Monday 02

Monday 02- I did my stretches and ran two miles.
Today’s Weather was: Temps of around 52 and 78 degrees, light breeze, humidity around 22 percent, clear skies.
According to the National Weather Service: “Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 86. Calm wind becoming east southeast between 4 and 7 mph. Tuesday Night: Clear, with a low around 52. West wind around 6 mph.” 
I was wondering where my Windows 7 operating system was that I ordered from Amazon. Last week I called the post office in Twentynine Palms and they said that it was out for delivery and I told them that the post office doesn’t deliver at my street address. They said they’d keep an eye out for it. I called them again today before I did my exercises and when I came back from my run there was a message on my answering machine saying that the package was there and to come on down to get it. And that is just what I did. I drove the fifteen miles or so to Twentynine and picked it up.
On the way back home I stopped off at Stoney’s mailbox. His prescription from Canada was there and I dropped it off at his house. He invited me over for dinner and I said I’d be over at 4pm.
When I got home I spent the next hour installing Windows 7 on my HP Mini Note. Everything went well until I went to get the updates and that’s where I ran into dialup hell! Dialup was mighty slow today and sometimes it would just stop for no reason at all. After a few hours of this I was just able to complete about half of the updates. I was in the middle of downloading the Google Chrome browser when the connection just died losing what had already downloaded. I really need broadband out here!
I went over to Stoney’s for dinner. He cooked up his beans and rice dish that was mighty good!
I got back home and installed Microsoft Office 2007 and then Service pack 2 for Office. I was still trying to get things ready to take it online tonight to write my journal but the modem kept cutting out. “Castle” came on CBS and I decided to give up on the HP Mini Note for tonight and use the Dell Mini 9 netbook to write to my journal.
I did my stretches and lifted weights. I practiced my guitar and broke another string. Then I got out the Dell Mini 9 and went online. I have XP Pro running on it and I had thought that all the MS updates were done, but I found out differently; there was a 9Meg update that started to download. So now the dialup is really slow and it took me about an hour to get all the different places that I post my journal to load in the browser! This is what I call DIALUP HELL! Anyways if you are reading this then I was successful! Good night!

Tuesday 03

 Tuesday 03- I did my stretches, ran a mile, and lifted weights.

If you read my post of yesterday you might have noticed that I had written the wrong date; it has now been corrected. Thanks Joan for bringing this mistake to my notice.
Today’s Weather was: Temps of around 54 and 78 degrees, light breeze, humidity around 22 percent, clear skies.
According to the National Weather Service: “Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 85. West wind 6 to 9 mph becoming east northeast.
Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 52. West southwest wind between 6 and 8 mph.” 
I went over to Mac’s house to help him bleed the brake lines on his tike. Unfortunately something was wrong with the solenoid and it wouldn’t pump up any pressure to bleed. He gave me half of a banana cream pie for helping out!
On my drive back home I noticed my neighbor Ginger working on her front gate and went over to assist her. She didn’t have the right tools for the job but I carry tools in the Gross Polluter and had the gate bolted up and working in no time.
I was just starting to lay more tiles down when Mat called saying he had made a solar panel and wanted me to drop by and have a look-see. What he did was connect two Uni-Solar flat roofing panels into a metal frame for mounting on a pole. I was mighty impressed!
I got back home and started laying tiles in the bedroom after moving everything around. It’s mighty hard to lay tile when you’re living in the place you’re tiling. I did almost half the bedroom and will move everything over to what I had finished tomorrow when it has dried. Then I tile the rest of it.
I went for my evening walk and then went over to Stoney’s to help him finish off the rice and beans. We watched “Dirty Jobs” on the Science Channel, about; mobile home demolition, working at a manikin factory, and working at a camel ranch which was very amusing! I now know more about camels than I ever wanted to know.
Back home again I watched “My Name is Earl” which always lifts my spirits. Then I had to choose between “NCIS”, “NOVA”, or the new series “V”. I chose “V” on ABC just to see if it was like the “V” that came out in 1984. It seems to run along the same story line but more sophisticated in its execution and special effects.
I did my stretches and went for a night run; fixed the string on my guitar and practiced for a spell; wrote my column for the newspaper and sent it in; wrote to my journal, posted it to the web, and called it a night.