I cut the pipes out of the hot tub this morning, ready to install the new fittings. Downloaded the Foxtrot video and did some memorization practice of the pattern. I want to learn this stuff.
While reviewing videos on Youtube I looked at the time and it was 8:20. The dance party started at 8, oops. Scrambled quickly to put on nylon socks, grabbed my shoes and left. I got there pretty late but made the first drawing. We won a Martini Mixer kit. I would rather win dance lessons. It was beer and wine night, pretty enjoyable. Mitzi brought finger foods. I had a roast beef sandwich and a chicken wing. Danced with Anne, Jennifer and Anita. It was a fun evening.

Took Libbie to the airport this morning, left at 6:30 for her 8:10 flight. I picked up a bagel with cream cheese on the way home at Brueggers. Checked the hot tub and was dismayed to see the Tee fitting had a tub of water under it. It's leaking. Drained the hot tub and went to Lowes and bought plastic fittings to replace the Tee and the rain line. I'm planning to put a spigot in the line for future tub draining. This will require a door of sometype.
Spent a lot of time reading BP then built a view for AVSA that displays the BIS for past 15 years. Each BIS is a content type in a view. This allows me to set up the year column as a user sortable column to get forward or reverse chronological order.
The roofing contractor showed up today to look over the job. He may be able to get this done in half a day, possibly this Saturday. Meistersinger is Saturday so I hope not. Looked up the 8 count Lindy that Robert was teaching us. Would love to learn this for the swing. Dinner was BBQ pork on a bin with the leftover fixings like slaw, broccoli salad and cranberry salad. Listened to Traviata live tonight which was delayed 30 minutes since the tenor was ill. The cover took over.

This morning I installed the pressure switch in the hot tub and turned it on. There didn't seem to be any leaks. I put tupperware containers under all the likely spots and let it run all day. Meanwhile I started playing with Flask on a Raspberry Pi. Time Warner still didn't credit my account for the $18 they owe me. I may have call or visit them again. We had a nice lesson with Robert with Foxtrot. He is putting together an amalgamation for us. Dinner was light tonight, we had the rest of the shrimp and some cheese and crackers with our egg nog. We went to Cha cha styling at 7:15 with Andy. We learned hand holds and cross over breaks. Anita and Ken joined us then stayed for Robert's Swing lesson. in the swing we learned Lyndy timing with spot turns and bunny hops to the side. Very cool. Libbie has to pack tonight for RI tomorrow. The hot tub ran all day and did not leak.

Put the 7 pound shoulder in the oven last night at 11 PM. Set the temp at 275 and it was ready this morning. Took it out around 7:30 AM and let it rest. Went out to the grocery for normal Tuesday shopping and also bought a shrimp ring for hors d'oeuvres. Shredded the pork and prepared the buffet. We had a wonderful party, most of the group left a little after 2. The Home Depot guys arrived at 2 PM to estimate the garage roof. There are 660 square feet for a total of $2700 plus $56 a sheet for bad plywood. We ate so much today that for dinner we had a bun with shredded pork and some of the fixings such as cranberry and cole slaw.

Mixed up the rub this morning and rubbed the shoulder down pretty good. Went out looking for a wreath but no luck Bought a nice Ball Mason jar in Target for my BBQ sauce. It's big enough to add all the ingredients and shake it up before pouring it into the serving container. The pressure switch arrived today but I won't mess with it until Wednesday. Dinner was cheese and crackers and a bowl of soup.

Spent the morning on the Yun. After much trial and error, I found that I needed to partition and format the SD card. Next I loaded the treemeasure app into the Arduino and ran the Arduino code which uses bridge to do a simple webserver on the YUN. All html statements are printed out using client.print statements, including the changing water height variable. Some of the issues were I was using the wrong URL and I didn't know how to use API commands. BAsicaly any word you pass in at the end of the URL is your API ekyword. The client code looks for the key word you chose. My url is IP address/arduino/tree
and I look for the command "tree" and do print statements to send back the output. Cut the panel of the hottub to free up the drain into it's own panel. It looks like the tee is leaking. This is about a 1.5 inch pipe. I have some parts to buy. Went to Kroger and found a 7 pound Boston Butt, the only one again. Also picked up some Egg Nogg. Will marinate the park tomorrow in a rub then roast it overnight Monday night.

