Worked on the B4A program in the morning before my doctor visit. My knee really hurts which is good since I will see the doctor at 11. The visit went well, the weight was a little high at 223 but acceptable. I wished it was lower. Next year I want it to be exactly 200. The knee was diagnosed as bone rubbing against bone. It even sounds bad when the leg is moved compared to the left knee which flexes quietly. I have some flexing exercises to do several times a day to strengthen the inner thigh muscles. I took it easy the rest of the day, Libbie and I went to the Farmers market where we bought a Tulip Magnolia, variety 'Jane'. We also picked up some tomatoes and I got a few mint varieties, Orange mint and Chocolate mint.
Dinner was slices of our Easter ham with the leftover corn and bean casserole from Libbie's quilt luncheon yesterday. Went to dance at 8 PM and did quite a bit of dancing. We did well on waltz and foxtrot. I danced with Jennifer doing a meringe' and got the name of the song from Mitzi as well as 2 others. At home I added those to the Dance mix directory. After dancing we went out ti the McGregor Tavern in McGregor Village. I had a draft Yuengling which was the Friday night special beer. We shared a Quesadilla with a cajun chicken filling in addition to the cheeses and pepper. I added sour cream and salsa. These were yummy. We got home at 11:30PM. Who are these party people?

Weight down to 221 this morning. Did some web work and got the date module enabled so that the events on the event page correctly age out. This turned out to be an easy fix. Now I need to load the magazine index. Outdoors I finished putting the plywood on the shed roof and covered it all with tar paper so that it's now weatherized. Next step is to get some siding. Got all dressed up in a tux with my red bow tie and left for Esquires at 5:50. Anne and Paul were our guests. Attendance was light due to a lot of church stuff happening on Holy Thursday. Easter is this weekend. Our dancing was much better. It was fun seeing Anne and Paul dance. They are really good. Dinner at esquires was smoked brisket, rock fish, squash casserole, potatoes and broccoli. The food is quite good. I had a Yuengling with dinner and cheesecake with raspberrys for dessert. This was all not good since I have a "weigh in" tomorrow morning at the doctor.

Libbie got fooled this morning by Travis's April fool joke announcing that he was closing the greenhouse. I managed to put up all the trusses and also use the electric portable drill to drill the toe nail holes to fasten them. This way the wood doesn't split. I also put the 4 foot wide sheet of plywood on the roof. This will serve to hold the trusses parallel. I stopped after a few hours since I didn't want to get too tired for dance today. We had a good waltz lesson with Robert. Key points to take away were rotating frame when doing zigzag twinkles, take smaller steps when going back doing the flip flops. This gives Libbie an easier time getting around. Dinner was salad topped with tuna which is totally agreeable since I'm trying to get to 220 and only have made it to 222. We went back to group class with Robert in the evening and learned traffic avoidance as well as styling.

After the grocery run dragged the saw outside and started cutting the trusses. I cut the plates yesterday so after cutting each 2x4 truss I assembled it using the existing standing truss as a template. Finished building all the trusses today which wore me out. We're expecting a few days of warm sunny weather so this will go well. Hopefully install the trusses tomorrow and the plywood and tar paper the next day. Dinner was a salad - yeah!

Libbie filled a big order this morning for leaves with Joy. I spent the time on the FTP server portion of the Android program. It works standalone but I need to add it to FC4A. I also created the robots.txt file for AVSA since Barb pointed out that the protected nodes were consecutive. I added this sequence to the private section of robots.txt. It's very cold, only in the 40s. Spent some time outside cutting the new plywood plates for the new trusses. Cleaned it all up and came back inside since it was cold. Listened to Don Carlo live tonight. It was the season premiere and started out rough but later it was pretty good. Dinner tonight was spaghetti with tomato sauce and cheese.

Spent most of the day reading ASSTR. I haven't visited that site in a while. In the afternoon I decided to go out and try the trusses. They are too short. I twill need to cut new ones. Went out to Home Depot and picked up 8 more 2x4s. This will remake the trusses and also leave some wood for the side wall to the peak. Dinner was Libbie's pizza in which she put the leftover tomato slices from our lunch BLTs. Really good and I was very hungry.

