My Dailies 2011 This is my daily journal like page where back in September of 2006 I decided to start writing down my thoughts for every day in my web site here. Also, there is a place called: “My Dirty Dailies”,.. for those days when I might use a little bad language. The button to get in is sitting in this black area in the bottom right corner,.. and it requires a password to get in. Here is a more convenient way to get over to my Video Archives page - My Videos ... DECEMBER This web site is the property of Rick Allen Harrington, Riverside, California Rixco@aol.com Thursday, December 1, 2011 Today I worked up at my Aunt & Uncle’s house in Oak Glen, California again but ended up coming home early because it was too cold. Then on my drive home I stopped at Sears and Sports Chalet for a warmer hat and face mask,... came home and put away my things and did my dishes,.. did my daily work notes and accounting,.. read my emails,.. and played Mafia Wars in facebook. Oh,.. and went over to my parents house and visited with them for a little bit. They’ve got their Nintendo game out and they’re all involved with Donkey Kong. And that’s about it for my Thursday. click here to go back to the top of this page Friday, December 2, 2011 Today I worked up at my Aunt & Uncle’s house in Oak Glen, California again painting exterior wood and installing metal flashing. And then I came home and did my dishes and put away my things,.. did my daily work notes,.. read my emails,.. played Mafia Wars in facebook,.. and did a little shopping at Radio Shack and Ralphs supermarket. And that’s about it for my Friday. click here to go back to the top of this page Saturday, December 3, 2011 Today I did 2 loads of laundry,.. went and did some shopping at Costco, Ralphs Supermarket and Smart & Final,.. took my AceCad Digipad over to UPS and shipped it back to get my money back (for what I’m doing I can just scan my papers over to my computer and get about the same results and save myself over 100 bucks),.. and I read my emails,.. and played Mafia Wars in facebook. Planned on doing some exterior house painting on my house today,.. but due to the cold strong winds I decided to put that project off for the day. And that’s about it for my Saturday. click here to go back to the top of this page Sunday, December 4, 2011 Today I did 2 loads of laundry,.. attempted to make my own focaccia bread which didn’t turn out bad,.. but the texture is more bisquit like than it should be. The bread didn’t rise like it should,.. so I think there was a problem with the yeast somewhere. And I helped my parents install a new garbage disposal,.. did some online banking and paid my bills,.. did my watering,.. read and wrote some emails,.. updated my work web site,.. and played Mafia Wars in facebook. And that’s about it for my Sunday. click here to go back to the top of this page Monday, December 5, 2011 Today I went up to my Aunt & Uncle’s house in Oak Glen, California and worked on caulking their new exterior flashing and preparing some of the fascia boards for re-painting. And then I came home and did my daily work notes,.. read and replied to my emails,.. played Mafia Wars in facebook,.. and made another attempt to make homemade facaccia bread. It rose and cooked right this time,.. but the flavor of the bread wasn’t so great. And I think the texture of the bread could be better too. And that’s about it for my Monday. click here to go back to the top of this page Tuesday, December 6, 2011 Today I went up to my Aunt & Uncle’s house in Oak Glen, California again and worked on painting flashing and exterior wood work. Then I came home and did my daily work notes,.. did my dishes and put away my things,.. read my emails,.. and played Mafia Wars and chatted in facebook. That’s about it for my Tuesday. click here to go back to the top of this page Wednesday, December 7, 2011 Today I went up to my Aunt & Uncle’s house in Oak Glen, California again and finished the job. Then I came home and did my dishes and put away my things,.. did my daily work notes and accounting,.. did some online shopping,.. read my emails,.. and played Mafia Wars in facebook. And that’s about it for my Wednesday. click here to go back to the top of this page Thursday, December 8, 2011 Today I made up an Invoice for a job,.. unloaded my Van and cleaned my tools from work on Wednesday,.. went to Lowe’s and picked up some supplies for making a box for my screw guns,.. read and wrote some emails,.. fixed a Nintendo Controller for my parents,.. played Mafia Wars in facebook,.. and tried my hand at making focaccia bread again. This time I made