Went outside at 9 and started to install the painted siding. It's supposed to rain today so I need to get some of this up on the shed. Worked all day until 4 on this task. I have quite a bit of siding trim installed now. Tomorrow I will build the door except we have to do a violet talk at a senior center. I also need more trim boards and more trim paint. I spent a little more time on my new desktop computer. Love this machine. Windows boot time is 8 seconds. I dug up the activation program which is called Windows Loader 2.2 and ran it. This patched Windows to show activation and genuine. We were supposed to get a dose of sever weather this evening but it swung by to the North and missed us. However, we got over an inch of rain yesterday so we don't need anymore. The seedlings which were transplanted yesterday are healthy. We had a bad infestation of white fly on the adjacent Rosemary so I sprayed the Rosemary and also the transplants. I may have to do another treatment since the infestation was so bad. In the evening we decided to go out to La Cocina. I had a Yuengling draft and a Quesadila La Cocina.

Last night before the party I moved all the painted boards out of the garage onto the trailer outside. This was so Lib could get her car into the garage. Today after the CBS Sunday morning News I went outside and started getting the grow boxes prepared. Two new cups of dolomite lime into the ones that house tomatoes and one cup into each of the others. This was raked into the top 4 inches of soil. I also topped each of the boxes up with fresh soil from the compost pile. Two cups of general purpose compost were layed down in a strip in each of the boxes on top, under the mulch cover. The cover was put back on and all the seedlings were transplanted. I played with the new computer some more but no luck. I ordered a new motherboard from Newegg from their sale sheet. It's another z97 MB but with less USB ports. The cost after a $20 rebate will be $69 but I paid $20 for 2 day shipping. I also ordered a transient protector using ordinary shipping. This one has ports to protect RJ45 jacks and coaxial cables in addition to protected AC outlets. I'll use it to protect the cable modem. We've lost too many over the years. Dinner was Libbie's excellent pizza. I tried an experiment. I took the Gigabyte Motherboard to the microscope and examined the pins of the LGA1150 socket. A few pins were bent in a few places. I gingerly nudged them back into position and carefully put the CPU back into the socket. The whole system seemed to boot BIOS!!!! Later in the day I hooked up all the cables and bolted it down inside the old Traviata case. I put a Win 7 USB drive into the USB slot and it installed windows. I also put a few key programs on the machine such as 7 zip, VLC player, Ultraedit, Chrome, and others. I need to make a list of important software. The install took under 1 minute. The old Manon took almost 10 minutes to boot. This is going to be remarkable. Software tells me the CPU is running at 4.4 Ghz. Now I need to mate a hard drive to this thing. I have a few 1T green drives laying around. I need to see what's on them.

Did a second coat of paint on the trim boards then came in and made the Honey chipotle Baked Beans for the party tonight. We left a little before 4 and set the beans out when we got there. The party was underway, having started at 3. It was pretty enjoyable and the food was excellent. I love Oysters. They were large and quite good. Lib and i brought 4 beers which we drank with the Oysters, Late in the afternoon a downpour started. We all went into the house where I sat at the kitchen table and had some nice coffee with ground beans and a fruit tort for dessert. It was an enjoyable time even with the rain. We left after dark and of course as luck would have it, there was no rain at home. A little disappointment with the new computer. It just sits there and beeps. The CPU does respond to reset. Possibly it's a voltage issue. I have a Thermaltake power supply in the shop I can try. Otherwise I will have to order a new motherboard.

Went out at 9 and got a haircut at Great clips. I was the second one in the store so the second lady took me right away. There are two cutters in the store. After the haircut I went into Kroger and picked up faux crab for the Coquille for tonight. Went out to the garage after coming home and painted the trim boards. Came in and there was a text from Libbie that she was on her way home from the beach a day early. She came home and helped me make the Coquille. It went very well. She did the sauteing, I arranged the tin cups on the cookie sheet. The smell was incredible. I made a sign renaming the Coquille to Coquille Saint Tom with a shellfish warning. Just before we went to dance we baked them in the oven at 400 until the bread crumbs browned. They were delicious and a hit at the ballroom. I really liked them, we had lots of fun dancing tonight. I would like to do more. It was over at 10 PM after which we went home tired and with a half dozen leftover coquilles. Anita made a delicious Creme Brulee but she brought 2 and only one was eaten. She wanted to give the other one to us but we don't her we didn't need it.
This afternoon the CPU came. I mounted the motherboard in the old Traviata case and installed the CPU. Now I need to run the cables to the Motherboard from the front panel.

