Late yesterday I switched to a pinch to zoom and abandoned the sliding panels. I used the pinch to zoom click event to switch the picture to the alternate. This works very well because the pic switches instantly and the zoom does not change. Happiness is!
This afternoon we had a very good class with Robert. We practiced a little more of the helicopter routine with Robert then did more Tango 101. This time we learned correct head turns going into promenade. We came home and had some spaghetti covered with shredded cheese. Stayed home tonight and worked more on trying to get the duplicate violets sorted. I found when the list is scrolled the row numbering changes which blows my map of hybridizer vs plant name into oblivion. Need a better way to sort out duplicate violet names. Went to bed without a solution.

I did a grocery run this morning after an overnight glaze of ice had melted a little. The trees were a winter wonderland but it's not supposed to be this cold. Went to Dr Beavers to get my Dental claim resubmitted. I heard from Victoria in Sarasota. The bill was $118 to stop the ice maker leak. There was a pinched water line that Badger Bob then cut and re-inserted onto the shutoff fixing things. We went to Waltz with Melanie at 3:30 which was great since it helped gel the previous waltz lessons. I learned to lead a little better and also to make left turns to combine with the open right. This was something missing from the mix I put together. Dinner was Salmon and Broccoli. After dinner we went to Swing amalgamations which wasn't very helpful. We didn't dance much in this amalgamation. I'm having much trouble getting the B4A sliding panels to work correctly.

The crunch continues. I worked non stop on the First Class program. Finally got it to recognize the second violet when both are named the same. the key was to add a hybridizer map file so that I can use the hybridizer to help choose violets. Joy was not in town and it was a freezing cold day - the high was only 35 so no shipping. Dinner was a salad with Tuna on it since it's a light eating day.

We tried to learn from last night's mistakes in doing the waltz by practicing and watching the video of our lesson. The key was the start in which we have to open with a twinkle before doing the open right. IT was good to practice some more. I made a Home Depot run and picked up more 2 cycle oil for the post hole digger and the chain saw. Also bought an LED maglite for downstairs and the stove pipe and rod for the new birdhouse. Libbie picked up a PVC pipe from the greenhouse while I was out so I drilled the PVC and the stovepipe and assembled the baffle. Using cell phones we next located the new bird house on the path in the back while Libbie tried site lines from the porch. It was raining so I marked the spot but didn't plant the pole. Dinner was once again Libbie's fantastic pizza. The crust was nice, thin and crisp this time.

Today is Werther but we decided to stay home and listen instead. We both have too much to do. Arlene called today, they are going to take us up on the condo for May 18. I called her this morning and talked for a while. My weight is down to 218.5 which is a start. I wish I had not gained the 15 pounds back since last summer but I can't look back. March forward and get lighter.
I used the afternoon and successfully was able to get the database SQL and the photo directory updated. We left at 5:30 for the Shriners Club on Lead Mine Rd in Raleigh. It took exactly 19 minutes to get there, getting us there a few minutes early. Gary and Janet brought a very nice German white wine. We sat with the ballroom dancers on one side of the dance floor while the Shriners sat on the other. One of the ballroom guys was a person I used to work with, Bill Spencer, who was a planner. He retired in 1996, I left in 2000. Dinner was catered by Golden Corral and consisted of beef in a stew concoction with carrots, onions and red potatoes. Veggies were corn and green beans. For desert I had a banana pudding which I loved. We had a nice evening of dancing. We are getting better but not perfect.

Left the house at 7 AM this morning to get my blood work done. I had a 7:20 appointment and got there at 7:14. They took me right away. When I got back I kept working on the FC4A program. I learned how I'm supposed to do SQL updates. It's from a list of maps so I spent the day on the config program that will create the maps and FTP them to AVSA.org for updating the app. In the PM I took some time off to make restrict-er openings to accommodate Nuthatches. The opening has to be 1 1/4 inches instead of 1 1/2. I also got the post hole digger out and put up 2 bird houses in the front yard, then it was back to my program. After a dinner of Salmon, broccoli and salad we went to the Dance party at the studio. I'm doing better but we're still missing a lot of steps.

I don't have to go anywhere today!!!!! I'm free to continue debug of the First Class program. Hooray. I solved the issues with checking for updates. Now I have to deal with downloading them. I'm trying to do the light eating thing today.
Dinner tonight was a salad with tuna sprinkled over the top.

Once again I'm dealing with a corruption problem. This time the entire file is not coming back from AVSA. I switched to a map for the list type and also allowed more time. This fixed the problem. Now I can move forward with storing the expiration dates in MySQL and so forth. We went to dance at 3:30. Robert taught us Tango 101 and helped us a little with the Swing shuffle steps. It made more sense with him teaching us. We have a lot of tricks in our tool bag for when we go dancing this weekend. I came back and dealt with Victoria in Sarasota. The icemaker is leaking water. I told her to call Badger Bob. Dinner was Curry chicken which was great. I want to resume light eating tomorrow. We had an amazing front come through in the evening. It rained like crazy and signals the end of our 75 degree temperatures. Tomorrow is only going to be in the forties. Brrrr.

