This was non stop cleanup day getting ready to vacate the place tomorrow. We left at 11:45 for Turandot in Bradenton. We bought the tix when we were there 2 weeks ago. The Sarasota theaters were sold out. We stopped on Clark at the Subway for a turkey sub before we got on the Interstate. The performance was wonderful, the tenor not so wonderful. The lady next to me decided to use the entire first act to unwrap gummy bears in crinkly cellophane. The guy next to Libbie decided he would join in on the choruses. ugggh. We stopped at Albrittons on the way home to get Honeybelles. We bought a bagful but they turned out to be not so good. They are overripe. I have always liked Navels better and will stay with my Walmart Navels for 50 cents each. For dinner we had our last wine and cheese at sunset then had a balsamic vinegar salad. I am going to start my weight loss program Feb 1. I need to lose 20 pounds before April 7.

I washed all the mouldings today with a brush. This wore me out. Libbie continued with scrubbing all the floors. The place is looking good. On the IOS program I switched the main list over to a tableview that can handle very large lists. It works well. I also finished up the icons on the results page with icons for tap, wish, wish report, inventory edit and inventory report. It looks great, I'll probably remove the menu for these items. We didn't have time to get out today since the Wisconsin party starts at 6. We were seated at table 2, a table for 6. One couple from ILL and one from Wisconsin. The other couple were a guy and his younger blonde date. The buffet was excellent, my favorite being the trout with a cherry glaze. Also a nice medium rare prime beef. Buckeyes for dessert along with a sugar cream pie that I never had before.

Still raining today but it's warm. It's Richard Nicholas's birthday. We had a long talk with them about videos and grandchildren. I got the camera app working in IOS but haven't figured out how to save it yet. It needs copying to a program folder then added to the database. Lots to do. Libbie started deep cleaning the condo for our exit on Sunday. This month went by too fast. For dinner tonight we went over to the clubhouse for rib night. I had a half rack of ribs with baked potato. Saved half of the half to take home for lunch tomorrow. We met a Canadian couple who bought in forest Circle 2 years ago. They said they were on #4. They needed a table for 3 but their third didn't seem to show up yet.

This shouldn't be as good a day as it is because it's pouring rain out. It's around 70 degrees. I had lots of success moving forward on the IOS program. The icons are nice looking and I have most of them working. Still need to implement a few more features. I made an appointment for tire rotation. Tire Kingdom offers this service free if you bought the tires there but it took an hour. The good news is the job is done.
We went over to pub night where I had the vegetable torte which was eggplant, squash and portobello in layers with a beurre blanc sauce. it was chocolate cake day so we had chocolate cake for dessert. The cake was a rich chocolate with chocolate mousse filling and coated with dark chocolate chips. it was the best chocolate cake ever.

The month is slipping by too fast. It's warm today, over 80. The majority of the snow in the yard has melted as viewed by the web cam. I finally got a good handle on the pinch to zoom as well as the layout problems. if I use the webview with the url mode instead of html mode I get a normal sized image that can be zoomed. With html mode the image is shrunk to a tiny little speck on the screen, not acceptable. We took the bikes to the Venice train station and rode the waterway. Unfortunately we did not recharge the batteries all week. I used the throttle to just keep the middle or yellow light on. the green one was totally off. I ran out of power about half a mile before the train station on the return which wasn't bad. We stayed on one side of the waterway to conserve power by not having to go up the hump on the bridge over the waterway. We felt that would use too much power. Dinner was a salad after the wine and cheese on the Lanai at sunset. I listened a little to Turandot but went to bed for the 3rd act.

More IOS struggles with the image zoom. I'm also having trouble getting the compiled screen layout to match the layout I did in the designer. We took a ride down the Legacy Trail as far as the Oscar Scherer park. Dinner was leftover reheated sausage slider from Moes Saturday dinner (this is Monday). I also had a nice balsamic salad. I made my annual doctors appointment this morning. it is for April 7 which was earlier than I expeced. I got on the scale and saw I was at 235 which means I have around 13 pounds to lose to match last year. I would love to take it down 15 pounds. Let's see how that works.

