Today’s Business: 2010-09-15
Today’s Activities
- Shower. DONE.
- Cat duty. DONE.
- Wash 2 loads of laundry. IN PROGRESS.
Log
08:00 AM: I’m up. Sunny this morning, yet again, and mind you, I’m not complaining.
09:40 AM: Posted the Tom’s Views –> Muslim American Rights piece.
12:10 PM: Watched The History Channel’s mini series: America: The Story of Us; Part Three on the DVR. This one covered mostly the Civil War and the continued migration westward, and Lincoln’s bolstering of industrial forces to win the war. He relied on the telegraph, trains, and established infrastructure in the north, to better coordinate, oversee, and more efficiently deliver men and supplies to the the war effort than did the confederates. They talked of the advances in firearms and ammunition with the advent of the mini ball bullet, and illustrated the settling of the great plains, the massive buffalo kills. Mostly, this 2-hour episode focused on the period of 1840 through 1900. Again, an excellent show, and I’m so looking forward to viewing part four sometime either today or tomorrow.
02:30 PM: Watched today’s episode of The Young and the Restless on the DVR.
03:45 PM: Going up to visit Mom with sister Christine. Back later.
05:55 PM: I’m back home and put all Mom’s extra clothes and other belongings away. See details of this visit here.
06:30 PM: Sister Christine, [Emmy], and I sat outside on the south porch talking about our visit with Mom and comforting each other.
07:25 PM: Recorded audio journal episode AJE-2010-09-15-19-05.
10:00 PM: We have a chilly house this evening; chilly enough to warrant turning on the heat for the first time this heating season. Hmmm. Good thing I cleaned the furnace filters a couple weeks ago. The furnace worked great and within about ten minutes, the chill disappeared, and a cozy feeling, inspired by the warmed floors, pervaded.
11:00 PM: Watched CNN news and talk all evening; the highlight being Larry King’s interview of Supreme Court justice Stephen Biar. He explained to my satisfaction why the Supreme Court hearings are not televised. He said that fears that sound bytes would be used to take court proceedings out of context would probably abound. Also, much of what the justices do in a case before them is to write; not a very interesting activity for television. Yet he does support televising some parts of the court daily agenda. Doing so would be a great way to better educate Americans on the function of the Supreme court in our government.
12:00 AM: Watched KDKA TV’s Local News at 11:00 PM along with David Letterman’s monolog. Informative and funny, respectively.
12:15 AM: Bed time now. So I’ll say good night and promise that I’ll write more tomorrow. Take care.
Received Mail and Shipments
- Patient satisfaction survey from the hospital in Pittsburgh for Mom to fill out.
- Misc. banking papers.
- TigerDirect catalog. Hmmm. I wonder when the hard-copy catalog will finally become obsolete. With the advances in Internet and computer technologies over the past twenty years, I’d have thought that the traditional “mail order” magazine would have gone the way of many local newspapers today — extinct. But apparently, TigerDirect still makes quite a few sales though these publications. Not from me however. When I want to buy something from them, I do it on their web site.
- Offer for a tripple-A auto membership. Not at this time, thanks.