The floor is really going well although slowly. I have mastered click lock flooring and want to do my office this year. Went to change the oil on the Corolla this afternoon and found that the jug I thought I had is short about a quart. I do have 5w30 and debated mixing this with the 0w20 but online forums recommended against this so I went to Walmart and bought a jug of oil. Also picked up some mandarin oranges and bananas. I tried Kelloggs Crave cereal as a sanck. It has double milk chocolate in it and is sinfully good, not great if you're trying to keep the weight off. After my hamburger and salad dinner I decided to do more siding, this time cutting away the closet door jamb bottom and fitting a board in under the jamb. It looks great! Libbie requested a check in for tomorrow morning at 6. I told her I'm up anyway so will do it. I tried getting the IBM RSMB broker for MQTT but it doesn't like the version of the MQTT broker, either the pubsub one or the Adafruit version. I stumbled upon a version of Mosquitto that runs on the yun. This is a good use for the flawed Arduino architecture. It basically runs on DD-Wrt router firmware which is Linux based. Since the YUN has a Linux based image someone created a version of the Mosquitto broker for it. I'll try an install on my YUN.

Today is better. I feel less depressed than yesterday and seem to be alive again! It's sprinkling outside so I can't set the saw up but the great news is I have a clue on the flooring. the first 3 rows I put down look great. The secret is to use the mallet to tap the grooves into place and to not worry about the curl in the first few rows. This will flatten as the floor progresses. Weight was just a hair under 218 this morning. My goal is around 215 on Thursday morning when I visit the doctor. It will be a struggle.
I chose not to go to Butterfly in HD this afternoon. Glad I did since the sound went out on both Sirius and WCPE during the first act. I made a hamburger for dinner once again to have with a salad. It's a good protein meal and provided I don't junk it up with other stuff, it's low calorie.

This is a depressing day. I'm not happy with our stock account balances, they are quite low. In addition, the flooring job is not going well. I pretty much stopped the progress on the floor and ended up with tearing it all up. I wasted probably one or two boxes of flooring in scrapping the job. I'm going to try to do better. Checked into the Frontier account, our new ISP in Florida and they got none of the changes removing the sports and downgrading the service. I'm not happy with them. Dinner was a hamburger on a bun. I also had a bowl of Gnocchi from Trader Joe because I was still hungry. In addition to my crummy day, I found i left the BBQ grill on all day since dinner last night. At least it was clean when I went to use it. What an awful April 1. The weather wasn't so great either. It was warm, windy, rainy and cloudy. Yuck. While I'm miserating over the shitty day one more i can add is my order for 3 size XL shirts came from King Size. Wouldn't you know it, two polo shirts were XL and the other was 2XL. Crap!

Blood work early this morning with a 7:30 appointment. I met Bill over there from our dance friends. Logged onto Verizon this morning and saw I can make all the changes to the account without involving a person on the phone. Will do that tonight. Worked on the floor some more. this isn't going too well - the boards are not clicking together and I have large gaps in some of the boards. What a nightmare. I started reviewing Openhab for my home automation system because it interfaces with everything on the market. Much to learn about the terminology. I finally logged into Scott and retrieved a 1099 form as well as made a funds transfer to checking in order to avoid account non activity which i got an eMail for. Weight is promising at 218 this morning. Dinner was a hamburger on a bun cooked on the grill. i decided i needed some protein even though it was red meat. Changed the Verizon account. Tomorrow it transitions over to Frontier. Wanted the changes logged before the transition.

Wired up the fan today in the downstairs bedroom and got the Moteino working cycling the thing. It's not functioning exactly as planned, the disable timer is not working. The fan still cycles. Need to fix that. I have a new saw blade and a multi cutting tool to cut the door jambs. I'm ready to start the flooring. I watched some YouTube installation videos on click and drop flooring. It looks easy but I know better. Dinner was a salad and a bowl of lima beans. i have blood work tomorrow and proudly i have hardly had any meat this week. Can't wait to see the results.

