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Making progress
Mar. 2nd, 2011 01:22 amWell, I got a call Monday about getting the new mask for my CPAP. Got an appointment to see someone at a local vendor Tuesday afternoon.
Got lucky, as the only bus out there only runs in the mornings and afternoons. I could *just* make it on the first trip of the afternoon runs. In fact the first time I tried to plan the trip using Trimet's site, it told me it wasn't possible. When I changed arrival time from 2pm to 2:15, then it gave me a workable trip.
I'd not have tried that if the maps on Trimet's site hadn't shown a bus route going by the place.
Thbe trip was fun. It was the first run of the afternoon, and the driver had never done the route before. Loads of fun. Fortunately, he wasn't running too late.
Got the mask and found that they didn't have any filters for my CPAP. But after some fighting with the order system, the tech was able to order me some. So they should show up in the mail in a few days.
Also got a sleep test scheduled for the 21st. That's gonna be a pain as the testing center runs from 8pm to 6am. Which means getting to sleep is going to be difficult. Wonder what the heck they do with folks who work swing shift or graveyard shift? I know that Kaiser's testing center had finally figured that one out from the time I went there to get supplies about 3 years back.
Anyway, since the supplier wasn't too far from ENU, I walked over there to get the drive I needed for the backup. Didn't hurt that there was a geocache on the way. Didn't find it though.
Then I walked over to the 71 stop at 122nd and Prescott. I checked the GPS later and realized that I'd walked a mile and a half lugged my normal shoulder bag and the clumsy bag I'd had the CPAP in. I was fairly beat when I got home.
After dumping things and resting for a bit, I hit Albertson's looking to see what hamburger and premade burgers were going for since I'd wound up with a bunch of hamburger buns from a food box.
Didn't get any of those but I lucked in to several turkey breasts with $3 off stickers on them. And then I saw they had London Broil for $1.99/lb. That was such a good deal (and one that this was the last day of) that I called Fay so she could get some cheap beef.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do with mine. I may do it in the crock pot or I may borrow the graniteware roaster that Fay has.
After having some dinner I wound up crashing out for a while.
A while ago I checked the drive I need to back up and found that it doesn't seem to have the problem that the original backup drive does. And I set up the new backup in an external drive housing I already have. For some reason, Windoze didn't want to create a partition, but my old copy of Partition Magic was quite happy doing so. Just starting to copy files from Eddore's main drive over. Oncethat's done, I get to power down, swaop the main drive for Eddotre's backup drive and compare the files on that to the ones from the main drive.
Probably be sometime tomorrow "tomorrow" (ie after I've slept and gotten up) before that's done.
But once Beyond Compare has the diferences flagged, I can decide individually what needs to be done. And then update the main drive and try reinstalling it in Eddore and booting it. If that works, great. If not, Plan B will be installing WinXP Pro over it.
Got lucky, as the only bus out there only runs in the mornings and afternoons. I could *just* make it on the first trip of the afternoon runs. In fact the first time I tried to plan the trip using Trimet's site, it told me it wasn't possible. When I changed arrival time from 2pm to 2:15, then it gave me a workable trip.
I'd not have tried that if the maps on Trimet's site hadn't shown a bus route going by the place.
Thbe trip was fun. It was the first run of the afternoon, and the driver had never done the route before. Loads of fun. Fortunately, he wasn't running too late.
Got the mask and found that they didn't have any filters for my CPAP. But after some fighting with the order system, the tech was able to order me some. So they should show up in the mail in a few days.
Also got a sleep test scheduled for the 21st. That's gonna be a pain as the testing center runs from 8pm to 6am. Which means getting to sleep is going to be difficult. Wonder what the heck they do with folks who work swing shift or graveyard shift? I know that Kaiser's testing center had finally figured that one out from the time I went there to get supplies about 3 years back.
Anyway, since the supplier wasn't too far from ENU, I walked over there to get the drive I needed for the backup. Didn't hurt that there was a geocache on the way. Didn't find it though.
Then I walked over to the 71 stop at 122nd and Prescott. I checked the GPS later and realized that I'd walked a mile and a half lugged my normal shoulder bag and the clumsy bag I'd had the CPAP in. I was fairly beat when I got home.
After dumping things and resting for a bit, I hit Albertson's looking to see what hamburger and premade burgers were going for since I'd wound up with a bunch of hamburger buns from a food box.
Didn't get any of those but I lucked in to several turkey breasts with $3 off stickers on them. And then I saw they had London Broil for $1.99/lb. That was such a good deal (and one that this was the last day of) that I called Fay so she could get some cheap beef.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do with mine. I may do it in the crock pot or I may borrow the graniteware roaster that Fay has.
After having some dinner I wound up crashing out for a while.
A while ago I checked the drive I need to back up and found that it doesn't seem to have the problem that the original backup drive does. And I set up the new backup in an external drive housing I already have. For some reason, Windoze didn't want to create a partition, but my old copy of Partition Magic was quite happy doing so. Just starting to copy files from Eddore's main drive over. Oncethat's done, I get to power down, swaop the main drive for Eddotre's backup drive and compare the files on that to the ones from the main drive.
Probably be sometime tomorrow "tomorrow" (ie after I've slept and gotten up) before that's done.
But once Beyond Compare has the diferences flagged, I can decide individually what needs to be done. And then update the main drive and try reinstalling it in Eddore and booting it. If that works, great. If not, Plan B will be installing WinXP Pro over it.
