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Today’s Business: 2011-09-24

Saturday, September 24th, 2011

Today’s Activities

  • Shower. DONE.
  • Cat duty.  DONE.  Sister Jojo is performing this task for me while I’m vacationing in Pittsburgh.

Log

07:30 AM: [Emmy]   and I are up.  We’ll let   [Mentat]   sleep a bit longer.

09:35 AM: Leaving now for WPSBC, and the fun day social.  Back later.

09:40 PM: Twisted my ankle on a pothole on Centre Ave.  It took several minutes for the pain to subside enough to resume the walk.  But it slowly loosened up and we could continue our trek to the school.

09:45 PM: We arrived at the school to find a throng of other folks getting out of their para-transit (Access) vehicles.  We then headed back to the cafeteria area, where they were serving doughnuts and coffee.  Quite a crowd (perhaps thirty) was already there.  Hmmm, guess we should have arrived a half-hour earlier.

01:00 PM: We bowled a few frames at the school’s newly revamped bowling alleys, that now include automatic pin setting and score keeping equipment.  We did not play a complete regulation game, though these remodeled alleys appeared more “regulation” than what was there in the 70s.

02:15 PM: We then wandered down to the darts room (which used to be the biology classroom when I was a student).  A couple “experts” taught [Emmy] how to aim and throw the darts.  Eventually, she could hit the board most every time she threw.

04:15 PM: We then headed upstairs and outside to the old boys side playground area (now turned into a driveway and parking lot), where the remaining crowed was gathered.

05:30 PM: We spent the next hour plus saying goodbye to everyone and expressing how much we are looking forward to the 2012 alumni convention.  The weather all day was mostly sunny, cool, and dry with gentle breezes; a classic fall day.

05:35 PM: Then, we, along with [Tad] and his wife, were the last ones to leave the school grounds.  We headed back to   [Emmy's]   apartment.

05:45 PM: We’re back at   [Emmy's].  Boy, what a fun day we had!

06:00 PM: Leaving now for supper at   Pizza Pronto.  Back later.

07:30 PM: We finished most of the pizza we bought, and have returned to   [Emmy's].

10:15 AM: Facebooked a bit.  Friend count: 583 (unchanged).  Fan count: 111 (unchanged).

10:30 PM: We spent the rest of the evening talking and rocking in [Emmy's]  glider rocking chairs, as syncing the hard disk drive [Mentat] brought with him with [Emmy's] drive.  But like last night, we’re quite tired.  So we’re going to bed.  Good night.

12:05 AM: The daily traffic stats from yesterday for my blogs.  The monthly keyword hit count fell this time, and currently stands at 1048; down from 1070 at last check.  The record high for this dimension remains at 1788.  The next goal: 2000.

Tom Hesley

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None today.

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Today’s Business: 2011-09-23

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

Today’s Activities

  • Shower. DONE.
  • Cat duty.  DONE.  Sister Jojo is performing this task for me while I’m vacationing in Pittsburgh.

Log

09:30 AM: I’m up.

10:15 AM: Facebooked a bit.  Friend count: 583 (up two).  Fan count: 111 (unchanged).

11:00 AM: Spackled a small hole on the door wall in [Emmy's] bathroom.  I made this hole a year or two ago, when I put up a hand towel hanger ring for her.  We discovered that we could not use this hole, as the electrical box on the other side of this wall prevented sufficient penetration for a strong mount.

11:50 AM: Heading out to lunch at our favorite Indian restaurant.  Back later.

01:15 PM: Walked   [Emmy]   back to her apartment.  Now, heading to WPSBC to meet [Tad].  We have some banking business to take care of today for the   WPSBC Alumni Association.

01:45 PM: [Tad] and I are leaving the school for the bank.  We’re walking.

02:00 PM: The meeting with the banker begins…

03:15 PM: As [Tad] is the current president of the   WPSBC Alumni Association,   he must be authorized to sign checks and conduct any other necessary business with the alumni association’s checking account.  However, due to missing information and inconsistent data that the bank had on file pertaining to our current checking account, the banker suggested that we start up a new business checking account.  We initiated that process today, and [Tad] has been fully authorized as a signer on the new account.

04:00 PM: [Tad] and I then walked to Dunkin’ Donuts for some coffee, to sort of, unwind and get out of business banking mode.  Then, with the rain beginning to fall, his wife came along in her car and graciously offered me a ride back to [Emmy's].  I indeed took her up on it.  I bade [Tad] and his wife [Morra] farewell.  I’ll see them tomorrow at the alumni fun day.

04:10 PM: Arrived at   [Emmy's].

