Today’s Business: 2012-01-21
Saturday, January 21st, 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.
Log
07:50 AM: I’m up.
08:05 AM: Facebooked for a bit. Friend count: 623 (up one). Fan count: 114 (unchanged).
08:10 AM: Lots of snow fell overnight; perhaps 4 to 6 inches. So, no basement windows replacement project today. Instead, I’ll probably continue organizing the basement, catch up on some television that I’ve been putting off, and catch up on these blogs as well. Haven’t journaled in close to a month. So I definitely owe the audio recorder a session or two to update the journal as well.
09:00 AM: Watched the 2012-01-03 episode of Dr. Phil via the DVR, called Smart People, Bad Choices.
09:45 AM: Watched the 2012-01-04 episode of Dr. Phil via the DVR, called CBS This Morning.
10:30 AM: Watched the 2012-01-05 episode of Dr. Phil via the DVR, called B-Wars.
11:15 AM: Watched the 2012-01-06 episode of Dr. Phil via the DVR, called Weight Wars.
12:30 PM: Took down and put away the Christmas tree. Also, checked and repaired any burned-out bulbs in the ten strings of lights that I removed from the tree before stowing it.
01:15 PM: Made a large bowl of pasta and Parmesan cheese for lunch.
02:00 PM: Nap time. Back later.
04:00 PM: I’m awake again.
04:20 PM: Watched last night’s episode of NBC’s Nightly News via the DVR.
05:10 PM: Watched the 2012-01-16 episode of NBC’s Rock Center in-depth news show via the DVR.
06:00 PM: Replaced kitchen electrical outlet to the left of stove due to loose-fitting sockets. Items plugged into this outlet would sometimes fall out. The new outlet is much tighter.
07:15 PM: Replaced one faulty light dimmer in the kitchen for the bank of task lights above the stove. Hmmm. That’s the 2nd one I’ve replaced there in the past ten years. If another fails, I’ll look into taking those lights off of the same circuit as the outlets near the stove. Voltage spikes from appliances going on and off that are plugged into those outlets may be destroying these dimmers.
07:20 PM: I’m following the primary election returns in South Carolina on CNN throughout tonight.
08:40 PM: Corrected the wiring for and replaced the outlet in Mom’s old sitting room that feeds my treadmill. A routine check revealed that the hot and neutral wires were reversed. Plus, the old recepticle had lots of old paint on it. So now, this outlet works better, is safer, and looks nicer as well. Oh, and it had a ground as well. Nice.
11:00 PM: Talked with [Emmy].
11:10 PM: I’m heading to bed. Good night and do stop back tomorrow for more content. Good night.
12:05 AM: The daily traffic stats from yesterday for my blogs. The monthly keyword hit count for this run is ???, up from 946 at last check. The record high for this dimension remains at 1788. The next goal: 2000.
Received Mail and Shipments
None today.