December 23 to 26 2012

Sunday 23- another fine day!
My day to rest up; I did my stretches.
I drove my scooter to both mailboxes; an eighteen mile trip there and back.
I called a few folks and a few called me.
I did my studies; a lesson in Beginning Latin book, and another in “1100 words you need to know workbook”, and I drew something: me on my scooter riding to my mailbox.

Monday 24- getting a little overcast and cold.
I did my stretches, yoga, ran three miles with 1.5lbs around each wrists, core trainer, and punched the heavybag for ten minutes.
I did my studies; a lesson in Beginning Latin book, and another in “1100 words you need to know workbook”, and I drew something: Santa in his sleigh with his reindeer.
I called a few family and friends most of the day. Jimmy called telling me he and his family are coming out to the desert on Thursday and for me to drop by; I will :)
I did my stretches, lifted 10lb dumbbells and went for my evening walk with my backpack.
I studied and finished chapter 4 “Molecular and Cell Biology for Dummies”
I did my stretches, lifted 20lb dumbbells, and went for a night run.

Tuesday 25- it was so overcast that you could hardly make out the Sun as it tried to shine through the thick layers of moisture settling over our area; didn’t look good for the Conjunction tonight.
I did my stretches. Because I got up late and had to get ready for a party at Piper Cort’s, I didn’t have time to do any exercises.
My long time friend Larry Carlock called to wish me a Merry Christmas, which I thought was mighty nice.
I finally got all my music equipment; two guitars, mic and stand, and an amplifier  into the Cougar and set off for Piper’s house around 2pm.
I walked into the house where Joey was tending a roaring fire going in the fireplace, Michael Bays and Robert Fenger were seated at the dining room table, and Piper was ardently working at cooking our Christmas dinner. Joey and I took turns strumming his guitar he had laying about on the sofa. Piper called out, “Dinners Ready, Help Yourselves”, and we all got plates and filled them up with roast beef, mashed potatoes, candied yams, and many other fine fare. We all got in discussions of this and that and conspiracy theories galore; which was fine with me because I love to listen to others view besides my own. I kept going outside to check on the Moon and Jupiter everytime Robert went out for a smoke, but it was ever so cloudy we could only get glimpses of them. We all traded gifts; I took pictures of Piper opening presents from her daughters. We had coffee and sat around jawing for a long spell until we all decided it was time to head on home after such a wonderful meal.
I got home around eight and was able to finally take a picture of the Conjunction!
I watched episode 10 of “Voyager”.





Tuesday 26- cold, cloudy, and breezy!
I did my stretches, yoga, ran three miles with 1.5lbs around each wrists, core trainer, and punched the heavybag for ten minutes.
I did my studies; a lesson in Beginning Latin book, and another in “1100 words you need to know workbook”, and I drew something: Boats sailing.
I did my stretches, lifted 10lb dumbbells and went for my evening walk with my backpack.
I practiced my guitar.
I did my stretches, lifted 20lb dumbbells, and went for a night run.
I began studying chapter 5 of “Molecular and Cell Biology for Dummies”