Weekend Update

Weekend Update
It was an interesting weekend for me.

The area had a power interruption on Sunday afternoon. It only lasted for a few minutes so it was no great burden for me except having to go around and reset all of the clocks in the flat. Fortunately for me, there are only two now that have to be reset.

The only real consequence of the power interruption was the failure of my UPS device. I think it was five or six years old. It had lasted longer than I thought it would last. I don’t know what happened to the UPS; it did protect the laptop and that was what it was supposed to do for me.

When I checked it over, I discovered one of the seams on a side was cracked open. This was not a good sign and it probably explains why I couldn’t get it to function after power was restored.

I went to Staples this morning to buy a new one. I didn’t want to go around with a UPS system that I could plug the laptop into.

I liked the new UPS because it has all of the access ports on the top of the device. This is a major improvement because most of us place the UPS in a nearly inaccessible location under our desks.

The only improvement that could be made to the device is to spread the access ports [plugs] a little wider apart since most of the plugs we would use to connect to the UPS have those fat transformer type of plugs. As it is now, I have covered up two of the access ports with fat transformer plugs, making two of my eight ports useless.

So much for intelligent design.

Doug stopped by this afternoon on his way to see THE HURT LOCKER with his friends. I was cleaning out my closet and Doug availed himself of a couple of old but very wearable tee-shirts. He thought that would be great to wear. Doug particularly liked the one that said “We are in deep doo-doo.”

Doug also helped me take my old television out to the Pathfinder so I can take it to the electronics recycling location tomorrow. He is younger and stronger and I appreciated his help.

Today, for those of you who may have living at the beach envy, it was only 70F/21C and mostly cloudy all day long. It was not a day to go to the beach at all unless of course you are visiting from Des Moines, Iowa and this is your only day to visit one of Southern California’s beaches.

Your bad luck or karma.


Be well and stay happy.

I should do a better job of blogging

I should do a better job about blogging
I really should.

I said that I would do a better job of blogging this quarter with my reduced teaching load.

I came down with a nasty Summer sinus cold over last weekend. It stayed with me until Thursday. I had reduced energy levels and a strong desire to take afternoon naps. I did take several naps and they were very helpful for me. I am fairly certain that this was not swine flu or H1N1 influenza. I did not have any of the usual symptoms and it was over too quickly to have been swine flu.

This was my first cold in over two years which is sort of remarkable since I was on a fairly strong chemotherapy regimen for a year.

I was talking to my department chair at school on Thursday after my Marketing Research class. It was a good thing that I did since he had scheduled a department meeting for later on Monday afternoon. I found out I have a new department chair, one whom I have had a chair before.

Now, I have to decide if I want to show up for a last meeting and a free dinner or skip it. I think I will go for the free food and speak to my new chair. My new chair is not a morning person and I don’t have any evening classes so this would be a good time to meet.

We had a slight uptick in visitors and page views this past week. We had 788 visitors who viewed 1,095 unique pages. The visitors are coming to the blog primarily from overseas, around 66% in the most recent week.

Doug called me during the week. He plans to be up in my area on Monday and will stop by before going to see a film with his friends. We talked about the Fathers’ Day dinner leftovers; I really enjoyed the small piece of the ice cream cake and he savored the smaller rack of ribs that made up his lunch last Monday.

I had one of my students ask if I wanted something from Starbuck’s on Wednesday; she was going there on the break and was willing to bring a cup or scone back for me. I thanked her for thinking of me and passed on her invitation, saying I had my breakfast and limited myself to only one cup of coffee a day. I had the coffee at the beginning of class.

My student never returned after the break.

I got an email from her about two hours later saying she had a minor family emergency to take care of.

Good thing I said no because my coffee would have been really sad a week later.

I also shaved off my moustache this week because it was getting to be a burden to maintain now. Molly the Stylist and Natalie the Receptionist both like the clean shaven version of me.

I wonder what Dr. Karen and Nurses Vrunda and Wendy will say when I see them in two weeks.

I suppose that this was a good week for me.


Be well and stay happy.

Fathers' Day Weekend

Weekend Update
I picked up another substitute teaching assignment for early July. The course is about Principles of Management. I ought to be able to talk for a couple of hours on the subject since I have been working in management for over twenty years and fifteen of those years were at the C-Level.

