In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2) by SIGNYM

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In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)

POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Friday, May 29, 2026 19:39
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Thursday, May 28, 2026 3:18 PM

Last thing before I went to sleep I discovered that I had two pretty large things savecd on my work drive that were being dismantled on the large drive and so they were no longer needed. Some of that stuff will be coming back in a different form, but it has been trimmed down significantly and has either already been backed up elsewhere or will be backed up shortly. I don't know the exact sizes right now, but I'll know them when I'm done. I might get an additional 500GB on my work drive out of this when it's over.

Going to go out and finally tackle the lawn today. It's only 68 degrees right now after 3 or 4 straight days pushing 90. We're back to 83 again tomorrow.

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.

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Thursday, May 28, 2026 5:21 PM

BRENDA

Lousy morning at mah jong. Got the booby prize because I finished the morning with only 330 points. I couldn't do anything. Almost had winds & dragons but couldn't get rid of two tiles. Ugh!

Got a bit of shopping done though.

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Thursday, May 28, 2026 7:21 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Jeebus...

3 hours to mow the lawn today, and that was just with one 5 minute break in between.

I gotta stop letting it get that long. It's almost June and I've only mowed the lawn 3 times so far this year.

There was a ton of grass seed growing though, so maybe that isn't such a bad thing. I should probably end up with more grass now.

Now I think I can finally go out and sand things. I was thinking about doing that today, but there's only about 2 hours of sunlight left and I don't really feel like it after the lawn anyhow.

Think I'll just go back to the computer and see where my transfers are at and what I still need to do to get my final backups all put together. At least I know that project is finally coming to an end and I can move on to other things. I'm getting tired of babysitting all these transfers too.

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.

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Thursday, May 28, 2026 7:55 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Oh... lol

I ain't going to show them, but I did snap before and after pics of the lawn for myself because it was so bad.

I'm going to go look at those and get a good laugh now.

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Thursday, May 28, 2026 10:44 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

I am a happy man.

I didn't go into this thinking there was a chance that I'd ever be able to back up everything, at least in a way that wasn't putting me out. I just thought there's be some stuff I'd roll the dice with, and hope that if a data loss happened that there wasn't anything too important that I'd ever miss.

Nope. I'll have it all.

Just doing a last few transfers of backups that might take a few more hours tonight before I set the last few things to send to the 2TB drive tonight, and then that one can go in a box for the next 7 years with only around 15% free space.

Feels good. Finally got the lawn mowed so I can go out and sand what I need to and get this bathroom finished, and the digital part of the dehoard is almost complete.

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Thursday, May 28, 2026 11:29 PM

BRENDA

Way to go SIX. That all sounds really good.

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Friday, May 29, 2026 1:10 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thanks Brenda.

Yeah.... Still wrapping things up here and there just because transfers take so long and I'm trying to find other things to do in between.

In the process of making a few cool tech things to give away to some friends and family right now. Can't remember if I mentioned what I'm ultimately doing with those Kindles, but instead of just giving a used kindle to my friend that he'd take and just put it on top of a stack of his own crap and probably forget he even had it 2 weeks later, I'm putting some really cool stuff on there.

Got his favorite book along with a few other's we've talked about over the years, and some of my favorites as well. I know several of his favorite bands and I've got some cool things related to them like old magazines where they were interviewed back in the 80's and 90's. I even found a coffee table book with tons of photos of his favorite band, but unfortunately that one is a little too much for the kindle.

I'm going to give him that separate as something he can open on his computer if I have to, but first I'm going to see what I can't do about ripping the images out of that, downsizing them by quite a bit, and then having a much smaller document on the Kindle for him to look at. I think the images inside must be huge, and the file is about 50 times larger than any other book I've got.

If I can do that, he's not going to notice the difference on that kindle. You do have the ability to double-tap and zoom in on pages, but it's really not a device meant for that. So I'll probably make sure he gets the full sized one too in case we ever get his computer situation set up and he can read it from his bigscreen TV if he wanted to.

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Friday, May 29, 2026 7:33 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Still at it. Used the down time during transfers to tweak the 5TB build to work in tandem with the 15TB drive for what little had to be pulled off of it after I removed enough from the smaller drive to have more than 10% space freed up.

I spent some time planning it out and doing it in the way that both made the most sense and was the easiest to replicate or reverse in the case of a large enough hard drive down the road. Everything removed from the 5TB drive has also been backed up elsewhere where it makes sense and isn't in the way of anything.

