Archive for January 18th, 2010

Today’s Business: 2010-01-18

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Today’s Activities

  • Cat duty. DONE.
  • Dispense Mom’s meds.  IN PROGRESS.
  • Shower. DONE.
  • Check grocery and meds inventory and make list of needed items for the upcoming shopping trips this week.
  • Fill out and Return all requested forms to the financial planner.

 

08:15 AM: I’m up.

09:30 AM: My weight remains unchanged from yesterday. It’s still 178.0 pounds.  Yep.  It’s going to be another 800 calorie target day

10:30 AM: Created the 2010-01-18-09-58 episode in my audio journal on the Victor Reader Stream, which I’ll transcribe to the blog here sometime in the future, though not immediately.  I like to let these entries “cool off” a little, before posting them. This gives me time to mull over them and improve how I say what I said in them, and to find and eliminate any errors.  In this episode I further discuss reducing my anxiety of approaching women I deem beautiful.

12:35 PM: Posted the    Going With The Flow At Work   piece.

12:50 PM: Posted the   No More Great Raises   piece.

01:10 PM: Added the   Today’s Business: 2002-01-03   piece.

03:00 PM: Talked with   [Emmy].

04:15 PM: Signed up to transfer our land line phone services from Verizon over to our cable provider.  This should save us between $50 and $60 per month.  I’m a little worried that the quality of the new lines won’t be as high as I’ve been used to with Verizon.  But I attempted to negotiate a lower rate with Verizon, for both Mom’s and my phone lines.  They refused.  So I decided to give our cable provider a try.  If the new lines have substandard sound, I’ll switch back.

05:30 PM: Watched the following episodes of CBS’s   60 Minutes    from the DVR:

  • 2009-12-20.
  • 2009-12-27 (partial, because the show was delayed by CBS football coverage — what a pain!).
  • 2010-01-03 (partial, again due to football coverage; the DVR’s schedule is usually not updated to reflect late-running football games).
  • 2010-01-17.

 

06:15 PM: Watched today’s episode of   The Young and the Restless   from the DVR.

06:30 PM: Worked the   Christmas Lighting, 2009   project.  Put away some of the indoor decorations today.

06:55 PM: Skipped today’s episode of   Dr. Phil,   which focused on the Dr. Phil family; not interested in that thread.

07:05 PM: Applied all pending plugin version upgrades to all three of my blogs:

 

09:00 PM: Created audio journal episode:   AJE-2010-01-18-20-53   on the Victor Reader Stream. Here I discuss initiating the second contact in my  finding-love-in-my-past   campaign.

10:20 PM: Talked with [Emmy] for the last hour plus.

11:00 PM: Browsed around a little on facebook. Interesting.  I see why so many people like it.  But I’ll post more about it once I get some real experience.

11:10 PM: Posted the daily list of added / revised documents in this blog,   here.

11:15 PM: I’m going to bed now.  Take care, and will catch you right back here tomorrow morning.  Good night.

Tom Hesley

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Diary Revisions: 2010-01-18

Monday, January 18th, 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:

  • Today’s Diet: 2010-01-18
  • Mom’s Status: 2010-01-18
  • Today’s Business: 2010-01-18
  • Today’s Business: 2010-01-17
  • Diary Revisions: 2010-01-17
  • Today’s Diet: 2010-01-17
  • Mom’s Status: 2010-01-17
  • Today’s Business: 2002-01-03
  • Less Sugar, More Drive
  • No More Great Raises
  • Going With The Flow At Work
  •  

    Tom

    Today’s Diet: 2010-01-18

    Monday, January 18th, 2010

    Today, I consumed the following items:

    • Green tea throughout the day.  0 calories.
    • 02:30 PM: Finished the leftover pork roast and vegetables from last night’s dinner.  I’d guess this to have 400 calories.
    • 02:35 PM: 8 Oz. organic skim milk.  80 calories.
    • 03:40 PM: 1 whole banana.  125 calories.
    • 08:05 PM: 2 slices of Muenster cheese.   160 calories.
    • 08:50 PM: 1 cup of fat-free vanilla yogurt.  200 calories.

     

    Total calories: 965

    Well, I’ve not been able to eat so little, as 800 calories.  I just get too hungry late at night.  So perhaps I’ll just stick to 1000 calories a day for now, and slowly work down to the 800 calories as my body gets used to eating less food.

    Tom Hesley

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    Mom’s Status: 2010-01-18

    Monday, January 18th, 2010

    Pending Appointments And Issues

    1. 2010-01-22 @ 02:30 PM: Friday: Appointment with her eye doctor.
    2. 2010-04-14 @ 11:10 AM: Wednesday: Appointment with orthopedist for the next quarterly checkup on the progress of healing of her charcot foot. 
    3. 2010-04-23 @ 02:00 PM: Friday: Appointment with PCP for quarterly checkup.

     

    07:32 AM: Blood sugar: 142.  She covered this and her breakfast with 12 units of log insulin.

    09:45 AM: Dispensed Mom’s morning meds, including the 40 units of  N insulin.

    09:50 AM: Blood sugar: 106.   Good!

    02:15 PM: Blood sugar: 143.  Covered with 8 units of log insulin.

    02:20 PM: Dispensed Mom’s after-lunch meds.

    06:30 PM: Blood sugar: 142.  Covered with 8 units of log insulin.

    06:35 PM Dispensed Mom’s evening meds.  Had to resume the evening dose of 40 MG of furosemide; Mom has gained seven pounds since we began omitting this dose this past Friday, her rings no longer fit on her fingers, and the edema has returned to her feet.  Apparently now, and for the foreseeable future, she must continue the 40 MG, twice a day regimen of this diuretic.  Oh well.  We tried reducing it but her body won’t tolerate the reduction.  We’ll try again in a year, once her heart becomes stronger.

    10:30 PM: Blood sugar: 189.  Covered with 12 units of log insulin.

    10:35 PM: Dispensed Mom’s night-time meds.

    Tom Hesley

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