Today’s Business: 2010-03-18
Today’s Activities
- Shower. DONE.
- Cat duty. DONE.
- Help Pink restore some data she’s still missing this evening. DONE.
- Pay all (2) pending bills.
Log
10:00 AM: I’m up. My weight stayed the same as yesterday, at 175.0 Lbs. See here for a summary of the progress on this goal so far in 2010.
10:03 AM: I woke up with yet another cold! Yep, I’m definitely getting those blood tests in June to make sure nothing’s amiss with my immune system.
10:05 AM: Overnight, I attempted to read more of the Team of Rivals book, but kept falling asleep. I’ll try chapter twenty-four again today.
11:00 AM: [Emmy] called to remind me that The Young and the Restless will not air today due to some basketball game (having to do with “March Madness”) I guess. Of all the popular sports in the US, basketball is one that I know the least about; never found it interesting.
01:10 PM: Worked outside the past couple hours. When the snow plow operator cleared our driveway throughout the winter, he pushed some of the shale from the driveway, way out into the yard. Grrrrrrrrr! So this morning, I raked and shoveled it all back to where it belongs. Now, I have two little blisters; one on each hand. Oh well. At least I can still type. 
A beautiful, sunny day so far. When I headed out, it was 50 degrees. Now, it’s 59. We could see the mid 60s this afternoon, making this day the second pavilion day of the year.
03:30 PM: Uploaded the following audio journal episodes to the computer:
03:40 PM: Nap time.
04:10 PM: I’m back up again. 63 degrees outside. Wonderful!
04:30 PM: Read more of the Team of Rivals book. Finished chapter twenty-four.
05:55 PM: Just returned from Pink’s. Her QuickBooks data has been restored correctly. She had it backed up to one of those PassPort smart drives. When you plug such a drive to the computer, there’s an application that must be run, that presumably is responsible for decrypting (unlocking) the drive. Without starting this program, the contents of the locked partition of the drive are not visible. In her situation, she was not running this program first, so that when she looked in QuickBooks for the backup data she wished to restore, it did not appear, though they did show up once I manually ran this program. So I configured her computer to automaticallyexecute this SmartDrive program when she connects that PassPort drive, hoping to head off future, similar problems.
06:40 PM: Posted the Windows 7: My First Brief Look piece.
10:20 PM: Talked with [Emmy] on the phone. As per usual during the winter months, we listened to the Penguins hockey game on her Internet radio. They won tonight, 3 to 0! Now, back to the Team of Rivals book.
01:00 AM: Bed time again. Catch you tomorrow.
Received Mail and Shipments
- Offer for Pace / Pacenet prescription drug coverage for Mom. No thanks.