This morning during CBS this morning I worked on the Stauffacher-Ward genealogy from the files Mary and John sent yesterday. Unfortunately I can't read the box file which comes from the Mac Reunion program. Once CBS Sunday morning was done I went upstairs and finished scanning the Mary Condon 1930s book.

Libbie made her excellent pizza once again. The crust came out pretty thing which was surprising.

Libbie cleaned the floors downstairs. i continued to scan photos from the Stauffacher album and also wrote a Python program that works. The program sends an MQTT publish out for the outdoor lights to turn on. This routine will be incorporated into a sunset program so that when sunset arrives the MQTT command will turn on the outdoor lighting. Thanks to MQTT I can also include feedback to determine if the lights received the command.
Dinner tonight was turkey again with stuffing, broccoli and with Chateau St Michelle Sauvignon Blanc. Good stuff. I'm now researching the python sunset calculation program.

I worked on scanning more of the Stauffacher pictures today and also resurrected the genealogy site on the web. I added plenty of headshots to the program in addition to names and dates and a history. I like te TNG program a lot.
I bought groceries in Kroger today along with a $100 Bean gift card which got me $20 back for the groceries. I spent the giftcard and ordered $130 worth of clothes which came with a 20% off Black Friday discount. In addition I got a $10 gift certificate, 4x fuel points at Kroger and the usueal 2% credit card rebate. Good deal.
Dinner was the leftover turkey with just water.

Thanksgiving Day. I looked for a Black Friday code for ProShow but came up empty handed. Instead I found a portable version on Pirate Bay and used a Sandbox type program called Time Freeze which restores your PC to the point before using the program. This insures you have blocked key loggers and viruses.
Sheetz was running the promo again they featured last year and before, buy a paper and get a free coffee. I bought 2 donuts as well when I got the paper. It's thick and full of Black Friday ads. I'm not very interested in anything. The Sheetz donuts are very good. I built a nice movie today of the photos using the new version of ProShow Gold version 8 that I sandboxed. IT played nicely on our TV.
We had a very nice Butterball turkey cooked in a bag along with stuffing, broccoli, cranberries, potatoes and Brut Champagne. Topping it all was a pumpkin pie with whipped cream topping. Libbie worked hard all day because in addition to the Turkey dinner she also made the traditional annual fruit cakes. Wow, lots of good food.

I got the MQTT thing resolved. I needed to close the previous HTTP connection before it would use MQTT to transmit status. This now seems reliable. I continued with the genealogy work and learned quite a bit more about the program's templates and options. This may work well. For dinner tonight we picked up some Sczechuan 3 flavor and a bottle of Ravenwood Zinfindel. The grocery store was less crowded in the evening then when I went earlier in the day to get Apple Cider, flour and baking soda. It was a zoo in the afternoon. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving.

I captioned all the pictures today from the envelope and tried making a movie of them in 1080p but it didn't play on the TV USB port. Back to the drawing board.
Next I played with updating the genealogy program. This is slowly coming along one name at a time. Libbie went grocery shopping with me today. We picked up our turkey as well as wine and other things needed for the Thanksgiving dinner.
Dinner tonight was Spaghetti without any wine, just water!!!

MQTT seems to be unreliable. I eventually traced the problem to the initial http connect to one of the 5 URLs. Once the connection is made the MQTT client publish fails. This is not good but the good news is we really want to know when it does not connect and not when we do connect. However, I am going to try an http stop tomorrow to see if this corrects the issue.

Libbie went to the dentist today at 2 which was risky business for our 3:30 dance lesson. The studio is closed Wednesday before Thanksgiving this week so we rescheduled for today to continue our routine. We pretty much have most of it and did well only missing once or twice. Half way through the lesson we switched to Rumba which was great because we did pick up a few pointers. We did the sliding doors which starts with a box then immediately an underarm turn followed by a turnout. We then go back and fourth before getting together and completing with a fifth position to close.

When we got back I spent the evening scanning an envelope of Libbie's Mother's pictures. Next I will read the backs of the pics and label the front with the captions. This will mean each pic becomes 2 pics, one with a caption and one without. In the evening while scanning I listened to Manon Lescaut live from the Met with Christina Opelais. I heard Anna Netrebko do it last week. I like them both.

