Today’s Business: 2010-06-28
Today’s Activities
- Shower. DONE.
- Cat duty. DONE.
Log
09:00 AM: I’m up.
10:05 AM: Facebooked a while this morning. Friend count is now 233. My official Facebook page I created Friday now has 25 fans.
10:15 AM: Filled Mom’s medicine trays for the next three weeks. No meds require reordering this week.
03:45 PM: Watched today’s episode of The Young and the Restless on the DVR.
04:55 PM: Watched the 2010-05-31 episode of Dr. Phil on the DVR.
06:00 PM: Watched KDKA TV News at Five with [Emmy]. Interesting Consumer Reports story they reported about mattresses. They said that regardless of how much you spend, all mattresses have essentially the same quality of construction and thus, the same level of comfort. Some people found the more expensive ones more comfortable while others liked the cheaper ones. They ducked the question of which mattresses are the best by saying that comfort is a highly personal thing. But they found no evidence that the more expensive bedding is any more comfortable to more people. So they recommended finding a mattress that you prefer, and then haggling with the sales person to get it or waiting for it to go on sale. Good story.
07:00 PM: We just finished supper; which consisted of steak salads from Sheetz with ranch dressing. Yum!
07:30 PM: Watched the CBS Evening News. Erica Hill was at the anchor desk. I miss seeing her and Anderson Cooper together on CNN’s AC 360. Hopefully, she’ll get back on there soon.
07:35 PM Nap time.
09:00 PM: I’m back up. Had some disconcerting dreams during the nap that I’m not even sure how to describe. Rather than sights or sounds, these dreams consisted of just feelings. I saw nothing, and heard no one. But I felt them. Take that feeling you used to get as a child when you rode a ride at an amusement park for the first time, or when you were riding home after a mid-fall football game. To me, each of these activities offers a distinct set of feelings. I even get different emotional impressions for the same experience at different times in my life. E.g. Riding the push merry-go-round at school in the spring of 1973, and doing it in the fall of 1976, each has its own unique feelings. Sometimes, I remember experiences like these more by the emotions they invoke rather than what I saw, heard, or smelled while experiencing them, and every so often when I dream, all I get are the feelings. This is strange but a curious thing as well.
11:00 PM: Watched tonight’s episode of NBC’s Nightly News as well as the first quarter of CNN’s AC 360. Plus, we deleted several rerun episodes of Dr. Phil from the DVR, as [Emmy] and I both have already seen them. Yep, it’s rerun time now, during the summer.
Received Mail and Shipments
- One of Mom’s monthly retirement pension pay stubs.
- Mom’s most recent social security earnings statement.
- Misc. bills.
- Consumer Reports magazine; the 2010-06 issue.
- Promo Only’s Mainstream Radio music series; the 2010-07 issue.
- A Highmark health publication. Mom’s medical insurance company, trying to entice her into exercising more and eating better.