06:00 PM: [Emmy] and I walked to CVS Pharmacy to pick up some WD-40 spray lubricant.  She’s got a kitchen faucet that squeaks obtrusively when actuated, and I hope that spraying the WD-40 underneath its coverings and into the inner mechanism will quiet it.

07:00 PM: We also stopped in at SuperCuts, where I purchased my monthly haircut for $10.

07:30 PM: We’re back at [Emmy's] apartment, preparing for   [Mentat's]   arrival in a couple hours.

09:00 PM: We made up   [Mentat's]   bed as we waited for him.

08:50 PM: [Mentat]   arrived as   [Emmy]   watched a new prime time show on CBS: A Gifted Man.

11:00 PM: We spent the rest of the evening catching up and syncing hard disk drives.  But we’re all tired though excited about the social at the school tomorrow.  So we’re heading to bed.  Good night.

12:05 AM: The daily traffic stats from yesterday for my blogs.  The monthly keyword hit count fell this time, and currently stands at 1070; down from 1081 at last check.  The record high for this dimension remains at 1788.  The next goal: 2000.

Tom Hesley

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None today.

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Today’s Business: 2010-07-12

Monday, July 12th, 2010

Today’s Activities

  • Shower.  DONE.
  • Cat duty.  DONE.

Log

09:45 AM: I’m up.

11:30 AM: Heard from [Mentat].  He’ll visit me for a couple days, starting this Thursday afternoon.

11:35 AM: [Tad] emailed me to request my presence in a teleconference call with some other board members and the account manager for the   WPSBC Alumni Association’s    investment account.  We must decide how to allocate our funds in light of the fact that our organization may survive for just another decade or so.

12:15 PM: [Jack] called to talk with [Emmy] and I.  So I chatted with him for an hour or so.

12:30 PM: Applied for a public listing in Attracta’s public web site directory service, in response to an email invitation from them to do so.    I submitted the   Tom’s Love Quest   blog.

02:45 PM: Watched today’s episode of    The Young and the Restless   on the DVR.

03:00 PM: Went to Sheetz for lunch; a   mini shopping trip.  I bought [Emmy] a steak wrap and myself a steak sub.  It was raining both to and from the store.

06:00 PM: Nephew Garrett and I just dropped   [Emmy]   off at the train.  She’s on her way back to Pittsburgh now.  But she’s coming back again this Sunday.

06:15 PM: Nap time.

08:00 PM: Nap’s over, and [Emmy]   just called to say that she’s now in Pittsburgh, awaiting her ride to the grocery store, and then on to her home. Thanks for coming, M.  I’ll talk to you soon.

11:00 PM: Facebooked a couple hours.  Liked numerous pages for rock bands, books I’ve read, and movies I’ve seen and enjoyed. Current friend count: 252.  Fans on my business page: 35 so far.

12:00 AM: Set up a profile on the Linked In web site to increase my visibility on the Internet.

12:40 AM: Well, I think I’m done here in the office for the night.  Now, I’ll probably go and watch a bit of news.  Then, I’m off to bed.  Have a great night and I’ll continue this story of my life tomorrow.  Take care.

Tom Hesley

Received Mail and Shipments

  • Promo Only’s EADFF music series; the 2010-07-02 issue.
  • Bill for the last order of Mom’s diabetic testing supplies.
  • Analog Science Fiction magazine; the July & August, 2010 issue.
  • Notice of insurance coverage for Mom’s diabetic shoes that she recently purchased.

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Diary Revisions: 2010-04-10

Saturday, April 10th, 2010

Today, I either added or modified the following posts in  the   Tom’s Diary   blog for improved brevity, clarity, categorization, decreased spelling errors, appearance,  and search-ability:

