The Great Master Bathroom of Dunwoody is still under construction. They finished all the tile work last week. They also got all the cabinets in. The granite guy came by Thursday and did all of his measurements. Yesterday, a guy came and installed all the base molding and some other stuff. I was planning on keeping my toilet but, alas, there was a crack in it so he had to put in a new one. I’m gonna get in touch with the project manager today and get the status of the granite. It’s a royal pain using the guest bathroom. This is why I hate home improvement projects. Many of them drag on and on and they inconvenience me, like this one. This is why I have delayed this project ’cause I knew it would be like this.
Also, my desktop just breathed its last. I knew it was coming. Fortunately, I followed the First Law of Computer Programming: Thou shalt never run without a backup. I also followed the Second Law of Computer Programming: Thou shalt always obey the First Law. When I taught programming I always drilled these two laws into my students while telling them that if you have a backup you’ll prolly never need it but if you don’t I can guarantee you you will need it. Been there, done that, saw the movie, and got the T-shirt. So about eight years of tax records are all backed up among other important stuff.
In one of my programming classes, one of the lab teams lost about four days of work because they didn’t back up their system. I could have been mean and made them do it all over but then they would have been so far behind they would have never caught up. I let them watch me do four days of their work in about six hours. Impressed the hell out of them. They immediately backed up what I had done. I’ll bet none of them ever ran without a backup again.
When I taught creative writing classes or assigned major papers in lit classes, I drummed into my students that they MUST either storyboard or outline their plots or projects before cranking out that first word of the text. Otherwise you wind up with some contrived ending or the extremely annoying “and then he woke up.”
However, when I write my own stories, I refuse to outline or storyboard, preferring instead to let my characters grow in response to the developing situations. MUCH more fun that way.
And since I write as a hobby instead of as a profession, I have a helluva lot more fun just seeing where things take me instead of following some outline that sounded good when first written but turned out to be horseshit.
Only real drawbacks are that (1) my characters often develop into someone I don’t like or who tell me things about myself I don’t want to hear and (2) they tend to get themselves into corners and swamps that I can’t write them out of in any believable sense.
‘Bout time for an upgrade anyway. You squeezed absolutely all the goody out of that artifact! : )
I’m gonna replace my laptop as well since it’s almost as old.
Denny …..Sorry,different topic but I was reading a story on Drudge from New England that they are nearing Devcon5 for Snow , worst ever in history…….YADA!YADA!YADA!YADA!
They got 76 inch s of snow …Geez, we got 87 officially but in reality well over 100 & still leading the snowiest cities list! situation normal, wonder what they will do if they get almost 140 inch s like we did last year.
Gotta love Global Warming, can you imagine what we would have if a cooling trend was here?.
Do you backup if you are running a Raid array with parity and a dedicated controller card?
Doesn’t matter what I was running. I always ran periodic backups and still do. When I worked for IBM it saved my ass many a time.
I’ll bet none of them ever ran without a backup again.
Sometimes it takes two or three incidents before they learn the lesson.
You can always pull a Lois Lerner and tell the IRS that the hard drive crashed and any data is gone forever. I plan to do that this year unless I get a refund!
Back in 1988 I spent about 30 days entering data in a DOS water distribution system model. I got lazy and didn’t run the floppy disk backup after the first week. I lost 3 weeks of keyboarding and research in one HD crash.
It only took me once to learn, Denny.