Dinner tonight was leftover chicken with a bottle of Parker Estates Cabernet we picked up in Kroger today along with baked beans. We also picked up some Triscuits and a brick of cheddar to have a glass of wine along with a pre dinner hors d'oeuvres.

No internet this morning. After the CBS Sunday Morning show I went to Best Buy to exchange the modem for another. The warranty is the best $10 I ever spent.
I worked with Time Warner to get the modem listed on my account. When that wa s done all worked again. In the meantime I struggled with the modem reset. I researched forwarding MQTT to websockets. It's built into the version of MQTT on the Debian repository but not on the Pi Jessie repo.. I followed some online instructions for adding the Debian repo and installed from there. The web page I created seems to work with receiving MQTT messages. Dinner was Libbie's pizza.

I cleaned up the router room and installed the router restart box. I tried doing a few updates from upstairs and hung the thing. I need to look into a watchdog timer for the thing. We went out in the PM first to Loews to look fro bulbs then to Fresh Market to get Ribeye for dinner. Dinner was ribeye, lima beans and baked potato with sour cream. Accompanying the meal was Fess Parker Cabernet.

I prepped the junction box for the Router reset and mounted all the parts. I did this while Libbie was having her vein surgery over at Wake Radiology. I drove her there at 8 AM and picked her up at 11:43. We wnet to O'Charleys for lunch. I had the half a club which had turkey and bacon along with a bowl of loaded potato soup. The soup was cheesy with bacon and potato in it. i had a 22 ounce Red Oak beer with this. Later in the day I got the modem and router reset circuit hooked up in the closet. i also took the opportunity to clean up a lot of the wiring in the wiring closet. This went well but I only got about half the job done. Still more to do. It is cramped in the closet so I got out of there for now. The major components usch as router, modem and switch are mounted. The modem is at the end of it's cable so it's not on the shelf where I wanted it. Will try again some other time. I think there was an issue with the center conductor not making electrical contact so I had a flaky connection. Dinner was leftover Portabello stuffed with Chicken and Pesto.

I prepped the junction box for the Router reset and mounted all the parts. I did this while Libbie was having her vein surgery over at Wake Radiology. I drove her there at 8 AM and picked her up at 11:43. We wnet to O'Charleys for lunch. I had the half a club which had turkey and bacon along with a bowl of loaded potato soup. The soup was cheesy with bacon and potato in it. i had a 22 ounce Red Oak beer with this. Later in the day I got the modem and router reset circuit hooked up in the closet. i also took the opportunity to clean up a lot of the wiring in the wiring closet. This went well but I only got about half the job done. Still more to do. It is cramped in the closet so I got out of there for now. The major components usch as router, modem and switch are mounted. The modem is at the end of it's cable so it's not on the shelf where I wanted it. Will try again some other time. I think there was an issue with the center conductor not making electrical contact so I had a flaky connection. Dinner was leftover Portabello stuffed with Chicken and Pesto.

I prepped the junction box for the Router reset and mounted all the parts. I did this while Libbie was having her vein surgery over at Wake Radiology. I drove her there at 8 AM and picked her up at 11:43. We wnet to O'Charleys for lunch. I had the half a club which had turkey and bacon along with a bowl of loaded potato soup. The soup was cheesy with bacon and potato in it. i had a 22 ounce Red Oak beer with this. Later in the day I got the modem and router reset circuit hooked up in the closet. i also took the opportunity to clean up a lot of the wiring in the wiring closet. This went well but I only got about half the job done. Still more to do. It is cramped in the closet so I got out of there for now. The major components usch as router, modem and switch are mounted. The modem is at the end of it's cable so it's not on the shelf where I wanted it. Will try again some other time. I think there was an issue with the center conductor not making electrical contact so I had a flaky connection. Dinner was leftover Portabello stuffed with Chicken and Pesto.

