Worked on building the hardware for the closet in my office. Ii used a Kroger pencil box but I may have to abandon that in favor a metal box to be more fire proof. Libbie vacuumed then I came down and set up the buffet for the violet club. We had chicken salad, whole wheat buns, macaroni salad, broccoli salad with home made unsweetened tea. It was a fun meeting. I showed newavsa.org, mentioning that it has not been approved by anybody. For dinner we had chicken curry over spaghetti with one of the whole wheat buns to sop up the sauce. I listened to L'elisir D'Amore from the Met live while working on a download of "Birders", an HBO documentary. One section was missing which meant I used the recovery files to repair the original image. When all was done I ended up with a 7 gig HD file!!!! The file extension was ts which I found was a blue ray streaming protocol. The Samsung TV can read the file but I had to use an NTFS formatted Flash Drive because the old FAT32 can't handle a file size larger than 4 Gigabytes.

It is a cooolllddd day, brrr. Barbara Ogers brought the shells over for the MAAVS banquet from New Berne. She bought some conch shells from the museum she volunteers at. They look nice. I hooked up the Arduino mega to ethernet today and after some minor tweaking it will do both COSM publishing and web serving in the same device. I need to test the Xbee functions now. Libbie went to her class tonight so we had soup for dinner. I was still hungry. I bought some STWD and BWP today in anticipation of the redemption of the BAC preferreds on Nov 15.

Made some progress on Meistersinger for the monitoring system. I am able to post data to COSM (formerly Pachube). The data is simulated, not the one wire stuff. The reason for this is so I could sit at my desk without having to go in the closet. In the front yard I moved the rest of the logs to the street. This completes the tree cleanup. Today I tried the Walgreens prescription refill. They sent an eMailtelling me I was low on Potassium pills. I replied to the eMail and a few hours later I got an eMail saying the prescription was ready. Went over and fetched it. Libbie was going to pack plants today but she found the Post Office is closed tomorrow because of Columbus Day. Dinner was Libbies yummy pizza with fresh basil. this makes a big difference. It was cold today - only in the fifties which was bad because earlier this weekend it was in the 80s.

I got some bad news last night. All the BAC preferreds are being recalled. I own 2100 shares that need a new home. I have targeted STWD which is Starwood business properties and possibly more SPH or equivalent and definitely a tiny more RGP. I'm also studying O.
The AVSA website is on hold. The morons hardly looked at it and said they need a week to study it. We went to Kroger and got Salmon for dinner which we had with beets and sweet potato, a salad and the rest of the Shiraz from Thursday night.

The Nicholas's are driving to Tulsa today, I sent Brenda the link to the newavsa site for her to look it over. I put a new chain on the saw this morning and finished cutting up the tree in the front yard. Libbie helped me take it to the street. They picked up the other logs this morning from last week. We went out to First Friday. Stopped at Litmus and talked to Jim, looked over his art and had some wine and dip. Libbie bought a fruit bowl from Sharon the potter. Next stop was Artspace. The quilt lady seems to be gone but we enjoyed looking at other art, especially the guy who paints old barns and country landscapes. Walked over to Boku for an 8 PM appointment. I had the Salmon with fennel, olives, cherry tomatoes and hummus. It was yummy and too much to eat. I tried the Lone Rider Sweet Josie beer which is brewed locally. it was quite good.

Put the jacks all back together in the attic and had some difficulty with one of the multiple taps. The wire with plug coming out of it is intermittent. Will cut the plug off and replace it with either a crimp on plug or I'll solder another one on to it.
In the afternoon we went looking for pansies at the Farmers Market but it was too early in the season. Dinner was tilapia with salad, beets and potatoes. The beets and potatoes were purchased the the Farmers market this afternoon

Worked pretty much all of today on the telephone system. Cut the lines loose in the attic and this did not solve the problem. Now I need to solder jacks on each of the cut lines to put the system back together. Dinner was pretty unique. We had pumpkin pasta which I picked up in Trader Joes. this was different and almost like eating a dessert for dinner.

Did the grocery thing then got a directory working on newavsa. Tried debugging the phone lines. Still don't know what's wrong. Ran out to Home Depot to get a 5 way telephone junction for the attic. I will try to isolate the upstairs to see if that's the problem. Dinner was leftover BBQ on sandwich rounds. Went to bed early for a change.

It's a cold rainy day. Joy came over to help Libbie and stayed until 2. I worked on the telephone wiring for a while before helping Libbie with click n ship. Dinner was lentil bean soup leftovers. Still yummy. We had a 5:50 dinner because Libbie went to her 6 PM diet class at Rex.

This is the last day of the month. Wow, it went by fast, mostly doing AVSA web work. I sure hope it was worth it. The site looks great. I moved a little more than half a dozen of the tree logs out to the road. I chose not to do anymore cutting today although after I was done getting the logs to the street I was glad I didn't cut any. We went over to Kroger with both cars and got both vehicles filled for $45 using our gas points which gave us a 40 cents per gallon saving. The list price is 3.77 before savings. In the evening Libbie made her wonderful pizza again, this time with leftover mushrooms from the Bok Choy.

This was an easy day. I finished up the affiliates section of the website then worked on updating Bluebird. The rest of the day was rainy, sometimes it was intense. I left my new steel cable out in the front yard accidentally, it's getting pretty wet today.Dinner was Bok Choy stir fry over rice with Shiraz. Still as good as ever.

