I was reading JWZ's now oft-cited Groupware Bad article (and discussion) and this popped out to me:
"Groupware" is all about things like "workflow", which means, "the chairman of the committee has emailed me this checklist, and I'm done with item 3, so I want to check off item 3, so this document must be sent back to my supervisor to approve the fact that item 3 is changing from 'unchecked' to 'checked', and once he does that, it can be directed back to committee for review."
And I though hey, I've coded that.
 Nobody you'd want to talk to, anyway.

When words like "groupware" and "enterprise" start getting tossed around, you're doing the latter. You start adding features to satisfy line-items on some checklist that was constructed by interminable committee meetings among bureaucrats, and you're coding toward an externally-dictated product specification that maybe some company will want to buy a hundred "seats" of, but that nobody will ever love. With that kind of motivation, nobody will ever find it sexy. It won't make anyone happy.
Well damn. I get paid to do that kind of stuff. I bet that's what a lot of us get paid to do.  It doesn't make anyone happy. Sure, commerce isn't about happiness (I guess), but it's not about life-sucking bureaucracy either. The word "enterprise" gives me a sinking feeling of sadness and grief. Imagining I like software X, when I read someone say "software X isn't ready for the enterprise" I think, well, fuck, does this mean someone is trying to make it ready for the enterprise? But I like software X, please don't let these enterprise people kill it! And to add to the insult, it's like these people think "enterprise" is going to excite me. It would be like some jocks in highschool telling me I'm not cool enough to sit with them. I mean, maybe I want to be more popular, but they have nothing to do with any self esteem I may or may not have, and it's a little off-putting to think that they think that I care what they think. Because I don't; I may not be cool, but I'm cooler than they are! It only frustrates me all the more that they don't know that.
And I look at all these life-sucking companies. (Off the record, I do jobs for some life-sucking companies.) And I just don't understand why. It's not like unhappy workers are better workers.  These mindless autonomous institutions are killing it for everyone, and it's like some anime where there's no point, we've just somehow been attacked by evil natured robots, some scientists' experiment that has gone horribly wrong. Damn, I want beauty, and the workflow machinations of a distrustful management are the antithesis of beauty and goodness.
And I should be making beautiful things!  That's a shitty compromise. I don't have to apologize for beauty, it's not like making beauty is some luxury, or that my making beauty somehow deprives someone else of something. It's not a privilege, I shouldn't have to prove myself. Doctors don't learn to cure people by beating them up, and craftsmen don't learn to make beautiful things by making deliberately ugly things, and yet that is what we are being asked to do. It isn't necessary. Software isn't zero sum, and beauty isn't zero sum. I'm not asking to take something from someone else, I'm just asking for higher expectations. And a little imagination; so many things suck in this world because people don't have the imagination to see that they can be better, if we'd only try. I want to work on imaginative software, I don't want to write software that is just an enabler for disfunction and distrust. Moreso, it's unethical to enable that. I shouldn't lower my expectations of myself to do no direct harm.
Now that I'm all worked up I have to figure out something to do with this. Hrm.
Right on, Ian -- we've all been there. I used to do contracting for the California Department of Transportation, and their policy documents (which I had to follow if I wanted to get paid) made the W3C specs look like children's books.
Fact is, we live in a bureaucracy of staggering proportions; much of the software we write reflects the nonsensical red tape the chokes most workers. It's good to remember that smart people will always route around the damage. If a company installs some insanely complex "Enterprise Document Management System," some smart chap will quietly put up a wiki, and people will use that. When the IT department proclaims their PC-only policy, smart people will still install Cygwin and write quick Python or Perl scripts to automate the depressing parts of their jobs. That's why working on free software is so important to me: when smart people in dumb jobs looks for ways to release the pressure, they turn inevitable turn to the simpler, faster, more secure, or more powerful free software solution.
Maybe that's the solution, then: after spending 8 hours making sure that Bob from upstairs can veto any submission to the Document Management System (unless Roger says it's OK, but only if he's acting as the Deputy Chief of FlimFlam), go home and hack on the wiki that your customers will actually be using.
Ian,
a couple of comments.
 I try to inject some beauty into the ugly things when I can, but really it's ugly. It's a bad compromise.
The way I see it, there's three ways out.
I'm planning to stay light (few possessions, no living commitments) until I see an opportunity for one of the above so I can jump at it.
Second, I think it's the profit motive of companies that sucks them dry. Past a certain, very early, stage in their lives, companies become naturally very risk-averse. This makes boring good, and unimaginative the standard. A person who doesn't love any software will naturally want to pick only the safest, most boring programs to run, because these minimize his risk.
Or 3a, start a business where you're coding something that's cool. :)# Randall Randall
<p> I find myself in the same position, and have come across the same discovery. As a young person with very few possessions (non computer-related) and living out of a van in a ski town, one of the most frightening things is to end up getting "stuck" writing some of this boring stuff you all are talking about. I'd say the purest of the three options is to retain coding as a hobby. If one loves the beauty of good code, and loves creating it, one becomes a prep-cook, lives in a cabin (or van, heh...) and writes the good stuff after-hours. </p> <p> Also, it is apparent to me now that finding the meaning of "enough money" and "we need more profit" is the most important factor in remaining ethical and whole as a company. I've seen some Norwegian developers do this, but then, I've also seen them eat lutefisk. </p> <p> I am young and enjoy a certain level of ignorance, and will face the test of cash-flow soon enough. </p>
I think all professional programmers get frustrated by the mindset of most work that gets done in commercial software. Software gets developed against competitors feature lists (even when they don't make sense) until you reach what a co-worker of mine calls the "features arms race." Honestly, its one of the most frustrating things I have found about developing software professionally: managers think that a piece of software should be everything to everyone. Most programmers I know want to solve problems that people actually have, not develop artificial solutions to invented problems.
One of these days, I want to get a group of smart Python developers together, and write a piece of software for real people. I like JWZ's comment about software that will get you laid, but really, I think a more honest and pure mantra would be to strive to write software that your mother would be proud of. If anyone is starting a venture to create software for real people's real problems in Python, let me know, I might like to participate :)
Couldn't agree more Ian!
When I hear Workflow, I think of Notes, which was the right way to do work flow. It didn't suffer from restricting information, but it made it easy for people to get down in software stuff they did with sheets of paper before. I constantly miss that sort of work flow where I am now (AOL); for years we've tried to manage things with email, which means people keep getting left out that should be in, and it means we don't have a repository of old information/discussions to refer to (since people are loath to use mailing lists once Big VPs get on it), and now they are trying to force everyone to document plans in giant ugly .doc files. Compared to either of these, a proper work-flow, which emphasises information sharing and empowerment of the people that have knowledge, would be a breath of fresh air.# Anonymous Grunt
Rings bells here. We wrote workflow systems for government and oil companies, can it get worse? Well, yes, foisting document and records management solutions on to users who don't want them is worse.
At least the systems for oil-cos made them more effecient oil-cos, thus able to more effciently exploit a resource which may be the death of us all yet. One of Canada's biggest considers it their strategic weapon, allowing them to merge new acquisitions into the mother company at a much more efficient rate than in the past.
Its all rather ironic in that I'm a tandem-riding conservative environmentalist.
You ended your rant with "have to figure out something to do with this" - ultimately what I did was cash in my chips, sell my share of the biz to my partners and I quit. I didn't quit wealthy enough to retire, but secure enough to work a lot less, and spend much more time with family instead of an aircraft cabin. I'm done with commuting via car or planes.
Perhaps we should stop using money and start bartering. Grow our own vegetables and get a solar panel fixed to roof - sort out the water purifier sitting in the garage - and tell the companies we don't like working for to get lost - and do our own thing!


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Windows 10 20H1 build 19028 heads out to Fast ring Insiders
Fixes and improvements are in the cards with this release.
by Dan Thorp-LancasterSource: Windows Central
What you need to know
- Windows 10 build 19028 is now rolling out to Fast ring Insiders.
- There are no new features, but there is a handful of general fixes and improvements.
- Windows 10 build 19028 is available via Windows Update now.
Windows Insiders on the Fast ring can get their hands on a fresh Windows 10 build today. As part of the latest release in the 20H1 testing branch, build 19028 is now rolling out. This update doesn't bring any new features, but there is a handful of bug fixes and improvements tagging along.
Here's a quick look at what's new in build 19028.
General changes, fixes, and improvements
- We fixed a recent issue that could result in Settings crashing when docking/undocking your device. This issue may have also impacted Action Center launch performance.
- We fixed an issue impacting the performance of the Printers & Scanners section of Settings loading.
- We fixed an issue resulting in the Other People section under Storage Settings not displaying the correct size used.
- We fixed an issue that could result in Windows Update history in Settings saying a Cumulative Update required a reboot, despite it already being installed. This occurred when a Feature on Demand had installed while the cumulative update was originally pending reboot.
