Pool Chlorine Generator Maintenance

Posted on August 6, 2017 by Jim Leave a comment

This year’s surprise maintenance for the pool was for the Chlorine Generator. On the display, there is a No Flow indicator, and well, it turned on, actually, sometimes it was on, and sometimes it would go off. BUT, when the light was on, NO chlorine was generated… and well, this became a problem. I had […]... Read More

Virginia Beach Dance Trip

Posted on July 24, 2017 by Jim Leave a comment

Took the family to Virginia Beach for a long weekend for a dance competition. Prior to this I may have been to to Virginia Beach once, many many years ago. We stayed near the convention center, about 15 – 20 min west of the beach, but drove to the beach for an afternoon and a […]... Read More

7 Days To Die

Posted on July 21, 2017 by Jim Leave a comment

Though I have played my share of PC games in the 80’s and 90’s, I am not much the “Gamer”. But, my kids introduced me to 7 Days To Die on the Xbox One recently, but the game originated on the PC and utilizing a home network, multiple family members can play together in the […]... Read More

Caitlin – A potential model

Posted on July 19, 2017March 2, 2018 by Jim Leave a comment

A few weeks ago, Kim, Caitlin, and Aunt Julie went up to New York, NY to meet with MMG and a photo shoot. The trip was good and exciting for them all. This was Caitlin’s first airplane flight and first trip to NY. The photo shoot was in a small residential apartment. Shortly after getting […]... Read More

Caracole – a new beginning

Posted on June 13, 2017March 2, 2018 by Jim Leave a comment

I recently started a new position with Caracole (a furniture company) as an IT Programmer. Now that title may not sound like much, but it is much more then what it sounds like. It is a relatively small company backed by a much larger company in China. Here at Caracole, we design the furniture, market […]... Read More

New Blog

Posted on June 5, 2017March 2, 2018 by Jim Leave a comment

Again… it has been a while since my last blog post, but not too long. I thought it was time to move off my hosted environment and BlogEngine.Net to some commercial 3rd party free service. Due to the hosting environments lack of secure servers and/or BlogEngine.Net, my sites would get hacked from time to time […]... Read More

COMB GUID, what is it and why should I use it

Posted on January 23, 2017March 2, 2018 by Jim Leave a comment

GUIDs (Globally Unique Identifier) can be a good choice for the ID or Key value in a database table, but it’s randomness is not good for the database when it comes to indexing the data and sorting the rows of data based on that GUID ID. But a COMB GUID, basically a combination GUID with […]... Read More

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