Today’s Business: 2012-02-10
Friday, February 10th, 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
07:00 AM: I’m up.
07:10 AM: Facebooked for a bit. Friend count: 628 (up one). Fan count: 113 (down one).
07:50 AM: Leaving now for shopping and to visit Mom with sister Jojo. Today’s shopping schedule: Wal Mart, Dunkin’ Donuts, JC Penney for more drapes for Mom’s house, Gabriel Brothers to see if they have any more cheap iPod accessory cables, and we will stop at Lowe’s to pick up a bag of setting type joint compound for a new plaster surface coat on the north wall, around the window in the workout room. Back later.
10:15 AM: We stopped at Dunkin’ Donuts for our weekly coffee, and met there one friend of sister Jojo’s. The two of them used to work together twenty years ago. There were also others that Jojo’s friend knew there. Apparently there’s a whole group of them that meet at Dunkin’ Donuts each week (or more often perhaps). I sure miss dining with my Philly friends each weekend. It was such a pleasant, rejuvenating tradition.
11:00 AM: We then went to Gabriel brothers. Jojo wanted to check out some furniture and any bargains on snack foods they might be offering today, and I wanted to check out the low-priced iPod accessory cables I’ve seen there often.
01:00 PM: While Mom was being cleaned up and dressed, sister Jojo and I ate lunch at Jack and George’s restaurant. She had a Buffalo chicken salad while I munched on a Philly cheese steak sub. Yum.
02:15 PM: After lunch, we returned to the nursing home and sat with Mom for an hour or so. Her spirits were normal to high, and she felt pretty good over all today.
02:30 PM: I’m back home. Got all known-to-be-needed supplies for the plaster repair project in the workot room, as well as groceries for the upcoming week.
03:15 PM: I bought twelve more panels of Light Shield drapes for the first floor office (requires six panels), the workout room east door (requires four panels) from JC Penney, along with rails from which to hang them. I also bought two panels for the last window requiring drapes in the downstairs bedroom. Ten of the twelve panels they did not have in stock. So we placed a catalog order for them. They’ll be delivered to my door sometime next week.
03:00 PM: Nap time. Back later.
05:00 PM: I’m awake again.
05:45 PM: Watched today’s episode of The Young and the Restless via the DVR.
06:35 PM: Watched today’s episode of Dr. Phil via the DVR, called Inside the Powell Family Tragedy.
07:20 PM: Watched tonight’s episode of NBC’s Nightly News broadcast via the DVR.
09:00 PM: I ironed and then hung the two panels of drapes on the last window that requires them in the first floor bedroom. No unusual problems encountered. However, I wish they’d make the wall anchors that came with the curtain rails a little stronger; they often become compressed when driving them into the specified sized hole drilled for them. Either they should fashion them out of metal (like the old-time toggle bolts), or specify a bigger hole. Fortunately, I was able to straighten out both of the ones that bent on me.
09:15 PM: Installed one of the surge protectors I bought this week on the microwave oven to reduce the size of any voltage spikes that this appliance might be injecting onto the power line when turned on and off.
10:00 PM: Recorded in my audio journal for the past 45 minutes.
11:00 PM: Talked with [Emmy].
11:15 AM: I’m heading to bed. Good night and do stop back tomorrow for more content. 
Good night.
Received Mail and Shipments
None today.