I got tired of all the rain so I moved the trim boards into the garage after blowing out the garage. Libbie's car is at the beach so that side is empty. I'll let the boards dry out overnight and then paint them under cover. I felt like having Bojangles tonight so I picked up a 3 piece dinner with a biscuit and dirty rice. I only ate 2 of the pieces.

Another rainy day. Stayed in and did some work on the AVSA website trying to get the find content restored. I also uploaded the March index but it still doesn't fill in the taxonomy tags. I worked on converting each entry to a non feed idx so I could edit the taxonomy. This required one node at a time to be worked on . For dinner I made another pizza which was excellent. this time I cut back on the number of peppers and also added onion salts to the ingredients. It was very tasty. The only thing missing was Libbie's crust which is much better than the store bought kind.

Took a trip to Tiger direct today and sadly the store is liquidating. there is hardly anything there, all the good stuff has been sold. Wow, what a shock. I'm going to miss them. The entire chain is shutting down and they're going to be online only. Hate to tell them but they are not competitive with Amazon and Newegg. Newegg sent all my tracking numbers for the new manon 3 system. dinner tonight was rib pieces in BBQ sauce from Trader joes. Very good and convenient. I cooked it in the microwave right in the package. Replaced the tractot battery today with a new one from Walmart. The old one wouldn't hold a charge anymore. After charging it yesterday and running it to mow the lawn it wouldn't crank today. I noticed Walmart had them on sale for 19.97 so i went for it. I also bought a new Mr Coffee from Walmart as well to replace the one that's leaking all over the counter. I'm trying to listen to Cav and Pag live from the met tonight but the signal keeps dropping due to heavy rain outside.

Took the saw out today and cut some of the trim pieces. I also made a Lowes run to look at possibilities for garden gates. I need to make access to the Iris garden easier for us. Dinner was hamburger on the onion roll accompanied by Bush's grilling beans. I studied Coquille recipes for the French party. I want to make coquille St tom which is my variation of the classic recipe but using shrimp and cupcake foils. Took a trip to Durham today up by Southpoint. 751 was real pretty and has much development along the way.

After the morning programs I painted the new siding on the sehd on 3 of the sides. I also painted the panel that will be used for the door. For dinner I made a pizza using a premade dough from Kroger but all the ingredients were mine. I found a package of frozen peppers and onions that I put on top. I used too many bell peppers but the onions were perfect. I think the ratio should be 2 to 1., onions to pepper.

Libbie took off today at 10. I got a NewEgg flyer with the I7 4 ghz CPU on sale for $20 off. I ordered it. this is the last piece of the puzzle for my new desktop computer. Using Manon for taxes convinced me this thing needed help. I picked up bark for the two dogwoods in front and found
jobes tree spikes. I fertilized the two dogwoods then the one new dogwood in back as well as the new tulip magnolia. Caulked all the new siding on the shed in prep for painting. Dinner was a hamburger with potato salad and chips. The Saturday opera this afternoon was Don Carlos which was very nice.
Dinner tonight was a hamburger on an onion roll with potato salad.

