Another do nothing day. Last night we talked with Gary and Janet at our table about their son Andrews' new house. He has a lot of old antiques. We decided we will gift him a power meter lamp and the old milk can. At the end of today I couldn't figure out what I did, it wasn't very productive that is for sure. I watched a video on making a Xmas tree sweater then found out I didn't have a sweater base to use for it. Libbie made her excellent pizza for dinner, it's been a while.

Stayed in most of the day reading about various projects online including Moteino and other software projects. We left for Century Club at 6. I wore my tux yet again. The dinner is less than Esquires but still way more than adequate. It is also BYOB which helps with the costs. We sat with Jane and Jim, Gary and Janet, Mike and Anne and Charlie and Terri. IT was a nice crowd. The music was a DJ but quite varied and also very excellent. A great evening of food and dance. We took 540 to and from since I didn't want to deal with Christmas traffic around the malls. It was a pretty good choice, fairly easy ride. I went online today and found I was TSA-Pre. This was quick! It took about 4 or 5 days which was a surprise.

Stayed in most of the day reading about various projects online including Moteino and other software projects. We left for Century Club at 6. I wore my tux yet again. The dinner is less than Esquires but still way more than adequate. It is also BYOB which helps with the costs. We sat with Jane and Jim, Gary and Janet, Mike and Anne and Charlie and Terri. IT was a nice crowd. The music was a DJ but quite varied and also very excellent. A great evening of food and dance.

Worked upstairs on the computer looking at the NCID software. I opened an account on Call Centric to get Caller ID but it doesn't always work. I ended up disconnecting it and just using Google Voice. We made the crabcakes at 4 but they weren't firm enough and fell apart. I used too big of pieces in the crab mixture. should have chopped it up smaller. We went to the Xmas ball. I wore a tie, no jacket. Many were dressed in coat and tie. The food was good including our crabcakes. Saw Gary and Janet there. They were just returned yesterday from Gary's Mother's funeral. We won one of the grand prizes - 2 bonus lessons. Now we have 20 in reserve. Dinner was the studio foot of shrimp, meatballs, crab and everything else.

Went to Kroger in the morning to get ingredients for crab cakes for the studio party. Over to the airport at 3 to pick up Libbie. Had to get ready for Esquires which means leaving at 6. There ewas an accident on the beltline at Western Blvd backing up traffic so we bailed out at Jones Frnaklin and took the side streets over to Hillsborough St where we got back on and got to Esquires at 6:45. It was a nice but tiring evening of food, drink an dance. The Tuneswingers were the orchestra. They played mostly Foxtrots.
Can't access Open Cnam on an Arduino. They need https which requires an SSL certificate. This needs to be run on a Pi or real computer. It was so nice out that when I put the garbage out I took the blower and cleaned the driveway. Dinner was the leftover BBQ chicken from yesterday's Kroger trip.

The oil patch got worse today. Kinder slashed their dividend by 75%. This is not good for my investments. I have been afraid to look but will get over it soon since I have to log in to pay taxes. Took out an account on Open Cnam and funded it with $5 for caller Id lookups because Google doesn't provide the info.
Dinner was BBQ chicken from Kroger. I have enough for several meals. For lunch I made the Trader Joe Biryani.

I did the dirty work under the house and ran the ethernet cable. The end at the closet was on the ground, it had not been run upstairs. I pushed the cable through the hole in the floor into the closet and added an RJ45 connector inside the closet to this cable. While under the house I also found the fan was turned off so I turned it on so now both fans run periodically. The display runs now using the wire under the house. This is good news. Dinner tonight was cheese and spinach ravioli in Marinara from Trader Joe.

I built a case for the NCID display then painted it black. Once the paint dried I mounted the LED panels and attached the Arduino. Everything worked well. Next I moved it to it's home on the TV and hooked up the ethernet cable at the TV. Couldn't find this cable in the router closet so I ran an external cable and tried NCID on it. Everything worked!!!! I made a phone call to the house and the display showed my number. Very cool. I didn't feel like going under the house to trace the cable, I'll leave that for tomorrow. Dinner tonight was more of the fried chicken. It's pretty good with Tapatio sauce. Saw a Newegg special for an HDMI monitor for only $69 with free shipping so I bought it. I need a monitor at the desk where my old computer is located as well as for Raspberry Pi work. This should fit the bill although it's only a 20 inch screen.

Fixed the mirrored connections on the display and tried it out. It works!!!!! I now have large LED characters in the display. Next step was to get NCID working on the Raspberry Pi. I used the binary image onto a new NOOBS install and it worked well with my new modem. Did not try the NCID functions yet but the server definitely works. I can log into it from my laptop. For dinner today I had Fried chicken from Kroger. It's an 8 pack so I have more than one day's worth.