It's cold today, it feels like January. I went out and installed one truss then found out they were built wrong. They're not tall enough. I need to build some more. I cut the siding away from the top of the shed to reveal the truss. I'm going to use this as a template to assemble more trusses. In the late afternoon I ran out to Home Depot and bought 8 new studs for the job. During the earlier afternoon I listened to a very nice Lucia on Sirius live from the Met. I also recorded it. While this was going on I did a lot of reading about file transfers. I decided that the way to do the user database is to develop a windows program which will act as an FTP client. I'm going to use C# to do the Windows UI. It has a nice open source IDE and also a few FTP libraries and example client code. I want to make it like the B4A bridge which changes color when you connect. Dinner was a chicken breast with Libbie's BBQ sauce, roast beets and roast potatoes with a glass of shiraz.

It's cold and rainy today. I chose to work indoors on B4A trying to figure out dropbox and auto syncing with an Android program. It's been a frustrating day where I thought I was doing everything right but dropbox is pretty slow to be acknowledged by the app. After what seemed like a long time the directory was finally recognized but additional files added to the directory still have not shown up. Dinner was a salad with pork chop on the top. We went to dance at 8 and had a nice time. It was good to see everyone again. After dance we went out to Cary to a Mexican restaurant called Totopos which is where Chilis used to be on Kildaire Farm Rd. It was real good. I had a Negra Modelo draft beer and a side of Queso Fundido which was a cheese dish with poblano and chili pepper, sala and bacon. it came with tortillas. Wow, was this good.

I added the side wall to the shed today which ties the front and back together ready for trusses. I also nailed the remaining plates onto the trusses with the nails I purchased last night. Dinner was pork chops,leftover rice and lima beans. I need to get more frozen Lima beans since this was the last of them. I helped John Carter get his update to the First Class program. He need to update the program before he could get the database update.

Fast early this morning then out to Waverly place to get blood drawn at 7:30. There's a surprising number of people going everywhere in the morning. Stopped into whole foods and picked up a dozen roses for our anniversary today. Went outside and nailed most of the plates onto the trusses but ran out of 6d nails before finishing. I have 3 more plates to nail. Went to HD to get nails just before dance. It was nice returning to the Studio today. It has been since March 4 that we were there. Robert was pretty helpful with our waltz amalgamation. I didn't have the lock step or the transition into the flip flops but Robert straightened me out. I feel I learned a lot in this lesson. My knee started bothering me again and I was tired by the end of the lesson. I'm not sure what's going on. I weighed myself this morning and was delighted at 223. It's getting closer to the 216-218 from last year although I want to go lower. Dinner was a salad with tuna over the top. Ingredients included bacon bits, olives and tomatoes. Very good but I'm hungry. I'm on a weight loss quest and know it's not going to be easy.

Picked up some plywood at Home Depot today and cut the braces for the trusses out of this plywood. This involved making a template out of cardboard first then tracing the cardboard onto the plywood. I got covered with sawdust doing this. I also fastened the aluminum flashing to the base of the shed decking and pushed the dirt against this for a ramp then covered it all with Pine Straw to keep the mud down. We practiced our waltz today for the first time in a long time. It went pretty good. Learning the chase' from a promenade. Dinner was spaghetti with sauce and cheese.

I cut out the old siding on the shed and put a nailer up to support the front wall of the extension. Next I raised the wall and fastened it in place. I'm still eating light since I need to lose 10 pounds by my doctor appointment next week in order to be at least the same weight as last year. I'm not sure I'm going to make it. This is tough, I wish I had not gained back so much weight in the first place. Dinner was a salad covered with tuna fish but Libbie also heated up the leftover ribs from Saturday so we had 2 ribs each. I hope this doesn't impact anything with my weight loss plans.