  • Mom’s Status: 2010-04-10
  • Today’s Business: 2010-04-10
  • Today’s Diet: 2010-04-10
  • Today’s Business: 2010-04-09
  • Today’s Business: 2010-04-03
  • Diary Revisions: 2010-03-29
  • Diary Revisions: 2010-03-26
  • Audio Journal Info Page
  • Today’s Business: 2010-03-05
  • Today’s Business: 2010-03-04
  • Today’s Business: 2010-03-03
  • Today’s Business: 2010-03-02
  • Diary Revisions: 2009-12-28
  • Fred Honsberger Died Today
  • Diary Revisions: 2009-12-15
  • Diary Revisions: 2009-12-14
  • Significant Dates
  • Today’s Business: 2009-12-09
  • Diary Revisions: 2009-12-09
  • Diary Revisions: 2009-12-07
  • Love Quest Revisions: 2009-11
  • Diary Revisions: 2009-12-06
  • Diary Revisions: 2009-12-05
  • Diary Revisions: 2009-12-04
  • Today’s Business: 2009-12-02
  • Diary Revisions: 2009-12-02
  • Diary Revisions: 2009-11-29
  • Today’s Business: 2009-11-28
  • Snuff Memories
  • Diary Revisions: 2009-11-24
  • Diary Revisions: 2009-11-23
  • Diary Revisions: 2009-11-20
  • Diary Revisions: 2009-11-19
  • Diary Revisions: 2009-11-17
  • Today’s Business: 2009-11-12
  • Teacher KC Has Cancer
  • 13Q Memories
  • Today’s Business: 2009-10-07
  • Today’s Business: 2009-09-30
  • WPSBC Alumni Social: 2009-09-12
  • Today’s Business: 2009-07-07
  • Today’s Business: 2009-06-09
  • About First Love
  • KC Retiring?
  • Next Alumni Board Meeting
  • Updating KC: 2007-02-10
  • Tad and Mentat Connected
  • Cold Pipe
  • Cold Night: 2007-02-06
  • Cold Night
  • Alarm Siren As A Gift
  • More KDKA Stuff
  • KDKA History
  • Phone Charging Via Radio
  • Art Pallan Passes Away
  • Music Industry Suits
  • Song Time in Nanoseconds
  • Time of ‘Football Card’ Song
  • Insomnia
  • Thanks Tad
  • Updating Tad: 2007-01-03
  • The Football Card
  • To Tad About Emmy
  • WPSBC Tid Bits: 2006-01-07
  • No-Show at Parker’s Christmas Party
  • More Alumni Web Site Stuff
  • Getting on WPSBC Web Site
  • Getting on WPSBC’s Web Site
  • Amtrak
  • Telephone Man Song
  • Checking in with Tad
  • Updating Mentat
  • My Old Work Place in the News
  • Update on Morra
  • How’s Morra Doing?
  • No Riders, No Money
  • Morra in Hospital
  • NFB Newsline Access Number: 2005-03-29
  • NFB Newsline Access Number
  • Completing WPSBC Graduate List
  • John Britski Passed Away
  • Tad and NFB Newsline
  • Getting Back In Touch With RG
  • Nightly Alumni Chat Line
  • More About Saving Amtrak
  • Telling Tad About Lonnie
  • Tad with Bradshaw
  • No Alumni Website Liink
  • RG As A New Alumni Member
  • New Alumni Member
  • Phone Reader
  • NFB Newsline
  • Pittsburgh Trip Complete
  • To Pittsburgh Today
  • Discussing Alumni Board meeting
  • Tad Has Both XM and Sirius
  • Alumni Board Meeting
  • Updating Tad
  • Lodging for Parker’s Party
  • Ann’s Looking for a Guy
  • Krispy Kremes are Here!
  • WRTA Radio
  • Free Web Site Scraping Software
  • WVAM Radio
  • Tad’s Site Scraping Project
  • Pittsburgh Trip Done
  • Emmy Likes Our Plan
  • Plan Changes for Pgh. Trip
  • Pittsburgh Trip Upcoming
  • Parker’s Christmas Party: 2003-11-24
  • Krispy Kreme Coming
  • Dear Mentat
  • Fun Day Visit
  • Fun Day Weekend
  • Fun Day Plans: 2003-09-24
  • Fun Day Trip Details
  • I’m Going to Fun Day
  • Fun Day Weekend Planning
  • WPSBC Alumni Board Meeting
  • Busy Busy: 2003-05-16
  • New Email Address
  • Two DJ Gigs Friday
  • Tad’s Furnace Repairs
  • Richard Parker Has Cancer
  • Flood Watch
  • Hilary Cox?
  • Bussing it with Tad
  • Tad’s Buying a House
  • Demerits
  • Rick Coming to WPSBC Alumni Weekend
  • WPSBC Alumni Weekend
  • Rick Needs a Hotel
  • Updating KC
  • Tad’s Plight at School
  • Transportation in Altoona
  • More on First Love
  • My 4th Grade Teacher Emailed Me
  • Philly Weather Report: 2001-04-23
  • Alumni Mailing List
  • Weather Report: 2001-04-09
  • Put me on WPSBC Alumni Mailing List
  • School, Here I Come
  • Survivor
  • Pizza Pizza
  • Planning the Week
  • Pittsburgh, Here I Come
  • Woodshop Teacher
  • Christmas Tree Sales
  • No Snow This Time
  • Warrior’s Mark
  • Dr. Kloss
  • Next Break in April
  • Christmas 2000 Is Over
  • Christmas Vacation Shortened
  • Alumnists
  • Dear Tad: 2000-10-23
  • Dear Breeze
  • Dear Tad
  • Talking of Visiting Tad
  • To Ham Radio from CB
  • Tid Bits: 2000-09-12
  • Alumni Stuff
  • Hi Tad: 2000-07-25
  • My High School Graduation
  • First CB Radio Purchased
  • My First Time Chewing Snuff
  • Tom

    Today’s Business: 2010-04-03

    Saturday, April 3rd, 2010

    Today’s Activities

    • Shower.  DONE.
    • Cat duty. DONE.
    • Set up automatic monthly bill payments for Mom’s medical insurance premiums.  IN PROGRESS.

