Today’s Business: 2010-03-28
Sunday, March 28th, 2010Today’s Activities
- Shower. DONE.
- Cat duty. DONE.
- Pay all (4) pending bills. IN PROGRESS.
- Set up automatic monthly bill payments for Mom’s medical insurance premiums. IN PROGRESS.
Log
09:00 AM: I’m up. My weight did not change from yesterday. It’s still 173.5 Lbs. See here for a summary of the progress on this goal so far in 2010.
09:30 AM: Listened to more of the Best African American Essays: 2009 book overnight.
10:35 PM: [Mentat] and I watched today’s episode of NBC’s Meet The Press on the DVR.
12:45 PM: We watched the movie: Parenthood, with Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, et al. Love that picture.
02:00 PM: [Mentat] told me about a Nature Sounds channel on AOL Radio that plays long segments of various and relaxing sounds from nature. They showcase babbling brooks, thunderstorms, gentle rains, birds chirping in the woods, wind swishing through trees, ocean waves rolling, and so on. It occurred to us that [Emmy] has been looking for an endless supply of these auditory experiences to help her relax and get to sleep at night, and this Internet radio station might be just what she needs. So this afternoon, I programmed it into her IRIS Internet WebRadio for her, and she was profusely pleased when she found it in the selection list on the radio a few minutes later. She wrote back a couple hours later saying how much she enjoys listening to it.
04:20 PM: [Memtat's] sister just arrived to take him home, and about as seemingly quickly as he got here on Friday, he’s gone again. We’re planning on getting together in May. This time, I’ll visit his place.
04:50 PM: It’s been a gray and rainy time this afternoon, and gray all day. The rain started heavily a couple hours ago and it’s still going. 40 degrees right now. I think I’ll take a nap; prime time for one it is.
05:00 Nap time.
07:00 PM: I’m awake once more, listening to the gentle sounds of raindrops hitting the roof, just a foot or so away from the head of my bed. Lots have written about this sound in various bedrooms and sleeping quarters through the centuries. So I’ll add my voice to their chorus: If you’ve never fallen asleep to the pitter-patter of raindrops outside while you’re nice and warm inside, you haven’t lived yet. 
07:30 PM: [Emmy] called to say that the Penguins won their late-afternoon hockey game just now. She’s also happy that the IRIS WebRadio seems to be working better than when we first connected it out at her place five weeks ago. I’d imagine that the firmware they just came out with is responsible for the improvement. I am curious though if it was this upgrade or the speed enhancements of [Emmy's] new Comcast high speed Internetservice that eliminated the numerous lost station connections we experienced last February. I hate looking the proverbial gift horse in the mouth. But I want to know. I’m eager as well to see if the radio’s WiFi works any better since the firmware upgrade. [Emmy] has no WiFi set up at the moment, and in fact, I’m not even sure that a new firmware version was applied; [Emmy] can’t read the current firmware version on the radio, since it does not speak this part of its menus. But I’ll check for the current version when I visit her again in several weeks.
08:15 PM: Watched the 2010-03-14 episode of NBC’s Meet the Press on the DVR.
09:15 PM: Watched the 2010-03-26 episode of The Young and the Restless. In this one, we learned that Ashley’s baby is actually Sharon and Nick’s, and Adam realizes that Emily is really Patty. Good stuff.
10:45 PM: Talked with [Emmy] on the phone. Gosh, I do use the telephone quite a bit these days.
11:40 PM: Recorded audio journal episode: AJE-2010-03-28-23-10.
12:25 AM: Listened to more of the Best African American Essays: 2009 book.
12:30 AM: Bed time. See you tomorrow.
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