Tom's Diary

Today’s Activities

• Shower. DONE.
• Cat duty.  DONE.  Cat duty involves cleaning the litter boxes, bagging the excess, feeding, and house cleaning cat dirt of all types.

Log

08:30 AM: I’m up.

09:40 AM: Facebooked for several minutes. Friend count: 603 (unchanged). Fan count: 114 (unchanged).

02:15 PM: Watched today’s episode of   The Young and the Restless   via the DVR.

07:30 PM: Watched today’s episode of   Dr. Phil   via the DVR,   called   Desperately Seeking Attention.

07:50 PM: Watched tonight’s episode of   NBC’s Nightly News   via the DVR.

08:00 PM: I noticed that after unplugging the Explorer 8300 DVR in order to rearrange the cables behind my entertainment center, that the DVR “forgot” some of the scheduled future recordings I had programmed it last week to make.  This is likely not a problem unique to this particular machine, as I’ve observed this phenomenon in the last DVR I had.  So, I’ll just have to remember to check the upcoming events list after power to the DVR has been interrupted, and make sure it’s complete.  If it’s not, reprograming sets it to rights.

10:00 PM: Tagged, normalized, and added approximately 365 songs from this year to my music library from Promo Only.  I now have 1449 songs from 2011.  Though I do not DJ professionally anymore, I still love music and enjoy immensely, keeping my library up-to-date.  The total library song count is now 61992.

10:30 PM: [Emmy]  says that she successfully downloaded and extracted last night’s hockey game from my web site.  She has placed the .3gp audio file onto an NLS DTB cartridge, since it sounds better on the NLS DTB player than it does on the Stream.  The Player is louder and has a much fuller sound than the Stream in loud-speaker mode.

11:00 PM: Talked with   [Emmy].

11:10 PM: I’m heading to bed.  More tomorrow.

12:05 AM: The daily traffic stats from yesterday for my blogs.  The monthly keyword hit count for this run is 796, up from 791 at last check.  The record high for this dimension remains at 1788.  The next goal: 2000.

Tom Hesley

Received Mail and Shipments

None today.

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• Today’s Diet: 2011-11-30

I keep this food and fitness diary to stay aware of just how many calories I’m eating daily, my weight, and blood pressure with the hope that seeing these numbers repeatedly and often decreases the likelihood that I’ll overeat.    It seems to work, so here we go with another day…

Weight Log

Today’s weight: 180.0 pounds.  That’s unchanged from yesterday.  The 2011 year low weight so far: 176.0 pounds (established on 2011-10-24). The high weight is 185.5 pounds (established on 2011-04-13).

Food Log

Today, I consumed the following items:

• Herbal tea throughout the day. 0 calories.
• 10:30 AM: 2 slices of rye toast with black raspberry jelly and margarine.  300 calories.
• 10:40 PM: 1 cup of orange juice.  120 calories.
• 06:30 PM: 1 serving of Greek yogurt.  150 calories.
• 08:30 PM: 1 cup of V8 vegetable juice.  50 calories.
• 09:00 PM: 4 slices of rye toast with black raspberry jelly and margarine.  600 calories.

Total calories: 1220

Tom Hesley

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Today’s Activities

• Shower. DONE.
• Cat duty.  DONE.  Cat duty involves cleaning the litter boxes, bagging the excess, feeding, and house cleaning cat dirt of all types.

Log

09:30 AM: We’re up.

09:40 AM: Facebooked for several minutes. Friend count: 603 (up two). Fan count: 114 (unchanged).

02:15 PM: Watched today’s episode of   The Young and the Restless   via the DVR.

03:30 PM: Heated up some left-overs for lunch for the two of us, and we spent the past hour or so talking lightly and saying good-bye.

03:45 PM: Leaving now to accompany   [Emmy]   to the train, for her return trip to Pittsburgh.  Two new friends are driving us.

05:10 PM: [Emmy's]   train was on time and just left, and we’re now driving home.

05:30 PM: I’m home, all by myself.  Our friends commented in a complimentary fashion on my Christmas lights.  They like all that blue.

07:30 PM: Watched today’s episode of   Dr. Phil   via the DVR,   called   Marriage Meltdown, Part 3.

07:50 PM: Watched tonight’s episode of   NBC’s Nightly News   via the DVR.

