Glad it's only taken a good week for me to actually have the light bulb inside my head finally come on. Thank you so much for your encouragement.

My pH has not increased, however, at 7.6, I would like to get it down more to 7.4 to help extend my SWCG equipment life (fortunately the Intex system isn't horribly expensive like the in-ground stuff is). I got a 1/4 cup of dry acid today, mixed it up in my normal mix bucket and poured it into the pool. You can be sure I read with great interest the warnings to take it SLOW when trying to mess with the pH and acid thing. I also pointed the return jet up to slightly break the water to my numbers down too. Hopefully I will see a small change in pH and alkalinity in a day or so. Does that sound like a good plan?

Bob E.