Monday 26

Monday 26- I did my stretches, ran two miles, and lifted weights.
Today’s Weather was: Temps of around 56 and 86 degrees, light breeze, humidity around 16 percent, clear skies. It was a very nice day outside!
According to the National Weather Service: “Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 85. Breezy, with a calm wind becoming southwest between 26 and 29 mph. Winds could gust as high as 44 mph. Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 55. Breezy, with a west southwest wind 25 to 28 mph decreasing to between 10 and 13 mph. Winds could gust as high as 41 mph.”
Another lazy day for me, I just didn’t feel like doing much of anything so I just spent the time messing with my old TRS Model 100. The M100 is one of the first laptops made way back in 1983. I downloaded some user manuals for it that I found online and spent much time going over those and getting reacquainted with the M100. Back in the day I used to program it in Basic and store them on cassette tape; it’s a very old machine!
I went for my evening walk and listened to Astro 10: General Astronomy: In the Belly of the Beast.
I read aloud from the textbooks: “Astronomy Today" Saturn’s interior and magnetosphere; “The Cell: a Molecular Approach” review of chapter 5.
I’ve been watching this dove egg that’s been abandoned in a nest just outside my door since yesterday seeing if the mother dove would come back. She hasn’t, so I brought the egg inside tonight and put it under an electric blanket. We’ll have to see if it survives and hatches; I don’t know what I’ll do if it does. Maybe something on dove parenting could be found online.
I read a few chapters of “Knight of the Word”. Nest is being chased by this demon that works at the women’s shelter where Ross works. An investigative reported has been given anomalous letters of swindling going on at the shelter that implicates Ross (but we know he is being framed). And as I put the book down before writing this and getting ready to call it a night, the women’s shelter has burnt down to the ground.
I did my stretches, practiced my guitar, wrote to my journal, posted it to the web, and called it a night.

Tuesday 27

Tuesday 27- I did my stretches.
Today’s Weather was: Temps of around 55 and 84 degrees, WSW winds 12-24 MPH, humidity around 16 percent, hazy skies.
According to the National Weather Service: “Wednesday: Areas of blowing dust after 11am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 74. Windy, with a west southwest wind 20 to 23 mph increasing to between 29 and 32 mph. Winds could gust as high as 45 mph. Wednesday Night: Areas of blowing dust before 11pm. Mostly clear, with a low around 47. Windy, with a west northwest wind 30 to 33 mph decreasing to between 17 and 20 mph. Winds could gust as high as 46 mph.”
I spent morning working on another TRS Model 100 I have that has a bad keyboard. I soldered wires bypassing the breaks in the board. Now it works but when I press the space key it acts as a backspace key. I have more work to do on it I guess.
I went over to Stoney’s to do my laundry and listened to Astro 10: General Astronomy: Cosmology and the Dark Night Sky.
I read aloud from the textbooks: “Astronomy Today" Saturn’s rings; “The Cell: a Molecular Approach” started chapter 6: RNA Synthesis and Processing.
I read and finished “Knight of the Word”. Ross has a dream (his dreams are magical and tell of a future that he can change) that he kills the head of the women’s shelter and Nest. Nest is trying to find out who the demon is that works at the shelter and attacked her. She finds that the demon is Ross’s girlfriend and goes to warn Ross who is under the demon’s spell. The investigative reporter finds out that the signatures on the embezzled checks were forged and were those of Ross’s girlfriend. Ross doesn’t know all this and goes to confront the head of the women’s center at a party. Ross’s girlfriend turns herself into the head of the women’s center (demons can do this) and meets Ross at the party and says that he (the head) did all these bad things to bring chaos to the homeless, and then throws Ross on the floor after slashing him, telling Ross he is a useless piece of garbage, warns Ross that he will kill him if he sees him again, and then leaves. It takes Ross sometime to recover and with the help of his walking stick that holds his magic. Nest arrives just in time to save the day as Ross sees the real head of the women’s shelter and is about to kill him. She tells him what she found out about his girlfriend and they depart to Ross’s apartment where he confronts his girlfriend who turns into a demon and jumps through the window to escape. But Nest is there waiting and turns into a wolf and attacks the demon giving Ross time to get outside to help. Ross uses his magical walking stick and kills the demon. The End!
I did my stretches, practiced my guitar, wrote my column for the newspaper, wrote to my journal, posted it to the web, and called it a night.