Hippo, Birdie, Two Ewes...

... to gmcdavid! Have a good one!

Happy Mother's Day!!

Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers out there, but especially to my own Mom (who probably won't read this, but that's OK) and the incomparable flower_cat. How she manages to keep this family of weirdos functioning is beyond my limited powers of comprehension, but I'm glad she's doing it.

The Daily Mirror

Finally got my daily backup script up and installed on the fileserver. Basically all it does is mount the backup drive and all of its partitions (which are identical to the ones on the main drive), mirror each partition with rsync, and unmount the backup drive.

It still needs to be parametrized better -- right now it's specialized for that particular set of partitions.

Check off another to-do item

After getting back from a delicious Mother's Day brunch at Trader Vic's in Palo Alto, I spent 45 minutes or so fixing the drip irrigation system in the front yard. It had been pretty thoroughly trashed by the gardeners, who recently attacked the yard with rakes and shovels and other implements of destruction. High-powered weed whackers are especially hard on vinyl tubing.