Went to the grocery store today before the Sat opera and met Terri in the produce dept. Looking at doing something more straightforward than the Flask web server on the Yun. Still reading how to do this. We got cleaned up and went to Ken and Anita's party at 6 in Lochmere Highlands. They went overboard with drinks, hors d'oeuvre plate and a sumptuous dinner of salad and two kinds of shells - ricotta and sausage. Very nice. We played some interesting games to see how well we knew each other. Dessert was a cannoli cake which was delicious. Anita got it from Fresh Market. We moved into the living room and had gifts and a card game where you could take a gift if your name was called or trade it from another person. I started with spoons but ended up with 3 whiskey bottles. We left at 10. It was an enjoyable night. Aty the party were Ken and Lana, Harry and Terri and Ken and Anita plus us. What a nice night.

Worked on setting up the Yun today. I have a lot to learn. I built a sensor circuit to measure the liquid level measure. It's just a pull up on one end with the A/D. The other end goes to ground. Tested it with a glass of water and got readings. Now i need to set up some kind of server. We had a bowl of soup at 6 PM before leaving for the studio at 7. This is our big night. We had a combination of performances and individual dancing. We were the last dance of the third act. Our performance went well. We probably made some mistakes but it seemed to go well anyway. We didn't stop but carried on to the end. I had the Teriyaki pork with slaw and noodle salad for dinner with a glass of wine. After our performance I had a Sam Adams Winter Lager which I enjoyed. We left around 10:30 but some of the hardcore were still dancing.

Tried to eat light today because of our evening tonight. I had trouble getting dressed. it takes a lot longer to dress formally. i ended up having to put all the studs and cuff links in and then didn't know hot to tie the bow tie. Cocktails were at 6:30 but we didn't leave the house until 6:12. Traffic was very heavy. We creeped and crawled along 64 with the traffic stopped still several times. Don't know if Old Raleigh Rd would be better next time. We got there late but at the end of cocktails and before dinner started so that was good. The evening was fabulous. I really enjoyed it, we danced quite a bit which is what I like about Esquires. It's roomy with room to dance. We stayed until 10:30, didn't get into bed until midnight. What a night! Totally enjoyable. We even were able to use some of the time to practice our spotlight routine. For dinner i had swordfish which was delicious and carved roast from the buffet. We each had a glass of wine.

Updated the Family Address list today and sent it around. In response to a query by Kurt about a compiled list of BIS, I dug up what I had of the past 10 years and put them in my spreadsheet. We had a good dance lesson with Robert going over our routine in a dress rehearsal. It was a good lesson. Mitzi said we had two lessons left. I said we would sign up for more next week. Picked up BBQ chicken in Kroger on the way home from dance. We're going back tonight for Cha Cha after a dinner of chicken and snow peas which Libbie steamed. Good stuff.
Cha Cha was a techniques class rather than an amalgamation which was disappointing. I wanted more patterns, especially for tomorrow night. Roberts Bronze class was in a class by itself. He had us decide and it ended up being Meringue. It was one of the most enjoyable classes ever.

I wrote an article for the MAAVS Memo this morning regarding First Class for Android. I also sent the article to marjorie for the Lonestar newsletter. I enjoyed doing this.
At 10 I went to Mens Wearhouse and picked up my tux and the suit. Tried them on in the store and they seemed OK but the suit fit better than the tux. I need to lose a few more pounds in my opinion.
Did the grocery run but we didn't need much after the big Thanksgiving weekend. We have plenty of food and supplies. In the afternoon I spent a lot of time with Gator support on the phone and got my Perl problems fixed. The support lady said the htaccess file needed a handler for Perl installed. Why couldn't they do this over email using the ticket I submitted? Once Perl was working i got busy and got the Bluebird site working. I also edited the invoice files to get rid of the 4821 Jessie address. I made a test purchase and Libbie was able to retrieve it from orders so all is now well. That wasn't too bad. Dinner was grilled turkey and cheddar sandwiches. I wanted to eat somewhat light to fit my formal clothes and suit better.

