Weather:      OMG!  It's so chilly and winnnnnddddyyyyy.... 69 degrees at 5 PM.  What a difference!  We like this much better.  Except that most of the desert is in the sky.

Tonight:     Areas of blowing dust before 11pm. Mostly clear, with a low around 53. Windy, with a west northwest wind 34 to 37 mph decreasing to between 24 and 27 mph. Winds could gust as high as 50 mph.

Thursday:     Mostly sunny, with a high near 67. Breezy, with a northwest wind between 14 and 24 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph.

Today:      Did the daily chores and laundry.  Pulled the last trashcan up from the curb.

Needed to walk my Avon brochures around to the neighbors and pick up our mail, so Hal and I both went walking.  Got to chat with John across the street - he has a couple days off, and the weather is so nice he had his front door open.  By the time we got back to the house, I could hardly walk.  My right knee hurt so bad.  It still aches, but I can limp about OK.  I was tempted to call Dr. Ahmed's office and ask for a cortisone shot today, but thought I'd wait to see how resting it would do - and that seemed to work OK.

Threw out old food from the fridge and freezer, then made up a grocery list for tomorrow.

The rest of the day, I played "Railroads".  I'm so hooked on it.  I found and installed a patch that allows you to play the game without the CD in the drive.  So, like a pusher, I passed the disk to Hal to install on his computer.  His desktop system wouldn't run it - it's too old.  So he tried installing it on his laptop, and got error messages.  I asked him to uninstall the game, then install it again, leaving it in the default directory.  He got it to work.  Next he's going to install an update patch, and the no-CD patch, testing after each run.

It's a shame he won't be able to run it on his desktop system so we could play side by side, but we can't update his system right now.

Hey, did anyone see House's last episode a couple days ago?  Hal and I were both in tears by the time it was over.  And NCIS!  OMG..the director was killed, and everyone else was demoted and sent to different departments - one of them out of the country!  I don't know if that's the forever last episode, or if they all somehow get back together next season.

We watched the Dancing with the Stars finale.  During one of the competition dances, our phone rang - it was someone looking for donations.  I said "Don't you know it's right in the middle of the Dancing with the Stars finale?  I can't talk to you right now!" and hung up to the sound of his chuckles.









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