Saturday 24 and Monday 25

Saturday 24 and Monday 25- did my stretches.
Today’s Weather was: Temps of around 54 to 74 degrees, winds out of the NW at 17 to 25 with gusts up to 55 MPH, humidity around 45 percent, mostly clear skies.
According to the National Weather Service: “Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 71. North northwest wind between 9 and 14 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 47. Northwest wind between 7 and 9 mph.”
Sunday- I called Family and Friends and messed around the house. I invited Kelly over for pancake Sunday dinner and she arrived at 5pm. After dinner she needed to go down to Joshua Tree to get some cigarettes (she smokes but it don’t bother me) so we drove down and got some coffee too. I don’t usually drink coffee and only on special occasions at that; I get very talkative. Kelly is very talkative anyways and we sat outside under the Moon in my backyard gazing at the stars and yapping about this and that and other things of great importance until 3am in the morning. It’s nice having a woman in my life again as a friend who can just hang out together with me and jaw about stuff. Most woman folk I know around here aren’t interested in me or the stuff I’m into, and wouldn’t even consider sitting under the Moon until the wee hours of the night and just have an intelligent discussion; Kelly is a rare find.
Monday- I woke up late in the afternoon. The wind was gusting around 50 MPH so I couldn’t go for my run. Kelly called telling me her house is shaking apart because of the wind and asked if this high of wind was normal around here. I told her that her house has been standing for over forty some years and will probably still be standing after this wind is gone. She called me back later wanting to get some barbecued chicken but the coupon is out of date for the twelve piece bucket. So she called KFC to see if they had any specials but the employee didn’t know but said they only serve barbecued chicken during the summer months. I told Kelly we could get fried chicken at Staters and she said that we could also buy barbecue sauce there and mix it in a bowl with the chicken. She picked me up and I noticed a cooking pot with a wooden ladle in the backseat. Instead, we ended up eating at a Chinese takeout place in the shopping center of Stater Bros in Twentynine Palms. We had stopped by this place a few nights ago, but later in the night, and the food was old and sparse. This time was earlier and there was a line of people, mostly Marines, and the food was fresh and plentiful. They were serving very big portions at a reasonable price; we got stuffed. I believe that Kelly is a bad influence on me. We went back over to my house where we sat again under the Moon yakking away. This night we agreed that she would go home early so we both could get a good night’s sleep; she left at midnight.
I did my stretches, practiced my guitar, wrote to my journal, posted it to the web, and called it a night.

Tuesday 26

Tuesday 26- did my stretches and yoga, ran a mile, and lifted weights.
Today’s Weather was: Temps of around 51 to 71 degrees, winds out of the NW at 6 to 14 with gusts up to 23 MPH, humidity around 35 percent, clear skies.
According to the National Weather Service: “Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 69. North northwest wind between 6 and 13 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph. Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 46. North wind around 7 mph.”
I wrote my column for the Hi-Desert Star newspaper and sent it in.
Last week I bought a 17” HP laptop with Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, Intel Core i3-370M Dual Core processor (2.40GHz, 3MB L3 Cache), 4GB DDR3 System Memory (1 Dimm), 512MB ATI Mobility Radeon, HD 5470 switchable graphics [HDMI, VGA], with a 320Gig hard drive; it was delivered today by FedEx. I felt I got a good deal on it and will use it mostly for watching videos and stuff. I spent most of the day removing garbage software and installing updates to it.
I went for my evening walk. The wind was blowing a bit when I went so I made it a short walk; besides I wanted to get back to my new laptop.
I must have talked to Kelly for over an hour today; she sure likes to yap a lot and I don’t mind.
I wanted to try a movie out on the 17” screen so I put in “U571” (2000) one of my favorite flicks. Sure beats watching it on the little Netbook screens! But I still like my little Netbook and went back to it when I wrote my journal tonight.
I did my stretches, practiced my guitar, wrote to my journal, posted it to the web, and called it a night.