After the morning programs of Sunday Morning I hooked up the trailer and we took the old table, chairs and other misc to the greenhouse dumpster to take advantage of it. While over there I moved the two old tires over to in back of the silo, hopefully out of sight. Once the greenhouse chores were complete I went over to Best buy and exchanged the modem. The new one works perfectly! It has not crashed all day so the other one really did have a problem. I worked on the app the rest of the day or more correctly, I worked on getting myself set up as a beta tester of a test app for in app billing. I will be getting a good handle on this problem I believe. The test app allowed me to buy a subscription which has a daily expiration date. This is great. Libbie made her fantastic pizza for dinner. This is a happy day. The Internet is working again and I'm making progress on the First Class app. Woo hoo.

It was raining this morning but I took the cover off the smoker and put some Loin back ribs into it that I purchased this morning from Kroger. I had to make a batch of Smoking gun Rib sauce. For the rub I used the Coco Loco stuff we got from Don at Rib University. It worked well, everything came off as planned throughout the day with the smoker. We had a half rack of ribs, broccoli and Rodney Strong Cabernet for dinner. Libbie made a Happy Birthday apple pie today. It was yummy as usual. Internet Service crapped out today. I called Time Warner and of course they found no trouble. I have a service appointment with Time Warner for Wednesday to fix the connector coming into the house. We went to bed with no Internet service. thhe cable modem won't stay running for more than a few minutes. As soon as I run data through it the modem crashes. I used the MyFi device in my office to read about the in app subscriptions that are not working. Glenda also has the same problem. I need to set up a test subscription on Google for app subscription testing.

Happy Birthday. Had calls from both Vicki and Arlene this morning. I also had 61 friends on facebook wish me a Happy Birthday which was nice. The Google OBI adapter is doing a nice job delivering phone service to us. It was very clear for both calls from Vicki and Arlene. Went out to the Greenhouse to finish up the loading the dumpster. We both worked incredibly hard and got all the trash disposed of. Heard from John that the subscription problem is not fixed. Need to do more debug. We went out at 6 for First Friday. It's been a while. chose to got to Nicoles first then over to Art Space. Much has changed in each studio. Next it was out to dinner at 8 PM at caffe Luna where I had the seafood combo over pasta. It was really yummy. I ordered a bottle of Rodney Strong Cabernet to accompany dinner. Libbie had the usual Salmon Farfalle. We came home quite tired and happy. No work tomorrow!

Worked on FC4A some more this morning. John is still having a problem with his subscription. It's not showing to him that he has a subscription. I did not reference the subscription variable i think. Put it down at 10:30 and went to the greenhouse alone. Libbie is with Nancy and then has quilting. I worked until 2:30 and am really sore. I lost track of the time but made good progress on the cleanup effort. Received a Cooking Light eMail with vodka sauce pasta and shrimp so I picked up the pasta and shrimp and made the recipe along with Libbie. It was delicious. I have to give this one an 8 as well. It's pretty easy to make but has a lot of steps. We had this with the leftover shiraz from last night which was just under a glass each. this was just enough.

I lost track of what day it was. Not sure why but I was surprised it was Wednesday already. Did a few hours at te greenhouse but didn't work too hard. Stripped a lot of the wires and put them into a bucket. I managed to fill a 30 gallon bucket to the top with wire. In the shed I shoveled with the new scoop the debris on the ground. Filled a garbage can with cans, styrofoam and misc trash and then put the bag into the dumpster. Went to our dance lesson at 3:30. Robert was a little late which was unusual. We concentrated on Waltz which we needed. He showed me how to reach when stepping around, also to take small back steps and large forward steps. It was a good lesson of waltz tips. Dinner was the leftover meatball muffins with more wedge potatoes and a whole bottle of Shiraz we picked up at Trader Joes on the way back from dance. Went upstairs to bed pretty early.

We went out to the greenhouse in light rain and hit it hard today. Libbie had trouble starting the fire but once we got going we burned quite a bit of the wood. I moved the back door assembly to the dumpster. This was hard and heavy work, I then concentrated on getting to the bench legs in the shed. I tore out a sheet of plywood being used as a gate to corral the wood into a stall and started moving the stuff into my cart for transport to the fire. Breaking the legs off is hard work so I decided instead to move whole leg assemblies to the fire. This created a roaring bonfire and the legs burned quickly. Left there and found out there is an issue with the FC4A program in that the in app billing crashes for John Carter. Spent some time on it after dinner and found that the check inventory API is being called twice. If it doesn't complete the first time it crashes trying to start a second instance. I fixed it so that it only runs once. Dinner tonight was a Cooking Light recipe that came in my email today. It was Meatball muffins and was a big hit for dinner. I made potato wedges to go with the meal and we each had a leftover glass of wine from Halloween night.

