After I installed iOS8 on my iPad2 yesterday morning my Logitech Bluetooth keyboard seemed to change its behavior, giving me double letters in some cases and feeling a little sluggish in its response. The keyboard itself has not changed, so I presume this has something to do with iOS8. I also presume the keyboard batteries have not run down already, but I suppose that is a possibility. If so, I will be replacing them once a week. While creating an image gallery for the SLAARC WordPress website last night I noticed that the drag and drop feature of the gallery editor did not work. I upgraded to WP Version 4.0 about a week ago but this was the first time I had tried to use the gallery feature. If there is a problem with this feature there is no way that I am the first person to discover it and I presume WordPress is aware of it. I find it strange, however, that they have not released a maintenance update fixing it since an improved and more visual editor was a major feature of the 4.0 release.
A few weeks back I re-established contact through Linked-In with a colleague from 10 years ago. Jim was Director of General Education Services at Livingston Educational Service Agency at the time and we went through NCA Ambassador training together. It turns out that he lives and works in the Brighton area, so we are now neighbors of sorts. He suggested we meet up for coffee and I finally called him this morning to arrange that. We both had time at 1:30 PM today and agreed to meet at the Panera on Grand River Avenue by I-96 at that time.
Linda got the new Global Bake bakery software installed on her laptop yesterday so this morning she was able to start working on the software conversion process in earnest. Her work requires a lot of concentration, and she gets very focused when doing it, so I went to my office to continue working on editing blog posts and photos.
In checking my e-mail I noticed that I was still getting failed login attempts from foreign countries on this site and on the FMCA GLCC website, which is sub-domain of this site, in spite having installed the premium (paid) version of the Wordfence Security plug-in. I looked at the installed plug-ins for the GLCC website and discovered that I had one named “Limit Login Attempts” that I did not have installed on our personal website or the other two sites I manage. I surmised that this plug-in might be doing just what the name implied and in the process preempting Wordfence from ever doing its job. I deactivated it and saw a reduction in failed attempts, with none from outside North America, suggesting that the country blocking feature of Wordfence was now working properly. I saw a similar drop in failed login attempts on our personal website when I activated the country blocking feature for all countries except the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Only time will tell, however, if Wordfence is indeed blocking login attempts from outside North America.
We had hummus and apples for lunch after which I hung up one load of laundry and put another load in the washer. I left at 1 PM to have time to stop at Best Buy to get something to clean our various touch screens and monitors. Traffic was very heavy in the I-96 and Grand River Avenue shopping area, but Best Buy is in the same shopping complex as the Panera, so I made it there on time. Jim and I talked for almost two hours and which covered the highlights of the last eight years.
Back home I kept my focus on getting the blog caught up. Linda wrapped up her work for the day and we finished the bottle of Alpha Rose from Red Trail Vineyards while she fixed a simple but tasty dinner of vegan burgers and corn. I got a call from Butch letting me know that the company in Nevada had arranged for a semi and taken all of the parts they plan to take. Everything that is left is Butch and Fonda’s to do with as they please. The important thing for us is that I can now take our bus down there at my convenience. I would like to get all of the natural gas related work taken care of and put the finishing touches on the garage project before I move the bus, but I may go ahead and move it next week if the scheduling of contractors works out.
During the evening I had an exchange of TXT messages with Chuck. He had ordered some miniature 24VDC light bulbs (1829s) that are used in our bus dashboards and the order had arrived. Rather than go to his shop after breakfast tomorrow we arranged to meet him for dinner tomorrow night. I also got a call from Michele Henry of Phoenix Paint. She had a new customer who just bought a mid-1990’s Prevost XL converted coach and she gave him my name and phone numbers in case he had any questions about the rig. We agreed that we would try to find time during the GLCC Surplus and Salvage a Rally to work on the article I started last year about the process she used to repair the body and roof of our coach, seal and coat the roof, and paint the body. We capped off the evening with the second to last episode of Season 5 of Doc Martin. We need to return the DVDs to the Howell Library on Sunday, so we want to make sure we get through all of the episodes for Season 5.