We had breakfast in the hotel with Barbara and Bruce. We enjoyed them. Bruce has the info table for the Kansas club. After breakfast we stayed in the room for a while doing computer work then I went over to the lecture which started at 10. Mary talked about Chimeras in a very good presentation. After that we drove to the Truman library. This was such a thrill for me since it had the maps for the planned invasion of Japan from the White House war room. Dad was stationed in Luzon which was listed as occupied territory. This was incredibly fascinating stuff. Instead of the invasion they decided to drop the atomic bomb. We left there just after 4 and met Anne and Richard who were rounding up a crowd to go out for dinner. We had dinner at an Italian place called Bravo which was excellent. I had shrimp Campanalle ala forno which was outstanding. I had it with a glass of chianti. We drove our car with Joe and Andrea. We visited the street fair going on afterward. Such fun.

This was a work day. Tried to record Marie's presentation in the morning. We had multiple problems including the camera turning off every 10 minutes by both Paula and myself. Not sure what is happening. I got nothing on the 7d when I tried audio recording. There was only a hiss on the card. I need a real video camera. At the designated time which was around 1 PM we hauled everything into the showroom and started doing the library photography. It went pretty quickly. Andrea and Libbie moved plants from the into and out of table. Marjorie of course did the design photography. Andrea conducted an interview of Bill Foster and Paul Kroll while overseeing the designs. There was a lot of video involved.
In the evening we got dressed up and went down to dinner. We sat with the Philly girls, Barbara, Peggy and Linda. Joan had to sit on the dais. We had a newcomer at our table, Divina, who lived in Kansas somewhere. It was an enjoyable evening. The awards even went quickly which was great.

Breakfast at 8 and sat with Marjorie, Dolores and Susan Hill. Had a nice chat with them, answered Anne on a text letting her know I was in town. Hung around most of the day then went to the Internet meeting at 4:30. During the meeting I got a text that Libbie was on the ground. Left the meeting which was ending and went to the airport only 4 miles away and picked up Libbie. At 6 we had the Library meeting. Anne nicely provided sandwiches for everybody. We got our assignments which included more video work. After the meeting we went to the opening by Nancy hayes and then the Growers Forum which was quite interesting. Went up to bed very tired once again.

I got up at the normal time and dragged everything down to the car. Hope it's all packed and I didn't forget anything. After a normal breakfast I was going down the driveway at 7:30 PM. Traffic was not heavy at all, I was expecting worse for the end of Memorial Day weekend. I did a gas stop in Shelby for $2.59 then it was clear sailing until Nashville. At approx the Hermitage exit I looked ahead and saw nothing but black and I was going straight into it. The sky opened up and buckets of rain came down. Traffic slowed to 20 MPH for the duration of the storm. It was all over in about 15 minutes and the sun came out but the traffic still didn't get any faster. I did a roundabout way to get onto 24W because the ramp and the highway were at a standstill. I took 40W until 65N and went parallel to 24 but a few miles West. This was a good move since I soon picked up 24W and continued. Once outside of NAshville I stopped for gas and used my smartphone to cancel the reservation in Paducah since it was only 3 PM with the time zone change. Made it to 19 miles before St Louis and called ahead to the Holiday Inn to see if there was a room available. There was a room so I decided to go for it. Bought gas at 2.89, had a chicken sandwich at McDonalds and hit the road again.
I wasn't tired yet and it was 8 PM when I was driving through St Louis. Took a little rickety bridge across the Mississippi next to the St Louis arch, it was dark but pretty scenic since the arch was lit up nicely. Had an uneventful trip across MO but around midnight I was hoping it would be over. Couldn't believe the GPS took me through downtown. I wasn't even sure I was going to the right location but soon I reached the HI and checked in at 12:30. Into the room at 1 AM and out cold.

Worked on IOS all day with a little success. I also worked outside on the gardens. Tied up the tomatoes and got the watering straightened out. Dinner was tuna salad sandwiches.

Hooked up all the audio stuff on the kitchen table. Couldn't get any good recording into the computer. I got only a loud hum. Found how to use the camera audio in and set the levels. this is a new feature of the version 2 firmware that I installed this week. With the volume levels turned way down it's acceptable. Dinner tonight was the last of the hamburger with an onion slice and ketchup. It was good. Worked some more on the iPad program getting last minute details fixed.