While Libbie did house cleaning I worked some more on the problem. I found the issue with the data was in the FTP either to or from the AVSA server. Files created on the device are perfect and don't crash. Once I upload them then download, the program crashes when it does the read. This is so frustrating but at least I isolated it. Went to the grocery store for Tuesday groceries and the TAVS lunch. I got 1/2 pound each of turkey and Swiss and slider buns. Also bought some potato salad and served the last of the homemade Cole slaw. It was a good meeting. After the meeting I found the problem with the data. I was using an ASCII upload to the server which caused extra carriage returns to be inserted which corrupted the binary data. All is now fixed. We had a fantastic dance lesson with Melanie this afternoon at 3:30. We wanted to work on Waltz and she really helped. We came home and I had a long nap then dinner of chicken finger sandwiches on Martha Cranford's homemade bread she brought today. After dinner we went to a swing group lesson.

Today's successes: the update list and the password list were FTPed to the server by a config app, created routine to obtain WiFi status, successful retrieval of both lists from server by update button. Later in the day I found our the program was crashing trying to decrypt the downloaded file. I spent 15 hours on this problem staying up until midnight. Dinner tonight was peas with tuna and noodles. Very nice. I went out on a ride on my eBike today up to the Apex Peakway and back down 1010. This is a nice ride but I got right back to work again trying to solve this problem.

A nice warm day for a change, it's almost 70 outside. I spent the day indoors working on the encryption routine for the FC4A password file. It's the first day of Daylight Savings time and I' alert and wake. I stayed up until midnight today working on the program. In the afternoon we went to Walmart for a clock and other misc groceries. We also went into the garden shop and bought a large fiberglass pot for $16. Libbie made her excellent pizza once again. I spoke with Arlene a long time today about Aunt Helen and also a vacation she's planning for Florida. We offered our condo if they want to spend time in Sarasota.

Another full day of working on the FC4A program. In the afternoonn the Met ran the Enchanted Island which is not one of my favorites. We had Chinese takeout and shiraz for dinner. After dinner we watched the movie Her which was not one of my favorites, in fact I thought it was stupid.

Spent the day writing the Python scripts that massaged the First Class data for the FC4A program. I had great success. The database works nicely and pics and data are displayed correctly. I had to add a second SQL database table for the credits for the photos. It really works well. I heard from John wondering where the FC4A program is. I told him the status. We had dinner of peas, ribs that Libbie cooked all day and Shiraz. It was too much to drink the whole bottle. We went to dance and I couldn't function I was so confused over patterns and steps. Even Libbie didn't know whether a rock step was forward or backward. never again. We left the party early at 9:15.

I put more of an effort into the database and found that if the values are null, the program crashes. I looked at the old database I used last year for First Class and found Ii inserted zeroes in place of null values. I started writing a Python program to perform this function on the CSV prior to importing. I need a complete management program to work on data before importing. The Cell phone came around noon today while Nancy was still here helping Libbie. It's a pretty neat device although signal strength to Sprint is pretty poor. I spent time on and off adding apps and playing with the phone. The book reading is surprisingly good. Dinner was BBQ sandwiches topped with Cole Slaw again. After dinner we watched Last Vegas which I had seen previously while Libbie was in RI. It's supposed to rain and possibly sleet overnight. When we went to bed it was raining and when I used the LED light to look out I could see snowflakes along with a steady rain.

I started working on First Class 4 Android in earnest. I started by creating a new B4A project and created a separate SQLlite database. I'm learning how to import data into it and also how to display from the Db. It's not working since it keeps crashing the program. We went to dance at 3:30 where Robert first reviewed Foxtrot a little then addressed our problems with Swing last night. It was pretty helpful and I learned a lot. Libbie and I practiced at home and did quite well, surprisingly. Dinner tonight was Pulled Pork sandwiches with Cole Slaw topping. This was some of the pulled pork leftovers from when Bill and Barb were here. I worked till midnight on trying to use B4A to read the db without crashing.

The roads are icy this morning since the rain last night froze and there is a thin glaze on everything. Waited till noon when the temperature went to 40 and the roads were only wet. Started to look at First Class and adapting it to Android. We had Salmon and veggies for dinner then went to group swing class. The moves were pretty complicated and I was confused but I'm determined to make this work. Hopefully Robert can straighten out my Swing tomorrow.

