December 10 to 16 2012

Monday 10- the weather was a bit nippy later in the evening.
I did my stretches, yoga, lifted dumbbells, core trainer, lifted weights, and punched the heavy bag.
I had to wait around the house for UPS to deliver my new Celestron 15x70 SkyMaster Binoculars. Around about 2pm UPS drove up and I ran out to the truck and got the package in my little greedy hands; wonderful! I took them out, adjusted them, and had a look-see. Not as heavy as my other larger Celestron SkyMaster 20x80, but a lot nicer holding in your hands for longer periods and not tiring your arms.
I went for my evening walk.
I went to the Neighborhood Watch meeting at the community center, where I am the treasurer. We are still getting our bylaws together and I believe we accomplished that tonight at the very end of the meeting. We had a new member get up to tell us all about chemtrails and the new world order in the allotted 5 minutes. Peggy gave a talk and handed out pamphlets on the laws concerning off road vehicles. She also told us of some off roaders burning tires out in the desert where she lives. I as treasurer gave everyone the website to where they can get NHW signs and said I wasn’t going to be the go between of getting them. I also told them about my neighbor who had past away in 2009 and how I only found out about it last week. His place got broken into and things stolen.
Linda H and I went to her house after the meeting so I could help set up her new WIFI and iTouch. We watched some Masterpiece Theater movie about English elite and their servants.
Once back home I watched episode 3 of “Voyager” to get the English elite out of my system.

Tuesday 11- a really nice day outside!
I did my stretches, yoga, lifted weights, ran a mile and a half with 1.5lbs on my wrists, core trainer, and beat on the heavy bag for 7 minutes (I usually do 5).
I got restless and called Bob Fenger to see if he was home and if I could come over; he said okay. I rode the scooter the ten miles over to his house which I had to search for on Google Maps so I wouldn’t get lost. His house is fantastic! It is kinda like walking through a maze of neatly sorted "junk" which is to be used as building materials and art projects, with rooms here and there all under construction with an artist’s wild mind and innovations that would please any steampunk fan; he has a water distillery! His two dogs and cat were very polite and wandered about the openness of the house; by openness I mean you could be walking across dirt floor to reach the kitchen from the living room. We sat and jawed for a long spell in his kinda greenhouse room where an avocado tree and other fruit producing plants grow. He also showed me his studio where a couple of pianos sit waiting for the heavy touch of his magical fingers to move a mechanical lever causing a hammer to hit a wire to produce a musical vibration. Bob fixes pianos donated to him and the he places them around towns to be played by passers by. I really enjoyed my visit!
I did some work around the house and called my brother when I got back home.
I did my stretches and went for a night run.
I am writing this in Google Docs on my Google ARM ChromeBook.

Wednesday 12- colder and overcast all day long.
I did my stretches, yoga, lifted dumbbells, ran a mile and a half with 1.5lbs on each wrist, core trainer, lifted weights, and punched the heavy bag.
I drove to my mailbox and then to Kelly’s to drop off some of her mail that came to mine. I saw her dog Stitchy who had recently got a haircut and he looks like a whole different dog. All her critters were glad to see me.
I had to stick around my house today because Kelly is having an MRI at 12pm and need to be around just in case there are any complications (like last time) she will give me a call so I can help her.
I cut a bunch of wood to use in the woodstove; looks like a cold front is moving in.

Thursday 13- cloudy with lots of rain.
I did my stretches, lifted weights, core trainer, and punched the heavy bag.
It was raining and I couldn’t go anywhere anyways because I had to wait around for FedEx to deliver my new iPod Touch.
I put on the rainjacket that Linda H gave me and washed the Cougar in the rain. I then swept and cleaned my front porch.
FedEx arrived around 2pm and I stood in the rain chatting with the delivery guy who I haven’t seen in a good many months; we got caught up with each other’s goings on.
It rained all day and night and I didn’t get to watch the Geminid Meteor Shower. I kept going outside when I heard the rain stop, only to see heavy clouds and no stars. I did this until sometime after 3am when I finally decided it was a lost cause and went to bed. But in between checking the skies I got caught up with my astronomy reading and watched the newest episode of “Elementary”; I really like this show. I’ve had my 32” TV for a month now and haven’t watched anything on it. I guess I prefer to watch stuff on my computer.

Friday 14- cloudy skies and wind.
I did my stretches, yoga, lifted weights, ran a mile and a half with 1.5lbs on my wrists, core trainer, and beat on the heavy bag for 10 minutes this time! (I usually do 5).
The new ChromeBook had two crashes since I got it. It also did a weird thing when I was writing my journal in Google Docs; the tab I was writing in just hung and I wasn’t able to recover it. Thankfully Docs does an auto save every few seconds and I only lost a few words I was writing at the time. There is still no Skype for it and I have to switch laptops to yap at Kelly. Otherwise the experience working on the ChromeBook has been just fine. Google keeps updating the OS and the last one was last night and it seems to be more responsive and not caching and reloading the tabs so much.
The winds started blowing hard just after I finished my exercises so I worked around inside house most of the day. I updated the Copper Mountain Mesa Website and sent out the Newsletter.
I went for my evening walk, but did a short walk because of the blowing wind and cold.
I watched episodes three and four of “Voyager”.
I did my stretches, lifted dumbbells, and since the wind died down I went for a night run. The sky is still cloudy with no stars.
I practiced my guitar.

Saturday 15- a nicer day than yesterday, but with a lot of wind.
I did my stretches, core trainer, lifted weights, punched the heavy bag, and ran up the hill and back carrying 5lbs in each hand.
I did some cleaning around the house and yapped with family and friends on the phone for a long spell.
Peggy Lee called to tell me our special meeting with the ORV guy will be on Monday at 6pm. Then we went on to have a long talk about everything and anything.
I went for my evening walk.
I watched episode 5 of “Voyager”.

Sunday 16- a very sunny day and my batteries got all charged up by the Sun!
I did my stretches and ran a mile and a half.
I called and yapped with family and friends that I didn’t get around to yesterday. I always try to touch base with everyone at least once every two months and I fell a little behind lately. Maybe I should try writing them letters too... just a thought.
I was almost out the door on my way to Dhamma Dena to work on their computer when Linda H called to ask if I wanted to have lunch at her house; that sounded good to me! We had lasagna with a side of steamed vegetable which was mighty yummy. She also found a nice shirt for me at the thrift store in JT that fit.
I got to Dhamma Dena around 4pm. Now that I have the Admin password I updated the firewall that kept nagging to be. The Norton antivirus came up with errors everytime I tried to open it, but the system reports that virus protection is current. I will contact the lady responsible for maintaining their computer and ask her if I can remove Norton from the system and use another program.
My doves and quail were waiting for me when I arrived home.