Picked up some provisions at Walmart that I needed such as coffee and cereal. Worked on the iPad program today. Spent a lot of time just being able to compile. My new computer was not set up for it. I found the powerbook I have is down one level too low to use as a compile machine. I really a newer version of IOS to do a compile. I ended up using the offsite machine I subscribe to. For a local copy it takes a long time. Dinner was 2 small pizza shells I bought int Kroger. I also bought some Breyer GS cookies thin mint ice cream. It wasn't as good as the cookies themselves.

It's a relatively cool morning, only in the fifties outside. Went out early and finished the roof cap on the shed building. Came inside and updated the FC4A doc some more and also added a hidden command feature from the command line ala Google chrome. A command starts with "cmd://" and then the mnemonic for the command. So far I implemented the admin override for subscriptions, giving the admin a 24 hour pass to updates. This worked surprisingly well. It only involved adding 24 hours worth of ticks to Time.now and using this to override the subscription expire time which normally comes from google if there is a subscription. I can't find the bluetooth microphone adapter I purchased a year ago. I need this to hook a mike up to a tablet or phone.

Went outside and put what shingles I had onto the cap of the shed. I went out to Home Depot to get more shingles. This was combined with a trip to the Credit Union to deposit a $20 Newegg rebate check for the SSD, I also got $200 cash for the trip next week. On the way home I stopped into Micky Ds to use my coupon for free Southern chicken which expires today. The sauce was good, the chicken was pieces of what looked like fried chicken. I had this with a small order of fries. For dinner tonight I mixed up some tuna with mayo and cut a celery stalk into pieces. Yumm. I continue to find problems in the app. In the evening I tried to change a picture on a record and got a crash. It turns out I pushed the button twice which resulted in a not found error since the app removes the picture after it has been added. I put in a ctoast wait message as well as a an activity finish statement which closes the activity. Working on the documentation continues. My King size tee shirt order also came today. I liek the new shirts, they are advertised as heavy. I don't think so and like them. They have a pocket - not bad for the price which was under $10 each.

I pretty much finished the import function of the app. Amazingly, the more I test it the more little things I find. Even when I think it's fully tested, something else pops up. I hope it's robust. I tried a data export but filenames have a problem when downloaded. They have a lot of junk attached. I may release this without export. I put the new cover teaser on the website along with the cover for the May issue. Dinner tonight was leftover baked chicken with Lib's barbecue sauce before microwaving. In the afternoon I got out and went to Walmart.Picked up shortcake shells and strawberries as well as a pack of raspberries for breakfast. I went there to get cereal and coffee as well a milk. Looked at the electronics department for a Sony A6000 but it was pretty much stripped bare. This store is not so great. I suspect it will be closed one day.

Took Lib to the airport for her flight to LAX at 9:30. Traffic was very heavy, I creeped on the way back to I-40 at the airport since there was much traffic. I'm glad I'm not a commuter. I continued working on file import in the app. Time is running short. Dinner was baked BBQ chicken from Kroger and some Macaroni salad. I was looking for baked beans but they don't carry that anymore.

After mastering the data import, today I worked on the photo import. I discovered a few issues I had with looking up the Refid. Now the problem is if a plant exists in the database and the user adds that same plant it doesn't get picked up by the display list. May have to add the Refid to the file name for user files. Anne and Richard called today on their way to W Texas. They had some ideas for changing the DVD content by scanning groups of plants while doing narration. I checked Libbie in this morning at exactly 9:35 and got number A22 which was incredible. The plane must be empty.Spent a lot more time in the afternoon and evening on the app. I now have given it the capability to add individual photos by pressing on the "no photo" image. Dinner was spaghetti with cheese sprinkled on the tomato sauce.

I got right to working on the app this morning. I can't get the cursor version of a query working but the single query does work. My other problem is the ListView sometimes won't return the correct value when using the Listview2 which saves the ref ID with the plant name. I switched over to the Listview 1 which does return the correct value. Turned the west garden water on today to monitor the new 90 degree sprayer. It works well. The grow boxes however are not getting water when I turn on their solenoid. Something is wrong. I'll work on this later in the week. Libbie made her wonderful pizza once again. Intermittently throughout the day I read "Hope" which was the story of 2 of the girls held against their will in Cleveland. I'm not sure if I will finish it. Stayed up until 11:15 working on fine tuning the user database display.