     

    Log

    09:00 AM: I’m up. My weight did not change from yesterday.  It’s still 173.5 Lbs.    See   here   for a summary of the progress on this goal so far in 2010.

    09:05 AM: Read more of the   Classics For Pleasure    book overnight.

    10:30 AM: Added 1300 words to upcoming   Tom’s Love Quest   posts.

    11:15 AM: Heard from [Emmy] this morning.  She’s going to the Tamarind Flavor of India place for lunch, to celebrate her birthday.

    02:00 PM: Also, [Tad] called to say that the next   WPSBC Alumni Association   board meeting will be held on Sunday, April 11th, 2010 at 7:00 PM.  So that give me a week to get my treasurer’s report ready.  :-)    No problem; particularly since we generated so few bank transactions since the last meeting.

    03:00 PM: iPodded at the pavilion this afternoon.  Breezy out there and not quite as warm and sunny as yesterday, but still, very pleasant.

    04:00 PM: Recorded audio journal episode:  AJE-2010-04-03-15-08,  about lording authoritarians and my strong aversion to them these days.  For information about my complete audio journal collection, click   here.

    04:40 PM: Posted the   Prism 2008   piece to the   Tom’s Love Quest   blog.

    05:15 PM: Posted the   Oh No, Prism Is Back   piece to the   Tom’s Love Quest   blog.

    05:50 PM: Posted the   Prism Fell And Grabbed My Heart   piece to the   Tom’s Love Quest   blog.

    06:05 PM: Posted the   Bandwidth Usage: 2010-03   piece to this, the   Tom’s Diary   blog.

    07:20 PM: Spent an hour on facebook; located several new (old) friends from work in Ohio.  Now, it’s nap time.

    08:30 PM: I’m back up.  Beginning the weekly system backups, and reading more of the     Classics For Pleasure   book.

    08:45 PM: [Emmy] is watching the movie:  The Ten Commandments   on CBS tonight.  We may or may not talk therefore.

    08:45 PM: The system backups are complete.  See details    here.

    11:00 PM: Read more of the   Classics For Pleasure    book throughout this evening.

    12:15 AM: [Emmy] called back, after the   Ten Commandments   movie finished, and we conversed for about an hour.

    12:30 AM: Inserted more additional ads on the individual post pages of all the blogs.  Now, three ads display on each page instead of just one.

    01:00 AM: Going to bed now.  So have a sweet sleep and enjoy your dreams, or lack thereof, and I’ll catch you tomorrow.  Happy Easter, and good night.

    Tom

    Received Mail and Shipments

    • Nothing received.

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    Diary Revisions: 2010-03-29

    Monday, March 29th, 2010

    Today, I either added or modified the following posts in  the   Tom’s Diary   blog for improved brevity, clarity, categorization, decreased spelling errors, appearance,  and search-ability:

