I took apart the sweater I built yesterday and started all over again. It came out much better this time. I made some more progress on the IOS program today. It's coming along nicely but there is still much to do. For dinner we had leftover chicken from yesterday along with potato salad. Libbie had the beans, there were only enough for one serving of them. Went to the party at 8. There was quite a crowd, I had fun. The sweater was a hit on the dance floor. We did a lot of dancing. Robert managed to play ballroom Christmas Music which was unusual that he found so many good songs that were traditional. I did a Rumba with Linda Martin. Afterwards we went to Spirits in Cary. We split the shrimp tacos which were outstanding. At the bar were the Rumleys, Cains with Son Edward, and Ken and Lana. I had an Amber Oak beer along with the tacos. Love the way the shrimp was done, fried with some kind of sriracha chile sauce. Yumm.

I made an attempt at the ugly sweater today but failed. I used the dress form and it didn't match my body very well. I spent the day doing a lot of IOS work. This was a great day, we didn't have to go anywhere, I got to stay on work on the program. I need more of this instead of running around everywhere like we have been doing. Dinner tonight was a rotisserie chicken from Kroger along with beans and potato salad. It was cold and rainy all day which lept me indoors all day. this was a good thing.

This was a good day for the IOS program. I added the missing menu items and got the advanced search working correctly. Still have a lot of features to add. Wrote the majority of the Christmas cards for my side of the family. Still missing a few such as John Glembock and maybe others. We had a good waltz lesson today. We concentrated on the back progressive twinkles. I tried making my christmas sweater using the dress form. The hula hoop went on easily this way. Dinner was tuna noddle casserole. Had a guy come over about the heaters and found that neither is in great shape. One has a broken control card and the other has 2 frozen fans. Will probably scrap them both.

Didn't need much in the way of groceries today even though it was grocery day. Rounded up some materials to make my sweater. I want a Christmas Tree. We reviewed a few videos about waltz before tomorrows lesson. I also go tLibbie's PC up to speed with all the missing videos. Dinner tonight was spaghetti with cheese sprinkled on.

I scanned some stuff that accumulated on my desktop, didn't too much other work today. Went to Walmart and bought a sweat shirt to convert into an ugly christmas Sweater. I first bought two and some dye then went back with Libbie and returned the two and the dye and bought a green 2XL that looks like it will accommodate the hula hoop base. In the evening we went out to Mr Wonderful at the Roadhouse. I thoroughly enjoyed the evening. We sat with Bill and Joan and Tess of USA dance. We split a bowl of coconut curry, sweet potato, carrot soup. Bill loved it, I thought it was too sweet. I ordered a fried flounder with bacon and a side of slaw. Got to dance a Rumba with Tess. She's pretty elegant. We stayed until around 9:30. It was a fun night. On the way home I saw a meteor, we were supposed to be having the Geminid meteor shower but the East sky was too cloudy for good viewing. The one I saw was a lucky find out the front windshield.

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.