New Toy!

I ordered a 320 GB external USB hard drive from Buy.com two days ago ($110); it arrived yesterday. I'm now merrily backing up my primary Windows box, the one with 99% of my photos and 100% of my pr0n, about 60 GB worth. It'll take a few hours to wrap up.

My iMac required nearly 10 hours to back up all of the primary data partition. Alas, the older iMac has only USB 1.1 so its speed is a fraction of the newer USB 2.0. One more reason to upgrade my Mac some day soon.

Before the weekend is over, I'll make backups of both my personal laptop and the square dance calling laptop too. Hmm... I should also burn DVD backups of those machines...

New Toy!

I ordered a 320 GB external USB hard drive from Buy.com two days ago ($110); it arrived yesterday. I'm now merrily backing up my primary Windows box, the one with 99% of my photos and 100% of my pr0n, about 60 GB worth. It'll take a few hours to wrap up.

My iMac required nearly 10 hours to back up all of the primary data partition. Alas, the older iMac has only USB 1.1 so its speed is a fraction of the newer USB 2.0. One more reason to upgrade my Mac some day soon.

Before the weekend is over, I'll make backups of both my personal laptop and the square dance calling laptop too. Hmm... I should also burn DVD backups of those machines...

C1 Workshops in 2007

Since our C1 square dance boot camp weekend at the end of September, a bunch of friends have been meeting in Virginia on Wednesday evenings to practice so we don't make complete fools of ourselves at AC/DC next February. I'd rather attend justetthon's Monday night sessions but teaching the DC Lambda Squares' mainstream class made that impossible.

After a short break across xmas and new year's, we're starting again in January at a different location in Virginia. I've just finished creating the eVite announcements for six weeks. Our regular caller, Doran McBroom, isn't available for the first session (Jan 3) so Warren Jaquith, kent4str and I will be calling. This will be kent4str and my first attempt to call C1 so pray for our dancers... I really want to test-drive some material before using any of it at AC/DC itself.

C1 Workshops in 2007

Since our C1 square dance boot camp weekend at the end of September, a bunch of friends have been meeting in Virginia on Wednesday evenings to practice so we don't make complete fools of ourselves at AC/DC next February. I'd rather attend justetthon's Monday night sessions but teaching the DC Lambda Squares' mainstream class made that impossible.

After a short break across xmas and new year's, we're starting again in January at a different location in Virginia. I've just finished creating the eVite announcements for six weeks. Our regular caller, Doran McBroom, isn't available for the first session (Jan 3) so Warren Jaquith, kent4str and I will be calling. This will be kent4str and my first attempt to call C1 so pray for our dancers... I really want to test-drive some material before using any of it at AC/DC itself.

Outta here!

We're off to visit friends Cal & Eric at their new house in Wake Forrest, NC. Don't know if they have Internet access set up there yet so I may be incommunicado for a few days. If that's the case, I'll wish everyone a happy new year now and look forward to seeing you in 2007!

Outta here!

We're off to visit friends Cal & Eric at their new house in Wake Forrest, NC. Don't know if they have Internet access set up there yet so I may be incommunicado for a few days. If that's the case, I'll wish everyone a happy new year now and look forward to seeing you in 2007!