For the most part it’s been a pretty good day. The RV is winterized. I’ve replaced the water in the hot tub so it’s ready for the winter. I got the winterizer fertilizer down on the front yard. Ohio State clobbered Penn State, USC got spanked, and Texas came back against Nebraska. The Rockies are working hard at not going down three games to zero. With luck they’ll manage to win this game. On the other hand, while changing out the water in the hot tub, I managed to dump my Treo cell phone into the tub. I snatched it out, pulled the battery, and have been letting it dry out since. Maybe tomorrow morning I’ll put the battery back in and see if it has any life left. I’m afraid, however, that it is toast. That would be very unfortunate. I’m headed back down to Salt Lake on Monday, then after my noon appointment down there on Tuesday, I’m headed to Boise for some meetings on Wednesday. I’d kind of like to have a working cell phone for that trip!

I have two pedometers. One was a gift from my favorite brother (which was for him a freebe from the State of Wyoming). The other was a somewhat expensive unit, costing a year ago about $8. I wanted to know whether one or the other was somewhat accurate, so I’ve been wearing both of them for the past three days. They aren’t even close to each other. The freebe from my brother registers a little less than half the number of steps that the eight dollar unit registers. I thought maybe the freebe was counting only steps on the left side where I was wearing it and the eight dollar unit was counting right and left both. So, I reset the two of them while I was putting fertilizer on the front yard and counted my steps while I was doing that. I had 644 left steps … so if the theory was right, the brother unit should say about 644 steps and the eight dollar unit should say about 1288 steps. Nope. The brother unit said 580 steps. The eight dollar unit said 1055 steps. So, neither of them is very accurate. How does a person know when they’ve really walked 10,000 steps in a day? I should use the eight dollar unit for that, I think. It seems to be fairly generous in its counting.

Meanwhile, the Red Sox added four more runs and now lead the third game in the World Series 9-5. It’s the top of the eighth and not much chance left for the Rockies in this game (and in the series). It’s probably time to turn that game off! They were doing better when I wasn’t watching….