This morning I went outside and finished painting the side gable and side door. I managed to knock the wasp nest off the front gable with the 20 foot extension pole. It wasn't much of a problem.
I found the species plants all have an alt name which I am not displaying anywhere in Nashville. I need to make room for the alt, possibly on the same line as the plant name. Interesting problem. We went to our normal dance lesson with Robert. We fine tuned the concept of right and left turns a well as big steps, little steps. Arlene called to say Aunt Helen is in a coma at the nursing home. Death is imminent. dinner tonight was spaghetti. I found a huge cucumber to have with my salad accompanying the pasta. After dinner I ran out to a stabilizer for the ladder to hold it away from the house. They didn't have the adjustable one I wanted but they had one with a fixed 10 inch offset which I bought. I like the quality, apparent when I put it together in the family room.

Discovered more problems with the clone species plants. For some reason they seem to be repeating many times. Also hybridizer is coming up as "0". They don't have a hybridizer since they are species. Dinner was tuna on salad then we went to Waltz amalgamations. Libbie took ill during the dance with afib. Mary is a cardiac nurse and attended to her. It was Mary who decided her pulse wasn't right. She had some water and a bottle of gator aid. I continued to learn right and left turns while Libbie sat it out. She needs to see a doctor. At home we googled afib - a banana is the correct temporary fix.

After 3 days of debugging I finally figured out why the s.clone violets would crash the system. The issue was a null because I was searching for a name that was larger than the names in the database due to extra space. A quick trim of the spaces and the nulls went away. I went outside this morning and set up the ladders and tarp then got out the brushes and paint. Finished painting the gable vent, the front cornice, the side window and the soffits coming down one side of the gable. I was tired and stopped. The goal was to do both sides of the gable but as grandpa used to say, "tomorrows another day". Back to the app. I found another issue where the ionantha and the grotei repeat many times. This is more puzzling because the select actually seems to be returning multiples but there aren't multiples in the database. Dinner was chicken fingers with Libbie BBQ sauce and beets with a glass of leftover Shiraz. We had a thunderstorm as I was going to bed at 10:30 PM. This is our first rain in almost 3 weeks and supplied .41 inches which was great.

I spent the morning debugging the problem of all the S. clone violets crashing the system. At noon I went outside and dragged hoses, ladder and pressure washer to the side of the house in prep for power washing. Libbie helped me thread the hose through the garden. The washer went well and I was able to blast the dirt off the house trim in prep for painting the next day. I went back inside and tried debugging some more. Joe Bruns reported Precious Pink was missing a picture. He's right. More work to do in order to figure out why. I also started a new section of the AVSA library on the web with newsletters, journals and show schedules. It came out well.
It has rained for 2 weeks. I watered all the gardens via the sprinkler system. This is serving us well. I want to get the system expanded and add another watering line. Libbie made her fantastic pizza tonight from scratch having to make a new dough ball. Late in the night I discovered an object to string mismatch which may have been my problem with the S. clone crashes. I'll deal with this tomorrow when I can concentrate. I did this during the Tony awards which I was mildly interested in.

This morning I put Nashville version 6 on Google Play and had to upload version 7 almost immediately. Libbie's phone did not update the database so I renamed the database and included the new one in the app. I'll need to add a line to delete the old one in a future version. Libbie found a serious problem. All the S. clone species violets are causing system crashes. Not sure why yet. We made the chipotle baked beans for the party and left at 4 PM for robert and Mitzi's. I picked up a graduation card earlier in Kroger and we put a check for $50 in it for Atlanta. The party was nice. Mitzi's Dad is loud and obnoxious. In contrast, Robert's is quiet and neat but he didn't stay long. We had hamburgers and a variety of salads and deserts. Nancy, one of the studio students, made a yummy desert of peaches, pineapples, coconuts and pecans. I want the recipe. We came home around 10 which was a nice night out.

