Breakfast with Anne and Richard today in the hotel restaurant. The buffet for two with tip was $40. Ouch for breakfast but not bad for what we had. Coffee, eggs, bacon, French toast and juice.
We took a drive to Disney Springs and spent the morning walking around the lake. i don't know how many miles it was but I would guess it was around 3 miles.
When we got back it was almost 1 PM so we went to BJs brewery for lunch. We had a BJs Amber along with a shared California Flatbread which had chicken bacon, avocado on flat bread. Yummy.
We had an uneventful Internet meeting. The todo items for me include making the newsletter archive secure, adding the userid/password system from the office, adding a google custom search to the photo gallery.
For dinner we drove 2 miles to Cuba Libre, a pretty pricey Cuban restaurant. I had the Visit to Havana with a Mojito. The Visit to Havana was a Cuban with salad and black bean soup for $20. It was good. We had to pay $4 for the Parking garage,
When we got back we went to the Opening Night slide show by Nancy Hayes which was boring and did not stay for the growers forum.

We got going today at 7 AM and had an easy drive to AVSA Orlando. We had a McDonalds biscuit and gas stop at Florence then stopped again at Lake Mary for a Wendy's Single and tank of gas. The drive was easy, this was our first time on the new 6 lane I-4 which was nice but we hit a thunderstorm for about 10 minutes. We got to the Wyndham around 4:30 PM which was great timing.
We met up with Anne and Richard and were shocked at how deteriorated Anne was mentally. She has very limited mental abilities. What a shocker. She announced she is giving up the Library and Penny would be the new chair.
We went to diner at the FishBones grill which is a private independent Grill and was a fantastic restaurant. it's a little pricey but so worth it. i had a Tuna steak and also shared a Shrimp cocktail with Libbie. Wow was the shrimp great, the salad was out of this world and I loved the fully loaded baked potato that came with the fish. This was expensive, $126 but was outstanding.

I'm very glad we did not go last Saturday. I got aa number of things cleaned up but unfortunately I could not remember the password for Veracrypt where I stored a few files I need. Bad news. We had the last of the Nathans Hot Dogs for lunch then in order to continue the Memorial Day Grilling tradition we had hamburgers for dinner. We have a mouse so I put some almonds in glue traps around the back foyer. Libbie reported that the upstairs AC was sounding bad. I went outside and found that the fan was not running. i took the cover off the unit but did not get very far. I'm afraid it's the starting capacitor. I'll deal with it when we get back which unfortunately is when the crawl space construction work begins. I packed the rest of my stuff and am now ready to travel in the morning.

We decided not to drive to FL today. I waited for Best Buy to open at 11 this morning and swapped my cable modem for a new one. It was still covered by the extended warranty. This is the 4th modem since I purchased the first one 18 months ago. I hooked up the multimedia PC on the ethernet output of the modem and authenticated the device. This went smoothly but I had a little trouble getting the router hooked up. I noticed it still had the old mac address in the status screen. I killed the power to both the router and the modem for about 5 minutes. I then powered both up and WiFi internet came alive!!!! This whole thing was so frustrating but I'll be prepared next time. I ordered an ethernet cable adapter for my laptop and I will order a second cable modem when we return. Lunch today was the traditional Nathans Hot Dogs for Memorial weekend. Dinner was Libbie's outstanding pizza.

Good lesson this morning with Justin covering eighth notes. I have a lot to do in learning rhythms. I did the First Class update successfully and also submitted the revise app to the Apple store. Since both of these jobs were done I worked on the Mary Ellen Condon DVD and made 4 copies plus did an upload to the MS OneDrive site for sharing. We decided on an all American Memorial day meal so bought a Sirloin Steak, Ravenswood Zinfandel, green beans and baked potatoes with Sour Cream. It was all yummy. After dinner I unplugged the modem and the output went bad. I can't believe it was this simple to destroy it. This jeopordizes our trip tomorrow.

It's a nice day. Libbie went out walking while I read some more about Android TV. I need to organize my home movies as TV shows so they will show up as series in the listing. Right now it's a disorganized mess. I picked up Roach gel and glue traps for the Violets downstairs. The pollen is being eaten on the plants so I'm going to try this stuff. After a dinner of hamburgers and baked beans we went out to the studio for the party. Our dancing was terrible tonight, I couldn't do anything right. After dance we went out to Abbey Road on 1010. This is a new location for them and was quite nice. We sat outside and had beer and a Quesadilla.