- We fixed an issue that could result in the Photos app crashing when interacting with HEVC images.
Known issues
- BattlEye and Microsoft have found incompatibility issues due to changes in the operating system between some Insider Preview builds and certain versions of BattlEye anti-cheat software. To safeguard Insiders who might have these versions installed on their PC, we have applied a compatibility hold on these devices from being offered affected builds of Windows Insider Preview.
- We're looking into reports of the update process hanging for extended periods of time when attempting to install a new build.
- We've heard that Settings still isn't available outside of launching via the URI (ms-settings:) for some Insiders and are investigating.
- Some Insiders are reporting that after successfully installing printer drivers from the Optional Updates section, the same driver is still showing as available for install. We're looking into the issue.
- We're looking into reports of certain external USB 3.0 drives not responding with Start Code 10 or 38 after they're attached.
The Windows 10 20H1 update is expected to launch in the first half of 2020 for the public. Microsoft appears to be winding down development of new features, with recent test builds focusing mostly on fixes and improvements.
For more on this release, you can check out Microsoft's full release notes at the Windows Blog. Otherwise, Fast ring Insiders can download build 19028 via Windows Update now.


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One Direction's Niall Horan says he's written a song with Lewis Capaldi
Niall, who's now a solo artist, said at the MTV European Music Awards that he'd penned a tune with the Scottish musical icon
by Will Twigger, https://www.mirror.co.uk/authors/will-twigger/Former One Direction star Niall Horan has fingers in many pies.
Speaking at MTV's European Music Awards in Seville, Niall revealed that he's written a song with none other than pal Lewis Capaldi.
The pair are set to go on the road together as Lewis will be supporting the Ireland native on his 2020 Nice To Meet Ya tour.
The 26 year old also made it clear that the tune might never see the light of day.
"We don't know yet," Niall admitted, "We wrote something and if it's good enough we'll release it."
Chatting about the new album which he's touring next year, he said: "It's been good. I had a lot of fun writing it and I'm just happy to be back doing this kind of stuff because when you spend so many hours back in the studio, you miss all of this.
"When I got out of the car tonight I got a shock because I forgot what all of this was like. It's crazy.
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Toronto man sues Airbnb after being shot at party house booked through platform
TORONTO — A Toronto man is suing Airbnb after being shot while attending a large party at a house rented through the online platform.
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Sean McCann, a 19-year-old Humber College student, was shot in the pelvis on April 27 at a party in the city's Etobicoke region that was advertised online.
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Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings, which is set for release on November 22, tracks “eight Dolly stories” showcasing the “memories and inspirations” behind the country icon’s biggest hits.
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Christian Schulte wrote:
> Hi Kish,
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> Let me venture a guess: you did not initialize the arguments of IntVarArgs.
> When you create an IntVarArgs object, its fields are uninitialized. So what
> you might want do is
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> for (int i=0; i<n; i++)
> x[i].init(home, ..., ...);
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> Where ... are smallest and largest possible value.
>
> Is that it?
>
> Cheers
> Christian
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Hi Christian,
Thanks. You are correct, I did not initialise the variables, because in
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In this case, I assume I should just use x[i].init() to set x[i]'s min
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and then I don't need to post the dom or rel constraint at all, right?
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††††††††††††††† When I got home I went straight to bed.† I woke up at 10AM and figured materials for our driveway.† I then went over to Mom and Dad Jensenís and figured materials for a project they want me to do.† They would like their carport turned into a garage.† From there I went back to work and finished up a couple of projects I had left undone when I went home.† Mae had a display she was working on this evening.
Sunday, September 8, 1974
††††††††††††††† After Sunday school we went down to Mom and Dad Porters for a Birthday dinner for Georgia and Kim.† After dinner, Hal and I started a game of chess.† I indicate in my Diary that I won.† To add a little more detail, Hal made a bad mistake and I took advantage of it and put him in serious trouble, with his next move I would have his king in check mate.† About that time Mae came in and said that I needed to get ready to attend Sacrament meeting.† Hal jumped on that and said that we would just call the game a draw.† I responded that he needed to make his move first and that I still had time to get ready for Church.† He kept stalling until Mae came and said that we needed to leave.† I told her to take the children and go.† I would catch the next Wards meeting.† Hal of course encouraged me to attend the meeting.† I refused to call the game a draw so he could stall as long as he wanted but ether he made his move or concede the game. †Hal finally tipped his king over and conceded. †I quickly changed my clothes and made it to Sacrament meeting.† Following Sacrament meeting Deanna came over to our place.† We ate super and then played some Rook.† Larry called me to let me know that he had two people, the Allenís and the Elisís, that are interested in buying our home.† The problem being, that both of them want it for nothing.† Maybe if I could have seen the future, we would have been better off just getting out of the house.† However I turned the offer down.
Monday, September 9, 1974
††††††††††††††† After breakfast I worked on the driveway for about 4 hours.† I then helped Mae put up fruit away.† We then drove out to look at a home for sale in West Warren, it was a disaster!† After dinner I laid down for a short nap.† We then held Family Home Evening with our family.† I laid back down for a little more sleep before going into work at 11:30PM.
Tuesday, September 10, 1974
††††††††††††††† I never got home from work until 10:30AM.† After getting some sleep, I repaired the power steering on our car.† I also talked to Larry on the phone about our home in Arizona.† Larry feels that we need to install Shutters on the home to dress it up some.† He is also concerned as the back yard is not fenced and almost all homes in the Mesa area do have fenced yards.†
Wednesday, September 11, 1974
††††††††††††††† I worked late this morning before going home.† Mae went shopping today for Davidís Birthday presents.† When I got up I played with my children until it was their bed time.† Larry called me again this evening about a lady that is interested in buying our home.† Mae and I talked until time for her to go to bed.† I slept with her for a little while before going into work.
Thursday, September 12, 1974
††††††††††††††† I worked late again this morning.† When I got up this afternoon we had a nice Birthday dinner for David.† Mae had invited Mom and Dad Jensen to eat with us.† After dinner and opening the presents, Mom and Dad visited for a while before they went home.† Mae sure is a wonderful wife and sweetheart.† We talked for some time until I had to shower and go in to work.
Friday, September 13, 1974
††††††††††††††† I left work at 8AM getting home a little earlier than usual.† David asked me why I had to work all the time.† I set down with him and explained that I worked to earn money and with that money we bought food, clothes and other things that we needed as a family.† After that explanation, David went into his room and brought out a Birthday Dollar he had received yesterday, and offered it to me to help out.† I was really touched by his thoughts; in fact even as I type this, the thought brings tears to my eyes.† Georgia and Rick invited Sandy and Shellie to spend the night with them tonight.† After they came and got them, the boys, Mae and I watched a show on TV, before the boys went to bed. †Mae and I then talked about our situation until I had to shower and go back into work.
Saturday, September 14, 1974
††††††††††††††† I worked late but was able to complete a week of reports.† As normal I came home and had some breakfast and went to bed.† This evening I took Mae out to dinner and then to a show at the Kaysville Theater.† After the show we drove around Old Davis High, which brought back old memories.† It was a very nice evening just being with my sweetheart and relaxing.† Sandy tended the children for us.†
Sunday, September 15, 1974
††††††††††††††† We attended Priesthood and Sunday school in our ward but attended Sacrament meeting in the West Point Ward as T.R. Porter is speaking prior to his departure to the mission field next Saturday.† Uncle Verl and Aunt Beth invited all the Porter clan to attend the Fare Well.† They had all our children, all of Lynn and Janiceís children plus Eve, sing ďI Hope They Call Me on a MissionĒ.† Following the meeting we all went to Uncle Verl and Aunt Bethís home for ice cream and cake.
Monday, September 16, 1974
††††††††††††††† This morning I had 14 yards of concrete delivered.† Rick Tew and Mr. Turnerís helped me with the pour.† Mae also came out and helped.† With that help we laid and finished the driveway.† The cost for the concrete was $449.00.† I was tired but sure appreciated the volunteer help from Mae, Rick and Mr. Turner.† I got a little sleep before going into work.† Mae and the children held Family Home Evening without me so I could get a little sleep.
Tuesday, September 17, 1974
††††††††††††††† I got home from work at 9 this morning.† Mae and I discussed the options with our home in Mesa and decided that we will follow Larryís suggestion and install a fence around the back yard.† We will continue to try to sell it as we donít have many other options.† This afternoon we went with Rick and Georgia to the home they are buying.† They are buying the home that belonged to Uncle Dale and Aunt Ester.† Uncle Dale and Aunt Ester had moved to the home just South of Dales manufacturing plant on South Main Street.† The house had been rented out but the last renters left it in quite a mess.† We helped Rick and Georgia clean for quite a while, until I had to go home and rest before going into work.
