Tom's Diary

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 (3) loads of pending laundry.  DONE.

Log

08:00 AM: I’m up.

08:15 AM: Facebooked for a bit. Friend count: 637. Fan count: 118.

09:00 AM: Posted the   Tom’s Views –> Great Value No Calorie Sucralose Sweetener Review   piece.

10:00 AM: Posted the   Tom’s Views –> Great Value Vegetable Drink Review    piece.

11:00 AM: Posed the   Tom’s Views –> Now Better Stevia Glycerite Zero Calorie Sweetener Review    piece.

01:00 PM: Posted the   Tom’s Views –> Blue Diamond Whole Natural Almonds Review    piece.

02:00 PM: Posted the   Tom’s Views –> Pringles Cheddar Cheese Flavor Potato Crisps Review    piece.

03:00 PM: Watched today’s episode of   The Young and the Restless   via the DVR.

04:00 PM: Posted the   Tom’s Views –> Slim Jim Monster Original Beef Sticks Review    piece.

06:00 PM: Washed the laundry.

06:50 PM: Watched today’s episode of   Dr. Phil,   called   From Heroes to Monsters?

07:30 PM: Watched tonight’s edition of   NBC’s Nightly News   via the DVR.

09:15 PM: Worked to get caught up in my diary blog (this one).

11:00 PM: Talked with   [Emmy].

11:50 PM: Watched a bit of    The Andromeda Strain   movie via Netflix.

12:00 AM: I’m heading to bed.  Good night and do stop back tomorrow for more content.  Good night.

Tom Hesley

Received Mail and Shipments

• This month’s gas bill.
• Coupon newspaper-style mailer.
• Mother’s Day sale notice from Bath & Body Works.
• A few credit card offers.
• Sewage bill.
• Offer from SafeLink for free cell phone service.  Not at this time, thanks.
• Misc. bank papers.
• $10 gift card from Kohl’s.
• Notice that Mom has been approved for another year of medical assistance for her nursing home costs.
• Coupon from Atlantic Broadband for an Altoona Curve game at Blair County Ball Park.  I’m not a baseball fan however.  So I probably will not attend.
• My medical insurance premium bill.
• The Writer magazine for 2012-04.
• Offer for Mom from Birds and Blooms.  No thanks.
• Privacy policy mailing from the investment firm that manages the savings for the WPSBC Alumni Association.
• Copies of some of Mom’s important financial from the state county assistance office.
• Loan offer from Citizens Bank.  No thanks.

Related Posts and Links

• Today’s Diet: 2012-04-19
• Tom’s Views –> Blue Diamond Whole Natural Almonds Review
• Tom’s Views –> Great Value No Calorie Sucralose Sweetener Review
• Tom’s Views –> Great Value Vegetable Drink Review
• Tom’s Views –> Now Better Stevia Glycerite Zero Calorie Sweetener Review
• Tom’s Views –> Pringles Cheddar Cheese Flavor Potato Crisps Review
• Tom’s Views –> Slim Jim Monster Original Beef Sticks Review

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.

Log

08:00 AM: I’m up.

08:15 AM: Facebooked for a bit. Friend count: 634 (unchanged). Fan count: 113 (unchanged).

12:00 PM: Balanced all checking accounts within my domain and paid all pending bills.

01:00 PM: Posted the   Tom’s Views –> Frank’s RedHot Original Cayenne Pepper Sauce Review   piece.

02:00 PM: Posted the   Tom’s Views –> Soft Scrub Original Cleanser Review    piece.

03:00 PM: Posted the   Tom’s Views –> Soft Scrub Anti Bacterial With Bleach Cleanser Review    piece.

04:00 PM: Posted the   Tom’s Views –> Weiman Glass Cook Top Heavy Duty Cleaner & Polish Review    piece.

05:00 PM: Posted the   Tom’s Views –> Zircon Stud Sensor e50 Stud Finder Review    piece.

05:10 PM: Nap time.  Back later.

06:10 PM: I’m awake again.

07:00 PM: Posted the   Tom’s Views –> Destiny Limits Our Success   piece.

07:30 PM: Posted the   Tom’s Views –> Energizer Max Alkaline Battery Review    piece.