I couldn't get the Bluebird website running due to the Perl module not being able to execute. I filled out a support ticket this morning asking for help. I tried researching on line but could find nothing. It's a nice warm day outside. I started working on the hot tub. The pressure switch is bad. Ordered a new one and new seals on eBay but I can't see where the leak is. May have to dry it up real good and then examine very carefully. The tux is supposed to be ready tonight but I'll go out tomorrow instead. Dinner tonight was spaghetti with cheese.

It was relatively warm outside. We made the decision to switch web hosts. This was not easy. First thing I found was Perl will not work on the Host Gator account. I submitted a support ticket. Second issue was to get the mail transferred. this went relatively easy. Next I attempted to purchase an SSL certificate. The first submit did not take. I had to call support to verify so that I didn't submit two purchases. Got the submission taken care of after filling a form. While I was filling forms I filled out the auto reimbursement for the SSA deduction. This involved printing verification of benefits letters from Social security for both of us. We put the lights on the tree bu put the plug near the top. To rectify this I went to Home Depot and purchased a green extension cord. While there I also bought two metal no trespassing signs for the woods. Dinner of course was Libbie's fantastic pizza from scratch.

This was a relaxing day at home. Did not do much. Dinner was leftover turkey with stuffing and potatoes. We had shiraz to accompany the meal. I started taking off the side panel on the hot tub. This is the only way I reasoned I could assess the leaking joints. I suspect the slip joints have improper washers which we obtained locally.

The Van Wezel 50% off deal was disappointing this morning. I was interested in the Viennese New Years but only the last 3 rows are on the deal. Not worth it.
I was also looking for a B4I deal but so far none, will check on Monday. There is a deal on NewIssue, the company that supplies PDFs of magazines. Their trial is half price for 2 months. i don't know if this is a good deal or not.
Doris, Carl and Carl Jr came over at 2. We had a very nice afternoon visiting and drinking the Pouilly-Fuissé she brought with her. It was a most enjoyable visit. For dinner we had turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and a glass of Shiraz. I finished reading Wyatt Earp this evening. Loved it. I finished it on the iPad using the Kindle reading app.

Went to Kroger early but they had no newspapers. I want the Thanksgiving "biggest paper of the year" so I headed over to Sheetz next on 1010. This is a very nice convenience store and gas station. It smelled good with biscuits cooking. Bought a paper and got a free cup of coffee. She said any size but I took a small. The paper had tons of stuff but I found I was hardly interested. Lots of big TVs, tablets for $39 and $200 laptops. Communicated with Doris via Facebook, invited her for drinks. Talked with Vicki this morning during the Thanksgiving parade. Watched some of it but not all. Too many performances that scream and sound noisy. Am I getting old? Libbie made fruit cake this morning. We sampled one of them in the afternoon. Did a little scanning upstairs, catching up on convention covers. Had a nice turkey breast at 7:15. We had Shiraz, potatoes, snow peas, turkey, stuffing and gravy. No dessert! We had too much food to begin with.

This morning I decided to go to Mens Warehouse to check out tuxedos. They were having a Black Friday sale which started Wednesday. The deal was buy one get one free. I bought a $650 Calvin Klein Tux with accessories. The bottom line was $1043 but it included a second suit and I added suspenders, bow tie, shirts and studs. Wow. They all look great but I'm shell shocked. All will be ready on Monday evening for pickup. It's going to look great. In the meantime I went shopping for dinner tonight. I got a Cooking Light recipe for steamed chicken and veggies with soy dipping sauce. It was great. Dinner was chicken, snap peas, green beans, dipping sauce and Shiraz. Loved it and it was easy.

Did our Thanksgiving dinner shopping this morning then went to the liquor store on 55 by Home Depot for Brandy and Rum. We were there 7 minutes before opening so we went over to Foodlion for Libbie's plastic bags then hit the liquor store. I managed to successfully list the dropbox directories. Added this code to the FC4A app. Dinner was spaghetti with tomato sauce and cheese.