I had to do some additional work on the device rotation repainting. I was going to go outside and pressure wash today but Libbie wanted to go to the Farmers Market. I agreed and suggested we pick up the scrap motors and steel at the greenhouse and take it to the scrap yard. We got $90 for the scrap and spent some of it at the Farmers market on veggies and a Denver Daisy plant. We got the first peaches of the season which were delicious. they are not freestone but are very good. Libbie bought 2 baskets - one of soft ripe ones and a second basket of harder peaches. We had a quick dinner of salad greens and tuna fish with one of my thai peppers which is excellent. I need to tie the plants in the garden since they are getting out of control. We left at 6:40 for 7 oclock rock. It was Latin night with a Latin band. Robert led the group class once again with a Salsa lesson. Libbie said Salsa was boring but I enjoyed practicing. It was warm and a lot of people were sweating but we enjoyed it. Mitzi invited us to Atlanta's graduation party tomorrow night at 4. We'll go. We got home at 10 PM.

I think I have the reason for the crashes. there were lots of quote characters in the database. I manually edited the database and everything seems to be better. I also fixed the issue where you would lose your place after rotating the device. Still need some cleanup on the rotation of the text box but in general, all is well. We turned the AC on today both up and down. At first I didn't think the upstairs air was working but after getting a 9 volt battery for my IR thermometer I measured the air output and it was 49 degrees. It seems to be working. Dinner was Salmon and peas with a glass of Shiraz but I had to eat quick since we had a conference call with the MAAVS EC and Mary Schaeffer. We told Mary we can't cover the expenses of the speakers.

Worked on the App some more. I made lots of headway with search and crashes.
Still have a crash when the device is turned and you happen to be doing a search. This should be easy to track down. Joy came over and helped Libbie do inventory. Robert called to say that the studio is baking hot and he won't be having classes today. Too bad since we wanted to go over some Latin moves before the 7 O'Clock rock on Friday night in Cary. the theme is Latin night. Dinner was lettuce and cucumber with tuna. The cucumber and a Thai hot pepper came from the garden. Went out there and noticed the Early Girl tomatoes were wilted. I did a watering of all the growboxes as well as both gardens.

I spent the day erasing Libbie's laptop and re-installing windows. I started by saving some files to a flash drive along with the Windows ISO image. Booted from the image and wiped the hard drive then installed Windows. Last step was to install FC2 and chrome as well as the printer driver for the printer upstairs. Hopefully this will fix her up for now.
I still need to add Great Violets and Great Inventory. I did a grocery run before lunch then went to work on the Nashville app. Dinner was spaghetti with tomato sauce and cheese before going to dance at 7. Tonight it was Waltz amalgamations which went well. Libbie had a chance to show off Paige to the ladies before class. The AC is broken in the studio again.

I worked on the Nashville program some more and discovered that it was my code that was restoring the list and not anything to do with the listview state after looking at a violet. I have a new issue of index out of bounds when doing a search, not the text changed routine. This needs some more work. I cleaned up the Sinningias today. Need to look at Libbie's computer for what to save before wiping the hard drive. Dinner was hamburger with baked beans again. These were the last two Sirloin burgers.

Up at the normal time, packed our remaining items and we were on the road by 7 AM ET or 8 AM CT. Stopped for breakfast somewhere before Knoxville. We chose to get biscuits and coffee to go and got back on the road. Traffic was surprisingly light We had a gas and lunch stop around Hickory, NC at 1 PM and made it home by 3:35 PM. I went over to Kroger and got milk and some hanburgers and buns for dinner. Dinner was hamburgers and baked beans both of which were yummy. The Baked Beans were Southern Pit BBQ by Bush and the hamburgers were Sirloin 90% lean which I dressed with tomato and vidalia onion. Yum. Started the process of unpacking my new Sinningias and caring for the old ones under my lights. It had not rained while we were away. I ran the watering a few times while we were away, all looked well. I had to put a bucket of water on the new Dogwood in the front yard.

This morning we were going out the showroom lobby door for breakfast when we ran into Karen Cenci who told us about the Waffle House. We went there for an enjoyable breakfast, our first time. The staff was very pleasant and I enjoyed breakfast. I had a waffle with delicious bacon and coffee. Total was $15. This morning I got into the showroom early and managed to photograph the show chairs, Karen Cenci and Penny Wichman. I then did some more showroom photography while the place was empty. Al Cenci borrowed my light so he could light up the Live Live Live judging panels for the video cam. I helped both Marjorie and Richard with their photography video since they both are planning video interviews for the DVD.

