Inching into the future
May. 2nd, 2025 11:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wombat_sochoSo I managed to put on five pounds down in Las Vegas between CFA and breakfast at Jack In The Box. I am apparently doing okay with the nose hose, so that's good.
Turned out nothing was wrong with the Optiplex's PSU, and the tech didn't have to struggle too hard to get the new hard drive tucked into the case. He wouldn't accept payment so I dropped a couple twelve packs of beer on him Wednesday morning on my way to the VA. The trouble with the new drive only started after I got home; the new drive is D: of course, but that pushed the external drive to F:. and the Winamp couldn't find my music there. So I had to load all the music onto the new drive, which took a few minutes. I couldn't blog with the Surface Pro since I had stupidly forgotten to load a bookmark for The Other McCain's login page onto it. Well, I'll fix that on Sunday, if not sooner.
Sent out an email to all of my East Coast friends, actually got answers from a couple of them, and will probably call or text the rest when I get out there. Stacy will be out of town unfortunately, attending graduations for Jefferson and Reagan out in the Midwest, but so it goes. I will be doing lunch with the Wrights on Wednesday after I get in, an early dinner with Trish on Friday, and the rest is up in the air. I suspect I'll be putting my heels up in some hotel room doing some writing or something one of the nights that I'm out there. As it happens, I'll be heading down on Monday so that I can spend Tuesday morning at the VA lab and pharmacy since I guessed wrong on my carvedilol and Novolin R.
Did a bunch of research with Grok on aspects of colonizing Coaldale: electricity, power, water, & sewage. The EPA person shuffled me off onto NDEP, so now I guess I'm waiting for two calls from them.
The Senators had a good week. Took two out of three from the Phillies at RFK and then split with the O's in Baltimore. We're out of the cellar, two games ahead of the A's and two behind the Brewers, most of our injured players and pitchers are off the DL, and Pete says we may just squeak into a wild card slot.
Turned out nothing was wrong with the Optiplex's PSU, and the tech didn't have to struggle too hard to get the new hard drive tucked into the case. He wouldn't accept payment so I dropped a couple twelve packs of beer on him Wednesday morning on my way to the VA. The trouble with the new drive only started after I got home; the new drive is D: of course, but that pushed the external drive to F:. and the Winamp couldn't find my music there. So I had to load all the music onto the new drive, which took a few minutes. I couldn't blog with the Surface Pro since I had stupidly forgotten to load a bookmark for The Other McCain's login page onto it. Well, I'll fix that on Sunday, if not sooner.
Sent out an email to all of my East Coast friends, actually got answers from a couple of them, and will probably call or text the rest when I get out there. Stacy will be out of town unfortunately, attending graduations for Jefferson and Reagan out in the Midwest, but so it goes. I will be doing lunch with the Wrights on Wednesday after I get in, an early dinner with Trish on Friday, and the rest is up in the air. I suspect I'll be putting my heels up in some hotel room doing some writing or something one of the nights that I'm out there. As it happens, I'll be heading down on Monday so that I can spend Tuesday morning at the VA lab and pharmacy since I guessed wrong on my carvedilol and Novolin R.
Did a bunch of research with Grok on aspects of colonizing Coaldale: electricity, power, water, & sewage. The EPA person shuffled me off onto NDEP, so now I guess I'm waiting for two calls from them.
The Senators had a good week. Took two out of three from the Phillies at RFK and then split with the O's in Baltimore. We're out of the cellar, two games ahead of the A's and two behind the Brewers, most of our injured players and pitchers are off the DL, and Pete says we may just squeak into a wild card slot.