I prepped the junction box for the Router reset and mounted all the parts. I did this while Libbie was having her vein surgery over at Wake Radiology. I drove her there at 8 AM and picked her up at 11:43. We wnet to O'Charleys for lunch. I had the half a club which had turkey and bacon along with a bowl of loaded potato soup. The soup was cheesy with bacon and potato in it. i had a 22 ounce Red Oak beer with this. Later in the day I got the modem and router reset circuit hooked up in the closet. i also took the opportunity to clean up a lot of the wiring in the wiring closet. This went well but I only got about half the job done. Still more to do. It is cramped in the closet so I got out of there for now. The major components usch as router, modem and switch are mounted. The modem is at the end of it's cable so it's not on the shelf where I wanted it. Will try again some other time. I think there was an issue with the center conductor not making electrical contact so I had a flaky connection. Dinner was leftover Portabello stuffed with Chicken and Pesto.

I spent a bunch of time answering stupid FC for IOS questions. The Apple users are definitely a lover class of people. I went out to Kroger and bought the ingredients for Portabello chicken Pesto mushrooms. The recipe was kicked off by the idea of clearance priced Portabello mushrooms. Libbie helped me make the meal which was outstanding. Cooking Light comes through again. We had this with a Parker Estates Cabernet Sauvignon. While Libbie was at quilting this afternoon I put in 4 packages of bulbs. The drilll bit makes it easy except I practically went through both batteries on the portable drill. The drill is the greatest thing ever.

The reset circuit kept crashing after x minutes. I did some googling and reading and found this is common. One person used the Ticker library function and had success with no crashes. I changed the code to utilize the Ticker library which isn't much different than the TSR I included but apparently this one is safer and doesn't result in crashes. It ran all day without crashing. Need to decide whether I will have a separate router reset from the cable modem reset. I went outside and picked up the pinestraw in the piles next to the driveway. I spread it around in the back by the new dogwood and around the Camelias. Dinner tonight was the leftover meatloaf muffins with a tiny bit of leftover wine and some Lima Beans.

Worked this morning on the reset some more before leaving for the airport at 11 to get Libbie. i waited in the cell lot for her to get her baggage. I enjoyed reading the "Now you're 70" book from Ken and Anita. With Libbie home we did the Tuesday groceries and picked up the ingredients for a single fruit cake batch. I finished the code for the reset and ended up doing a mod to the circuit board where i removed the relays from GPIO 0 and 2 and moved them to GPIO 4 and 5. 0 and 2 were wired to the RED and Blue LEDS but were also used for the firmware update which caused the relays to chatter. We made muffin tin meatloaf this evening which we had with green beans and a bottle of Rodney Strong Cabernet.

Took a ride to Sanford, it was a dreary lightly sprinkling ride. I thought it would be a nice Fall day trip. Continued the reset work and also managed to get the updates up on the web for Android. Dinner tonight was the leftover pulled pork on a bread round.

Spent a lot of the day online learning about the election and electoral college and other nonsense. I did get the First Class update out the door hopefully for users of Android. iOS subscriptions still have a problem That's the next issue. Dinner was 2 mini pizzas made from scratch. I bought crusts from Kroger then loaded them up with cheese, tomato sauce and onions and peppers. They were pretty good. i ate this during the interesting interview with Donald Trump on 60 minutes. i like Melania.

I got the Lonestar website updated and also tested the IOS Scrollview which seems to be working pretty good. I haven't found any issues with it. Drilled some holes in an electrical box to mount the relays and Huzzah for the router and cable reset device. Dinner was a little different tonight. i bought some precooked ribs sealed in a package and heated them in the microwave. They were OK but not great. I had these with baked beans and a bottle of red blend wine that Kroger was sampling.

I was depressed today. Laura got some nasty mail because I commented on her stupid petition for the electoral college to elect Hillary. I said she lost because people didn't want socialism, an opinion shared by my friend Andrea who has family living under socialism in Argentina. I called Mary and John and also talked to Laura. She is off the wall. I viewed it as a poor snowflake who didn't get a participation trophy because her person lost the election. For dinner tonight I made a large pizza using a Kroger pizza shell. The rest of the pie was from scratch. I updated the MAAVS website. Still need to do Lonestar.

Left the house at 5:30 to take Libbie to her 7 AM flight. Spent the rest of the day working on the IOS scrollview. I seeemed to get it working. Took a quick trip down to Fuquay and on the way back stopped at BoJangles on 55 in Apex and picked up a 2 piece dinner. It was great. Dinner tonight was chopped BBQ which was premade in a tub along with baked beans.

