Wednesday 14

Wednesday 14- I did my stretches, ran a mile, lifted weights, and rode my bike.
Today’s Weather was: Temps of around 49 and 72 degrees, calm winds, humidity around 21 percent, clear skies but hazy after 3pm.
According to the National Weather Service: “Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 76. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming east. Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 51. South wind 7 to 10 mph becoming west.”
Kath brought her laptop and a list of problems over the day before yesterday for a tune-up and I was working on the list when Seimi called and came by with his netbook so I could set it up on dialup. Then I had to show him how to get online. While I was at it I uninstalled Norton and installed Avast anti-virus. I also installed Firefox and told him to use that browser instead of IE.
On my way to Stoney’s I drove by my friend’s house to see if everything is okay while he’s on vacation. Once at Stoney’s I took some pictures of the rental property there and will email them to Jimmy (Stoney’s son). Roger walked up as I was leaving and we did a walkthrough on the insides; what a mess! There were windows broken, many cigarette burns on the rug, and it looked like the floor hasn’t been swept in a few years.
I went for my evening walk listening to Astro 10: General Astronomy: How Stars Shine: The Corpses of Massive Stars.
I read aloud from the textbooks: “Astronomy Today" Jupiter’s interior; “The Cell: a Molecular Approach” DNA Repair- Direct Reversal of DNA Damage.
I had to call Kath to clarify a few of the items on her list and I got back to work on her laptop for a spell.
I continued to read “Cold Harbour”. Our heroine arrives at her Aunt’s Chateau (I was calling it a mansion) and her Aunt finds out that our heroine is impersonating her twin sister, but her Aunt is fine with that. There is a nice looking German officer who is in charge of security and is sweet on her that she seems to fall for but tries to stay away from him. Then there is the one German Officer that tried to rape her and now is trying his best to find anything to discredit her and have her arrested.
I did my stretches, practiced my guitar, wrote to my journal, posted it to the web, and called it a night.

Thursday 15

Thursday 15- I did my stretches, ran two miles, and lifted weights.
Today’s Weather was: Temps of around 51 and 74 degrees, calm winds, humidity around 19 percent, hazy skies but cloudy after 4pm.
According to the National Weather Service: “Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 76. West northwest wind between 5 and 8 mph becoming calm. Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 50. West wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.”
I worked on Kath’s laptop running a virus scan at boot up, a clean and compress, and defragged the drive.
I need to start working on the patio roof that will eventually be around the whole house covering it from the harsh sun of summer, so I went to Home Depot after stopping off at the library in Joshua Tree to return a book. Once at Home Depot I picked out some six 4’ by 8’ OSB plywood, twelve 8’ 2” by 4”, a box of ribbed nails, and an assortment of brackets and lag screws to hold it all together.
When I got home, Dana drove up and I showed him the repair I did on the headlights of the Gross Polluter; he said it looked okay to him. We stood around and jawed for a shot time as these big military transports practiced touch and go at the Marine Base.
I went for my evening walk listening to Astro 10: General Astronomy: Hearts of Darkness. Now we’re getting into the part of astronomy I like; Blackholes.
I read aloud from the textbooks: “Astronomy Today" Jupiter’s moons; “The Cell: a Molecular Approach” DNA Repair- Excision Repair.
I called Kath again but this time to give her a progress report.
Joel Levy sent me some pics and docs yesterday that he wants me to make a website out of. I worked on it for a few hours, got it altogether, went to logon to his site to upload it, but his password didn’t work, dang! I called him and he checked it out and we found that it was the correct password, but I still can’t get it to work; I’ll try a different FTP program tomorrow and see if that’ll work.
I continued to read “Cold Harbour”. Our heroes back in England find out that our heroine has been setup by the British Intelligent commander to give false info about a map of the D-Day invasion she accidently saw in his office. He arranges for a German double agent to notify the Nazis that she is an agent for the British, so they will interrogate her and get the false info. Our heroes are on their way by fast boat to France to rescue her while the British Intelligent commander tries to stop them.
I did my stretches, practiced my guitar, wrote to my journal, posted it to the web, and called it a night.