Wednesday, September 18, 1974
††††††††††††††† At work tonight, one of the trainees quite.† That means I will not be able to go to Arizona this week.† We had planned on going down to Mesa to install the fence around our back yard.† Mae put up grape juice today.† This evening Mae and I went with Mom and Dad Porter to Joal Holbrookís Wedding Reception.† At the Reception someone was playing the organ to provide background music.† When I got investigating, I found it was Ralf Provost.† We had known Ralf and Belva Provost in the Sunset 2nd Ward when we were teenagers and were close to them after we got married.† During all that time I did not know he could even play the organ.† Here he was playing, without even music to read and while others were talking to him.† We know his daughter, Robin, played the piano but had never known him to play.† He said that he had played since a teenager.† His mother had used some egg money to give him one lesson but when his father found out about it he really balled her out for wasting the money on something worthless.† Ralf therefore taught himself to play.† He had never told anyone else until as Stake Executive Secretary, one morning at a Stake meeting the Stake President asked Ralf if he could find someone to play the opening song.† Not seeing anyone at the meeting that could play, Ralf said to the Stake President, I guess I could.† The Stake President almost laughed.† He played for the meeting and has been playing in public every since.
Thursday, September 19, 1974
††††††††††††††† I am not quite sure about the details of this entry, but will add them to the best of my memory.† For some reason, when I came home this morning I brought my paycheck home in cash.† This afternoon I took Sandy to her piano lesson in Roy.† I then went over to Rick and Georgiaís where I measured the doors, so that I could replace them.† We figured it would be cheaper to install new doors than it would to repair and paint the old ones.† I also measured and figured materials to build new kitchen cabinet.† This evening Mae and I attended the Back to School night at Sunset Junior High.† When we got home Mae realized that she had left her purse at the school.† To make it worse, all the cash from my paycheck was in the purse.† We panicked!† We franticly went back to the school.† Many of the class rooms that we had been in were already locked up for the night.† The last one we went to was open and the teacher had Maeís purse on his desk, wondering how to fine the owner.† Were we ever happy and relieved to find it, and with all the money still there.
Friday, September 20, 1974
††††††††††††††† This evening Mae and I went Square Dancing.† The Double J Rustler Square Dance club is starting up their fall beginners club again so we felt that since we have been out of Square dancing for a while, we needed some refreshing classes.† We enjoyed the evening and stayed for a while into the regular dance club.† We stopped for an Ice Cream Sunday on the way home.† Itís been a very nice evening, but I had to end it by going to work.
Saturday, September 21, 1974
††††††††††††††† After finishing up with work, I went Over to Moyes Glass and Doors and ordered replacement doors for Rick and Georgiaís home.† I then went back to the Data Processing Center and got all the reports and materials ready that has to be delivered to the Banks Branches in Tooele, Grantsville and Murray.† I then went home and got some sleep.† After getting up and eating dinner, Mae went with me, back to the D.P. Center where we loaded all the materials that needed to be delivered into the Bankís station wagon and left for Grantsville.† We made a drop at the Grantsville Branch, and then went to Tooele; dropping off materials at the Tooele Branch and from there we went to the Murray Branch to deliver the last of the items.† The reason that I had to make these drops; itís that our regular employee that does this, was not at work last night.† While already in the Salt Lake area, we stopped and visited with Irven and Sandy for a little while.† We were late getting back home.† Mae and I did enjoy being together, along with the visit to Irvenís.
Sunday, September 22, 1974
††††††††††††††† We attended meeting as normal today.† This evening we invited the Taylors to come over and play Rook.† Buck Heinze also stopped by to let me know that Browning Arms is looking for programmers.† I was interested but didnít feel it would be good to look for another job when Commercial Security Bank had just recently moved us up from Arizona.† I felt that I should have some loyalty to them.
Monday, September 23, 1974
††††††††††††††† I spent most of the day at Rick and Georgiaís taking out the old cabinets and also replacing doors.† Mae brought the children over to see the house and to bring dinner over.† †We ate and about 6PM we went home.† This evening for Family Home Evening we sang songs, played games and had pop-cycles for refreshments.
Tuesday, September 24, 1974
††††††††††††††† After returning from work and taking a short nap, I went over to Georgia and Rickís where I work on hanging new doors until 9:30PM.† When I got home Mae and I called Larry and Tammy.† Larry had figured the materials it would take for a fence around the back of our house.† He will have it delivered for this week-end.†
Wednesday, September 25, 1974
††††††††††††††† Before leaving work this morning, I arranged to take off work on Friday, so we can go to Arizona.† I took the car into the garage to get it serviced.† When they finished servicing I was informed that front U-joint was bad, so I replaced that this evening.† We also had to pay Automobile taxes and get new License Plates stickers for the car.
Thursday, September 26, 1974
††††††††††††††† This morning at 10 AM, Mae, Sandy, Scott and I left for Mesa.† We had arranged for Rick and Georgia to stay at our home with Shellie, Mike and David while we are gone.† We drove straight through with few stops, arriving at Larry and Tammyís home at 12:30AM.
Friday, September 27, 1974
††††††††††††††† This morning Larry and I installed a wood slat fence around the back yard of our home at 1608 N Freeman Street.† The neighbor to the north of our home had already installed a fence around their home.† When we finished the neighbor was upset with us as we did not connect our fence to hers.† Had we don so, I would have had to pay for Ĺ of her fence.† As it was the fence cost us $603.00 besides the cost of the trip down to Mesa and back.† Larry had also installed shutters on the front windows of the house to dress the home up more.† While Larry and I we putting up the fence, Mae went visiting with some of our friends we had here.† We sure hope that the addition of the fence will help the home sell now.† This evening we went out to eat with Jim and Marion Fraizer.† Following dinner we stopped to visit with Deloy and Lois Porter.† We didnít get back to Larry and Tammyís until after mid-night.
Saturday, September 28, 1974
††††††††††††††† This morning Mae and Tammy went to the Swap & Shop.† Larry and I took his Honda motorcycles and went for a ride out in the desert.† This afternoon Mae also went visiting some of her friends here in Mesa.† She took Sandy over to LuAnnís for a while so they could visit.† This evening Larry, Tammy, Mae and I went out to eat and then to a show.
Sunday, September 29, 1974
††††††††††††††† Larry and I went to Priesthood meeting.† When we got back, Mae, Sandy, Scott and I went to the Lehi 3rd Wardís Sunday school.† It gave us a chance to visit with some of the Ward members afterwards.† Tammy had a nice dinner ready for us when we got back to their place.† We left at 2:45pm for home.† We drove to Kanab Utah, getting there at 10:30pm.† We were too tired to drive on home so we rented a Motel and stayed for the night.
Monday, September 30, 1974
††††††††††††††† We ate breakfast of cold cereal and milk, getting away for home about 9AM.† We stopped in Provo and visited with Pat Bradfield.† Ron was at work.† After a short visit we went on home, getting there about 7:30PM.† I got my first speeding ticket today.† It was sure good to get back home with the children and find that all was well with them.† I had time to get a short nap before going to work.
Tuesday, October 1, 1974
††††††††††††††† We had a lot of problems at work last night and I didnít get home until 11:30AM.† I slept most of the day.† I had a meeting to attend at 7PM.† Sandy attended M.I.A. this evening.† Mae went over to the church at 8PM for a special program, however when she got there the program was over.† Somehow she got the starting time mixed up.
Wednesday, October 2, 1974
††††††††††††††† We had another bad night at work and I was late getting home this morning.† This evening I stayed home with our children while Mae attended a Laural Program in West Point.† She had been asked to speak at the program.† I enjoyed being with the children this evening.† After Mae returned home we talked until it was time for me to go to work.
Thursday, October 3, 1974
††††††††††††††† After getting home from work I drove up to Browning Arms and talked to them about any job openings.† They donít have anything at the time.† I went into the Ogden Temple and went through a session.† After the session I went down to the Baptistery and visited with Brother Hall about working there as a volunteer.† I took Sandy to her piano lesson this afternoon.† When I got back home I took a nap so I could get some sleep before going into work.
Friday, October 4, 1974
††††††††††††††† After returning home from work and getting something to eat, I got to bed about 9:45AM.† After getting up, having something to eat, I drove into the Ogden Temple where I worked in the Baptistery from 3PM to 6PM.† Ross & Glenda Taylor brought Mae into meet me at the Temple.† The four of us then went Square Dancing with the Double JJ Rustlers.† †Mae and I had to leave a little early so we could attend a Wedding Reception.† We got home in time so that I got an hour of sleep before leaving for work.
Saturday, October 5, 1974
††††††††††††††† After returning for work I ate breakfast and then went to sleep for about 4 hours.† After getting up I went over to Georgia and Rickís to figure plans and materials for their cabinets.† This evening I attended the General Priesthood Session of General Conference.† It was about 10:30PM when we got to bed.
Sunday, October 6, 1974
††††††††††††††† We were able to sleep in this morning as today is General Conference.† Although most of us are not feeling very well today, we were able to watch Conference on TV.† Because Mae is feeling so bad I prepared breakfast for the family.† Sandy and I felt well enough that we attended Sacrament meeting.† This evening, as a family, we did watch a show on TV.
