On 6/2/2020 09:32, songbird wrote:
> Freyja wrote:
> ...
>> Hubby & I moved from the Bay Area to the Inland Empire a couple of years
>> ago. Being housebound makes me appreciate how well we renovated the
>> house we bought, and we love our house! We got lucky and got it with no
>> mortgage, so money isn't a worry. Being in such a semi-rural area means
>> the pandemic is touching us lightly.
>
> i hope it remains so for the sake of everyone.
From your keyboard to the DOYC's ears.
>> I was gone for a while because my
>> hard drive died on my naptop, then HP sent my computer back with a new
>> hard drive, but didn't put the old content on it. So, we had to find a
>> guy who could extract the old drive material and put it on a
>> high-capacity flash drive. It took a while to get Chris to get my
>> computer working again, but it's working. As soon as I figure I have
>> everything the way I want it, I'll copy everything onto a backup naptop.
>
> SSDs are cheap enough now that i just added a few
> more TB of storage on a second device so that i can
> have more room for pictures when i get my setup
> figured out. with that 2nd device being so much
> quicker i rarely bother firing up the external
> backup hard drive, but it is there for the once
> every few months backup i run. some day i need
> to consolidate the many copies i have of some files
> and that would save me a lot of space but as of
> yet i've not got that done... i'm busy dorking
> around with other things. :)
I also have a large flash drive that can back up the naptop.
Keeping busy is a Good Thing.
>> Fun thing about our house is that we're across the street from Chris'
>> cousins and their Maine Coon girls. We both have catios as coyotes are
>> too common.
>
> coyotes are around here too but rarely seen. i hear
> them more often yipping at the moon. no fur babies here
> to worry about. Mom has zero tolerance and i can live
> without them.
The coyotes are brazen here. One was in our side yard looking in our
guest bedroom at Achilles our pocket panther and yipping at him.
Achilles mewed back. Dad, who is in our guest room (we got it and
furnished it to be used for guests - unpacked boxes are in the garage),
watched the whole thing. The furkids visit him in the afternoons when
the sun shines in. One day, he saw a rabbit trying to eat the
artificial grass. It was a very confused rabbit. I told Dad he needs
to record these things!
"A home without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered
cat, may be a perfect home, perhaps; but how can it prove its title?"
-Mark Twain