We ended up with alost 3 inches of rain last night and today. It's wet but not too cold. Used the time to prepare the November update for the FC4A app. I also made updates to both LSAVC and MAAVS website. LSAVC got a weather advisory due to the storms in TX and MAAVS got the rest of the pictures that Neil took I also corrected the best costume, it was Marie not Kitty who won. We went out in the pouring rain to go to the Roadhouse in Pittsboro. It was a fun night of dancing mostly Foxtrot to the 18 piece band on stage. We sat with Bill and joan and their neighbor Joan. The floor was sticky but Joan had a bottle of powder that she sprinkled on the floor and walked through. For dinner I had a Yuengling in a bottle accompanying a fried flounder sandwich with a side of Slaw.

It's a rainy day. After the morning programs I loaded up the cart and headed over to the greenhouse. We had a steady stream of visitors to pick up free pots and almost cleared them all out. I loaded the sofa into the dumpster and also cleared out all the wood from the one side of the shed. We burned all this wood in a huge bonfire. It was great that it was raining so we didn't worry too much about the roaring fire but it also meant we got soaked to our skin. Next big task remaining is to get rid of all the bench supports in the shed. There are a pile of them and they may not fit into the shed. I came home dead tired today, not sure why since I didn't do any heavy lifting. I did manage to tear apart all three workbenches we had in the building. Two of them were put into the fire and the third into the dumpster. Burning is preferable to save dumpster room. We had Libbie's pizza for dinner. She left the broiler on by accident so burned the pizza top but I think it still tasted OK. Had an FC4A inquiry from Marge Farrand. She thought a plant was not in FC4A but was in the desktop version. In reality it was in the user database in her desktop version.

Worked in the office this morning configuring the Obi200 device and initiating the transfer of the home phone to Google. So far everything is working as it's supposed to. Finally T-mobile transferred the number from Vonage to my unlocked phone. This was a 2 week struggle with many calls to support in India which was a pain in the ass. The combination of the accent, the poor connection with delay and people who are not trained very well. They always had the same message - I would get a text within 24 hours that the number was transferred. Ha! That never happened in 2 weeks. Good riddance. I'm thinking of deleting the greenhouse phone number totally. The other option is to use voip.ms and transfer it. I don't have a good price for the service. At 11:15 we left for our Wagner Marathon. I totally enjoyed the rousing music and choruses and the excellent singers of our afternoon at Tannhauser. This group of Wagnerians were fantastic. On the way home we picked up some wine and the missing ingredients to make pesto chicken which I made. We had the chicken with Broccoli and a Cabernet Sauvignon that Kroger was sampling called Paranoia. This was an award winning wine and had a nice hologram label

Out to the greenhouse this morning with the cart and chainsaw. Finished moving the 4 foot lathe fencing then decided to tackle the folded up piles of plastic tops. I used the string trimmer to clear the weeds around the tops and also around a site for a fire that Libbie is going to tend. Libbie burned a lot of the lumber from the shed while I continued filling the dumpster with the old sign that needed chainsawing and hauling to the dumpster. I put an ad on Craigslist for free pots and we had a steady stream of people coming to get the pots which was good. Went home very tired and after a lunch soup I felt sick to my stomach. Not sure what the problem is other than I went out to Kroger and picked up some Pepto Bismol and took 2 doses an hour apart. By the time of the Halloween party at the studio I was feeling a little better. Our showcase performance was in Act I and didn't go very well. I'm not sure what Libbie was up to but she wouldn't do the Zigzags after a twinkle and then at the end she decided to change sides during our ending routine. Mitzi did the cooking for the evening. We had corned beef with meatballs, wedge potatoes and some salads along with beer and wine. It was a nice evening of food and dance but I wish I felt better. We left a little early at 10 PM.

Went out to the greenhouse and opened the back of the dumpster. Used the string trimmer with a new blade to clear a path to the piled up lath fencing in the shed and started moving the stuff. I got almost all the 6 foot fencing into the dumpster. There is less of the 4 foot fencing which I'll do tomorrow. I'm not sure the dumpster is going to be big enough. It's a fill and wait see situation. This afternoon we went for a lesson before the performance tomorrow night. The lesson was a waste of time, we didn't do very much. Dinner was leftover lentil and squash soup.

It's another rainy day. The dumpster was delivered right where I wanted it. Went to Home Depot and bought some new work gloves for Libbie and I. Took the string trimmer with blade over and tried cutting some brush which worked well. Also used the chain saw to trim the bushes around the door to give us better access. Left the brush piled up since I didn't have a cart. Shut the bluebird website down this morning. That's the end of an era. Lots of comments on Facebook about the greenhouse even from Mark and Brandon. Dinner was Lentil and squash soup. This is a very tasty combination.

