Cold and clear. Was 34F when I went to bed. Didn’t get very warm during the day, probably won’t today either. Pretty sure we froze at some point, but I’ve got the citrus indoors, and I’m hoping nothing is negatively affected.
Did some more cleanup on the old family pc. I’d previously upgraded it with an SSD and it breathed new life, along with making the RAM and adding a second drive for data… but the main reason for retiring it (technically anyway, the real reason was the newer $8 pc I picked up) was that the SSD was full and it’s a pain to manage where stuff goes on it.
Well. I killed more than half the drive’s capacity which was taken up with LOG FILES from failed updates. 150GB of pure crap was filling the drive. And windows ‘drive cleanup’ tool doesn’t even look for the files. WinDirStat identified the biggest files, and where they were, and I deleted them. Just like that the PC is usable again. I went looking because windows update was failing with useless error messages. It sure looked to me like the updates were failing when they tried to make a restore point, because the drive was full.
After making space, update found 23 more updates to apply under ‘safety and security’, so I did those and it updated without an issue. Freaking windows storing cr@p and failing with useless errors.
Now I’ve got to look for the same sorts of things on this, my primary desktop. I bet it’s full of cruft too.
— spent the evening watching Bukaroo Bonsai with D1. She laughed and enjoyed it.
The at bedtime we had a long philosophical discussion. Kid’s smart but since we’re not religious, she doesn’t have a framework she can fit the more mystical workings of the universe into… And old movies give us plenty to discuss regarding PC language, wokeness, and changing times. She’s anti-wokeness. The kids are starting to back lash against it. They’re tired of saying the opposite of what their eyes tell them. Interesting times.
Took some stuff to my secondary, and spent some time stacking stuff on a pallet for auction. Monday I’ll be talking to another auction company about consigning a truck full of stuff with them. They definitely do ‘estate sale’ type stuff, and it sells, if not always for highest dollar. They just moved to a bigger, and empty warehouse space so the time to strike is now.
Ordered some powdered cream for the stacks. It was finally back in stock. The powdered cream, butter, and cheese all do age out. They get hard and lumpy, and get an ‘old’ flavor, so I need to rotate them, even if it means wasting them. I won a ‘seed display’ in one auction too. It looks like it’s about half flowers, half veg. We’ll see if it was worth the money when I pick it up. Seeds aren’t cheap.
Don’t forget to stack up the little things that make all the other things better, like butter and cream. Stack the things.
nick