Sunday 01- 71/50 sunny with scattered clouds.
I did my stretches, lifted weights, yoga, took Cassie for a mile run, core trainer, and punched the heavybag for three minutes.
I finished work on the Sony laptop installing Win 8.1 and Microsoft Office 2007.
I did my stretches, lifted 10lb dumbbells and went for my evening walk with Cassie and listened to lecture “Neutron stars and Black Holes 1” from Astro 10P.
I finished reading chapter 4 of “A Short History of Western Civilization”: The origins and development of the Greek city-state polity.
I did my stretches, lifted 20lb dumbbells, and Cassie and I went for a night run.
Monday 02- 75/51 nice and sunny
I did my stretches, lifted weights, yoga, took Cassie for a two mile run, core trainer, and punched the heavybag for three minutes.
Had to deal with a few govt health care bureaucracies over the phone to figure a few things out.
I did my studies; a lesson in “1100 words you need to know workbook”, and I drew something: Cassie.
I did my stretches, lifted 10lb dumbbells and went for my evening walk with Cassie and listened to lecture “The Galaxy” from Astro 10P.
I did my stretches, lifted 20lb dumbbells, and we went for a night run.
I started reading chapter five of “A Short History of Western Civilization”: War, politics, and the failure of Greek city-state policy.
I started reading chapter 4 of “Physical Geology”: Plate Tectonics.
I started reading a chapter 2 of “The Cell: a Molecular Approach”: The chemistry of the cell..
I continued reading chapter 1 in “Astronomy Today; Fifth Edition”: The measurement of distance.
Tuesday 03- 74/47 sunny!
I did my stretches and then we went to Sherry’s house with Cassie.
Wednesday 04- 78/55 clear skies.
A day of rest.
Worked on the laptop doing a refresh and reinstalling Win8.1. I suspect that the drive is going bad. I did a backup of all my files to an external drive and to Google Drive I the ‘cloud’ before I began.
Thursday 05- 75/49 clear skies.
I did my stretches, lifted weights, yoga, took Cassie for a mile run, core trainer, and punched the heavybag for three minutes.
I did my studies; a lesson in “1100 words you need to know workbook”, and I drew something:
My laptop drive is still giving me problems so I ordered a Samsung 850 EVO 250GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD to replace the defective drive.
I did my stretches, lifted 10lb dumbbells and went for my evening walk with Cassie and listened to lecture “The Galaxy” from Astro 10P.
Kelly called asking me to drop by to help her with something.
Friday 06- 79/54 slight clouds.
I did my stretches and took Cassie for a walk.
I then went over to Bonnie and Larry’s house for lunch/dinner and watched a movie called “Never Was” (2005) nice movie.
My friend Roger dropped by and he gave me a bunch cactus to plant.
The ISS passed over our area at 5:33pm but the clouds came in at sunset and by the time it flew past the skies were overcast.
Saturday 07- 76/54 some evening clouds.
I did my stretches and worked in my cactus garden.
Sunday 08- 76/50
I did my stretches, lifted weights, yoga, took Cassie for a mile run, core trainer, and punched the heavybag for three minutes.
I worked in my cactus garden again.
I did my stretches, lifted 10lb dumbbells and went for my evening walk with Cassie
I did my stretches, lifted 20lb dumbbells, and we went for a night run.
Monday 09- 78/52 degrees.
I did my stretches, lifted weights, yoga, took Cassie for a mile run, core trainer, and punched the heavybag for three minutes.
FedEx arrived with my new SSD drive and I used the included DVD to clone the drive but kept getting errors from the source drive; this took many tries and many hours and I had to run it overnight for one last try, but for all my efforts I couldn’t clone the drive.
I did my stretches, lifted 10lb dumbbells and went for my evening walk with Cassie.
I did my stretches, lifted 20lb dumbbells, and we went for a night run.
Tuesday 10- 75/53
I did my stretches, yoga, took Cassie for a walk.
I spent the rest of the day working on my laptop and finally found a way to load Win8.1 on to the new SSD drive; it is unbelievably fast now.
I ordered Greyhound tickets to take me to see my sister Donna and her Family in Tampa Florida. I will be leaving from Tucson and my sister Paula will watch Cassie while I am gone.
Wednesday 11- 74/52
I did my stretches, yoga, took Cassie for a walk.
