I finally got my email completely set up, so the computer stuff is now down to onesie-twosie things. I’ve even got the games installed, though OpenTTD is the only one I’ve fired up so far.
It got a little windy Friday here in the Plains States. At one point, OHP had shut down any oversized loads in the state. They investigated a boatload of overturned tractor-trailers, too.
Winds here at Wayfarer’s Refuge hovered in the mid-20s and gusted to almost 40 at one point, but we didn’t have any real problems. Numerous wildfires broke out across the state despite red-flag fire warnings broadcast for most of this week. Mannford and Stillwater got hit pretty badly with lots of structures destroyed and heavily damaged.
Transferring Thunderbird to a New Computer
It’s basically a straightforward process, though I wonder why, 21 years into the 21st century, Mozilla hasn’t figured out some sort of automated process.
I essentially followed the procedure outlined in the Mozilla Support Page, but I ran into a hiccup. On my MSI laptop, I had two hard drives. The C: drive was the Windows and program drive, supposedly intended as the main program drive, and the much smaller of the two. The data was supposed to live over on D: drive. I eventually figured that out when I started running out of space on C and moved things around. That fix involved me hard-coding the location of my Thunderbird profile into the profiles.ini file.
But that was on D:\, and my new computer doesn’t have a D:\.
The solution, of course, was to go back to the INI file and edit it again. It just took me about four failed attempts to get Thunderbird running, including one uninstall/reinstall cycle.
Mooned
Did anyone stay up for the lunar eclipse Thursday night? I thought about it for a minute or so. When I took Athena out for bedtime walkies around midnight, the moon looked pretty, but I didn’t really feel like staying up for the whole thing. I didn’t even get a decent photo, but that’s mostly because I used my phone and not the big camera.
Writing
Happy anniversary to me. Sunday marks twenty years of blogging.
728 posts in twenty years.
More recently, 151 consecutive weekly posts. That means I generated something like 20% of my content in the last three years.
Man, where would my audience be if I’d been maintaining the blog streak since then? Or even posting with some kind of regularity?
Based on my first month’s worth of posts, I’d be up over 4,500 posts by now. Heck, even if I’d held steady a one a week, I’d be over a thousand posts.
Ah, the what-ifs of life.
If I’d thought this out a little more, I suppose I could have planned some book promo around the date. Shame on me.
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