Done yesterday (20091108 Su)

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My weight has crept up to 200 lbs; DO NOT LIKE. I probably need to be stricter about the low-carb thing. And take my walks, even though I still have trouble finding the time. tetralizard sent me a link to Timpany Center, a nearby theraputic pool that does drop-ins. *Waves at cflute* If I don't have time for walks, I certainly don't have time for that, however.

I had to cut my walk short yesterday because my right knee was complaining. I'm in better shape than a lot of people my age, but not by much. Some looking around at Office Max and REI yielded the decision that the REI "boarding bag" looks like the best bet for my new shoulder bag; it's light, and has enough pockets and dividers inside that I might even be able to abandon the wallet. Though the Timbuk2 travel wallet looks like a good replacement for my current one: the card slots are wide enough for photos and business cards.

(The idea behind getting a larger shoulder bag is that it would have room for the netbook if necessary, but could go mostly empty most of the time. It's a nice theory...)

After getting back home I had a bit of an anxiety attack, probably from thinking about the mess I've made by not signing up for long-term care insurance 20 years ago. We'll be talking with an agent next week, but given my age and Colleen's health it's probably too late. As usual, it apparently took a couple of hours for the anxiety to build up to where I could notice it, and several more hours before I was able to trace it back to the cause. But relaxation, deep breathing, and herb tea with valerian got it under control.

I was in no shape to go out again, though, which caused some friction with Colleen, who was rapidly going stir-crazy and had been hoping to go to Yamagami's nursery and look at plants. In the end she took the scooter out to the front yard and deadheaded roses.

I made shrimp scampi and rice for dinner, and did some practicing late in the evening. Yet another thing I need to force myself to make the time for.

Successful upgrade

So I guess it's been a while since I posted anything really geeky. This is probably because my brain has been mostly mush recently. Anyway, I finally got around to upgrading the hard drive on the file server. The main partition has gone from 99% full to 31%. This makes me happy.

Of course, the job is only half finished. The old drive is still there, with the root partition still on it. It will stay there until I get Lenny installed (on the new drive) and know that it's working. One of the reasons this is taking so long is that I like to do a lot of planning and prep-work. It paid off handsomely in this case -- I only had the fileserver down for about half an hour total.

Note to self: when you play this game, you really need to reboot not only the server but anything mounting drives from the server over NFS.

The next step, as I said before, is Lenny. I also need to upgrade the gateway; I'm going to switch to my fanless mini-ITX board (which has SATA) and upgrade the disk to 500GB at the same time. The big disk is for the Debian mirror, and I'm thinking about Ubuntu.

At least I'm getting a few things done.