Today’s Business: 2010-11-29
Today’s Activities
- Shower. DONE.
- Cat duty. DONE.
- Wash all (3) pending loads of laundry. DONE.
Log
11:15 AM: I’m up. Gave Mom her morning meds.
12:15 PM: [Emmy] and I ate the last of the useful leftovers from Thursday’s Thanksgiving meal. We’re worried that the food is getting too old to eat now. So I’ll pitch what’s left later today.
01:30 PM: Watched a bit of CNN news, live. Hilary Clinton is having a press conference in which she’s condeming the leaking of US intelligence documents to the Internet. I agree fully with her. Whenever a piece of information compromises our national security, it should not be leaked, and those who leak it, should be punished. At one time, they might have been hung for treason.
02:30 PM: I Facebooked a bit. Someone mentioned the word “casuistic,” wondering if we’d ever heard of the word. So I replied that I’d never seen it before. But, after reading the Wikipedia article on this word, “Casuistic” refers to case based reasoning; though some equate it to sophistry, but it differs from that extensively. Indeed, in certain moral or ethical discussions, casuistry may be the only way (by likening the case at hand to one that has been universally decided) to persuade people to become morally convicted one way or another in the discussion. E.g. If I proposed building an ocean liner out of cheap or inadequate materials, someone might use casuistic arguments to convince me to spare less expense and build a more durable ship. To persuade me, my “foe” may cite the Titanic as an example case of building with insufficiently strong materials, and based on the well-known outcome of THAT experiment (the deaths of roughly 1500 people), I would hopefully agree with his contention, and either put more effort into improving the materials and design of my ship, or I’d put off building the ship altogether until I had the resources to do it right. Casuistic.
02:45 PM: Folded and put away laundry during free moments today. Our cats have fleas, and in addition to treating them, we have to vacuum and wash our bedding more than usual, to get rid of them.
05:00 PM: Watched today’s episode of The Young and the Restless on the DVR.
05:30 PM: Ran to the drug store on a mini shopping trip to pick up two prescriptions for Mom. [Emmy] came along.
07:00 PM: Sister Jojo stopped by to check on Mom.
09:40 PM: [Emmy] listened to the Penguins hockey game tonight while I worked over here, across the hall, on the DJ Gig: 2010-12-31 project, adding more discs to the music library.
11:00 PM: Watched tonight’s episode of Hawaii Five-0; a rerun, but still quite good.
11:30 PM: Watched tonight’s edition of The Insider on the DVR because they talked about Scott Caan (Danno in the Hawaii Five-0 show).
12:15 AM: Watched part of tonight’s episode of The David Letterman Show because he featured Steve Martin; always a down-to-earth yet funny fellow.
12:45 AM: Got Mom to bed and dispensed her night meds. Her therapist is coming at 9:30 AM. So I’ll have Mom up at 9:00 or so.
01:10 AM: Heading for bed now. Good night.
05:55 AM: Mom required assistance. So I’m up, temporarily.
06:15 AM: Okay, all is well. Back to bed with me. Good night again.
Received Mail and Shipments
- $10 gift card from Kohl’s.