I got all the movies organized and was impressed by the speed of the Android TV box when it plays a movie. My organization of the movies needs improvement. Right now they are all coming up displayed in a disorganized mess. Dinner tonight was spaghetti with tomato sauce and cheese.

It's still raining today although the two day total is under 1 inch so far. I uploaded the new version of First Class for IOS to Apple but I still need to do something because it's not showing as ready for review. I need to figure out what else to do. We watched a movie, Zootopia, on the Android device tonight. It was not as smooth as when we watched Hidden Figures on this box last night. Dinner was Taco salad again using the rest of the beef from yesterday.

It's a rainy day. i went out for groceries then left the car in the driveway in the rain to get it rinsed off. Later I went out with a sponge and an umbrella and sponged down the car. Dinner tonight was Taco salad with the lettuce and beef I bought at the store today.

It was another day of playing with the Android TV box. It's too complicated to pick up and just watch TV. I wish it were a lot simpler. I'm looking at how to get home videos into this thing. i would like a category for Home Movies which is what it seems to be missing. We left for the Pittsboro Roadhouse at 6. We had flatbread salmon sandwiches with sweet potato fries and a bottle of beer. I enjoyed the Triangle Youth Jazz Orchestra. They were an incredibly talented group of high school kids and also had 2 high school girls that had unbelievable voices. Libbie commented on the short shorts that one of the girls, Emma, had on. Emma was one of the vocalists with an incredible voice. I told her I saw them a lot shorter on some High School girls. We danced a few foxtrots and swings to the jazz pieces that were danceable. We sat tonight with Joan and Bill. They left early but we stayed until the last number which was a swing which we also danced.

I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to learn the Android TV box especially all the plugins for Kodi. Apple still hasn't approved my first class subscription update product. I put the subscription into the store with a new product ID. I matched up the ID in the program to the subscription ID which means I will also have to update the software. Libbie made her pizza for dinner again and it was yummy as usual. Using Kodi I downloaded the 2016 movie I.T. which starred Pearce Brosnan as the rich owner of a jet aircraft leasing company. A disgruntled hacker hacks his home automation system, company, emails etc. It was pretty good if you like geeky stuff, otherwise it would be forgettable. It's amazing that i can watch a streamed movie like this.

I had a Clarinet lesson with Justin that was good. He was 15 minutes late because of a new puppy and said he would not charge for this lesson. I learned 2 new keys this morning. The register key which exposes the higher register and then the B flat key which is almost impossible to get with my pinky.
In the early part of the morning I tried various versions of Alexa control programs. The multi channel ones off the Internet seem to crash. I'm hoping to get my own version of multi channels put together that is more stable.
I went to Walmart looking for a new cover for my iPad but no luck. i bought one that was for an iPad Air. It was about an inch too narrow when I tried it in the car. I took it back into the store and returned it.
The Kodi box came this afternoon. I hooked it up on my HDMI monitor and started going through the Android TV screens. This thing is more complicated than I imagined and may not be a good choice as a media box for pictures and videos. I will have to see how this works out. I had to stop playing and quickly get dressed for Century Club. We were running late which was made worse when enroute Libbie asked if I remembered the wine. I gave her my smartphone and asked her to find a grocery store near the shriners facility that we were going to. She found there was a Kroger only one mile inside the 540 beltline on Creedmoor. We went to the store and bought a bottle of Rodney Strong for 16.99 which wasn't too bad but worse than the price we pay at Costco. We really enjoyed the evening. The band was the two Dons which really is 3 piece which now includes a percussionist. Their music is quite excellent. They have a good mix of swing, cha cha, foxtrot and waltz and even had a Tango. The dance floor is very roomy so we were able to do quite a bit of dancing of various types of dance. At our table were Art and Nancy who are now members, Janet and Gary and Jim and jane. We stayed until quarter after 10, one of the last couples on the floor along with Nancy and Art.

A lot of the day was spent just watching Youtube tutorials. In the afternoon the mail came with the Android box i ordered. We had a light supper of tuna sandwiches before we left for dance at 8 PM. I didn't want to go but instead stay home and play with the Android box. After dance we went to the new Ruckhouse Pizza next to Costco. We each had a slice of pizza with a beer.