We were going to go to Micky Ds for breakfast but saw that Brenda and Mahlen were going to eat on the patio so we got a bagel and coffee and joined them. After breakfast I gathered my stuff and started setting up the photo stuff in the classroom. Julie shortly arrived which was good. I had difficulty at first getting everything working but soon figured it out. Julie's talk is outstanding, I supplemented a little with my demonstrations. Afterwards we went to lunch at Jack in the Box. I had a spicy chicken biscuit which was good. I got the Entries program from Marjorie. This is good because I wanted the Entries program and now I have it. She has lots of difficulty breathing, we had to stop so she could catch her breath. I installed the program and updated the website with the award winners from the convention. We were going to get on the bus for the Opry but Richard suggested we go with them to dinner and the Opry. We stopped at the Opryland hotel for a walk through the gardens and dinner. Parking was $21 plus tax. Ouch! Dinner and the gardens were worth it. We so enjoyed it. We got to the Opry at the last minute as the curtain was going up. Loved the live music and the incredible singers and performers. We had a great Korean comedian, Henry Cho. Great night. Afterwards we had a beer in the hotel bar for a nightcap.

We went into the showroom at 2 PM to allow Anne time to shop in the salesroom. There was quite a salesroom crowd. Unbelievable. Photography went well. Winston was even cordial and helpful. What a surprise. Tonight was the banquet, In the evening Libbie and I went back to Dorfinos for dinner. This time I had the basil Salmon on spinach and rice. A nice Yuengling draft complemented the meal.

Libbie and I did Mickey D's again for breakfast then I had to scramble to get ready to take Andrea to Optimara. We had a nice personal tour by Russel then we spent an hour in the research house with Rheinhold, interviewing him for the DVD. All went well. I totally filled up one CF card and had to switch to the little camera. When I got back Libbie and I had lunch in the hotel from the grab and go service which is pretty attractive. I had a hamburger which I dressed out myself with tomatoes and onions and lettuce. we went to BBQ Cuteys and had a whole rack of ribs split between us with beans and macaroni. No alcohol at Cuteys.

We had the hotel buffet breakfast for $34 plus $5 tip. Nice but pricey. Left at 9 for Optimara. The tour was incredible. Loved every minute of it. In the PM Libbie and I went out to the Hermitage after a lunch of sandwiches in the Marriott Lobby. For dinner tonight we went out to Darfons a short distance from the hotel. We had Barb, Anne and Richard, Andrea and Libbie and I. I had the Blackened Salmon. What a nice dinner and a nice night out with friends..

Left for Nashville at 7:30 with a stop before Asheville for breakfast and bathroom. Next stop was lunch in Knoxville. Heard from Joe that they were going to the hospital at 11:10 am, contractions had started. Received several text messages enroute then when we got to our room received a text that said "babys out". That was all! Later in the evening we heard that her name is Paige Victoria which was heart warming that they named Paige after Mom. Wow, that was heavy. We were with the Nicholas's when we hear the news. Dinner was Barbecue Cutey which was OK but they wereout of ribs and no alcohol.

I did a little bit of Nashville for Android then worked on getting my camera to display on the Computer. Finally had some success. Dinner was Libbie's excellent pizza then we packed for Nashville.

I spent a lot of the day debugging some of the issues with Nashville. Arlene called to say they were leaving the condo and heading home. They had a nice time. We're both glad it worked out for her. For Nashville I worked on why some entries had the wrong hybridizer. It was when two violets had the same name that a hybridizer was identified, however it was the wrong one when the list was created from search. Manually scrolling had a correct value. At 3 PM I started on the outdoor irrigation. I want to separate the grow box watering into three lines. I ran to Home Depot for CPVC glue and some hose fittings but ran out of time. At 5 PM we reviewed some dance then got ready at 5:30 for the 6 PM Shriner dinner-dance. It was real nice. We brought 2 bottles of Ravenwood Zinfindel to share but drank one bottle ourselves and brought the other home. Harry and Terry joined us. The DJ was excellent since he played mostly ballroom music. We had a wonderful time and did a lot of dancing. It was a fun night out. When I came home I worked some more on Nashville and solved why one violet name, ACA's Libbie, had it's own "by:" label and crashed when selected. Little by little this is getting done.

