Diary Revisions: 2010-02-26
Friday, February 26th, 2010Today, I either added or modified the following posts in the Tom’s Diary blog for improved brevity, clarity, categorization, decreased spelling errors, appearance, and search-ability:
Archive for February, 2010
Common Cold: 2010-02
Friday, February 26th, 2010Yep. I got another cold; third one in the past twelve months! It’s hard to fathom that I used to go for two years without contracting one. Maybe I haven’t been eating enough vegetables or getting enough undisturbed sleep.
Then too, these colds often settle in my throat two to three days after riding the train or plane. So far, all I have is a runny nose and scratchy throat; no fever so far. This one matches that pattern as I did just travel here to [Emmy]‘s this past Sunday, and began noticing symptoms yesterday. In fact, I believe I get more colds when traveling, but admittedly, not every time I travel. This would be expected as traveling brings me very close to many people; any one of which could have a cold that they’re spreading around. The train was quite crowded for some reason this time.
Oh well, hopefully, this one won’t last very long. But while it remains, I’ll track its progress in the comments below.
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This cold lasted eight days; short as colds go. But I’m immensely pleased.
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Today’s Diet: 2010-02-26
Friday, February 26th, 2010Today, I consumed the following items:
- Peppermint & spearmint tea and diet caffeine-free Pepsi throughout the day. 0 calories.
- 09:00 AM: 1 bowl Kashi Heart-to-Heart cereal. 300 calories.
- 09:00 AM: 1 cup organis skim milk. 80 calories.
- 10:30 AM: 2 cups V8 vegetable juice. 100 calories.
- 05:30 PM: 3 cups Cheerios. 300 calories.
- 05:30 PM: 2 cups organic skim milk. 160 calories.
- 05:30 PM: 1 cup raisins. 520 calories.
- 08:00 PM: 2 slices of pumpernickel toast and butter. 400 calories.
- 09:30 PM: 2 cups blueberry low-fat yogurt. 340 calories.
Total calories: 2200.
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Today’s Business: 2010-02-25
Thursday, February 25th, 2010Today’s Activities
- Shower. DONE.
- Schedule appointment for Mom with the retina specialists in Johnstown for sometime in April, 2010.
Log
07:50 AM: I’m up. My weight is unchanged from yesterday. It’s still 177.0 Lbs.
09:00 AM: I applied a software change to all my blogs that shortens all title tags for single posts; it eliminates the string: Blog Archive as well as one separator character from the titles. This should fix the issues raised by my hosting provider about some of my title tags containing too many characters. Presumably now, search engines will index more of my posts. I’m not sure that this is actually true. But the IT folks at my hosting company know lots more about this stuff than I do. So I’ll take their word for it and bring the blogs into compliance. Next thing to do, they suggest, is to remove all duplicate titles. I did this for Tom’s Diary so far. I’ll get to work on Tom’s Love Quest now.
11:20 AM: Spent the past couple hours categorizing posts on the Tom’s Love Quest blog. I added categories for Affirmations, Aloneness, Cheating, and Loneliness among others.
01:30 PM: Watched today’s episode of The Young and the Restless with [Emmy].
02:50 PM: We dined at our favorite Indian restaurant: Tamarind Flavor of India, on Craig Street in Oakland. Yum.
03:00 PM: Categorized more posts on the Tom’s Love Quest blog. Now, there are just 18 left to do. Details here.
04:00 PM: Watched today’s episode of Dr. Phil.
06:00 PM: Made numerous revisions to the Tom’s Love Quest blog.
07:30 PM: Watched tonight’s episodes of NBC’s Nightly News and The CBS Evening News TV news shows.
12:25 AM: Read four more chapters of the book: The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow.
12:30 AM: Bed time. See you tomorrow.
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Diary Revisions: 2010-02-25
Thursday, February 25th, 2010Today, I either added or modified the following posts in the Tom’s Diary blog for improved brevity, clarity, categorization, decreased spelling errors, appearance, and search-ability:
The Drunkard’s Walk
Thursday, February 25th, 201001:10 AM: Began reading the book: The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (NLS book number DB-67164) by Leonard Mlodinow.
Reading time: Nine hours, thirty-one minutes.