08:00 PM: Posted the   Tom’s Views –> Duracell Coppertop Alkaline Battery Review   piece.

08:45 PM: Posted the   Tom’s Views –> Dating The Disabled   piece.

09:00 PM: Watched today’s episode of   The Young and the Restless   via the DVR.

09:20 PM: Watched tonight’s episode of   NBC’s Nightly News   broadcast via the DVR.

10:00 PM: Throughout the evening, took frequent breaks and watched coverage of this super Tuesday election.

11:00 PM: Talked with   [Emmy].

11:50 PM: Watched more of the super Tuesday election returns.

11:55 PM: I’m heading to bed.  Good night and do stop back tomorrow for more content.  Good night.

Tom Hesley

Received Mail and Shipments

None today.

Related Posts and Links

• Today’s Diet: 2012-03-06
• Tom’s Views –> Dating The Disabled
• Tom’s Views –> Destiny Limits Our Success
• Tom’s Views –> Duracell Coppertop Alkaline Battery Review
• Tom’s Views –> Energizer Max Alkaline Battery Review
• Tom’s Views –> Frank’s RedHot Original Cayenne Pepper Sauce Review
• Tom’s Views –> Soft Scrub Anti Bacterial With Bleach Cleanser Review
• Tom’s Views –> Soft Scrub Original Cleanser Review
• Tom’s Views –> Weiman Glass Cook Top Heavy Duty Cleaner & Polish Review
• Tom’s Views –> Zircon Stud Sensor e50 Stud Finder Review

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 (2) loads of pending laundry.  DONE.

Log

08:00 AM: I’m up.

08:15 AM: Facebooked for a bit. Friend count: 634 (unchanged). Fan count: 113 (unchanged).

11:00 AM: Leaving now for breakfast and to visit Mom with sister Mary Ann.  Back later.

12:45 PM: We ate at King’s restaurant for breakfast along with one of sister Mary Ann’s in-laws.  Nice outing.

03:00 PM: Next, we visited Mom.  All was well there.

03:30 PM: Our final stop was Meadows for some ice cream.  Sweet.

04:30 PM: I’m back home.  Mom was pleased to see Mary Ann and her girls, and welcomed the clean laundry I took her.

05:00 PM: Nap time.  Back later.

06:30 PM: I’m awake again.

07:00 PM: Posted the   Tom’s Views –> Mrs. Paul’s Crunchy Popcorn Fish Review   piece.

08:10 PM: Watched today’s episode of   Dr. Phil   via the DVR, called   Overly Competitive Parents.

09:00 PM: Watched today’s episode of   The Young and the Restless   via the DVR.

09:20 PM: Watched tonight’s episode of   NBC’s Nightly News   broadcast via the DVR.

10:00 PM: Watched the Star Trek original series   episode   The Conscience of the King.

11:00 PM: Talked with   [Emmy]   and watched tonight’s episode of   Hawaii Five-0   together on the phone.

11:10 PM: I’m heading to bed.  Good night and do stop back tomorrow for more content.  Good night.

Tom Hesley

Received Mail and Shipments

None today.

Related Posts and Links

• Today’s Diet: 2012-03-05
• Tom’s Views –> Mrs. Paul’s Crunchy Popcorn Fish Review

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 (2) loads of pending laundry.  DONE.

Log

06:00 AM: I’m up.

06:15 AM: Facebooked for a bit. Friend count: 634 (unchanged). Fan count: 113 (unchanged).

11:00 AM: Revised and reposted the   Tom’s Views –> Stop Loud Motorcycles   piece.

01:00 PM: Posted the   Tom’s Views –> Mighty Plugs Ear Plugs Review    piece.

03:00 PM: Posted the    Tom’s Views –> iWorld iPhone iPod Wall Charger Review   piece.

03:30 PM: Posted the    Tom’s Views –> iWorld iPhone iPod Car Charger Review   piece.

03:45 PM: Nap time.  Back later.

05:15 PM: I’m awake again.

08:00 PM: Listened to some of the new music downloaded recently.  Lots of fodder for the next dance I DJ.

09:20 PM: Watched tonight’s episode of   NBC’s Nightly News   broadcast via the DVR.

10:00 PM: Watched the Star Trek original series   episode   The Conscience of the King.

