February 09-16 2013

Saturday 09- windy and cold but not as bad as yesterday.

I did my stretches.
I called family and friends and mostly just chilled out.
I did a fresh reinstall of Windows 8 on my HP laptop to see if any programs left over from Win 7 from the first install was causing my laptop to run at high CPU percentages (Laptops are not supposed to run at 50% or more all the time). The fresh install was easy to do on Windows 8; there’s a little place you click from the menu to reset it to factory specs with the option of keeping your stuff and programs. I had already backed up my data with the first install so I went the other option of wiping everything off and starting anew, which is what I wanted. After the install and hours of updates from Microsoft my system runs just fine now. So my suggestion to any who are updating is to backup your data and do a fresh install.
I watched episode 8 of “Numb3rs”: thinks he might have put the wrong man in prison.

Sunday 10- still windy and cold!
I did my stretches.
I did a whole lot of work in the yard. There was a young couple that had bought property over 7 years ago and asked me back then to store some plywood and other building material temporally for them. I haven’t touched it for those 7 years waiting for them to get them. The tarp was rotted out that was covering it all protecting it from the elements... today I decided that 7 years was long enough and moved it all inside my shop where I’ll use it for my own purposes.
I worked on the my book and spent the whole evening getting it loaded up into the Kindle Ebook format. I finished it and will have to wait for up to 12 hours for it to publish so I’ll have to wait until tomorrow.

Monday 11- very windy and really cold!
I did my stretches, yoga, core trainer, and punched the heavybag for five minutes. Too dang cold run, and besides the wind was howling with dust and other little things that get stuck in your eyes.
Chris dropped me off a bag of groceries from the USDA food distribution. There was even a frozen chicken in the bag that I don’t know how to cook; I tried cooking it before and it tasted terrible.
I worked around inside the house where it was safe and warm.
At five-thirty I drove the little scooter to our community center for the Neighborhood Watch meeting and also stayed for the community board meeting. We discussed the diaper dumper who's been throwing adult diapers on Winters road for the past year and is dumping more of them now. We may start some kinda surveillance to nab the diaper dumper. I volunteered to write up a draft to solicit needed funds from one of the county supervisors. I didn’t get home till a little before 9pm; it was a cold and windy ride both ways.

Tuesday 12- a bit windy but a little warmer.
I did my stretches, yoga, lifted weights, ran a mile and a half with 1.5lbs around each wrists, core trainer, and punched the heavybag for 5 minutes.
I worked around the yard.
I made a big mess cooking the chicken that Chris brought over yesterday. It was still frozen and I thought I’d just take it over to Stoney’s and put it in the freezer there, but I thought to myself, “be a man and cook the darn thing up yourself”. I put it on the stove at low heat in a big pot and filled it part way with water. I got busy doing whatever outside and on the computer and forgotten about it until the smell of grease burning hit my nostrils. The pot had boiled over and most of the grease was on the stovetop. I burned my fingers twice trying to everything squared away. I then decided it was cooked enough to fry in the big skillet. I poured a bunch of vegetable oil, got it really hot, and toss a bunch of chicken parts in; I got burned again when the oil and water came popping and splattering out of the skillet. About that time Linda calls wanting to know if I wanted to go for an evening walk and asked me what all that noise in the background was. I got it all fried up before Linda arrived, but it was all oily from too much vegetable oil and some of the chicken broke apart in the skillet.
We had a nice walk of over two miles yakking all the way. Linda brought over more agave and cactus for me to plant.
After she left, I went back into my kitchen to see the mess I made; grease on the floor, on the stove, all over. I cleaned up a bit and sat down to eat my chicken that I spent so much energy to prepare; it tasted horrible with way too much oil dripping off of it. I will never attempt to cook a chicken again; I’d rather marry a woman and have her cook it up than go through this mess again... the poor chicken.
I watched season 5 episode 14 of “Castle: Really Star Struck”; a young woman from a reality show is found on a bus bench with a knife sticking in her.

Wednesday 13- alot nicer outside today.
I did my stretches.
I began cleaning the chicken mess I made yesterday. When I removed the top to the stove where all the tubes and stuff run, I found a half inch of chicken grease lying on the bottom that had boiled off the pot and flowed over inside the stove. More mess than I thought and I couldn’t believe all that came from one chicken. It took me a long time to get everything degreased and chicken free...

Thursday 14- very nice outside.
I did my stretches, yoga, lifted weights, ran the hill carrying 5 lbs in each hand, core trainer, and punched the heavybag for 5 minutes.
I rode the scooter to my mailbox on Border Ave.
I did my studies; a lesson in Beginning Latin book, and another in “1100 words you need to know workbook”, and I drew something: a young woman’s face.
I did my stretches, lifted 10lb dumbbells and went for my evening walk with my backpack listening to an astronomy lecture on black holes.
I studied “Molecular and Cell Biology for Dummies”: oxidized vs reduced...are called redox reactions.
I finished the chapter on Flies in the book “The Practical Entomologist”.
I did my stretches, lifted 20lb dumbbells, and went for a night run.
I watched an episode of “Elementary: Details”: a detective on the force is being blackmailed.
I was online when a meteorite hit Russia! Russians were posting it on FaceBook and YouTube!

Friday 15- a mighty nice day with temps into the low 70!
I watched near Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 on NASA TV.
I lifted weights, core trainer, and punched the heavybag for two minutes.
I worked in the yard and watered the plants.
I went for my evening walk with my backpack listening to an astronomy lecture on the expansion of the universe.
I watched season 2 episode 20 of “Voyager: Tuvix”; Nilix and Tuvoc become one person when they are transported together from a planet.

Saturday 16- a bit cloudy today but the Sun made an appearance later in the afternoon.
I did my stretches.
Sherry dropped by to jaw for a spell getting up to date on our friends doings.
I called Family and Friends here and there throughout the day.
I worked the yard planting more agave and cactus that Linda H. brought over last Tuesday.
Linda H. called asking if I wanted to go to the store with her and I said YES! I picked up the stuff I need that would have been awkward to carry on the motorbikes. I bought some lemon cookies from the Girl Scouts outside the supermarket; they were setup to take credit cards from a card scanner hooked up to an iPhone which I thought was very clever. After I ran around the store grabbing what I needed, I was standing in line to checkout when the cashier asked if I wanted to donate to the Heart Fund. I said yeah I’ll donate a dollar. Now I get preoccupied when I shop and hadn’t noticed earlier but when customers donate all the cashiers and box-people have these rattles and every time someone donates they all rattle them very loud. To say the least I was mortified by being the center of attention.  
Linda dropped me safely back home and I put all my groceries away. I then decided to do a fresh install Win7 on my Dell Mini 9 that is running Win XP. I spent the rest of the night messing installing that and MS Office 7 (mostly waiting for stuff to load or update)... it took my mind off them rattlers :)

***** Stuff I Wrote *****
I have been in love. I have been hurt by love. I've shied away for many years.
I wear the scars upon my somnolent brow for all of you to see.
I have been abandoned, I've been wronged, and I've also abandoned and wronged those who loved me. But I am wiser now and pray my fate to fall in love again.

I don't know about running my life like Bank of America...but Love is unbounded and infinite. You are welcome to withdraw all you can take. Those who take advantage of that love in ways that are deceitful and deceptive can go take a hike and need not visit upon my bank again :)