August 01-08 2012

[madgravity]

Welcome to the Month of August- cloudy but no rain with temps into the high 80s.

I did my stretches and went for a short walk.

I spent the rest of the day editing and adding to the book.

Thursday 02- very nice day, but a little muggy with temps into the low 90s.

I did my stretches and went for a nice long walk.

I spent the rest of the day editing and adding to the book. I think I got it almost done, but I want to add to the characters a bit. Carolyn is helping me edit and is a real help catching the little things I miss; and some big ones too.

 Friday 03- mostly cloudy day with rain here and there.

I woke up early around 6am, did my stretches, and went for a morning walk.

Kelly has a doctor’s appointment at 2:30pm, so I picked her up at noon and headed to Twentynine Palms to get our packages at the post office. We stopped off at Bar Lumber to get her propane tank filled. Before we left 29 we got drinks and two chicken sandwiches at the AMPM Market at the ARCO. Then we were on our way to Palm Desert. It rained as we went through Yucca Valley which slowed us down a bit, but we made it to the doctor’s office with 5min to spare. I sat around watching a BBC Earth documentary for over two hours while they adjusted the settings on Kelly’s temporary electric doohickey she now has implanted in her back. We got back on the road and went shopping at WalMart, then on to Rite Aid to get her prescription fill, lunch at Burger King (we had coupons) and shopping for supplies at Stater Bros. Again, I finally got home around 10:30pm.

Saturday 04- clouds here and there with temps into the low 90.

I did my stretches, core trainer, lifted weights, and punched the heavy bag.

I updated the Copper Mountain Mesa Website and sent out the Newsletter.

I called my friend Larry Carlock to wish him a happy birthday and we jawed about old times for over an hour.

I worked on my book all day and into the night.

I went for a night run.

Sunday 05- a few clouds with the temps into the high 90s.

I did my stretches and went for a short morning walk.

I was on FaceBook for a spell and for some reason me and Carolyn decided to start a FaceBook Page called ‘FaceBook Goes to Mars’ so we could watch the landing of Curiosity on Mars with friends. We had a little over one hundred folks join in only a few hours. Seemed like a lot of FaceBook folks came on in around 8:30pm when NASA started their program, some called “7 minutes of terror”, and you could see the technicians milling around their consoles getting ready to begin. I thought it was really exciting to be with like mined folks commenting on FaceBook and watching events unfold at JPL in Pasadena. We were altogether as those 7 minutes of terror came around 10:30PM PDT and were just as jubilant as anyone at JPL when the first pictures came in from Mars! What a ride!

Monday 06- it is hot and muggy today with a few sprinkles of the wet stuff.

I did my stretches, core trainer, lifted weights, punched the heavy bag, and went for a short walk.

I picked up Kelly at 1pm to take her to her doctor’s appointment where they will take out the temporary device. It started to rain a bit once we hit hwy 62 but seemed that we raced away from it. She got out of the doc’s around 3:30 and we then went to the deli for dinner and stayed there until almost 7pm. We went shopping at Staters Bros to get supplies. I got home around 9:30pm.

I went back to work editing and adding to my book. Carolyn sent in an edited chapter 11. Tomorrow I’ll hope to spend most of the day on my book. I want to have it done before the end of August, have a few copies printed for editing, and an EBook up on Amazon later in September. This is my hope…

Tuesday 07- still hot and muggy.

I did my stretches and went for a short walk.

I haven’t started the Honda Scooter in three days. I try to start it every day so it won’t get messed up and not start. Well to make a long story short; it didn’t start. So after a long spell of trying, I got underneath and drained the float bowl. It finally started. Also it started to rain and I couldn’t go drive it to charge the battery.

Carolyn now has all the rest of the chapters.

I spent the rest of the day working on the book.

Wednesday 08- hot! 112 degrees, and really muggy!

I’ll have to say that I stayed at home and inside because of the weather. That is okay, because I spent the time replying to my happy birthday wishes on FaceBook and phone calls from friends.

Judy Jackson called and we had a nice long chat. She made me Baklava, I thought that mighty nice, and sent it by UPS who arrived around 4:30. I ate two pieces it was so good, but gave me a big honey rush, yum!

I wanted until 8pm to ride my little scooter to my mailboxes, about an 18 mile round trip to both boxes, and collected lots of birthday cards. I feel much loved.