Left at 6 AM to drop Libbie off for her 7:30 flight. I finished up wiring the fan and think that it works. The timer cycles the fan but the timer off mode doesn't seem to be working. I laid out the padding and taped it down at the seams. It fit fine using up the rolls exactly. I put the starter course down after ripping down the first course making them 3 inches each. The click and lock isn't as easy as it sounds. It's not going well on the first 3 courses. I checked online and found the rest of the floor will weigh down the initial courses so it won't buckle as bad. I'll see how this works. I've been studying OpenHab and interfacing to it through MQTT. I can see my home automation system eventually including the big LED display into an OpenHab environment along with NCIDD. This will be fun. Took a spring drive to Sanford. It's a beautiful usnny day with the spring flowers on many of the trees. Dinner was a salad with Lima beans. I was still hungry so later on I had a bowl of cereal.

We practiced our waltz some more this morning. Libbie touched up the paint job and I changed all the outlets in the bedroom to the new white ones. We had a good lesson with Robert. He worked on fine tuning our steps. After dance we went to Kohls where I dropped Libbie off and went to Home Depot. I picked up the wood for the floor in the Corolla. Eleven boxes just fit into the trunk with the seat down. Libbie helped unload it at home into the back foyer. Dinner was a salad with Julienned ham slices over the top. It was a light dinner night. Weight is around 220 or 221. I need to get to 216 by next week to weigh in and be the same as last year. It's going to be a tough goal to meet.

This is easter Sunday. After the morning CBS Sunday Morning show we started the paint job in the back room. We have a light pink which is called Bermuda Shell. Libbie did the cut in work while I painted with the roller. It took about 1 1/3 gallons of paint which was what I calculated. It looks pretty nice. The push is to get this work completed before the flooring arrives this week. Dinner was Libbie's wonderful pizza. We tried practicing our waltz routine because we have a lesson tomorrow instead of Wednesday. Libbie is going to RI on Wednesday so can't be available.

It rained on and off today which was good since it washed off a lot of the pollen which was accumulating. I got the Moteino and the gateway working sort of. Having trouble getting a button to display. I'll keep trying. Dinner tonight was the Ham with the last glass of the Rodney Strong and also broccoli and a yam.

Libbie posted the roses to Facebook today. We got a lot of comments and congrats. At the dance tonight Mitzi announced it was our 44th anniversary. We enjoyed the dancing and went out to the pub afterwards. We shared a plate of wings and had a glass of Sweetwater beer. Before dance we had a ham sandwich. We visited Costco this morning and joined but did not buy anything. The quantities were too big for us on many items. Wine had a good selection and pricing. Not so sure about soap and other things. After the Costco trip which wasted the morning I loaded up the car and took the carpeting to the dump. It was crowded over there but I'm glad the yard is cleaned up of this stuff.

Did some more sanding and scraping of the carpet pad in the downstairs bedroom Vicki called for our anniversary tomorrow. She's putting in new counter tops in her kitchen. I picked up a bouquet of Roses for our anniversary tomorrow and also a chocolate bunny for Libbie for this Sunday which is Easter. Dinner tonight was a ham with yam, broccoli and one glass of Rodney Strong Cabernet as a special celebration. I finished scraping the carpet padding off the concrete floor in the spare bedroom. This was harder than I imagined it would be.

I put the second coat of spackle on in the corners after sanding the first coat on the downstairs bedroom. I also scraped quite a bit of the carpet off the concrete. I'll finish in another day. We went to our dance lesson as usual with Robert and learned the tricky parts of our routine, taping the tricky parts for study over the next few days. Because of Libbie's trip next Wednesday we scheduled another lesson with Robert for Monday at 3:30. Dinner was eating light once again. We had chicken tenders over salad greens for dinner. I really like this combo.

