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 (1) load of pending laundry. DONE.
Log
07:30 AM: I’m up.
07:45 AM: Facebooked for a bit. Friend count: 632 (unchanged). Fan count: 113 (unchanged).
09:30 AM: Finished filling the two hollow columns between the windows in the office here with concrete, in the hopes that this will add enough mass to the entire wall, to reduce its readiness to vibrate when loud vehicles go by outside. It’s somewhat quieter definitely. Still not quite enough however.
09:40 AM: Leaving now with sister Jojo to visit Mom and to do a small bit of shopping. Back later.
10:15 AM: We stopped at Dunkin’ Donuts for our usual coffee.
11:30 AM: Next, we stopped at the PA Wine & Spirits store, where I purchased a few bottles of spirits to stock my mini bar at home (strictly for when friends visit me.) *evil grin*
01:00 PM: We enjoyed lunch at Jack & Georges today. I got a baked Italian sub. Half I ate now, and the other half I’ll take home for supper tonight.
03:00 PM: We then went back to the nursing home to continue our visit with Mom, now that she’s out of bed and more awake than when we first arrived this morning.
03:30 PM: I’m home. We found on this visit, that Mom doused her cell phone in water. It will not power up now. Hopefully, it will work again once left to dry out over the weekend.
04:00 PM: Nap time. Back later.
06:00 PM: I’m awake again.
07:00 PM: Installed the other Honeywell RLV310a thermostat that I purchased at Lowe’s yesterday in the upstairs office. No unusual difficulties encountered.
08:30 PM: Unmounted the baseboard electric heater in the bedroom upstairs, took it to the basement, and inserted eight sheet metal screws at some of the places where one piece of metal rubs against another. This definitely quieted most of the pings and bangs observed in this heater before. However, it did not reduce the hum at all; nor did I expect that it would actually. There are four more sites that might be vibrating excessively that I did not discover until after I’d reinstalled the heater. So sometime in the near future, I’ll bind those with sheet metal screws as well.
07:45 PM: Watched today’s episode of The Young and the Restless via the DVR.
08:10 PM: Watched tonight’s episode of NBC’s Nightly News via the DVR.
09:00 PM: Tried lubricating all the metal-on-metal joints in the upstairs bedroom electric baseboard heater, in an effort to reduce the clanking, pinging, and squeaking that occurs each time the heater comes on and goes off. I noted some improvement. However, none of the oils and greases I tried seemed to last very long before these noises returned. So I’m looking for a more effective and permanent solution.
10:00 PM: Again, tonight, I hung out in the upstairs bedroom, iPodding, and observing the heater operation under the control of the new Honeywell RLV310A thermostat that I installed yesterday. I may have to replace the heater with a quieter unit. The only question is: Which heaters are in fact quieter? Which baseboard units hum less, and ping and bang less? Recent reading indicates that a hydronic heater just might be what I’m looking for.
11:00 PM: Talked with [Emmy]. She said that she received this years application forms for this summer’s camp sessions from Beacon Lodge. Neither of us plan on attending this year.
11:55 PM: Watched selected scenes from the movie The Day After via my DVD player. While I cannot honestly say that I like this movie very much, I find myself watching the scenes over and over where the US military is preparing the missiles and air force for war.
12:00 AM: I’m heading to bed. Good night and do stop back tomorrow for more content. 
Good night.
Tom Hesley
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