11:00 PM: Talked with   [Emmy].

11:10 PM: I’m heading to bed.  Good night and do stop back tomorrow for more content.  Good night.

Tom Hesley

Received Mail and Shipments

None today.

Related Posts and Links

• Today’s Diet: 2012-03-04
• Tom’s Views –> iWorld iPhone iPod Wall Charger Review
• Tom’s Views –> iWorld iPhone iPod Car Charger Review
• Tom’s Views –> Mighty Plugs Ear Plugs Review
• Tom’s Views –> Stop Loud Motorcycles

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.

Log

09:00 AM: I’m up.

09:15 AM: Facebooked for a bit. Friend count: 634 (unchanged). Fan count: 113 (unchanged).

11:00 AM: Leaving now to visit Mom and to do some shopping with sister Jojo.  Back later.

04:30 PM: I’m back home.  Mom was pretty alert today.

05:00 PM: Posted the   Tom’s Views –> Barilla Plus Multigrain Pasta Elbows Review   piece.

06:00 PM: Posted the   Tom’s Views –> Robertshaw 9415 Non Programmable Digital Thermostat Review   piece.

07:00 PM: Posted the   Tom’s Views –> Honeywell RTH7600D 7 Day Programmable Thermostat Review    piece.

08:00 PM: Posted the   Tom’s Views –> Arnold 100% Whole Wheat Sandwich Thins Review    piece.

09:00 PM: Posted the   Tom’s Views –> Honeytree Organic Agave Nectar Sweetener Review    piece.

09:20 PM: Watched tonight’s episode of   NBC’s Nightly News   broadcast via the DVR.

10:10 PM: Watched the Star Trek original series   episode   In The Wink of an Eye.

11:00 PM: Talked with   [Emmy].

11:10 PM: I’m heading to bed.  Good night and do stop back tomorrow for more content.  Good night.

Tom Hesley

Received Mail and Shipments

None today.

Related Posts and Links

• Today’s Diet: 2012-03-03
• Tom’s Views –> Arnold 100% Whole Wheat Sandwich Thins Review
• Tom’s Views –> Barilla Plus Multigrain Pasta Elbows Review
• Tom’s Views –> Honeytree Organic Agave Nectar Sweetener Review
• Tom’s Views –> Honeywell RTH7600D 7 Day Programmable Thermostat Review
• Tom’s Views –> Robertshaw 9415 Non Programmable Digital Thermostat Review

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 (2) loads of pending laundry.  DONE.

Log

08:00 AM: I’m up.

08:15 AM: Facebooked for a bit. Friend count: 634 (unchanged). Fan count: 113 (unchanged).

09:00 AM: Posted the   Tom’s Views –> WD-40 Specialist Silicone Lubricant Review   piece.

10:00 AM: Posted the   Tom’s Views –> Fixing Noisy Electric Baseboard Heaters    piece.

11:00 AM: Paid all pending bills.

12:00 PM: Installed the Honeywell RTH7600D programmable thermostat on the central heating system here at my home, that I bought at Lowe’s yesterday.  So far, it works great.  I’ll spend some time with it this afternoon to learn how to program it and optimize it for the particular heating situation here.

03:00 PM: Familiarized myself with the new central climate control programmable thermostat mentioned above.  But I’m feeling flu symptoms coming on; achy joints and spasmatic stomach pains.  So I think I’ll just take it easy for the rest of the day to try and beat this thing quickly.

07:20 PM: Watched tonight’s episode of   NBC’s Nightly News   broadcast via the DVR.

08:10 PM: Watched yesterday’s episode of   Dr. Phil   via the DVR, called   Parental Abuse.

08:55 PM: Watched today’s episode of   Dr. Phil   via the DVR, called   Braxton Family Values.

09:50 PM: Watched today’s episode of   The Young and the Restless   via the DVR.

11:00 PM: Talked with   [Emmy].

11:10 PM: I’m heading to bed.  Good night and do stop back tomorrow for more content.  Good night.

Tom Hesley

Received Mail and Shipments

None today.

Related Posts and Links

• Today’s Diet: 2012-03-01
• Tom’s Views –> Fixing Noisy Electric Baseboard Heaters
• Tom’s Views –> WD-40 Specialist Silicone Lubricant Review

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.

