This is my daily journal recording the events, places and my observations during a business/pleasure trip around the world. I have visited most of the locations described here before, with the exception of Hong Kong. The business part of the trip consisted of training and sales calls with our Japanese distributor, then a week of customer training in India. The pleasure portion was two days in Hong Kong and one week in Nice, France. Although I have traveled quite a bit, this is the first time I have gone “around the world.” Hence the title of this trip report.
Continue reading “Around the World in … Part I: Portland, Toyko, Hong Kong, London”Another Revolutionary War Ancestor
Daniel Wiggins Applegate
1768–1826
BIRTH 1768 • Albany County, New York, USA
DEATH 11 FEBRUARY 1826 • Saint Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA
Based on the Applegate Genealogy Web Site, Daniel got married in Fayette Co., KY in 1790. He had a 50 acre farm in Franklin Co., KY until 1797. He then was in Carroll Co.,KY in 1802.
Daniel and his family moved to Henry County, KY about 1808 as there is a record that he was fined 15 shillings and detained 3 hours in jail on February 4, 1808 for cursing in the Henry County, Kentucky Court. On September 30, 1821, he was given permission by the Henry County, Kentucky court to keep a tavern in his house for one year. The following year he moved his family to St. Louis, Missouri.
Daniel Applegate was born in New Jersey in 1768. Although he was only a very young boy during the Revolutionary period, he served as a fifer and drummer under Capt. Ballard and Col. Shrove. He also received the rank of private, presumably at the very close of the war as he would have only been 17 or 18 when the conflict ended.
After the war he married Rachel Lindsay, and they had 5 children. The family lived in Virginia for a number of years and then moved to Shelby County, Kentucky. Finally they came to Missouri in 1822, being one of the earliest pioneer families in St. Clair County. Daniel’s sons, Jesse, Charles, and Lisbon later migrated to Oregon.
Daniel Applegate did receive a pension from New Jersey for his war service. Although most of his time in Missouri was spent in St. Clair County, he died in 1826 at St. Louis, Missouri at age 58 and was buried there.
Married:
Rachael Lindsey
1769–1816
BIRTH 10 JUN 1769 • Lindsay Station, Kty
DEATH 1816 • St Louis, Missouri
and with an unknown wife had a son:
Charles Applegate
1806–1879
BIRTH 24 JAN 1806 • New Castle, Henry, Kentucky, United States
DEATH 9 AUG 1879 • Yoncalla, Douglas, Oregon, United States
Married:
Melinda Miller
1812–1888
BIRTH 31 MAR 1812 • Claiborne, Tennessee, USA
DEATH 29 JANUARY 1888 • Yoncalla, Douglas County, Oregon, USA
Daughter of Charles and Melinda:
Susan Applegate
1831–1907
BIRTH 25 MAY 1831 • Cole, Missouri, United States
DEATH 30 DEC 1907 • Yoncalla, Douglas, Oregon, United States
Married:
Robert Smith
1822–1888
BIRTH 18 FEB 1822 • Allegheny, Virginia, USA
DEATH 5 MAY 1888 • Yoncalla, Douglas, Oregon
Son of Susan and Robert:
Robert Franklin Smith
1857–1929
BIRTH 3 APRIL 1857 • Umpqua, Douglas, Oregon, USA
DEATH 21 APR 1929 • Spokane, Spokane, Washington, USA
Married:
Annie Irene Byrd
1866–1935
BIRTH 04 JAN 1866 • Seattle, King, Washington
DEATH 23 FEB 1935 • Coquille, Coos, Oregon
Daugher of Robert and Annie:
Ruth M Smith
1890–1975
BIRTH 10 JUNE 1890 • Whitman County, Washington, USA
DEATH 18 FEBRUARY 1975 • Beaverton, Washington County, Oregon, USA
Married:
Joseph Eugene Axtell
1889–1945
BIRTH 04 MAY 1889 • Celina, Mercer County, Ohio, USA
DEATH 28 JUN 1945 • Coquille, Coos County, Oregon, United States of America
Daughter or Joseph and Ruth:
Jane Elizabeth Axtell
1920–1995
BIRTH 3 FEB 1920 • Lewiston, Idaho
DEATH 17 JUN 1995 • Hillsboro, Washington, Oregon
Married:
Richard Manning Wallace
1914–1995
BIRTH 28 MAY 1914 • Seattle, King, Washington, USA
DEATH 18 MAR 1995 • Beaverton, Washington, Oregon, USA
Son: Robert J. Wallace
Daughter: Susan E. Arney
Only a second
Another “find the aces” trick. This one is good for practicing your second deal.
Begin with secretly having the four aces on top of the deck. I typically have the spectator shuffle the deck, and then use my two-step cull to get the aces on top. Riffle or overhand shuffle to add eight more cards on top of the deck. I usually use two riffle shuffles to add four cards at a time.
Continue reading “Only a second”Update: Creating home assistant interface to alexa playlists
I stumbled upon https://github.com/custom-components/alexa_media_player/wiki#what-this-is which gave me the information I needed to directly control my echo device, instead of having one echo command via voice another.
Read my post https://robertjwallace.com/creating-home-assistant-interface-to-alexa-playlists/ for background.
The difference between what I was doing in that post and what I am doing now is in the scripts.yaml file. The code to directly control my echo is:
Continue reading “Update: Creating home assistant interface to alexa playlists”Ten card poker deal
There are a lot of ten card poker deals out there. The basic plot is that for the final hand of the evening your opponent suggested playing a hand of five card poker with only ten cards, but the spectator gets to choose which cards they get. You, the dealer ends up winning with a pat hand, usually a Royal Flush.
Continue reading “Ten card poker deal”Creating home assistant interface to alexa playlists
Goal:
Use Home Assistant to use Amazon Echo to play Amazon Music playlists
Resources used:
Home Assistant Community Store – Alexa Media Player
Continue reading “Creating home assistant interface to alexa playlists”Controlling a tuya smart plug from the command line
Background
I have a hybrid home automation system that includes some old X10 devices, Philips hue devices, wemo devices, and tp-link devices. Part of the system is some software that emulates a Philips hue bridge (ha-bridge) that lets me control devices by running linux programs and scripts. This lets me use old X10 radio frequency controllers and motion detectors in my home automation. So far this has worked great.
Continue reading “Controlling a tuya smart plug from the command line”Finding the Aces – the hard way
Here is something I am playing with.
The starting position is two aces on top and two on the bottom. Shuffle the deck keeping the aces on top and bottom.
Continue reading “Finding the Aces – the hard way”Texas Hold-em stacks
A couple of years ago I wrote a post titled “Finding the aces with Erdnase” where I used Erdnase’s system of overhand shuffle to stack the aces at know positions in the deck.
The positions I used were 10x cards, Ace, 1x card, Ace, 5x cards, and the last Ace. In this post I generalize that method to place the aces at whatever locations you want.
Continue reading “Texas Hold-em stacks”Easy Riffle Stacking
In the normal method of riffle stacking you start with the four aces on top. When you do the shuffles you hold back cards with both the right and left hands, dropping the cards held by the left thumb under the cards held back by the right thumb. At each shuffle the number of cards held back by the left stays the same, but those held by the right decrease.
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