After Clarinet practice I joined Libbie under the greenhouse cleaning out junk. We filled garbage bag full of plastic pots and also hauled out fencing, pond pumps and parts as well as pipes and rods. We filled the Corolla with all this stuff along with the crawl space screen door and 2 folding doors from the garage and took it to the dumpster. It was almost disaster. The bungy cord slipped and hit Libbie in the chin. It could have been worse. The rest of the misc stuff I gathered and took to the street in the rolling garbage can. Dinner was spaghetti with homemade spaghetti sauce consisting of fresh basil, tomato chunks, marinara sauce and tomato basil sauce.

Clarinet is coming along good!!! I can do scales rapidly but not always perfectly, however my playing is significantly better. I installed a new version of FC4i on the desktop for the FC4i program. After a password issue with the remote builder I am able to compile and debug FC4i. I put a new subscription in the Apple store. My old one says withdrawn by developer. Now I need to test the program with the subscription. I wasn't keen on going to the dance lesson this afternoon but during the lesson I came around. It was a good Cha Cha lesson, we learned a few new patterns which was excellent. Robert suggested we participate in the Showcase now rescheduled Aug 5. I would like to do a Tango. Lib has all kinds of excuses of not doing it.
I finished the Mt Rushmore blog. Now I need to add Panama/Costa Rica. Dinner tonight was chicken thighs in Curry Sauce with Basmati Rice and Green Beans. This is Yummy!!! We finished a glass of Shiraz on the back porch then got into the car and drove to Brusters for a Vanilla Black Raspberry Waffle cone. A little league baseball team was there and fortunately they had already been taken of, all eating their ice cream outside in the parking lot.

I continued my quest to play perfect scales and think I am getting there. I finished up the New Orleans blog and started the completion work for the Rushmore blog. Rushmore was begun 2 years ago but sat there unfinished until now. I also started taking a serious look at the Telecine project. I need to set up a work space in the back area of my shop to disassemble the projector and file off the shutter gates. For dinner we had the Cooking Light Taco salad with a glass of Shiraz wine. I called Newegg customer service and reported the undelivered disk drive that was showing delivery May 11 at 2:09 PM but was not there on my doorstep.

Now that the In-Forcer project is complete, I didn't have to go into the crawl space today. I pumped up the wheelbarrow to 30 psi as denoted on the tire and used it to move the broken blocks i had thrown outside the door. I dumped them into the power line ditch down by the creek. I practiced several times today on the Clarinet. I want to be able to play the scales perfectly by Saturday. I worked quite a bit more on the Mardi Gras blog and almost finished it. It was fun reliving our New Orleans trip. Unfortunately I am behind in completing our Rushmore trip and then adding the Alaska and Costa Rica trips to the mix. We left at 6 for the Roadhouse. The Triangle Jazz Orchestra were playing. This is an 18 piece orchestra of 5 saxophones plus lots of brass and one vocalist. We had fun dancing swing, foxtrot and rumba. Bruce was there again and gave a free swing lesson. For dinner we split a flatbread salmon sandwich. i had a Carrboro brewery Amber which was good and a little stronger than a Yuengling. I liked it. We left after 2 songs after the break.

After the Sunday programs I tried doing scales on the Clarinet before practicing a little bit of the songs. Next I went under the house and finished wiring the In-Forcer device. I cut into the furnace control cable and wired it in series with the gas valve. Now when power goes to the gas valve, it turns on a relay in the inforcer which starts the blower. The air flow trips a microswitch which in turn completes the power flow to the gas valve. I tested it in the house and all works well. the in-Forcer blower is surprisingly quiet. We had fun this morning using Google hangouts to communicate with Paige and see Emily as well as Christa and Joe. I could tell Libbie really liked doing this.
Libbie made her pizza from scratch for dinner.
I worked the rest of the day on the Mardi Gras blog. I started this a few months ago when we returned from Mardi Gras but I needed to follow though.

