Cool and damp.\u00a0 Maybe rain, maybe not.<\/p>\n
We did get a super light sprinkle late in the night last night, but the day was otherwise mostly clear, and overcast.<\/p>\n
I slept late, drove across all of Houston, drove back, stopped at my secondary location to retrieve some presents, and got home late in the day.<\/p>\n
Then I sorted more auction and ebay stuff, sorted Christmas presents, and stayed up WAY too late.\u00a0\u00a0 I really shouldn’t have had any iced tea after 6pm.\u00a0 I barely noticed when it got to be 130am.<\/p>\n
While I was doing other things, I started going through 2 big binders of music CDs that I picked up.\u00a0\u00a0 They were mostly full of commercial disks but there were also a bunch of “backed up” CDRs.\u00a0\u00a0 They appear to have been written in around 2009 and almost every one has errors.\u00a0 Many have flaking reflective material, or holes in the foil.\u00a0 Some have damage to the edge of the disk, either from moisture or hand oils.\u00a0 All have a network of fine scratches from use.\u00a0 In general, at least one track is unreadable, and for many, no tracks are readable without errors.\u00a0 The problems are across all brands, memorex, office depot, the verbatim disks that look like 45 records, pretty much all the ordinary brands.\u00a0 If you are counting on CDRs or DVDs for long term data storage, you should probably be rotating and re-burning your data, or putting it on spinning rust with periodic checks.\u00a0 and if you can see through the foil when you hold the disk to the light, you might want another brand from the beginning.<\/p>\n
Today I have to get to my secondary location and move some things.\u00a0 There will be some inspector there on Monday, and some of my stuff is out where it shouldn’t be.\u00a0 This can only happen if it’s not raining though.\u00a0 Same for putting up lights and decor, or for most of the stuff on my list.<\/p>\n
I really better get cracking on some of this or I’ll fall even further behind.\u00a0 And that would be extra special not good.<\/p>\n
So I’m off, to unstack, pull, toss, sell, and restack.\u00a0 And in the mean time, also try to ‘live my best life’ as the whiny brats say.<\/p>\n
I’m sure there is something you need to keep stacking….<\/p>\n
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*https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/To_a_Mouse <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cool and damp.\u00a0 Maybe rain, maybe not.<\/p>\n
We did get a super light sprinkle late in the night last night, but the day was otherwise mostly clear, and overcast.<\/p>\n
I slept late, drove across all of Houston, drove back, stopped at my secondary location to retrieve some presents, and got home late in the day.<\/p>\n
Then I sorted more auction and ebay stuff, sorted Christmas presents, and stayed up WAY too late.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n