Good Sunday but too hot here in Los Angeles.

Called Inga yesterday to say thank you for her hospitality and to tell her that I got home safely.

Got the Surface to work with the external mouse, monitor, and keyboard.  Also bought the $9.99 game Hydro Thunder and it too works well with the xbox controller.

Good food and a lot of sleep and all is well again.

Good Saturday lunch @ Micks and a movie of

Atlas Shrugged II in Lancaster.  Very good movie.  An accurate re creation of Ayn Rand's novel.

Great Friday after a good sleep and computer time

after the return from NYC and NJ.

Good flight and a good time upon return to Panorama City.

Awake at 6am feeling well.

Thinking of going to MS Store and buying a Surface with a 30 day return policy.

We'll see.

Great, (thank God) return flight back to Burbank

Good time in NYC and JFK and on to Burbank.

Great trip and no outliers as I recall.

Great time with my iPad, my computer, and my iPhone.  Great machines.

Good Wednesday with no visit from Marie who

only visited her mother. 

Dick invited me to go get a pie from a pie shop near the Atlantic Ocean.

Poor NJ pies.  Not like the Toni's Special out here.

Good Tuesday up at 630am and drove back to

New Jersey from West Virginia with Inga.  Good day on the road through West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, almost PA and New Jersey.

Now  to finish my meds and have a good day.

I really hate this computer in that it jumps the cursor when I accidentally touch the key pad with my palm.  This erases the typed stuff or something and it is very frustrating.

Now to finish reading about the debate on this awful keyboard.  That's why I use the external and the monitor.

Still a great day.

Good Monday to visit Gettysburg and the area

with Bob and had a good time at Harper's Ferry and dinner there.

All else was good.

Drove to West Virginia to see Linda and Bob Sunday

Ran out of gas just after we got into Maryland but only a 30 minute delay.  To WV and all was well.

Went to Linda's daughter Lisa's house for dinner with her husband Pat, son Brian, and daughter in law Charo and the two great grand kids Jackson and Wade or something.

Good dinner and I drove the group back to West Virginia and all was well.

Good Saturday in Ocean Grove, NJ with Terry

and Inga.  Saw Arbitrage in the movie theatre and it was ok.

Back to Beachwood, NJ by 7 pm and getting ready for
WV tommorow am.

Good Friday in Tom's River. Rented Yaris and it is

ok to drive.  Terry could not remain in Philadelphia so she came here.  Inga and I will go to Terry's beach house tomorrow and then to Linda's house on Sunday til Monday, I plan now.

All else is well so far.

Up at 7am feeling well. Showered and taking Inga

and me to PA to see Terry and then to WV to see Linda and Bob.  I hope the weather is good.

Now to go rent the car and go.

Good day in NYC and waking around Time's

Square.  Lots of walking and riding bus.

iPhone works well as a tethering device.

All bills paid and all is well in NJ and PA and WV.

Quiet day in NJ Dinner w/Inga and Dick and a lot

of talk and sleep when I need it.

Called Terry and Linda and Marie called here to check on things.

Me to NYC by bus and have a good day in NYC by myself.  This computer must be messing up when I touch the keypad when typing.  Now to check the settings on that.  No settings that I can see to make the touch pad inoperative when the keyboard is being used.

I can go to NYC tomorrow about 9am and return about 9pm or so.  I could go see Phantom or Hair or just go around NYC.  I don't think much of Central Park.

Take my camera and iPad and iPhone and a book and the backpack with nothing in it except the iPad.

I can visit the Apple Store made out of glass.

Walk around NYC.  This computer is hard to type on with the touch pad active.

Now to email Dereck Gonzalez in Idaho.

Go see him if I get the chance.

Awake Wednesday morning in New Jersey with

a desire to rent a car and go see Terry and Linda and Linda's husband and the Civil War battlefield.

I can drive around Philadelphia and enjoy the independence.

I want to be able to go to a restaurant when I want and order the food I want, when I want it.

Good flight to NYC, shuttle + bus to Tom's River

Inga and Dick and the dog are fine.  Eating well and all else is well.

Upgraded iPhone data plan to 5GB and it works well.

At Bob Hope Airport sitting on the floor to be near

an electrical outlet so I can charge my iPhone and computer.  I made it through security and am now just waiting for the flight to board.  The shuttle was almost an hour late but all is well now.  I think I'll play ms. solitaire now

Awake at 730am feeling well. Good sleep in these

cooler nights.  To sleep at 130am and awake at 730am means I need and get about 6 hours of sleep per night, unless I get 8 or 9 hours like last night.  Interesting.

I have almost decided that I want and need a Win RT tablet to replace my iPad, and improve on my iPad.  I want the form factor to read in a restaurant, airplane, or on a trip.  I want hdmi connectivity for when I am home or on the road or at the computer clubs, and I want all my Windows stuff to play and show on my tablet computer.  RT will take some time to achieve this level of compatibility, but it can be done if Microsoft wants to do it.  They have the resources if they want to succeed.  Why are they making the RT if they don't want to support it.  So far, they are doing well on making and releasing the Surface and the other Win 8 tablets by their partners.

I watched iTunes TV, read a while, and napped for an hour or so.  Tried to repair the Toshiba laptop and had to recognize that it had a hard ware failure and destroyed the machine and dumped it in the trash bin.  Sad end to $1K after 6 years or so, but time marches on.

Now to play ping pong, return the cables to Frys, and eat well and pack for NYC tomorrow.

Checklist for trip to NYC Monday night.

Pack red bag with jacket and extra shoes.

10 underwear, socks, white tee shirts, handkerchief (after I find it again)

Camera, SD cards, and re charge cables.

Tumbler and spoon and Metamucil.

