Today’s Business: 2012-01-26
Thursday, January 26th, 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
08:15 AM: I’m up.
08:30 AM: Facebooked for perhaps fifteen minutes. Friend count: 625 (unchanged). Fan count: 114 (unchanged).
12:30 PM: Balanced all five checking accounts under my management.
01:15 PM Vacuumed the first floor.
02:00 PM: Watched today’s episode of The Young and the Restless via the DVR.
03:00 PM: Requested a disbursement from the WPSBC Alumni Association’s investment account. Their checking account is getting low, and we must assure that we have sufficient funds on hand for the upcoming alumni convention this summer. The amount I requested should not only stop those low-balance monthly service fees that the bank who hosts our checking account charges us, but should also provide enough liquid capital for all alumni business for 2012 and beyond.
04:15 PM: Watched today’s episode of Dr. Phil via the DVR, called Starving To Death.
06:30 PM: Next long-running project: Phase out all cloth-insulated, two-wire fifteen-amp circuits here at my home; upgrading those still needed to three-wire twenty-amp circuits that employ state-of-the-art insulation. This house really shows its age when you see its deteriorating original cloth-covered wiring. I’m working on the first circuit now. I don’t need a new box yet, as it was last replaced in 1997 with a 200-amp service. I would however, love a 400-amp service, on MY OWN transformer !
07:30 PM: Watched tonight’s episode of The CBS Evening News.
08:00 PM: Watched tonight’s edition of NBC’s Nightly News via the DVR.
10:00 PM: Listened to my iPod while watching tonight’s Florida Republican debate. I’ll watch this again over the weekend via the DVR; this time, without the iPod, so I can pay full attention.
11:00 PM: Talked with [Emmy].
12:30 AM: I inadvertently cut out the supply line for the first circuit I’m upgrading before realizing that that wire fed the overhead lights in the kitchen as well as those on the south porch. See [Emmy]? I do indeed make mistakes. So I spent some time upstairs in the crawlspace, looking for a new place to get power for those lights. I found one. I must say that I was surprised to find that clipping the old wires inside an outlet box in the living room, deprived power to lights so far away (in the kitchen). But 65 years ago, they did not run as many circuits as they do now in houses. I believe that before our service upgrade in 1997, this place only had six or eight circuits. Now, we have roughly thirty-four.
12:55 AM: Listened to my iPod and facebooked for a couple hours, and fiddled around a bit more with the wiring upgrade project.
01:05 PM: I’m heading to bed. Good night and do stop back tomorrow for more content. 
Good night.
Received Mail and Shipments
None today.