I'm still struggling with the ios screen layout. We left at noon going to Taming of the Shrew by the Bolshoi in Bradenton but by the time we got to Clark I asked Libbie to see if it was in Sarasota. It was so I did a U turn and went to the Sarasota Mall where we bought tickets and had a Subway sub for lunch. The theater was pretty crowded but it was a thoroughly enjoyable performance. Today's beauty of course was the beautiful Katerina in a red dress with big zipper down the front. The ballet was intense, erotic and fast paced. The Music of Shostakovich made it special, one of my favorite modern composers. During the sex scene in the bedroom they did the Shostakovich 101, one of my favorites and I've only seen Pilobolus dancing to it. Loved it. The Bolshoi has some talented dancers. We had pizza from the Italian Grill for dinner. They make this stuff fast since we left as soon as we made the call and when we got there in less than 10 minutes it was ready.

i don't know why I signed up to do this but I left at a little after 9 to go to Lake Mary to visit Jack and Tod about the NCID display. It was incredibly windy, my little car was getting blown around. I did 2 hand driving to control it. I got onto Lake Mary Blvd around 11:30 and stopped at the Marathon where I bought gas and also did a pit stop. Had a nice visit with Jack then Tod arrived. He's a pretty brilliant person with degrees in both engineering and marketing. We have a lot in common including Smoking Ribs in the backyard. Cynthia popped in briefly with 3 dogs that she is sitting then left. I got a demo of the new NCID software. Tod wrote some HTML that runs in a server on NCID. Very cool. We went to lunch at Cici's Pizza where they have a buffet of pizza, salad, pasta, drinks and dessert for 5.99 What a deal. We stopped by Cynthias to say goodbye then I left the Forest at 4 PM and texted Lib that I was on the way home. Arrived home at 6:30 after talking to Libbie near exit 245 on I-75. We decided to look for a pub for dinner when I get home. There was a beautiful sunset going on as i was driving. The wind which was terrible this morning was still present but had subsided a little. We went out to Mad Moes down Tamiami which was pretty good. I had the italian sausage with onions, pepper on a bun with Marinara sauce and an Amber Boch.

Back to IOS this morning. Much frustration and no solution on whether to use a webview or the imagezoom class. I'm having trouble getting this stuff sized onto the screen. It won't stay in one place after I compile and run it. I guess I have to learn more about laying out screens in IOS. After dinner I decided to redo the screens and use the webview control. I heard from a user named poison alchemist who did a mockup of an android screen and she also had some suggestions on what the screen should look like as well as suggestions for icons. For dinner we stayed home and had salad as well as cheese and wine at sunset. We watched the snow up North, monitoring our cameras on the house. I wish I could turn up the heat in the greenhouse to melt the roof because the temp is being reported by our thermostat as being 58 degrees. It looks like an ice storm is in progress in Apex.

libbie and I took a bike ride today while i also spent some more time trying to understand pinch and zoom. i have two techniques, a class called zoom image and the webview which natively allows pinch and zoom. We went to the Vine and Dine tonight. We were seated at a table of 3 other couples. The food was over the top, the wine was exquisite. I ate and drank too much. I was sick when I got home from the overeating and overdrinking. One couple was Mike and Lupa from SF-NJ, another couple from Nova Scotia and the couple directly next to me was from Illinois. Only Lupa and Mike were owners. We had Hors D'oeuvres with Rose, sea bass with a Chardonnay, sliced apple with baked tomato and gouda with Zinfindell and finishing the meal with a prime rib cap and Cabernet. Dessert was cheese and chocolate pate with a port. I tasted but did not drink the port.
Total for the night was $180.

I got the convention pages enabled on AVSA. I studied the pinch and zoom but got no where. I still don't have a good solution for pinch-zoom. Maybe I'll take a look at what I implemented in the B4A version. We took a walk in the morning thinking it was cold but half round the neighborhood I took my jacket off. In the afternoon we rode our bikes to the community gardens but turned around just short at Palmer Ranch Rd because there was emergency vehicles ahead on the trail. We didn't want to be looky doos. For dinner we went for pub night. It was pretty crowded, we took a high top and enjoyed the dinner. I had a glass of Cabernet with stuffed flounder and veggies. Since it was pub night we had a family style salad and garlic bread to accompany. Our server was a heavy set girl, Tomi. Today's beauty was a very nice sunset since there were a few clouds on the horizon that lit up when the sun went down. Nice.

The LSAVC website was finally launched this morning. Marjorie had some updates for me. I set her up as an admin. I basically took the day off from IOS and web site stuff and watched some Moteino stuff on YouTube. I think I'm going to order the gateway and a mote to play with at home. The package looks pretty attractive. We left at 3:08 for a 3:55 performance of Star Wars at Hollywood 20 downtown. Found out there is a parking garage next to the theater and parking is free with a movie receipt. We parked at the far end on Level D then walked a long way to the front of the theater. Watched a bunch of previews that were awful but the Zootobia one is very funny and I would love to go see it. The Star Wars movie was absolutely great. We saw Star Wars 1 in 1977 in San Diego over thanksgiving week when we were in Calif. That was 39 years ago. Wow, time flies! After the movie we went to Bangkok Thai. I had scallops Pad Thai which I didn't like as much as chicken Pad Thai. We had spring rolls and a glass of Cabernet with the meal. Later in the evening as I was going to bed i got an eMail from Winston that he was ready for the Convention files to be copied over.
I'll do it in the morning.

