Today’s Business: 2010-07-23
Today’s Activities
- Shower. DONE.
- Cat duty. DONE.
Log
09:30 AM: I’m up. No swimming today is planned. We’ll likely just stay here at home and perhaps visit the pavilion if the weather’s nice. I also need to weed whack around the yard this evening.
10:00 AM: Read a bit more of the Frankenstein book overnight.
10:30 AM: Put a beef roast, onions, carrots, and vegetables in the crock pot. This should be finished cooking by 6:00 PM.
11:45 AM: Read the Wikipedia article on The Civil Rights Act of 1964, and was surprised that on a percentage-of-votes basis in the house and senate, as broken down by party, the republicans offered stronger support for this bill than did democrats. In fact, some of the staunchest opposition to the proposal came from southern democrats. I should have expected this; given that a hundred years earlier, democrats were willing fight to the death to preserve slavery. Hmmm. So I guess both parties are guilty of oppression at times. Sadly, I’m disillusioned.
02:40 PM: Watched today’s episode of The Young and the Restless on the DVR. Ronan may not be a crooked cop after all though he appears to have been instrumental in framing Chance. Chance confesses to Cloe to sleeping with Heather, and Patty considers recanting her confession to the murder of Richard Hitower.
04:00 PM: Skipped the 2010-07-12 through 2010-07-23 episodes of Dr. Phil. We’ve seen all of these previously.
05:00 PM: [Emmy] talked with [Jack] on the phone and I conferenced in as well. We discussed camp. So far, none of us has heard from anyone in attendance there at present. So we’ll likely have to wait until [Rom] gets home this coming Tuesday.
05:40 PM: Created audio journal episode: AJE-2010-07-23-17-13.
06:30 PM: Worked the Laptop Shuts Off: 2010-07-15 project. I obtained a different power adapter from sister Christine, and connected it to this laptop. Now, I’ll just let it run for a couple days and see if these intermittent shutoffs recur.
07:00 PM: Sister Jojo, her oldest son, and daughter stopped in to visit. They brought the puppy they kept from the litter they had two months ago for [Emmy] to see. Then, Mom and I went to Sheetz for dessert and to get some spending money from the ATM.
08:00 PM: [Emmy] and I sat on the south porch and enjoyed our Breyers Cookies ‘n’ Cream flavored ice cream. It began melting rapidly in the 92-degree temperatures. But with some struggle, we managed to eat it all before it deformed into a soupy drippy mess. 
09:00 PM: Watched the Rick’s List news show on CNN. I’d like to read more of the Book: Frankenstein with [Emmy]. Hopefully she’ll be up for it once she finishes her nap. In the meantime, I’m just blogging and Facebooking here.
11:00 PM: [Emmy] agreed to read two chapters in the Frankenstein book with me.
11:35 PM: Watched KDKA TV’s Local News at 11:00 PM. Now we’re off to bed. Good night.
Received Mail and Shipments
- Lions Clubs International: The Pride of PA Magazine; the 2Q 2010 issue.
- Bishop Guilfoyle Catholic High School news magazine for the summer of 2010.