Memorial Day 2006

Memorial Day celebrates on 29 May this year, the last Monday in May. I've taken two Fridays off in a row to catch up with my work around the house, and I've still much to do. I spent two hours yesterday finishing covering the deck from last week. Finally, I've finished it for the year. Last weekend I bought my first mower, and it did a nice job on the lawns. There's still some maintenance left to do: weeds to whack, bushes to trim, and branches to clip along the roof. I am trying to finish cleaning my bedroom and the basement for the first time since Christmas.

I made some progress this weekend. I decided upon gambling on Rosetta Stone's Latin and Polish, Gleim's Enrolled Agent preparation, and Nightingale-Conant's Subliminial Programming. I finished Marshall Sylver's book, "Passion, Power, and Profit"
This weekend I had some things done on maintenance. I went on the roof for the first time in years to clip branches. I almost finished cleaning, but there are some isolated spots to finish. At this stage, I have more than enough books to throw out over the next month.

Thu 1 Jun
Yesterday morning, I blatantly mentioned Alzheimer's, memantine, and nursing homes. Everything seemed fine last night. Mom claimed to have taken Tim to a doctor, yet I still have both keys to the vehicle. I still don't know how it happened.
Overnight the power went off, tripping the supressor to Tim's new computer. Apparently it protected it moreso than the other one still there. All we didn't need was to need another new computer because the surge blew out the power pack.
It's been eight years since we had the near tornado overnight, and we're halfway to the next birthday of Matthew Shepard. I have only six months to draw my concept.
I began to listen and record Dolf De Roos' "Wealth Magnet". It looks as though I'll soon have to buy a portable disc player. Wal-Mart had only twelve cassettes among the discs.

Sun 4 Jun
Rain made it difficult to get any work done outside and the drainpipes were blocked. I finally finished cleaning the basement.However, the switch on my air conditioner broke. I will have to get it fixed before the heat comes. This weekend was rather cool.

Middle May 2006

Sun 14 May
I finished planting my Gurney seeds this afternoon. I cleaned up two bookcases downstairs. There is so much to throw out. At long last, I found my MBA photobook. I can show it at my workplace tomorrow.
Of course, the real cleanup concerns the mental mess behind the physical one. Otherwise, I have many tasks yet. I used up the last of the stain on the deck. Much of the side boards were becoming green.!

Sun 21 May
It was thirtyfour years ago this weekend when I came to Bensalem from Wilkes-Barre to go to Veterans's Stadium. I don't think I had a plan for my future back then as well. In any case, my concern was how well Tom Seaver was pitching, rather than how Richard Nixon was faring.
This weekend I met many of my objectives. I cleaned the hardest third of my bedroom, uncovering much of unfinished intentions of the past. I put two coats on the deck where it showed the most wear. All I have left is a few odds of spots I either miseed or couldn't reach.
After going to K-Mart only to find they don't sell mowers, I found what I wanted at Sears. Then we went to CompUSA and bought my brother another computer. Unfortunately, the computer did not allow the telephone lines in. Our sttempt to hook up Comcast didn't work. We must send for a technician on Wednesday to hook it up. I wonder if the lines attenuate the signal.

Mon 22 May
I had yet another dream of still being in high school and of coming in late. I fell asleep with another of the series on the History Channel about the Da Vinci Code. They were biographing Leonardo in the latter fifteenth century.
On both Saturday and Sunday, I began the day with a run around the neighborhood before 6 AM. I made it short, but I felt the benefit afterwards.

Despite the comeplete meltdown of Billy Wagner on Satuday, the Mets won the other two games at Shea against the Yankees, with David Wright's hits making the difference in one-run games. Philadelphia ran out of steam at one game out, so they're now four games out. Both the Phillies and the Braves are due at Shea over the next week.

Gleim looked silly with the review of the Enrolled Agent examination to become available on 26 May, but we're almost there already. I continue to wonder if I should take the plunge with them. It also continues with Rosetta Stone over Latin and Polish. After seeing so much undone, I am reluctant to spend more money on stuff to add to the clutter; I'd rather save the money.

Early May 2006

Sun 7 May
Seven days of May passed, and another weekend as well. I have simplified placing the screens up by not doubling them and not cleaning the windows as well -- until fall. I spend most of yesterday trying to prepare for the projects this summer.
Last weekend the mower fially gave out. The motor was steaming, so I suspect it's done. I did replace the line of the whacker, but I've yet to plant. All point to a necessity of taking off next Friday, not to mention the job fair nearby.
The past few days have been trying because I've had a tremendous amount of gas. It seems to have started in the colon and then moved up to the stomach.

Tue 9 May
Sitting in the kitchen...coffee on the boil...
So twentysix years after my first encounter with existential nausea, I am trying to find a purpose in real estate. Jean-Paul Sartre would not be happy.
As the fifteenth approaches, I face dilemmas of what to do with the eight months left until Block begins again. I can't seem to find time to do much of anything with the extra time.
Meanwhile, I am finishing up chapter 37 in Morrison and Boyd, which my course never reached in 1977, and I don't thinkg the course I audited in 1982 covered it either.
This morning I dumped the second groundhog this month from the backyard into the woods along Poquessing Creek. I left it trapped for almost a day to save a trip.

Although I haven't been in Southampton this century, I had little trouble finding the Olympia Bar and Restaurant. I'd been in it back in 1999! Right now I'm sitting in a corner seat near the front. I really shouldn't come too early. After two boring days at work, it does me well to get out

Wed 10 May
I had a delicious meal while the topic of credit scores showed up. Veal parmagian and cocoanutty vanilla ice cream for dessert added to the delights. Obviously it is a large piece of what I want to do. Again I have the feeling that I'm on the right track of what I should be doing.
This morning I was reading my first real attempt at a diary in May 1975. It was rather amusing, but unfortunate that I didn't really get around to it until 1978. Ultimately I want to finish some things I've started some three decades ago.
Politically Schrub's base is started to erode, and it looks as if the beginning of the end of this reactionary era. Perhaps the Republican Party itself will fall apart.

Thu 11 May
We had a small meeting on Tommy Hilfiger this afternoon. I really had no other choice of the other three times both today and tomoorw. Once again, I have a weekend with too much to do. I should start tonight with a large garbage bag.

Fid 12 May
Today could have gone better. It ended with my start of cleaning the basement. I still must tend to the speech and planting. The biggest disappointment easily showed at Hampton Inn, where the "job fair" was three jobs at the place.