I worked long and hard on the website today. I'm almost done with all the major sections!!! It's a gorgeous day out, hard to believe it's supposed to rain tonight. We went to the Asian grocery and got Bok choy, mushrooms and celery. This is an amazing store, lots of people buying healthy veggies. Dinner tonight was the Bok Choy over rice with Shiraz. Libbie booked her Providence trip today. I noticed on the Southwest website that their 11 day sale ends today so I went into action and booked some flights to Houston. I also signed up for the Selby behind the scenes photo class on Nov 17. At noon today the auction guy came out and took photos of the greenhouse so they can list it as an auction.

Nancy came over today so I returned her Come A Long. It looked brand new, still in it's original box. I worked in the yard cleaning up the tree crown and the upper part of the trunk. Hauled it to the street for pickup. Libbie dragged most of the upper branches while I cut up the trunk pieces and loaded the lawn cart and hauled a few loads to the street. Dinner was the Lentil squash soup. Still very good.

I worked on the website in the morning then went to Home Depot for more chain. Bought 100 feet of steel rope. Hooked everything up to the Doggett's come a long and the tree got cranked to vertical pretty easily. I made a little more of a cut after the saw got free and over she went away from the house. Yay! I started cutting up the crown as Libbie took the branches to the street for pick up. It was a very tiring but satisfying day. Dinner was salad with Tilapia and broccoli. It was excellent. It looks like I may have lost about 10 pounds on this regimen which has been a no diet plan. Lots of fruit and veggies and a walk or other exercise every day.

Website is back up and running. Support increased my memory size to 64 Mb from 32. According to Drupal forums, Drupal can't do much with 32 Mb. After doing groceries today I hooked up the come a long and started cutting the leaning tree in front of the house. It shifted and leaned worse right towards the house!!!! Worse, it jammed the saw blade into the opening. I ran to Home Depot and then Northern Tool where I bought another come a long and some more chain. This stabilized the tree but I couldn't budge it vertical. The saw is still stuck. Dinner tonight was BBQ sandwiches using Brookwoord Farms pulled Pork carolina style (vinegar base). Nancy Dogget will lend us her come a long which she will bring over in the morning.

Things were going along pretty good today with the web site. In the late afternoon I started studying access control and while I was installing the Dev module which is supposed to show which terms have access to a node. During the install the system hung up and crashed with a "Server 500" error. I opened a support ticket to try to fix it but I have my doubts. Tonight is opening night at the Met, I'm listening to the Red Carpet with Deborah Voight and Margaret Juntwait at 6:30. Not sure when things start but it may be 7 am.

I worked some more on the website cleaning up misc issues with spacing and fonts. Went to Trader joes for food then stopped at the park on the way home and walked around the lake with Libbie. It was a nice day. Watched the Emmys tonight and had another delicious Libbie pizza with homegrown bay leaves and tomato with mushrooms.

Did some outdoor chain saw work this morning in lieu of a walk. Cut up some logs that had fallen over the summer. Dinner was Salmon with salad and veggies including carrots and rice. We had it with Shiraz.

I'm well on my way with panels now, implementing stuff. I got the scoop from Scott via eMail and by talking with him about what the site needs. Will reorganize things so that the navigation menus are on the side as well as having nore color. Dinner tonight was a sit down dinner at the kitchen table with Shiraz accompanying spinach tortellini topped with tomato sauce.

Studied panels today and ended up implementing one for the about us page. I thought this was getting finished but tonight Scott had a long list of items from Richard that upsets the mix. Went to Home Depot today and spent $100 on stuff. Bought lights for the plant room, we need overhead light fixtures. Also bought a new LED spotlight to replace the one on the tree that is coming down this Fall. It's leaning towards the house and is loosing it's bark. Spent some time organizing files remotely on Traviata. They have been getting out of hand. I also need a backup strategy. Right now there is none. Dinner was left over Bok Choy. My new keyboard came in which I installed this afternoon. It works great but the touchpad does not work at all. I don't want to take it apart to fix it.

Did a lake walk with Libbie today after getting Daffodils at Lowes. We got all the varieties Southern Living said were good. I like how the photo gallery is shaping up. I finally got the hang of views and fields such that Views will put out a grid. Dinner was Bok Choy which was delicious. I talked with Lara today about the hotel. She couldn't do anything but mention that she would speak to her boss about it. I let the group know then posted our site visit photos on Picasa.

More rain today. When the garbage man came to do his pickup you could hardly see the street it was raining so hard. I'm making progress understanding how to display photos in the Views module. It's not too bad because the View has a grid view. You just specify the number of elements and the number of columns and it works. Dinner was bean lentil curry soup with jalapeno. Yum.

This was a rainy day. Did the click and ship thing then went back to learning how to do photo galleries. While Libbie went to exercise this afternoon I put the garbage cans out then the sky opened up and dumped a lot of rain. Dinner was BBQ sandwiches. The macro extension tube arrived. I tried it out but then back to work on the website.

Watched the morning programs while working on finding how to implement a photo gallery in Drupal. Spent a lot of time figuring different ways of trying to properly display a grid of photos. I don't like making each photo a separate content type but I may not have a choice. Libbie made her yummy pizza from scratch today. She had to run out at the last minute to get pizza cheese because we were out. I kept working on photo galleries.

Another whole day working at the AVSA website. I finished the FAQ section after reading about the Drupal Book module. This looks like it will fit the bill for me. Skipped the walk today because I wanted to work the website and we were leaving early this evening. Ed Lyons came over to get violets, we dug some Irises out of the garden for his yard. Spoke with Richard about the website, he is putting together the list of concerns from the committee to make sure we capture everything in the current design. We had a bowl of the leftover Lentil soup for dinner at 6 PM then left the house at 7 for our 8 PM Symphony performance. I thoroughly enjoyed the performance, even from Row C. We could see the faces of the orchestra and we were up close and personal with Gabriela, the improve piano soloist.