  • Improving iPod Touch WiFi
  • Classics For Pleasure
  • Today’s Business: 2010-03-29
  • Today’s Diet: 2010-03-29
  • Today’s Business: 2010-03-28
  • Today’s Diet: 2010-03-28
  • Best African American Essays: 2009
  • Audio Journal Info Page
  • iPod Touch Has Weak Wifi
  • Today’s Business: 2009-06-13
  • Today’s Business: 2009-06-12
  • Today’s Business: 2009-06-11
  • Today’s Business: 2009-06-10
  • Today’s Business: 2009-06-09
  • Today’s Business: 2009-06-08
  • Today’s Business: 2009-06-05
  • Today’s Business: 2009-06-03
  • Today’s Business: 2009-06-02
  • Today’s Business: 2009-05-31
  • Month in Review: 2009-05-31
  • Today’s Business: 2009-05-30
  • Today’s Business: 2009-05-29
  • Today’s Business: 2009-05-27
  • Today’s Business: 2009-05-26
  • Added ‘Important People’ Links
  • New Love Quest Post: 2009-05-24
  • Today’s Business: 2009-05-23
  • Today’s Business: 2009-05-22
  • Emmy’s Stevia Has Been Mailed
  • Quest Revisions: 2009-05-22
  • Today’s Business: 2009-05-21
  • Today’s Business: 2009-05-20
  • Today’s Business: 2009-05-19
  • Today’s Business: 2009-05-18
  • Today’s Business: 2009-05-17
  • Today’s Business: 2009-05-16
  • Today’s Business: 2009-05-15
  • Today’s Business: 2009-05-14
  • Today’s Business: 2009-05-13
  • Today’s Business: 2009-05-12
  • Emmy and I Broke Up
  • The Foot Trip Has Begun
  • Month in Review: 2009-04-30
  • Coping with New Blindness
  • Stop iPod Sync Without Plugging it In
  • Next Love Quest Post Done
  • Tax Forms Completed
  • Emmy Left Today
  • Haircuts Today — NOT!
  • Shopping Today — Again
  • Caught up on Y&R
  • Caught Up on Dr. Phil
  • Early Trip Home
  • Indian Lunch
  • Star Trek 6 Movie Tonight
  • The Train Trip to Pittsburgh
  • Winamp Library and JAWS ‘x’ Problem
  • Gas Bills Cheaper Next Winter
  • Shopping Trip
  • Emmy’s Silent Computer
  • Month in Review: 2009-03-31
  • Today’s Business: 2009-03-29
  • Helped Emmy Find Lost Email
  • Mentat Left Today
  • Site Status: 2009-03-21
  • Emmy Went Home Today
  • Spring Peepers Appear
  • Site Status
  • St. Patrick’s Day Party
  • Mom Home from Hospital: 2009-03-09
  • Posted All Day Today
  • Superbowl Coming Up
  • Leon Passed Away
  • Knowing When an iPod Sync is Done
  • Today’s Business: 2008-12-26
  • iPod Nanos for Christmas
  • Braille Timers For Emmy
  • Emmy Lives in Pittsburgh
  • Dear Altar
  • WPSBC Alumni Web Site URL
  • Sue Zigler Passed Away Today
  • Emmy’s New Dell Computer
  • Getting Ride to Camp
  • Murad Acne Treatment
  • Camp Schedule Change
  • Updating Emmy: 2007-02-21
  • A Musical Job For Emmy
  • Alarm Siren As A Gift
  • Updating Tad: 2007-01-03
  • Sony 27” Trinitron TV Died
  • To Tad About Emmy
  • Caller Id Name Mispelling
  • Lions Club Web Site
  • Emmy’s Visit Info: 2006-08-27
  • Arranging Emmy’s Visit
  • HD 650 Headphones
  • Cell Phone Batteries
  • Emmy Knows Her Equipment
  • Tid Bits to Emmy
  • Emmy’s Visit Info: 2006-04-12
  • Dr. Mirkin’s Site
  • Dieting with Emmy
  • Arranging Emmy’s Next Visit
  • Wind Advisory
  • Emmy’s Stomach Problems
  • Emmy’s Diet: 2006-01-11
  • Wrist Update: 2006-01-10
  • Updating Emmy: 2006-01-10
  • Updating Emmy: 2006-01-09
  • The Cold is Worse Again
  • Getting Over a Cold
  • Blank Date Sent Field
  • Emmy’s Sick Stomach
  • Mom’s Friend
  • Updating Emmy: 2005-12-08
  • Updating Emmy: 2005-12-07
  • Updating Emmy: 2005-12-06
  • Updating Emmy: 2005-11-20
  • Keymail Program on BrailleNote
  • Grocery Shopping: 2005-11-19
  • Dear Emmy: 2005-11-19
  • Updating Emmy: 2005-11-13
  • Emmy and Dogs
  • Me Not Into Dogs
  • Updating Emmy: 2005-11-09
  • Updating Emmy: 2005-11-03
  • More on Shopping Trip
  • Shopping Trip: 2005-10-20
  • Good Morning Emmy
  • Checking in with Emmy
  • To Emmy on Self Doubt
  • Updating Emmy: 2005-10-07
  • White Cane Day
  • Emmy’s Diet: 2005-10-06
  • Emmy’s Diet
  • Dear Emmy: 2005-10-03
  • Updating Carl: 2005-09-22
  • Updating Kandi: 2005-09-22
  • Updating Emmy: 2005-09-20
  • My Imperfect Spelling
  • Emmy’s Lost BrailleNote Data
  • Updating Emmy: 2005-09-13
  • Updating Rick: 2005-09-08
  • Today’s Business: 2005-09-08
  • Plans for Today
  • Dear Joel: 2005-09-04
  • On Reading
  • A Writer’s Rejections
  • Emmy Arrives Tonight
  • Emmy’s Coming
  • Emmy, The Great Friend
  • Talking with Emmy
  • Today’s Business: 2005-08-18
  • More to Emmy
  • Updating Emmy: 2005-08-16
  • Today’s Business: 2005-08-11
  • Updating Carl on Lions Club Bingo
  • Updating Carl: 2005-08-10
  • Overbrook Alumni Trip
  • Writing Coming Along
  • Updating Carl on Our Friends
  • Carl’s Deck Work
  • I’m Ready for Camp
  • Emmy Graduated
  • Emmy Woke Me Up
  • Section Eight Housing
  • Visiting Mary Ann
  • Emmy Wants Housing
  • Current DJ Music Batch
  • Camp and Such
  • Busy Busy: 2004-03-25
  • Song Batching and Writing
  • Buffalo Wings
  • Snow Today
  • Write-Protected Floppies
  • Dear Emmy
  • Emmy Looking for Work
  • Emmy Likes Our Plan
  • Plan Changes for Pgh. Trip
  • Gearing Up for Winter Retreat
  • Met Emmy at Camp
  • Tom

