Today, thanks to Susan taking several thousand dollars out of the 401K, I paid off my KHESLC student loan and my $2,775 hospital bill from last November's dehydration and kidney trauma. So, that's gonna save me about $350 monthly. Nice!

Also today, I saw posts that Austin Roy has sent to Hannah, and I am completely ready to stomp his ass.

After owning Scrivener 19 for years, I finally read through and understood the tutorial and can see it's a very worthwhile and reasonably priced software tool for authors. I may actually try using it for a book production. It's memory footprint on Windows 10 is about 59 Mb.

Thanksgiving 2019 pictures...

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

C# Programming

I've dabbled in C# since this programming language was first introduced. Here I provide links to useful tips and snippets, source code, and related thoughts. And let me assure you, these source code files represent a lot of time and learning on my part.

My C# Projects (you're welcome to use/modify the source code of any of these projects, even for commercial purposes) ↓

Found Money: A GUI for tracking piggy-bank deposits over time → | on box.com | on GDrive

Sudoku: My take on the Sudoku number grid game → on box.com | on GDrive

Proofy: My proofreading jobs / words-proofed tracker → | on box.com | on GDrive

KyrCrypt: My files and folders encrypter → | on box.com | on GDrive

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p class="tab40">KyrHangman: a game I wrote for a donationcoder NANY → | on box.com | on GDrive

SLOC: My counter of source code lines → | on box.com | on GDrive

How Long Since?: Calculates elapsed time between any two dates → | on box.com | on GDrive

KyrPrayerMinder: Prayer journal or use as diary; searchable → | on box.com | on GDrive

Example of Square Proximity Algorithm: demonstrates detection of square proximity/overlap → | on box.com | on GDrive

I've discovered the blog of Mr. Riley, a web programmer. He has lots of great Twine code examples.

Mr. Riley is a teacher. He has a good starting point example of a combat system for a Twine game called Twine Fray.

I plan to scour his blog for learning purposes.

Lately, I've been reading some articles put out by prominent researchers in the SETI at Home project: Here is an explanation of the Drake Equation. And here is an article of what we might expect from E.T.

For a while now, I've had my desktop PC (which I don't use on a daily basis but do leave running) executing BOINC and assisting the SETI @ Home program to process telescopic data.

BOINC downloads scientific computing jobs to your computer and runs them invisibly in the background. It's easy and safe.

About 30 science projects use BOINC; examples include Einstein@Home, IBM World Community Grid, and SETI@home. These projects investigate diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research.