Archive for April 14th, 2010

Today’s Business: 2010-04-14

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Today’s Activities

  • Shower. DONE.
  • Cat duty.  DONE.
  • Shopping trip late this afternoon.  DONE.
  • A friend is dropping off a computer for repairs tonight.  DONE.

Log

08:30 AM: 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.

08:35 AM: Continued the book:  The Adventures of Pinocchio   overnight.

08:50 AM: For the first time since November, 2009, we experienced one of those short-duration power outages, that I’m tracking in the    Ongoing Power Outages   post.  I suppose that now that the weather’s getting warmer, there are more critters out there to run around on the power lines.  I’ll call the power company again if this become frequent again.

10:50 AM: [Emmy] called.  Her Comcast phone is acting up again.  We experienced lots of dropouts and minute-long periods of silence; where I could not hear her, and she could not hear me.  I’m starting to think we made a bad choice switching her from Verizon to Comcast phone service.  But we’ll ride it out a little longer and see if they can get it right.

11:05 AM: Updated my front page; added a link to my facebook profile.  You can see the page   here.

01:00 PM: Revised more posts on the   Tom’s Views   blog.

01:45 PM: Watched today’s episode of   The Young and the Restless   on the DVR.

04:30 PM: Heading out on   today’s   shopping trip.

05:45 PM: We’re back from the   shopping trip.

07:30 PM: Watched and skimmed episodes of  NBC’s Nightly News   from 2010-02-21 through 2010-03-08 on the DVR.

08:15 PM: Listened to a bit of the Penguins first playoff hockey game with  [Emmy],  over the phone, on her IRIS Internet radio.

09:10 PM: A customer just dropped off her computer for service.  I’ll document that effort   here.

10:15 PM: Now I’m going to read a bit more of the   Adventures of Pinocchio   book, and then hit the sheets.  So good night then, and I’ll peck some more tomorrow.  Good night.

Tom

Received Mail and Shipments

  • Offer from DirecTV.  No thanks.
  • Credit card offer.  No thanks.
  • Misc papers.

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Views Revisions: 2010-04-14

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Today, I either added or modified the following posts in  the   Tom’s Views   blog for improved brevity, clarity, categorization, decreased spelling errors, appearance,  word choice and phrasing, and search-ability:

  • Asking for Help
  • More Help for the Blind, Please
  • Do Men Love Just the Lady’s Body?
  • Thoughts on “The Fat Ideal”

    • Tom Hesley

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    Shopping Trip: 2010-04-14

    Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

    First, we visited Staples, where I purchased writing supplies as follows:

    • Memo-sized clip board (4)
    • Additional paper for the above clip boards (2 packs)

    Total cost: $29.62

    Then, we headed to Walmart this evening and purchased the following items:

    • Diet caffeine free Pepsi (12 liters)
    • Blueberries (24 Oz.)
    • Bananas (1 bunch)
    • Tyson pork roast kit (1)
    • Sargento muenster cheese (3 packs) 
    • Fabric softener (1 large box)
    • Yoplait peach yogurt (1 canister)
    • Dannon light vanilla yogurt (2 canisters)
    • ReliOn glucose tablets (100 tablets)

    Total cost: $75.89

    Then, we stopped at our local pharmacy for Mom’s latest batch of medicines.

    Total cost: $62.00

    Grand Total: $167.51

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    Diary Revisions: 2010-04-14

    Wednesday, April 14th, 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:

  • Today’s Business: 2010-04-13
  • Today’s Diet: 2010-04-13
  • Today’s Business: 2010-04-12
  • Gateway 3200S PC Redo: 2010
  • Mom’s Status: 2010-04-14
  • Site Stats: 2010-04-14
  • Today’s Business: 2010-04-14
  • Today’s Diet: 2010-04-14
  • Today’s Business: 2010-04-13
  • Diary Revisions: 2010-04-13
  • Site Stats: 2010-04-13
  • Today’s Diet: 2010-04-13
  • Today’s Business: 2010-04-12
  • Adventures of Pinocchio
  • Diary Revisions: 2010-04-12
  • Site Stats: 2010-04-12
  • Basement Cleanup: 2010
  • Projects Page
  • Ongoing Power Outages

    • Tom Hesley

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    Gateway 3200S PC Redo: 2010

    Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

    Pink’s daughter just brought her computer for repair.  Same problem as Pink’s machine a couple weeks ago; slow response and lots of no-longer-used applications to delete.  So I’ll just erase all that is on it now, and install a fresh copy of XP.  I’ll track the progress in the comments below.

    Tom Hesley

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    Mom’s Status: 2010-04-14

    Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

    Mom visited her orthopedic surgeon today about her charcot feet. He feels that she’s recovered enough that he’s authorized her now to drive a car once again.  She just told me this upon returning home.  She’s thrilled!

    Tom Hesley

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    Site Stats: 2010-04-14

    Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
    General Summary
    1. Host name prosaic-expressions.com
    2. Host URL http://www.prosaic-expressions.com
    3. Program start time Apr 14, 2010 10:36
    4. Time of first request Feb 1, 2010 00:01
    5. Time of last request Apr 13, 2010 23:59
    6. Time last 7 days lasts until Apr 14, 2010 10:36
    7. Successful server requests 500,692 Requests
    8. Successful requests in last 7 days 80,687 Requests
    9. Successful requests for pages 319,759 Requests for pages
    10. Successful requests for pages in last 7 days 56,364 Requests for pages
    11. Failed requests 6,585 Requests
    12. Failed requests in last 7 days 1,232 Requests
    13. Distinct files requested 34,184 Files
    14. Distinct files requested in last 7 days 15,469 Files
    15. Distinct hosts served 3,500 Hosts
    16. Distinct hosts served in last 7 days 1,064 Hosts
    17. Unwanted lines in the logfile 15,629 Lines
    18. Total data transferred 8.488 GB
    19. Total data transferred in last 7 days 1.204 GB

     

    Tom Hesley

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    Today’s Diet: 2010-04-14

    Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

    I keep this food diary to stay aware of just how many calories I’m eating daily, with the hope that it decreases the likelihood that I’ll overeat.    It seems to work, so here we go with another day…

    Today, I consumed the following items:

    • Herbal tea and diet caffeine-free Pepsi  throughout the day. 0 calories.
    • 01:30 PM: 1 bowl of Cheerios, raisins, and skim milk.  500 calories.
    • 04:10 PM: Candy.  200 calories.
    • 05:00 PM: Pork roast and vegetables.  400 calories.
    • 07:00 PM: 2 bowls of Cheerios, raisins, and skim milk.  1000 calories.

    Total calories: 2100.

    Tom

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