Pastor appreciation and meal

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Tomorrow at church we'll be celebrating our pastor. Tomorrow at church we'll be celebrating, who's been with us quite a few years now. Okie (i.e., Craig) is from Oklahoma, but has lived in Kentucky for more than two decades. He works in Bowling Green making the struts and other parts for steel bridges.

There'll be a big meal following the service. I think Mark Klingberg will also give a report on the congregation's recent finances.

Susan and I got up about 6:15 am this morning. I lay back down about eight and slept another three hours :)

I'm getting ready to mop the downstairs. Susan is washing a load of my running socks. And I received a shipment from Stitchfix.com today and we picked out a shirt to keep. I'll wear it to church tomorrow.

It's about 1:30 pm. I'm uploading a bunch of mp3 files to my Onedrive account. I'm going to also upload them to my NAS, then make a Macrium backup of my ASUS laptop.


Susan, Emma, and I have been watching some Halloweenish movies. The kind of stuff Susan really likes. It's nice having Emma home for the weekend.

I talked to mom and stepped her through getting her iphone functional after an OS update. She said she's been slinging hash all day in preparation for the Pastor Appreciation Luncheon after the service tomorrow. She's tired.

There'll be a big meal following the service. I think Mark Klingberg will also give a report on the congregation's recent finances.

Susan and I got up about 6:15 am this morning. I lay back down about eight and slept another three hours :)

I'm getting ready to mop the downstairs. Susan is washing a load of my running socks. And I received a shipment from Stitchfix.com today and we picked out a shirt to keep. I'll wear it to church tomorrow.

It's about 1:30 pm. I'm uploading a bunch of mp3 files to my Onedrive account. I'm going to also upload them to my NAS, then make a Macrium backup of my ASUS laptop.


Susan, Emma, and I have been watching some Halloweenish movies. The kind of stuff Susan really likes. It's nice having Emma home for the weekend.

I talked to mom and stepped her through getting her iphone functional after an OS update. She said she's been slinging hash all day in preparation for the Pastor Appreciation Luncheon after the service tomorrow. She's tired.

I wrote a brief article today about how to package this blog as an Electron app.

Susan and I got up about 6:15 am this morning. I lay back down about eight and slept another three hours :)

I'm getting ready to mop the downstairs. Susan is washing a load of my running socks. And I received a shipment from Stitchfix.com today and we picked out a shirt to keep. I'll wear it to church tomorrow.

It's about 1:30 pm. I'm uploading a bunch of mp3 files to my Onedrive account. I'm going to also upload them to my NAS, then make a Macrium backup of my ASUS laptop.


Susan, Emma, and I have been watching some Halloweenish movies. The kind of stuff Susan really likes. It's nice having Emma home for the weekend.

I talked to mom and stepped her through getting her iphone functional after an OS update. She said she's been slinging hash all day in preparation for the Pastor Appreciation Luncheon after the service tomorrow. She's tired.

Inebriation - not good

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Today at work we had a 10:00 am hour-long meeting with the P.I. department staff to review what to expect when CARF comes next year.

I had to confront two male TR clients today regarding arriving at the clinic under the effects of alcohol.

Ate some leftover tuna casserole and chicken pot pie for supper after an 8-mile run after work. The weather was perfect, around 65 ° F.

Susan and I have watched some more episodes of Money Heist on Netflix, and I texted mom. She said she talked to Big Al and he may come down sometime next week. If so, we may burn a pile of brush and have a weenie-roast.

Inspection, movie, and popcorn

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Vickie Robertson visited Green TR today. I did group this morning on sanitation steps toward preventing the spread of germs during flu season. Then we reviewed data from our recent group on psychotropic medications for treatment mental illness.

Later, I showed Where The Red Fern Grows, and the clients had popcorn.

I converted the .mkv version of the slideshow executable of my Hinton Orchard field trip photos to .mp4, dropping file size from 52 to 23 Mb. To do that, I installed the portable version of Handbrake on my King Dian 120 Gb drive that is connected to my Azulle Plus PC at TR.

I found this picture on Grant and Emma taken 12 August 2017 while we were moving Grant into his dorm at the University of Kentucky.

I received another bill from T.J. Health Columbia this afternoon, my balance somewhat less than three grand. I sent them $75.00 again (the second time: the first was on 9/28), and a letter explaining this represents the limit of my ability to pay.

I spent $719 with Goff Auto to get brake pads, calipers, and other repairs. The jeep definitely drives quieter/better.

Dog and depressed coworker

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Today was a busy day at work. Of course, Wednesdays usually are, since that's Dr. H and the nurse practitioner's day. I had fourteen in TR! That's our best turnout in 2019.


I found this pic of Millie in my lap, taken back in November of 2013. She used to sit in my lap often when she was young. As for her orientation, what can I say? That's a scent she likes.

Several people at work seem really stressed with the direct-time requirements. And S seems depressed. She's tired all the time and said she's ready for a change. I think she may have been talking about more than just her job.

Me and Susan 15 October 2023

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I found this picture of Susan and me while vacationing in Panama City in 2017 with the kids.

Today, we had a dozen clients for our field trip to Hinton Orchard. They seemed to really enjoy the hayride. We waited until getting back to TR to eat our sack lunches. It was only 10:30 am when we arrived.

I'm still dorking around with the Windows LInux Subsystem on my Hewlett Packard. I've installed mono this evening.

I ran 10-K this afternoon for the second time in two days, this afternoon.

Hinton's orchard

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Well, fairly relaxed day at work today. Only six clients at TR. Tomorrow is our field trip to Hinton's Orchard. I'm not particularly looking forward to it. I'm guessing 8-10 clients to actually show up in time to make the trip.

I'm trying out OwnCloud by installing it on VirtualBox as an appliance, on my HP computer. That failed to work, even after I enabled the Hypervisor feature on Windows 10. So then I enabled the Linux subsystem, rebooted, went to the Windows Store, and downloaded and installed Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Azulle Plus PC

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I just installed a new wireless keyboard and mouse on my ThinkCentre M53 desktop PC. That leaves me a smaller wireless keyboard I can use at work on our TR media computer, but I'll still need to get a wireless mouse for it. The Kensington lock to secure the Azulle Plus PC to the table on which it sits should arrive tomorrow.

Also, I've made the decision to move my blog to my NAS, as it doesn't require starting and stopping the Zwamp mini-server on Windows. I'll archive and backup the /cms directory regularly, for protection against data loss.

Zip a passed directory using c-sharp

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If passed a valid subdirectory, this 60-line C# console program will zip it to .zip file that is located in same directory as executing code.

Encrypt to HTML

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I can't remember who put me onto this nifty javascript utility. It was someone on the donationcoder forum, but it's been a long time ago and cursory search didn't turn up the relevant post.

Anyway, encrypt-to-HTML is a real jewel written by Steve Clay, a Floridian web dev. You supply it plain text, either by typing or pasting into a textbox, or else from loading it from a file, and it produces an encrypted HTML file containing your protected content. When you open the produced HTML file in a browser, you're provided with a password textbox. You must enter the correct password and then your plain text will be decrypted and shown to you.

You can download this utility here. It's a 12.6 Kb download.

This small download is downloadable here on my website.

Copy contents from one folder to another

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Introducing the CopyTo method, which faithfully copies one directory's contents to another directory. The method listing is on Github here.

And here is a sample program demonstrating its usage.

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