Purchased all the ingredients for a pot pie today. Made the pot pie in the afternoon with the chicken leftovers. We had it with Pinot Grigio which went into the pie. We went to waltz amalgamations after dinner. I danced with the very attractive Mary as well as Libbie and Jennifer. I still didn't get the pattern we were doing. The Raspberry Pi is doing a great job at serving music to our stereo. I used it for Christmas Music.

Libbie worked at mail order while I went up on the greenhouse roof and removed the shade cloth. Today is a light eating day so we had a rotisserie chicken with squash for dinner. I'm planning to use the chicken leftovers to make s chicken pot pie tomorrow.

Today is Sunday. Didn't do much - worked on the computer a little, showed Libbie how to use the Pi program to water the violets. She watered the one shelf that was new for 22 additional seconds after we wet the empty mats down yesterday for 30 seconds. We also added the shelf to the watering program. In the evening Libbie made her excellent pizza while I studied some PHP programs to see if I can make it easier for someone to change the members section password.

It's supposed to be a rainy day today. We got going to Falstaff today at noon. We allowed a little more time so we wouldn't get stuck in Christmas shopping traffic. Took Tryon and had no problems getting to the theater. Traffic was heavy but we navigated it well and got to the theater a half hour early. The performance was wonderful, it was played campy. Falstaff is huge, the other two ladies are no dainty ones either. It's the 1,000 pound cast with all three of them. Totally enjoyable and wonderful performance. When we got out it was pouring big time. We made a run for the car. On the way home we decided we were not going to stop for groceries for dinner. We did a Chinese takeout consisting of rice, 3 meat Szechuan and egg rolls accompanied by a bottle of Shiraz. Very nice. My maglite came today. It's an incredibly nice flashlight. I'm going to hang it in my closet. I bought the hanging hooks with it also. I could probably have done just as well from Amazon.

Stayed indoors all day today until time to go out. Worked on reading about B4A projects and found a sample program to read a CSV file. Joe Bruns has given me his database in CSV format. Late afternoon I worked on putting the LEDs and fringing on my San Francisco sweatshirt for the tacky sweater contest. It was fun. We went over to Dance early and did a little bit of Samba with Andrew's group class. We enjoyed dancing very much. winner of the tacky sweater contest was Nancy, an attractive and laughing thin girl. She wore a skirt made of a tree bottom cover and had glitter and funny elf like shoes. She was cute. We sat with her last night at our table at the Esquires dinner. I posted the posed Christmas tree picture of Lib and I on Facebook. 21 people have liked it so far. Too cool. I'm still having trouble with the waltz and connecting turns going down the line of dance. Need to really concentrate on this.

I got back into B4A on the tablet. There is so much I forgot that today turned out to be a learning exercise. By late afternoon i was actually sleepy and rested on the bed while Libbie started getting ready for Esquires tonight. We left at 6 but traffic on 64 was stopped, then the beltline had several trouble spots. Six Forks Rd was even worse as we went to the country club. Wehn we reached 540 on 6 forks I realized that the country club mut not be on 6 forks. We pulled over, dug out the GPS and tried again. It took us nicely onto Falls of The Neuse Rd and then I found the clubhouse ignoring the GPS that wanted us to turn in a weird direction. The party was excellent. We arrived at 7 PM instead of the planned 6:30 but we were fine. We had a glass of wine before dinner. It was a buffet with salmon and prime rib carved. The food was excellent. Dessert was blueberry cobble and also a piece of chocolate sacre cake. We danced all night until 10:30 to a 12 piece orchestra. The other members of the Esquires are very very good dancers, some of them almost as good as Robert.

Back to eating light today. We went for our dance lesson at 3:30 which was very good. We did waltz back to back and front facing boxes. We need to practice this some more. The hard part is my twinkle and throw out before doing the front facing and back to back boxes. Fun. Dinner was left over BBQ with cole slaw and Baked beans.

This morning I turned the Brunswick Stew off. It was done and looked pretty good. After breakfast I went to Home Depot and bought materials to make a red bow for the wreaths. I built two wreaths from the greens I picked up yesterday at Home Depot. At 11 we turned everything back on for the noon party. Everything went well, I think everyone enjoyed the food. It was a very tiring day but I was pleasantly satisfied. In the evening we went to Carolina Ballroom and participated in the Waltz Amalgamation session. It was a big class and I had some difficulty remembering all the steps. I'm convinced Andrew is not a very good instructor but we go along with it. For dinner we had the BBQ and cole slaw.

I started at 6 AM today and put the pork roast in the oven at 275. Last night I put together the rub and worked it into the roast. Libbie took the roast out of the oven and switched it to the disposable aluminum pan. I want it to cook for 8 hours at this speed or until the interior temperature is 190 or better. At 190 the roast falls apart, at 180 it can be sliced and stays together. I want it to fall off the bone for pulled pork. I also started baking cookies - the lemon ones and the peanut butter chocolate and peppermint ones we previously practiced on. When the roast was done I let it rest and cool then tore into it with while wearing latex glove. Using a fork and sharp knife it was easy to pull all the meat off the bone and pull off the skin. This was good. For dinner we had the oulled pork and cole slaw that I made. We had a few cookies for dessert. It was a tiring day but good.

Libbie left Providence at 7 am which meant she got up even earlier to get to the airport. It's supposed to snow in Baltimore where she changes planes and ice in counties West and North of here. She got here on time without incident. We're having a cold rain. I spent the time this morning running the ethernet cable from Gilda to the office closet. Is topped to get Libbie at the airport then we went shopping in Kroger for all the ingredients to cook the party food. I bought a 9 pound pork shoulder and the ingredients to make the rub and baked beans and brunswick stew. In the late afternoon I put the connectors on the cable and tried it out and everything worked the first time. Hurray!!!! Libbie made her yummy pizza for us tonight.

This was raspberry pi day. I built up the Open Sprinkler hardware into an electrical box, the one used for the former tower timer. this all went well. Configured an image on the downstairs raspberry pi with the new open source pi and the latest Raspberry wheezy image. This went pretty well. I hooked it all up and was happy. I ran to home depot and got a 50 foot ethernet cable to water the towers. I initially did a 20 second watering but wasn't happy so I did an additional 15 seconds. On the way back from Home Depot I stopped into Bojangles and picked up a 3 piece dinner with dirty rice. They were giving away free iced tea for some reason. I watched Gigante Sabaado tonight. This program sure has the babes and is quite entertaining. I would like to figure out what they're saying.
The pi sprinkler is working perfectly. I named it gilda since this afternoon I listened to Rigoletto as the first Metropolitan opera broadcast of the season. Horestovsky as Rigoletto is quite good.

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.