Today’s Business: 2012-01-23
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. DONE.
Log
08:30 AM: I’m up.
08:45 AM: Facebooked for perhaps ten minutes. Friend count: 623 (unchanged). Fan count: 114 (unchanged).
05:00 PM: Replaced basement windows 7 and 8 on the south wall with glass block upgrades. This took much of today, as window 8 had lots of crumbling mortar around it. I had to shovel a few buckets of gravel into the gaping holes in the foundation that surfaced when the old window was removed. I then replaced that old mortar with a fresh new coat of a way more modern mixture.
07:00 PM: Watched today’s episode of The Young and the Restless via the DVR.
07:45 PM: Watched today’s episode of Dr. Phil, called Under The Influence.
11:00 PM: Talked with [Emmy]. We watched tonight’s rerun episode of Hawaii Five-0.
11:20 PM: I’m heading to bed. Good night and do stop back tomorrow for more content. 
Good night.
Received Mail and Shipments
- 5-day sale coupon from Wolf Furniture. Well, unfortunately, with the expense of all the new windows I’ve incurred, both in the basement and on the 1st and 2nd floors, I can afford no furniture. Check back with me in a year.
- Offer from American Express Personal Savings to set up a savings account with them. Not at this time, thanks.
- Credit card offer from Chase Freedom. Not at this time, thanks.
- Balance transfer checks from Chase Freedom. No thanks.
- Auto insurance offer from Mom’s bank. No thanks.
- Eleven month contract summary from the company who manages some of my investments.
- $15 coupon from Dell; probably because I bought a computer from them last summer. However, as it expires at the end of February, 2012, I’ll probably not use it.
- Discover card offer. Not at this time, thanks.
- Sewage bill.
- Misc. medical bills for Mom.
- Updated rate sheet for 2012 from my cable television provider.
- The Writer magazine; the 2012-01 edition.
- Letter from the company that manages some of my investments, detailing the numerous changes to tax law for 2011 filing. None of these changes affect me at present.
- Misc. bank papers.
- Gas bill.
- Bill for Mom, for her transportation to the last leg of the Christmas Eve progressive dinner at sister Christine’s house.
- Offer from my electricity company for exterior electrical line protection insurance. No thanks.
- Monthly bill from the nursing home where Mom is staying.
- Consumer Reports magazine; the 2012-01 edition.
- Talking book: The Examined Life; edited by Stanley Rosen.
- Talking book: Get With The Program: Getting Real About Your Health, Weight, … Bob Greene.
- Talking Book: Imperfect Control: Our Lifelong Struggles with Power and Surrender, by Judith Viorst.
- Talking Book: Practical Philosophy, by Immanuel Kant.