Past week has continued hectic, and coming week or two is likely to be more of the same.<\/p>\n
Continuing to be at work (or working at home) 12+ hours a day. Was hoping to have both my projects done by this past Friday, but it didn't happen.<\/p>\n
As noted in comments, I got my driver's license renewed on Tuesday; best DMV experience ever. Smiling friendly people, a total of maybe 30 seconds in line, no waiting, a total of maybe 15-20 minutes for the whole process. And this was without an appointment. Apparently the new improved DMV really is new and improved.<\/p>\n
The rest of the week was a blur. Mostly work, I think. Nice birthday dinner and hot tub with Kam, marred only by temporary severe nausea. Weather's been largely rainy and\/or gray on the rare occasions when I've been outside. Got a good start on the magazine editing I need to do, but haven't finished it.<\/p>\n
Saturday Lola stopped by and helped me install my new SoundLinQ SLI iPod adaptor<\/a>, which means that I can now play my iPod through my car stereo. I used to be able to do that with my old car, and I've missed it. And this version is much niftier, because it has a text display saying the name of the song; also because I can use the car's stereo controls to go from song to song and playlist to playlist (rather than having to fumble with the iPod remote).<\/p>\n This morning I tried to do my weekly hard drive backup, a little belatedly, and got the same error message as last week. Tried to repair the external backup drive, and it died hard, resulting in a kernel panic on my PowerBook. (Thankfully, no data loss on the PB.) Eventually erased the external disk, tried again--and got the same error. I think the disk is just dead.<\/p>\n I'm very glad this was my backup disk rather than my main disk. But it means the past few months' worth of backups are gone, which makes me very nervous. So I drove up to the Apple Store and picked up a 250GB external hard drive to replace the old one. I considered bigger drives--you can now buy hard drives at the Apple Store up to two terabytes<\/em> in capacity--but the reviews of those bigger drives on the Apple page said they were very noisy, and I don't actually need<\/em> a terabyte of backup disk just yet.<\/p>\n I'm very pleased that prices continue to go down for storage, though. I seem to recall a time not all that long ago (well, okay, around ten years ago) when drive space cost around $100 per gigabyte; now it's around $1\/GB. See also this handy table showing the history of disk capacity prices<\/a>.<\/p>\n Hrm. Anyway, I guess the real point of all this is that I should be working (and backing up my hard drive) rather than blogging, so off I go.<\/p>\n Oh, except I wanted to post a couple quick links. As usual, I have dozens of links to post at some unlikely to happen future time, but for the time being, just a link to Debby B's new blog<\/a> and one to John P's new cooking journal<\/a>. Debby and John being the parents of Rose, whom I've mentioned here before, and David, who I think I haven't. Welcome to the blogosphere, y'all!<\/p>\n I'll leave you with the chorus of a Si Kahn<\/a> song that came up on iTunes earlier this evening. It's one of my favorites of his, \"When the Shore Is Out of Sight<\/a>\"; I assume it was written for the wedding of some friends, but I don't know:<\/p>\n From this love, the space to grow in;<\/p>\n From these friends, the will to fight;<\/p>\n From this peace, the strength to journey<\/p>\n When the shore is out of sight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n It never quite says what I want it to; the \"will to fight\" isn't really what I get from friends. But I love the last two lines there.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Past week has continued hectic, and coming week or two is likely to be more of the same. Continuing to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n