I was shocked this morning when I woke up and found that Trump had won. I was checking to see how badly he was beat since all the polls were calling for a Hillary victory. Wow, I am happy. Socialism was rejected.
I spent the day on Scrollview for the three screens that need it in IOS. I was successful. Will probably release it as a beta first. Tonight I recorded William Tell from the Met. It was their last performance of this opera. I fixed some chicken wings after lunch then we went to our lesson at 3:30 with Robert. We picked up a few pointers on Swing especially the hammer lock. Dinner was the wings with butternut squash. We had water to accompany the meal. I need to lose a few pounds and this is the way.

I started by working on the reset circuit for the router. When we came home yesterday I reset the Cable modem. This restored internet to our home. For the reset circuit I mounted another driver chip on a new PCB. The previous one has the chip mounted rotated 180 degrees. I finished populating the PCB but did not power it up.
Next I moved to IOS. On smaller displays the keyboard covers the input area. I experimented with the Scrollview and have gotten some success. I still don't fully understand how it works. I converted the inventory and part of the search over to a Scrollview. The dropdowns need some help, they won't scroll and still have to be added manually to the Scrollview. I will work on this tomorrow.
Dinner tonight was pork chops with butternut squash. After dinner I worked some more on my roadtrip story. I'm a little rusty with my writing. Need to write more.

After breakfast I drove Susan Anderson to the DART rail station at 8 AM. It was only one mile away and was a good way to go out to get gas. We only took 5.9 gals at a Valero for 2.09 per gallon. At 10 AM Libbie and I drove down 75S without incident then took Mockingbird to the Airport. Enterprise is the last rental facility before the terminal on the entrance drive so it was pretty convenient. Pointed out to the person checking us in that the tire pressure light is on. While we were driving we found the button to set the clock back since this is the first day of standard time. TSA went pretty smoothly, we were both TSA Pre. Once in the secure area we had chicken sandwiches at Chick Fil A with a small order of fries. I really like the Spicy chicken sandwich. Our flight was at 12:30 but the incoming was diverted due to bad weather. They gave us another plane from a hangar which didn't get going until 3 because they had to add additional fuel to go around storms. The flaps didn't work in Raleigh so we made a high speed landing and had to get the Fire trucks out to inspect the brakes. We waited an hour for the brakes to cool. Got home at 9 and had a bowl of cream of chicken soup for dinner followed by a bowl of cereal. A tiring day. Communicated a little with a lady named Alice since she has overlapping keyboard problems on an iPhone 4.

We did the hotel breakfast on my birthday. Met all the people packing to leave and also the EC who were having a 9 AM meeting today. Anne joined us at the table and we chatted. Mary invited us to dinner with them and several others tonight. The day started out sunny but clouds rolled in. We headed over to the Arboretum at around 9:30. The gardens were lovely. I was expecting to see the pumpkins but they had all been moved out and the 12 days of Christmas were running. Huge gazebos contained animated figures playing out the 12 days. It was a little early for Christmas but enjoyable. There were a few brides and many Quincinerras which is a 15th birthday celebration coming out for Hispanic girls. Not only were the girls there to be photographed in the garden but whole families came along to watch. the dresses were elegant, the girls also covered with jewels. Around noon we had a beer and Brat but it started pouring. We moved to a table with an umbrella and were soon joined by a Russian son and parents taking advantage of the shelter. I waited until our 12:30 checkin and
got us checked into our flight for tomorrow. The Russians were living in
Arizona and visiting Dallas. We walked some more after lunch then saw that
rain was imminent again. We left in time as the rain started again and was with
us all the way back to the hotel. Joe called as we got to the hotel. Paige,
Christa, EMily and Joe had birthday greetings. We did Facetime later in the
hotel room for more Birthday songs.
At 6 PM we went out with Mary & husband Bill, Terry Post, Susan Anderson, Bill
Price and Winston. The restaurant was Mi Cocina and was a contemporary Tex-Mex
place. it was very cleanly laid out. We were served promptly by a nice young
man. I had the Poblano sauce Enchilada with rice and refried beans accompanied by a Dos Equus beer. The assembled crowd sang Happy Birthday which was a surprise. That's 3 times. Came back to the hotel happy and tired.