Spent the day on the app with the exception of some time in the garden to put a corner sprinkler in the West garden. I have a user with a subscription problem. His cell phone battery was replaced and now his subscription is gone. I have found a potential problem with the subscription management functions. I worked as long as i could then at 5:15 PM took a shower to get dressed for the Shriner dance. We got going at 5:45 but still got there before anyone else. Social hour started at 6 and dinner at 7 and dancing at 8. We sat with harry & Terry, Nancy & Steve, Mike and Ann and Anita and Ken. It was a fun evening. The DJ was good, the companionship was wonderful.

Continued work on the import function. There is so much to do and time is counting down. I did some research today on Alaska cruises. I found an interesting company called uncruise which is a small ship adventure cruising company. We did the Farmers Market. Libbie picked up some begonias and I got some impulse plant,something called Celosia. I was attracted by the orange plumes. I came back and got back to the app. Had to give it up late in the afternoon to get ready for the Spring Showcase which was at 7 PM at St Michaels. The venue is very nice. It is spacious and bright with a very high ceiling. The performances took up the first hour or so then we had the catered food which was basically finger food. The bar remained open throughout the evening. It was a fun evening and was over by 11.

Finished the update today and tested it using a tgtest.jpg encrypted map on fc4a and all was well. The normal map is named tglist.jpg. i renamed and then released the update. Libbie tried it on her phone and surprisingly it downloaded and updated her phone. I celebrated by going outside and picking up 2 more of the larger conduits at Home Depot. i also got a new pad for the sponge map. I cut each pipe into 4 sections and pounded them into the ground then plugged the 10 foot sections into the shorter sections. Tied all the tomatoes and was surprised how some of them were sprawling all over the place. It's almost too late to tie them but with masonry string I'll get them trained. They look ugly for now. I'm sure the sun will turn them around and growing normally. I found a small Sony Bluetooth speaker on eBay and ordered it. I should have got the larger one but this will be a good start. I later found the larger one for only $10 more. I still may get it. The 8gb Sandisk cruzer drives arrived today. These are nice, ergonomic and compact. I like them. I used one to transfer the dance files from my laptop to the chromebook. Dinner was a salad for me and a small taste of Lib's leftover Curry from last night. Boy was it good. I will be sure to order that next time. Stayed up late working on the user db program. Only 2 weeks till convention which is my goal for release.

The grow boxes are really coming along. The tomatoes need staking. To accomplish I decided to first try cleaning the greenhouse gutter. Found an ants nest in the gutter. After cleaning it and the rest of the gutter I tried setting up the ladder to pound the 10 foot tomato stakes into the ground. Not much luck trying to get the ladder stabilized. instead I decided to go to Lowes and buy a pipe one size larger to cut into pieces, pound into the ground and then plug the 10 foot poles into. I also found the 3-in-1 Motor oil and picked up a single tube LED for my closet. I need more light in there and this will give it to me.
We went to our dance lesson with Robert at 3:30 and had a very good lesson. We reviewed our Tango turn then concentrated on Cha Cha. I learned how to do the chase turns and also the spot turns. It was a great lesson. For dinner we went out to BAAN Thai They were out of Merlot so we had Melbac. I ordered the Pad Khing stir fry which had ginger, garlic, mushroom, bell pepper and onion. i ordered it with Pork. Libbie had the Classic Curry. My dish was excellent and a little on the hot side. I ordered #2 heat (out of a scale of 1 to 3). When we came home we had strawberries and cream on short cake which Libbie made earlier. Yummy. I heard from John today about the May update. I spent the day trying to figure out how to make the update files. Hopefully i'll have this done tomorrow but I want to test it first.

Libbie worked her tail off getting the house clean for the meeting today. I made tuna and also picked up some other things at Kroger such as potato salad. The meeting was pleasant although I had better things to do. All had left by 3. It's a hot day today, in excess of 90. the temperature probe on the station ahs been intermittent lately, it worked for a few hours this afternoon before quitting again. I need to take it down and retry plugging the connections to the probe assembly. Others have reported problems with the conformal coating on the temperature PCB. Had some communications with Barb today about the committee meeting in KC. I have to pick up Libbie at 5 but I will make the meeting for 4:30 and wait for her call. Dinner of course was the leftover tuna fish on sandwiches and some potato salad. I did some more work on the app after dinner but was pretty tired.

I stayed inside all of today working on the user database for FC4A. I managed to get a webserver going on the Android device to transfer files. It seems to work quite well in transferring files. The phone arrived in the mail today. I'm happy with it. the default language seemed to be Portugese and the phone seems to have come from Brazil. I was able to configure it for US English and log into google which meant all my apps transferred over. I'm extremely pleased with the phone. It makes more sense than buying a phone like the BLU which I was considering and had a lot less capability. This has 8 gb of memory, a nice resolution screen and is responsive. Good stuff. We went for our 4:15 lesson with melanie but she passed us off to Robert since she has been practicing for the Spring show over the weekend. Robert is good but this was disappointing because we were making forward progress with melanie. We rescheduled this Thursday's appointment for June 4 since Melanie probably won't be much better with all the practice going on. Dinner tonight was a salad with tuna over it. This is good to be going light again. I continued to work on the app late into the night.

During the CBS Sunday Morning News program I built a photo album of our adventures from Plano to New York. I have a voucher that will expire so I wanted this complete. It's now done! I got going on the import/export routines. This is the first build on the new computer which now works. Had some issues with the click event that's now fixed. Next step is to monitor for the upload file. Libbie made some excellent pizza for dinner. We also did some practice of the Tango from Melanie, this time is was a flare from Promenade, two different types. One with an underarm turn and the second just a walk. We also did an open left turn which is kind of cool.

Finished the shingling job in the morning. All I need now is a roof cap. Went out with Libbie for epoxy at the dollar store, ribs and wine at Target, rosemary plant at Home Depot and Kroger for the Wall and misc. Dinner was ribs, Mondavi Cabernet and potatoes and beets. Raspberry and chocolate yogurt for dessert.
I built the adapter for the wallbox but don't see any output. This may be user error. I have to move on to the FC4A program this week.

I went out and put more shingles on the South facing roof. I now have to use the ladder to reach these shingles. At 3:30 PM we had another excellent Tango lesson with Malanie. We went over what we had done in the previous week and took it further with a left turn and also two different fan or sweep steps coming out of a promenade.
In the evening we decided to go to Arthur Murray in Durham for the Rollins quartet and also dinner. We ate at Teds Montana Grill, a bison burger grill and American food. We each had a Stella draft then I ordered the Cadillac burger with Bison. The burger had BBQ, chipotle ranch, bacon, cheddar on an Oatey bun with onion straws. It was huge and delicious. It came with an order of hand cut fries. We finished dinner at 8:07 then went to Arthur Murray in the same Shopping center. The dancing started at 8 PM. It's a smaller studio and is a storefront with windows looking out at the shopping center parking lot. The Rollins quartet plus one was excellent. We stayed until the end at 10 PM and danced a lot of Foxtrot and waltz including a mixer which was fun. We both had an enjoyable evening.

This morning I found someone who successfully decoded a wallbox pulse train using python. I'll attempt this approach since I can use telnet quite easily in Python for the other part of the program. Went out and put up half of the shingles on the South side of the shed roof. Came in to get cleaned up for our lesson with Melanie at 4:15. When we got there we found she was injured, her knee was taped with an ice pack. We chatted a while with Mitzi, Atlanta and Melanie then went home. This was good since I was tired. I continued with the Python program for the wallbox in the evening. In the afternoon we went to the Farmers Market and picked up some plants as well as beets and potatoes which we had for dinner along with strawberry shortcake. That was it for dinner! Hooray again. Listened to one of the last live broadcasts of the season, the Merry Widow, while I worked on the Python Seeburg program. It was a pretty good night.

Cleaned the nails off the shed building and put down the tar paper in case of rain. The wallbox came as we were leaving for our dance lesson. At the lesson Robert was coaching some Realtors for a private show they are having. We fine tuned our Cha Cha with Robert and added a few new steps. I would like to continue on this path with him for our last lesson before KC. Dinner tonight was strawberry shortcake. I supplemented with a salad. Nothing else. Yeah!!!
The wallbox appears to work. Somebody rewired the lights which I am changing back to original. They also bent the coin operated reset bar which I bent back in position so it resets a coin after the selection is made. Did not have much luck with the scope but the ohm meter showed the switch is grounding the stator properly at each point on the wheel.

I have finally concluded that the only way I can get GPIO in C and Telnet to the LMS server is with two separate programs using separate languages. The GPIO will be in C and the telnet in Python. I can probably read the configuration file in the Python file as well, making it easier. I strioped all the hsingles off the other side of the shed building today. I didn't think I would get the whole thing done but it worked out OK. I fell asleep for 30 minutes after this task. We went out to dinner to BAAN Thai tonight. I had the Pineapple curry pork and a very very nice glass of Columbia Crest Merlot. It was very good. Dinner with tip was $67. Today was Cinco de mayo so we celebrated Thai style.