Monthly Archives: March 2021
Wrong Line Of Work?
We’re getting an early start tomorrow because Jan has her yearly mammogram tomorrow afternoon, something that she’s very careful not to skip each year since she was diagnosed with breast cancer back in 2014.
Luckily back then, she only needed a lumpectomy, with no radiation or chemo involved. But it was a big enough scare that she never misses one now. Especially since she almost skipped the one in 2014 when they found the lump.
So she wants to remind everyone to get this done every year.
Anyway, we’ll leaving the rig about 12:30 so we’ll have time to eat lunch first, and then after I drop her off, I’ll probably go by work for a while and catch up on some things.
Then this Thursday, we’ve both got our big annual physicals starting at 8am, that way we’re the first appointments of the day, and don’t have to wait.
Then we’ve got lunch all planned, at a new place called Texas Huddle Grille, located on NASA Rd 1. And I already know what I’m having.
The PB&J Bacon Cheeseburger.
It’s harder to imagine two greater sandwiches combined into one.
Looks like we’re all getting together up at Brandi’s this Sunday for Easter. She doing a Prime Rib Roast, Potatoes, and a dessert, with everyone else bring sides dishes.
And the pool will be open, and heated if necessary.
Sounds like a lot of fun. And delicious food too.
Well, it’s obvious I went into the wrong line of work. Back in high school I was a lifeguard with Red Cross certifications. I had both Basic and Advanced, and was also certified as an instructor, though I never ran a class.
But if I’d known it could have turned out like this, I might very well have stuck with it.
Top paid LA lifeguards earn up $392,000 annually
Life’s a beach for these California lifeguards.
The highest-paid Los Angeles lifeguards earn up to $392,000 annually — and dozens of others rake in more than $200,000 a year, according to an investigation by Forbes.
Seven LA County lifeguards earned more than $300,000 in taxpayer dough by tapping into overtime pay in 2019, the latest year available, Forbes found.
Maybe I could have been on Baywatch too.
Thought For The Day:
No man has ever won a game of “Notice anything different about me”.
Well, 90% Anyway . . .
Jan and I headed up to Webster about 12:30 to have lunch at Snooze once again, but first I went by the office to start up a cloning job to an SSD drive, so it would be finished, or almost finished, by the time we got done with lunch,
Even getting to Snooze a little before 2pm, we still had a 20 minute wait for a table. But as usual, it was worth the wait.
When we got back to the office the clone job was finished, so I shut down the computer, opened the case, and moved the SSD driver over in place of the regular HD. As I was doing this I did notice that there was two HD’s in the case, not jus the one I had expected. And this quickly turned out to be an unexpected problem.
So when I connect the SSD drive in place of the two HD’s and rebooted, I got a Boot Error saying it couldn’t find the Boot Block on the SSD. So I hooked the two HD’s back up and booted up into the BIOS area. And there I saw my problem.
The two HD’s weren’t configured as two separate drives, but a RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) array. And I’m assuming it was a RAID 1 array, which means that the two drives are mirrors of each other, so that if one fails, the other one takes over.
Well, as it turns out you can’t clone a RAID correctly, so I’ll have to break the array and try again. But that’s for another day.
While I had the case open I installed the new TP-Link WiFi 6 high-speed network card, and then booted up and found it worked fine. Then I went in and reconfigured that network settings . . . again.
For some reason, often when we get a Win10 update from MS, it goes through and configures al the network settings back to the default, i.e. no network. So then I have to go in and set it all up again.
Have I mentioned I hate ‘updates’?
Close to finishing up, I installed the final WiFi card in the Point of Sale computer and got it working. So sometime this week I’ll get all 3 machines moved over to the new, much faster network. So I guess I got 90% done of what I wanted to, so not bad.
And; sometime in here I need to break the RAID array apart so I can re-clone that drive, and also clone the POS computer too.
Busy, busy, busy.
Coming coming back toward home, we made a quick HEB stop for a few HEB-specific things that Jan likes, finally getting back to the rig a little before 6pm, a long, but interesting day.
Thought For The Day:
“By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he’s wrong.”– Charles Wadsworth
