Archive for March 12th, 2010

Today’s Business: 2010-03-12

Friday, March 12th, 2010

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

07:05 AM: I’m up. My weight read the same as yesterday:   176.5 Lbs.    

07:50 AM: Went   shopping.

11:00 I’m back home, putting groceries away.

01:00 PM: Set up Mom’s new Vtech cordless phones that I purchased on today’s shopping trip.  These have lighted key pads; she had problems using the Panasonic ones I got her for Christmas.  So we’ll try these Vtechs.  They sound comparable to the Panasonics and they’re $40 cheaper.  One drawback I’ve noted is that the Vtechs take specialized cordless phone batteries, whereas the Panasonics take standard AAA rechargeable batteries.  But aside from that minor inconvenience, the Vtechs appear to be high fidelity, high quality phones. 

02:30 PM: Watched today’s episode of   The Young and the Restless.

03:30 PM: Worked the   Pink’s PC Problems: 2010-03-10   project.  All updates, including Vista Service Pack 1, have been successfully applied. 

07:30 PM: I took a walk down past the pavilion to the river, and yes, it’s rising once again.  The weather people are calling for lots of rain over the weekend.  So, I’ve begun moving some of our possessions up off our cellar floor, just in case the waters come in again as they did back in the fall of 2004.  We have far too much to save, should we get four feet of water down there again; there just aren’t enough high places to stow our stuff.  Thus, I’m having to pick and choose what to preserve.  Tough choices too because I love    all   my junk; not just this and that.  Oh well.  Maybe the waters won’t come.  Let’s hope. 

09:00 PM:  Read more of the   Team of Rivals   book.

10:00 PM: Talked with [Emmy].  The Penguins lost again, 3 to 1 to the NJ Devils.

10:15 PM: To bed with me, because I got up earlier than usual this morning.  See you back here tomorrow.  Good night, and take care.

Tom Hesley

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Diary Revisions: 2010-03-12

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Today, 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:

  • Shopping Trip: 2010-03-12
  • Today’s Business: 2010-03-12
  • Today’s Diet: 2010-03-12
  • Today’s Business: 2010-03-11
  • Today’s Diet: 2010-03-11
  • Book: Team Of Rivals

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    Shopping Trip: 2010-03-12

    Friday, March 12th, 2010

    07:50 AM: Departed earlier than usual for our usually-weekly shopping trip.  The first stop was Wal Mart, where I purchased the following items:

    • V8 juice (8 bottles)
    • Kraft shredded Parmesan cheese (3 canisters)
    • Sugar-free pudding (12 packs)
    • Celestial Seasoning peppermint tea (40 individual-serving bags)
    • Sargento shredded Mozzarella & Provolone cheese (2 pounds)
    • Vtech cordless phone
    • Great Value quick oatmeal (2 canisters)
    • Great Value raisins (4 canisters)
    • Stonyfield fat-free organic skim milk (2.5 gallons)
    • Tyson pork roast & veggies kit
    • Diet caffeine-free Pepsi (24 liters)
    • Friskies wet cat foot (87 cans)

    Total cost: $219.15

    Next, we hit Dunkin’ Donuts, where I enjoyed some hazelnut-flavored decaffeinated coffee and a multi-grain bagel with cream cheese.

    Total cost: $3.81

    Then, we sent to Mom’s bank to pick up the following items:

    • order of 400 new checks that I called in before going to Pittsburgh a couple weeks ago.

    Total cost: $55.00 (approximately)

    Then, we continued to Lowe’s, where I purchased the following items:

    • Sewage / sump pump (to handle potential water in basement this weekend)

    Total cost: $411.28

    Grand Total: $689.24

    Tom Hesley

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    Today’s Diet: 2010-03-12

    Friday, March 12th, 2010

    Today, I consumed the following items:

    • Perfect Peach herbal tea and diet caffeine-free Pepsi  throughout the day. 0 calories.
    • 10:45 AM: Large decaffeinated coffee and half & half.  100 calories.
    • 10:45 AM: 1 multi-grain bagel & cream cheese.   400 calories.
    • 01:00 PM: 1.5 cups Cheerios.  150 calories.
    • 01:00 PM: 1 cup organic skim milk.  80 calories.
    • 01:00 PM: 0.5 cups raisins.  260 calories.
    • 01:00 PM: Multivitamin.  0 calories.
    • 03:15 PM: Sugar-free pudding.  60 calories.
    • 08:00 PM: Cream of mushroom soup.  250 calories.
    • 08:00 PM: Mozzarella cheese.  600 calories.

    Total calories: 1900.

    Tom

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