Well, we’ll see what today shapes up to be. I think we’ll start out kinda cold, low 50sF, and then get warmer. Still damp, but should be clear. Yesterday was fairly nice after it warmed up, but that took until after noon, and it didn’t stick around after dark. Which shouldn’t be a surprise since it’s mid January. And really, it’s been mild all last year, and shaping up to be mild again.
I got some stuff underway yesterday. And some continued to get attention. I don’t think anything got finished though. Mostly I worked on my two main PCs in the office. My UPS was not even covering blinks in the power anymore, and I could see grey fuzz on my air inlets on both machines. So. Clear a path to where the machines are under my desk. Disconnect, pull the machines, open, clean, replace DVD, clean some more, close ’em up, vacuum the filth out of the space where they live, get the new UPS in place, change some cord routing, fix the speaker connections while under there, and put the PCs back in place. [wow, I think I kept that grammatically correct.]
I’m not completely back together yet, since I decided to change a video cable and the adapter didn’t work, but I’m 90% of the way. I dislike changes to my main way of interacting with the world and where I spend hours every day. It needed to be done though.
I’ll check the stacks more thoroughly today and try to get the second monitor working again. It’s like being blind in one eye, or confined to a tiny box to only work with one monitor.
Aside from that, I am going to get out of the house for a bit and then do a pickup. I’ll probably hit the HEB too, as W has volun-told me to donate some soda to the kid’s school program. Soda that I don’t have in the house already. I’ll be near my secondary location too, so I can stop in and try to get the cable I need if I can’t find one here.
Too many places for stuff to live.
But I call it diversification and redundancy!
Stack, and learn, and work.
nick
Up late/early to watch a beautiful re-entry of the Dragon capsule.
Shooting up over the hills to the NW with a beautiful long orange tail in a dark starry sky.
Well worth getting up and dressing for 35F.
I note that my ski bib has become quite snug around the waist.
Thursday. Damp. Dull. Not encouraging. Good morning, all the same! At least it is the day before Friday.
I spent some time and money to upgrade monitors before and after Christmas. I replaced the mediocre pair of allegedly 28″ units provided by my employer with two true 28″ curved Samsungs, and put them on an angle-poise stand, which frees and de-clutters lots of desk. A night and day improvement, all at my own expense, but totally worth it.
I also replaced my old 28″ Samsung at home with a pair of new 32″s. So much nicer. The old monitor will go to the BOL, where it will become half of a pair with an identical unit.
I spend my working day (and too frequently working nights as well) in front of those screens. I need to have good ones. It is remarkable how very good new screens are, and these are not even premium models.
Hurray for the industrialised economy. I got four very good units indeed for about what I would previously have expected to pay for one: 100 bucks each for the 28″s, and 150 each for the 32″s, all delivered to my door.
Dr Williams, glad you enjoyed the Pärt. That is a beautiful work, and you found a lovely interpretation of it. The magic of it works astoundingly well on various instruments, although I think the original was written for two pianos.
Arvo Pärt is one of my favourite composers. Along with Carl Jenkins, John Williams and Ennio Morricone, he is proof that contemporary composition can be both beautiful and powerful. “Modern” music doesn’t have to be ugly or inaccessible. The first time I heard Spiegel im Spiegel, I literally had to sit down, I was so moved.
@Denis
YT is very useful for a quick check on musical recommendations. Thanks again for sharing.
speaking of which, would you share model numbers of your new monitors?
Google created an innovative search engine and funded Andy Rubin’s development of Android, but I’ve never understood the value of Facebook.
What I find ironic is how many conservatives rationalized and continue to rationalize feeding the Zuckerdroid beast.
Maybe it was the movie … and a deal with The Devil.
Again, that script was so good that even prime time soap retread David Selby looked like Olivier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpj7rqTgy1k
If you’ve logged into Facebook within the last year or even just accessed the site without immediately dumping your browser history/cookies, you are part of the problem.
Just accessing the site feeds the Zuck.
Spare me the spiel about your grandchildren, which I’ve heard repeatedly. You can *call* them.
The nature of the cunning plan begins to take form:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/01/new-cold-war-trump-doubles-down-on-greenland-bid-as-denmark-draws-a-line-in-the-ice/
We are going to make Greenland the incoming point for all immigration into the U.S.
Northern Greenland.
And move all the Somalis there immediately, were they will have jobs in day care centers where they have natural aptitude. On the clock. Ten cents an hour starting.
Just have to complete customizing the food pyramid for the settlement. seems we have huge stores of perfectly preserved Cold War era lutefisk that were recently discovered. Waste not want not.
Gah. 36F this morning. I can tell it’s really cold out when I wake up and the furnace is blowing hot air in my face. I jinxed us.
Coffee is brewing.
Body is sore in weird places from twisting and turning under the desk. I expected that, but it still sucks.
BTW, I find it so helpful to wear a headlamp when I’m working. Everywhere I look, I can see in the bright light. Pretty much no matter where, or what I’m doing, I grab the headlamp now. HUGE difference. I use a variety that includes a petzl, a chinese no name, and some duracel branded ones. They almost all break off the ratchet or tab that controls tilt eventually, and they aren’t priced like disposables, but they are.
Battery life is so much better than the old days. I really only use ones with replaceable batteries as I don’t like to wait for a recharge.
Definitely recommended.
n
https://www.zerohedge.com/food/president-sign-bill-allowing-return-whole-milk-schools
– yeah, that’s what we need, soy and sugar. Schools WILL NOT allow nuts of any kind, no one eats kale, and broccoli isn’t sturdy enough to survive the centralized food service and delivery model schools use.
Anyone who suggests nuts in schools has never been in one and should be ignored.
Fats don’t cause fatness.
n