I continued working on rebuilding the website all day. It's coming along pretty good. It's too cold to go out bike riding so this is a good alternative although I would rather be working on the IOS project. At around 3:15 we left for Bill's place in Bradenton. We had a nice evening of tacos and wine with Cort, Bill, Barb and Corrie and Shane with their two little ones. It's a bit chilly but OK. We left there at 8:30. At the table after dinner we compared bird apps. Bill has Sibley, I have iBird. There are more features on iBird. I also noticed the bottom menu can be scrolled right to left to reveal more choices. I like this as a future feature for First Class.

We woke this morning at 3 AM to severe wind and lightning. There was a tornado warning and a tornado that hit Siesta Key, ripping the roof off the Excelsior condo. The LSAVC website is severely broken. None of the CSS will load. Playing around with it I found that disabling the color module will load the CSS but of course I lose all the site colors. After spending the day on this I decided I will probably have to rebuild the site. This is a lot of work but I will have a chance to reorganize everything and do the site correctly. When it was originally built I was just learning Drupal. I had the leftover seafood gumbo for lunch then we went out to the Italian Grill and picked up a pizza. I had the pizza while working on rebuilding the LSAVC website.

I worked on file upload to the ios program unsuccessfully in the morning then left for Bradenton at 11:45 for the Met Pearl Fishers at 1. We enjoyed the Opera. Bradenton is new at carrying the Met HD. We got back at 4:30 after mailing a Jessie Rd change of address form at the Bradenton Post Office on Rte 70.
It was a beautiful day out but we didn't get to enjoy it because we were in the theater all afternoon. Oh well.
For dinner we went to the clubhouse where I ordered the Seafood Gumbo. It was one of the best meals I ever had there. Lots of shrimp, scallops, redfish, rice and okra and probably other stuff in the mix. Yum. I had it with a glass of wine.

Closing is set for 2:30 this afternoon. I protested the tax rate and the buyer relented and agreed to use last year's tax rate which saved us $83. Anne had to call in the afternoon to get our social Security numbers from the Attorneys office for the 1099 form. After all that went well she deposited the check. We are now done. I need to download the final closing statement. I had to call the Credit Union to get the money transferred cause she put it in checking. It should have gone to savings but she messed up. Because the check has a hold I couldn't move the money online. I found a nice credit union person on the phone to help me and move the money. We went to the club for lunch today. We split a delicious grilled ham and cheese and a cup of very, very hearty clam chowder accompanied by a Yuengling. This did me in but we did a little bike ride in the neighborhood later in the afternoon. I had a salad for dinner with one of the rolls from last night.

We went out to the UPS store off Honore next to Publix at 9:30. We signed the documents, had them notarized and then shipped them overnight to Don Grimes, attorney in Cary. Total cost was $45. Our part of the land sale is now complete. Anne will deposit the check tomorrow. It's still cold but not raining but it's supposed to rain tomorrow. Now I can get back to the IOS program.
We went to Rib night and had a delightful dinner of Prime Rib, baked potato and the trimmings. Libbie saved half of her prime for dinner tomorrow. After dinner we sat with our neighbors downstairs and chatted a while. They were at the table next to us. They are Carol and Dan and own 2108. They go back at the end of Jan to Ill.

Heard that we may get the closing papers today for Jessie Drive. Left around 10 for Myakka. Met Bill in the parking lot with Cort and Barb. They rented 2 more bikes for the day. We drove along in a very cold park to the bird platform. We met an incredibly talented Audubon volunteer who talked about binoculars. lightroom, birds, spotting scopes and his job in Boston. He had Swavarski binoculars which are outstanding but over $2,000. Wow, expensive but probably worth it. We biked all the way to the end. Left the park around 3. The closing papers came around 4:40, too late for a notary. Dinner was pub night at the clubhouse. We had the yummy salad and bread then I had the blackened redfish with 2 glasses of Cabernet, topped off by a cheesecake with blueberries and coffee. Very nice night. I got the printer hooked up and the drivers installed and printed the documents that have to be notarized. The driver install went remarkably well. I even scanned our driver licenses which was requested by the attorney.

I had a lot of success this morning on the IOS program. Now the updates are working well and the date is updating on the screen. All I need now is a progress indicator. I'll see what I can do for this. We did a shopping trip before noon. Libbie needed thread so we went to the quilt shop on Clark & Honore then continued on to Albrittons for fruit. We had a side trip to Walmart and found more Apples that Libbie liked as well as bobbins and toothpicks. After a lunch of corn chowder I mounted the mirror that I repaired onto the handlebars. It's wonderful. We took a 10 mile bike ride today to Oscar Scherer and back. It's only 65 but the ride was enjoyable.
For dinner we went over to the clubhouse. We both had Fish and chips. I had a gin Martini which was excellent. Came back and started working the user database.