Monday, October 7, 1974
††††††††††††††† I worked all day at Georgia and Rickís home, building their kitchen cabinets.† After returning home and having dinner, we held a very enjoyable Family Home Evening.† Scott still isnít feeling very well but the rest of us are doing much better this evening.† I did get a little sleep before going into work.
Tuesday, October 8, 1974
††††††††††††††† Work did not go well last night and I didnít get home until Noon.† I slept for a while but woke with a splitting head ache.† Larry called me three times this evening with concerns about selling our house.† He has a realtor that would like to deal with us on the home.† She feels that she has someone that might be interested in the home.† We may turn it over to her to see if she can sell the home for us.
Wednesday, October 9, 1974
††††††††††††††† We again had a lot of problems at work and I didnít get home until 11:30AM.† I guess that was better than yesterday.† I slept for a little while and then at 4PM Mae and I took Shellie, Mike and David with us and went to the Stake Welfare Farm and picked potatoes.† For those that worked there, we were able to purchase what potatoes we wanted.† We purchased three sacks of nice potatoes.
Thursday, October 10, 1974
††††††††††††††† I left work at 8:15AM today.† That was better than the past few days.† After getting some sleep I went into the Ogden Temple where I worked in the Baptistery.† When I got home we spent some time still trying to decide what to do with our home in Arizona.† I got a call from the office and had to go into work at 9PM tonight.
Friday, October 11, 1974
††††††††††††††† After getting home I tried to sleep but wasnít able to as I am so concerned with what to do with the home in Arizona.† After giving up on sleep I wrote a memo to Ross Kendall.† (I do not know what the memo consisted of as I hadnít enter enough detail in my Diary) †††This evening Mae and I went into Ogden to attend the square dance.† That always helps to get our mind clear for a little while.†
Saturday, October 12, 1974
††††††††††††††† Work was going quite well this evening.† Then at 4AM we found that somehow, all of Idaho Bank and Trustís† DDA checks, from yesterday, had never been clear before todayís checks were added.† That caused a double entry of Thursdayís checks.† It took quite a while getting the files straightened out and rebalanced.† I didnít get home until noon.† I hadnít been in bed very long when RaNae Barney called needing help, as she had ran out of gas.† I got up and helped her.† I then attended two Stake Conference meetings this afternoon and evening.† After returning home Mae and I relaxed and watched a show on TV.
Sunday, October 13, 1974
††††††††††††††† We attended Stake Conference this morning.† The Conference was very good.† After returning home I got my High Priestís reports filled out and turned in.† This afternoon we attended Sacrament meeting at the Mound Fort Ward.† I was asked to speak for a few minutes during the meeting.† Following the meeting we visited with Pete and Grace Mooney for a little while.† Although we enjoyed the visit, we were late getting the children to bed in as much as they will have school tomorrow.
Monday, October 14, 1974
††††††††††††††† I worked all day at Georgia and Rickís home.† We are still trying to decide what to do with the home in Arizona.† We are really struggling to make the house payments on it and so far we havenít had any offers to purchase it from us.† This evening we took all our family to a movie.† Before the movie we went to a Buffet for dinner.† It was all you could eat but eat what you take.† Mae really filled the childrenís plates with ďwhat everĒ looked good to them.† The problem was that they couldnít eat what they took so I tried to clean most of it up.†  The show was very enjoyable but I was very uncomfortable having eaten so much.
Tuesday, October 15, 1974
††††††††††††††† After getting home from work I went over to Georgia and Rickís where I worked all morning.† I did quite at noon and came back home.† Mae and I then went to the Sunset Junior High where we ate school lunch with Sandy.† After dinner this evening I went to bed for a little while before going into work.
Wednesday, October 16, 1974
††††††††††††††† Work did not go very well again last night and it 10:30AM before I got home.† I slept until 5PM when I got up and ate with my family.† After dinner, Mae took the children to the Ground Breaking ceremony of our new Chapel.† I stayed home and relaxed as I am not feeling the best.† I went into work anyway about 11PM.
Thursday, October 17, 1974
††††††††††††††† Work went much better last night and I was able to get home about 8:20AM.† I was able to sleep until 3PM when I got up and worked on my Honda motorcycle.† This evening at 6PM we attended a fund raising dinner for our new chapel.† When I got home I got things ready to go Deer Hunting.
Friday, October 18, 1974
††††††††††††††† I got off work early this morning.† After eating breakfast with my Mae and the children I went over to Rick and Georgiaís and worked on their home.† I later came home and slept for a couple of hours.† I then went into the Ogden Temple where I worked in the Baptistery.† After finishing there I came home and got my things ready to go deer hunting in the morning.† I took a short nap before going into work this evening.
Saturday, October 19, 1974
††††††††††††††† Work went very well last night and I was able to leave work at 4:45AM.† I then met with Irven, Kim and Robert and the four of us went up Black Smith Fork canon.† We hunted all day but didnít see anything except doeís, and this area is a ďbuck onlyĒ hunting this year.† We finally gave up and came home, getting back home after 6PM.
Sunday, October 20, 1974
††††††††††††††† This morning in Priesthood Quorum meeting Brother Herman Udink and Brother James Popham were set apart as assistance to me in the our High Priest Group.† After we attended Sunday School, I and my family all went over to Mom and Dad Jensenís.† Both Bob and Irvenís family also were there.† We attended Sacrament at Mom and Dadís Ward and then came back to Mom and Dadís where Mom had a nice dinner for us all.† It was a good time being together.
Monday, October 21, 1974
††††††††††††††† Irven, Bob, Grant, Robert and I left at 4:30AM this morning and went down to the Pleasant Grove area deer hunting.† Most of the lower lands were all fenced off with no trespassing signs posted.† We found one area where the gate was open and no signs posted so we drove up it to the foot hills.† We then got out and hiked up a canon, until we got to a fence that was posted.† We then turned south and walked until we came to the next draw and then hiked back down the mountain.† When we got almost to the bottom of the draw, Irven saw a doe and shot at it.† Soon a group of men came ridding up on horses.† They demanded to know what we were doing trespassing on privet property.† I told the one that seemed to be the leader of the group that we had not crossed any property that was posted.†  He said that we hadnít crossed the fence at the top of the draw we came down, as it was posted.† I told him that we had came up a draw to the north.† Until we came to a fence that was posted and so we turned south.† We follow along that the fence then came down the next draw we came to.†  I know that going over that fence would put us completely out of the area we had left the car.† I wasnít sure about his bluff but I was too tired to retrace our path and I refused.† At that point a younger person road up to the older man and said that the direction I had indicated we had come would not have been posted.† He then back down and told us that we could continue to our car and then to get off his property. ††We did that and went on home, very tired, getting home about 9:30PM.† †I got a little sleep before going to work.
Tuesday, October 22, 1974
††††††††††††††† Work went very well last night and I was able to get home at 5AM.† That is probably the first time and may be the only time that has or will happen.† I went to bed with Mae still in bed.† After I woke up and had breakfast, Mae and I worked on our budget.† I then washed and vacuumed the car.† I then put away my hunting equipment.† Mae and I then went to Barlow furniture in Clearfield, where we bought an upright freezer and a vacuum.† (Note: as I am editing this Diary entry, on April 17, 2016, we are still using that freezer.)
Wednesday, October 23, 1974
††††††††††††††† I didnít get home as early as I did yesterday.† I slept until 3PM before getting up.† I was going to go over to Georgia and Rickís place to work there but instead Mae and I decided to attend the Clearfield High School Football game last game of the season.† Bob had called Mae and told her that Grant would be playing.† We got there just a little late so the game was already started.† We didnít see Grant on the field but by the time we found our seats we could see him sitting on the bench with his leg up and an ice pack on it.† When we saw Bob he said that he had told Grant to have his ankle wrap tight with tape before he started the game.† He didnít and the first play he sprained his ankle, which put him out of the game and also out the rest of the season.† This evening I relaxed and watched some TV.† Our freezer was delivered this afternoon.† This is our first freezer we have owned, so Mae is really excited about getting it.
Thursday, October 24, 1974
††††††††††††††† Work went ok last night but we still have a lot of concerns about selling our house in Arizona, which is becoming quite a financial stress.† Feeling the need for guidance I decided to go to the Temple.† I went from work as soon as I could get off, to the Temple.† I went through an Invitatory session, and then spent a few minutes in the Celestial room praying and meditating for guidance concerning our financial poblems.† After leaving the temple I went to Farmington to register our car.† From there I went home and soon went to bed.† I slept until 6pm, got up and went back to the Temple to attend a special Priesthood Session. ††Again going home I got a short nap before going to work.† It has been a busy day but as I think of Mae, she is very busy with the family and all the other things she takes care of.† Work went fairly well tonight.
