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not a great Valentine's Day
Friday, February 14 2025
Charlotte needed a rabies booster and other shots, so early this afternoon Gretchen and I took her and Neville to the Hurley vet. (It would've been a one person job had it just been Neville, but it's doubtful Charlotte will even get in the car if Neville doesn't). There were a lot of dogs entering the waiting room after we got there, and Charlotte was going nuts with her piercing bark, and I think this might've sped up our service a little. We had the veterinarian that we like, the only one we know there, and her vibe is very different from the McCorporate feel the place has now that it's been bought by private equity or some similar ghoul of late-stage capitalism. But somehow one of the techs upsold us on an additional shot: one for leptospirosis, a mostly-tropical bacterial disease spread by urine.
Back home in Hurley, I had myself a leisurely afternoon of migrating the new media computer into a smallish case. The old Intel-J1900-based motherboard used an external laptop-style power supply, whereas the motherboard I was swapping in required a conventional desktop power supply, and this required a bigger case. But I have a number of such cases I've never found a good use for (and that contain ancient hardware, such as Atom-330-based motherboards), so I used one of those, which had the benefit of providing space for several drives, including an optical one if should ever want to add one. Given that possibility, I thought it might be useful to provide serious storage on the media computer, which comes in handy when there is some issue with the NAS storage I serve from a WiFi router. (I often lose access to that after a power outage and then have turn things on and off until it comes back.) I've been copying episodes of Jeopardy! directly to the SSD that boots the media computer just so they'll always be available no matter what the NAS is doing, but there's only 128 GB of storage on that drive. So the plan today was to take an old 2 TB drive that used to live in Woodchuck, wipe it completely, and then put it as a second drive in the media computer. Since it's one of those Seagate Green drives, it will probably spend most of its time spun down and idling, only using much electricity when we're actually streaming files from it. But when I tried formatting it, the process got my computer Woodchuck so confused that it no longer would even mount USB drives. Windows 10 is usually less likely to get stuck in reboot-requiring funks than earlier versions of Windows, but in this case I actually ended up rebooting it twice. For awhile there I feared the old 2 TB drive had become unreliable, but that didn't turn out to be the case.
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