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WEEK 52 2020
Last Week- Sun- Mon- Tue- Wed- Thur- Fri- Sat- Next Week
Thursday - New Years Eve.
Spent by myself. Did a few small yard chores, but spent the entire afternoon cleaning up in the west office. Threw out a bunch of stuff, consolidated all the app notes into one legal sized box.
Turned on the Win10 box and let it do it's update thing, then turned it off.
Turned on the Linux box, and let it do it's update thing, then turned it off.
For dinner I had some thawed home-made pizza, and the stomach was OK. I didn't dare drink anything exciting - room temperature Dr. Shasta was as brave as I could be.
Wednesday - Just another winter's day.
Started cleaning up in the east office, it's turning into a little jungle in there. I put up a shelf in the west office the other day, so I brought a bunch of books from the east room in and shelved them. I was going to paint the plank first, but waiting for a warm day is a bit of a fools mission right now I suppose.
About the backup of Documents and Desktop I started the other day: more Catalina obnoxiousness, with permissions issues. So I have no idea of what actually got backed up, and what didn't. When Drag-N-Drop doesn't work you know Apple has really screwed the pooch. Not that they care.
But how do I dare upgrade my computers? Every guide says "backup first", but I can't....
Book #64 was The
Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkein. Excellent, as
always, and the audio was interesting to listen to - the descriptions of
Middle-Earth are fascinating, something I often skip over when reading.
Tuesday - Brisk, windy, but no wind.
I went over to the little HW store and picked up 10 bags of the Lignetic's pellets. It's a bit pricey, and they don't light as easy as the Home Depot "Heatr's" brand, but better than Lowe's "Evergreen" brand.
With the stove turned up I'm using more pellets than usual, say 150% of
the "LOW" setting feed. As I said, it has advantages.
Monday - Rain.
A nice change after our wind storms of last week.
I went up to Rosamond and picked up some better pellet stove ignition
gel. The stuff from Van Damn's has the consistency of water almost,
and is a danger in my stove - it runs down out of the burn pot into the
ash pan, where the heat from above slowly evaporates and ignites it.
I could actually see it "chuffing" at one point, which is frightening,
since that's just one step from an explosion.
Sunday - A front it headed our way.
No shopping. S and myself are both pretty well set.
I actually did go into town and Saturday to pick up some pellets for the stove, getting low, 5 bags only, since they only had a brand I didn't like. When I got home I discovered that one bag, at least, had been exposed to moisture and the pellets had turned to mush :-(
Saturday - Still winter out.
Feeling a bit better. Had a hot dog for lunch.
Still struggling to do backups of the Mac(s). First time the drives were formatted in FAT32, which is incapable of handling files over 4GB, like a movie on a phone. So I had to reformat it to backup all my pictures. That took almost an entire 256GB drive.
Because some files are "in the cloud" I download everything onto the iPhone, then transfer it to the Mac's hard drive, and from there to a big backup flash drive. A tedious process.
Once the pics are done I'll work on the rest of Documents and the Desktop.
Then I need to get most of the photo's OFF my iPhone...
Friday - Christmas Day.
My neighbors stopped by with a gift - a nice Carhardtt shirt, and I had some gift certificates for the boys young men.
The cats really enjoyed the ribbons and boxes, not that there were a lot, but they made the best of it. Fun to watch.
I have rum and eggnog and chocolates and cookies and pies...and I'm drinking water and eating dry saltines and, on good days, chicken soup. Doing better than I was earlier in the week though.
Enjoying the Celtic Christmas channel on Pandora radio. Since the new monitor is actually a TV it has speakers, so I'll use the OSX app when I'm in the west office.
Thursday - Christmas Eve!
Not much going on. My friends C&R stopped by with some gifts of Christmas food, but with the social distancing in effect they couldn't come in. I gave them some gift cards for their kids that I'd bought earlier.
Book #63 was All Men Dream of Earthwomen and Other Aeons, by John C. Wright.
I have the new auger motor for the pellet stove, but am just not up to installing it right now. As long as I run the stove above minimum there are enough pellets in the fire pot, despite sometimes it not feeding, to keep it lit. I should probably order a convection (room) fan as well, it's a bit noisy on occasion.
As a bonus, the house it much warmer at night - staying at 65F instead of dropping to perhaps 61F on a normal night.
Wednesday - Another winter day.
Book #62 was Victory (Legacy Fleet #3), by Nick Webb.
It was a pretty dreadful night, I left getting some good antacids just a little too long I guess.
Tuesday - Pretty slow.
Went into town and picked up a couple of alternatives to Zantac, will try them out.
Book #61 was Warrior (Legacy Fleet #2), by Nick Webb.
Monday - Not much going on.
Stomach hurt too much to do anything active. Just sat around and read mostly. Christmas week I don't usually do much of anything anyway.
Book #60 was Constitution (Legacy Fleet #1), by Nick Webb, just another space opera, but that's fine.
Sunday - Pleasant enough.
Did the usual shopping WinCo in the morning, with S.
She gave me a little bag of something to be opened on Christmas. I have ordered gifts for her and Roger, but hers has been repeatedly delayed, some sort of cooking oil.
My GERD is acting up...it must be Christmas time. Had a bad night. No Zantac left in the house, and it's been recalled by the FDA, so I'm kind of screwed.
