In the coldest hour, in the dark before the dawn, it is forecasted 82F and 60% humidity for the next week. We've had 12 days 100+ so far, and 6 more in forecasted in the next 8 days, and it's still early July. It's going to be a long hot summer.

Planning to get a Synology NAS to replace the file share, backup server, and music server running off a first gen raspberry pi, and also move Plex to the NAS from a really loud desktop which can then hibernate most of the day.

This decision comes after a laptop hard drive quit, promising to find some photos i digitized a decade ago that should still be around somewhere, and finding some old external backups had gone bad while sitting in a closet (dropped maybe?) all in the same week.

The pi has been chugging along in the background syncing and snapshotting so I don't think I lost anything, it's just slowwww.

I found the old photos at the bottom of something like ”/home/thurber/copy of Seagate drive/old backups/WD1TB/Dell laptop/old laptop recovery/..." which proves I've been doing backups wrong a lot longer than I've been doing them right.

The company I'm at split and the half I'm in was sold, the official date was last week. It's been in the works for a year, from the limited information available it seems positive, too soon to say what effect it will have on the culture.

The puppy has recovered from the fireworks now, she spent a lot of the weekend sheltering under furniture and climbing into open cabinets.