I didn’t go to my local Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf on Sunday as I usually do because of Fathers’ Day. I hope Tihana will be able to get over me not showing up. In fact, I am certain she already has.

I will begin cutting back on the large iced blendeds this coming weekend. I will be going from one every week to one every two weeks. I can certainly do without all of the extra sugar and I will save a few dollars in the process.

I had one of my former students, who also asked me to be her friend on Facebook, send me a Happy Fathers’ Day text message. This was not what I would usually expect. Once students leave my class, they tend to forget about me unless they are business student. I see business students all of the time in my classes.

I did sign up to be her friend on Facebook.

Me and Dr. Karen or She Who Must Be Obeyed
I had an interesting day with my visit to see Dr. Karen. Seeing Dr. Karen is always interesting for me.

My appointment was a bit later than usual. Dr. Karen had wanted to observe a procedure in the hospital and so she was late. She was going to tell me about the procedure but said it was too gory.

Good enough for me.


Our visit was short because I am in a stable state and we are just passing time until I get to the two year mark or thereabouts since the surgery. We didn’t have too much to talk about; all of my tests were normal.

Dr. Karen confirmed Doug’s conjecture that the upcoming colorectal surgery visit was a prelude to a colonoscopy procedure for me. I am guessing the procedure will be in either late July or early August. She also ordered a MRI to take another close look at my liver lesions and a CT scan to take a good look at my lymph nodes.

I received the results of my blood test from my regular doctor on Thursday. My diabetes results were good although my regular doctor thought I could do better. My cholesterol was fine as well. Dr. Karen thought my cholesterol results were very good.

I told her that she and my regular doctor were on opposite sides of my weight gain. Dr. Karen has favored a reasonable weight gain because it will provide me with the energy to manage my chemotherapy program. My regular doctor would like to see me lose some weight since that would benefit my other conditions.

All of this got me to thinking about an old Ursula Andress film, SHE, based on the novel by H. Ryder Haggard. It was a 1965 film where Andress played a woman who had lived for thousands of years and who was referred to by the natives as “She who must be obeyed.” I decided that Dr. Karen was my modern version of She who must be obeyed.

Of course, Dr. Karen does not look at all like Ursula Andress. Andress is taller, has blond hair, and speaks with a European accent.

I finally settled on an avatar for Nurses Wendy and Vrunda. I like this one because they are always calling me and telling me what to do like exercise some more or don’t drink. They will probably not like it.

Dr. Karen writes up my prescription and sets my appointment and blood test dates right after the examination is completed. She was called away because one of her patients in the hospital had an emergency. I sat and waited for about an hour until she returned.

Nurse Vrunda wanted to mail me my appointments so I wouldn’t have to sit and wait for an undetermined period of time. I thanked her for thinking of me. I said that I needed to wait because I needed a prescription that she had to write for me.

I started Cycle 11 of my Second Round of Chemotherapy on Friday night.

Carbon dating myself
I can remember when a big download file was around 150kb; of course, this was over a 28.8kbps modem. We actually used modems that were that slow. My first modem’s speed was 14.4kbps. I thought that moving up to 28.8 was really something special.

Now, 5.0mb download files are common place.

Times do change

Visitors
The blog had another average visitor count for the week. We had 691 visitors who stopped by and viewed 897 pages. This was a bit off from last week but still a very nice turnout.

We did have one visitor from Libya Arab Jamahiriyo. I wonder where that exactly is.

I do appreciate all of you who visit the blog.

Fathers’ Day
Doug cooked a great casual dinner on Sunday to celebrate Fathers’ Day. He cooked some pork spare ribs with a good bar-be-que sauce. He added some potato salad and coleslaw; I brought along the bar-be-qued beans.

Doug’s mother bought an ice cream cake from Baskin Robbins for dessert. It was a chocolate cake that was covered by a layer of Jamoca ice cream and then covered with a frosting layer and some chocolate topping. I took home a small piece that I will have next weekend. I need to drain some of the calories from my system first.

The Princess called me and we talked for about half an hour. Her Fathers’ Day cards were perfect. I won’t go into any details but they did accurately reflect our relationship over the years. The Princess sent me two books; one was by Clive Cussler and the other was by Nassim Taleb.

