Done yesterday (20110402 Sa)

[mdlbear]

0402 Sa
  * up 8am; W=196.6; drugs, nose, teeth, coffee, dishes, light
  @ Ella Leya: American Jazz By Way Of Azerbaijan : NPR (heard on the
    radio before I got out of bed)
  ~ pull-from-dsl mm/iso doesn't need to be there at all -- add iso to EXCLUDES
  % potato chips are definitely a comfort food
  : UPS battery life on nova is under 15min.  That's miserable.  
    Swap with bedroom??  get a new one??  
    stargate:  107min,  5.0% of 865W = 44W  (includes DSL router, switches) 
    nova:       13min, 16.9% of 260W = 44W  Oh.  (varies down to 33)
    trantor:	70min,  9.0% of 780W = 70W
    CPAP rated at 48W, but hopefully uses less -> 30 open; 6 idle  Eeep!  
      That's maybe 3h on its XS1500 UPS.  The alarm had better wake me up!
  * 11am wake Colleen
  * 12:00 Ann at UBOC to sign loan papers
  & drive:  Winchester - Blossom Hill - Leigh
  * buy: coffee -- ran into Mary and Simon!!  Good conversation
  * buy: humira
  @ A quintessence of dust - Roger Ebert's Journal via hsifyppah 
    Really nice ramble about the universe and evolution, and the consolations
    thereof. 
  : Power consumption:  0204 - 0307
     KWh/d:    This year: 28.2  Last year: 35.1 19.7% better
     therms/d: This year:  5.2	Last year:  3.8 36.8% worse
  @ Massive Breach at Epsilon Compromises Customer Lists of Major Brands 
  & Found some slightly-past-due bills in a stack; paid them.  Oops.
  * some docs under mm/books have restrictive permissions offsite.  Due to the
    fact that they're pushed to dsl owned by starport, but pulled by mdlbear.
    Oops.  Useful, though, for stuff one doesn't want copied offsite.
  * 15min: assorted puttering around in the offsite backup scripts
  * 15min: attached 500G ext. laptop drive to stargate in prep for copy
    It's empty except for a vv on the big partition, so no problem.
  * 11ish bath
  * copying /home, /srv to new laptop drive on stargate.  Note that /home will
    be its own partition, /var won't.  Block size difference?  /srv/vv is
    taking twice as much space on the new drive!?  (No, rsync artifact.)

A good day. (Though I've learned that potato chips are definitely a comfort food. Not so good.) The high point, definitely, was running into marypcb and sbisson in Barefoot while I was buying coffee. Had a good conversation, well worth not going for a walk; the weather was getting gloomy and cold by that point anyway.

Lots of puttering around the offsite backup scripts, disk drives on the router, and the the Starport's energy budget -- the three aren't entirely separate. The router and fileserver need to be upgraded to Squeeze soon, so a few extra reboots aren't going to be noticed in the general scheme of things.

A couple of good links under the cut. I particularly recommend A quintessence of dust - Roger Ebert's really nice ramble about the universe, evolution, and the consolations thereof. Definitely appeals to my particular flavor of scientific/druidic atheism.

Comments

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

it was very lovely to see you too - just running into folks we know is such a nice surprise!