Kevin's Watch

Friday at last, for what it's worth.

--A

Well its been a rough weekend but also a fun one .. was vomiting up a lung Sat night .. had to drive to Sydney Sunday, got back at 4am Sunday morning and had animals all day ..... so tired and a little washed out

Did I forget to do the self-portrait thread this year? I was just looking through my pictures and noticed I didn't have a selfie more recent than June, and I can't see the thread on the front page here...

Thankfully, most of the to do lists for the house have been completed. I wouldn't recommend the method of getting it done. The fire in my house back in October 2016 and the clean up afterwards cleared up two of the three big expenses that the house needed to be fixed: A new roof and a remodeled kitchen. That leaves only the third, repaving the driveway and replacing the concrete for the back patio.

Wow that is terrible Damelon

You saved the bulk of the house though

Damelon wrote:Thankfully, most of the to do lists for the house have been completed. I wouldn't recommend the method of getting it done.

I was just thinkin' about how the way of things getting done often is not as satisficatory as we could wish...

sky, vomiting up a lung - or what felt like it... eek, wretched...

murrin- I had almost the same thought; I totally noticed you didn't re-bumpify the 2018 New Year's self-portrait thread.

Noww... a story from the other day...

I was with the kiddoes... and I was searching for a word...
It was from a story of Sorus':
See, one of Sorus' cats was using body language to suggest that her human MIGHT want to get down the laser pointer and operate it, if said human... you know, knows what's best for her.
(Cats as mob bosses... love it....)

Anyway, the littler kid, the 7-year-old, without missing a beat, says, "Capiche?"
I'm like, "yes, that's it!"

Capiche

Yes, Director Donner wears the pants around here, at least figuratively. (There's yet another line SRD probably wouldn't have expected his work to inspire.)

What an ordeal, Damelon.

Hopefully insured otherwise total nightmare

Im having a recovery day lol .. no clients today so capitalising on down time .. though I do have a greenhouse to finish a verander to fix, a gazebo and summerhouse to erect, weeding up the wazoo, timber and cuttings to burn, leaves to rake ...

I'm not sure that qualifies as down time.

Well it does when you refuse to headmen to the call of the wild

I HAVE all those things to do ... but am feeling ok with procrastinating today.

Meh...both hard drives on my home pc are failing simultaneously. On the plus side, I've never managed to catch it this early either, so have ordered a 2TB internal drive, (should be delivered today) which I will install, and then clone my C drive onto.

Then I'll boot off that drive, partition it, and clone my secondary drive onto the new partition.

Hopefully I can entirely avoid having to re-install stuff. Wish me luck.

Oh...and it's Monday...meh.

--A

good luck

Your tech savvy self should have no problems at all ..

Haha, well, it appears to have worked, so..yay?

Will do proper testing when I get home today, but early indications are very positive. (It booted and the prog and game I tested worked.)

--A

That's a good sign. I am perpetually out of hard drive space, but if I add more, it will just encourage me to make more stuff.

Hahaha, the eternal conundrum...if you have more space, you will use it. About a year ago I made a vow not to buy any more external hard drives, swearing I would start deleting stuff instead.

So far so good, but if you include the internal drives on mine and the GF's PC's, I'm sitting with about 13TB of storage, all mostly full. (Really must clean some stuff out.)

Anyway, all looks good. Seems the drive failure was in sectors used by my steam library, so some games have to be re-installed, but it's still picking up the files that remain, so don't have to do full downloads, only the missing files.

So much easier than re-installing...this will be my go-to method now.

--A

Far out .. good for you though

13TB and mostly used wtf fills that amount of space .. must be games right

Wow .. phenomenal.. wow

Games, movies, series, progs, stuff that could really be deleted. I have problems deleting stuff though...digital hoarding...it's a thing...

--A