a good one. Used a Betty Crocker recipe for soft bread sticks but made it into a facaccia bread and topped it with rosemary & coarse margarita salt. And that’s about it for my Thursday. click here to go back to the top of this page Friday, December 9, 2011 Today I had to go up to my Aunt and Uncle’s house to drop off their Invoice,.. and then I went to Redlands, California and started a new job. Then I stopped by Trader Joes for a few things on the way home,.. came home and put away my things and did my dishes,.. did my daily work notes,.. read and wrote some emails,.. and played Mafia Wars and chatted in facebook. That’s about it for my Friday. click here to go back to the top of this page Saturday, December 10, 2011 Today I finished a couple loads of laundry,.. did some grocery shopping at Stater Brothers, Vons & Ralphs,.. went to the bank and made a deposit,.. read and replied to my emails,.. played Mafia Wars and chatted in facebook,.. and chatted in skype,.. and made another home made facaccia bread. Today’s facaccia bread turned out real good except for the Kalamata Olives that I put on top of it. I didn’t really like them at all and scraped them all off the bread. I’m unfamiliar with olives. Just thought I’d try some different ones since the only olives I’ve ever tasted are the canned black ones. And that’s just about it for my Saturday. click here to go back to the top of this page Sunday, December 11, 2011 Today I did one load of laundry,.. went shopping at Costco,.. loaded my Van for work tomorrow,.. did some online banking and my accounting,.. updated my work web site,.. worked on building a tool box for my screw guns,.. read my emails,.. and played Mafia Wars and chatted in facebook. And that’s about it for my Sunday. click here to go back to the top of this page Monday, December 12, 2011 Today I went out to San Bernardino, California and primed and painted a fire sprinkler system that’s for a hospital. Then I came home and did my daily work notes and accounting,.. read and wrote some emails,.. and played Mafia Wars in facebook And that’s about it for my Monday. click here to go back to the top of this page Tuesday, December 13, 2011 Today I had to go out to one job and pick up some drop clothes,.. then went out to another job where I installed toilet flush valves and worked on installing a new garage door opener. Then I came home and put away my things & did my dishes,.. did my daily work notes,.. read and wrote some emails,.. played Mafia Wars in facebook,.. and did some online research on making pizza doughs and checking for cabinet parts. And that’s about it for my Tuesday. click here to go back to the top of this page Wednesday, December 14, 2011 Today I went out to a job in Redlands, Caliifornia to work on a garage door opener and the Master Bath,.. but a car got left under the opener and I didn’t want to bother anybody while they’re sleeping,.. so I ended up coming home early. Then on the drive home I stopped by Trader Joes & Stater Brothers and picked up some apples to get started making my Apple Butter Pumpkin Pie Christmas Pies,.. came home and put away my things and did my dishes,. did my daily work notes,.. read and wrote some emails,.. and decided I’m going to go in and go to bed early because I’ve been feeling a little sick the past couple days. Think I got a cold. And that’s about it for my Wednesday. click here to go back to the top of this page Thursday, December 15, 2011 Today I worked out on a job in Redlands, California mostly just programming a new garage door opener. And then I came home and did my daily work notes,.. put away my things and did my dishes,.. read my emails,.. went over to Target and got me a clip to my belt phone holder,.. chopped up 6 pounds of apples and got them cooking in the crock pot (making apple butter),.. worked on setting up my new mobile phone,.. and played Mafia Wars in facebook. I got a new touch screen type mobile phone,... and so far it looks to me like they did not give me the option to have a querty style keyboard for entering names and adding contacts. Looks like it’s only available for texting. And that just happens to be one of the things I haven’t liked about cell phones,.. having to add names with a number pad. I think they should of included that querty keyboard for anything you have to write on your cell phone. And it’s like the designers of this phone must not of had to add a whole bunch of names and numbers using a number pad to do so. And that’s about it for my Thursday. click here to go back to the top of this page Friday, December 16, 2011 Today I was home most all day