I finished Cussler’s Arctic Drift by Sunday evening even if it was just over 500 pages long. It is a modern day, pulp fiction novel that read quickly. Taleb’s The Black Swan will obviously take much longer to read since it is about economics generally.

Doug gave me a copy of THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR on Blu-Ray. I will probably watch it over the next weekend.

The last element of Fathers’ Day celebrating for me was smoking a cigar in the car on the way home from Doug’s house. It was the first cigar in maybe two years for me. Fortunately for me, cigars are made of dried tobacco leaves and the beach is humid enough to help preserve them even longer.

I don’t think I will be smoking another cigar anytime soon. Nurses Vrunda and Wendy will probably yell at me for smoking again. But, once every two years is not all that frequent.

Paulina Garces
I managed to see Paulina on Saturday morning. It was a repeat show; it was still viewable for me. The company that employs her put together a montage of clips from prior programs. I am coming to the end of my Paulina Garces images.



Life happens and all good things must end eventually.


That was my Fathers’ Day weekend. I hope you had a great weekend.


Be well and stay happy.

How did it get to be Wednesday so soon?

How did it get to be Wednesday so soon?
I think it all started out when I had a substitute teaching assignment on Monday.

All of the morning classes at school start at 8:00 AM or so I thought. It turns out that the class I substituted for did not start until 9:00 AM. It starts later because it was difficult for everyone to get to class on time. I found out about the starting time after I was at school.

What a myth.

Starting at 9:00 did nothing to improve class attendance at the beginning; student still straggled in.

Most classes are only three hours long. This class was four hours long.

Instead of heading home at 11:30, I left school at 1:25 and got home around 2:30.

That left me with not much time for a late lunch and to get ready for my 4:00 PM appointment with my regular doctor who treats me for my diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol.

The appointment went well. It was just an in-between annual checkup visit. I’ll know in a week or so how I really well I am when I get my blood test results. My doctor thinks the cancer progress is very good and positive. By the time I finished the appointment and returned home, I was looking at 5:00.

Then there was Tuesday.

I had a job interview on Tuesday. It was scheduled for 9:00 AM. The person who set up the interview time called me on Tuesday morning at 8:20 to say that if I wasn’t driving yet the interview would start at 10:00.

I didn’t take the phone call because I was driving on the freeway at about 65 miles per hour in moderately heavy traffic. Driving and cell phoning just do not mix in my mind.

I had to wait an extras hour.

I won’t discuss the interview except to say that it ran longer than I thought it would last. Based on the hiring manger’s comments at the close of the interview, I am not that optimistic that I will be hired even though I am very well qualified for the position.

Time will tell on the job.
The delayed start of the interview pushed everything else back for the day.

I had thought taking a nap after lunch but that got ruled out. One of my neighbors has a dog that loved to bark yesterday afternoon. The dog barked for most of the afternoon so that ruled out any nap. The dog is still barking today.

I dinked around with my new blog, banking made simple, to get it set up with Sitemeter.com’s services so I could track visitors to that blog. I had absolutely no success with the blog.

I did get an invitation to join one of my former employee’s Facebook page. I never realized how pervasive these social networks are. I guess they are everywhere.

I suppose that I could write some more stuff but I will save some for tomorrow.


Be well and stay happy.

Weekend Update - June 14th

Weekend Update
The sun finally came out of hiding this weekend. While it was sunny for most of the weekend, except for when it was night time, the weather stayed cool and below normal temperatures.

I was reading over the weekend that there may be another El Nino weather condition this Winter. El Nino refers to the periodic warming of the water in the equatorial regions of the Pacific Ocean the results in heavy Winter rain storms that usually begin in December. This means that Southern California will have higher rainfall than normal if a moderately strong El Nino condition does develop. Driving will be so unfun with cars slip-sliding away.

I finished my shredding backlog of files yesterday. I filled up four large bags of small pieces of paper. I suppose that someone with a near infinite amount of time and patience could put the reports and files back together. Whoever that person is, he or she will need a bucket or two of glue.

It is Sunday so that means a trip to the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf for my large ice blended drink. Tihana was working again today so that my drink was excellent. It was not perfect or as good as the one she made for me last week. This week’s drink was a bit thin on the extra ice to make the drink thick. I guess that one has to expect that things will not always turn out as we would like things to develop.


