Spent the morning on the Xbee transceivers. I ended up ordering 3 of them from Digikey. i could not get the config program to recognize this level of firmware. We left for the Violet party at 11:30 but dropped some packages off at the Post Office first. Got to jAnn Raymers at noon. wow, what a spread she put out. Pork chop ribs smoked outside with mac and cheese and greenbeans. Desert was apple pie and ice cream. Fantastic. We did a gift exchange which Libbie and i will donate to a charity. We don't need anything else. dinner was Lobster Pasta. Yummy. I got the Xbee to transmit from my shop to the office, just dummy data. now the challenge is for real data to make the trip.