making Apple Butter Pumpkin Pies. Made 8 of them today and packaged them up in Christmas atire and got them ready to be delivered tomorrow. Also today I had to get a few supplies over at Smart & Final,.. made out a couple bills for jobs,.. ordered me one of those slap choppers to try it out. I tried chopping my apples for this pumpkin pie by knife which could be messy, easy to chop some off the counter on to the floor,.. tried a food processor, but the apple just continues to stick to the side walls and doesn’t get chopped unless a stick something down there and push the apples back into the blades. And I don’t like the job it does either. Chops some to mush and some are hardly chopped. And that’s about it for my Friday. click here to go back to the top of this page Saturday, December 17, 2011 Today I went out and delivered Christmas Pies to Friends & Family,.. did a little shopping at Stater Brothers,.. finished a couple loads of laundry,.. worked on putting names and phone numbers in my new cell phone,.. made a call about some new work,.. read my emails,.. and played Mafia Wars and chatted in facebook. And that’s about it for my Saturday. click here to go back to the top of this page Sunday, December 18, 2011 Today I did one load of laundry,.. went to the bank,.. did some shopping at Stater Brothers & Costco,.. updated my work web site and changed my work email address,.. read my emails,.. tried out this new System Mechanic software that I just got (so far I’ve been able to trust what it has done to my computer),.. and played Mafia Wars in facebook. And that’s about it for my Sunday. click here to go back to the top of this page Monday, December 19, 2011 Today I cooked 4 more Applebutter Pumpkin Pies,.. did a little shopping at Stater Brothers,.. took my Mother’s ipad down to an Apple store to have it checked out,.. went and visited a friend,.. worked on giving my Mother’s ipad some updates,.. read my emails,.. and played Mafia Wars in facebook. And that’s about it for my Monday. click here to go back to the top of this page Tuesday, Decebmer 20, 2011 Today I drove out to San Jacinto, California and visited with my half brother and exchanged Christmas gifts, dropped off a Christmas pie. And then I also delivered another Christmas pie to the Parents of a couple good friends of mine,.. visited with my parents,.. read my emails,.. and played Mafia Wars in facebook. And that’s about it for my Tuesday. click here to go back to the top of this page Wednesday, December 21, 2011 Today I tried out making a Semolina type Focaccia bread. Made for a good flavored bread. And I delivered another Christmas pie out to a friend,.. did a little Christmas shopping,.. watched a little cartoon movie called “Merry Madagascar”,.. read my emails,.. and played Mafia Wars in facebook. And that’s about it for my Wednesday. click here to go back to the top of this page Thursday, December 22, 2011 Today I changed all my stationary over to my new work email address,.. made up my Calendar for January,.. worked on building a box for my screw guns,.. read my emails,.. played Mafia Wars in facebook,.. visited with my half brother & parents,.. and watched part of the movie called “Avatar”. And that’s about it for my Thursday. click here to go back to the top of this page Friday, December 23, 2011 Today I went over to the bank and made a deposit,.. did a little shopping at Ralphs,.. did my accounting,.. worked on building a box for my screw guns,.. read my emails,.. and played Mafia Wars in facebook. And that’s about it for my Friday. click here to go back to the top of this page Saturday, December 24, 2011 Today I made up some pizza sauce because I’m gonna try making a Chicago Style pizza tomorrow,.. and I made up my pie filling because I’ve got 4 more pies to make tomorrow morning,.. I’m giving myself less work on Christmas day by doing some things today. Also today I did 2 loads of laundry,.. worked on building a box for my screw guns,.. read my emails,.. and played Mafia Wars and chatted in facebook. And that’s about it for my Christmas Eve. click here to go back to the top of this page Sunday, December 25, 2011 Today I cooked 4 more Apple Butter Pumpkin pies and delivered them to Parents & neighbors,.. cooked a home made Chicago Style pizza. Taste like I didn’t get pizzas perfected again,.. but I did like the sauce,.. a few tweaks to it and I think I may have something there. Also today I went over to my Parents house and had Christmas with them and shared gifts,.. and learned how to use some of those gifts too. And I watched the rest of the movie Avatar again,.. read and