My good friends Tom and Kula came for a visit and we sat in Carrolls restaurant in Yucca Valley yapping for four hours.
I got back home and packed my car for tomorrow’s drive to Tucson.
Thursday 12- 75/54
I finished packing and me and Cassie left for our long journey to Tucson. I made a place in the back of the car for her that would be more comfortable for both of us. We left a little after 11am and arrived in Tucson around 6:30pm.
My brother took me out to a Chinese restaurant; the food was very good and welcomed after the long drive and only eating a powerbar.
Friday 13- 77/52 degrees and had some morning rain in Tucson.
I did my stretches, yoga and took Cassie for a nice little run.
Kevin and I went to the Greyhound bus terminal and picked up my tickets for the trip to Tampa on the 23rd.
We then went to WalMart to find a better backpack for my trip to Tampa.
Getting back to the resort we went to the weight room and worked out and then I swam 10 laps in the pool. We sat in the Jacuzzi for a spell.
Saturday 14- 81/55 degrees in Tucson.
I did my stretches, yoga and took Cassie for a nice two mile run down to the bridge and back.
Sunday 15- 80/51.
I did my stretches and did my yoga. Kevin and I took Cassie for a walk
Later that evening Kevin and I visited the weight room.
Monday 16- 72/50
I did my stretches, yoga and took Cassie for a mile run.
I worked on cutting out all the bad ceiling and searching for my sunglasses
I swam five laps in the pool, sat in the Jacuzzi and rode my bike twice around the resort.
Tuesday 17- 72/46
I did my stretches, yoga and took Cassie for a nice mile run. I am getting my routine down for Tucson.
I worked on repairing the roof with this rubberized sealant and roof repair tape most of the day. I still have the eastside to finish but it isn’t as bad as the side I just did.
Kevin and I went to the Jacuzzi and it felt good to soak all the roofing debris off my body.
Wednesday 18- 78/49
I did my stretches, yoga and took Cassie for a nice mile run.
I finished the eastside of the roof repair; I just hope I did enough of a good job that it wont leak anymore.
Thursday 19- 79/45 degrees in Tucson.
I did my stretches, yoga and took Cassie for a mile run.
Kevin and I went shopping to get me better shoes for the trip to Tampa.
Dang second time this week Cassie got out the door and ran from me; she has this thing for an old hound dog around the corner and I alway catch her there.
Friday 20- 75/53 degrees.
I did my stretches and called my sister Lynn to wish her a happy birthday; we chatted for over an hour.
Kevin and I took Cassie for a morning and then later a night walk.
We went to the store to buy some stuff for my trip to Tampa; I remember someone telling me about carrying baby wipes on long bus trips so I got some of those.
Kevin barbecued a pound of salmon and I cooked up some rice for dinner; we both are trying to eat better.
Saturday 21- 78/55
I did my stretches and yoga and took Cassie for a mile run. Later in the day I swam ten laps of the pool, lifted weights, rode my bike two times around the resort and sat in the Jacuzzi for a spell.
Me and Kevin went to have dinner at Mar and Paula’s house and Audrey also came over and we yammered on for a long spell about this and that and other important stuff; I had a mighty wonderful time there with my Family.
Sunday 22- 76/53
I did my stretches and took Cassie for a long walk. Then later that evening took Cassie over to Paula and Mark’s house where she will stay until I come back from Tampa where I’ll be visiting my sister Donna and her Family; this will be the first time she hasn’t sleep my bed since she was a puppy and I will miss her dearly.
I packed for my trip to Tampa Florida tomorrow.
Monday 23- 69/52
I did my stretches and finished packing and we drove to the bus station where I found that my bus was canceled because of the ice storm on Interstate 10 past El Paso. I had to call and have Kevin come back to pick me up. I have new tickets for tomorrow leaving at 11am if the weather gets better; Kevin will call the bus station early in the morning to find out.
Then I had to change hotel reservations at Days Inn and spent an hour on hold and finally had them cancel for those days, but when I went to make new reservations they put me on hold again, so I bypassed them and made my reservations online through Hotels.com in less than 15 minutes.
Tuesday 24- 61/40 degrees Tucson.
On my way to Tampa Florida!
I will post the trip to Tampa Florida and back separately in my journal.