Friday, October 25, 1974
††††††††††††††† After getting home I slept for a while.† When I got up Mae drove me over to Mom and Dad Jensenís.† Mae then took the children to Salt Lake to see our dentist.† She also needed the car this evening to take the children to a school carnival.† Mom and Dad let me borrow $200.00 as we are overdrawn in our checking account.† They also let me borrow their car so that I could go into the Ogden Temple as tonight is my assigned time for working in the Baptistery.† After my shift there I drove back to Mom and Dadís.† I visited with them for a while and then they brought me back home about 9PM.†
Saturday, October 26, 1974
(As I transfer this entrance over from my Diary it was very sketchy and so it is to the best of my memeory.)††††††††††††††† After getting home from work, I went to bed and slept until almost noon.† I ate some breakfast then Mom and Dad Jensen came over and got Mae and I.† The four of us went down to R. C. Willies where we looked at some carpeting.† A few days earlier there had been an ad for Donís Meats in Sunset, of a sale on Ĺ a beef cut and wrapped for the freezer.† Mom and Dad said that they would like to go in on it with us.† Donís Meatís called us this morning and said the beef was ready for us to pick up.† So from R.C. Willies we went to get the meat.† Mom and Dad took us home where we took our meat and put it into our freezer.† They then took their meat home to put it into their freezer.† Later this evening Mom and Dad came back to visit and play Rummy.
Sunday, October 27, 1974
††††††††††††††† This morning we attended the regular Sunday morning meeting.† After Sunday school, as a High Priest Group leadership, we went to Darrel Drapers to visit him.† We were given the report that he has been quite sick.† Following Sacrament meeting we took our family down to Mom and Dad Porterís for a visit.† Of course when we got there we have to have a game or two or more with Mom.†
Monday, October 28, 1974
††††††††††††††† I went over to Rick and Georgiaís home in Clearfield where I worked from 7am until 6pm.† I came home where we ate dinner and then held Family Home Evening.† While Mae was getting the children to bed I fell asleep on the floor.† Mae got me up and into bed where I slept until 11pm before getting up and going into work.
Tuesday, October 29, 1974
††††††††††††††† Work went well and I went straight over to Rick and Georgiaís where I worked from 6:15am until 9:30PM.† I believe that Mae brought me over some lunch.† I got about 1 Ĺ hours of sleep before going into work.
Wednesday, October 30, 1974
††††††††††††††† With only getting 1 Ĺ hours of sleep before going to work last night I was really tired when I came home.† I slept most of the day.† Mae told me that their Relief Society Opening Social went well today.† This evening I held Oral Evaluation with some of the High Priests.
Thursday, October 31, 1974
††††††††††††††† I got home from work at 9:30am.† This evening I took the children out Trick or Treating.† After we returned Mae took them to both Grandparents homes so that they could see the children.† I held Oral Evaluation with Mel Wood while they were gone.
Friday, November 1, 1974
††††††††††††††† I got home from work about 10am this morning.† After some breakfast I went to bed.† Mae has been sewing on a Square Dance dress most of the day.† I went into the Ogden Temple at 3pm to work in the Baptistery.† This evening Mae and I went Square dancing with the Double J dance club and had a very enjoyable time.
Saturday, November, 2, 1974
††††††††††††††† I got home from work at 9:30am.† I ate and then went over to Rick and Georgiaís where I worked until 4PM.† Mae came and got me, as she decided that I had worked long enough for today.† I noted in my Diary that we rented a TV, but neither of us remembers doing that.† I fell asleep on the couch while Mae was getting the children ready for Sunday and down to bed.
Sunday, November 3, 1974
††††††††††††††† We held a High Priest Group Leadership meeting at 7:30am.† I feel quite pleased with the Group Leadership.† Brother James Popham is keeping us up on the Temple work and Brother Herman Udink is keeping us on track with the Home Teaching.† Following Sunday School the three of us went visiting some of the Brethren and finished our Oral Evaluation on Home Teaching for last month.† After getting back home from Sacrament meeting I helped Mae with a few items and then as a family we watched TV together.† I sure was wonderful to spend some time with my family.
Monday, November 4, 1974
††††††††††††††† This morning I went over to rick and Georgiaís and worked from 8an until 4:30pm.† After dinner we held a nice Family Home Evening.† I slept for a little while before going into work at mid-night.
Tuesday, November 5, 1974
††††††††††††††† Tonight things went wrong at work and then at 4AM it really snow balled.† I didnít get home until 4PM.† What a night that turned out to be.† I got a little sleep before going back to work at Mid-night.
Wednesday, November 6, 1974
††††††††††††††† I got home from work at 9:54am.† I ate a little breakfast and then went to sleep.† At 3pm I got up and spent a little while with the children.† I then went over to Rick and Georgiaís and cut the cabinet top for the stove and sink insets.† Back to work at Mid-night.
Thursday, November 7, 1974
††††††††††††††† We had problems at work again last night and so I didnít get home until almost 10am.† I took a short nap and then went to the barber to get a haircut.† I came home, took a shower, shaved and went back to work at 4PM. †We had a meeting with some of the management of IB&T.† When I got home, I only got a short nap before going back to work.† Today has been a long day.
Friday, November 8, 1974
††††††††††††††† I got home from work about 9am and slept until 1:30pm.† After eating I went into the Ogden Temple where I worked in the baptistery.† This evening at 6:45pm we took our family to a special program in honor of Kent and Shirly Murdock.† Following that program we took our family back home where Sandy took care of our children while we picked up Don & Dorthy McNee.† We went Square Dancing with the Double J Dance club.† We had a very enjoyable evening coming home about 11pm and I went into work at mid-night.
Saturday, November 9, 1974
††††††††††††††† I didnít get home from work until 10am.† I was so tired that I slept until 6pm.† Today Mae and the children went to Cindy Porterís Birthday.† In connection with the party they went on a nature hike.† This evening we watched a show on TV as a family before we went to bed.
Sunday, November 10, 1974
††††††††††††††† We attended our regular Sunday meeting today.† For dinner we invited Deanna and her children over to eat with us.† This evening Mae and I attended a special fireside.† I sure have a special wife, sweetheart who is also a very special Mother to my children.
Monday, November 11, 1974
††††††††††††††† I worked at Rick and Georgiaís for about 8 hours today.† After dinner this evening we had a very enjoyable Family Home Evening.† I went to bed at 8:15pm and slept until Mae woke me at 11:15pm for me to go to work.† She hadnít gone to bed but stayed up doing house work, but after I got off to work she went to bed.
Tuesday, November 12, 1974
Work went well last night and I got home early, so only slept for a short while.† When I got up I ate breakfast then went over to Rick and Georgiaís where I finished their cabinets and doorís.† Mae has been busy all day and evening, working on a Road Show.† Again she went until she woke me to go to work and then she went to bed.† She told me that she had fallen down the stair but felt that she was ok and hadnít seriously hurt herself from the fall.
Wednesday, November 13, 1974
††††††††††††††† I got home from work at a reasonable time and was able to sleep quite well today.† This evening the Stake M.I.A. held their Road Shows.† I believe that there were 2 Wards that put their show on at our building and 2 wards at another chapel.† Mae was involved with our Wards show so she was busy with that this evening.† I took the children and we enjoyed watching the two shows at our building.
Thursday, November 14, 1974
††††††††††††††† Work must have gone ok last night as I didnít indicate anything about it.† This evening I stayed with the children while Mae again was involved with the Road Shows.† That will end the Road Shows for this year.
Friday, November 15, 1974
††††††††††††††† Again there was no entry as to work last night, but I got up at 12:30pm planning on going into Ogden to look for some paneling for our living room before going into the Temple to fulfill my assignment in the Baptistery.† However when I got up I found that Mae had gone with the car and my wallet.† She did return in time for me to attend the Temple.† After returning from the Temple Mae and I attended the Square dance. †We sure enjoy and look forward to going Square Dancing.† Also I didnít make any indication as to why but I didnít have to go into work tonight.
Saturday, November 16, 1974
††††††††††††††† I got up this morning and textured the ceiling in both our living room and Sandyís bedroom.† I then went into work to process the Idaho Bank and Trust work.† I did not indicate in my Diary why we had yesterday off but it must have had something to do with Veterans Day.† This evening Bob and Carroll invited Mom and Dad Jensen and Mae and I over for the evening.
Sunday, November 17, 1974
††††††††††††††† We attended our regular meetings.† After Sacrament meeting took our family and went for a walk down in the park.† When we got back home we had a light super and watched a show on TV together.† I also called Roy just to see how they are doing.
Monday, November 18, 1974
††††††††††††††† I got up at 6am this morning so that I could get an early start on fixing up the front room.† I worked most of the day on it and had it done by 11PM.† At 11:30PM I went into work.