It's a cold, wet and generally crappy day. Neil sent the pics to my dropbox and I'm busily putting together some York pages for MAAVS. We had a highly successful dance lesson with Robert. I even taped the whole performance and it looks pretty good. We had a few flub ups but in general the whole thing is not too bad. For dinner Ii made the chicken breasts with basil pesto and mozarella which we had with peas and a bottle of Fetzer Cabernet. I didn't care for Fetzer's version of Cabernet, it tasted oxidized or not aged. Tannhauser came on during dinner, I stayed up until the end of Act II before going to bed since I was tired.

I ordered a dumpster today for the greenhouse property. They can't deliver it till Wednesday when it's supposed to rain. Lots of mail arrived today including the extension bellows, my flannel shirts and the Obi 200 telephone adapter. I did some MAAVS website updates but need the pictures from Neil before I get really serious about the website. This time I just built the York landing page along with a menu for the pictures. Dinner tonight was spaghetti.

We had breakfast in the hotel in York then picked up some gas before getting on I83 to head home. We left around 7:30 AM in light rain which continued almost to the NC border. We chose to do the beltway and I-95 for Washington. Sunday morning traffic was not too bad, we had no delays. We did a bathroom stop in Fredericksburg and also used our coupons and got 2 Big Macs. We got home at 1:45 PM. My knee was killing me. The downstairs furnace was not working when we got home, I left a message for Anthony. Not sure what's going on down there. Worked a little on the MAAVS photos and the York 2015 web page before going to bed. Libbie made her wonderful pzza and I dashed out to Walmart and bought brand new Rain X wipers for her car. I originally got Michelin wipers but they did not lock down properly so I returned them and got the Rain X which have a locking clip that I think is much better. It was $30 for 2 wipers. Still having T-Mobile troubles. I called them again and furnished the zip code they said they needed. Lets see how this works.

Rich Follet had another one of his meltdowns and went storming out of the building. Libbie took over Ways and Means for the day. I never want to see that guy again, he's out of here as far as I'm concerned. Libbie had to miss the Donna Turner Strep presentation which was outstanding. steve and donna do a nice job in Streps. I went out to McDonalds and picked up lunch for us both with our coupons. Dinner tonight had me as the MC. We both had Salmon with the MAAVS 25th anniversary cake for dessert. After dinner I presented Down Memory Lane which many people said they enjoyed. We hung out in the bar afterwards until around 11 PM before we went off to bed.

Judging was this morning. I called T-Mobile and s pent an hour on the phone with them before giving up and driving over to a T-Mobile store and getting my phone activated. The beautiful blonde had a wonderful body to enjoy in her tight jeans and form fitting T-Mobile shirt.
We tried to go out to lunch to Mission BBQ but it was very crowded so we went to chick Fil A next door. It was quite good, we met a lady there who came over to the show at our hotel with her two grandsons and bought a bunch of violets.
Libbie entered two Sinningias and a Chirita in my name and they each won a blue ribbon. We wore our pacman costumes for the costume show and didn't win. Libbie thought it was skewed towards the Baltimore group. We sat with Steve and Donna, Sue and Carol and Marie and Paul. It was an amicable dinner group. After dinner we went for drinks in the bar and listened to the nice duo singing and playing. We even danced a Rumba and Foxtrot between the tables. It was a fun evening.

Woke at 4:30 this morning and had some coffee then packed the car and headed out the door at 5:03 AM. We stopped at exit 4 in VA at Loves Truck Stop for gas and McDonalds biscuit breakfast. We hit some stop and go on 95 near the beltway then the beltway was stopped near the BW Parkway exit causing us to get on the exit lane and take the parkway. It was crowded but moved along. The rest of our trip was uneventful and we got into the hotel at 12:30. When we arrived at the hotel we went to Walmart across from the Wyndham York to get batteries for the car key FOBs. Mine stopped working for the Prius so we bought a battery 2 pack and replaced the batteries in each of our Prius key FOBs. We also had lunch in the Walmart McDonalds before going over to check in. We got a convenient room, rm 119 on the first floor, near the lobby which was handy.
A lot of the regular MAAVS members are not here, it's a pretty small show for us. In the evening we went out to a military themed barbecue restaurant named Mission BBQ. They don't serve alcohol but we had very good baby backs and the best baked beans I ever had.

