The dog ate...

Yesterday was one of those days filled with a series of items comprising The Routine Stuff™, which kept me busy into the early afternoon, whereupon I chorded Win+L to "lock" my computer and went grocery shopping with Galina.

Upon my return, I found my computer on but non-responsive. I could only conclude that something caused the machine to hang while the desktop was locked up, so I applied pressure to what, in the old days, was known as The Big Red Switch until the computer shut down with all the grace of a Baryshnikov landing on an unexpected banana peel.

As all my work was done for the day, I decided not to restart the computer again until today.

In the afternoon, I found the flattest 4-foot×8-foot area behind the garage, which turned out to be not so easy, as the lawn generally slopes gently from the concrete noise-suppression fence to a low point, whereupon the slope reverses on the way back up to the garage. I then prepped the lawn for a rather long summer of darkness, set up two packaged garden beds, and filled them with store-bought soil. The work was not strenuous, but it caused me to perspire profusely. I plan to populate the beds with a mix of seedlings and seeds this weekend.

Cheers...

The promised rain is late...

...or it missed us completely.

And when I refer to "rain" in this context, I do not refer to slight, occasional sprinkles that make you wonder whether it makes sense to turn on the windshield wiper, but the torrential stuff of recent memory that, as it turns out, swept an individual's car off a local road (not more than a couple of miles from here) and eventually resulted in the driver's death.

No complaints, by the way, from this department.

* * *In other news, I spent time trying to figure out how to back up files to NAS, with no luck. The error messages provided by Microsoft are cryptic:

The validation information class requested was invalid.

the error message explanations don't really help much:

An authentication package could not interpret the specified information.

and the recommended action is not really practical:

Contact the supplier of the running application.

since the "running application" happens to be Windows 8.1.

I also spent some time making TiddlyWiki5 saveableon my local Raspberry Pi server, which occupied all of about 10 minutes and works very well.

Cheers...