I had to run over to Best Buy this morning a buy a new cable modem due to the lightning damage. It also took out our Vonage adapter. This may be a good time to get away from Vonage.
It's a little wet out but I took all the old siding off the back side of the shed, prepared the surface for nailing and put up all the new siding. Libbie leaves tomorrow for a week so we both went to Krogers and filled up using our gas points which were 80 cents a gallon discount. We both took 15 gallons. I prepared the bread dough at 4 and then put on the pepperoni, cheese and herbs and put it in the oven for baking. It took 40 minutes at 350 degrees and it was delicious. I picked up a bottle of Ruffino Chianti in Kroger for our Italian themed party tonight. We danced all night and our dish was a success. It was all eaten. The dance was over at 10 then we all went home. What a fun evening. There was a Russian girl there named Paulina. She was tall, thin and stunning. Libbie said she was eye candy. Loved to watch her dance, her body flows nicely.
When we got back I found a Newegg flash sale which had the Gskill faster memory on sale for $95 for 16 gigabytes. Previously best price was $119. I also ordered the Gigabyte motherboard now I need a CPU. Found a few candidates on eBay but not NewEgg.

The tax work continues. I have pretty much completed the taxes but will let them jell for a little bit before filing. I Had to fool around with it quite a bit to get it to spit out the NC state tax. It kept wanting to sell me a $40 tax package. One state return is supposed to be included with this version. We had a dinner of sweet and sour ham which was ham with pineapple chunks over rice. Wow, this was good. After dinner we had a pretty severe electrical storm with many many loud boomers. We lost internet service which turned out to be a blown up cable modem which is hard to believe. I did a lot of research today on a new desktop computer. I want high performance. I got a taste of it with the new Lenovo Xeon server. I want the same for the desktop.

I talked to Vicki this morning for her birthday to find out what she's up to. They're still looking at moving. i doubt if it will happen. I worked on taxes this morning. We have a lot of MLP forms that needed inputting into TurboTax. In the afternoon we did West Coast swing with Robert. It was a new pattern for us. We came back in the evening after a salad topped with ham slices. On the return Robert was teaching a bronze class in West Coast swing. We did pretty good trying to keep up. I think I have it down pat. Need to add more patterns to this dance. Will look at You Tube for some of this.

This morning is Tuesday, grocery day. I picked up the supplies needed to make the Pepperoni loaf this Friday as well as th enormal grcoeries. Didn;t need much since Libbie is leaving this Saturday for a week at the beach. Worked on putting up more siding on the shed. I really knocked myself out once again. Dinner tonight was spaghetti with tomato sauce and cheese.

This was a productive day. Libbie and Joy assembled the big order for Albuquerque and Birmingham. At 4 in the afternoon we took it to the Post Office in 2 cars and also used the hand truck to carry the boxes of plants into the Post Office. I worked outside on the shed all day. I cut some more siding and finished the siding on the new section. Had to run out to Lowes to pick up more siding nails. It's a bright sunny day today. I was really dragging myself by the end of the day. Dinner was simple ham sandwiches with some leftover Lima Beans from Saturday night. I've been working on integrating the user photos into a map to insert into the SQL database. Not there yet but I'm getting closer.

After the morning shows I went outside to work on the shed. Prior to that I prepared a chocolate rabbit, cadbury eggs and peeps in an easter basket. Joy was coming over today after CBS This Morning so I also made up an Easter basket for her. On the shed I managed to put up 3 of the sheets of hardi panel siding. This went pretty well but those darn things are pretty heavy and a struggle. Fortunately I only have one more full size sheet to erect then the rest along the sides are half sheets. I can cut those in place on the trailer then carry the half sheet over to the shed. I had too many Cadbury eggs and peeps today, will get back onto the diet again tomorrow. Libbie made her pizza with fresh dough today and jazzed it up with onions, a bell pepper and some red pepper. This was yum and made the pizza substantial.

More work on B4A. I successfully installed the MS Visual Studio compiler on the small multimedia machine. It really works well and compiles the program. I then managed to get the TCP File Transfer program running on Android using the C# app from Visual Studio. I will integrate this into the B4A program. During the Opera intermission I built a rack for the trailer to hold sheets of siding over the top of the trailer. This really worked better than expected. Libbie and I went to Home Depot and picked up 8 sheets of heavy cement siding. I'm really happy with how well the trailer handles the load which is now evenly distributed with one foot hanging out the front and one foot out the back. I left the siding on the trailer in our yard, Libbie helped me push the trailer from the car in the garage out to the side pine straw near the shed. Dinner was ham, sweet potato, Lima beans and Apple Sauce with Shiraz wine.

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.