Today’s Business: 2010-06-26
Today’s Activities
- Shower. DONE.
- Cat duty. DONE.
- Do all pending laundry. DONE.
Log
10:00 AM: I’m up.
10:15 AM: Facebooked a while this morning. Friend count is now 223. My official Facebook page I created yesterday has 12 subscribers so far.
11:00 AM: Arranged for someone in Nephew Garrett’s family to drive me to Altoona tomorrow to pick up [Emmy] at the train.
11:15 AM: Helped brother-in-law Richard with a swimming pool heating project he’s working on today. I have several circulating pumps here, and he wondered if any of them are big enough to move water between his pool and the solar collectors on his garage roof nearby. He has a very large pump that would indeed do the job. But it’s likely too big and would thus cost too much to operate. Plus, it would pump the water too fast, so that the sun would have insufficient time to warm the water in the collectors before returning it to the pool. My pumps each offer at most ten feet of head (they can’t pump water higher than ten feet). But his collectors are higher than that; perhaps thirteen to fifteen feet above ground. So after Googling around and reading specs on various pumps, we decided that mine here are definitely too small — unless we use two of them in series to extend the head. He might decide to do this. But at the moment, he’s looking for a cheaper solution. Aren’t we always doing that?
11:30 AM: [Emmy] called to say hi and that she’s in the process of packing for her trip here tomorrow. We’ve all told her: Bring your swimsuit! 
12:40 PM: Got the laundry under way. Today, there are a couple of Mom’s loads, and the sheets and pillow cases on my bed.
01:05 PM: Completed the weekly system backups (details here), and the weekly site statistics report (see that here).
03:00 PM: Just upgraded blogs from WordPress 2.9.2 to 3.0. No major problems; although I must again disable automatic saving of post revisions. If I revise a post 20 times, then 20 copies of it are stored; bloating the DB and slowing performance. But the code has changed significantly in 3.0. So I’ll have to figure out how to turn this off in 3.0. 
If anyone knows how, I welcome your input.
04:40 PM: I figured out how to disable the saving of post revisions. See details here.
05:50 PM: iPodded at the pavilion. Nice afternoon, and the dogs were quiet too.
06:10 PM: Watched tonight’s episode of NBC’s Nightly News on the DVR.
06:15 PM: Nap time.
07:00 PM: I’m back up again and eating supper now.
10:00 PM: Watched Larry King on CNN tonight, doing his interview with Lady Gaga. Good show.
12:00 AM: Posted a link entry on my Facebook business page to the Why So Fast The Fall piece on the Tom’s Love Quest blog.
12:30 AM: Put clean sheets and pillow cases on the bed
01:00 AM: Monitored the site stats over the past 24 hours, and observed a moderate increases in traffic. But I’ve received no clicks from people visiting my sites; so no revenue yet since the ad campaign began this past Friday. I’ll continue watching and tuning, and next week, I’ll call Google and take advantage of the free offer of consultation on how to make my campaign more profitable.
02:00 AM: Facebooked some more. Friend count is now 229.
02:15 AM: Okay, time to get off of here for the night. May your rest be effective and thus refreshing, and we’ll pick this up again in less than twelve hours. Take care and good night.
Received Mail and Shipments
- Revised blank prescription FAX forms from Mom’s medical insurance company. That’s all today.