October 15 to 20 2012

Monday 15- a bit hotter than yesterday.

I did my stretches, core trainer, lifted weights, punched the heavy bag, and ran a mile and a half.

Chris Jonas came by with my groceries from the USDA food distribution. He said that over 90 folks showed up; many more than usual. I asked him about the council meeting and he said it was quite the fiasco with words being traded between the Garden Committee and about everyone else; now I am glad I didn’t go.

I worked on the batteries. Having charged the two failing ones separately they now hold a charge and I put them back in parallel with the other two. I’ll see how they do tonight and if they continue to hold a charge.

I finally decided to paint the carport roof, but didn’t have any paint rollers. I went to WalMart to buy some, picked up some fried chicken at Staters, and stopped in at Home Depot to get a longer paint handle stick thingy so I can stand up while painting.

I then got home and painted the roof I needed to do.

I went on my evening walk with my backpack.

I watched episode 2 of “Castle”.

I went for a night run and when I got back did some stargazing for a spell. I’m not too familiar with the autumn sky constellations so I got out the star chart and tracked down Aquarius, Pisces, and Capricornus. These have faint stars and I was able to find them with the help of the Great Square of Pegasus and the bright lonely star Fomalhaut.

I practiced my guitar for a spell.

Tuesday 16- about as warm as it was yesterday.

I did my stretches, yoga, ran one and a half miles, and lifted dumbbells.

I went over to Stoney’s to do my laundry and while I was there I did a week’s worth of “1100 words you need to know workbook” lessons.

I changed the flat tire on the Gross Polluter. I was going to just take off the flat and put a plug in it, but my little DC air compressor wouldn’t work and I’ll have to tear it apart later. So I just put the spare tire on and will use the flat tire for a spare once I get it plugged.

I went for my evening walk with my backpack.

I’m still spending a lot of time on FaceBook and need to cut down on it again especially now that it is close to elections. I get a lot of inspiration from some posts that I use to create my own little sayings; some of what I write even makes sense once in a while. I like when I am focus and writing because I feel unbounded and anything is possible; which it is- I have to keep reminding myself of that fact.

I watched episode 2 of “Fringe”.

My batteries seem to be holding up okay and are keeping a charge so I can use my computer into the night. I really need this for my writings.

I went for a night run.

I practiced my guitar.

Wednesday 17- temps into the 100s!

I did my stretches, (3X: core trainer, lifted weights, punched the heavy bag), and ran a mile and a half.

I went for an evening walk with my backpack.

I watched episode 3 of “Fringe”.

I went for a night run and stargazed for a short spell.

Thursday 18- a little cooler but not by much.

I did my stretches, lifted dumbbells, yoga, core trainer, lifted weights, punched the heavy bag, and ran a mile and a half.

A guy who is friends with Kath called asking for my help with his computer; he can’t watch videos. His name is John and I told him to come on by and I’ll give it a look-see. He is a writer and in doing his research leaves many tabs open on different browsers which takes up most of his 4Gigs of RAM. So this is why the videos don’t play because there is not much RAM left. We ordered him 8Gigs from Crucial and I’ll put them in once he gets them delivered.

I went for an evening walk with my backpack.

I watched episode 8 of “Warehouse 13”.

I went for a night run.

Friday 19- a little cooler today.

I did my stretches, ran a mile and a half, (3X: core trainer, lifted weights, punched the heavy bag), and ran up the hill and back carrying 5lbs in each hand. This all took about two hours to do.

I updated the Copper Mountain Mesa Website and sent out the Newsletter.

I went for my evening walk with my backpack.

I watched season 2 episode 1 of “Sherlock Holms” a modern day Sherlock that I really like.

I did my stretches and went for a night run.

I practiced my guitar.

Saturday 20- weather about the same as yesterday except a little cooler at night.

I did my stretches, yoga, ran a mile and a half, lifted dumbbells, core trainer, lifted weights, and punched the heavy bag.

I messed around the house fixing things here and there.

I went for my evening walk with backpack.

I did some online webwork.

I did my stretches and went for a night run.

This is what I posted about my viewing the Orionid Meteor Shower on FaceBook from 10pm Saturday until I came into the house before 2am Sunday:

The Moon should set in about an hour from now. At that time I will go outside to watch for meteors from the Orionid meteor shower. I will be checking in on FGTM from time to time to see if anyone else is up tonight doing a little stargazing and meteor watching :)  I think I'll be going in ten more minutes and watch the Moon set behind the mountains to the west through my binoculars. I love doing that, watching the trees on the mountain tops as the Moon slides on down from behind!

 I'm sitting outside, not too cold... Orion came up as the Moon set about 11pm. Beautiful skies out tonight

 I can see Jupiter about 30 degrees above the horizon. The Milky Way is brilliant shining high overhead!

Just saw my first meteor right where it was suppose to come from.

 I saw a few more in the last 15 minutes...

 I used to sit out here with my Fat Cat to watch meteor showers; I sure miss that cat! He'd sit in my lap and just doze away. I had a laser pointer he used to chase all over the place

I'm getting a meteor about every 5 to 10 minutes. It should get better as the hours grow near sunrise

 A very cold wind came up and I'm headed inside... saw about 5 or 6 more meteors. So lovely and dark the sky was tonight!