Tuesday 10/01/2019. We had ten clients at TR today. I spent the morning fleshing out the paperwork for the field trip scheduled for the 22nd. After completing notes post-lunch, I did SD's OTR and submitted it to UM.

Although I'm not very far along in Walker's The Physics of Consciousness, I went ahead and read Matthew Donald's five-page critical review of the book, to perhaps give me some additional context while reading.

Susan texted me and plans on making bang-bang shrimp for supper. Sounds good to me. I'm going to call my pharmacy on the way home and request that they submit a request to Dr. Jones for a refill of my testosterone. It would put off a $150 office-visit, which certainly makes it worth a go.

The Windows 10 Pro Azulle Plus PC needs a t.v. or projector to connect to via HDMI. I may get a small flatscreen t.v. and wireless mouse and keyboard and run it from a table in my office at TR. I could install TeamViewer and hook up a sizable external drive via its USB 3.0 hub. Put a hub in its USB 2.0 slot and plug the wireless dongles for the mouse and keyboard in there.

I could install KODI or Plex and stream educational movies, TED Talks, documentaries, etc., for the clients. And it would give me yet another backup location for all my movies, music, software, blog, etc.

Fairly calm, though busy, day at work. I only had six TR clients. I spent some time this morning working on the paperwork we'll need to submit for our October field trip, and did a quick group with the clients on medication adherence. Found out that KL was dog-drunk at the Lorrie Morgan concert this past weekend :(

Susan fixed salad and crab cakes for supper. She said Emma reported depression. I imagine she has somewhat of an adjustment disorder, learning to be on her own, away from home, with all the exra responsibility and time pressure.

Texted mom last night and they were in a hotel for the night, and pretty beat.

Susan went over to sit with her dad while Barbara goes to Rugs, and I finished episodes 3 and 4 of season 3 of Colony. I may do just a little work on Glaive Seeker, my current Squiffy project.

I installed Kodi on my laptop this afternoon and will give it a spin over the next few weeks. Also, my Windows 10 Pro PC-on-a-stick came today. I've got it charging right now. It should be a handy device on occasion. Of course, I also have Tails installed on one of my thumb drives, as well as another Linux-on-a-stick somewhere, perhaps either in my bedside table drawer, or else in the little tin in which I keep batteries and doo-dads.

Fairly calm, though busy, day at work. I only had six clients. I spent some time this morning working on the paperwork we'll need to submit for our October field trip, and did a quick group with the clients on medication adherence.

Susan fixed salad and crab cakes for supper. She said Emma reported depression. I imagine she has somewhat of an adjustment disorder, learning to be on her own, away from home, with all the exra responsibility and time pressure.

Texted mom last night and they were in a hotel for the night, and pretty beat.

Susan went over to sit with her dad while Barbara goes to Rugs, and I finished episodes 3 and 4 of season 3 of Colony. I may do just a little work on Glaive Seeker, my current Squiffy project.

I installed Kodi on my laptop this afternoon and will give it a spin over the next few weeks. Also, my Windows 10 Pro PC-on-a-stick came today. I've got it charging right now. It should be a handy device on occasion. Of course, I also have Tails installed on one of my thumb drives, as well as another Linux-on-a-stick somewhere, perhaps either in my bedside table drawer, or else in the little tin in which I keep batteries and doo-dads.

After church we ate lunch at Mamaw's: chili dogs, fifteen-bean soup with chips, and banana pudding. Then Susan went to see a patient and I watched the second episode of season 3 of Colony on Netflix.

I tweaked the zippem.cs source code, and the recompiled program seems to function better.

I got a little ways into episode 3 of season three of Colony before Susan got home from the women's Bible study. I watched it on my laptop because the Z4 android tablet needed charging. And right now Susan and I are watching Dark, a German science fiction thriller web television series co-created by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese. Set in the fictional town of Winden, Germany, Dark concerns the aftermath of a child's disappearance which exposes the secrets of, and hidden connections among, four estranged families as they slowly unravel a sinister time travel conspiracy which spans three generations. Throughout the series, Dark explores the existential implications of time and its effects upon human nature.

I've read a few pages this weekend in Walker's book, The Physics of Consciousness. I'm interested to see where he goes in the book. Thus far, my impression is that Walker is a complete atheist, but we'll see. I'm still very early in the book, and Walker has made it clear that he's a seeker of answers. Where is his lost loved one? Is there some part of her consciousness that survived past physical death?

Tomorrow in TR, I need to get someone to notarize those forms I already have filled out for our October trip/outing. I also need to follow up on Mindy, who took the initiative of starting an updated PCRP on S.D. I will try to come up with something meaningful and thought-provoking for the clients.