replied to my emails,.. and played Mafia Wars in facebook. And that’s about it for my Christmas. click here to go back to the top of this page Monday, December 26, 2011 Today was a really nice day here in Riverside, California. It was especially a nice day for shopping. None of the stores I went to were very crowded and it seemed like a Sunday while driving today. So I went out and did some shopping over at Costco,.. went over to Home Depot and got me a Multi Tool for my Christmas,.. went over to Sport Chalet and got some new work gloves,.. went to Bed Bath & Beyond and got a picture to put in my bathroom and one to put in my kitchen. And I did some shopping at Stater Brothers, Vons and Smart & Final,.. then rented a couple movies over at Blockbuster video. I rented and watched “The Santa Claus” and “Love Actually” today. Liked them both... And then also today I read my emails,.. did my accounting,.. and played Mafia Wars and chatted in facebook. And I also got my Mom a case for her ipad while I was over at Bed Bath & Beyond because it looked like her ipad had been dropped. Thought it could use some protection. It’s smooth and slippery like just like my new cell phone which has already slipped out of my hands once just attempting to take it’s first picture. Cool that it’s still working after falling to concrete. And that’s about it for my Monday. click here to go back to the top of this page Tuesday, December 27, 2011 Today I had to drive out to Redlands, California to give a painting estimate,.. and then on my drive home I stopped by Bed Bath & Beyond and picked up a bathroom rug for my bathroom. Then came home and finished my estimate and turned the prices in,.. helped my Mother try to figure out how to get her VCR hooked up to her computer for copying VHS to DVDs,.. got some mail ready to send out and did some online research and shopping,.. read some of my emails,.. and played Mafia Wars and chatted in facebook. And that’s about it for my Tuesday. click here to go back to the top of this page Wednesday, December 28, 2011 Today I re-worked a painting estimate making it less expensive and got me a new job. And I did my accounting and made out my last tax payment checks for the year,.. did some online banking and paid my bills,.. and helped my parents set up their new Television receiver and DVD recorder. Also today I worked on building my tool box for my screw guns,.. read and replied to my emails,.. did some online research and shopping,.. and played Mafia Wars in facebook. And that’s about it for my Wednesday. click here to go back to the top of this page Thursday, December 29, 2011 Today I drove out to Redlands, California and started a new job where I got started painting their guest bedroom. Then I stopped off at Radio Shack on the drive home for a woofer cable for my parents new receiver,.. came home and did my daily work notes,.. read and replied to my emails,.. played Mafia Wars in facebook,.. and just found out the Slap Chopper sent me another set of Slap Choppers. Didn’t mean to order two double sets of them. What happened was the first time I went to order, the order said there was an error and it looked like it never went through. So I ordered with a different browser on the next day and it the order went through without any errors... So obviously it didn’t matter if there was an error that first time. They got the order. I’m gonna call them tomorrow and see what it’s going to take to send this second set back. I’ve got 2 slap choppers,.. I don’t really need 4. As far as what I think of the slap chopper goes,.. well it appears to work ok,.. but I the chopping compartment sure seems small. click here to go back to the top of this page Friday, December 30, 2011 Today I worked on my job out in Redlands, California again where I finished painting their guest bedroom. And then I stopped off at Lowe’s on the drive home and picked up an Apple Tree to plant at my house,.. came home and did my dishes and put away my things,.. did my daily work notes,.. read my emails,.. cleaned my brushes & tools from work,.. and played Mafia Wars in facebook. And that’s about it for my Friday. click here to go back to the top of this page Saturday, December 31, 2011 Today I did one load of laundry,.. did some weed eating around my yard,.. chopped down a tree in my front yard and planted my new apple tree,.. watered all my plants and trees,.. sewed some pads into my new suspenders and fixed a couple other pair of suspenders,.. read my emails and played Mafia Wars in facebook. And that’s about it for my New Years Eve. click here to go back to the top of this page