Plans for the Day

Just because I HAVE these plans doesn’t mean that they will get done; however, if I have no plans, I KNOW nothing will get done.

• continue my hunt on line for a wifi sniffer. {Anyone got one or can recommend –or not recommend– a particular one?}
• laundry {this is almost finished.}
• Italian
• short walk
• go to library
• maybe go to grocery store?  I am totally out of bleach but it can wait until Fred does the next shopping trip.

More explanations:

Ok, a wifi sniffer. These are little devices which indicate there is a local hot spot for connecting one’s laptop to without turning the laptop on. I have only just begun my research on these. I probably won’t have much use for one here in the States because most places that have it, advertise their free wifi. I have seen it in Brueggar’s Bagels and in Boarders, and apparently, a lot of McDonalds are getting it, too. But, I am thinking that  the gadget may be of use to me in England or in Italy. Anyone got any ideas about this? The cheaper ones just indicate ALL spots. The more expensive indicate the protected and non-protected. Ours is protected which means you need to know the password before logging onto it.

In Italian, one of my objectives is to learn the various forms of the verbs so I can use them without having to think it out. In Italian verbs, the ending indicates the subject. For example, "sento" means "I hear", "senti" means "you {singular} hear", "sentite" means "you {plural} hear" and "sentiamo" means "we hear."  I need to know these endings so that I don’t have to think my way step by step through the whole present-tense conjugation to get to "sentono" which is "they hear." So, every day, I will first be writing out the conjugation of a regular  verb and then saying it aloud. And I also want to be more comfortable with the irregular verbs, too especially "essere" {to be} and "avere" {to have}

Yesterday I walked for about 10 minutes in the morning and the same in the afternoon. I want to stay with this for a few more days since I was very tired after doing this yesterday. This is a narrow line I am errr–walking because too much activity will cause the hip to hurt again. and yet if i don’t start walking a bit now, I feel it will be that much harder to recover after the surgery!

Ok, the timer has buzzed, so, off downstairs to get the whites out of the dryer and to put the permanent-pressed load in, and then out for a 10 minute walk. This will be followed by at least 45 minutes of Italian while the dryer does its thing…

QUOTATION: If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

— David Viscott

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