After the morning shows today I returned to the shed project and assembled the front wall for the shed. It still needs to be raised but that's coming. We did a trip to Walmart and picked up kitchen garbage bags and also got a couple of packs of snapdragons for the flower boxes. Libbie made her pizza today from scratch. We're both doing a lot better since out colds last week. Hurray. Dinner was the pizza on freshly made crust. Yummy

It's a beautiful warm sunny day for a change. I was going to work on the shed some more but instead worked on the garden which really needed work. I trimmed the roses and the lantana and butterfly bushes. The Gardenia also took a pretty good winter hit so I basically chopped it in half. Ed Lyons came over during the afternoon for plants from Libbie. The work today really wore me out and I only trimmed bushes. Not sure if I'm getting old or the effects of the recent cold are still lingering in my body. We had a nice meal tonight consisting of shrimp, basmati rice and broccoli. We had Ravenswood Cabernet with the meal.

It's a yucky wet morning. Went out to see if the fox returned in the rain overnight and the answer is no. It's pretty wet and cold today. In the afternoon we went to the CU to deposit a check, Lowes for nails and wood and then to Target for ribs. We found there is no meat or seafood dept in Target. they only have pre packaged foods. Picked up 2 bottles of Ravenswood and also the package of ribs which was on sale for 8.99. dinner was ribs, broccoli and a bottle of Ravenswood Zinfandel. It's been a while since we've been well enough to have a nice meal and is really the first since we've been home from NY. I started looking at the Universal IR remote using a YUN. This seems promising to use the Arduino side of YUN for IR transmission and the Linux side to run a Flask web server. I can get this going easily I think. I ordered some IR receiver modules from Davis, CA on eBay today to support learning remote codes. I think this is going to be useful. I read the Jan/Feb issue of florida Gardening today and was disappointed to see the owners in Port Malabar sold the magazine. Not sure if I will renew when it expires.

It's supposed to rain today. The fox didn't get through my mesh last night but did dig some big holes and a lot of smaller ones. I nailed together the wood I cut yesterday and built the first wall for the place. Now it needs the front wall and I can support trusses.
It rained in the afternoon putting a damper on further construction. I didn't feel like working on the shed anyway as I continue to recover from the cold.
Dinner tonight was a salad with tuna over the top.

Weight this morning was fair. Down to 225 which is a vast improvement over the 238+ I was at when we returned from Florida at the end of January. This was a lackadaisical day. The fox dug huge holes under the shed so I spent the day closing the gaps. Ran over to the greenhouse and retrieved a roll of screening from the fan housings that was laying in the old greenhouse foundation. Installed this all around which did involve some digging. Libbie did a lot raking so I assisted with some of the trailer work. Wow did I get tired fast. Dinner tonight was Salmon and broccoli. The Salmon was great, I'm just OK wth the Broccoli. I tried a little hot sauce on it to make it more flavorful but it was way too hot.

Not doing so well today. Lots of phlegm in my throat causing me ot breathe with a wheeze. Went outside and finished the platform for the shed extension. Now I have to build the walls and roof trusses. The trusses will be the hardest part to replicate all the angles. I tired out pretty quickly but still pumped up the tires on the cart and picked up the pine straw that Libbie had raked a few days before. Last night I finally got the update out for First Class for Android.
This took a while and required a program update. Dinner tonight was spaghetti with cheese sprinkles. I'm not happy with the amount of weight loss but at least it's going down. I did some research today on transferring a file to Android. I'm going to need this in order to import a user database.

It's a beautiful day out but I relentlessly pursued the updates for First Class. After struggling with the SQL and the fact that it added extra spaces to the SQL when I autoupdated the credits file, I managed to get everything patched up so it doesn't crash anymore. I hope I caught everything I was supposed to. I put the release onto Google this evening. At the same time I distributed the MAAVS Memo. Dinner tonight was a salad with tuna fish. The weight loss thing has to go ballistic this week since in 2 weeks I go for the weigh in.

Today was a lost day. I can't concentrate. This cold has done me in, I have been taking a half an antihistamine tab as needed to get through the day. The rain really did a number on the tar paper covering the decking for the shed extension. I'll have to rip it up and redo it. Libbie made her wonderful pizza for dinner. She said she jazzed it up a little with balsamic and red pepper. It was very good.