Hmmm, I’ve often felt that people either take too much credit for their successes, or others deify them overly for them. This book bolsters the notion that while things like skill and tenacity might increase our chances of success somewhat, they by no means guarantee them; just as a person’s sheer imcompetence cannot promise that he’ll always fail at any endeavor he attempts. I found much encouragement in the passages I’ve read so far; even if I truly am an awful writer, my chances of succeeding at it are still, by no mens, zero. I like that, and can’t wait to read more later.
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Today’s Diet: 2010-02-25
Thursday, February 25th, 2010Today, I consumed the following items:
- Peppermint & spearmint tea and diet caffeine-free Pepsi throughout the day. 0 calories.
- 08:00 AM: 1 bowl Kashi Heart-to-Heart cereal. 300 calories.
- 08:00 AM: 1 cup organic skim milk. 80 calories.
- 01:45 PM: Indian lunch. 1 large plate of various foods, along with nan. 1500 calories.
- 03:00 PM: Multivitamin. 0 calories.
- 10:00 PM: 3 slices pumpernickel bread and butter. 500 calories.
Total calories: 2380.
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Today’s Business: 2010-02-24
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Today’s Activities
- Shower. DONE.
- Schedule appointment for Mom with the retina specialists in Johnstown for sometime in April, 2010.
Log
08:15 AM: I’m up. My weight is unchanged from yesterday. It’s still 177.0 Lbs.
10:00 AM: Watched today’s episode of Pittsburgh Today Live on KDKA TV.
11:20 AM: Spent the morning submitting my blogs to more search engines. I encountered many that required payment in order to submit. So I avoided those and will continue to do so until the blogs begin generating some revenue. I did submit the sites to perhaps ten free engines and directories.
01:30 PM: Watched today’s episode of The Young and the Restless with [Emmy].
03:20 PM: Walked [Emmy] to an appointment, picked up the new digital talking book (DTB) player from Carnegie Library For The Blind, and a couple of digital books to try out on it. We also ate lunch at Pizza Pronto.
03:55 PM: Watched today’s episode of Dr. Phil, about a teen aged drug addict that Dr. Phil paid to send to rehab. However, this individual relapsed some forty-five days after he finished his treatment. Today’s show focused on what to do next, to get him back into treatment, and cured this time. Not one of my favorite episodes, but not bad though.
04:00 PM: Nap time.
06:00 PM: I’m back up again, listening to the local evening news.
07:30 PM: Watched today’s episodes of NBC’s Nightly News and The CBS Evening News news shows.
07:45 PM: Resolved an Outlook address book problem for [Emmy]. Choosing the address book in her instance of Outlook 2003 caused an error message, saying that either her address book had been deleted, or she had insufficient permission to access it. I discovered that she had two instances of the “Contacts” address list mentioned in her address book. One of these produced the aforementioned error, and the other correctly displayed her addresses. You can set which one displays by default when the address book is opened. So I changed her default to the one that works. I was reluctant to delete the other one because it has the same name as the one that works (Contacts), and so I didn’t want to risk deleting both of them inadvertently while deleting just the one. Anyway, she’ll be okay as long as she doesn’t accidentally change the default list to display back to the faulty one.
08:05 PM: Posted the NLS DTB Player piece.
09:30 PM: Went out for a little shopping trip this evening to buy some diet Pepsi.
10:30 PM: Talked with Mom. She’s doing well and her blood sugar readings have been pretty good (< 200) this week mostly. I’ll resume the daily status updates on these readings when I return home.
11:45 PM: Investigated how to fix numerous title tag issues on my blogs for search engine optimization (SEO). One complaint I received is that lots o fmy titles are too long. So I went through today and shortened them. However, by default, WordPress places the blog name and the string “blog archive” into the title tags for pages that display single posts, and this additional yet redundant data can make a fairly short title too long. I’ve learned how to shorten this WordPress-generated title so as not to include my blog name, and will apply that change to all my blogs later this week.
12:20 AM: Created audio journal episode: AJE-2010-02-25-00-10.
01:10 AM: Started a new book: The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow.
01:15 AM: Heading to bed. Later.
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Shopping Trip: 2010-02-24
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Walked a quick jaunt to CVS pharmacy this evening to purchase the following:
- Diet, caffeine-free Pepsi (6 liters).
Total cost: $5.72
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Diary Revisions: 2010-02-24
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Today, I either added or modified the following posts in the Tom’s Diary blog for improved brevity, clarity, categorization, decreased spelling errors, appearance, and search-ability: