Today’s Business: 2010-05-09
Sunday, May 9th, 2010Today’s Activities
- Shower. DONE.
- Cat duty. DONE.
Log
07:30 AM: I’m up.
07:05 AM: Read more of the Happiness Now book overnight.
02:30 PM: All my sisters and some of their children just arrived for a Mother’s Day lunch. Mom’s making sandwiches, salad, and pork in the oven I believe. I showed my State College brother-in-law the iPod Touch. He was impressed with all the apps you can get for it and of all the diverse things these programs make it do.
03:15 PM: Sister Christine and I played around on Facebook; she wanted to figure out how to UN hide friends. We found one way; kludgy perhaps. But it works. I’ll seek a more elligant solution this week.
03:55 PM: [Emmy] surprised Mom by calling to wish her a happy Mother’s Day. We wish [Emmy] could have joined us today. But she’ll be visiting us a week from today for a couple weeks. I always like when she comes to visit, as she breaks up the monotony that I sometimes find myself in when I’ve written too many words in too short a time; I do need a break, as it’s been ten weeks since my last one. It’ll be good seeing [Emmy] again.
04:00 PM: Sister Mary Ann got what appears to be a 5th generation iPod Nano gift for Mothers Day from her daughters, and I’ve been contracted to populate it for her. She gave me a $25 gift card to buy music with, and she’ll let me know during the upcoming week which songs she wants to buy. She also supplied a couple CDs to rip onto it from Keith Urban and Rascal Flatts. She’ll pick it up on Friday.
06:00 PM: After the meal, the adults hung out in the living room, savoring our full bellies, and listening to the kids talking about school plays and proms, upcoming summer activities, and each other.
06:45 PM: The last of the family just left. Now, I’m taking a nap.
07:20 PM: Facebooked throughout the day. Some of what I wrote there, here.
09:15 PM: Watched tonight’s episode of CBS’s 60 Minutes news show on the DVR. They covered the heightening concern over home-grown terrorists and how foreign terrorist groups may now be targeting American citizens to kill Americans. They also showcased Hilary Clinton and her tireless efforts to negotiate with and assist the Pakistani government to capture Al Qaeda operatives hiding there. Then, for their last story, they covered people who, though they can afford to make their monthly mortgage payments, have nonetheless decided to walk away from their debt, and let their homes default back to the banks. Informative show.
09:45 PM: [Emmy] seemed a trifle depressed tonight. So we talked way shorter on the phone than is typical for us. But with the next Penguins game tomorrow night, we’ll make up for it then.
11:00 PM: Watched CNN news. The big story: Obama pics nominee for Supreme Court justice.
11:15 PM: Fog is descending on me. Yep. Time for bed, it is. So good night. It’s back to business as usual tomorrow.
Received Mail and Shipments
No mail on Sundays.
Okay, I’ll go read the AZ bill and comment once I’ve thought it over.