Libbie went out to care for our friend Lori this morning while I spackled the bedroom and ripped up the carpeting. I also programmed a Moteino but had trouble driving the relay that is going to operate the fan. I found that the port pin, D2, on the Mote is hooked to the transceiver and could not be used for general purpose IO. Moved the connection to D3 and now all is well. I need to program this thing to operate the fan on a timer and also to have it controllable from a gateway. Need some script work for the gateway as well. Dinner was chicken tenders on top of salad greens. I really liked this combo, probably because I was really hungry. This afternoon we went to Home Depot and got the flooring on order. I lost the 10% off coupon but was able to use the 18 month free financing coupon for the purchase. The sales guy was nice, friendly but clueless. He didn't know the correct amount for the glue, told us the bottle did 400 sq ft. It really does 400 lineal feet. Need to buy more glue.

Luis and Juan finished the ceilings in the bedroom and the bathroom. They really look great but there is a lot of dust on everything in the house. Louis said they will come back when the weather is warmer to do the ceiling on the back porch. Libbie went right in there and started working on the trim paint. After a weekend of eating and not losing any weight it was time to get back in the groove. We had Lima beans and salad for dinner. I'm now at 223 which is the wrong direction.

The weight was not terrible but not great this morning at 222. I need to be 216 naked to clock in at 222 with my clothes on to match last year's weigh in at the doctor. My appt is April 7.

After doing some more research I determined that the fan I wanted was a 52 inch with enclosed light, 2 lights in the globe enclosure. Libbie said white, the only place with white was Fuquay.We picked up a Gazebo II by Hampton Bay and bought a universal remote as well as a 10 inch plate to cover the ceiling hole. At home I placed the plate against the ceiling and determined that it was the perfect size to shift the fan to the joist and to also cover the hole. Next I need to study how to control the thing with a Moteino as well as still allow the Remote to function. The fan was $99, the remote $31 and the plate $10. When Luis finishes the ceiling on Monday I will start the fan installation when the paint is dry. The Moteino will need programming first and the support hardware such as a relay and power supply need to be identified. I had a number of issues with the beta test ladies that I resolved on IOS. One was a repeating inventory function and another was a search that didn't work the second time. Fixed these but it took Apple 36 hours to approve the file for testing. Dinner was pork chops, sweet potato, peas, salad and a bottle of Shiraz. Big dinner. I'm afraid to look at the scale tomorrow morning.

Luis came around 9:30 this morning and sanded and plastered the two rooms. He and Juan were done around 12:30. I did some research on fans and then wondered how Robert made out with the laptop drive I put in a box for him. We had some Salmon and Broccoli then went over to the studio. Robert greeted us at the studio happier than ever. The hard drive worked out for him! He announced it at the studio to everyone and then again at McGegor Tavern afterward. We had a good night of dancing back to Robert's old music that he had been copying onto the new computer for the past few days. It was a nice night of dance. Afterwards we went to McGregor with the gang. I had a beer and split 8 wings with Libbie, 4 each. I sat between Libbie and Butch with Anita at the end of the table. Nice hats about everything. Had to change the Anchorage to Juneau flight this morning because I had the wrong day. Uncruise gave me the wrong date. Paul got a different one from them so I called back and found they gave me the wrong one. I changed the reservation from July 24 to July 23.

Luise came today around 9:30 and started the popcorn job. Amazingly they were done a little after noon. He said he would be back tomorrow to sand the job. In the meantime I was able to build a good version of the IOS code and distribute it to everyone on the Test Flight beta team. Dinner was light again with salad and Lima beans but I had some crackers and misc stuff throughout the day today. I will get back on track tomorrow. I set up the heater in the downstairs bedroom to make it warm all afternoon to help with drying. I booked the Albuquerque and Juneau air tix as well as 3 nights in an Air BnB in Juneau extending our vacation a few more days.

