Today’s Business: 2011-10-30
Today’s Activities
- Shower. DONE.
- Cat duty. DONE.
Log
09:30 AM: I’m up. It’s mostly sunny outside, on this day after the first major snowstorm of the 2011-2012 winter season. Temperatures are in the upper 20s.
09:40 AM: Facebooked for several minutes. Friend count: 596 (unchanged). Fan count: 112 (unchanged).
01:00 PM: Swept, vacuumed, and dusted the first floor here. For the dusting, I used one of those microfiber cloths that sister Mary Ann bought for me at Sam’s Club. Very effective, because no chemical agents were required to remove the dust. The older I get, the more concerned I become about inhaling the fumes that such agents generate. So I’d rather use nothing except a dry or water-moistened dust cloth. Now when I have stubborn dirt, such as that found in a bath tub, then I’ll sparingly employ cleaning chemicals. But most household dirt is easily removed with just water, or, if need be, a mild soap.
02:00 PM: Made a whole-wheat spaghetti lunch with DelGrosso’s meat flavored sauce and Parmesan cheese. Yum, and I have some leftovers for tomorrow.
03:00 PM: With the weather much drier today than yesterday, I went up to the roof and added additional electrical tape to the junction where the new heater connects to the mains. It’s probably still not completely water proof. But I oriented the connection horizontally so that water would not readily flow into it. At any rate, with the wire nuts and the tape around each individual wire, little if any water will get in, and even if it does, it should not cause a short because each connection has the walls of two wire nuts and lots of tape separating it from the other connections.
04:15 PM: Throughout today, I watched CBS’s Face The Nation and NBC’s Meet The Press public affairs news TV talk shows.
04:15 PM: Now, I’m watching the Steelers football game against the New England Patriots.
05:15 PM: Nap time here on the love seat, in front of the television. Back later.
06:15 PM: I’m awake once again.
06:20 PM: I hankered for some Reese’s peanut butter flavors. So I walked to Sheetz and got some peanut butter cups and a Reese’s Fast Break candy bar. Yum. Now, back to the game. Hey, it is Halloween after all. 
08:00 PM: The Steelers won.
09:00 PM: Watched tonight’s episodes of CBS’s 60 Minutes weekly news broadcast and NBC’s Nightly News via the DVR.
11:00 PM: Talked with [Emmy].
12:05 AM: The daily traffic stats from yesterday for my blogs. The monthly keyword hit count fell this time, and currently stands at 920, which is down from 932 at last check. The record high for this dimension remains at 1788. The next goal: 2000.
01:00 AM: Watched the Star Trek original series episodes: Dagger of the Mind, and a little bit of The Lights of Zetar via Netflix. Yes, I know I just saw The Lights of Zetar recently. But this is one of my favorite Star Trek episodes, ranking right up there with The Tholean Web and City on the Edge of Forever in my opinion. I think it’s the erie organ music that plays whenever the “lights” of Zetar appear.
01:00 AM: I’m headed to bed. Good night, and I’ll write more tomorrow.
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