I spent most of the day debugging Nashville and had a new release ready. The search was really broken but I fixed it and broke out the mini and semi-mini categories. I also made the results screen have more results. After a dinner of Salmon and peas we went out to Andys "secret party" which was also billed as a "Flashback" party. His Dad got a bunch of old LPs and ripped them into MP3s which Andy played on his laptop controlled via cellphone. We skipped going to the Pub but stopped into Kroger on the way from the studio and bought Ben and Jerrys Chocolate Peanut butter cup ice cream.

It was a relief to have the Android app out there. Most of the installs seemed to go OK with some minor glitches. This made me happy. Search is still an issue. I need an SQL tutorial. I finally took my bike out. It's been a while. There were no issues. I wanted to go to Kroger with it but I need a basket since when I tried to rig up the shopping bag to the handlebars or battery pack it dragged onto the tires. After a dinner of tuna over a salad we went to the 7:15 Tango foundation class with Andy. It went quite well and we learned a few things. I enjoyed dancing with Mary -she's a good dancer.

Talked with Anne this morning. She and Richard are really enjoying retirement. Continued work on Nashville, the First Class on Android app. I finally got a Google group together and sent out invitations. Most of the Search terms seem to be working fine. All is well. It took a while for the app to go live on Google Play. I also found how to make Screenshots on Android, Not hard at all. We went to our dance lesson at 3:30 with Robert and had a good tune up of Cha Cha as well as pointers on Waltz turns. After the lesson we stopped by Kroger to get my prescription as well as wine for this weekend. I picked up 2 bottles of Ravenwood Zinfandel to share if necessary.
Libbie successfully installed Nashville on both her phone and tablet. She needed help on the phone but put it on the tablet without any problem. Dinner was Szechuan 3 flavor from our favorite Chinese takeout next to Kroger.

I continued to work all day on the search algorithm for the FC4A program. I also had to work on getting the update function to access the fc4a subdomain on avsa.org. Because the site had moved to a new hosting account at HostGator I needed to recreate the subdomain. I also got a lot more of the "Advanced Search" working but it can't distinguish between Miniature and Semi-miniature. I need to rig up something to work here. I almost forgot it was Tuesday, Old Geezer day at Kroger. We had no lettuce or tomato left for lunch so I did the Kroger run before lunch. Dinner was BBQ sandwiches with premade BBQ from Kroger. We did a Cha Cha lesson afterward. The amalgamation this time was doing a turn in place.

This morning I went to the Republic Wireless open house. They wired me up and did an on camera interview. I next got a tour of the facility and a bag of goodies. It was fun and I got a lot more respect for Republic. I spent some time configuring my phone today. I should have worked on the Android program. Spoke with Andrea today about the Holtkamp thing. We got Wed at 8:15 for a 9 engagement. I went to Best Buy and Radio Shack in search of a wireless Microphone. No luck.
We watched a very nice finals of Dancing with the Stars. Really liked Max and Meryl's freestyle - it was hot and sexy.
Dinner was spaghetti with cheese topping. We had watermelon for desert.

This morning we went to Artsplosure in Moore Square. We almost bought an EZ Glider which is a chair that hangs from a single point, a chain. Libbie thought it was comfortable, I didn't think so. We didn't buy it. I tried to start the slides for the photography but didn't get anywhere. I think if I do some demos it may suffice, especially with point and shoot cameras and a cell phone. There is a storm brewing over MAAVS speakers. MAAVS is exoected to pay for speaker's expenses. I don't think so. I can't see how this can be done financially. Libbie made a pizza dough from scratch and added some of the red basil to the sauce. She said it tasted different. I didn't think so. The new hot tub pump is performing well. Libbie got into the water in the evening. the thermometer said it was 104.