July 21 to August 03 2013

 
Sunday 28- temps of 103 with a few clouds.

I did my stretches.

I worked on Margaret’s laptop. It doesn’t want to start Windows XP and just sits there doing nothing. I found out later that when I open the CD drive XP will continue to load. So XP hangs with the CD drive somehow.

 I went outside around 9:20pm  to watch the Delta Aquarid meteor shower and sat out there for over an hour or so before Moonrise at 11:44pm... I saw many meteors zipping across the sky coming from the radiant between Pegasus and the star Fomalhaut which hadn't rose above the southern horizon that I could see. There were more than the 15 or so an hour they said to expect! Also saw one big bright one, too!

 

 

Monday 29- temps around 105 degrees, no clouds and low humidity.

I did my stretches, lifted weights, yoga, ran a mile and a half with 1.5lbs around each wrists, core trainer, and punched the heavybag for five minutes.

At 11am I went over to Linda H. house to help her adjust her truck’s shell that had moved since the last time “fixed” it. 

I did my stretches, lifted 10lb dumbbells and went for my evening walk with my backpack.

I finished up on Margaret’s laptop by reloading Windows XP on it and getting all the new driver updates. It seems to work better now and doesn’t hang with the CD drive.

I did my stretches, lifted 20lb dumbbells, and went for a night run.

Monday I watched the Delta Aquarid meteor shower after my night run, but after an hour or more I only saw two of them...

I decided to go back inside the house, fetch my large binoculars, and come back out to drink in the night sky. Saturn is in Virgo right now. I was lost in time gazing deep within the Milky Way :)

I practiced playing my guitar.

 

 

Tuesday 30- temps 103 degrees with humidity.

I did my stretches and yoga.

I went over to Stoney’s to wash my clothes and check to see if the place was okay after the rain we had.

I worked on Margaret’s laptop. I had to reinstalled the whole OS because the laptop was so sluggish I couldn't get any work done on it. I also updated her BIOS from version A3 to A7. Now the laptop runs very nicely and called to have her come pick it up tomorrow. 

 

 

Wednesday 31- temps around 105 degrees.

I did my stretches.

Margaret came by to collect her laptop and was pleased that it worked so well. I told her she should get a RAM upgrade when and if she wanted; it is only running on 512Meg!

I went to WalMart tonight. I stopped to get my mail and found a Jury summons and a DMV renewal for my Cougar saying I need to get it smogged, bummer.

The new Super WalMart is way too big and spread out for me and only picked up a few items there that I would've gotten at the old one. I actually put the produce back I had in my cart and went to Stater Brothers to by food... I even got 6 cream filled donuts for half off :)

Then I drove over to ARCO to filled up with gas and clean the windshields.

I parked at Sonic Burger and ordered a burger with potato bud thingys and a Coke. 

I later ordered a chocolate cream pie shake to sip on while driving back home. 

I only ate one donut :)

Linda H. called telling me she seeing lots of meteors tonight. I went outside while yakking at her on the phone when a very bright one came out of the summer triangle. It lit up the ground which made me looked up to it! Two more bursts from this brilliant meteor as it traveled north to melt into the darkness above. It must have been from the Perseids....

 

 

Welcome to the Month of August- temps above 105 degrees.

I did my stretches and these knee bends I want to try out.

I headed out early to Twentynine Palms to drop off the Jury Summons and have it sign by my Doctor. Then I drove the Cougar down the street to a place called Smoggy’s to get it smogged; this took about two hours because there were about five cars ahead of mine. I was relieved when it passed, but the waiting was very stressful. I went back to collect the signed Jury summons. I decided to drive over to Joshua Tree and stop off at Star Pharmacy to get a refill on a prescription of mine. I finally got home around 3pm.

I went over to assist Linda H. setup her automatic watering system. We had to do a little digging her and there and got the whole system setup. We then had dinner of fried salmon and vegetables that was mighty filling.

 

 

Friday 02-  temps around 105 degrees.

I did my stretches and yoga. 

I watered my plants who’ve been waiting patiently for me to get around to it. 

I went over to Linda’s to help her finish up on a few things that we didn’t do last night. She gave me a few cactuses for me to take home and plant.

I did my stretches, lifted 10lb dumbbells and went for my evening walk with my backpack.

 

 

Saturday 03- temps around 100 degrees.

I did my stretches, lifted weights, yoga, ran a mile and a half with 1.5lbs around each wrists, core trainer, and punched the heavybag for five minutes.

I called Family and Friends. I called my childhood friend Larry Carlock to wish him a happy birthday tomorrow; I kinda figured he be busy :)

 I did my stretches, lifted 10lb dumbbells and went for my evening walk with my backpack.

I tried to catch up on my astronomy reading and fell asleep... I guess I needed a nap.

I did my stretches, lifted 20lb dumbbells, and went for a night run. After I got back I setup my two small telescopes and scanned the heavens. I wasn’t looking for meteors, but saw a few; I was actually getting my bearings to the eastern skies as they came over the horizon. I saw the Andromeda Galaxy swinging its way to the west along with Cassiopeia and Pegasus. High above to my zenith was what I was really wanted to see; Albireo.  Albireo, I believe is one of the most beautiful double star; Albireo A is a bright yellow/gold color, while B is deep bluish green. It is not known if they orbit one another. The two look like one star without the aid of a telescope and make up part of the swan in the constellation Cygnus. 

It was getting late and I decided to store all my telescope equipment in my small camper so it wouldn’t be cluttering my kitchen anymore. I’ve been spending a lot of time stargazing recently and my camper is the perfect and handy place for my scopes to be.

 

 

 

***** Stuff I Wrote this Week****** 

 

I might not be the best, I would never claim to be the brightest, but I do believe everybody is equal in their own unique ways.  I can only live within this moment, for this moment and for the next if it comes. The past only fades with time, a memory, a glimmer of hope, a promised kiss. I will not dwell on the trivial of I did or didn’t do. I can only change what will be and orchestrate the future to create some safe place to rest my weary head and play in harmony with the universe.

 

 

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