Today’s Business: 2010-02-20
Saturday, February 20th, 2010Today’s Activities
- Cat duty. DONE.
- Dispense Mom’s meds. IN PROGRESS.
- Shower. DONE.
- Repairman coming to fix dishwasher. DONE.
- Schedule appointment for Mom with the retina specialists in Johnstown for sometime in April, 2010.
- Get together all papers and figures for Mom’s 2009 taxes. IN PROGRESS.
- Do all of Mom’s pending laundry (5 loads). IN PROGRESS.
- Vacuum bedroom.
- Pack for Pittsburgh trip. IN PROGRESS.
- Adjust Mom’s med trays per the changes the PCP ordered yesterday. DONE.
Log
07:45 AM: I’m up. My weight is the same as yesterday; 174.0 Lbs.
09:00 AM: Packed first suitcase for my trip, with clothes, [Emmy]‘s IRIS Internet WebRadio and cables, power strips, tooth brush, and ear plugs ([Emmy] has an at-times noisy apartment).
11:00 AM: The appliance repairman left just now; our dishwasher hasn’t been cleaning very well lately. He found some food clogging up a strainer in the bottom, inside of the unit, which he removed. He also recommended that we run CLR through it when it shows signs of staining. We’ll do that after we run the dishes through that have been piling up all week. 
12:00 PM: Sister Diane stopped in to have a cup of tea with Mom.
01:00 PM: Ran a load of dishes thorugh the dishwasher. Unfortunately, there’s not much improvement. Sometimes, I think it would be better to do the dishes by hand and be done with it. We’ve not had good luck with this appliance over the past few years. Now, per the technician’s suggestion, I’m running the machine through a cycle (I’ve decided to use the Pots and Pans setting, as this circulates water around and through the system the longest). No dishes in it this time but I’m adding CLR cleaner. Hopefully, this will unclog any stopped-up jets and water openings inside. I’ll let you know.
03:00 PM: Watched the 2009-12-13 and 2009-12-20 episodes of NBC’s Meet The Press news show on the DVR. Now, it’s nap time.
04:40 PM: I’m up again. The CLR cycle on the dishwasher finished. I’m now running it through another empty cycle, this time without any cleaner, to rinse any residual CLR out of the system. Also, laundry is progressing. Did three loads of Mom’s clothes so far today.
08:15 PM: Watched the 2009-12-17 & 2010-01-03 episodes of NBC’s Meet The Press news show on the DVR.
08:45 PM: Took the weekly system backups, detailed here.
10:15 PM: Talked with [Emmy].
11:25 PM: Created audio journal episode: AJE-2010-02-20-22-45.
12:15 AM: Converted all mentions of particular audio journal episodes in 2010, into search links as in the previous line above, that bring up all other posts in this blog that mention the same episode. This facilitates the easy determination of what the episode is about as well as when it was transcribed and which posts it inspired; any post that was taken from an audio journal episode will also mention that episode by name.
12:30 AM: Off to bed with me. So good night, and I’ll catch you back out here later on. Take care.
Received Mail and Shipments
- The February, 2010 edition of The Writer magazine (audio format).
- Updated credit card agreement (2 copies). Strange.
- (1) balance transfer offer from Discover. No thanks.
Related Posts
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- Weekly Backups: 2010-02-20