More sleet predicted for today. The critter dug out the front of the shed in front of the mesh screen but didn't get in. I went out in the late morning and tamped some dirt over the hole before the rain started. Ran over to Kroger when the rain started and picked up some Salmon but Libbie didn't cook it because it was very cold and sleeting out. We got a little dusting of frozen precipitation on raised surfaces like on leaves but not on the ground because the warm ground melted the sleet. It's going down to 15 tonight which is unusual for March. I got a music player up and running for the plant room but I found out I don't have another micro usb cable. Need to order some. Dinner tonight was egg noodles covered with creamed tuna fish and peas. After dinner we listened to Werther live which was premiering. Vicki called from Sarasota. Our tenant wants ESPN, Fox News and some kind of Big 10 sports package. I ordered it for another $25 which they said I could cancel after one month.

It's beautiful and warm out. I continue to read about interfacing to flask web sites. I really like the protocol because I can control hardware from a web page. I put screen in the front of the shed this morning to stop a critter from trying to dig under there. My rake is missing so /i had to make do with the shovel. We left at 1:10 for the ballet - a double bill of Rachmaninov Piano concerto and Vivaldi's four seasons. I loved it, especially the four seasons which was well choreographed and very colorful. I ended up updating our performance log in the life bits. In the evening we turned on the Academy Awards and watched it all the way to midnight. Best Picture was 12 years a slave. We just saw Gravity last night which won 7 awards so it was nice to see this. Dinner was Lib's pizza which was amazing because we were out all afternoon but she pulled it off.

This morning I went upstairs and worked on putting bridezilla's screen grabs of the album into a PDF using an old version of Photoshop. This went well, then I emailed it to her for approval. Hopefully she goes for it. We'll see. We had to leave early for Prince Igor which started at noon. It's hard to believe but this is the 75th presentation of the Met HD. I went back home and counted the number I have listed in Tom's Life Bits. The number is 58. We have attended 58 performance. Where has the time gone? Wow. We came home around 5. For dinner we had more homemade Chinese with stir fry carrots, celery, Bok Choy and chicken over rice with a bottle of Shiraz. After dinner we watched Gravity with Sandra Bullock which was an amazing movie. It was exciting all the way to the end.

I worked on infrared control via a web app running on the Raspberry Pi. For dinner we had the Salmon I purchased yesterday along with some rice and a glass of Shiraz. We left for dance in the evening for the 8 PM party which we enjoyed. We had first Andrew then Melanie help us with beginning the open right turn of the Foxtrot.

I installed the binary for node.js on the Pi. It worked well. I anm able to run the tutorial examples. I found one site with horrible examples that didn't work. The comments section is what eventually clued me in to not visit this site. It's another cold one today. I demoed the eBike to Nancy at noon, taking a trip down the driveway. Dinner was Bok choy with Shiraz. It was incredibly good. while Libbie was out at quilting I ran over to Kroger and got Salmon which we can have tomorrow night before the party.

Tried to compile the node.js on the Pi. It took 2 hours and I had a few errors I didn't understand. Time to do more reading to understand this thing. It's too cold to go bike riding today. The high is only in the forties. We went to dance today at 3:30. We enjoyed watching Robert choreographing himself in a Tango before we started. We went over last nights Foxtrot with some great success. Now I get what Andrew was trying to do. We spent the whole session doing the Foxtrot Open right turn. For dinner tonight we went out to La Cocina. This is the last Wednesday of the month which meant they had a Mariachi band. The guys came over to play Happy Birthday to us only they had the wrong table. It was for a guy at the bar. Funny. Libbie had them play Via con dido or something like that. We each had a Quesadilla La Cocina with a Margarita. Libbie's was cooked a little too much.

Groceries this morning then I tried another bike trip through Vintage Grove. the bike is really doing well. Started reading about node.js for real time control of hardware on the server via the web. We had a dinner of spaghetti then went to the amalgamations. We thought we were going to cha cha because that is what the schedule said but Andrew had it wrong. We had another Foxtrot session. Libbie was not a happy camper but I stayed with it including video. She doesn't like Andrews teaching technique. I think she was just tired.

I read quite a bit this morning about using a Pi for remote control of IR devices. This is the ultimate remote. I can't wait to get this working. After doing this most of the morning I buckled down and worked on bridezilla's album.. I ended up finishing it on MyPublisher. In the meantime, John Carter wanted a way to submit Best Varieties online. I created a new page with the best varieties and a form to submit the data. Dinner was BBQ on a bun and a salad. After dinner I listened to Prince Igor live from the Met.

Today I started working on Bridezilla's album. We took some nice pictures but they will be hidden by the fact she wants 5 pictures per page. Awful. I tried laying the first 10 pages out then assembled jpgs of the pages into a pdf and sent them to her. This afternoon I had a nice bike ride on the ebike. I went out onto 1010 through vintage grove. The temp was on the cool side so I wore a hoody. Came home through the woods once again but I was smarter this time and downshifted before I entered the woods so I could do pedal assistance. I adjusted the front brake so it doesn't make a rubbing noise anymore. The bike is really working well. For dinner we had Libbie's pizza which came out with a nice thin crust and was delicious. While looking for Bridezilla's wedding pics I reminisced while looking at pics of soome of the models I photographed over the years. This was a fun time.