Libbie finished the costumes for us to wear this afternoon at dance. I went through and finished selecting images for the Memory Lane presentation. We went to our dance class at 3:30. The costumes were a big hit as well as the pacman. Robert had no problem with it. We tried our routine several times so that it's getting quite familiar. The emphasis today was to cover the entire dance floor. Robert set up chairs along the sides to simulate the other ballroom. This is going to work. Dinner tonight was a salad and some cooked deli BBQ chicken breasts we picked up in Kroger on the way home from dance. After dinner I finished packing. We have to leave at 5 AM tomorrow morning to make the trip to York.

I put the finishing touches on the pictures for the Memory Lane presentation but it's too long!!!! I have somewhere around 210 pictures. A good show has to be less than 100. I piked up a Sim card for the unlocked European phone I bought and will transfer our home number to this phone. Then I can transfer it to Google. This will cost a little money but we don't want to lose our home number. We had soup at home then left for the State Fair at around 1. We had some trouble finding close in parking but eventually scored a front row spot. We spent tons of time walking the fair, almost 4 hours, leaving there at 5. The horticulture was our first stop. I fell in love with the Dahlias, they are really beautiful. We need more of those in our garden. Next stop was the village of yesteryear where we liked a wood carver who makes toys with a scroll saw. We bought some fudge in the craft building then bought some chickpea fries with curry sauce opposite the church restaurants. Next stop was the art which is my favorite stop in the fair. Before going in we did the Goodness grows tent where I discovered Bone Sucking Sauce Mustard flavor. Libbie bought a bottle of water. In the education building i bought a sour pickle. wow, it was sour. We then went into the cow barn and sat down to watch a cow judging before visiting the veggies. Saw Jennifer and McKenzie working the veggies before starting back at 5:02. By the time we got to our car it was 5:23 and then home at 5:45 in pretty busy traffic. We chose to go out to dinner at La Cocina where I had a Quesadilla La Cocina and a Yuengling. It was a pretty busy and physically active day. I was sore all over but happy. Listened to Rigoletto live on Sirius this evening to the end and then went to bed.

I assembled the pacman two sides and it was incredibly unstable. I'm going to go back to a one sided design. I quit this stuff for now and went on to picking out pictures. Earlier today I went to PIP when it opened. The door was locked. Went to Brueggers for some bagels then went back. A very pretty young girl was in the front office and tried to help me but she couldn't. Dave comes in at 9:30, Chuck gets there at 1 o'clock. Dave called me around 10 and I set the job up with him. He thinks it will be done tomorrow. The heat quit downstairs this afternoon. I took a look at it and couldn't figure anything out. The flame comes on and then immediately shuts down. I put in a call to Anthony who returned it later in the evening. He's swamped with people with broken heaters. This is the first day of the heating season. Later in the day the furnace decided to restart itself and seemed to work reliably. I scheduled a maintenance call with Anthony for next week instead. Dinner was creamed tuna and noodles which was excellent.

After the morning CBS shows I went upstairs to work some more on the MAAVS convention booklet. I finished the job late at night and uploaded to PIP in Cary with plans to visit them when they open tomorrow morning. I made the Panini sandwiches again for lunch which were excellent. There was some mozzarella left over so Libbie used it on her excellent pizza which we had for dinner. This stuff is infinitely better than the pizza we had in RI last weekend. I also went through the image files and came up with all the pics froom MAAVS over the years for the Memory Lane presentation.

This morning I worked on the convention booklet for MAAVS and made very good headway laying out the schedule and the membership directory. We left at 12:15 for Otello live from the Met and playing in Crossroads. Libbie made tuna sandwiches for intermission. The performance was just OK, I'm not much of an Otello fan. The singing was adequate, the staging was something I didn't care for and the Opera didn't leave you singing with any hit tunes. Dinner was pork chops, homemade apple sauce, baked yam and Shiraz. It was very nice. After dinner I went up to the computer and worked another hour on the booklet. I certainly don't want to do this next year but am not sure how to get out of it.

I cut the mouth out of the second Pac Man half and painted both of them, this time with the roller which doesn't leave brush marks. Went to Lowes and the place was deserted. I asked why and the cashier said everyone is at the State Fair. Bought some threaded rods and washers and nuts to hold the thing together. I picked up some ingredients for Ham, cheese and basil Paninis which we made on the stove. Meanwhile Libbie made the PacMan Ghost costumes. There is so much to do. Tomorrow we go to Othello and in the meantime the MAAVS booklet is due as well as the Memory Lane slide show.

I thought it was going to be another day working the Internet problems since it wasn't working this morning. It turned out to be a bad connection of the cable connector. Got that fixed and the connection was solid. Resumed working on PacMan by cutting the plywood into circles and cutting a mouth and painting one of them before we went to dance at 4:15. It was a good lesson, we used the other ballroom to see if we would fit and learned a few things about spacing ourselves across the room real estate. Dinner tonight was Pork chops and fresh apple that we picked up in Kroger on our way home from dance.