Today’s Business: 2011-12-25
Sunday, December 25th, 2011Today’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: We’re up. Merry Christmas to the Christians, and happy Holidays to the other faiths of the world.
09:15 AM: Facebooked for perhaps ten minutes. Friend count: 616 (up two). Fan count: 114 (unchanged).
09:20 AM: No workout on the treadmill today. It’s a vacation day after all. 
11:30 AM: [Emmy] opened her gifts. She liked the talking watch though she did gripe about having to learn a new appliance; one that’s significantly different than the watches she’s owned in the past. But she learned the new button-press sequences pretty quickly, for setting the time on the watch as well as its four alarms. She also enjoyed the Pittsburgh sports team scarfs and hats as well. She’s easy to please.
02:00 PM: We sat in the living room for an hour or two, enjoying the Christmas music being played on WALY 103.9 FM, and I admired our very simple yet beautiful Christmas tree with its lights aglow while we listened.
04:00 PM: Sisters Christine and Diane decided to visit Mom, and invited [Emmy] and I to come along. So, we went. I took some clean laundry up to Mom, and brought home not only her dirty clothes. I also brought home some items that Mom no longer wears, due either to lack of proper fit as a result of weight-gain, or due simply to the fact that said clothes are currently out of season. Because Mom’s locker at the home is so small, we can only store clothes there that wears every week or two. Otherwise, we run out of room. I maintain her full wardrobe here at her house.
06:20 PM: Then, [Emmy] spent the late afternoon catching up on some of her favorite TV shows via my DVR. We’ve both been remiss in keeping abreast of our TV viewing with all the visiting and such that we’ve enjoyed the past couple weeks. In fact, the DVR has filled up a few times during the past couple days, so that it did not record some of the shows. But we got it down to 80% full now.
06:30 PM: While [Emmy] watched her shows, I worked on my computer. It’s been blue-screening a lot lately. This began sometime over the past three or four days. I suspect my antivirus software is the culprit. However, the blue screens do not occur in the same program each time. These “moving” blue screens could be a symptom of a failing power supply or failing memory, or a failing hard drive. I must narrow down the possibilities. So I’m going to temporarily remove my antivirus software and see if the blue screen incidents decrease.
06:40 PM: Leaving now for sister Christine’s. She has much left-over food from last night. So we’re going to help her family devour it. Back later.
08:00 PM: They served supper, which in my case consisted of two pieces of lasagna and some peanut M&Ms for dessert. They also served ham, but I declined that, as I’m not a terribly big ham fan unless it accompanies big noodles and potatoes, as it does in ham pot pie. Sister Jojo brought what was left of her snowman cheese ball as well, and [Emmy] and I indulged in that, spread on some crackers.
10:45 PM: We’re back home.
11:00 PM: [Emmy] is heading to bed.
12:05 AM: The daily traffic stats from yesterday for my blogs. The monthly keyword hit count for this run is 873, up from 860 at last check. The record high for this dimension remains at 1788. The next goal: 2000.
12:15 AM: I’m heading to bed. More tomorrow. Good night.
Received Mail and Shipments
No mail or other deliveries on this Christmas day holiday.