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unnecessary size and the flimsiness of the sheet metal
Wednesday, August 11 2021
After I got up, I drove out to the Brewster Street house to finish the bottom step project, which essentially just required the insertion of large three-inch deck screws. I also had that large-headed long self-tapping screw I'd only partially installed yesterday, and despite bringing my main collection of screw bits, none were quite the right size for it, and I ended up having to tighten it down against the board it was going into using a pair of pliers. While there, I also fixed a gutter downspout that had become detached from the gutter 20 feet overhead (happily, I was able to reattach it from below and then secure it with another big-headed self-tapping screw, one whose torx socket wasn't stripped).
I had some big data migrations I had to do and redo several times today, and, after some experimentation, I realized that the new Ryzen 3600 incarnation of my computer Wolverine did such migrations twice as fast as my work-issued laptop. So I finally got around to putting the AM4 motherboard in a proper case. The only empty ones I had were huge, much bigger than the micro-ATX board I would be putting in it. I chose the smallest of the two big cases, irritated both at its unnecessary size and the flimsiness of the sheet metal used to make it. The new Wolverine motherboard has an on-board M.2 SSD, meaning I wouldn't be using any of the many drive bays this case contains.
One of the great things about these desktop computers that I only access by Remote Desktop is that I can put them anywhere where there is an ethernet cable and a power outlet. I set up the new Wolverine provisionally in the teevee room, though its two fans probably make it too loud to keep it there.
Sarah the Vegan and Nancy took Gretchen out for dinner, leaving me alone by myself. So I had a typical me-time evening featuring a not-too-hot bath, cannabis ingestion, a bit too much alcohol, and, ultimately, lying around on the greenhouse couch watching videos on the greenhouse Chromebook. At some point I went out to on the upstairs greenhouse deck and Oscar came in, but then he couldn't get out because the pet door was stuck in place. All I had to do to get it working again was give it a little push, one that required more force than a cat can generally produce.
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