08:30 PM: Set up my artificial holiday tree in the living room on the west wall, right beside the television.  I’ve got the lights on it working and have placed a few decorations (ribbons, bells, and balls)  on it.

10:30 PM: Recorded tonight’s hockey game on the Victor Reader Stream for   [Emmy],   as she was unable to listen to the game while traveling.  I just sat the Stream next to my Internet radio in a quiet room, using its built-in microphone.  The recording came out surprisingly good for this sort of equipment configuration.

11:00 PM: Talked with   [Emmy].  She made it home, safe and sound, and has unpacked.  She has a sleep study appointment tomorrow, which is why she had to return to Pittsburgh today.  Hopefully, they’ll approve her for the third phase of this study, where she actually begins to receive, for certain, the drug that they’re studying.

11:15 PM: Uploaded the recording of the game and sent an URL to it to   [Emmy].  I put it into a zip file first and uploaded that, as doing this with audio file as the original .3gp format caused download problems for Internet Explorer.  Internet Explorer would attempt to play the .3gp file when following the URL to this file (undesirable behavior), while zipping the file caused the file download window to pop up (preferred behavior).  At any rate, once I determined this, I zipped up the file and uploaded it to my public storage site and sent an URL to it to   [Emmy].  All done.

11:20 PM: I’m heading to bed.  More tomorrow.

12:05 AM: The daily traffic stats from yesterday for my blogs.  The monthly keyword hit count for this run is 791, down from 792 at last check.  The record high for this dimension remains at 1788.  The next goal: 2000.

Tom Hesley

Received Mail and Shipments

None today.

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• Today’s Diet: 2011-11-29

I keep this food and fitness diary to stay aware of just how many calories I’m eating daily, my weight, and blood pressure with the hope that seeing these numbers repeatedly and often decreases the likelihood that I’ll overeat.    It seems to work, so here we go with another day…

Weight Log

Today’s weight: 180.0 pounds.  That’s unchanged from yesterday.  The 2011 year low weight so far: 176.0 pounds (established on 2011-10-24). The high weight is 185.5 pounds (established on 2011-04-13).

Food Log

Today, I consumed the following items:

• Herbal tea throughout the day. 0 calories.
• 10:30 AM: 2 slices of rye toast with apricot jelly and margarine.  300 calories.
• 02:30 PM: 1 turkey sandwich with mayonnaise.  500 calories.
• 02:40 PM: 1 cup of orange juice.  120 calories.
• 06:30 PM: 1 serving of Greek yogurt.  150 calories.
• 08:30 PM: 1 cup of V8 vegetable juice.  50 calories.

Total calories: 1120

Tom Hesley

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Today’s Activities

• Shower. DONE.
• Cat duty.  DONE.  Cat duty involves cleaning the litter boxes, bagging the excess, feeding, and house cleaning cat dirt of all types.
• Wash (3) loads of pending laundry for Mom and   [Emmy].  DONE.

Log

09:30 AM: We’re up.

09:40 AM: Facebooked for several minutes. Friend count: 601 (unchanged). Fan count: 114 (unchanged).

10:30 AM: Watched the 2011-11-14 episode of   Dr. Phil   via the DVR, called   The Mysterious Death of Rebecca Zahau.

11:15 AM: Watched the 2011-11-15 episode of   Dr. Phil   via the DVR, called   Rebecca Zahau: The New Autopsy Results Revealed.

12:00 PM: Watched the 2011-11-16 episode of   Dr. Phil   via the DVR, called    Imperfect Justice?

01:30 PM: Scheduled three upcoming van rides; visit to Mom this week, eye exam — also this week, and a dental exam for next week.

02:15 PM: Watched today’s episode of   The Young and the Restless   via the DVR.

09:00 PM: Downloaded all pending new music from Promo Only; approximately 150 songs.

09:30 PM: Watched tonight’s episode of   NBC’s Nightly News   via the DVR.

09:55 PM: Washed, folded, and put away all laundry.

11:00 PM: Watched tonight’s episode of   Hawaii Five-0.

11:00 PM: we’re heading to bed.  More tomorrow.

12:05 AM: The daily traffic stats from yesterday for my blogs.  The monthly keyword hit count for this run is 792, up from 777 at last check.  The record high for this dimension remains at 1788.  The next goal: 2000.

Tom Hesley

Received Mail and Shipments

None today.