Log

08:00 AM: I’m up.

08:15 AM: Facebooked for a bit. Friend count: 634 (unchanged). Fan count: 113 (unchanged).

09:00 AM: Posted the   Tom’s Views –> Sohgave! Blueberry Flavor Agave Syrup Review   piece.

09:45 AM: ‎2.3 miles on the treadmill today, at 4.0 MPH, 4.5% incline (up 0.5%), 70 degrees F room temperature, for 36 minutes, 415 calories burned, with heart rate peaking at 159 BPM for walk / workout 14 of 130 in 2012.

10:40 AM: Leaving now for Lowe’s home improvement center for a bit of shopping.  Back later.

03:30 PM: I’m back home.  I picked up a steak sub from Dominick’s that is located just outside of Lowe’s.  I also purchased the Honeywell RLV430A programmable thermostat for the upstairs bedroom.  I liked the RLV310A non programmable thermostat I installed up there recently, except for the fact that it was non programmable.  So, I was frequently turning down the heat in the morning, and turning it up at night.  The programmable thermostat will automate that procedure, freeing me for more important and more desirable tasks.

04:00 PM: Installed the Honeywell RLV430A thermostat upstairs.  No problems encountered, and it works great.

06:30 PM: In an effort to reduce the buzz and hum from the electric baseboard heater in the upstairs bedroom, I thought I’d wrap a small amount of fiberglass insulation around the element where metal brackets hold it in place, to act as a sound insulator that would, so I hoped, reduce the amount of vibration transmitted from the heating element to the case of the heater.  However, the fiberglass did not stand up to the heat produced by the element very well.  It smoked.  Further, there was no appreciable decrease in the volume of the hum and buzz.  So I removed the fiberglass insulation, and will look for a better sound-deadening material; that can also withstand hundreds of degrees of temperatures.

07:20 PM: Watched tonight’s episode of   NBC’s Nightly News   broadcast via the DVR.

08:00 PM: Made sloppy Joes for supper.

08:45 PM: Watched yesterday’s episode of   Dr. Phil   via the DVR, called   “Held Hostage by my Father.”

11:00 PM: Talked with   [Emmy].

11:10 PM: I’m heading to bed.  Good night and do stop back tomorrow for more content.  Good night.

Tom Hesley

Received Mail and Shipments

None today.

Related Posts and Links

• Today’s Diet: 2012-02-29
•  Tom’s Views –> Sohgave! Blueberry Flavor Agave Syrup Review

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.

Log

08:30 AM: I’m up.

08:45 AM: Facebooked for a bit. Friend count: 634 (unchanged). Fan count: 113 (unchanged).

01:00 PM: ‎2.3 miles on the treadmill today, at 4.0 MPH, 4.0% incline (unchanged), 69 degrees F room temperature, for 36 minutes, 403 calories burned, with heart rate peaking at 152 BPM for walk / workout 12 of 130 in 2012.

02:00 PM: Posted the   Tom’s Views –> Now Stevia Glycerite Swetener Review   piece.

03:00 PM: Posted the   Tom’s Views –> Sohgave! Maple Flavor Agave Syrup Review   piece.

04:00 PM: Added several posts to the   Tom’s Diary   blog to catch it up.  I’ve been falling behind on it as of late.

04:50 PM: Watched yesterday’s episode of NBC’s   Meet The Press   via the DVR.

05:40 PM: Watched today’s episode of   The Young and the Restless   via the DVR.

06:30 PM: Watched today’s episode of   Dr. Phil   via the DVR, called   Mother-In-Law Mayhem.

07:20 PM: Watched tonight’s episode of   NBC’s Nightly News   broadcast via the DVR.

08:30 PM: Posted the   Tom’s Views –> Madhava Organic Agave Nectar Light Sweetener Review   piece.

11:00 PM: Talked with   [Emmy] and we watched tonight’s episode of    Hawaii Five-0.

11:05 PM: Downloaded about a hundred more new songs from Promo Only.

11:10 PM: I’m heading to bed.  Good night and do stop back tomorrow for more content.  Good night.

Tom Hesley

Received Mail and Shipments

None today.

