Other things want to join in too.
I started, as usual on the first day of the month, by backing up last month’s photos onto two external drives. The drives were running fine, but it took twice as long as normal for the backup to complete. I might look into that in future.
Scamp wanted to go for messages after that and we decided we’d drive to Morrison’s near The Fort. There were a lot of empty shelves in the store and also a lot of nearly empty. Maybe it’s a midweek thing or maybe it’s a lack of staff. The cafe looked closed, but then Scamp spotted one man sitting at a table. Heavens, there wasn’t even any of the Neapolitan ice cream wafers we usually can rely on getting there! Disappointed, we drove over to The Fort itself and had a panini and coffee for lunch in Costa. I had a narrow escape, I nearly had a vegan BBQ ‘chicken’. Thankfully the girl at the till asked me if I realised that’s what it was. I swapped it for a ‘real’ chicken and pepperoni one, and thanked her. For once, the flat white I got was quite excellent. Decent coffee in Costa? That’s just not normal.
Back home and back on the computer, I deleted all the ‘rejected’ photos and that cuts away about a third of the gross number of images. By the sun was starting to get a bit low in the sky, so I grabbed my boots and walked over to St Mo’s to get some photos. I got the PoD there. It’s ash seeds tangled in last year’s cow parsley. When I got back and before I downloaded the new photos, I moved last month’s photos out of one SSD on to an archive on another drive. It sounds a long winded way of doing things, but it stops the active catalog from getting clogged up. I’ve done it so many times that it usually runs like clockwork. That’s when things started going wrong. I’m still not sure what I did wrong, but it wasn’t what was supposed to happen. I’m not going in to details, because I don’t understand what happened and you’re not interested, I’m sure. Enough said, it was going to cause me more work, and I still had dinner to make. As I was turning away from the ‘puter I felt the filling I got recently shift a tiny amount. OK, I admit it, I’d been poking around in may mouth and at my age I should know better. When one thing goes wrong … !
I left things as they were and went to make the dinner, veggie chilli to give myself what Scamp calls ’Thinking Time’. That was a great idea. I came up with a plan that I thought would work and, although it took a long while to do, it had the desired result. While the chilli was cooking down, I downloaded today’s photos and filtered out the rejects.
Finally I swapped the three SSDs around into a more organised group where the ones I need to run fast are on the fast connection and the other one is on a slightly slower socket. It works for me.
Phoned the dentist and they have no slots available, so I have to grin and bear it until next week when I already have an appointment. I didn’t tell the receptionist that I’d been poking my fingers in my mouth. I expect she knew!
Tomorrow we have no plans although we still need some messages and I have to do some bloodletting around midday.