Tuesday, November 19, 1974
††††††††††††††† Work went well last night and I got home at 9:30AM.† When I got home I started back to work on the front room.† I finished up the work I needed done on the front room just before the carpet layers came at 10AM.† The room sure looks nice as they finished laying the new carpeting.† I then went to bed and slept the rest of the day.† I went back to work at 11:30PM.
Wednesday, November 20, 1974
††††††††††††††† Work went well last night and I was home shortly after 8AM.† I ate and went to bed, sleeping until 2PM.† I then started redecorating Shellie room.† As I typed this information I cannot remember how we all fit in this home.† We must have had Scott in the bedroom with Shellie, downstairs in the room which the stairs came down into.† Mike and David were in the 2nd bedroom upstairs.† Sandy had the North West bedroom downstairs by herself.† It is really interesting how times have changed in todayís world.† Mae has been very busy as she prepared for a Birthday party for Sandy tomorrow, held an Open House for the Ward Library and helped me with some preparations for the upcoming High Priest Social.
Thursday, November 21, 1974
††††††††††††††† When I got home from work I was feeling quite ill with a cold.† I therefore soon went to bed and I slept most of the day.† Mae hosted the Birthday Party for Sandy and that went well.† This evening Mae and the children went over to the Ward Dinner.† I went into work at 11:30PM.
Friday, November 22, 1974
††††††††††††††† I got so sick at work that at 2:30AM I left work and came home.† I went to bed with a fever and bad cold.† I woke and got up at 8AM feeling much better.† Mae and I joined with others to attend the Wedding of Bruce Young and Jody †††††in the Salt Lake Temple.† Following the Wedding and Sealing at the Temple we joined with other guests for a Wedding Breakfast.† From my Diary entrances I gather that Rich and Lois were also at the special event.† They probably stayed over with Mom and Dad Jensen.† When we came back home I went to bed at 5PM so that I could get some sleep before going into work at 11:30PM.† Mae was busy with the Library open house as well as preparing for the High Priest social.
Saturday, November 23, 1974
††††††††††††††† I got home at 7:30am from work.† I started working on Shellieís room but got a call from work requiring me to go back in for a while.† When I got back home, with the help of my sweet wife we finished preparing for the High Priest Social.† We then attended the social and had a good turnout.† Mae and I then attended the reception in honor of Bruce and Jody and then went back and cleaned up from the High Priest Social.† We visited with Rich and Lois until quite late.† I did not indicate as to where we visit with them.
Sunday, November 24, 1974
††††††††††††††† I attended a High Priest Leadership meeting this morning and when it finished I came back home.† We visited with Rich and Lois until they left to return to their home.† We got the children ready to attend Sunday school and had Sandy take then there.† Mae and I then went over to Mom and Dad Jensenís where we visited with Uncle Irven, Aunt Bernice, Aunt Welma and Uncle Lee.† We left there and came home planning to attend our Sacrament meeting but when we got there Pat and Ron Bradfield had just arrived, so we visited with them and missed our Sacrament meeting.
Monday, November 25, 1974
††††††††††††††† I worked most of the morning in Shellieís room.† This afternoon Mae and I went shopping.† This evening we held a fairly nice Family Home Evening.† Of course as normal I went into work at 11:30PM.
Tuesday, November 26, 1974
††††††††††††††† When I got home from work this morning I was quite tired.† I slept most of the day.† This evening I worked on Shellieís room.† I went into work at 11:30 PM.
Wednesday, November 27, 1974
††††††††††††††† Work must have gone fairly well last night and I got home at a decent time to get some rest before getting busy around the house.† When I got up, I cleaned up my tools and put them away.† I cleaned up the basement so that the children would have room to play down there tomorrow.
Thursday, November 28, 1974
††††††††††††††† Work went very well last night and I was able to get home by 6AM.† I slept until 10AM and got back up.† I raked and cleaned up the yard and then went in and help Mae with Thanksgiving preparations.† We had Irven and Sandy, Mom and Dad Jensen, Bob and Carroll and their family join us for Thanksgiving Dinner.† We had a very enjoyable time together.† This evening Larry, Tammy and their children stopped in to visit for a while.† They had come up to be with Larryís family for Thanksgiving.† They are special friends and we sure enjoy having them come by.
Friday, November 29, 1974
††††††††††††††† (My Diary doesnít explain why I did not have to go into work at 11:30PM but maybe the banks took a two day Holiday for Thanksgiving.)†
††††††††††††††† Larry, Tammy and their family came back this morning and visited with us until 10AM when they left to drive back to Arizona.† We sure enjoyed what time we had to visit with them.†
ďWhenever I enter anything about Larry and Tammy I sure have a sick feeling over our friendship been severed.† I just hope that some time, some place feelings can be mended.Ē†
After they left, Mae took the children over to the Mall to see Santa.† I went over to Mom and Dad Jensenís where I measured their carport area as Dad would like to turn the carport into a garage.† From there I went into the Ogden Temple where I served in the Baptistery.† This evening Mae and I went into Ogden where we danced with the Double J Rustlers square dance club.† As normal we had a very enjoyable evening.
Saturday, November 30, 1974
††††††††††††††† †After getting home and a little sleep, I went into Ogden to order some materials for Mom and Dadís garage.† I wasnít able to get all that I needed.† This afternoon we took our family and went to Salt Lake for a family activity.† We mainly visited Trolley Square and had an enjoyable time.† This evening after getting the younger children to bed, Mae, Sandy and I watched a show on TV before going to bed.
Sunday, December 1, 1974
††††††††††††††† I attended an early Stake Priesthood Leadership meeting this morning.† When I came out to go home, I had a ticket on my windshield for not having Utah License Plates on my car.† I did have the new plates in the car on the back floor but had not got them installed.† We attended our regular church meeting today.† This evening Mae had prepared w very nice meal.† After eating I helped Mae do up the dishes while the children played.† I laid down on the carpet and fell asleep.† Mae let me sleep there until I got up at 10:30PM and got ready to go into work.
Monday, December 2, 1974
††††††††††††††† Work went well last night but this morning I had to attend a Management Training Seminar before going home.† I got a little sleep and then Mae and I went Christmas shopping.† I ordered the materials needed for Mom and Dad Jensenís job.† This evening we enjoyed a nice Family Home Evening.† I got a little sleep before going into work.
Tuesday, December 3, 1974
††††††††††††††† When I got off work this morning I went over to Bobís and helped him get his car started.† I went home and had got a little sleep when Anderson Lumber called me to tell me that they didnít have the siding that I had ordered.† This afternoon I took David Christmas shopping, mainly trying to find out what he wanted for Christmas.† Bob also went with us, just to tag along.† We also stopped at Anderson Lumber and I picked out another siding for Mom and Dadís job.† I got a little more sleep this evening before going to work.
Wednesday, December 4, 1974
††††††††††††††† I was able to get home from work at a good time this morning and so got to bed and slept.† When I woke I ran several errands.† This evening after dinner I held Oral Evaluation with some of the Brethren.† Mae and I then attended the Wedding Reception for Mark Ross and his new bride.† I sure enjoy being with Mae and love my wonderful wife.† It is hard leaving her to go to work each night.
Thursday, December 5, 1974
††††††††††††††† After getting off work I picked up Bob and we went over to Mom and Dad Jensenís and started working on changing their carport into a closed in garage.† As I started laying out the wall, I laid it out the full length.† Dad Jensen came out and asked why I was building it that way.† He felt that I should just build individual framing that would go between the already existing 4 X 4 posts.† I tried to explain that the siding would not alien with the existing post settings.† He got a little upset with me and went into the house.† Mom came out and told me not to worry about it but to continue the way I planned.† We continued and soon had the new wall up in place.† Later Dad came back out and looked at the wall, then made the comment that he was sure glad that I hadnít listened to him because he could now see my reasoning in the design.
Friday, December 6 1974
††††††††††††††† Work went well and I got home in good time this morning.† This afternoon I worked at the Temple in the Baptistery.†† Working there is one of my weekly highlights.† This evening, instead of going Square Dancing, Mae and I attended the Ward Relief Society party and sure enjoyed that.
Saturday, December 7, 1974
††††††††††††††† It snowed most of the night, so when I got home from work this morning, I built the children a Snowman.† I then picked up Bob and we went back to Mom and Dad Jensenís and worked more on the garage.† After returning home I slept for a couple of hours.† We then took the children out to buy a Christmas tree.† This evening Mae and I went to the Bankís Christmas party.† At the party we won a $25.00 prize.† We were very excited at that, as it will help at this time of year.
Sunday, December 8, 1974
††††††††††††††† This morning I attended Priesthood and Sunday school but then I got a call informing me that Margaret is having problems again.† Bob and I went over to Mom and Dadís to try to help.† As normal when Margaret has problems, she turns to Mom to help her out.† Dad has different feeling on how you help someone in her situation.† I sure hope that Margaretís problems, doesnít cause problems between Mom and Dad.† When I got home I was exhausted and fell asleep on the couch.† I didnít get to spend much time with my family today.
