Well, the United States continues to call me, which is concerning. Though not nearly as concerning as when Barack Obama was in office. <img hspace=10 vspace=10 align="right"

Susan left out before 5 am. She and some coworkers were going to Nashville to ride a train, stop at an Octoberfest — just have a good time. I think she was a bit anxious about going but her text messages through the morning sounds as if she's enjoying herself :)

I've been updating my Dropbox, Box.com, and Google Drive accounts with some blogging software, markdown editors, and stacks to serve local websites. I've also downloaded some old content from the days when I had a webspace on donationcoder and it'll be interesting to sift all of that over the coming weeks for contents I can integrate into my current offline blog. In particularly, I hope to learn or be reminded of various programming-related things I've learned over the past decade. Colony. Watching episode 8 now and minding some downloads/uploads. I've also been remembering dad, and missing him. Mom and Sharlyon are still in the Outer Banks, I presume. I think she's due to arrive home sometime tomorrow. And Emma is in for the weekend. She spent the night with Hannah, who was house-sitting last night for Brack and Isabelle. Now she's home, sprucing up. I imagine she's gonna spend time with Callum.

Interestingly, both girls have commented to me this morning that they're glad their mom took this trip today. I think they both see how hard she works, and her stress level, and are glad to see her do something for herself. Susan sent me a text about a museum they have in Nashville that she thought the two of us might enjoy sometime.

At 11:00 am, it's only 74° F and 43% humidity. If the weather holds, I may do an afternoon run. I ran 10K yesterday after work, but it was my first run in a full week, because it's been so hot.

Later...

I took a nap, finally, around 3:30 pm. Hannah, Austin, and Emma have gone out. Grant just got home from working at Sonic and has fallen asleep in Susan's chair.

In looking through some directories I've downloaded from old cloud backups, I found this newspaper clipping from 2011 when Emma and Emily placed/won a writing competition in school :)

As I write this on Saturday, 10/05/2019, this picture of my daughter, Emily Grace Miller, is a bit over eight years old. I'd picked her up from school on a Monday, 08/15/2011, because she was sick. In this photo, I was taking, or may have already taken, her to the doctor. Little did I know that less than two years later, her mother would engineer false allegations leading to major life stress, lasting trauma, and me out of work for ten months as the slow wheels of justice ground round. <img align="right"

I hope to someday become able to pray sincerely for their mother's well-being. In fact, I hope to someday be able to pray for my children regularly (instead of occasionally, as I now do). I even hope to someday have some sort of relationship with my children, even if it's only an occasional phone call or post.

As I understand things, Emily got a scholarship to a non-Kentucky university. I suppose she'd be a sophomore or junior by now. I wish her well, and all academic success.

I'm still paying child support on both children. Last year I checked into getting it ended, and was told if my amount was recalculated based upon my current salary, it would increase, even though I'd just be paying on Seth now. Fortunately for me, the Russell County attorney was willing to allow me to withdraw my request for review of child support.

I recently tried reaching Seth on both email and Facebook, but to no avail. I pray they are both doing well, and that God will continue to heal their hurts, their mother's, and my own.

Second consecutive day without K at work. Annoying. C and I cooked lunch. Something like hamburger helper. Billed on eight today. Can't find my King Dian drive. Hope it turns up, but it's not critical. I have plenty of backups of its contents.

Susan has been over sitting with her dad while Barbara is out. I've watched episodes 5 and 6 of the third season of Colony. I'm going to go next door now and spend some time with Susan and Jimmie.

It's been in the mid- to upper-90s every afternoon this week, but tomorrow afternoon is gonna be 70-75, supposedly, so I'm hoping I can get a 10K run in after work. I also need to call and leave a message for Dr. Jones to see if she'll refill my redacted.

Today, I figured out how to configure FreeFileSync 10.16 to mirror some directories to my Google Drive and to my current website's public ftp folder. I saved the XML config files.

Texted mom this morning. Sounded like she and Sharylon are having a pretty good trip. Susan said Hannah is house-sitting for Brack and Isabel Flanagan for a few evenings, taking care of their dogs.

Windows 10 exposes lots of privacy leaks. One way that it does this is by sending lots of telemetry as apps phone home, supposedly only sharing non-personal, usage-related data. I was able to inexpensively obtain Spybot Anti-Beacon. It's running right now on my laptop, blocking 248 potential telemetry leaks.

Busy day at work. I did eleven notes and submitted an OTR on ST. I did two billing correction requests. Kelly 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 AP'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

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.

It can be convenient to put constants that need to be available throughout your project into their own public class, accessible from other code belonging to the same namespace. For instance, if our project namespace is EarthApotheosis, we might set up our constants like this:

using System;

namespace EarthApotheosis {

  public class EarthApotheosisConstants
  {
      public static string TITLE = Properties.Resources.Title;
      public const int KILLS_TO_EARN_ONE_COMBAT_ADV_POINT = 50;
      public const int MAX_CHARS_PER_LINE_IN_LABEL_DISPLAY = 80;
      public const string INPUT_CURRENTLY_DISABLED = "Input currently disabled...";
      public const string AVATAR_NAME_NEEDED = "Please specify avatar name...";

  }

}

We'd then reference constants from with our project's main form as follows:

int max_chars = EarthApotheosisConstants.MAX_CHARS_PER_LINE_IN_LABEL_DISPLAY;