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  • Disassembled

    Posted on by Charles Comment

    Imbolc                                         Waxing Bridgit Moon

    Looks like I’ll get a chance to peek into the colonies this weekend.  Got my fingers crossed on survival.  Best guess?  Two dead, one alive.  Very glad to be wrong.

    Got my second Gateway part way disassembled and still not sure I can get at the pint sized disc I stupidly inserted into the DVD drive vertically.  It fell out of the holder, as I could have guessed it would.  Have to get this in though to make the computer recognize the cable to USB cord.  That will shift my old HP printer to the new gateway, making it accessible directly from the network rather than through my old, now terminally ill, Dell.  Once I’ve accomplished that I can bring online the new HP multi-purpose printer.  When that’s up, I can scan in my Ovid commentary and send it to Greg so we can both have the same info.  I need both of these printers working, but there are these other steps I have take.

    On to Latin.  This chapter, chapter 27, contains this section heading:  Adjectives Having Peculiar Forms in the Superlative.  Peculiar forms, eh?  Maximus peculiar.

    More Latin today, some Titian, too, in advance of the walkthrough tomorrow with Patrick Noon, the painting’s curator.  I’m looking forward to this since I haven’t seen the paintings yet.  In the evening there is a lecture on Ukiyo-e prints, another favorite genre for me.  A feast of art education, tomorrow.


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  • The Weekend

    Posted on by Charles Comment

    Spring               Waning Seed Moon

    Another weekend come and gone.  A fellow Woolly, I think, told me that retired folks he knows still view the weekends as special, different from the weekdays.  I sure do.  Weekends have more latitude, more stretch and give, where weekdays still bring for me an expectation of things accomplished, deeds done, seriousness of intent at least entertained.

    This one had some of that flavor, some not.

    The not came partly in reference to this computer, the older Dell, not the new Gateway.  My disc drives have dropped off the cyber map.  When called upon, they sit there, quiet.  Non-violent resistance.  Nothing.  I’ve tried many, many things to convince them to come home and go back to work, but nothing appeals to them as yet.

    If I need to, I’ll shift my images to the Gateway and use it to burn cds and print color images, reserve this one for writing and the laser jet.  I’m not going to give up quite yet, I want to search a few more tech sites, see if I can come up with something.


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  • Snow and Bytes

    Posted on by Charles Comment

    Spring          Waxing Seed Moon

    “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” – Galileo Galilei

    The snow has come and now melts.  I have installed a monitor for the gateway which means I have two up now.  This seems like too much, but screens have become cheap.  This new one cost $179,  a 20 inch high def flat-screen.

    The next phase of all this work is to split the load between the two computers and connect up the exeternal hard-drives in a way that makes sense.  I’ve looked into partitioning the large drive in the Gateway–640 gigs–and the 1 terabyte Seagate external, but have not decided on whether I want to go that route or not.

    My other hard drive was full and the external, Maxtor drive, has filled up, too.  This makes the Dell slower and more cranky.  The Gateway came in at $500 even, so adding a new computer was not a big cost plus its faster and has a much bigger hard-drive than the Dell.  Right now I’m loading Starry Night Pro Plus onto the Gateway.  I’ll be able take its 11 gigs off the Dell once its on the larger hard-drive.  This will  make this machine quicker and more responsive.  That’s under way as I write.


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  • Bytes and Flakes

    Posted on by Charles Comment

    Spring (?)      Waxing Seed Moon

    The sky has a rippled layer of cumulus from horizon to horizon, gray and low hanging.  The dewpoint is low and the barometer has taken a turn straight down, anticipating the oncoming storm.  Out on the South Dakota Minnesota border where Blue Cloud Abbey sits on the Coteau Hills a blizzard has visibility down to a quarter of a mile.

    The current prediction from NOAA:

    SPECIFICALLY…AREAS AROUND OLIVIA TO BUFFALO TO CAMBRIDGE
    MINNESOTA WITH HAVE LOCALLY TWO TO FOUR INCHES BEFORE THE SNOW
    TAPERS OFF TO FLURRIES OR LIGHT SNOW TUESDAY NIGHT. AREAS AROUND
    NEW ULM TO THE TWIN CITIES WILL HAVE LOCALLY ONE INCH…POSSIBLY
    AS HIGH AS TWO INCHES IN THE NORTHERN SUBURBS OF THE TWIN CITIES.

    My gut tells me we’ll get more, but this evening will tell.  We had winds of 20 mph around 2 p.m. and they’ve kept the bell ringing here all day.

    After a bit of a rocky start my new computer and I are on the way to becoming friends.  We can now communicate.  Feels good to get it up and functioning.


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