Decided that I would have a separate entry and exit for the results screen in IOS. This means that all I have to store are the name and hybridizer and look up all the other stuff each time I enter the page. This may work to solve the problem of page not refreshing or the wrong page displaying.
We went to dance today but there was no music because Robert's computer had crashed. The lesson was good anyway. We picked up a few pointers for our waltz routine and ran through the first two parts without music. I took Robert's computer home and put the hard drive into an external case. It was still good and readable. We dropped it off at the studio around 7. On the way home we decided to do La Cocina for dinner. I had a Yuengling and a Quesadilla La Cocina, my old standby. I need to get back to the diet again.

Tried to work on the problems with the inventory for the app but I got nowhere. It wasn't going well so I put it aside and worked outside on the outdoor lights. I also need to get the Sprinkler system working again. I had salad and Lima Beans for dinner while Libbie had the other half of her Sub sandwich she had for lunch when she was out with Laurie taking her to the doctor today.

Put in an extra effort on the app today trying to wrap up inventory and camera issues. We went out to the Roadhouse in Pittsboro tonight for dinner and dancing. Bill called us that we could sit with him this evening which we took him up on. We split a salmon BLT sandwich with coleslaw and sweet potato fry chips. They were yummy and the right amount of food, accompanied by a craft beer. Total bill was $32 plus $6 tip. I put the app into testing when we came back from the roadhouse since I took a look and Apple had approved it. It was submitted to Apple in the afternoon. After submitting to Apple I then took some time and worked outside moving some more of the cut up logs on the side of the house cleaning up the woods. While i did this Libbie worked in the front yard picking up pine cones and branches.

We moved all the furniture out of the downstairs bedroom and into the front room today in prep for removing the popcorn ceiling. The app still has problems with inventory and the camera. I'm working on trying to fix those.
Libbie made her great pizza from scratch for dinner. The broiler was on so the crust cooked soggy while the top was done cooking. it was very good none the less, especially when i have been cutting back like the last few weeks. Weight is down to 122 and holding.

Finished up this version of the IOS app, version 1.0.4. In addition to the bug fixes, this uses the camera to add user photos to the mix. Luis showed up today to estimate the popcorn scrape job. He will do the bathroom and the downstairs bedroom for $950. We gave him the go ahead. He said he could start as early as Sunday or Monday but Tuesday looks like a day he will be free. Submitted the fore mentioned IOS app to iTunes for approval. They probably don't work the weekend. Dinner tonight was shrimp, broccoli and Shiraz.

It was a nice almost 80 degree day today. Did not work outside since I wanted ot rest up for the dance party tonight. For dinner we had Salmon and broccoli then went to the studio for the dance party. We went out afterwards to Brewsters with the gang. I had a Sam Adams seasonal and we split some Nachos and queso cheese sauce which didn't have much flavor. Jennifer had Mac and cheese bites which she said also was lacking flavor.

This morning I was tying up loose ends. We located Libbie's Score Card account which has 18,000 points in it. She can trade that for a gift card. Yesterday I paid the 8,000 dollar Visa bill which was our deposit for the Alaska trip. We probably are spending too much for this one trip. I imported the MVL refids from Joe Bruns into an SQL table, now I need to write a program to incorporate that into the existing database.
During the afternoon I wrote a sub to populate the database with the refids. Some of the refids didn't match up to the names thanks to european characters and also the species. I made up REFids for the species. After the database was populated I used iTunes to fetch the file so I could include it in the assets.
Dinner was a salad and lima beans then we went out to the Elks at 7 PM for the 7:30 PM dance with Rollin and the tune swingers. We had a very nice night. The dance floor was not crowded but the orchestra was unbelievably loud in that low ceiling room. The dances were mostly foxtrot but we had a very nice evening. It was over at 9:30, we made it to the end. During the day I used an online service called homeadvisor and was contacted by Louis of Carolina Contracting. He said he would stop by Friday or Saturday to give me an estimate for scraping the ceiling in the back bedroom.