I've been lazy today. I finished a sci-fi movie named 'Quanta', did a little website updating, ran some backups, started Season 3 of Colony, and made a payment on my Amazon Store card.

Learned that H's fiance's grandfather fell and broke a hip. Mother has left for the Outer Banks with S. She plans on getting back on the 6th. We got a $200 bonus at work Friday in the form of a credit card. I spent mine on a Windows 10 Pro PC-on-a-stick. Should be a handy gadget to have. I've also ordered a 10" android tablet for S, and an identical one for me. They run the latest Android OS, Pie.

E got in from the University of Kentucky last night, and slept late today. Her classes are difficult, but I think she's enjoying college life. She heated up a pizza for lunch, and Susan and I had some. It's in the 90s today through next Thursday. Then, starting next Friday we should have a few cooler days in the 70s.

I wrote a C# console app today that will wind up saving me a few minutes everyday that I had been spending to launch 7zip and manually zip multiple subdirectories of my My Documents for backup via uploading. Note: I commented-out the section that zips my DokuWiki, because I hope to replace it with localhost-hosted blog entries.

Thank You for this day. I am out of the habit of prayer. I suppose in all honesty I had never acquired that habit. But I know that I need to. Please help me do it.

I'm sorry for my bullheadedness. Forgive and help my unbelief, and save me not because I am in any way deserving, but because I have believed upon the risen Savior and that He alone provides access to the Father and Heaven. Forgive my sins. Make me painfully aware of them, that I may shun them.

God, make me more compassionate for others. Slower to form judgments. Faster to extend charity and kindness. Shut my lips against gossip, and bind my mind with good judgment.

Grant me greater enthusiasm and ardor at work. Help me to find ways to actually help my TR clients, and not just be a warm body filling a slot, cranking out daily notes.

In Jesus' Name,

Amen.

C# Capturing output from a process

namespace LaunchAndCaptureOutput{

    class Lacout{
    static void Main(){

        var proc = new Process{
                StartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo{
                    FileName = @"C:csdevlessonslessonette7hello.exe",
                    UseShellExecute = false,
                    RedirectStandardOutput = true,
                    CreateNoWindow = true
                }
        };

        proc.Start();
        string p = proc.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
        proc.WaitForExit();
        Console.WriteLine("Captured output: " + p);
      }
    }

} 

Busy day at work. I did eleven notes and submitted an OTR. I did two billing correction requests. K skipped out in order to drive out of state to purchase a parrot, supposedly. Our staff meeting, as usual, went about an hour longer than needed. I'm hoping for fewer clients tomorrow. I'm also hoping that a missing client's outing permission form comes in the mail.

I installed TeamViewer14 on my laptop and my ThinkCentre desktop PCs today, the former so that I can access the laptop remotely when at work, the latter so I can access my main desktop at home while on my laptop.

I also backed up my website, my non-public CMS, and some other directories to my MyBook, Seagate drive, and a 1 TB external drive today. Hey, the more backups the better, right?

So, I currently have copies of my blog CMS on: • my laptop • my TNAS • my ThinkCentre desktop PC • my Hewlett Packard PC • my 1 TB external drive • my Seagate external drive • my MyBook external drive • three different thumb drives • my website FTP server • my MyCloud NAS

Bobo and her gal pals, taking a trip circa August 2016.

I waited till about 9:00 am to run this Saturday morning, waited for the humidity to continue dropping from the 95% mark when I woke at 6:15 am. I couldn't delay too long, though, because the temperature was slowly climbing. Started my jog about 9:20 at 85% humidity and 66° F and finished over 90 minutes later at 80% humidity and 73° F.

I must admit, I wasn't feeling it today. I was sluggish (an average pace of 11'18"). Apparently, there were two runs going on in Columbia today, one put on by Lindsey Wilson College and another by the VFW. I saw on FB that one of my running buddy's wife did her first ever 5K today.

Hopefully, this Summer heat will soon break. This whole week it's been in the upper 80s when I get off work, 90-92° with the heat index. Too hot to run in; for me, at least. Today was my first run in a week. I want to get back to 2-3 runs per week. I think that even at 5-7 miles per run, that frequency does my more good.

Since October 2016, I've been using a C# console program I wrote to track my daily caloric intake versus output and track the most recent ten days' average caloric deficit. I plan on writing a post about it, demonstrating how to use it. And I'll probably make the source code available in case anyone wants to improve it. Obviously, a GUI version would appeal to more people, but at the time I wrote it I was looking to get something functional ASAP as well as gain experience CLI programming using the Microsoft C# compiler, csc.exe. I used Notepad++ as my editor.