    Diary Revisions: 2010-03-26

    Friday, March 26th, 2010

    Today, I either added or modified the following posts in  the   Tom’s Diary   blog for improved brevity, clarity, categorization, decreased spelling errors, appearance,  and search-ability:

  • Common Cold: 2010-03
  • Today’s Business: 2010-03-26
  • Today’s Diet: 2010-03-26
  • Today’s Business: 2010-03-25
  • Today’s Diet: 2010-03-25
  • Today’s Business: 2010-03-24
  • Today’s Business: 2010-03-23
  • Today’s Business: 2010-03-22
  • Today’s Business: 2010-03-21
  • Today’s Business: 2010-03-20
  • Today’s Business: 2010-03-19
  • Today’s Business: 2010-03-18
  • Beam Box FM Antenna
  • Today’s Business: 2010-03-14
  • Definitely No Camp: 2010
  • Diary Revisions: 2010-02-07
  • Today’s Business: 2010-02-06
  • Today’s Business: 2010-01-15
  • Perhaps No Camp This Year
  • Repeater Song: 2010-01-02
  • Diary Revisions: 2009-12-14
  • Diary Revisions: 2009-12-13
  • Significant Dates
  • Diary Revisions: 2009-12-07
  • Love Quest Revisions: 2009-11
  • Diary Revisions: 2009-12-06
  • Diary Revisions: 2009-12-05
  • Diary Revisions: 2009-12-04
  • Diary Revisions: 2009-11-29
  • Diary Revisions: 2009-11-27
  • Snuff Memories
  • Diary Revisions: 2009-11-23
  • Reducing Food Cravings
  • Diary Revisions: 2009-11-19
  • Diary Revisions: 2009-11-18
  • Today’s Business: 2009-11-07
  • Today’s Business: 2009-11-06
  • Today’s Business: 2009-09-18
  • Today’s Business: 2009-09-13
  • WPSBC Alumni Social: 2009-09-12
  • Today’s Business: 2009-09-11
  • Labor Day Weekend Business: 2009-09-07
  • Today’s Business: 2009-08-18
  • Today’s Business: 2009-07-05
  • Today’s Business: 2009-07-04
  • Today’s Business: 2009-06-15
  • Today’s Business: 2009-06-14
  • Today’s Business: 2009-06-13
  • Today’s Business: 2009-06-12
  • Today’s Business: 2009-06-11
  • Today’s Business: 2009-06-09
  • Today’s Business: 2009-05-31
  • Month in Review: 2009-05-31
  • Today’s Business: 2009-05-26
  • Added Another Important Person
  • Today’s Business: 2009-05-25
  • New Love Quest Post: 2009-05-25
  • New Post: 2009-05-24
  • Added ‘Important People’ Links
  • Month in Review: 2009-04-30
  • Early Trip Home
  • Indian Lunch
  • Star Trek 6 Movie Tonight
  • The Train Trip to Pittsburgh
  • Upcoming Train Trip
  • Month in Review: 2009-03-31
  • Site Status: 2009-03-30
  • Today’s Business: 2009-03-29
  • Today’s Business: 2009-03-25
  • Today’s Business: 2009-03-24
  • Mentat’s Corrupt Mail File
  • Mentat Visiting
  • First Day Abve 70 Degrees This Year
  • Lots of Info on iPods
  • The Blue, Smokey Chicken Dinner
  • WHPA and WALY FM
  • WRKY FM
  • Parker Still On Answering Machine
  • Star Trek XI Coming
  • Updating Mentat: 2007-02-27
  • IE7 Released
  • Listening to KQV Online
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  • Alarm Siren As A Gift
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  • Lions Club Speech Done
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  • Does Mentat Want an Opticon?
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  • Tom

    Today’s Business: 2010-03-05

    Friday, March 5th, 2010

    Today’s Activities

    • Shower.  DONE.
    • Schedule appointment for Mom with the retina specialists in Johnstown for sometime in April, 2010.
    • Still fighting my   current cold, though it’s almost completely cleared up.

