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Today started off with Aaron and I making a stop in radio shack for some circuit boards for the Christmas Light Display project. We also ended up getting a cable and a switch that we needed for the projector. While we were there we realized that we also needed a board for the alarm. So we picked up our boards and found an enclosure for the alarm that would work with the board we picked out.

We cleaned up for a good portion of the day. Off and on mostly. Got the cables hooked up to the projector, so we played around with that for a while and listened to some music. Eventually we finished cleaning after we had some dinner.

Aaron worked for a bit, as we listened to music some more. He also began to solder the components onto the circuit boards for the Computer Control System for the displays. While he was doing that he suggested I check out wxWidgets. I read up on it and started to try and use it and get familiar with it. It seems like it is a pretty powerful set of libraries for the C++ language as it is cross platform capable. A useful open source GUI toolkit for most major Operating Systems.

Today I took my GED reading and social studies tests. Continued to score in the top 1% status rank. So that stayed on track. That enabled me to get the Scholarship I was going for. Just the writing test left now. After Thanksgiving I will schedule that one.

Project remained untouched in the queue of things to be done. Appears today was not the day. We wanted to work on it, but it was hard to follow through with initial motivation. If I were to make excuses for it, these would be it. It was raining, Aaron had his tests in the morning, so did I. The rain meant we would of had to change our method of construction and painting. So basically our tests burned us out and the rain required creativity to be utilized in finishing the frames. Creativity requires more motivation than we apparently had. So there it remained.

The projector got in today. We were worried about it. UPS kinda hosed the plan Aaron had for getting it. So we waited until I think around 4:30 pm or maybe 5:00 pm and then we were rewarded with it! So we had a pretty good night of setting it up, adjusting it, fine tuning it, and movies! It is pretty impressive. It is good to have movies again.

I cooked some thin steaks for dinner, and then we realized we didn’t have any sauce or steak fries to go with! So we made a quick run to the store and picked up some stuff.  After dinner and some more movies and house. This concludes my day.