Friday 22

Friday 22- I did my stretches and ran two miles; a very cold and windy run!
Today’s Weather was: Temps of around 33 and 45 degrees, SW winds at 10 to 16 MPH, humidity around 61 percent, stratus clouds clearing at times with little rain.
According to the National Weather Service: “Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 53. West northwest wind between 10 and 13 mph. Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 34. West northwest wind around 8 mph.”
I was filling the bird feeder when I saw Ron the Graphics Guy drive by in his jeep. He stopped and told me that his friend couldn’t get to work this morning because HWY 62 was closed going down to Palm Springs.
It stopped raining enough for Ron Dehart to come by with some homemade spaghetti sauce that I later added to some pasta I cooked up especially for it. We played guitar and chatted for a spell.
It didn’t rain the rest of the day and my solar panels gave a good charge to my batteries. Yesterday I had to run the generator to get them charged up.
The wind was blowing cold so I didn’t go on my evening walk, but tomorrow is looking good for a walk!
I was transferring files for my HTML editor from Windows 7 to a laptop running XP because it wasn’t working properly. I got everything on the XP machine and loaded it up but the index file date was something I did on 10/31/09 and not the newest one. I went back to the Win7 HTML files and the index file had10/31/09, but when I started the editor it open with 01/07-10, weird! So I just copied it from the editor and pasted it to notepad and pasted into the XP laptop’s HTML editor. I do not know where nor couldn’t find where Win7 stored the updated HTML files, but all the recent pictures were there. This HTML editor I got in 1999 and works fine in XP.
I read aloud from the textbooks: “Astronomy Today" and “The Cell: a Molecular Approach”.
Roger Smith called asking help for a problem on his computer and we spent the next forty-five minutes trying to figure it out; had to do with his monitor and screen sizes. Finally we got it right just as my phone started beeping telling me that its battery was getting low.
I read “The Lost World” until late into the evening while the warmth from the woodstove heated the house.
I did my stretches; practiced my guitar; wrote to my journal, posted it to the web, and called it a night.

Saturday 23

Saturday 23- I did my stretches.
Today’s Weather was: Temps of around 34 and 51 degrees, NW winds at 8 to 15 MPH, humidity around 58 percent, sunny skies!
According to the National Weather Service: “Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 53. Northwest wind around 6 mph becoming calm. Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 36. Southwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm.”
Naomi and Brian came by with their two cute daughters to preach the word of the Lord. They are a nice family and I let them have their say; I’m not very religious and they don’t push it upon me. Brain told me a heartbreaking story of how his father was gunned down by some young punk about five years ago and is now serving a life sentence for murder. His little daughter said that she never got to see her grandfather and that kind of made me mad; I don’t like murderers and thieves. They take what isn’t theirs, even your life, and that is just plain evil! Sherry dropped by while we were talking and warned us that the roads were really bad going west on Winters Road; I thought that mighty nice of her.
After they left I went inside and updated the Copper Mountain Mesa Website and sent out the newsletter.
Ginger’s daughter Lola came by with all their dogs asking if I’d come down to help them construct a shelter for Princess their horse. I said sure but first I want to feed the dogs some baloney; they were mighty happy about that! Ginger, Lola, and I spent the next two hours digging and hammering getting Princess’s shelter together. I hope she likes it and stays inside this time so I won’t have to go chase her down.
I left there and drove on over to Stoney’s and yakked with him for a spell. Then I went home and did the same with my folks.
I read aloud from the textbooks: “Astronomy Today" about Terrestrial and Jovian planets, and “The Cell: a Molecular Approach” about cell membranes. Then I did a little studying of the digital electronics course.
I read “The Lost World” until I finished it late into the evening. The book was nothing like the movie! I liked the book better!
I did my stretches; practiced my guitar; wrote to my journal, posted it to the web, and called it a night.