Related Posts and Links

• Today’s Diet: 2012-02-26
• Tom’s Views –> Madhava Organic Agave Nectar Light Sweetener Review
• Tom’s Views –> Now Stevia Glycerite Swetener Review
• Tom’s Views –> Sohgave! Maple Flavor Agave Syrup Review

To all WordPress bloggers: As a blogger who has used WordPress blogging software for his blogs for several years, I often find that the number of saved post revisions grows quite large in a short time, especially since I’m constantly updating my collection of blog posts.  Deleting WordPress post revisions   occasionally, becomes necessary to preserve efficient WordPress database operation.  While I wish to retain the post revisions for a week or two, those older ones I can certainly do without.  Indeed, one sure way to better   optimize the WordPress database   is to keep only the posts, comments, and other data that you actually need, in order to keep your blog quickly responding to page requests and to shorten the time required for a WordPress database backup to complete.

So, each time I back up my blog databases, I first delete the WordPress post revisions I no longer want.  Remember that each time you save a post during editing, a new post revision record is created in the WordPress database.  Therefore, if you make many revisions to a document, you’ll create many copies of it saved in the database.  If the document is a large one, the amount of storage required for it and its revisions quickly becomes significant.  So be sure to periodically delete those WordPress post revisions regularly to help keep your blog running at top speed.

To delete WordPress post revisions, use the following procedure:

1. Log into yout MySQL account that hosts your WordPress blog’s database you’re working with.
2. Then, execute the following SQL statement in the quotes: “DELETE FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = “revision”;”  Note that this particular SQL statement removes all post revisions.  However, you could add timestamp constraints, to, for example, delete only those post revisions that are more than two weeks old.
3. You should then see a response from MySQL, telling you how many records were actually deleted from the wp_posts table.
4. If you have no further tasks, log out of your MySQL account.

I’ve successfully executed the above procedure for WordPress 2 and WordPress 3 blogs.  So I expect that you will experience no problems with it on your WordPress blogs.  Indeed, it would be possible to automate this command into a PHP script that you could run with task scheduling software (like UNIX Cron).  Good luck.

Tom Hesley

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• Deleting Self Pingbacks
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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 (2) loads of pending laundry.  DONE.

Log

06:50 AM: I’m up.

07:05 AM: Facebooked for a bit. Friend count: 633 (unchanged). Fan count: 113 (unchanged).

07:45 AM: Leaving now with sister Jojo to visit Mom and to perform some shopping.  Back later.

09:00 AM: We’ve finished shopping at Wal Mart.  I just picked up some fresh fruit, more Sogave! flavored agave nectar, some milk, and margarine.

11:00 AM: Next we stopped at the Good Will and Salvation Army stores, to look for some warm sweaters and sweatshirts for Mom.  We found eight of these for her and paid less than thirty dollars.  Hey, I love deals like this; particularly since, with Mom now in the nursing home, she has very little money to spend on clothing.

03:00 PM: We visited with Mom for the past hour.  One of her close friends surprised us by stopping in as well, and she talked with Mom for nearly a half-hour.  Now, we’re attending a birthday celebration for a few of the other residents, in the main dining room.

04:15 PM: We’re heading home now.  Mom was in a pretty good mood and wide awake.

04:25 PM: I’m back home.  Sister Jojo inspected my installation of the curtains here in the office and gave it a thumbs-up.

04:30 PM: Nap time.  Back later.

07:30 PM: I’m up again.

08:15 PM: Posted the   Tom’s Views –> Terro Liquid Ant Baits Review   piece.  Perhaps it’s due to the warm winter weather we’re experiencing this year.  But many small ants appeared the other day in my kitchen and bathroom.  So I purchased today a package of four of these   Terro Liquid Ant Baits.  I’ve used these before and found them to work exceedingly well.

10:00 PM: Read about search engine optimization.  Hopefully I can find something in this voluminous information that will cause much more traffic to be driven to my blogs.

11:00 PM: Talked with   [Emmy].

11:10 PM: I’m heading to bed.  Good night and do stop back tomorrow for more content.  Good night.

Tom Hesley

Received Mail and Shipments

No deliveries of any kind received today.

Related Posts and Links

• Today’s Diet: 2012-02-24
• Tom’s Views –> Terro Liquid Ant Baits Review