Just wrapping up a few more things now and I'll begin the final transfers to the 2TB backup and that should be it. It should be done transferring after I wake up.

It's kind of a marvel to behold now. When I'm finally done transferring stuff and the resources are freed up, I'm going to have to do a final file/folder count on that drive. It's going to be a stupid number even after all the purging that was done.

Looking forward to my new external drive cases coming in a few days. Got one more for the 3rd laptop drive I had loose and an upgrade to another one I have. I'm going to give the old one to my friend. The old one is fine and there's never been a problem with it. But I had two varieties and the one that was a couple bucks more has an on/off switch which is great to have if you're literally running around moving files like I've been doing. You're not always pulling the drive out while it's still powered up with that switch. He's not going to need that. And I have a feeling that ancient laptop of his is going to end up in a landfill and we'll at least be able to salvage that drive and give him decent external storage out of it.

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Friday, May 29, 2026 1:03 PM

BRENDA

Out soon in the rain. Things to do.

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Friday, May 29, 2026 1:06 PM

BRENDA

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Thanks Brenda.

Yeah.... Still wrapping things up here and there just because transfers take so long and I'm trying to find other things to do in between.

In the process of making a few cool tech things to give away to some friends and family right now. Can't remember if I mentioned what I'm ultimately doing with those Kindles, but instead of just giving a used kindle to my friend that he'd take and just put it on top of a stack of his own crap and probably forget he even had it 2 weeks later, I'm putting some really cool stuff on there.

Got his favorite book along with a few other's we've talked about over the years, and some of my favorites as well. I know several of his favorite bands and I've got some cool things related to them like old magazines where they were interviewed back in the 80's and 90's. I even found a coffee table book with tons of photos of his favorite band, but unfortunately that one is a little too much for the kindle.

I'm going to give him that separate as something he can open on his computer if I have to, but first I'm going to see what I can't do about ripping the images out of that, downsizing them by quite a bit, and then having a much smaller document on the Kindle for him to look at. I think the images inside must be huge, and the file is about 50 times larger than any other book I've got.

If I can do that, he's not going to notice the difference on that kindle. You do have the ability to double-tap and zoom in on pages, but it's really not a device meant for that. So I'll probably make sure he gets the full sized one too in case we ever get his computer situation set up and he can read it from his bigscreen TV if he wanted to.

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.

That will be a great present for your friend.

I didn't know that kindles couldn't do that, so that makes them useless to me. Using one without my computer glasses on would be a waste. I need the zoom feature for my eyes.

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Friday, May 29, 2026 1:07 PM

BRENDA

I have to find a few minutes to get a birthday present for a friend of mine. There's a set of DVDs she wants. Just have to find the time to do it.

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Friday, May 29, 2026 4:08 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
That will be a great present for your friend.

I didn't know that kindles couldn't do that, so that makes them useless to me. Using one without my computer glasses on would be a waste. I need the zoom feature for my eyes.

Oh.. You can do it, but it's not something I'd want to be doing on a device as small as a kindle, especially if you had to do it for every page of every book. It would take forever to read and constantly pull you out of the action.

Properly scanned books, or books that are recreated by scratch professionally to be displayed on them look as clear as the real books and the screen is big enough where you should be able to read it fine. And the professional books, I believe my dad said, you can actually make the text larger (and end up with more pages to read in the process).

This was just a scanned book in PDF format, and it's got a ton of black and white and color pictures in it. Kind of like a coffee table book. It may have been a coffee table book. Even at the full size scan it's not the easiest thing to read, especially when text is printed over one of the colored images. When I shrunk it, that made the text even a little more blurry. But it was the only way I could get the book to load up without crashing. And when the pictures are just scans, they're essentially photographs. So zooming in on them is like zooming in on a photograph. It doesn't realign the text to stay on a single page as you zoom in and make the text bigger like the professionally done books.

I'll bet a newer kindle wouldn't struggle with that full-sized book at all, but the one I'm giving away was either one that I bought refurbed about 8 years ago, or was a hand-me-down sometime shortly thereafter, so these things are probably at least 10 years old now.

I'm still keeping it in there though. I think he'll appreciate the pictures and the handwritten notes that are all over the book and are quite readable compared to the tiny text. At least the magazines I found for him are a lot more readable.

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Friday, May 29, 2026 7:39 PM

BRENDA

Back and done for today. It has now dried up and the sun is out. And I am eating a burger from the local A&W.

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