Saturday 19

Saturday 19- I did my stretches and ran two miles.
Today’s Weather was: Temps of around 41 and 62 degrees, light breeze, humidity around 33 percent, mostly clear skies.
According to the National Weather Service: “Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 64. West wind 5 to 8 mph becoming east. Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 41. South southwest wind 5 to 7 mph becoming west northwest.”
I called a few Friends and Family throughout the day. Mostly I worked in the yard replanting some aloe vera that have overgrown in the pot they were in and it was getting a bit crowded in the pots.
Seimi came buy with a used Toshiba laptop he was given; he was able to return that Acer laptop, that was giving him so much trouble, back to WalMart. I turned it on and the first thing that popped up was that fake virus program that really is a virus unto its self. I told him the best thing to do was reload the operating system with a fresh install; he had the restore disks! About five people called me with computer problems while he was there, so that made him feel better about me working on his laptop after having that bad experience with his Acer laptop. After the new install I started to teach him how to navigate around the desktop and had him play solitaire for a while so he could get a handle of the touchpad; I have found that playing solitaire is the best way to have someone learn how to use a mouse or touchpad. The next time he brings it over I’ll put Service pack 3 on it and Avast anti-virus. I already had taken Norton off his system.
I went over to Stoney’s for a little visit and we watched “National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation” (1989) and it was good to see Stoney laughing at it.
I got back home and restrung my guitar and did a little practice; my fingers are still sore from yesterday’s guitar playing. Then I did some webwork for a spell. I did my stretches; wrote to my journal, posted it to the web, and called it a night.

Sunday 20

Sunday 20- I did my stretches.
Today’s Weather was: Temps of around 41 and 60 degrees, light breeze, humidity around 32 percent, hazy skies.
According to the National Weather Service: “Monday: Partly sunny, with a high near 62. Calm wind becoming southeast between 4 and 7 mph. Monday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 41. Southwest wind between 8 and 14 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.”
J (name withheld) called and asked if she could bring her Dell laptop over for me to finish setting it up. No problem. She brought me two old laptops she no longer needs. She had them in plastic shopping bags and the one I was carrying ripped as I tried to open the front door and the laptop fell hard on the cement, dang! I checked it out later and it didn’t work anymore, double dang. I uninstalled MacAfee anti-virus on her new laptop and then installed the newest versions of Avast anti-virus and Firefox that I downloaded the other day.
Then Seimi came by with his Toshiba laptop over so I could finish setting it up. He came with his dog Max who is 14 years old and has Alzheimer. We let him wonder around in the yard for a spell while I installed Service Packs 2 and 3, Internet Explorer 8, the newest versions of Avast anti-virus and Firefox, and sent him on his way.
I went on my evening walk and called Stoney who had called earlier to tell me that someone left a gift for me at his house and I’d never guess what it was. I had time to think about it and asked him if it was lemon cake. He said it was and asked if somebody told me. I told him no, but he didn’t believe me. Bill and Jan Bonner knows that I love lemon cake and I figured that they had Sherry deliver it; damn I good! When I arrived at his house he had nuked up some frozen dinners for us to eat. The lemon cake was sure mighty good! We watched the Science Channel program about sci-fi and physics for an hour or so.
I got home in time to watch “60 Minutes” about; a town that has fallen on really bad times, an Christian orthodox church in Turkey with a 99 percent Muslim population, Alex Baldwin, and Andy Rooney yakking something about Christmas shopping.
I spent the next few hours surfing the web and dreaming of the ultimate notebook computer I can’t afford. I did my stretches; practiced my guitar; wrote to my journal, posted it to the web, and called it a night.