It's a beautiful day out. I worked outside today and picked up the pine straw from last week and spread it around in the back. While blowing off the garage, driveway and front porch I noticed the extreme buildup of moss on the front steps. Tried out the pressure washer and found it started quite easily although the gas can is empty. I decided to see how far it would go pressure washing the house. Cleaned the front steps, landing and door. It still was running so I moved it to the driveway and washed the garage door and molding. The dirt came off pretty easily and the door looks much better. I also cleared the workbench of "stuff" that has sat there too long. Dinner was a vegetable Lasagna from Trader joes. It's pretty good although it could have been better if I put it in the oven instead of the microwave. The microwave toughens the pasta. I did some more reading of "Travels with charlie". I like Steinbeck's writings. Will seek out more.

I started to look at the sprinkler controller. This thing needs an ethernet connection which I will drop into the laundry room and then over to the towers. I went to Home Depot and looked at electrical boxes but didn't buy one since I didn't feel the $20 was worth it. I could do as well by repurposing the existing box. I looked on eBay at refurbished Google Nexus 7 and found the lowest price at $125 but then found Walmart is selling them refurbished for $129. I tried with a different router and still couldn't get the Google chrome working. It's going back. I watched the Barbara Streisand movie "guilt trip" which I enjoyed. Not a great movie but it was enjoyable. I would give it 3 out of 5 stars. The credit card bill is ridiculous at over $5,000 because of dance lessons and dining room furniture in the condo. One more reason why I did not buy the electrical box. Dinner was a couple of bean burgers with onion and ketchup. I liked them. I caught the end of the Sound of Music which was live with Carrie Underwood. I'll check the bit torrents to see if I can get a recording.

I took Libbie to the airport at 6:45. After I dropped her off I got home and she called saying she left her purse at home. I drove it back to the airport in rush hour traffic which was bad - stop and go on 40. She missed the 8:20 flight but was rebooked for an 11:15. I think she learned a lesson. i did a lot of driving today. Stopped at Trader Joes and got a Veggie pizza that was good but not a favorite. Spent an hour on the phone with that stupid Bluecross plan. they read ridiculous legal documents over the phone to me and I had to agree to it all. Idiot bureucrats. dinner was the mentioned Trader Joes Vegeteranian Pizza.

I spent some time reading about B4A today then went to Kroger for Salmon and Spinach for dinner. Very good. Said goodby to jack who stopped by to drop off an Orchid and is moving to Oregon.

Another nice winter day. Joy came over to help Libbie with shipping. It's Cyber Monday - I ordered shirts from LL Bean and a B4A license from Basic for Android. This entitles me to the 3.0 version. We had a very good dance lesson with Robert today, focusing on the zigzag and left/right turns. I think I made some progress today. Watching the video from last time I was having trouble finding a pattern. According to Robert, you only do the zig zag once before switching into something else. For dinner we had Salmon and Spinach which was yummy.

First day of December and it's clear and warmer. I went out and planted the rest of the Fall bulbs. Hurray. Got indices in the database for 2013 and 2012. This is going better than I imagined.
Libbie made her pizza for dinner. It was incredibly good.

We set up the Christmas Tree on the porch today. I bought candy canes for cookies and the tree. I made a batch of cookies this afternoon from the Consumer Reports recipe for lemon cookies and also chocolate peanut butter cookies. They were pretty good although Libbie insists they need eggs and baking soda. I did a Kroger run for cookie toppings and also topped off my gas tank because the gas point run out today. I took 7 gallons at 3.02, a 30 cent savings with our points. Dinner was turkey, peas, potatoes, cranberry and Shiraz with cookies for desert. We tuned into the Joe and Christa Little Pumpkin Party today for the big reveal. Debbie cut the cupcake - it's going to be a girl.

The day after and Black Friday. i bought the Corel Video software for $29 from NewEggs Black Friday sale. I'll use this mostly for AVSA. I rounded up a video cam for the media PC I built in my office. This thing is too loud for use in the living room. I'm not sure what to do with it but it is very very fast. It has the large monitor and a solid state drive. Dinner was leftover turkey with potato and leftover corn with Shiraz. We had pumpkin pie for desert. I started looking at the AVM indices for the website.

