Today’s Business: 2010-03-11
Today’s Activities
- Shower. DONE.
- Cat duty. DONE.
- Pay all (1) pending bills.
- Schedule appointment for Mom with the retina specialists in Johnstown for sometime in April, 2010.
Log
09:30 AM: I’m up. My weight dropped a half-pound from yesterday, to 176.5 Lbs.
10:30 PM: Read more of the book To Kill A Mockingbird.
11:15 AM: [Emmy] called to say good morning.
12:00 PM: Worked the Pink’s PC Problems: 2010-03-10 project. I must confer with her about how to proceed, before proceeding.
02:30 PM: Finished the book To Kill A Mockingbird. Excellent and informative reading!
02:33 PM: Warmest day this year; the temperature on the back porch here is 62 degrees and climbing. The sun is shining as well on a mostly clear afternoon.
03:35 PM: Watched today’s episode of The Young and the Restless on the DVR.
04:05 PM; Further, on this warmest day so far, I took the opportunity to replace a burned-out halogen flood light in the east carport. Looks like the fixture won’t last much longer. In fact, sometimes I wonder why they make the bulbs replaceable in these. I changed thsi holder the last time the bulb failed a few years ago, and this fixture shows the same signs of deterioration; rusted face clips and weakened contact springs. It must be the heat from the 300 watt lamp that’s so hard on these things. Oh well. I’m toying with replacing these with LED dusk-to-dawn lamps later this year. That would solve the heat problem at least.
04:20 PM: Downloaded the following talking books from the BARD site:
- Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Adventures of Pinocchio
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Call Of The Wild
- Canterbury Tales
05:00 PM: With the weather being so warm, it’s safe to classify this day as the first pavilion day of 2010, and to honor this very special time, I took the iPod touch down there, through the muddy grass. Internet radio works pretty well at the pavilion. But it does cut out frequently if you don’t hold the touch properly. So I might look into how to improve the WiFi reception; either by moving my access point to the attic and then putting a directional antenna on the roof, or putting a weatherproof access point in the pavilion. I’ll have to mull it over to see which solution would be the cheapest.
06:00 PM: Sister Christine called to check in. Nice to hear that she’s recovering from her facial paralysis. She has this week off from teaching to get better.
06:15 Nap time.
07:30 PM: I’m up again. Working the Pink’s PC Problems: 2010-03-10 project. Restoring the Vista operating system from the recovery image on the hard drive..
10:00 PM: Listened to the third and overtime periods of the Penguins hockey game with [Emmy] on the phone. They lost however, 4 to 3.
10:30 PM: Sister Joann called to arrange our shopping trip for tomorrow. We’re going early (at 7:45 AM) because Jojo is taking Mom to the doctor’s tomorrow afternoon. So we’ll get our activities out of the way in the morning.
11:30 PM: Went back to reading the Team of Rivals book.
11:50 PM: Okay, going to bed. Good night and take care.
Received Mail and Shipments
- Offer for Verizon DSL high speed Internet. No thanks.
- Notice of new premium rates from my ex dental insurance company.
- Offer for AT&T cell phone service. No thanks.
- Mom’s 2010-02 banking statement.
- 2010-03 issue of Analog Science Fiction magazine.