Friday update

[mdlbear]

(Relevant parts x-posted to healthy_fen)

It's been raining on and off since Wednesday. Yesterday and today I just did the half-hour quick walk, then headed out for Fry's. (Yes, twice -- they put up a new set of loss-leaders on Fridays and Wednesdays, so I was able to take advantage of two different sales.)

Yesterday's top sale item was a 5-port Gigabit Ethernet switch for $35, or $7/port. It went upstairs in the garage, to mate with the cable I pulled over the weekend.

Today's goodie was a 400GB Maxtor SATA drive for $100 (no rebate required), or an honest $0.25/GB. The question now is, how best to make use of it. My fileserver currently has two 200GB IDE drives, one of which is mirrored nightly onto the other for backup. Question is, will I be better off with the main drive on the 200's in a RAID0 configuration, or on the SATA drive. Well, I'm not going to worry about it until next week.

Yesterday it was clear enough when I got out of Fry's for me to walk the extra block over to Gryphon Stringed Instruments, which is always a little dangerous. (I probably coule afford another guitar, but the flower_cat has threatened to kill me if I bring another into the house.) No, I didn't buy anything.

I've been trying to stick with the No-S diet (No Sweets, No Snacks, No Seconds except sometimes on days that start with S) for about the last week; it's harder than it sounds, and I'm not doing very well yet.

I'm most of the way through a writeup on songwriting that's basically my talking points for my segment of Kathy Mar's workshop this weekend.

My Wolfling daughter has posted a link to a couple of pictures of her fiancé. I'm still getting used to that word.

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Ah yes, the Guitar problem

[capplor.livejournal.com]

I told Fred when we married, "One in/Two out". We've still got something like 1/2 dozen guitars in the house.