Worked a bit on syncing with a dropbox from FC4A. Had some success but no file transfer yet. Much to do here. For dinner we went out to chinese place and our 3 meat szechuan and a couple of egg rolls with Dreaming Tree wine. After dinner we watched Dancing with the Stars, it was the semi finals. Derek was eliminated. I had some black tea after dinner which gave me breathing problems. I suffered most of the evening until bedtime. Wow, I won't do that again.

hooked up the trailer after the CBS Sunday Morning News then Lib and I went to buy a tree at FoodLion of all places! Wanted to get it home before it started raining. Spent the rest of the afternoon figuring out the dropbox sync techniques to use as a tool for First Class for Android synching. Dinner was Libbie's super pizza. It's been a while since we had this great dinner.

Had a nice serie of note with a lady named Peggy Barbour in Colorado. She loves the Android app and wanted a user database and also a way of sharing data. I told her those were some of the top requests. I took a 12 hour cold tablet which is supposed to be non-drowsy at 11 AM. We left at 12:15 for Barber of Seville. It was most enjoyable with Isabelle Leonard and lawrence Brownlie in a real campy Rossini opera. What fun. Dinner was Shrimp peelers with a butternut squash and Dreaming Tree wine, a Dave Matthews Band wine. I resumed reading Wyatt Earp on the iPad downstairs before falling asleep at 9. Went uostairs and went to bed around then.

Studied IOS apps and also changes for the FC4A program. I think I figured out the font thing to address Brenda's issue with truncated text. I can etect the DPI and set the font smaller if it's only 160 dpi instead of the 200 as seen on both my tablet and Motorola X phone. Dinner was a bowl of soup and a few slices of cheese before going out to the dance party at 8 PM. After dance a group of us went out to "Spirits" in Cary which is a very nice and large bar. We had the wings of the month which is vietnamese wings coated with honey and jalapeno. They were quite good, even Libbie could eat them. I had a glass of Alesmith IPA to accompany this. We had a nice time and went home at 11. I had the sniffles which started just before we entered Spirits. They continued throughout the evening. I hope I'm not getting a cold, the Benzigers had colds earlier this week.

Apple approved my application. Pulled out my credit card and bought a one year membership. In the meantime, Google didn't want my app in the education category. I edited the listing and moved it to the tools category. It's a little cold out but I planted all the daffodils. Now I need to plant the tete a tete mini daffodils. Dinner was creamed tuna and peas over egg noodles. Listened to La Boheme live. they misspelled Puccini. I took a pic of the screen and posted it to the Met Opera group. It was quickly corrected!

Got a disturbing alarm this morning while in the shower. the greenhouse was cold. Ran outside and found the heater was off. Did some diagnosis but fired up the porch heater and used a fan to redirect the heat into the greenhouse. Later on I discovered that the igniter had failed. I put a replacement igniter into the unit and got it back online but not before the greenhouse had fallen to the 40s. Ordered a new one from Tennessee on eBay. I think I lucked out on this one. After that panic we practiced our routine a little more then had pulled pork for lunch. Had our lesson at 3:30 and screwed up pretty badly. Skipped the Foxtrot lesson with Andy today and took Robert's two step class. Tried registering for the IOS developer program. The $100 fee was approved by the AVSA EC. Had some trouble with D&B numbers which they reset after calling support. Next I need verification by AVSA that I represent them. Dinner was pulled pork with the baked beans.

Went out right away for groceries. They were $105 in Kroger. Had to buy the pork shoulder in Foodlion because they had a better choice. Started working on the roast rub right away. Got the rub made, meat prepared and in the oven at 11:06 am. Libbie worked on the baked beans. Mary and John arrived in the early afternoon after driving from Lorton. Lib and I went out and cleaned the leaves off the driveway after we had the roast in the oven. . The roast came out for dinner which we had on buns with slaw, baked beans and beer. Pumpkin Pie was desert. It's going to be cold tonight. We had a very nice visit with Mary and John.