It's cooler today. I spent the first part of the day getting the search box on the avsa website displaying properly. I ended up deleting a php routine that was displaying a white window in our blue border messing up the looks. In the afternoon we got on the eBikes and did a 5.3 mile ride to the front wetland trail and then down MacIntosh to home. It was a nice ride. I had to renew the builder hosting with Anywhere Software so I could continue using their hosted compiler. I tried the timer in IOS to kick off the next download job and it seemed to work. I still have a minor problem with a crash that I need to debug. Dinner tonight was wine with cheese and crackers and then a salad with grape tomatoes.

We woke up to it being wet outside. I like to stay in anyway and watch the Sunday morning programs. After that we went for a bike ride to the North end of the Legacy Trail, about 4 miles round trip. I took the battery out and charged it for the first time. I heard from Barbara about the website - she asked about the search box and the colorbox. I stopped the IOS work and worked on the website to get that working properly. The colorbox doesn't work at all and the search box has a white rectangle planted in it that is not a text box, just a white annoyance. We watched the Golden Globes and the Red Carpet and at the same time I worked on the website but had no success. For dinner we ordered a large cheese pizza from the Italian Grill on the corner of Tamiami and Sarasota Pkwy. Prior to the pizza we had wine and cheese at sunset.

I loaded up the DIY eBike and took it over to the bike shop on Osprey. He gave me $400 towards a Demo Pedego Cruiser. I was pretty happy with the deal and was able to get rid of the DIY eBike which was good. This is a much more comfortable bike. We took the bikes to the Venice Train Station and rode the Venice Waterway into the wind. I initially had some problems. The seat needed adjusting and the tires were flat. We went to a gas station and found an air dispenser that took credit cards. There was only 15 pounds in the tire! I pumped them up to about 45 pounds and we were good to go. We sat at the end of the paved trail for a while and chatted with a guy from MN who was interested in the eBikes. I saw a trim and fit young lady in short shorts while we were sitting there. nice.
For dinner we went to the clubhouse and had a delightful evening. I ordered Crabcakes with potato wedges which I had with 2 glasses of Cabernet. A very nice evening was had by us!

This morning we met Bill and Barb over at Selby at 10. Bill joined and was able to get in free. We had renewed our membership in November. We had a nice walk around looking at flowers and plants before having a sandwich in the Selby House. We stopped by the Pedego dealer on the way home. Bill stopped also inquiring about a rental for Barb. It turns out he doesn't do rentals anymore. I asked about a trade in. He said he can do a deal. There is a nice selection of Pedegos and other bikes in the store. He expanded into the storefront next door since last year. I'm interested in a new bike and so tried Libbie's out once around the pool then drove mine. There is a huge difference in comfort. The Pedego is much more comfortable, mainly because it is a bigger bike compared to the Walmart bike I own. I have a lot to think about. For dinner we stayed home and had chicken salad sandwiches as well as wine and cheese.

I spent almost the whole day indoors getting re-aquainted with the IOS program. I made a lot of progress getting the inventory part of the program functioning. Now I will move on to the updates program. This was a function I set aside because it was too hard to do. Now I'm going to tackle it.
We went to rib night at the clubhouse. I had a yummy 7 oz prime rib with wine and baked potato. Very nice.

We had no coffee this morning so i went out to Walmart to pick up a can before 8. Later Lib and I went to Walmart for groceries. On the way back we noticed Victoria's car. We stopped over to Bldg 3 and asked her to visit when she's done there taking a listing. She stopped over and we chatted a while about keeping the condo for ourselves next year, and the fees associated with Stoneybrook Golf. The Arbor section of Highhouse Ridge is social only, no golf, but the fee is $2400 instead of $3600 plus the palmer ranch and stonebrook street maintenance fees. We got a call from Joy Wrenn that there were surveyors on the Jessie Dr property. Good news! Closing may happen after all. Later Libbie and I took a walk around the block, something I'm going to do every day. I'm badly out of shape. My beauty for today was the sunset. while there wasn't much of a sunset, just before it a slit in the overcast clouds had a bright sun shining through with the upper and lower clouds glowing pink. We had wine and cheese at sunset then went to Pub night at 6. The place was very crowded but we got parking in front and a table in only 20 minutes. I had the citrus salmon as well as the endless salad and bread. For a drink I treated myself to a gin martini. They made too much and gave me the extra in a glass of ice. Yum. We topped it off with Lemon Meringue Pie which was in a little round shell. Quite good.