Today’s Business: 2012-01-17
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012Today’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.
- Process (5) loads of pending laundry. DONE. Mostly Mom’s clothes, my jeans, and rags from the basement windows replacement project.
Log
08:20 AM: I’m up.
09:15 AM: Facebooked for a bit. Friend count: 622 (unchanged). Fan count: 114 (unchanged).
10:25 AM: Put things back on the shelves that I had removed the other day in preps for basement window #3 replacement. That replacement is now complete and went well. So I figured I’d reorganize the shelf items before putting them back.
10:30 AM: Leaving now for the Red Cross donor center in the Orchard shopping plaza. I’m giving blood today. Back later.
11:00 AM: Arrived at Orchard Plaza. However, since the Red Cross is not yet open, I’m heading for Eat ‘n’ Park for lunch.
11:45 AM: I’ve finished lunch and have walked over to the Odd Lots store, to shop a bit before my appointment at Red Cross.
12:20 PM: Finished shopping at Odd Lots. B0ught a few hammers to place around the house in places where I typically use them for minor household repairs. Also found some cheap diagonal pliers for the same purpose.
12:30 PM: I’m now at Red Cross. No wait. They’re not too busy today so they’re taking me right away.
01:10 PM: Blood donation complete. My blood pressure is still high for my liking (140 / 86). My next doctors appointment to follow up on this is in March. Otherwise, all was well. My hemoglobin count this time was 14.9. I think I’ll walk back over to Odd Lots for more shopping until my ride home gets here.
02:30 PM: Just left Odd Lots but found nothing I really need this time around. The van is here as well. So I’m heading home.
03:00 PM: I’m home.
04:00 PM: Watched today’s episode of The Young and the Restless via the DVR.
05:15 PM: Spent more time in the basement cleaning up after the first three window replacements.
05:20 PM: Leaving now with brother-in-law Richard for the state store and Lowe’s. I’m buying the rest of the glass block basement window replacements tonight, along with the required three 50-pound bags of glass block mortar. Back later.
06:30 PM: First stop: The PA state store. I’ve decided to relax my alcohol ban slightly, and buy a few bottles to keep around here for when friends visit. I also wanted to buy Rich a few bottles of American Honey bourbon as payment for his driving me tonight.
07:45 PM: Next, we went to Lowe’s. We picked up six of the seven windows needed. The seventh one is a special order item, because it must have a dryer vent built in. That made it $40 more expensive than the regular glass block windows. But it’s worth it.
08:00 PM: I’m home. I showed Richard the three windows I’ve installed already, and he said they look quite good. He also gave me some tips for how to more easily replace the remaining ones, showed me some advanced techniques for spreading the mortar with a trowel, and how to smooth the mortar over broken brick to make for a smooth-appearing window sill. Then, Rich went home, saying he had to get to bed early due to the past couple days of extremely early rising for him (4:30 AM).
10:00 PM: I carried the new glass block windows and mortar down to the basement and continued organizing the shelves as well as pondering how best to unload the shelf in front of window #4, which I hope to replace this coming Thursday.
11:00 PM: Talked with [Emmy].
11:40 PM: Watched tonight’s episode of NBC’s Nightly News broadcast via the DVR.
11:55 PM: Washed, dried, folded, and put away laundry throughout the day.
12:05 AM: The daily traffic stats from yesterday for my blogs. The monthly keyword hit count for this run is 951, up from 958 at last check. The record high for this dimension remains at 1788. The next goal: 2000.
01:15 AM: Watched the next four episodes of Space Academy via my DVD player, called Life Begins at 300, The Cheat, My Favorite Marcia, and Space Hookey.
01:20 AM: I’m heading to bed. Good night and do stop back tomorrow for more content. 
Good night.
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