January 27, 2005

January 27, 2005

C.A.R.E. Centre & Livingston, Texas

DAY 223

 

Today started cloudy and cool, and by evening it was raining. Of course, the "powers that be" would not permit our Lake Livingston State Park outing. It's either too cold, or too hot, or too windy, or too sunny, or too cloudy, or ... ! Maybe when hell freezes over !

I spent most of the morning at Arley's, working a little bit on reprogramming of his TV satellite channel selections, and mostly working on reprogramming his speaker phone with voice activated dialer. He needed some phone numbers deleted, some added, and some changed. What a piece of junk ! I guess voice recognition technology was quite poor just a few years ago.

After lunch I worked on draining and disinfecting our fresh water tank. I do this task every three months. Drain the tank, pour in a few cups of bleach, fill the tank, run the bleach solution through the cold water lines. Let it sit. Run hot water until the bleach solution fills the hot water tank. Let it sit. Tomorrow I'll drain the lines, the hot water tank, and the fresh water tank, then flush and refill.

After that task, we drove into Livingston for chores and shopping. On the way in, we stopped at a local flea market / garage sale / junk dealer, looking for a toaster and a small vaccuum. What a lot of worthless junk in that place ! We bought a toaster and a vaccuum at Wal-Mart later. After the junk dealer, we stopped at the local RV supply place for an interior light lens for the trailer. They didn't have what I needed. Zero for two ! On to the Post Office to see if the last piece of mail I'm expecting in Livingston had arrived. It had not. Zero for three. Out of town to the west, and down Hwy. 190 a few miles to check out a restaurant, to see whether it's an okay place for Joanne's birthday dinner on Saturday. Her birthday is tomorrow, but we can't go for dinner tomorrow. She's making dinner for the Centre tomorrow. It was fine. We'll go there Saturday evening and celebrate her birthday. A Mexican restaurant. An enchiladas and margaritas kind of place. The Eiffel Tower it ain't ! Finally, Wal-Mart. Toaster, little vaccuum, groceries, head for home.

I unloaded and put away the groceries and supplies, while Joanne went to visit Arley before supper. She needed to help him prepare a mail order for some clothing. I napped with Bo.

After supper, we watched part of this week's episode of Apprentice. Then I walked Ginger in the cold rain. Neither of us liked it much. I spent a long evening working on 2004 investments analysis.

DSK