Thanksgiving!!! Went out around 8:30 tot Kroger for the newspaper. the place was deserted which was good. It's a nice sunny but cold day. I worked on the AVSA photos today some more and finished uploading the last of 3,800 additional photos. My work is complete in the Photo Gallery. Libbie worked pretty hard today. She made the fruitcakes in the morning and then started the turkey in the afternoon. We had turkey, stuffing, potatoes, corn and cranberry with Shiraz. The turkey was a very juicy and tender butterball. It was one of the best turkeys we have had in a while. yummy. A great day.

Went to Trader Joes early in the morning with Libbie and picked up wine and oatmeal. On the way home stopped into Kroger for last minute Thanksgiving items. Libbie hung the Christmas Cactus on the porch which started blooming in the greenhouse. It's pretty cold today. Dinner was a Lasagna that we picked up in Trader Joes.

Continued working on the Python program for the AVM indices. I also studied different search modules and even non Drupal search techniques. For now I'll stick with Drupal. Barb Burde, Internet Chair, wanted to know how the photo gallery was coming. I need to switch gears and work on the photo gallery since that's what users requested. Dinner tonight was tuna sandwiches and Progresso Corn Chowder soup.

I worked on AVM index files and Python today to convert category numbers into text. We had an excellent dance lesson with Robert today at 4:15. We learned some new moves with the waltz - a twinkle and a zigzag. The video has really helped us with the Foxtrot grapevine last week. On the way home we stopped into Krogers and picked up some spaghetti which we had for dinner.

We had a normal Sunday morning watching CBS Sunday which specialized in food because of the coming Thanksgiving holidays this weekend. My tooth and gums were killing me until late in the day I used a brush pick and did a thorough cleaning around the base of the front tooth and it seemed to make the gums feel much much better. For a while I thought I was in for a root canal in the front tooth with the bridge. I even googled it to see if it was possible (it is). I continued to work on Python programming to convert a numeric category in the AVM index into a text string. Because I was freezing last night and had severe leg cramps that wouldn't go away, I went to Walmart today and purchased fleece pajama bottoms by Fruit of the Loom for $9.62. They're pretty soft and hopefully will be warm. It's supposed to dip into the low 20s tonight Brrr. Dinner was another Libbie creation - her pizza. Joe called today from the San Antonio airport on his way home after 2 days at Marks. We tried watching the American music Awards tonight on TV but turned it off after a few minutes. It didn't seem like a very good show.

More working on the website. Ii started getting the AVM indices fronm Barb Pershing. I need a Python program to translate the category number to a string. There are a few hundred categories. In the afternoon I went out to Kroger and picked up some Salmon for tonight. My gums are still aching so I wanted something soft to eat. I hope the gum problem doesn't require dental work such as a root canal - horrors. i went outside in the PM and scooped up the piles of leaves that Libbie left in the front of the house. I used the pine needle and leaf mixture to mulch the azaleas. Dinner tonight was salmon, frozen peas and shiraz. As a bonus we had a Kroger baker Apple Pie. I bought a half pie today. It was not bad for a store bought pie.

I spent a lot of time on the computer today. I uploaded the rest of the Karaoke video to Facebook and started looking at how to use the Feeds module to bulk upload pictures to the photo Galleries. n the afternoon we had a very nice dance lesson with Robert at 3:30 learning to add a grapevine with twinkles to the Foxtrot. It was a pretty good lesson and the video I took afterwards will help with our learning. My guns are really in pain today despite multiple flossings. We had chicken fingers and squash for dinner then went out dancing to the studio. It was Ticky Tack night, I wore a green hoody with a tie. My new /Sarasota outlet gray jeans felt very comfortable.They are a size 40 instead of 42 and fit nicely. We danced a lot of the dances and I'm pretty happy and felt energetic.

