Viewing
  • Computer Advice
  • That “Jave” Word
  • Hitting the Hay
  • Nephew’s Birthday Party
  • Blue Well Pressure Tank
  • When Does Easter Fall?
  • Dental Update
  • Preparing for the Auction
  • Cornmesser Hardware Closing
  • Email Outage
  • Red-Handed
  • Cranberries, a Nice Red Fruit
  • More “Javing”
  • Happy Valentine’s Day, Lynn
  • My Cold Goes On…

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    Tom

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    June Dillon Passed Away Today

    Thursday, January 7th, 2010

    At the Lions Club meeting tonight, I learned from Don Mills that June Dillon passed away earlier today from some form of cancer.  My family and hers lived across the street from each other during the early 1970s on North Third Street in Bellwood, and as a boy, I had a crush on Mrs. Dillon because she could play the organ so well; she used to do songs I liked when I’d visit her daughters, which at that time, were elementary schoolmates of mine besides.  She invited my sisters and I over to watch Batman on their color television now and then, as we only had black and white at our house, and she knew how much we enjoyed seeing the shows in color.  Then we’d sit around her and her organ afterwards, and be mesmerized by the complex yet intricate melodies that flowed from her fingers.  Anyone that could play like June was a queen in my book, as I loved music then as I do now, and idolized anyone who could make it sound as good as she did. 

    In fact, I’d said to [Emmy] a couple years ago that we should visit June and have her play for us.  I think their organ was a Hammond B3 (or something that sounded very much like the B3), and as [Emmy] and I are big fans of music in which the B3 was used, we really wanted to visit and have June show us what every lever, button, knob, and key did.  However, June’s been sick for a long time, as has Mom.  So we never got down to see the Dillons, though had Mom felt better, she would have taken us, and I think June would have enjoyed seeing me after over thirty years.   

    Anyway, I just wanted to say to June, thanks for all the music and wonderful childhood memories, for it was your playing that got me interested in the B3, and is largely why today, I’m a huge organ music fan.  You could play that instrument every bit as well as the musicians I’d heard on the radio, who were cranking out the big B3 hits in the sixties and seventies.  You could have made the hits as well if you had ever followed that path.  But actually, I’m glad that you decided to stick around our small town and raise a family; else, I’d have never heard you play, live, in your living room.  Do rest in peace, June.

     Tom Hesley

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    Mom’s Status: 2010-01-07

    Thursday, January 7th, 2010

    Pending Appointments And Issues

    1. Order more Novolog (log) insulin.
    2. Thursday, 2010-01-14 @ 11:00 AM: Appointment with orthopedist for a quarterly checkup on the progress of healing of her charcot foot.
    3. Friday, 2010-01-15 @ 1:30 PM: Appointment with her PCP.
    4. Friday, 2010-01-22 @ 2:30 PM: Appointment with her eye doctor.

    Log 

    09:45 AM: Blood sugar: 179.  Covered with 10 units of log insulin.

    09:50 AM: Dispensed Mom’s morning meds, including 40 units of N insulin.

    02:45 PM: Dispensed Mom’s lunch meds.

    02:49 PM: Blood sugar: 115.  Good! 

    05:37 PM: Dispensed Mom’s evening meds. 

    05:40 PM: Blood sugar:  171.  Covered with 10 units of log insulin.

    08:20 PM: Mom’s eating white pizza for supper.  So we may see higher sugar readings later.

    10:13 PM: Dispensed Mom’s night-time meds, including 40 unit of N insulin.

    10:15 PM: Blood sugar: 202.  Covered with 14 units of log insulin. 

    Tom Hesley

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