I had a good Clarinet lesson with Justin today. I need to practice the scales beginning at G which is all 6 holes covered with both hands. Need to work both up and down the scale. When I came home I got into work clothes and went under the house i finished wiring the junction box by the fireplace and the one above the crawl space door. This complete the AC wiring. Now I need to tie the In-Forcer box into the furnace as soon as I get a diagram of my furnace controller card.
We have the Mardi Gras party tonight so i go t motivated to continue my mardi Gras blog. i added a trip to the French Market. This is slow going and I have so much more to cover.
The party at the Pub was a lot of fun. We left at 7:12 for the 7:30 party. Blaise, Darryl and Cathy all played their instruments and marched through the pub playing our Second Line songs. What fun. We each ordered a Jambalaya and split a poh boy shrimp sandwich. The food was yummy delicious. Sharon made bread pudding which she served to everyone. I started with a bottled Yuengling but it wasn't great bu I had a Red Oak amber for my second drink and it was much better.

This morning after Clarinet practice i went under the house and started the wiring project. I drilled up into the technology closet and then went into the closet and found the wire by cutting a hole in the sheetrock. I installed a quad outlet and wired it up. Then after lunch I went under the house again and ran the 12/2 over it's length and also wired up the outlet under the house for the In-Forcer. I did not finish tying this into the Family Room circuit. I'll do that tomorrow. For dinner we had the Taco salad again. Libbie bought a Bell pepper for the salad. We went to dance later tonight instead of at 8 PM because we were both tired. Libbie painted hallway trim all day while I was under the house. We went out with the entire gang to BJs brewery. It was crowded because this is graduation weekend. We had a flatbread California which was cheese bacon and cheese on flatbread. I had a BJs Amber Oasis.

I worked on the AVSA website vintage listing trying to add another database. The thing got really screwed up, I couldn't get the right fields to come out in the view. I later found that I needed a newer version of Webforms but to do this I had to make some PHP changes to accommodate our current users of webforms. In reading some more I finally discovered that the secret to success is to use Entityforms and include the title in the filter for the view. We had a good dance lesson with Robert and learned quite a bit of Cha Cha that didn't know plus we straightened up some stuff that we knew but were getting wrong. Dinner tonight was going to be Taco salad but we were both tired so decided to order Chinese takeout which is the 3 meat special we always get. We had this with a bottle of wine.

Today is a free day. No dance lesson or anything else. i spent some of it researching Kodi boxes. I want to have access to our media on the TV set. this would include music, Movies, Family movies and pictures. I watched quite a few video reviews highlighting performance and features. Since they all seem to have USB ports, an external hard drive will be in order. Dinner tonight was spaghetti with tomato sauce and cheese.

I worked on the B4J FTP client. This thing will allow a user to upload a user db to the Android device. It was a rainy and cold indoor day today. I tried practicing the Clarinet but it was too cold and my fingers kept cramping up.
Dinner tonight was a hamburger, leftover baked beans and a bottle of Craft beer. I had a Troegenator Bock from Hershey, PA. It was pretty good. We listened to Rosenkavalier live tonight, the last broadcast of this season. I went to bed listening to the end of Rosenkavalier. This is a nice but pretty long opera.

I played some more with FTP. I ended up having to upgrade both the laptop and the Desktop with Android software. I needed the latest version to run one of the sample programs that accessed memory. I think I'm getting close to a solution with a simple FTP server running on the PC. I spread the bark around the Irises, Gladiolas and the new Oleander planting then went to Walmart with Libbie and picked up 4 more bags. She also bought some tomato cages for her plants. In the evening we left at 6 PM for the Roadhouse in Pittsboro. We were there for Mr Wonderful and sat with Bill and Joan. It was Joan's first dancing after a back injury this past December. We split a Salmon BLT with sweet potato fries. I had an Iron City craft beer which I thought was pretty weak. We also took the free group swing lesson from a guy who teaches out of his house. We covered basics but did learn a few things about hand holds and turns. We left a few songs after the break.

I'm still trying to figure out how to FTP a file up to the Android device. I spent the day experimenting and reading. I also tried to access the device using the USB cable but can not access the storage shown by the USB connection although I tried a number of programs in B4A that accessed various memories on the device - internal, external, etc. Libbie made her pizza for dinner today since it's Sunday. I paid a lot of the bills including the Stoneybrook membership dues which are $2202, dollars per 6 months now. Not great. I would like to get out of this somehow. I went to Walmart this afternoon and bought 4 bags of the 1.80 bark. There was no one working the garden dept so i had ot wait a while to check out. A few other people were waiting as well. I'll wait until tomorrow to spread it since I'm too tired today.