Monday, December 9, 1974
††††††††††††††† I attended a Management Training seminar this morning.† I then went over to Mom and Dadís and continued working on their garage.† This afternoon I had to attend court because of the ticket I got Sunday, December 1st for not having my license plates on my Car.† When I told the Judge that we had bought the Utah plates the previous week and that I did have them lying in the back window of the car, he dismissed the charges, telling me that I should get them installed.† I reported that they were now installed.† This evening, as a family, we installed and decorated our Christmas tree.† Rich and Lois came down to pick up Loisís parents, and they stopped in for a few minutes.
Tuesday, December 10, 1974
††††††††††††††† Work went well last night and I got home in good time.† After getting up this afternoon I just relaxed and spent time with my family.† This evening Mae and I watched a couple of show on TV before I went into work.† I sure love that gal!
Wednesday, December 11, 1974
††††††††††††††† As I am retyping my Diary entrances from my old hand written entries, I have noted that there very many events missing or incomplete and without person recollection the reader would not be able to understand what is going on.† I have therefore taken the liberty of adding to such entries, so that future readers might have a better understanding of what I was trying to say.
††††††††††††††† Work must have gone well last night and I returned home this morning in time to get some sleep.† Working grave yard shift never seem to quite fit in with the normal life style!† After getting up I took some Christmas items over to keep at Mom and Dad Jensenís evidently to keep them secrete from my family for now.† While there I also picked up some of my tools that I have been using there.† After getting home, as a family we put up the outside Christmas lights and decorated our front room window.† Mae popped some pop corn for a treat.† I took the children over to the church where we used some sidewalks that were covered with snow and used them as a slay hill.
Thursday, December 12, 1974
††††††††††††††† After getting up this afternoon, Mae and I went into the Temple. We must have been later getting home than we had planned, as I had noted that Sandy was late getting to her piano lesson.† (addition) Sandy is doing quite well with the piano and though we are tight on finances we feel her lessons are of great value.† We are having her take lessons from an instructor who has his studio in Roy.† We feel that her achievement on the piano is such that she needs someone more than just the average teacher.
Friday, December 13, 1974
††††††††††††††† It started snowing about 1am and has continued through the night and today.† Mae had a Stake Relief Society meet that she needed to attend this afternoon.† Because of her concerns about driving on the snow covered roads, I got up and drove her to her meeting.† I believe that she road home with another Sister in our Ward.† I shoveled the driveway this afternoon before I went into the Temple to officiate in the Baptistery.† This evening Mae and I went Square dancing.† We look forward to this great activity and so snowy road was not going to stop us from going.† After the dance the night was so beautiful and earth covered with a blanket of snow, we went for a ride to see the Christmas lights. †I have such a beautiful wife and sweetheart.† Although I didnít want to I went back into work tonight.
Saturday, December 14, 1974
††††††††††††††† The following information was not in my Diary but I want it preserved and so will enter it here! (In our Square Dance group we have became acquainted with Margie Nelsonís Sister and Brother-in-law, Lois and Jerry Ellsworth.† Of course Mae has known Lois through Margie but we have become closer acquaintances with them being in the Square Dance Club.† Jerry was elected president of the Double J club and it was then that invited us back into the club, when we moved to Sunset.† Jerry works for Sunset City and so whenever he is in our area with the snow plow, he will swing in and clear out the heavy snow from my driveway.† This has really helped as we live on the State Highway and when the State plows clean the highway it really packs our entranceway. †He did this until someone reported it and before the winter was over he had to stop helping me out.† I will also add this experience in.† When we first moved into the home in Sunset, I decided to raise the driveway so that it would not be so steep, plus I wanted to pour concrete for the driveway.† I had 2 or 3 dump truck loads of fill delivered and was starting to spread it out by hand with a shovel, when I had the time.† One morning when I got home from work, the fill was all leveled out and packed down.† I never found out who did it but I am sure that it was Jerry using the large front loader or the road grader of the city.† With that it would have only taking him a few minutes but it saved me many, many hours with the shovel.)
I got home in good time this morning and after sleeping for a little while I got up.† After some breakfast I went out and cleaned the loose snow of the driveway.† The heavy snow had been pushed off for me. I then took the children Christmas shopping and while at the stores I bought a new snow shovel.† When we got back home I used the new shovel to again clear the driveway.† After eating dinner, I put vies-queen over the boyís bedroom window, trying to keep some cold out.† We then took all the family and went into Ogden to see the lights and decorations at the park.† After getting the children down for the night Mae and I stayed up longer to talk.
Sunday, December 15, 1974
††††††††††††††† We attended Sunday meetings, as normal.† Mae prepared a wonderful dinner and we had invited Mom and Dad Porter as well as Rick and Georgia and Kim and Terry.† It has been a very enjoyable day.† This evening Mae and I filled out Christmas cards.† Scott started walking between Mae and I as we held out our hands to him.† He will soon be running.
Monday, December 16, 1974
††††††††††††††† I attended a meeting at the Bank at 8am that lasted until 10am.† When I got home I figured my bills from Anderson Lumber.† I then went over to Mom and Dad Jensonís and installed the back door to the now garage, for them.† When I finished that I went into the hospital where I donated blood.† Mae and I then went shopping for a few minutes.† When we got home we found out that Hal had tried to take his life and was in the hospital.† As I had to get some sleep before going to work, Mae went into the hospital to be with the family.† Hal had taken an over-dose of sleeping pills.† Mae was home when I got up to go into work.† Mae told me that Hal is stable now but will remain in the hospital for a day or two.† I went into work.
Tuesday, December 17, 1974
††††††††††††††† Work went well last night and I was able to get home at a reasonable time.† I slept for a while and then when I got up Mae told me that Hal was released from the hospital.† Mae and I went over to be with the family and spent most of the day there.
Wednesday, December 18, 1974
††††††††††††††† After getting home from work and getting some sleep, Mae and I went Christmas shopping most of the afternoon.† We then went out to eat at Sizzler for dinner.† It has sure been a lot of fun being with Mae and shopping together.
Thursday, December 19, 1974
††††††††††††††† Work went well again last night and I got home and to bed at a decent time.† After waking up I took Mae to get her hair done.† While she was there I went over to Mom and Dad Jensenís and picked up my tools.† This afternoon I cut out the material to build Mom and Dad Jensen a rack to hold their pool cues and balls.† We decided that we would build that as a Christmas gift for them.† I took Sandy to her piano lesson this afternoon.† This evening Mae took the children to our Ward Christmas party.† I stayed home to get some more sleep before going into work.
Friday, December 20, 1974
††††††††††††††† When I woke up this afternoon and had some lunch, breakfast or whatever you call the first meal you eat when you wake up from working the midnight shift.† This afternoon I went into work at the Temple on my assignment to officiate in the Baptistery.† This is always a very enjoyable experience and I look forward to it.† This evening we took all our children, except Scott who we left at home with a baby sitter, to the Family Square Dance Christmas party.† We all had a wonderful and fun evening.† After taking my family home I soon went to work.
Saturday, December 21, 1974
††††††††††††††† When I got home from work, Mom called me to tell me that Dad Jensenís grandson died this morning.† They are going up to be with the family and so I went over and helped them get ready and leave for Idaho Falls.† We had bought a bicycle for Christmas to be given to Sandy but as I checked it out, it was too big for her.† I went to the store and bought her a new one.† Mae has been sewing clothes for the children for their Christmas, so that keeps her busy.† I assembled Fruit Baskets to be taken around to the widows in our Ward.† Irven and Sandy invited Bryce, Deanna, Mae and I over for the evening.† We had a very enjoyable time visiting and playing games.† It was after mid-night before when we got home.
Sunday, December 22, 1974
We attended our regular Sunday meetings.† All our family, except Scott, participated in the Sunday School program today.† This evening we stayed home and spent time together as a family.† After putting the children down for the evening, Mae and I spent time wrapping Christmas presents.
Monday, December 23, 1974
††††††††††††††† I went into a meeting at work this morning.† Following the meeting I came home and assembled, stained and put a finish on the cue rack that I cut out last Thursday.† We want to give this to Dad Jensen as a Christmas present.† This afternoon we went to Mom and Dad Porters for dinner and a Family Christmas party.† All members of the Glendon and Mildred Porter family were in attendances.† This is the first time we have had all the family together for many years.† It was a very enjoyable evening.
Tuesday, December 24, 1974
††††††††††††††† Work went terrible last night and so I was late getting home.† After getting some sleep I got up and we wrapped more presents.† This evening, as a family, we went visiting.† We visited the Erricksonís, who lived next door to the west of our home on 13th street.† Then we visited Sister Thompson and Brother & Sister Peterson, these are special people that we loved while living in Ogden.† After visiting we came home and all the children hurried to bed with excitement for tomorrow morning.† Mae and I didnít finish getting ready for Christmas until 2:30am.† That wasnít so hard for me because that is my work schedule but for Mae, she was tired.