     

    Log

    07:00 AM: I’m up. My weight is unchanged from yesterday.  It’s still  177.0 Lbs.

    07:20 AM: Cooked us both a scrambled-egg-and-pumpernickel-toast breakfast.

    08:45 AM: Enabled automatic generation of meta description tags in all blogs.  This should eliminate numerous reported SEO errors and encourage search engines to index more of my posts.  We’ll have to wait and see if it actually accomplishes that.

    10:00 AM: Watched KDKA TV’s   Pittsburgh Today Live   show.

    11:00 AM: Determined the parts and tools required to fix   [Emmy]‘s   file cabinet drawer, to make it close properly.  Heading to Home Depot this afternoon to pick that stuff up.

    11:30 AM: Moved   [Emmy]‘s   Pur water filter from her old faucet to a new one that maintenance installed in her kitchen earlier.

    12:30 PM: Watched KDKA TV’s   Local News At Noon   show.

    01:30 PM: Watched today’s episode of   The Young and the Restless.

    03:00 PM: The bank where the WPSBC Alumni Association’s checking account resides, failed to locate our account!  So for the second time, we were unable to add [Tad]  (our president) as a signatory.  On the first attempt, they determined that [Tad's] Id card had expired and this bank refused to consider it therefore, no matter that [Tad's] picture was prominently displayed on the front, and despite the fact that this picture looked just like [Tad]. While I admit that I could not supply the account number this time (as I did not expect to conduct this business during my current Pittsburgh visit so I left the check book at home),  neither could they locate the account by its name, by my name, nor by my social security number.  Very strange because I’ve been writing checks as the alumni association’s treasures for nearly six years now.  In fact, the business checking account representative that helped us, though her voice was pleasant, obviously was not going to go beyond what she had to, to save us yet another visit later.  She refused to search the records for key words like “alumni” or “WPSBC,” or my mailing address.  Anyway, by the time we finished, I had grown quite irritated.  Thus, I thanked her for nothing, and vowed silently, to move the account to the bank across the street at my earliest opportunity.  Now that I’ve cooled off, I still plan to move it.  :-)

    05:30 PM: Completed a   shopping trip   after the bank fiasco, to purchase some repair supplies for   [Emmy's]   dwelling.

    06:15 PM: Our supper tonight consisted of trout, vegetable-noodle soup, and Dove peanut butter and milk chocolate morsels for dessert.

    06:45 PM: Tightened all screws in   [Emmy's]   glider rocking chairs.  This silenced all squeaks, which had been accumulating over the nearly two years since we bought this furniture.

    07:00 PM: Added one long, thick-threaded screw to   [Emmy's]   file cabinet, to sure up the top drawer.  Recently, she’s been unable to close this compartment due to its bottom panel sagging.  The piece that had provided the front-to-back strength in the draw had come unglued.  This new screw should restore that holding power, and then some. I brought some graphite lubricant home as well for the time when, eventually, the joints in these gliders start squeaking in ways that tightening screws does not quiet.

    08:00 PM: Applied nylon sealing tape to   [Emmy's]  Pur water filter to stop the leaks resulting from moving the filter to the new faucet earlier today.

    12:15 AM: Read the   Team of Rivals    book some.

    12:30 AM: In tonight’s SEO report, there were 1569 errors and 7 warnungs; a vast improvement from yesterday.  I’ll keep revising the sites until both these numbers are 0.

    12:25 AM: Bed time. Catch you later on.

    Tom Hesley

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    Today’s Business: 2010-03-04

    Thursday, March 4th, 2010

    Today’s Activities

    • Shower.  DONE.
    • Schedule appointment for Mom with the retina specialists in Johnstown for sometime in April, 2010. 
    • Still fighting my   current cold.

     

    Log

    07:00 AM: I’m up. My weight is unchanged from yesterday.  It’s still  177.0 Lbs.    

    08:05 AM:  Read   my current book   a little more. 

    08:40 AM: Installed the   ZD Header Tags   plugin on all blogs.  This allows the rewriting of title tags for specific posts without changing their displayed titles. In this way, title tags can be optimized for search engines without changing how they appear on the screen.  User-friendly items like punctuation marks that impact search engine optimization (SEO), can be omitted from the title tag itself, but left in the display form of the title.  This keeps both readers and search engines happy. The plugin also supports customization of keyword and description tags for each post. 

    10:00 AM: Watched today’s episode of   Pittsburgh Today Live   on KDKA TV.

    12:00 PM: Read my   current book.

    12:30 PM: Watched KDKA TV’s    Local News at Noon   show.

