Tom's Diary

Today’s Activities

• Shower.  DONE.
• Cat duty.  DONE.
• Balance all checking accounts.

Log

08:30 AM: I’m awake.

09:00 AM: Headed   shopping   with sister JoJo.

11:30 AM: We were going to stop at Lowe’s to pick up some hardware with which to secure my ladders.  But Jojo just received a call from my sister Christine.  Apparently, a group of them are waiting on Jojo’s porch for her to get home.  So, we’ll defer this purchase until next trip, which will likely be this coming Friday.

11:45 AM: On the way home, we went to JoJo’s house.  Some of the family and a few friends are there, checking out the puppies.  Nephew Trey and niece Catie enjoyed their new cell phones we got for them, and my twin sisters came also and were looking at Pictures on Trey’s computer.  A most pleasing gathering that was.

12:25 PM: We’re home now, and all groceries are put away.  Jojo and Mom just left.  Mom is dropping Jojo off at her place, and then Mom is using her car to go and get her hair done.  I’m here, and probably going to blog and perform admin tasks on all my blog sites this afternoon.  I won’t do much outside in the yard, as the temps are well into the eighties, and it’s quite humid to boot.

03:25 PM: Processed around 60 messages in my email inbox; can’t believe I got so far behind with them.  Also, I read the   WPSBC Alumni Association Bulletin for 2010.   Lots of great stuff in it; though most of it consisted  of excerpts from other sources.  It’s regrettable that we don’t write more of our own stuff.  But the bulletin was very informative nonetheless.

04:00 PM: Just took a walk down to   the pavilion   with the   iPod Touch.  But I didn’t stay long though because with temperatures nearling 90 degrees in the back yard and the humidity elevated, I found myself getting quite dizzy as I swayed on the swings, jamming to Internet radio tunes.  The new version of the AOL Radio app indeed encounters far fewer dropped stations and lockups.  In fact, I experienced not one this time, and I listened for nearly a half hour.  The night crawlers have obviously been scouting out the place down there as well, as they left behind numerous and widespread tell-tale, transparent but shiny traces on the concrete that shone in the bright sunshine.  Plus, the first of the mulberries are ripening; there’s a big bush full of them on the north side of   the pavilion.  I munched a few.  they’re sweet indeed; but not as sweet as in 2008, when [Emmy] and I discovered how much fun it was to spend an hour in conversation while we picked and ate them.  I will have to get the power washer after the cement, as I’ve not scrubbed it in over two years, and the bright gray luster of the limestone-based concrete that I so loved when it was new, has become muddled with black, brown, and green hues of moss, dirt, dust, and other debris.  So, when it’s cooler, I’ll take on that task.

04:40 PM: Completed the SSA disability report for this year.

06:00 PM: Posted the   Shopping Trip: 2010-05-25   and   Shopping Trip: 2010-06-12    pieces.

06:40 PM: Took the weekly system backups.  Details   here.

06:45 PM: Posted some interesting site statistics   here.

09:10 PM: Revised and added approximately 600 words to the   Last Time In Bed With Emeebee   piece on the   Tom’s Love Quest   blog.

01:05 AM: For the past four hours, I switched between iPodding, Facebooking, tea drinking, Googling, and considering how to get the stuff I post into search engines faster.  No solution is apparent yet.

01:10 AM: Facebook friend count: 303.

01:11 AM: Well, I’m out of energy for this cycle. So, it’s bed for me, right now.  Have a great rest-of-the-night, and I’ll post more in less than twelve hours.  Good night now.

Tom Hesley

Received Mail and Shipments

• Misc. bank papers.
• Balance transfer offer from Chase Bank.  No, not at this time, thanks.
• SSA disability report; time to do one of these again.

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• Shopping Trip: 2010-05-25
• Shopping Trip: 2010-06-12
• Site Stats: 2010-06-12
• Today’s Diet: 2010-06-12
• Weekly Backups: 2010-06-12
• Weight Loss: 2010

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Tom Hesley

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• Today’s Business: 2010-06-12

Weekly backups of all my blog sites completed.

• Databases size: 13.0 MB.  No change from 13.0 MB last week.  Posts were added, yes.  But I also removed many spam users from the data store, that seems to have cancelled any actual increase for this week.  The record database size remains 14.4 MB. 
• Total data backed up: 89.0 MB.  That’s up  700 KB from 88.3 MB last week.  Note that this figure includes all databases, site code, static pages, and log files. The record amount of total data saved in a weekly backup is now 89.0 MB. 

Tom Hesley

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• Today’s Business: 2010-06-12

Due to the performance events that sister Mary Ann’s family was involved with yesterday morning, sister JoJo and I delayed our Friday shopping trip until today. First, we stopped at Walmart, where I purchased the following items:

• Baby carrots (for roasts) (2 bags).
• Bath tissue (12 rolls).
• Pounce cat treats (2 jars).
• Bigelow Ming Medley tea (2 boxes).
• Diet caffeine-free Pepsil  (4 liters).
• Red potatoes (for roasts) (1 bag).
• Bananas (1 bunch).
• Cherries (1.87 pounds).
• Blueberries (12 Oz.) (2 boxes).
• Beef chuck roast (2.5 pounds).
• Sirloin steak (1.5 pounds approximately).
• Plain fat-free yogurt (2 canisters).
• Friskies wet cat food (59 cans).

Total cost: $101.19

Next, we went to the Verizon store at the Mall to get two additional phones added to my cell phone account for sister Jojo and her family.

Total cost: $30 (approximately). 

Next, we hit Dunkin’ Donuts for decaffeinated coffee.

Total cost: $2.00

Grand total: $133.19

Tom Hesley

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• Today’s Business: 2010-06-12

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.
• 11:30 AM: Extra large Dunkin’ Donuts decaffeinated coffee with cream and hazelnut flavoring.  100 calories.

Total calories: 100.

Tom Hesley

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12:52 PM: Is Max and Erma’s still on Lyons Road (or just off of it)? It’s been years since I’ve visited [the south Dayton area, though I lived there for over nine years].

03:24 PM: Hey Mel. How’s it going? You ready to return to camp yet? We miss you. It’s not been the same without you.

05:23 PM: Hey there, [Ann]. It’s been a while. Are you attending the alumni convention this summer? I’ll be there. I must give my treasurer’s report after all.

05:32 PM: Wished niece Catie good luck at her recital performance later this evening.

08:03 PM: Of course. So the question becomes: What’s your true color of your hair? This, or the blonde?

08:15 PM: Cool! The color you’ve chosen  works well for you.

10:59 PM: I enjoyed a light yet very warm day of activity. He wrote around 1200 words, iPodded at his pavilion, went grocery shopping, visited sisters, caught up on email, ate handfuls of mulberries which are just now coming into season, admined his blog sites and was thrilled at the continued increases in bandwidth, and tinkered… with ways of getting his documents indexed faster by search engines. No solution for that found however.

11:13 PM: [Commenting on a picture taken of the Israeli sea side that a friend posted.] Hmmm. No wonder both the Palestinians and Israelis fight so hard to stay there. This is beautiful.

11:30 PM: I like this picture [an old college friend posted recently]. It’s so Garthian.

Tom Hesley

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