Well, we’re down to just a few bits and pieces of our trusty ’98 Subaru Outback since I was T-boned on Feb. 21, 2018, and ICBC chose to write it off with a paltry 320,000 km on it. . .
I’m sure it would have had at least another 100K in it.
I had the winter rims and tires on it when I was hit, and today, some 16 months later, a fellow bought the original stock wheels with the summer tires on them.
Craig’s List can take awhile, but I’m glad we got something for them! 
As a slowly healing injured foot still has me sticking close to home, a bit of office cleaning has turned up some boxes with old computer backups.
In 2002, all of my digital photos could be backed up onto 5 CDs (there were 2 more in addition to the “1 of 3” shown below only for streamkeeper activities).
Heh. My current store of photos takes up over 3.4 TB of space, and I back up to HDs in an external USB3 “toaster” that can hot-swap SATA drives, plus another external 6TB drive.
It’s also about time I swapped a backup with the one in the safety deposit box — you also need offsite backup, eh?
Amazing how memory prices have fallen over the years as capacities have gone up. Got this Kingston super-high-speed 128GB card today for C$34.95.
It’ll hold some 1,700 combined RAW + FINE JPEG images on a 24MP DSLR.
Great for travel.
I ought to go into IT consulting.
Wife cannot log into her computer. Help!
I go to her room, and while she’s getting a cup of tea, I jiggle the mouse, pull a USB drive out of a USB port, pull a hair out of my nose, and voila, computer is awake and responding.
I would normally charge $200, but because I’m not sure how I fixed the problem, it must have involved some element of wizardry, so I think the bill ought to be $400.
Not to mention the sacrifice of a nose hair. . . 
I gave it another six months, but my aging ASUS UL30A notebook computer is getting flakier. I’m the secretary for an org at which the ASUS was recently connected to a projector for 3 days of meetings, presentations, and note taking, and it barely survived, crawling along.
I’ve considered doing a fresh backup, reformatting the HD, and reinstalling everything, but I’m feeling that would just be a waste of time. It would still be a poky machine with limited screen resolution.
I got it in November 2010, so over eight years out of a notebook computer is pretty good.
I’m now vacillating between shelling out for a Lenovo machine (I’ve always liked Lenovo/IBM Thinkpad keyboards), or perhaps going for an iPad with a Smart Keyboard.
The iPad combo would be super portable, the other would have more storage, more connectivity options, etc. I want an IPS screen for photo work, which the iPad has, and which you can get on Lenovos.
Decisions, decisions.. .
UPDATE (2/18): Ended up ordering a Dell G3 8GB/1TB with FHD IPS screen for about 2/3 the price of a similarly configured Thinkpad or less than half the price of a Macbook Pro. It’ll do for me.
The last of the old food containers leave the kitchen today. We’ve switched entirely to glass and PBA-free containers. These will go into the utility room and garage for screws, nails, washers, nuts, glue sitcks, etc.
This was not planned, but I just hit 10,000 Tweets within days of my 10th anniversary on Twitter.
I recall it took me several attempts to get into the flow, starting and stopping several times the first year, and then it just kept rolling.
I have no idea if this is near average, low, or high. Don’t really care, just find the nice, round 1K/year average interesting.
I am seriously considering shutting down my LinkedIn account.
I just saw someone boast on LI that they had 30,000 connections.
Excuse me? How could you possibly know, and have worked with, 30,000 people?
The original premise of LI was that people who had worked with each other would connect, and vouch for each other. Or at least acknowledge that they’d worked together.
It’s completely debased. It’s now Facebook with a resume.
Another numbers game.
And LI is driving this debasement. Every time you accept a “connection” these days, it pops up dozens, if not hundreds, of other suggested connections. It wants to mine your email address books, if you let it.
I was wondering when I would see a cat photo on LInkedIn.
Today was the day.
Sigh . . .
We picked up this Ikea rocker/stool set used awhile ago. It’s in great shape and looks sharp, but it’s a toe-stubbing menace.
Those legs on the stool are angled forward just enough that we’ve both whacked toes on them.
And those little projections at the front of the rockers, while perhaps needed for stability, also attract toes like magnets.
I hope eventually it will sink into the subconscious to automatically give these items of furniture a slightly wider berth. . .
I think my AF-S 18-200 Nikkor is dying. The zoom ring is stiff and jumpy, and the lens doesn’t seem to focus tack sharp any longer.
I’ve had it for ten years, and it’s taken several hundred-thousand shots. It’s been dropped onto carpet, linoleum, and concrete, from heights varying from 2 – 6 feet.
It’s been out in +35 C dry deserts, +35 humid Asian countries, and -30 Canadian prairies. It’s been canoeing, it’s been fishing, it’s been camping, it’s been hiking, it’s been walking in the rain, and shuffling in the snow. . .
I had it in for repair and a tuneup after the six-foot drop about five years ago. I don’t know if it would be worth it to try another tuneup.
I’ll give the Nikon factory repair centre in Toronto a call next week, but I suspect I may be better off in the long run by getting a new lens.