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• Today’s Diet: 2011-11-28

I keep this food and fitness diary to stay aware of just how many calories I’m eating daily, my weight, and blood pressure with the hope that seeing these numbers repeatedly and often decreases the likelihood that I’ll overeat.    It seems to work, so here we go with another day…

Weight Log

Today’s weight: 180.0 pounds.  That’s unchanged from yesterday.  The 2011 year low weight so far: 176.0 pounds (established on 2011-10-24). The high weight is 185.5 pounds (established on 2011-04-13).

Food Log

Today, I consumed the following items:

• Herbal tea throughout the day. 0 calories.
• 11:30 AM: 1 extra large hot chocolate from Sheetz.  500 calories.
• 03:45 PM: Whole wheat pasta with Parmesan cheese.  2000 calories.
• 04:10 PM: 1 glass of orange juice.  110 calories.
• 07:00 PM: 1 serving of blueberry Greek yogurt.  150 calories.
• 09:00 PM: 2 slices of rye toast with raspberry jelly and margarine.  300 calories.
• 09:15 PM: 1 cup of cranberry juice.  120 calories.

Total calories: 3180

Tom Hesley

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Today’s Activities

• Shower. DONE.
• Cat duty.  DONE.  Cat duty involves cleaning the litter boxes, bagging the excess, feeding, and house cleaning cat dirt of all types.
• Wash (1) load of pending laundry for Mom.  DONE.

Log

10:00 AM: We’re up.

10:10 AM: Facebooked for several minutes. Friend count: 601 (unchanged). Fan count: 114 (unchanged).   Received a couple compliments on my blue Christmas lights.  Many people know me now because of this decorating, that I’ve done in blue now for the fourth straight year.

12:30 PM: Watched today’s episodes of NBC’s   Meet The Press   and CBS’s   Face The Nation   weekly news broadcasts via the DVR.

01:55 PM: Leaving now for an afternoon with one of my computer repair customers.  He and his wife have invited   [Emmy]   and I to their apartment for lunch and conversation.  Back later.

05:45 PM: We’re back home.  We enjoyed the afternoon with these new-found friends, and learned alot about them during our nearly three-hour philosophical discourse.  I need more of this sort of activity in my life.  It really helps stave off the blues of loneliness, with which I’ve been grappling as of late.

08:30 PM: Watched the 2011-11-21 episode of   Dr. Phil   via the DVR, called   Marriage Meltdown, Part 2.

09:20 PM: Watched the 2011-11-22 episode of   Dr. Phil   via the DVR, called   Most Outrageous Monster In-Law Returns.  This obnoxiously judgmental and controlling mother in-law returns to the show to again confront her son in-law, who she vehemently disapproves of.

10:10 PM: Watched the  2011-11-23 episode of   Dr. Phil   via the DVR, called   Heaviest Woman On Record.  The guest weighed approximately 700 pounds, and Dr. Phil has hired a team of health and medical experts to guide her through the journey of getting down to a healthy weight for her.

10:30 PM: Watched tonight’s episode of   NBC’s Nightly News   via the DVR.

11:00 PM: [Emmy]   went to bed.  But I’m staying up a bit longer, as I’m not yet sleepy.

12:05 AM: The daily traffic stats from yesterday for my blogs.  The monthly keyword hit count fell this time, and currently stands at 777, down from 791 at last check.  The record high for this dimension remains at 1788.  The next goal: 2000.

12:45 AM: Watched the 2011-11-27 episode of CBS’s   60 Minutes   weekly news show via the DVR.  I particularly enjoyed the piece on food flavor engineering and how this industry may be partly responsible for America’s current obesity problem.  The piece on Angelina Jolie was particularly informative as well.  But I found it intriguing not so much because of its content, but rather because I was so little moved by Jolie’s beauty.  I mean, she is revered to be perhaps the most beautiful woman in the world, and yet, her looks did not woo me; not even on my new HD television.  Perhaps this was due to the fact that HD TV conveys much more detail about a subject, including their imperfections.  That may be it.  But I think it’s more due to my growing disenchantment with a woman’s beauty.  I’ve learned that invariably, the beauty of a stranger quickly gives way plainness when the stranger becomes a lover who is familiar to me.  A beautiful woman does not predict, sadly to say, an eternal string of nights of wonderfully blissful bedroom fulfillment.  As this reality has become more apparent to me, my intrigue with beautiful women has commensurately fallen.