I spent all day wiring the LED display interface. I tested it after dinner and found the connectors to the display are mirror imaged. Will fix it tomorrow. the Uno Arduinos came today from an ebay vendor in Atlanta. They work perfectly. I plugged one into the computer and programmed it with no problems. Fo dinner I ordered a Szechuan Three Flavor and Eggroll from the china place next to Krogers. I bought a bottle of Mondavi Cabernet to accompany dinner. i found that it is $2 cheaper in Walmart because I paid 7.95 yesterday in Walmart for the party and 9.95 in Kroger tonight for dinner. For dessert I had the popcorn that was left by one of the political guys.

I spent most of today working on the LEDs for the NCID display. I should be doing the IOS stuff but I want this to work as well. I also need to get the greenhouse and porch monitoring off the ground. It's currently not reporting again. This thing is not reliable. May have to switch to an Ethernet based transmission from the workshop to the office closet. We had a tuna sandwich for dinner then went to the Dance party with a bottle of Mondavi Cabernet because it's a pajama party and wine tasting. I skipped the pajamas and only brought the wine.

I had some good success today on IOS. The thing finally recognizes when I have 2 different hybridizers for the same violet. This was a struggle but finally accomplished. The reason for the difficulty was that I was expecting the RefID to be unique and it is incorrect in my database. We went to Esquire in the evening and had a very good time. Charlie and Terry were sick and Gary and Janet were at Gary's mothers funeral so it was a smaller crowd. The Tune Swingers play a lot of foxtrot and not much of anything else.

We had an excellent lesson with Robert today. We added a chasse to our routine followed by a lock. I think this will really jazz up our waltz steps. For dinner we stopped by Kroger coming home from dance and got some more chicken thighs and made the mustard glazed chicken again. This time no wine. We bought lessons today. 10 to start then Libbie spun the wheel for 2 more free lessons and a chance to buy 6 more at half price. We went for it and now have 18 lessons in the bank.

It's surprisingly warm but cloudy today. Worked on the IOS app of course and then did a grocery run. Picked up the ingredients for chicken thighs with a rub and mustard glaze. Yummy. Broccoli accompanied the meal.

It's a cold rainy day outside. I stayed inside working on the IOS app. I'm having some confusion over page management in IOS vs what it was in Android. I did a lot of studying and possibly came out with a solution. Dinner tonight was a delicious turkey casserole that Libbie came up with. It included turkey, celery, chicken soup stock and saltine crackers. It was yummy.

This is the last of the nice warm days. Went outside and raked pine straw in the driveway and then painted the sewer pipe in the back black. Making great progress on the advanced search function of the IOS app. I'm not 100% yet but am feeling much better. Learned today that my friend Irwin died yesterday. He was 80. It was quite a shock since I just saw him at MAAVS in October. Libbie made her pizza today from a dough ball she had previously frozen.

Still not feeling terrific. My intestines really hurt. Fooled around with trying to focus the SLR onto a Film Frame. It's too far away to focus well. the more extension tubes I add the closer to the lens the object has to be which is a problem because i can't get the camera very close. I have been continuing to work on the IOS app. Today I worked on laying out the screen for the advanced search. Just found out there is no spinner control to implement a dropdown but I found a code module to achieve this. Dinner was more leftover turkey with the last of the stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy and broccoli. I only had water with the meal. yesterday I ordered the displays from Adafruit for NCID Display. They were having a 15% off Black Friday special. I also went on eBay and ordered an arduino uno since I didn't have any and the display needs one. The server can accept messages to be broadcast to all clients. I will use this to send temperature and other misc status.

Another beautiful day. We went out to Lowes in the Black Friday craziness and bought filters and dehydrated worms as well as PVC parts for my projector project. I have a tummy ache or something. Not sure what's going on but it hurts everytime I eat.
Anne brought a $450 check over for us as payment for an extension of the closing date for our land. New date is Jan 15 which may be a problem since we are in Florida.
We hit Kroger for the Friday Freeby as well as ham and cheese to make the cheese-ham-turkey melt sandwiches from cooking light.
Dinner was thanksgiving leftover turkey, stuffing, potatoes and gravy with the rest of the champagne.