This morning we had the Comfort Inn breakfast which was mediocre then stopped an hour down the road at a filthy mcDonalds between Santee and Walterboro for more coffee and gas. Gas was 3.09 We topped off 100 miles up the road just North of florence for 3.09 and got home around 1:30 PM. I spent the rest of the afternoon moving computer files around and unpacking. Dinner tonight Salmon with frozen corn and one glass of Shiraz.

I did computer work while Libbie worked on cleaning the condo. I tracked the Havertys delivery on my laptop. At approx 10:30 the truck showed up on time. They delivered and set up the table and chairs. I sat in one of them and it was very comfortable. We put the remaining items in the car and left around 11 am. The drive was very easy. We did a gas and lunch stop in Lake Mary. Gas was 3.27 and lunch was a McDonald snack wrap. We had light rain around Jacksonville but kept moving at the speed limit. We arrived at exit 109 in Savannah around 6 PM. There were 2 lanes of traffic backed up onto I-95 for over a mile. I think it was rush hour. For dinner we went to the Sweet Tea Grille and had Crabcakes and a Fat Tire beer. the waitress carded us! It was a nice night in the Comfort Inn. We were on the non I-95 side of the building so it was quieter.

We had a 9:15 golf lesson with Susan this morning. It went pretty well, we went to the driving range today and tried bigger swings. I had some success with the #7 iron and the fairway driver but the #1 driver was a challenge. I couldn't get the ball airborne. Somehow my right arm developed a severe pain when I twist it. I'm not sure what I did to it. The bridges on the right side of my mouth are also bothering me. I think I was remiss with flossing in Texas while eating all that beef. Flossing helps the pain go away. I need to take it easy on that side of my mouth and continue to keep the gum line clean with floss. We were going to go out to practice this afternoon but my arm hurt so bad I didn't go. We left at 6 for dinner at Panera. I had a chicken chipotle Panini and cup of French Onion Soup. I didn't need the sandwich because earlier we had cheese and crackers with wine as we watched the sunset. We went to Sarasota Ballroom group lesson at 7 and then practice at 8. The total was $10 each. I did learn something new with the lesson but I'm not sure it was worth it. I absolutely hated the group mixer practice session. I don't like dancing with other women very much.

After breakfast I went to Lowes and picked up a toilet seal, a thick one this time. I believe due to the tiles the flange is low and it requires a thicker seal to make up the 1/2 inch lower flange from the toilet outlet. The work went well. I also bought a nice #2 phillips screwdriver with a comfortable grip to replace the storm door screws which have stripped out their self tapping holes. The sesl installation went well. I had a couples golf lesson today with Libbie at 11:15. This was fun and I really learned a lot about chipping and lifting the ball from further away from the pin. I was hitting over the top of a sandtrap onto the far side of the green. We stopped by the clubhouse to pay our bill, get the finance charge removed and have lunch. We both had a Yuengling and a shaved steak and mushroom Quesadilla which was outstanding and a lot of food. It was dinner for me. We went back out after lunch to practice a little and use up the remaining balls in our bag then went to Publix for Swiss Cheese and bread rounds. We had wine and cheese for the sunset which was pretty good tonight. I laid down with my tablet to start reading Travels with Charlie while Rigoletto was on live. I fell asleep during a wonderful performance by Horestovsky. Turned the toilet water on before we went to bed, no leaks so everything seems good. Tried reading again but quickly fell asleep. Fresh air during the day and wine for sunset finished me off but it was a pretty good day.

This morning I successfully got the Python program to parse all the files in the AVSA photo directory and print a map of picture names to image files. It was a text file and still needed some minor editing in Ultraedit before renaming to a CSV and uploading into a spreadsheet. Now the uploading work can begin. Mailed it all off to Barbara and started writing the tutorial. This afternoon we played on the golf course doing a little pitching then took a ride to Siesta Beach. The parking lot and the key itself were very crowded. We lucked out and found parking at beach access #7 which is about 1 mile North of the public beach. We enjoyed the walk in the sand down to the sand castle competition I saw a lot of nice bikinis and one thong. Libbie spent the time on her cell phone which I think is stupid. For dinner we ordered a pizza from Valentinos on Clark. Dave downstairs visited us and told us our toilet was leaking on his bathroom ceiling. I'll deal with it in the morning.