I had a long chat with one of my Internet acquaintances today. She is graduating from Clemson University in August and is looking for a job in New York City. If she is able to land a job, I think I would take a long weekend and fly there to see her. We had a long discussion of why I feel partial to Asian women; I am fairly certain that it made sense at some level of thought. Since Sunny is getting her Master’s degree in Sociology, she ought to be able to figure out what I said or meant.

I have a busy week for a change. Monday I am substitute teaching in the morning and seeing my regular doctor in the afternoon. Wednesday is my Microeconomics class. Thursday is my Marketing Research class. Friday is my regular, once every three weeks, semi-date with Dr. Karen and Nurses Vrunda and Wendy. Saturday I have theater tickets for a revival performance of a play from the 1940s. Sunday is Fathers’ Day in the States and Doug invited me to come out to his mother’s house for dinner. He will cook.

I had a double feature with Paulina Garces over the weekend. I managed to catch her selling used cars on Saturday and Sunday. It was the same infomercial but I watched it just the same. The other young woman Paulina works with had a little rat dog with her. I call it a rat dog because it was small and rather furry and not very nice to look at; that plus the fact that she had the dog wearing a pink dog coat.



A pink dog coat in Southern California, not at this time of the year.

All in all, quiet weekend for me.


Be well and stay happy.

Back to School

Back to School
Classes started this week. So far, my classes seem to be good ones. My Microeconomics course has about 18 students who seem fairly well grounded with some understanding of economics. My Marketing Research class only has three students, all of whom have been in at least eight or nine other classes with me.

The school used to place a substantial importance on student attendance in evaluating instructors. Teaching in Southern California in the Summer is particularly difficult since we have so many attractive nuisances like the beach, Disneyland, baseball, and a host of other attractions and activities.

I have had terrible attendance results when trying to teach in the Summer. The local administration knows and accepts this as a fact of life and being located where the school. The headquarters did not but then it is not located in a fun place like Southern California

Now, with the shift towards emphasizing completion of the course, I ought to be better in my evaluations. Most all of my students are within less than a year to graduation so they are very focused on completing all of their classes. I think about 75% of the Microeconomics course class is within one or two quarters of graduation.

I feel sorry for some of the students who have to take their capstone course which is very difficult course and Microeconomics in the same quarter. Microeconomics is a hard class because none of the students are business majors and have little day to day use for or interest or background in economics.

I had a recommendation – reference check drift across the email inbox this week. It was on one of my favorite, former students. It was an easy response for me; I think I said that she gets her ankles wet when she walks on water or at least a numerical grade to that affect.

Visitors
We had another moderately successful week with visitors to the blog. We were down slightly from last week with 641 visitors who viewed 886 unique pages. The visitor traffic mix has remained fairly constant with roughly 60% or more of the visitors coming from outside of the United States.

I do appreciate all of you who took time to stop by and visit the blog.

banking is simple
banking is simple is my new blog that I started this week. I decided that I should have a professional sort of blog now that I joined linkedin. You can find the blog at http://bankingmadesimple.blogspot.com. I know a bit about banking since I have worked in the field for close to thirty five years and survived several business cycles. Besides, banking is really simple when you break it down. Banking only gets complicated when you try to do something fancy or at the edges of acceptable practices.

The only thing I need to do is figure out how to get Sitemeter on the new blog. Blogger.com has changed its program to set up new blogs. I guess this means that I will have to take my laptop with me when I see Doug next. He helped me with Sitemeter on the Balancing Checkbooks blog.

Other Stuff
I went into the clinic this morning for my periodic blood tests. I had a new technician draw my blood today. She was not as good as the others who work in the laboratory. On the plus side, the whole process only took an hour from when I left the flat until when I returned home.

The weather has been crummy all week long. We are suffering from an unseasonable stretch of persistent low clouds and fog along the coast that lasts almost all day long.

Not a fun start for the Summer.


Be well and stay happy.

Weekend Update - June 7th

Quarter Break IV – End of the Break
The sun finally came out this weekend; naturally, it came out, it is the end of my Quarter Break.

I would have loved to have taken a nice, long drive on the freeways today in the Prelude with the windows down and the sunroof open and let the sun work on my tan. But, at USG$3.00 for a gallon of gasoline, I decided to settle on a drive over to my local Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Torrance.