Wednesday, December 25, 1974
††††††††††††††† We got up at 5:45am as Mae couldnít keep me and the children in bed any longer.† We had a wonderful Christmas morning.† After opening gifts we had breakfast.† Roy and Linda called us from California to wish us a Merry Christmas.† Of course they donít have snow for Christmas but they seem to enjoy that.† Then Sandy and I rode our new bikes over to Bob and Carrollís.† I felt that I need more exercise and so when we bought a bike for Sandy, we also bought one for me.† After a visit with Bobís family we came back home.† We then went down to Mom and Dad Porter where Mom Porter had made a wonderful Christmas dinner and we enjoyed visiting with the family, most of them came out also.
Thursday, December 26, 1974
††††††††††††††† We are having problems with our TV and so I asked Brother Brandenburg to come over and repair it.† When he finished the TV sure works much better. †We enjoyed having the day fairly free from other responsibilities.† This evening Mae and I took the three boys and went over to Mom and Dad Jensenís.† While there I hung the pole cue rack up for them.† Shellie had gone with Uncle Hal and Aunt Jean to play with Cindy.† Sandy went with the Sisneros, who took their family ice skating.† I had to go to work tonight at 11:30pm.
Friday, December 27, 1974
††††††††††††††† After returning home from work and getting some sleep, I went to the auto parts and got some pars for the car.†  This evening Mae and I attended a wedding reception in honor of Terry and DeAnn Jessop.† We then drove over to Ogden to visit Mike (Myrene) and Ed Dransfield. When we lived in Ogden, Mike called Mae to be her 2nd councilor in the Stake Young Women Presidency.† They became close friends and we also became friends with their family.† Sandy attended a Ward Young Womenís slumber party.
Saturday, December 28, 1974
††††††††††††††† Work must have gone pretty well last night and when I got home I slept for a little while.† This afternoon Mae and I took Scott with us and drove up to Pocatello, Idaho to Rich and Loisís home, so we can attend Phillip and Lisaís wedding reception.† Irven and Sandy were also there when we got there. †Having a little time before the reception, Irven and I took a couple of Richís snowmobiles and went for a ride.† This evening we attended the reception.† We then went to Uncle Irven and Aunt Berniceís home where they let us stay the night.† From what I can make out in my Diary, Irven and Sandy must have also stayed the night with Uncle Irven and Aunt Bernice.† Today was Maeís Birthday but we didnít do much celebrating for her.
Sunday, December 29. 1974
††††††††††††††† This morning Uncle Irven, Irven and I attended Priesthood meeting.† When we returned from meeting, Aunt Bernice prepared breakfast for us.† Mae woke up this morning with a bad headache.† We ate breakfast and visited.† It also gave s a little time to visit with Lesley.† Rich and Lois invited us out to their place for dinner.† After dinner we left about 2pm for home.† Mae was sick with the flu and so she slept most of the way home.† After getting home Mae just went to bed, while I took all the children and went down to a family party at Mom and Dad Porters.
Monday, December 30, 1974
††††††††††††††† Mae was in bed most of the day with the flu.† Sandy and I cleaned the house.† Sandy tended the children, while I put weather stripping and new thresholds on the exterior doors.† I took the children to a show this evening.† Mae stayed home in bed.† I went into work at 11:30pm as normal.
Tuesday, December 31, 1974
††††††††††††††† Work went fairly well last night although, one person called in and quite without any notice.† Another person got sick at work and had to go home early. When I got home from work, Mae was still not feeling well but was up with the children.† When I woke up this afternoon I wasnít feeling very well.† Although tonight is New Yearís Eve, we just stayed home and went to bed.


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vignettes/CreatingNetworkStudies.Rmd
CreatingNetworkStudies.Rmd
The OHDSI Patient Level Prediction (PLP) package provides the framework to implement prediction models at scale. This can range from developing a large number of models across sites (methodology and study design insight) to extensive external validation of existing models in the OHDSI PLP framework (model insight). This vignette describes how you can use the PatientLevelPrediction
package to create a network study package.
The output should contain three folders inside the study directory such as outputLoc <- (file.path(getwd(), paste0(studyName_database_date)))
: * Plots – containing the test/train or validation ROC plot, calibration plot, precision recall plot and optionally the demographic calibration plot. * Results – The output of running savePlpResult * Summary – a summary csv of performance and the table 1 csv
Then there should also be a zip file of the folder in the working directory containing the same folders and files but with sensitive results removed (this will be created using the packageResults function). Once the contributor has inspected the zipped file and is happy with the content being shared, he/she can then finally run the submit function with the details provided in the readme.md.
First you need to make a copy of the PatientLevelPrediciton skeleton package found here:
Assuming you ran a sucessful PatientLevelPrediction model development and saved the output of runPlp()
to to location ‘goodModel’ in your working directory then:
library(PatientLevelPrediction)
plpResult <- loadPlpResult("goodModel")
# add the model to the skeleton package with sensitive information removed
exportPlpResult(plpResult = plpResult, modelName = "Model Name", packageName = "Your Package Name",
gitHubLocation = "location/of/github", includeEvaluationStatistics = T, includeThresholdSummary = T,
includeDemographicSummary = T, includeCalibrationSummary = T, includePredictionDistribution = T,
includeCovariateSummary = F)
Now you want to add the cohorts (generally the parameterized sql required to create one or more target and outcome cohorts). This should be added into the inst/sql/sql_server directory of your package. If you are using atlas to create the cohorts then you can use: OhdsiRTools::insertCirceDefinitionInPackage()
. The settings for the cohort creation are defined in the inst/extdata directory in the file cohort_details.csv. this file contains two columns: cohortName and cohortId. The cohortName should contain the name of the sql file of the cohort in inst/sql/sql_server (e.g., a file called “targetCohort.sql” has the name “targetCohort”) and the cohortId is the default cohort_definition_id that will be used when people run the study corresponding to this cohort. The main.R file in the extras directory contains the vanilla code to run a study with the model eported into the package and the cohort files added.
library(PatientLevelPrediction)
# input settings for person running the study
connectionDetails <- " "
cdmDatabaseSchema <- "their_cdm_database"
databaseName <- "Name for database"
cohortDatabaseSchema <- "a_database_with_write_priv"
cohortTable <- "package_table"
outputLocation <- "location to save results"
cohortDetails <- createCohort(connectionDetails = connectionDetails, cdmDatabaseSchema = cdmDatabaseSchema,
cohortDatabaseSchema = cohortDatabaseSchema, cohortTable = cohortTable, package = "Your Package Name")
plpResult <- loadPlpResult(system.file("model", package = "Your Package Name"))
result <- externalValidatePlp(plpResult = plpResult, connectionDetails = connectionDetails,
validationSchemaTarget = cohortDatabaseSchema, validationSchemaOutcome = cohortDatabaseSchema,
validationSchemaCdm = cdmDatabaseSchema, validationTableTarget = cohortTable,
validationTableOutcome = cohortTable, validationIdTarget = target_cohort_id,
validationIdOutcome = outcome_cohort_id)
# save results to standard output
resultLoc <- standardOutput(result = result, outputLocation = outputLocation, studyName = "external validation of ... model",
databaseName = databaseName, cohortName = "your cohortName", outcomeName = "your outcomeName")
# package results ready to submit
packageResults(mainFolder = resultLoc, includeROCplot = T, includeCalibrationPlot = T,
includePRPlot = T, includeTable1 = F, includeThresholdSummary = T, includeDemographicSummary = T,
includeCalibrationSummary = T, includePredictionDistribution = T, includeCovariateSummary = F,
removeLessThanN = F, N = 10)
Where the target_cohort_id and outcome_cohort_id should correspond to the cohort_details.csv file.
We recommend getting the network implementors to submit their results of createCohort()
before continuing with the study to ensure definitions run across the network. After running the rest of main.R the implementor should inspect the files in the export folder created by the package to ensure there isn’t sensitive data remaining. Once checked the implementor can run submit.R to send the results to the study organisor. The submit.R file is:
submitResults(exportFolder = outputLocation, dbName = databaseName, key, secret)
The functions to aid the creation of a network study are:
| Function | Description | Usage |
|---|---|---|
checkPlpInstall() |
This function checks the connection, and various aspects of the PLP package to check it is set up correctly | This should be run with the appropriate settings to check the contributor is set up correctly for the study |
getPlpData() |
This function extracts the data from the cdm for model development | This should be used if developing new models |
runPlp() |
This function trains and tests a new PLP model | This should be used if developing new models |
transportPlp() |
This function exports the output of runPlp into an R package while removing sensitive objects | This should be used when saving a model into a study package to validate the model |
externalValidatePlp() |
This function requires the user to inpute an existing model and then extracts the required data on a new database and applies/evaluates the model. | This should be used if validating a PLP model |