    01:30 PM: Watched today’s episode of   The Young and the Restless.

    02:15 PM: Went   shopping   to grab some candy and pop.  We’re celebrating Easter early!  :-)

    04:00 PM: Watched today’s episode of   Dr. Phil.

    04:45 PM: Upgraded the UltraEdit software on my computer at home to version 16.00.  Also upgraded the UltraCompare software on said computer to version 7.00.

    04:50 PM: Removed stop words from the titles of a hundred posts on the   Tom’s Love Quest   blog, per the SEO effort.  There are now 108 posts left to process for this phase of the project for said blog.

    07:40 PM: Removed stop words from all 108 remaining posts that had them in their titles, on the   Tom’s Love Quest   blog.  Running the report again to see how many SEO errors are left. 

    09:30 PM: The SEO report software run identified a few more duplicate title tags, which I’ve fixed, and there’s a couple unexpected behaviors in the   ZD Header Tags   software that I’ll investigate later.  These will have to be resolved in order to eliminate all duplicate titles.  But we got the number down from 89 to 3.  Not bad.  The report however, also noted that most of my documents have no description tags.  So I’ll start writing those, piece meal, though this part of the SEO effort will take several months to complete I estimate, given everything else that’s going on. 

    10:00 PM: We listened to the Penguins Vs. The Rangers hockey game on the IRIS Internet WebRadio.  It worked very well tonight despite several dropped connections during this past Tuesday’s game.  That trouble may have been caused by a congested Internet.  But the network worked much better this evening. 

    10:20 PM: Talked with   [Tad].  We’ll meet at the bank tomorrow afternoon, after he finishes work.  Since he does not know precisely what time that will be, he’ll call when he’s leaving, and I’ll head out at that time myself.  That should put us both at Citizens bank at the same time.

    10:30 PM: Talked with Mom.  She’s been doing pretty well at regulating her sugars. But further adjustments to her sliding scale are likely necessary to further improve the readings.  She’s been writing down her readings since I’ve been on vacation so that when I return home on Sunday, I can enter them here and look over them to see if any immediate insulin dosing adjustments are indicated. 

    12:15 AM: Read my   current book  some more.

    01:50 AM: Listened to the iPod Touch for the past hour and  a half, and added stations to my favorites. The AOL Radio app allows a maximum of thirty favorites. *groan*  You know, there’s few things more irritating than artificially limited software.  I mean, with 64 GB on this iPod, I’d think you’d be able to store thousands of favorites if you wanted to.  That’s about as restrictive as Verizon denying me the right to put my own music on my cell phone as ring tones.  Gripe over now.  :-)

    02:00 AM: To bed I go now.  Take care, and keep reading.  More to come later.  Good night.

    Tom Hesley

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    Today’s Business: 2010-03-03

    Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

    Today’s Activities

    • Shower.  DONE.
    • Schedule appointment for Mom with the retina specialists in Johnstown for sometime in April, 2010. 
    • Still fighting my   current cold.

     

    Log

    05:20 AM: I’m up. My weight is unchanged from yesterday.  It’s still  177.0 Lbs.    

    06:15 AM:  Read   my current book   a little more. 

    07:30 AM: Going back to bed for a few hours. 

    10:30 AM: I’m back up again.  Talked to  [Tad].  He was unable to get hold of   [BJ],  our ex alumni president,  about arranging our trip to the bank  So, I’ll try her later today and hopefully, set something up for tomorrow or Friday. 

    11:30 AM: [BJ] called me back.  She does not need to accompany [Tad] and I to the bank. 

    01:30 PM: Watched today’s episode of   The Young and the Restless.

    02:15 PM: I called   [Tad]  to tell him about what  [BJ]  told me.  Since she need not meet with us at the bank, this will simplify scheduling this.  We’ll probably do it tomorrow.  [Tad] also suggested that   [Emmy] and I get together with he and his wife for dinner one night before I return home.  So we’re working that out as well. 

    04:00 PM: Watched today’s episode of   Dr. Phil.  Now, it’s nap time.

    05:45 PM: I’m up again, and heading out to Pizza Pronto to pick up our supper.

    06:20 PM: Created audio journal episode:  AJE-2010-03-03-18-05.

    07:30 PM: Watched tonight’s episodes of    NBC’s Nightly News   and   The CBS Evening News.

    08:50 PM: I rewrote eighty-one post titles in the   Tom’s Love Quest   blog, to get rid of duplicate title names, per the search engine optimization (SEO) effort.

    11:50 PM:  Read   my current book   at various times throughout today.

    11:55 PM: Okay, I’m going to bed, and have had enough reading for one day.  Take care and I’ll see you again tomorrow.  Good night. 

    Tom Hesley

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