Started to finally look at creating an update package for Android. I'm really out of it. Took another antihistamine to stop the drippy nose. Not sure how I'm going to do today in the theater. We left at 12:15 in the rain for a 12:55 performance. What a yucky day. Donna del Lago was way over the top. It was incredibly beautiful and a showcase for Joyce. I thoroughly enjoyed the performance. The cold, sneezing and coughing held off enough to make it through the performance and to enjoy it fully. The theater was surprisingly full. I thought because it was a crummy day and this was a little known opera that it would be sparsely attended. this was not to be. After the opera Libbie needed to go to joann fabric to get material for the binding around her quilt. I was not in favor of this but sat in the parking lot numbly while she ran in for the fabric. For dinner tonight we had beef pot roast soup and a peanut butter sandwich. Not great but passable and hopefully nutritious. I tried to keep at the updates but had a hard time concentrating with the cold and the antihistamine. Went to bed shortly after 8. It took a lot of will power to even last that long.

My cold has abated somewhat but I feel lethargic. Went outside for a little bit and hammered down three more deck planks for the shed extension. Libbie is doing much better today. Went to kroger and picked up the freeby which was a snickers egg. It was an easter egg made of Snickers candy. I didn't do too much today except did a lot of reading online. I'm sort of out of it. In the evening the sniffles came back real bad so after dinner I had a half a tablet. This seems to work better than the whole tablet. dinner was noodles, peas and creamed tuna. It was yummy and just what the doctor ordered!

Went outside this morning and raked around the timbers and covered the rakings with pine straw to prevent me from getting too muddy. Used the 2x4's and made a joist frame to start the floor decking. I got about 4 feet of decking down when I ran out of outdoor spiral decking nails. The great news was I found a property side iron. By my estimate of the distance from the shed to the iron I have a comfortable margin from the property line. Did a run out to Lowes for more nails and also an additional 2x6 which I estimate I am short by. Dinner was BBQ chicken leftovers and potato salad. After dinner my head cold hit with full force. I did some research online and decided i needed an antihistamine. Found the names of 2 antihistamine chemicals and went to Walgreens at 8 PM in search of either. The nice young pharmacist told me that one was non drowsy and the other will knock me out. I chose the non drowsy and it did the trick The drip totally stopped but I think the does is too strong since I could feel it tightening up my sinuses. Next does will be half a tablet using my tablet slicer.

I went out and took a few wheelbarrows of dirt out of the shed area. Before this I took some empty pails to the gravel place and bought 284 pounds of rock for under $6. It's 20 cents per pound. Finished cleaning up the dirt under the floor area and got the timbers situated. I bought water softener crystals before it rained so I could line the bottom of each side of the timbers with salt as termite proofing. Poured the gravel over the salt. Now I'm ready for the wood floor joists to go over this, probably tomorrow. while i was at Lowes i found a Scott lawn patch kit which has mulch, seed and fertilizer mixed up to repair grass areas. I put this over the new dirt I put down between the flagstones on the path in back. In a few weeks I'm hoping this will be grass growing between the flagstones. Dinner was BBQ chicken and southern potato salad. Did some more portfolio adjusting today. I need to withdraw money to pay the credit card bill. This bill is over $9,000 and has the European trip, some Stoneybrook charges, and the New york trip. Even more amazing the credit card balance is over $10,000. Ouch!
Listening to Merry Widow tonight from the Met. I'm really enjoying this, it's nice light music with good tunes.

I got the middle timber set today on the shed project. I also attempted to use the level and get them leveled. Probably need to buy some gravel to level these timbers. It's a beautiful day. Libbie is really sick. i decided to inquire with Cary medical about walk ins and took her there to see a nurse practitioner. the diagnosis was a sinus infection. He prescribed an anti-biotic and ann $89 bottle of Codeine. I had several calls about the FC update status. I need to really get to work on this. Dinner was baked BBQ chicken and potato salad wit a bag of chips. This is not good anymore. i need to slow down on the eating. I listened to and recorded Donna del lago from the Met this evening. Margaret is still out. Wonder what's wrong with her? I also did some portfolio adjustments today. Added a few more FGP and KMI. Breitburn has really gone south with the oil prices being depressed.