Dec. 29th, 2009

It is a cold and damp morning today.  It is 44 F at 8:30 am and it is supposed to just get colder and wetter as the day go on.  I don’t think I will take a walk this morning since it is drizzling right now.  I think it will be a good day to stay inside and laze around all day.

I went to the Doctor for my 6 month check up yesterday and everything is good.  Of course she still wants me to lose more weight (I’ve lost 14 lbs in the past year), stop drinking, eat more vegetables, eat more fruits and on and on with all the good healthy stuff that we all know we are supposed to do but a guy has got to have some fun, right?  Overall she was happy with the check up and so was I.

I have been spending a lot of time on the computer the past few days.  I bought some software that is supposed to allow me to copy VHS movies to DVDs and also copy LPs to CDs.  All well and good but it didn’t work and then when I tried to play a recorded CD, the CD drive on my computer was not recognized.  I researched the problem and it seems that the new software is causing the register to be corrupt.  I tried several things but finally I uninstalled the software and did a few more things and I got the drive to work.  I have an email in to the software company to see what they can do to help me.  At least now I am back to where I was before installing the software so no harm was done.

I got an email from Hans in Germany who saw the pictures of Gerlinde’s cactus and remembered that it was yesterday that Gerlinde passed away.  How eerie that I found the budding cactus again on the anniversary of her death.