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WEEK 14 2020
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Saturday - A better day. They are predicting a storm at the beginning of the week, though I don't see anything on the radar yet.
I caulked around the exterior fixtures the other day, today I painted them. Really I should disassemble and check the grounds, but "winter is coming" and I want time for the caulk to do its thing.
Dave mentioned that the beaches in Ventura were full on Wednesday, while driving by on the freeway, they've finally ordered them closed. It's hard to imagine who is stupider, the people who went or the officials who didn't close them?
Friday -Windy, 30mph, but reasonably warm. I took a 2.5 mile walk before it got really windy.
Afterwards I worked in the yard, picking weeds, and made sure the trash guy for the neighbor across the street didn't make a 180 in front of the house. It sounds nutty and petty, but the sheet amount of dust and dirt in the house is phenomenal. Yes I need new windows, but it isn't happening this year.
I had to go into town to mail a letter, afterwards I thought I'd go by Home Depot and pick up some exterior fixture boxes to replace the rather dodgy ones on the house.
Home Depot was absolutely packed. It looked like a Christmas Sale or Black Friday, only a few spots out at the ends of the parking lot available. No-one is staying home.
I didn't bother trying to go in (in fact for this entire trip into town I didn't get out of the truck). I'll just caulk and paint the exterior boxes that I have before the big storm coming up and replace them later.
Coronoavirus cases rolled over a million, world wide. China has a lot to answer for, there need to be serious repercussions.
Thursday - Windy again.
Still dithering a bit about the new app language. I have been looking at Lua, but it's kind of a niche language, and some of the design decisions are weird, different just for the sake of being different as far as I can tell. Swift is Apple only, to a first approximation. There is also Unity3d, which uses C#, but I really don't have a good feel for things. Annoying.
I started the latest L. McMaster Bujold book, but unfortunately it's a weird sex oriented thing. She writes pretty good light military science fiction, but every tenth book is an essay on some weird (usually gay) sex theme... So I need to find something else.
I skimmed the latest Safehold book, but just can't get into another 800 pages of exactly the same thing as the last ten books...
I do have the latest Rivers Of London book, and something else that I can't remember right now.
Wednesday - A sunny day, but winds in the 20mph range, all day.
I didn't do a walk, though it was tempting: the winds were making my sinuses hurt even while staying indoors.
In the morning did a bunch of bills and paperwork, ran the Eufy, watered plants, various things like that.
Since I wasn't out in the yard the trash man took the opportunity to turn his truck around in a three point turn in front of the house, tearing up the dirt. What is it about people that they won't do the right thing, even when asked, even when it costs them literally nothing? I guess I'll make a point of being outside every trash day for me and the neighbor.
In the afternoon I tried to concentrate on computer work, with only limited success.
Book #13 was The Unbearable Heaviness of Remembering(Rachel #5), by Jagi Lamplighter. Entertaining.
Tuesday - Another nice day.
I did various garden related chores in the backyard, and cleaned up in the house a bit in the morning.
About a 2.5 mile walk in the late morning.
In the afternoon I worked on computer stuff mostly.
Monday - A pleasant warm day, into the 70's.
No need for the heater. The other night I burned myself, a little, relighting the heater at about 2am. I put an ice-cube on it and it didn't even raise a blister, but I suppose the moral of the story is not to mess around with fire in the dark in the am hours.
In the morning I cleaned up a bit, took a 2 mile walk, cut some anti-vermin plastic pipe for the trees, watered the hay bales, and did some weeding in the front yard.
Then it was time for lunch, and after that some time at the computer for app stuff.
Sunday - Reasonably warm.
I didn't do any shopping, I went on Tuesday and I'm pretty well stocked. S went again on Thursday and picked up a few things I'd forgotten, at some point I'll have to go by and pick them up from her.
The cats are unhappy with the food. It's the usual stuff, but Friskies occasionally makes a bad lot and it's been a struggle to get Jim and Suzy to eat it properly. Once it was so bad that Budd wouldn't eat it - which is saying a lot! OTOH I don't want to break quarantine too much...
Not much going on, otherwise. Because of the weather, windy and cool, I once again didn't walk, although it wasn't too bad. Still tired I guess.
The corona-virus pandemic continues to get worse. I think Trump has extended the length of the emergency to the end of April, which, looking at plots, is probably a bit too soon. But it's likely the best he can do without freaking people (the media) out.
