April 13-19 2014

 

Graduation from Boot Camp 68

Sunday 13- nice pleasant day.

I did my stretches, lifted weights, yoga, took Cassie for a mile and a half run, core trainer, and punched the heavybag for three minutes.

I fell asleep and woke around 4pm. Cassie was asleep next to me so I guess she was tired too. We kinda kicked back the rest of the day.

I watched:

About A Boy S1 E7 – About a Poker Night

Raising Hope S1 E16 – The Cultish Personality

Once Upon a Time S2 Episode 11 – The Outsider

Once Upon a Time S2 Episode 12 – In The Name Of The Brother

Once Upon a Time S2 Episode 13 – Tiny

Monday 14- a wonderful day!

I did my stretches, lifted weights, yoga, took Cassie for a mile and a half run, core trainer, and punched the heavybag for three minutes. I listened to Astro 7B lecture 22.

I was updating my journal while listening to a lecture series from Cambridge University my brother Kevin suggested for me called “Adaptation to Climate Change” by Professor Charles F Kennel; there are six lectures each about an hour and a half length. The first is about what we can expect from and a little back history of climate change. A word he mentioned, Anthropocene: meaning the evidence and extent humans have had on Earth’s ecosystems; I found this interesting.

Tom called asking me some computer questions.

I did my stretches, lifted 10lb dumbbells and we for our evening walk while I listened to Astro 7B lecture 23.

Linda H. came by to get her mail I collected for her while she was away.

There’s going to be a Total  Lunar Eclipse tonight: Total Eclipse begins Apr 15 at 12:08 AM: Maximum Eclipse Apr 15 at 12:46 AM Moon is closest to the center of the shadow. I’ll be outside here and there with my binoculars and telescope until after 1am or so. I’ll watch a few episodes of Once Upon a Time between times I go outside:

Once Upon a Time S2 Episode 15 – The Queen is Dead

Once Upon a Time S2 Episode 16 – The Miller’s Daughter

Once Upon a Time S2 Episode 17 – Welcome to Storybrooke

I did my stretches, lifted 20lb dumbbells, and went for a night walk with Cassie at full Maximum of the Lunar Eclipse.

I practiced on my guitar for a short spell.

Tuesday 15- a high to 85 and a low of 60 degrees.

I did my stretches, lifted weights, yoga, took Cassie for a mile run, core trainer, and punched the heavybag for three minutes listening to Astro 7B (The sequence of Astro 7B are all mixed up: there are two lecture 21, 22 and 23 that are all different. So for the remaining of the lectures I’ll just say that I listened to a lecture of Astro 7B)

While I dusted my bedroom I listen to lecture 2 “Adaptation to Climate Change”; What can we expect from climate change.

I did my stretches, lifted 10lb dumbbells and we for our evening walk while I listened to  lecture 3 “Adaptation to Climate Change”; why and how we will have to adapt.  

I read a little in my astronomy book and fell asleep.

I did my stretches, lifted 20lb dumbbells, and went for a night run with Cassie; she kept barking at our shadows.

I practiced my guitar for a spell.

I started reading where I left off on chapter three of “Physical Geology: Earth Revealed 6th edition”; features of the sea floor and continental shelves and slopes.

I watched:

Person of Interest S3 E20 – Death Benefit

About A Boy S1 E8 – About a Slopmaster

Once Upon a Time S2 E19 – Lacey

Wednesday 16- clouds here and there.

I did my stretches. Cassie wasn’t feeling very good and when I woke up she wasn’t there. She had eaten something, she eats everything, that made her sick. So today I just stayed around the house doing a little cleaning here and the keeping an eye on her and keeping her comfortable. She seemed to get better by the hour. I think it may have been some old oleander leaves that fell on the inside of the fence. She got up and wanted to go for a walk about 4pm and that was the improvement I was looking for. The rest of the day she seemed a little wobbly but okay.

Thursday 17- mostly cloudy.

I did my stretches and then went outside with my rake and cleared all the oleander leaves up. I might have to get rid of it or find a way to contain the leaves.

I went to the post office in Twentynine to pick up an old IBM R52 Thinkpad laptop I bought on eBay for $89. I found it when I was looking for memory for another laptop that I wanted to run XP on. The memory would have cost about the same as the Thinkpad. Besides I have lots of money invested in hardware and programs that won’t run on Win7 or 8.1 and I’m not really liking Win 8.1... I won’t do any banking or anything like such on the Thinkpad, but to tell the truth I have never gotten any malware on any computers I have owned; I never open suspicious emails, I never click on a popup even to close it, and I don’t go to play games at websites and I keep my antivirus up to date. The Thinkpad will be good for a couple of more years and then I’ll run Linux on it; probably Linx Mint.

Friday 18- cloudy with a brisk breeze.

I did my stretches, lifted weights, yoga, took Cassie for a mile run, core trainer, and punched the heavybag for three minutes listening to Astro 7B.

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

I did my stretches, lifted 10lb dumbbells and we for our evening walk while I listened to  lecture 4 “”; why and how we will have to adapt.  

I played around with the Thinkpad getting it all tweaked up and secure for running online. I found out it had 2Gigs of RAM, Win XP Professional and MS Office Pro! I loaded up my Palm Desktop to it and synced my Palm Zire 71; can’t do that on the new Windows. I just like playing with the old stuff I guess.

I did my stretches, lifted 20lb dumbbells, and went for a night walk with Cassie.

I watched: Once Upon a Time S3 Episode 6 – Ariel

Once Upon a Time S3 Episode 5 – Good Form

I practiced my guitar.

I started editing book four of the series “Rainbow at the End of Tomorrow” called “Under Another Star”.

Boot Camp Fort Ord 1968 A41

Saturday 19- nice day.

I did my stretches and took Cassie for a walk.

I really got so engrossed into my editing, had the ringer turned off on the phone, and forgot to go visit Jimmy and Clarice who were down at their cabin for the day.

When I remembered it was around 4pm and was going to walk Cassie over to see them when  Charles and Jennifer who riding down the road with a shredded flat tire, no spare and almost out of gas stopped in front of my house. Their cell phone went dead when they stopped in front of my house and I lent them mine. They were calling Charles’s mother for help (I could hear his Ma screaming on the other end of the line and I was standing ten feet away! After they gave their Ma directions to where the pavement ends 4 miles from my house on Winters road because she didn’t want to drive on our dirt road, their car wouldn’t start. It was probably because they were parked on the hillside and the pump didn’t reach the gas in the tank. I gave them a gallon of gas and they had to push the car to level ground before it would start. Last I saw of them they were headed west and disappeared over the horizon and into the sunset.

I watched some movie or show on the computer but I can’t remember what it was.

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