Tihana was working today. I plan my visits to coincide when she is working. I do this because she makes my ice blended drinks just the way I want to be. I think Tihana exceeded her best efforts today. Today’s large ice blended was very thick, the way I really enjoy them.

Perfectomundo.

I bought a home shredder the other day. I have to clean out my flat and destroy some old financial records. I have close to twenty years of records to shred. I have been working on the pile of files; I take a couple of years to shred each day so that I won’t drive my neighbors mad or unduly wear out the shredder. The pile of files is slowly shrinking.

Since it is almost Summer, I have opened up the windows more to air the flat out and cool it off. Opening the windows is the only form of air conditioning that I have in the flat.

Last night, I went to see “Ring of Fire” which is a semibiographical musical about the life of the American country music singer Johnny Cash. I had gone to the play with the expectation that most of the music would be Cash’s as I had heard in “My Way,” about the life of Frank Sinatra.

I was disappointed in that respect. The music was a broad selection of the times and did include some of his more famous songs.

I was also disappointed by the cast selection that included talented singers but they were not from the South. As such, they had to affect that unique Appalachian – Southern dialect and tone. I suppose that it is difficult to find singers in Los Angeles who are native to that region of our country.

My disappointment with the play I think can be attributed to my misspent youth when I served in the United States Navy. One of the officers on the good ship Leonard F. Mason was from Rome, Georgia. He had a real appreciation for the music of the South; he also had an extensive collection of reel to reel tapes full of country and Southern music. It didn’t matter where your stateroom was in After Officers because you could always hear, whether you wanted to or not, his music.

It is always good to end a post on a high note. Paulina Garces is a high note with me.





Be well and stay happy.

Quarter Break - Part III

Quarter Break – Part III
For that few, that happy few, that band of blog readers I considered the After Thoughts posting to be Quarter Break – Part II.

I hate to have done such damage to Shakespeare’s classic lines from Henry V, Act IV, Scene II’s “band of brothers” speech by Henry. But, somehow, the phrasing seemed to fit in with my mood this afternoon.

My Quarter Break is almost over and the weather has been on the crummy side for the most part. It has been cloudy and cool and we even have had some rain to an extent. This is not what one would expect from Southern California at this time of the year. I had planned to take some walks along the beach during the break but the weather deterred me.

We had rain overnight and early this morning that I managed to sleep through. I know it rained because the cement in the building courtyard was wet when I went out this morning. There is a forecast for more scattered rain showers tomorrow.

Right now, the sun is playing hide and seek among the clouds.

We had a good week for visitors to the blog. There were 738 visitors who stopped by and viewed 1,001 unique pages in the blog. I do appreciate all of you who stopped by the blog. I happened to take a look at the visitors to the blog this morning. We had a first time visitor from Malta to the blog yesterday.

I had a flyer sticking in my door yesterday when I went to pick up the mail. One of my neighbors is selling her flat. It is on my floor and is almost identical in size to my flat. Her flat faces the busy road in front of the building that is a favorite road for emergency vehicles, ambulances and fire engines mostly. She has an ocean peak view from her balcony; ocean peak means if you stand on your toes and it is a clear day, you can see a small patch of the ocean. She is asking USD$389,000 for her flat.

That makes me feel very good. She has made some cosmetic improvements like new flooring and a new range and paint. This leads me to believe that my flat, messy as it is, is probably worth about USD$350,000 or so since I do not face the busy street.

I went to see the new Pixar 3D animation film UP yesterday. I have always enjoyed the Pixar films and this edition was just as satisfying as WALL-E.

I did enjoy the 3D version of the film. I had my misgivings about wearing the special 3D lens since I wear glasses. Doug and Megan saw the film last weekend and thought it was just great. Doug said that he thought I could view the film without my regular reading glasses. He was correct.

I would definitely recommend the film; it works for all age groups.

I would strongly recommend that you bring some lens cleaner with you since the 3D glasses get handled and tend to be on the well finger printed side. Cleaning the lenses will vastly improve your viewing experience.

Tomorrow night, I am going to see Ring of Fire. Hopefully, the weather will have improved enough so the rain will have moved on out of Southern California before I leave for the play. It is a musical play based on the life of Johnny Cash so I am expecting there will be a fair amount of his music.


Be well and stay happy.