I went to Sheetz and bought the paper as well as a donut. Libbie's computer won't turn on today. I found a Black Friday from Dell for the laptop for $299 with the sale starting at midnight. I also checked Amazon and eBay. Took her laptop apart by removing all the screws on the bottom and popping the case apart. Removed the battery and also the watch battery. Measure the voltage of both. The watch voltage was 3.0 volts which was nornmal and the computer battery read 11.7 volts, also good. Put it back in and the computer now boots! Put the case back together and will call it fixed. Its weird how hard it is to get to the battery, in the old days you just pushed a button and released it. Libbie made Fruit Cake while the Thanksgiving Parade was on. Later in the PM we took a walk around the lake in Seagroves. Many people out walking. It's a beautiful sunny day, around 70 degrees.
Dinner was out Thanksgiving feast. We had turkey, stuffing, cranberry, mashed potatoes, green beans and gravy with Korbel Brut champagne. Pumpkin Pie for dessert with whipped cream on it.

I was able to download and decode my first update map on the IOS app this morning. Now to kick off the required data downloads. Anne Cain got the extra $50 for us from the other agent making the total fee $450. She said she will drop it off.
For dinner I went to Kroger and got Asparagus and looked for Snow Peas but had to substitute green beans. The produce stocker went in the back to see if there were any and came back and told me they will be on the truck tomorrow, Thanksgiving. We need them tonight. We cooked chicken, green beans and asparagus with a dipping sauce. Recipe was from Cooking Light which we also enjoyed last year, the Wed before Thanksgiving. Pretty cool.

Libbie headed out with me to the Grocery store where we got the fruit cake ingredients plus the turkey dinner ingredients. When we got to the store we found the fruit cake list was at home. Libbie stayed in Kroger fetching the turkey stuff while I ran home to get the fruit cake list. Our grocery bill was $226. Wow, this included $5 worth of coupons plus an $11 senior discount. To make matters worse, I went to the ABC store and picked up Brandy and Vodka for a total of $36. We heard from Anne that the extension check for $400 is in her possession but she was not happy since it should be $450. I didn't mind the $400. Dinner was the leftover lasagna from last night plus we finished the wine from our Florida trip.

Ran over to Lowes in Cary and picked up an auger bit for the drill to plant bulbs plus another bag of tulip bulbs and crocus. The auger went into the ground easily but killed the battery. I switched to the backup and continued, planting all the new bulbs. Still have the others in the garage. For dinner tonight I made Tex Mex Lasagna froom cooking light which includes corn, beans, salsa and mexican cheese. It's yummy. We had this with a glass of Cabernet.

During the day I worked on the IOS app, specifcally the downloads section. I found there is no encryption of maps available so I changed the upload app on android to upload 2 files, one encrypted for FC4A and one not encrypted for FC4i..

Planted about 70 bulbs using a shovel in the front yard and also cut all the lower branches from the White Pine which used to be the Billy Johnson Christmas Tree out by the mailbox. I stacked the branches next to the street for hopefully town pickup. Libbie made her pizza from scratch while I worked some more on the IOS app. We had the pizza for dinner. Tried covering the blooming Iris in the back yard because it's supposed to get down below freezing tonight.
Libbie posted me planting bulbs and John Carter suggested I try a soil auger from Lowes for $15. I'll look at Lowes Cary in the morning. Apex is showing no inventory.

Up at 6 AM and after my shower and getting dressed we started loading the car and putting stuff away that was out. We left Stoneybrook at 7:24. Our first stop was in Lake MAry at McDonalds then at a gas station nearby. Traffic was OK, a little heavy around Disney but no stopping. Next stop was in Georgia at Port Chester which is the last exit in Georgia. We had burgers at Wendys in front of the Sweet Tea Grill then got gas across the street at a Murphy Express. On the way through SC I pulled off at exit 57 and finally got to visit the SC Artisan center. It was worth it. Lots of nice local art. I enjoyed the slave kitchen behind the artisan center with a red rocker on the porch. Took soome cell phone pics then bought a note card with this image inside. Last stop of the journey was to top off at Pilot which is exit 170 of Florence. Gas was $1.79. Got home at 7:45 which was not bad considering the stops including the artisan center.

Updated LSAVC this morning after hearing from both Anne and MAry yesterday. Did quite a bit on the IOS app. I added a menu and the about function. I also got the tap image for alternate to work well. It tells you there is an alternate and then correctly displays the credit. No pinch to zoom though. We go home tomorrow which is too bad. Now working on the updates. I got the isWiFi function to work. Next I need the download function from fc4.avsa.org to get the list of updates.
We went out to Casey Key to the FishHouse around 7 PM and found they were closed due to a private party. On the way hoome on Tamiami we decided to try the Italian Grill. It was a good choice. Service was very prompt, the prices were reasonable and the food was delicious. I ordered Eggplant Parmesan but got chicken parmesan instead. I accepted it and had a mug of Yuengling to accompany the meal. It was a nice evening, warm out as well. Came homoe and packed my suitcase.