September, and leading up to it.
9/6/2010 8 (2 days ago) - The cookout went well last night. Earlier I went swimming and was issued my new Gateway card which cheered me. The weekend has been cool and clear and relaxed. On Friday we went to the gallery hop after eating at the Mello Mushroom. Did I say I started my DNN account with 3essentials? Going smoothly. Plan to create a module for this blog. Looking ahead this week to worries: band practice, undetermined visit from Kathy, Tony Bennett show, pool gig on Saturday afternoon, on call this week.
9/3/2010 1 (5 days ago) - The Convenient Appliance repairman arrived yesterday and pulled out a literally char-coaled controller board. Other than that, the month has rolled in fairly relaxed. Band practice Wednesday and last night I walked and watched Kick Ass which turned out to be quite funny. I will need to get the house cleaned up for the cookout on Sunday.
8/31/2010 (8 days ago) - The oven shorted out yesterday evening stinking up the house with electrical smoke and the incident was quite upsetting. I commiserated about it, of course, but was able to sleep okay. Today, I called Bobby Teague and fortunately got Chris. The service people are scheduled to come on Thursday. Since it unsettled both Katie and me, I skipped plans to go swim but walked laps instead. Perhaps I can do the swimming today.
8/30/2010 (9 days ago) - Seemed to have a bit of a queasy stomach for most of the weekend and this morning. It was cool on Saturday, but I had an unsuccessful time with jogging. Saturday we had the Lockland Park ice cream social and followed up hanging out with Steve and some of the regulars at his house. It was nice but again, my stomach was a little off. Stewart gave me some fall plants at breakfast on Saturday so I planted them and fertilized them yesterday. Also yesterday, I rode my bike around the lake and started from home.
8/27/2010 (12 days ago) - It's been a fairly active week: Tuesday, dinner and a Netflix movie with Carol, Wednesday, band practice and last night I went to Aperture to see The Girl Who Played With Fire and afterward went to the Mellow Mushroom where I ran into both Nick and Matt. I actually walked to the movie and made it there in 15 minutes at a light pace. But that's the only exercise since Monday. The weekend looks to be cooler and conducive to a jog and other activity. Working from home this morning.
8/24/2010 (15 days ago) - Yesterday's run almost made it twice around. I just walked up the block at the Y on the last lap. It was also not as hot and humid. Jeremy called unexpectedly at my 722 number earlier in the afternoon. We talked about getting together to get his website rolling. I worked on it a bit last night from a clone of JR's. I found myself a little tired this morning. It looks like rain, but the steady type without storming. I also checked up in the attic last night and discovered that the upper vents are accessible and it did not actually look like squirrels could be invading. But the good news is that I can possible paint them from the inside and secure them if necessary from squirrel invasion.
8/22/2010 (17 days ago) - Although it's still the hot and humid part of summer and any 5K races are about two months away, my third time out for a run was a little disappointing as I didn't even feel like once around the park.
However I also mowed and did some yard work. Band practice was good and the group diligently worked on my Lesley Gore suggestion. Our September gig at the hospital is not going to happen, Frankly, that would make me a little stressed anyway.
Meeting up with Nick Friday evening only amounted to going to Foothills, but that was enough for me.
8/20/2010 (19 days ago) - My return to jogging hasn't been too bad. Second time out yesterday evening with two laps. The watch indicated a better improvement than it felt. My exercise regimen was met this week. The clarkwork.org redirect worked for a short time but now is failing. I'm tired of working with web.com so I'll just wait and use it when I sign up for a DNN host. I re-pointed creative transitions to eventorama. Nick called back yesterday and we plan to link up tonight.
8/17/2010 (22 days ago) - Today was filled with programming and it was fairly enjoyable. Yesterday evening I found myself trying out jogging again. It was not too bad--still quite hot and humid so we'll see how I prevail. I called web.com this morning and they seemed to have finally fixed the clarkwork.org pointing, though it still fails tonight from home. Hoping it has just not finished populating the internet.
8/14/2010 (25 days ago) - Today was a pretty relaxed Saturday. I had no trouble sleeping a little later than usual. Today was cooler but the humidity was still high and activity was still draining. However I walked three laps around the park and noticed my plantar fascitis was more unnoticeable that usual--knock on wood. Afterwards I managed to get the tiller started so removed my tomato and squash garden and re-tilled the soil.
8/12/2010 (27 days ago) - Work was both enjoyable and a little stressful. I was on call, I was a little worried about the shake-up Jeff had in the works, but at the same time, my tasks were challenging. Other positively exciting things accomplished was installing my new water filter in the refrigerator and moving the DNS for clarkwork.org.
8/11/2010 (28 days ago) - Swam two days in a row Sunday and Monday. Unremarkable weekend except that Carol's sisters were in town. Helped JR with his email and web stuff yesterday and tonight I will have band practice. The message on the refrigerator water dispenser finally changed to Replace filter this morning! Oh well, simple pleasures.
8/5/2010 (34 days ago) - Work has not been stressful but not too noteable. Last night I went over to Matt and Camille's and mainly jammed with Matt. It was hot and humid last night and today. It stormed this afternoon and might have cooled things off. I paid up most of JR's fees for the somewhat unintentional work and it was kind of expensive given most of the stuff wasn't really even wanted. But what the hey. Live a little, learn a little.
8/2/2010 (37 days ago) - This weekend was mostly wet and it's gotten the month off to a cool start. I launched JR's website, GoJustRight, and he has put up the doors in the back and other painting work.
I faxed my notice to the fitness center to stop my membership figuring that will save $250 a year and perhaps justify a DNN host for me. At about 7 I went to the Y and was surprized to find the lap pool closed, apparently for some maintenace. I thought about doing the eliptical, but it didn't feel right in a bathing suit. I hope I can swim tomorrow. Instead I took an unproductive shopping trip going all the way out to Hanes Mall Blvd and only scored a bottle of CLR from Lowe's. Oh well.