Blue Screen of Death

Blue Screen of Death
I experienced the Blue Screen on Wednesday afternoon when my new Western Digital external hard drive caused my laptop to crash twice and it finally failed into a Blue Screen message. I had purchased the 400GB hard drive with a view towards backing up my system files on it. I know this seems excessive but this was the smallest external hard drive that was available for sale in the store and it cost less than my existing 250GB Western Digital external hard drive that I already owned.

For those of you who are new to the Internet; and by new I mean that you never worked with the MS-DOS operating system, this can be a frightening experience. The Blue Screen message in MS-DOS meant that you had just lost all of the data you were working on because your computer went into an unrecoverable crash.

I really do not understand why or how this could have happened.

Granted, there are some who will say, “Chuck, you own a Windows laptop that runs Vista Business,” and then suggest I consider buying a Mac. Doug would probably say something like that.

The package for the external hard drive said it “worked with Windows Vista.”

That seemed to me that I could use it with the laptop when I purchased it at Best Buy. I did ask the female sales person if it would work with Windows Vista and she said that it would. I also asked her supervisor who unlocked the display case the same question. He looked at the package and that it would.

I downloaded the updates from Western Digital after I plugged it in. The update downloads were normal.

Then, I began to have trouble. The hard drive came with a FAT 32 file format which is incompatible with the Widows NTFS file format. I think Windows stopped using the FAT 32 format when it launched Windows 95 or Windows 98. I couldn’t use the Windows Back Up function.

Great.

If a product is supposed to work with Windows Vista, why wouldn’t it come with the proper file formatting?

Anyway, two crashes later, I gave up on the new external hard drive. I spent three hours on Thursday removing the device and its files from my laptop and removing my information from the hard drive.

I returned it to Best Buy. The clerk at the returns counter asked me why I was returning it. I told because it caused my laptop to crash and generate a Blue Screen message.

She gave me a blank stare. She didn’t understand what a Blue Screen message was.

I must be Carbon Dating myself again.


Be well and stay happy.

Afterthoughts

Afterthoughts
I had some afterthoughts or thoughts that I left out of Sunday’s blog entry. Mostly, the omissions were about ladies in my life.

I forgot to mention that I went to see Molly the Stylist for a hair styling on Wednesday. My hair looked perfect and then I left her salon and the wind in Belmont Shore caught my hair and made a mess of it. It is very nice to have messy, windblown hair because that means I have a full or almost full head of hair.


Lots of hair is good if you are a cancer patient.

Molly now likes my moustache so that means all of the women in my life like the moustache. I guess I have to keep it for now. I can do that.

I arrived early for the session with Molly because that is my nature. I tend to be terminally prompt and on time. Arriving early had its own compensation for me; I had a chance to spend some time talking to Natalie the Receptionist. Normally, our conversations are limited to a hello and that is about it. We had the time to get caught up on our lives.

Perfectomundo.

Then, I went to my local Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf on Sunday afternoon for my usual large ice blended drink. I know a large ice blended drink when there is no sun and it is cool and breezy makes little, if any, sense to most people.

Sunday was also my “clear off the top of my dresser and dump all of the coins in the tip jar day.” Like many people, I get change when I make a small purchase. I don’t like to carry the change around and if I don’t dispose of the change in an orderly manner, I will have a large pile of coins on the top of dresser.

Tihana was working so I knew my drink would be perfect.

It was.

Tihana also likes the end of the month trip to the Coffee Bean because she knows I will end up dumping a couple of dollars worth of coins into her tip jar.

We talked a bit longer than we usually do because business seemed to be off on Sunday. Maybe it was the cool and cloudy weather that kept the customers away.

I got so carried away with my thoughts about Dr. Karen on Sunday that I forgot to mention Nurses Vrunda and Wendy. They were still saying that I was mean to buy them the large, thick, rich, dark chocolate brownies.

I think they protest far too much and too often to be serious.

Wendy called the patients’ names for the vital signs check on Friday. I looked up when she started calling them. When she came to my name, Wendy only motioned me to come forward and pick up my patient card and stand in line.

I blamed them for my blood pressure being slightly elevated. Vrunda and Wendy only laughed at me.

Lastly, today is a new month and that means it is time to tally up the visitor traffic for May. We had 2,735 visitors to the blog and they viewed 3,954 separate pages. This is another solid performance for the blog. We also had 170 visitors to the blog on Sunday.


Be well and stay happy.