Today’s Business: 2012-01-31
Tuesday, January 31st, 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
08:30 AM: I’m up.
08:45 AM: Facebooked for perhaps ten minutes. Friend count: 627 (unchanged). Fan count: 114 (unchanged).
10:30 AM: Leaving now to visit Mom at the nursing home. Back later.
11:15 AM: I just arrived at the nursing home. Mom is up already and in fact, greeted me at the elevator. She wants to arrange flowers. The local nurseries, funeral homes, churches, and such, donate their old stock flowers to the nursing homes in the area. Some of the so-skilled residents (like Mom) then arrange them into pretty bouquets. The staff then places them around the facility to make a more cheerful environment. Nice. Mom often mentions how she looks forward to the flowers shipments arriving.
12:30 PM: I got us both a cheese steak sub for lunch at Mom’s favorite Mexican restaurant, and we ate them while watching today’s episode of The Young and the Restless.
01:30 PM: After that show, we went to the lobby to await my ride home, and just talked about this and that all the while.
02:30 PM: My ride home arrived. I bade Mom good-bye and told her that I’d come back again to visit her later this week.
03:00 PM: I’m home, and it’s nap time. Back later.
05:00 PM: I’m awake again.
08:00 PM: In an effort to more evenly distribute the electrical load here at home across all the available circuits as well as to replace the old cloth-style insulated wire, I moved the kitchen chandelier and south porch lights off of the old wiring over to some new circuits I ran upstairs ten years ago. I actually want to run brand new circuits up there for the first floor overhead lights exclusively so that varying loads on the outlets cause less fluctuation in the brightness that said lights emit. But temporarily, I’ve tied those lights in with the same circuit that feeds outlets on the 2nd floor. I’ll move the lights to their final home-circuit whenever I run the new lights-only circuits from the basement up to the second floor.
09:00 PM: Talked with [Emmy] and we listened to tonight’s Penguins hockey game via Internet radio on her computer.
10:00 PM: Watched tonight’s edition of NBC’s Nightly News broadcast via the DVR.
11:00 PM: Talked with [Emmy]. She filled me in on the rest of the hockey game. The Pens beat the Maple Leafs in an overtime shoot-out, 5 to 4.
12:30 AM: Watched some Misc. TV.
12:35 AM: I’m heading to bed. Good night and do stop back tomorrow for more content. 
Good night.
Received Mail and Shipments
None today.