Subj : weather was: food option To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Sat Jan 11 2020 08:59:00 Hi Nancy! NB>> No, just have had a number of busy days of one sort or another... NB>> some days it was long phone calls that took away any messaging time, NB>> some days it was appointments... and a few days that the mind was just NB>> too numb to concentrate on messages.... ;0 Working again at chipping NB>> away at the backlog.... ;) BM> Yes - sometimes the not getting anything done is because of waiting BM> for something to happen. Can't, or rather don't want to get started BM> with a larger project when expecting to be interrupted by a phone call, BM> company coming, having to leave shortly, etc. Even some of the small BM> projects need their bit of uninterrupted time. ...Oh well, will be BM> there waiting for us! NB> Indeed... :) Sometimes, when I think there might be time to do NB> one message before something is to happen, I might try to do... NB> especially if I'm already on the computer and not too foggy.... NB> And there's a bit of triage occuring, too... If I've not done any NB> messages over in one of the other echoes, I might do a good set NB> of them first... and then end up without enough time for here... NB> It balances out in the long run, though... ;) Yes, we all have lives and things don't always go as mentally scheduled. I was almost glad not to have much mail the past couple of days as they had been forecasting a rather nasty storm in this part of the country and seemed to be emphasizing scattered power outages. Have lighting, battery-operated radio; would be nice to be able to watch the weather report so did the battery project for the TV; solar cell recharge of the battery needs work still so charged up a spare battery. Did start raining around 6 p.m. last night; they were predicting it turning to sleet and possibility of freezing rain and ice on sidewalks and streets for this morning. 29ø out there currently but too dark to see much. Doesn't look shiney so maybe the wind dried off the sidewalks, etc. ....Got up, showered, getting dressed and thinking "ah, made it through the night without problems" -- click! beep! - beep! -- dark in the corner but another light on (is on UPS). Someone lost power somewhere! BM>> Yes, if something is wrong and someone else can be available to watch BM>> error messages, listen for fans, etc., a good idea to wait. NB>> He'd understand the noises and messages better than I anyway... ;) So, NB>> when I did turn it on, he was there listening and watching... and NB>> everything went smoothly... And I didn't turn it off again until after NB>> that massive backup operation.... BM> I don't blame you! Leave things running until the data is BM> copied/backed up to a stable device. And check before powering down. BM> Listening and watching for those 'wrong things' does help with BM> troubleshooting, though as you indicated it does help to know what one BM> is listening and looking for! :) NB> Yup... And that's why I had the Wizard do the listening... he NB> could tell that everything sounded fine, so that was a relief... Yes. And sometimes knowing to do nothing without supervision is a good thing: "I heard the fan and then the screen turned blue" doesn't help much for troubleshooting. Now if The Wizard is present, hears the fan rev fast, etc., he might tell you what it could mean and you learn to look and listen for additional signs and symptoms. :) NB>> Don't forget, my main machine is an old Proteva Touch... came with NB>> WIN95 on it, so bought back then... total hard drive is about a NB>> gig... partitioned into 4 drives so that DOS can deal with it... :) NB>> The laptop is much newer.... :) BM> I was thinking FAT16 for the file system but then can handle 2G BM> (IIRC). Wouldn't change anything as could create other problems: BM> old-old system here had the BBS on drive G: (or some drive letter), BM> probably backups to a different drive, etc. Went to move it to the new BM> system which didn't have as many drives (physical/logical) -- BM> correcting was a mess! NB> I can well imagine... :) It may be FAT16, dunno... but I do NB> recall that it had something to so with how DOS works... If it's the 'wrong' format MS-DOS either doesn't see it or doesn't know what to do with it. Think of it as something like looking at a book written in a language other than English: says something, but no idea what. NB>>> We were copying through a wired network connection, and there was NB>>> probably 3/4 of a gig or so of stuff to transfer, maybe a little NB>>> more... BM>> Oh, just tiny little files! The MythTV files can be several gig BM>> each. My regular 'human' files are more like what you dealt with. NB>> Yup, lots of little files... :) BM> Thought so! :) ...Looking at my files: largest file I created was a BM> little over 15 MB -- and that had a lot of pictures (was about the BM> flooded eagles nest site). Most are handfuls of KBs. NB> Yup... The largest files here are mostly where I've saved NB> messages from the various echoes for a matter of months or NB> years... that does add up after a while... ;) It does! Little by little that drive gets filled up! BM>>> Just be certain to do at least a weekly backup! NB>>> I don't know if it has to be the whole thing like that each NB>>> time... I need to ask the Wizard if there's some way to just add NB>>> to the archive, or how it works exactly.... and things have been NB>>> busy since, not just at the computer.... ;) BM>> You should be able to do an incremental back up, which will just copy BM>> the new and altered files, so won't take nearly as long. Then make BM>> another full back up as a separate set followed by incrementals. This BM>> will give a sort of back up to the back up. On the third (or later) BM>> full back up the original set is reused. NB>> That will be a job for the Wizard... at least for a while yet... ;) BM> Yes, though probably an easy enough job to learn. You'll become The BM> Apprentice to the Wizard yet! NB> Nice theory... No? BM> New Year's Eve was relatively warm as I recall -- 40's and 50's during BM> the last week of December. Snowed here last night -- started around BM> 6:30. Temperature stayed at 33ø all evening and probably overnight as BM> was 32ø when I got up. The strange thing when looking at the snowfall BM> later last night was the ground was covered but the sidewalks and BM> street were clear. Will go out later this morning as the cars need to BM> be cleaned off and some snow did accumulate on the walks. NB> Not all that strange... if the roads and the sidewalks were warm NB> enough, the snow wouldn't stick there until they cooled off a lot NB> more... Happens here all the time... :) Agree, and has happened numerous times before, just looks a little odd - guess I expect an all-or-none. Plus goes with my sort of wish-thought of it only snows on green surfaces ==> have the snow to make things wintery but no shovelling sidewalks, cleaning off cars, etc.! NB>>> I wouldn't think it would look right with ours for sure... What we NB>>> got this time are the ones I think are called sculptural.. they look NB>>> sort of like a basket weave.... supposed to last longer, I think.... BM>> OK, yes -- I had to look it up: sort of knew what you meant but one of BM>> the pictures really looked like a basketweave pattern and looked nice. NB>> It's the current fashion here... one sees a lot of these roofs NB>> around... BM> I like the slightly random look over the straight-cut. NB> These actually are rather attractive... :) Does, :) House a nice colour with matching trim, landscaped yard; blah roof. BM>> Our is more the wooden shingles style: random widths and the bottoms BM>> of the rows aren't quite even to give it that more individual pieces BM>> look. What's 'funny' is a few people around the greater neighbourhood BM>> redid their roofs after we did and they have a similar style. Not BM>> saying they copied, but.... NB>> The roofers seem to push certain styles at certain times.... The NB>> wooden shingles look was probably what they were pushing when you NB>> had yours done.... ;) BM> Plus that's what we liked out of the selection. Wonder what's in BM> fashion for roofs this season?! NB> If you decide to research it now for your roof, you might find NB> out... Y'think?! ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... My wife and I had words, But I didn't get to use mine. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .