Awake: 6:55am Temp 45 sleep 6+43 overcast & windy overnight @ Pahrump, NV.
Call Rosemary & give her a brief update on the Foote Family per Kathy's phone call last evening.
Eat a hot breakfast while watching a DVR recording of yesterday’s O’Reilly Factor.
AARP called; they received our signed papers & will soon send our Health Insurance Cards.
Gary & Rosemary visit around 12:15 for about (40) min. We continue discussing the Foote family returning home progress.
I spend close to an hr working with a Sprint agent trying to get online so I can manage my own account. Late last yr, they changed their online system, added stronger security & now I’ll have to wait (24) hrs to try & access my account again.
Mid afternoon, I make (3) batches of popcorn; both the 2nd & 3rd batch were leaving too many un-popped kernels when finished. I’m wondering if the thermostat might be fouling up. After the unit cools, I take the Stir Crazy unit all apart & find a lot of cooking oil in the area around the thermostat. Luckily, I bought (5) of these little thermostats yrs ago in case of failure. After cleaning the contaminating area with “Shout”, I insert the new thermostat in place, reassemble the unit & test it without popcorn, hoping the next time, all (3) batches will pop out.
Dinner: leftover Italian sausage, tomato sauce, fresh salad & bread.
Late DVR movie: “Good Morning Vietnam” with Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker, Tung Thanh Tran, Chintara Sukapatana, Bruno Kirby, etc. Williams is the whole show here, playing an army disc jockey that turns Armed Forces radio inside out when he’s brought to Saigon in 1965. His manic monologues are so uproarious that they carry the rest of the film, which has a weakly developed “story” & often irrelevant musical interludes. Apparently the real-life Adrian Cronauer, on whom story was based, wasn’t nearly as funny or outrageous as Williams. 1987. I have to agree with the masses, Williams was great; story was weak.
High temp=46 Lights out: 12:38am
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