This is a rainy day. There's a tournament going on and the rain is pouring. The carts are making a wake in the puddles as they go down the path outside our Lanai. It cleared later in the day so Libbie and I went out to the pitching green and finished up our bag of balls. This has been a lot of fun. Yale was out there giving advice to Libbie and some guy in the sand trap as well as some women who were also pitching. After the pitching session we went home and cleaned up then had the leftover Pad Thai for dinner. It was still pretty spicy hot and yummy. We left at 6:50 for the 8 PM performance of Tango Fire. The performance at Van Wezel was spectacular. There were some very hot Tango women dancing in very skimpy clothing with boobs hanging out every which way and slit skirts that revealed the thongs they were wearing underneath. At one point the ocnclusion fo a number had the male hold the girl in the air with her dress opened to reveal her nsked bottom for the ending. These women were truly beautiful. The final numbers had the 5 women come out with their hair down doing even more sultry dances than I thought were possible. Loved it!!!!

I did more website work in the morning then we went onto the driving range and played a little on the pitching green. We picked up a bag of balls and tried pitching then I used the rest of the older bag I had on the driving range which was fun. I got to wack away at some balls. We had an afternoon performance of Die Fledermaius. Our seats were excellent in row F in the center of the house. The performance was outstanding. The Orchestra never sounded better, the opera was comically played and the singing was excellent as usual. I love this Opera house. We got back around 5 and rested before going out again to our favorite Thai restaurant, Bangkok Thai where I had a Michelob and chicken Pad Thai. It was spicy hot and yummy. I came home terribly full and pleasantly sleepy.

I continued working on the various websites - MAAVS, AVSA and Lonestar. Libbie left at 11 for her first golf lesson ever. I finished the MAAVS website with the New Bern pics. In the afternoon we enjoyed Selby Gardens. Walked through the Childrens rain forest. I objected to this at first but it is high quality and should attract more people. We had wine and cheese at sunset then at 6:45 we went over to the clubhouse for rib night. We both ordered the 7 ounce prime rib which came with veggies, baked potato and yorkshire pudding. Penny finally sent the Lonestar presentation files and I created a presentation page under the Kerrville past conventions menu option.

It's a cold day. I spent most of the day indoors doing web updates. Libbie and I took a short walk in the afternoon but came back quickly since the wind was brisk. Even though temps were around 70 the wind made it difficult to walk. At 7 PM we went out to pub night. I had Yuengling with an Oyster basket while Libbie had the crab cake. She said it wasn't as good as the Sweet Tea Grille in Savannah. We came home and had the rest of the Bluebell ice cream, Fudge Divine.

After breakfast we attended the homeowners and the board meeting which started at 9:45. After the meeting it was time to go furniture shopping. We drove up to Trader joes then visited Rooms to Go. It's a very nice store but we struck out. Next stop was Kanes. They didn't even help us, we sort of found a table and chairs made by Broyhill. We reserved the table and stopped by Havertys to take another look. We ended up buying the Havertys furniture. They gave us the Veterans day sale price plus a $50 veteran day bonus. This was a great deal. The list price was 999, sale price of 899 and veterans day bonus of $50 for a total of $849. Tax and delivery brought it back to just under $1,000. A stop by the clubhouse for lunch capped the day. I had lobster and shrimp croissant with a glass of Yuengling.
I messed up the Online groups on AVSA.org by accidentally deleting the online groups. I will have to restore them from a backup unless Mel has a copy. We had some crackers and cheese before leaving for the Opera at 6:50 am We found parking in front of the Church 2 blocks away. The Operetta was a total delight. When the curtain opened and the staircase was revealed with the entire cast and chorus it was stunning. The music was light and very enjoyable. We had nice seats in the center of the Opera house. There was light rain on the way back but nothing serious.