Saturday - Windy, cold, overcast and
wet. A nice day to sit indoors and watch TV and read, which is what I
did. Even Riley didn't want anything to do with the outdoors, after a
couple of short morning excursions.
It hasn't been as cold as
predicted, only in the mid 20's at the lowest, but that is still pretty
cold for the bare paws of a cat!
It's amusing watching the cats.
The kittens will often follow Riley about (to his annoyance). It's like
watching a battleship (Riley), followed by a cruiser (Jimmy), with a
destroyer bringing up the rear (Suzy). They generally know when I'm
heading up to bed, and they form a little parade of felines each time.
They don't actually hang around or go to sleep right away, I suppose
the night is a naturally active time for them, but by morning I'm
surrounded by cats on the bed.
Friday
6
December2013
Friday
- OTR.
Still down in Ventura. It was cold on Thursday night, about 42F, and I
was nice and comfortable in my usually too-hot sleeping bag. I even
turned the little electric heater on a couple of times.
Finished
up the GIS update stuff, and the report. Sent the report off to the
client, created a DVD with the data for delivery next week. Create the
invoices - we certainly used up all the time on that work order.
They really should hire us to finish up inputting their other channels, not sure if they will. It's harder than you'd think...
Waiting
for traffic to clear in the early evening I went by Fry's Computers. It
was depressingly empty - I saw a grand total of five people, for
example, in the entire computers/laptops/tablets section of the store.
And they got rid of their computer books section, completely, which is
what I really wanted to browse through. I also went by Costco, next
door, but there isn't anything I actually want, so I was just killing time.
Back
to Lancaster in the evening. Lots and lots of traffic, even at 7:30pm.
Christmas traffic? Dunno. A friend driving from Lancaster down to San
Diego said it took four hours to get there.
The cats were happy
to see me - I could tell by the way they ran over to their food bowls
and looked up! It was cold and windy, so I lit up one of the Duraflame
logs into the fireplace. The kittens had never seen a fire before...
Suzy, Jimmy, and their first fireplace experience!
Thursday 5 December2013
Thursday
- OTR.
Down to Ventura. Put in a full day working on the GIS Update stuff. I
had assigned some tasks to a co-worker, but that really wasn't working
out long distance. We made good progress though.
Wednesday 4 December2013
Wednesday
-
Working away on various things. That final report and the form for the
deliverables is giving me fits, I'll have to head down to Ventura
tomorrow to finalize things.
Book #48 was Young Sentinels (Wearing the Cape),
by Marion G. Harmon. This was another in the 'wearing the cape' series,
and pretty good. Ostensibly a YA (Young Adult) it's actually a pretty
good look at a world where suddenly some people can become Super Heroes
- or Super Villains. The heroes or "Capes" are pretty well drawn, and
their interactions with each other, the civilians, the police and the
government are well thought out and interesting.
I also read Omega Night,
a stand-alone story set in the same universe. Too short to be counted
here, but hey, I've three weeks left to reach the 50 book level....
It is supposed to be cold tonight - and it was already just above freezing by 8:00pm.
Did I mention noticing that the starfish are still hanging out on my slip finger in Oxnard. They've been around for years now.
Tuesday 3 December2013
Tuesday
- I had a number of errands to do but the day sort of turned into a Monday.
I had a registered letter to pick up at the post office, but the line was out the door.
I
went to a couple of places looking for an Arduino kit for someone's
birthday, but couldn't find it. Finally it occurred to me - RadioShack.
And they had it. For mucho $$.
Found out the B-day party was moved to the weekend. I could have ordered online.
Then I tried buying some Xmas gift cards at Target - and the transaction was rejected.
Kind of embarrassing. I don't even run a balance. I called the company,
and they said that buying several gift cards at once was suspicious.
Huh. I do that every year.
But the cashier had messed up the first time and put the wrong
verification code in, and then tried two more times, so I guess the
amount was sky high. Anyway, it took five calls total to clear that up.
Then I tried to help someone by printing something out at
home. First Firefox decided to update itself in the middle of the
process. Then the computer couldn't find the printer. Then the printer
was out of ink.
Turned around in a small room and knocked a picture off the wall.
Essentially the whole day went
like that. By 4:00 I'd pretty well run out of steam. And of course
later in the evening CrunchyRoll went down, midway through a show...
I
wanted to rake up some leaves, but there was a howling gale all day,
which meant I'd just be sending them to my neighbors. I'm not the
friendliest guy in the neighborhood, but I draw the line at actually
causing more work for other people.
It is supposed to be cold,
below freezing, so I spent some time covering sprinkler manifolds and
insulating the rear hose bib. By evening it was raining - which meant
it was warmer than you'd think.
No chance for viewing comet Lovejoy. I seem to be kind of snake bit on comets this year...
Monday 2 December 2013
Monday
- Working away on this and that. There is still a bit more work on a
report for a client, and CB is doing some updates, so we did some
to-and-fro on that.
Most
of the day Suzy was kind of under the weather, not really up to
wrestling with Jimmy. I kept her in the spare bedroom, with food, water
and kitty litter. By early evening she was nearly back to her
rambunctious self, and I was delivered from the unadulterated attention
of a hyperactive Jimmy.
Did I mention that 'autorotate' is broken on the Samsung Stellar now? If I turn it off everything is in portrait, no matter what the phone's orientation. If I turn it on everything is in landscape, no matter what the phone's orientation.
Sunday 1 December2013
Sunday
- A nice warm weekend. I did various chores around the house in the
morning.
As I mentioned last week, because of Suzy's bad
reaction a month ago, last week I asked that they only do two
of the five shots, and we headed down to Palmdale and got her the last
of the booster shots. I predict she'll be a subdued kitten tomorrow..
S also took Angel, and got her name and registration officially moved
other to reflect her (S's) mother's ownership. Sadly the foster parents
weren't at PetSmart to say goodbye.
We had an LPAC performance in the mid afternoon. Unfortunately R, who
had selected it, hadn't come back from biking by the time it started,
so it was just two of us. I went without many expectations, but it
turned out to be a high energy and very entertaining production! I had "Hear a Mariachi Band do
the Nutcracker Suite" on my bucket list, now I can scratch
that
off:-) Who knew that Tchaikovsky was from Jalisco?
Picture of
the Week Photo Notes: 25th
St. West, December, 2013.
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