Tired, very tired
After weekends like this one, I need to take a few days off to recover. Very productive weekend and I don’t think I got more then 5 miles from the house since Friday.
Saturday:
- House cleaning – Rosie decided it was time to clean this weekend; so I vacuumed the house, cleaned all the toilets and our shower.
- The grass was still really wet, so I decided to edge / trim instead. Did the whole yard and was finishing up the backyard when it started to just pour. (Rosie and Isaac came to the window and laughed as it hailed on me)
- I updated a policy document for work, while watching some cartoons with Isaac.
- Converted two of the six videos from the digital conference and got them uploaded to blip.tv. (Just got e-mail from them saying the second did not transcode successfully from mp4 to flash.)
- Cleaned my desk and shredded a bunch of paper.
- Got the new Icom IC-80AD figured out and on the air. Finally got the D-Star machine on Gold Mountain working. (Which has the best coverage in the area for my house)
Sunday
- Got woke up very early, Isaac decided everybody needed to be up at 6AM.
- Make pancakes
- Did more transcoding of video
- Cleaned a plugged gutter
- Moved about 1/4 yard of dirt from the front yard to the back. (leveling out area which will eventually become the raised garden bed/boxes)
- Rebuilt a dead UPS, replacing the dead battery with a deep cycle marine battery.
- Clean the garage
- Finally got the garden seeds going in my home made green house. (shelf in garage wrapped in plastic and a 60 watt bulb)
- BBQ’d steaks, made baked potatoes and ate some of Rosie’s bean soap.
- Replaced this stupid little plastic cover on the front Pathfinder. (Which has fallen off three times now, I’ve had to replace it twice and was lucky to find it once. This time I pop-rivited into place)
- Assembled fancy new planter boxes, which are made out of recycled plastic. Very cool and they will never need replacing.
- Mowed the lawn, back and front. Got caught in another rain storm.
Isaac is finally at the stage where he can come outside with me and I don’t have to spend every minute entertaining him. This afternoon when I was moving dirt, he was happy to drive his tractor all over the front yard and garage. He’d load up stuff in the trailer, dump it somewhere and then go back to get it. He really enjoys when he can help, like when we put the planter boxes together. You could just see the little wheels turning in his head, as he was trying to figure out how it was going to work. When it came time to screw the sides together, I got to-do one, then he had to-do the rest of them. He is really good with something like the cordless screwdriver. All I have to-do is get the screw lined up and he knows how to-do the rest.
One other interesting thing happen this weekend. I ran my mac-mini out of disk space when doing the video conversions. I replaced the stock 60G drive like the second day I got it with a 300G, which has been fine for the last year. Then I finally had to upgrade the AppleTV drive, which means I am able to keep lots more stuff on it. But everything that is on AppleTV is also on my mac-mini, which as it turned out is something like 100G of stuff now.
So after I ran my system out of disk space and I looked around, realizing that there just wasn’t alot of “extra” stuff I could delete, I knew it was time to deal with the iTunes folder. I have had this unused 180G 1394 drive sitting there since converting to the mac-mini. The drive was my original backup drive, but upgraded mac-mini’s drive was to big, so it has just been sitting there un-used. So I flatten it and went hunting for instructions on how to relocate the iTunes folder. Seems this is a pretty common problem and Apple had step by step instuctions. Took maybe 20 minutes and worked prefectly. Now I have tons of free space on my primary drive and a “scratch” disk for this video thing.