01:30 AM: I’m now headed to bed.  Good night.  Come back for more tomorrow.

Tom Hesley

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No mail or any other deliveries on Sundays.

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• Today’s Diet: 2011-11-27

I keep this food and fitness diary to stay aware of just how many calories I’m eating daily, my weight, and blood pressure with the hope that seeing these numbers repeatedly and often decreases the likelihood that I’ll overeat.    It seems to work, so here we go with another day…

Weight Log

Today’s weight: 180.0 pounds.  That’s up a pound from yesterday.  The 2011 year low weight so far: 176.0 pounds (established on 2011-10-24). The high weight is 185.5 pounds (established on 2011-04-13).

Food Log

Today, I consumed the following items:

• Herbal tea throughout the day. 0 calories.
• 11:00 AM: 1 extra large hot chocolate from Sheetz.  500 calories.
• 02:45 PM: 1 chicken breast, sweet potato casserole, and green bean casserole.  1000 calories.
• 03:00 PM: 2 small pieces of pumpkin pie with Cool Whip topping.  400 calories.
• 07:00 PM: 2 turkey sandwiches with mayonnaise.  1000 calories.
• 09:00 PM: 2 cups of orange juice.  220 calories.

Total calories: 3120

Tom Hesley

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Today’s Activities

• Shower. DONE.
• Cat duty.  DONE.  Cat duty involves cleaning the litter boxes, bagging the excess, feeding, and house cleaning cat dirt of all types.

Log

10:00 AM: We’re up.

10:10 AM: Facebooked for several minutes. Friend count: 601 (unchanged). Fan count: 114 (unchanged).

10:45 AM: Heated some left-over pancakes from yesterday’s breakfast for today’s breakfast.

01:00 PM: Watched the 2011-11-14 and 2011-11-21 episodes of NBC’s   Rock Center   weekly news show via the DVR.

07:00 PM: Conducted my nightly inspection of the Christmas lights outside.  Found one string with ten burned-out LED lights.  So, rather than hot-repairing it on-location, I replaced it with a spare, fully-functioning string I have in stock, and then replaced the bad bulbs at my work bench in the basement.  This particular string is one of the first ones I purchased back in 2008, and so it’s got a lot of hours on it. Thus, the numerous failed bulbs.  Still however, i have yet to see an LED last for the entire rated time of 50,000 hours.  Indeed, many don’t even last as long as their incandescent predecessors.

10:00 PM: Listened to the Penguins hockey game with   [Emmy].  The Pens beat the Montreal Canadiens, 4 to 3.

10:30 PM: Watched tonight’s episode of   NBC’s Nightly News   via the DVR.

11:15 PM: We’re headed to bed.  Good night.  Come back for more tomorrow.

12:05 AM: The daily traffic stats from yesterday for my blogs.  The monthly keyword hit count fell this time, and currently stands at ???, down from 791 at last check.  The record high for this dimension remains at 1788.  The next goal: 2000.

Tom Hesley

Received Mail and Shipments

• Another offer of extended warranty service for my Maytag Bravos washing machine.  No thanks.
• Annual funding notice for one of Mom’s pension funds.

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• Today’s Diet: 2011-11-26

I keep this food and fitness diary to stay aware of just how many calories I’m eating daily, my weight, and blood pressure with the hope that seeing these numbers repeatedly and often decreases the likelihood that I’ll overeat.    It seems to work, so here we go with another day…

Weight Log

Today’s weight: 179.0 pounds.  That’s unchanged from yesterday.  The 2011 year low weight so far: 176.0 pounds (established on 2011-10-24). The high weight is 185.5 pounds (established on 2011-04-13).

Food Log

Today, I consumed the following items:

• Herbal tea throughout the day. 0 calories.
• 12:00 PM: 2 buckwheat pancakes with pure maple syrup.  500 calories.
• 12:00 PM: 1 cup of organic skim milk.  80 calories.
• 03:00 PM: 2 turkey sandwiches with mayonnaise.  1000 calories.
• 06:00 PM: 1 plate of left-over Thanksgiving meal.  1000 calories.
• 09:00 PM: 2 cups of orange juice.  220 calories.

Total calories: 2800

Tom Hesley

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