Bar soap, toothpaste and toothbrush, shampoo, razor, blades, and shaving cream.

6 meds which includes the foot cream and extra gloves.

Charger for the iPhone.

Extra micro fiber cloth.

Awake at 945 am feeling well. Missed Atlas at the

movies last night.  Still feeling less than enthusiastic, but things are looking up.

REM of working at Palms and A was there again.  Seemed to be on Sky Unit.  Not a really bad dream, but nothing to write home about.

Return items to Frys.

Check 32 or 16 GB SD cards.

See Atlas today.

Eat at Chick fil A and have a good day.

Up at 11am after sleeping from 3am? to then.

Lots of dreaming as usual lately, but at least I am sleeping at night and not half and half all the time.

I'm not sure when I went to sleep.  Maybe 2am which would make it about 9hours of sleep.

Played 30 min of ping pong in Thousand Oaks Senior Center and was badly outclassed, but I was working hard to keep up.

I fixed Reynaldo's Mac Book so that is done.

Got a call from Ackerman to go see him when I return from NYC.  818 375 4147  Call him back now.

Book Shuttle bus to Bob Hope Airport.

Go see Atlas Shrugged 2 in a movie theater.

Pack my red suitcase.

Wash my yellow shirt.  Use it to travel in?

Play ping pong in SO SC on Sunday 3 to 6 pm.

Have a good day and a good life.

Awake at 9am feeling rested but still agitated...

Lots of poor dreams of life at Palms and Marshall Cottage.

Kids fighting with staff's not noticing and failing to intervene.

One bathroom and it is messed up.

No clean clothes when there was too much rain or an accident.

A worked a full shift and mostly read her books and answered her mail.

Up three times to use the facilities.

Up at 930am after to sleep at 330am. Feeling well

I seem to need about 6 hours of sleep, more or less, which is pretty good.

Watched What The Tech from yesterday while I was eating at the Vegas Buffet, which was ok, but nothing special since it didn't have my two favorite shrimp dishes and the crab shell things either.

Took out AJ and Rey to Wendys and Frys and bought AJ a new mp3 player for $15 or so.  Watched Brakehart Pass upon return and felt very well.

Now thinking what to do.

The Groupon for the Van Nuys Airport sounds good.

Bobs or Sizzler sounds good too.

tugnet tonight is movement and I think I should skip that.  I don't move very well at all these days.  I'm too fat and unfit, but I'm working on it.

Paid Verizon yesterday so that is a good thing.

Now to get ready to go out.

Just checked Groupon and the airplane ride thing expires today so I think I will go eat at Bobs and see if Rey wants to try to make his Mac better.  Now to go out now.

Up at 9:11am feeling well since it is much cooler

I seem to sleep much better even with the window wide open, behind the screen.  I also recall a lot of REM type of dreams and such.  Only up once to use the bathroom as I recall.

I want to pay the Verizon debt today, just to get it off my conscience, eat at Vegas Seafood Buffet, and probably take the two Palms guys out tonight rather than go to the tugnet meeting on robotics.

We'll see.

I'm still down due to money issues and worries, health issues and worries, friendship issues and worries, and general issues and worries.

Plan for the trip to NYC next Monday.

Shuttle tickets.
Pack suitcase and backpack.
Gather clothes, toiletries, and meds in the suitcase.

Have a great trip and make the best out of a difficult world.

Good Monday. Up at 10am feeling well.

Astronomy sig tonight at 7pm

Doing laundry in a few minutes.

Making Malt O Meal for breakfast.

Got the eReader back working, as I am reading the Short History and The 2nd world war books.

Paid the student loan almost $200 for this month.

Soon to check out tax liens.

Clean the kitchen and bathroom and apartment in general.

Make the reservation for the shuttle to Burbank airport for next Monday.

Use the two Groupons this week before they expire.

Be happy the weather has cooled off.

Pay the Verizon bill of $145 and be done with it.

Be happy, healthy, and wise, as always.

Good Sunday. Went to Kaiser for some OTC cream

I'll start using it tomorrow.

I seem to be down for lots of good reasons.

I didn't play ping pong Sunday.

It is still hot as of Sunday.

I need new cream for my feet from Kaiser.  Got it.

I need new acetaminophen pills, which I will get today.

Saturday Terry called to tell me she

replied to my letter but it got misplaced.  Inga said "that ship has sailed" as far as sharing any money with me.

Mostly stayed home.  Didn't want to go to the linux group.

I did clean up Ed Sentowski"s computer programs and toolbars and re directs.

Good ATS at Griffith Observatory

Good dinner at Vegas Seafood Buffet.

Awake via the iPhone alarm at 720am feeling well

after 5 hours of fairly good sleep.

Made it to 1000 Oaks Senior Center for Forever Young singers and they sang well.  I enjoy watching and listening to them sing and practice.  It is a hard skill and difficult to do at best.

Home to shower and go eat and go to Griffith Observatory for All Things Space tonight.

I have a week before I go to NYC.  Let's prepare.

Good Thursday. Got gas at $4.39/ gal.

Good videos and such.  Nothing else I can remember.

Watched Windows weekly and it wasn't much.

Went out and got good hat and ping pong paddles, so all is well.

Good Wednesday Good lunch at Vegas Seafood

Buffet in Glendale for $16.00  Spent $51 on new videos and I am happy.

Skipped the debate on purpose.

Tuesday still too hot. To topcc meeting on digital

cameras.  Good meeting.

Monday to the tugnet investor meeting.

Good sig meeting.

Check out tax liens as an investment possibility. 

Sunday another hot day. To SO/EV Center

to watch table tennis which I didn't take part in mostly by my own choice.

I'll try to get paddles and balls before next Sunday.