Quiet Holiday in the Slush

Six more branches have cracked off the big tree in the middle of the field. We wanted to get out and haul the branches away, but the weather has been mostly cold rain and the snow is turning to slush in many places. Working in light snow wasn't so bad, but in a freezing rain is no good at all, so we put off any outdoor work until there's some sort of break in the weather. Lisa worked on Kuma Bear's Christmas gift and I worked on cloning a hard drive for one of Lisa's laptop computers. I've tried several times to run the clone, every time without success. Today I think if found the problem -- a bent pin on the source drive's connector. Lisa carefully bent the pin back into place and we'll start it up again. Maybe this time it will work.

More Snow

After trudging through the slush late this afternoon, Lisa noticed how listless I was an suggested that I take a nap. Being able to actually give in to the inclination to sleep around 5 PM was a nice Christmas present, and I promptly fell asleep until about 8 PM. Looking outside, we saw that snow had started falling again -- about 2-3 cm accumulation, it appears. Lisa and I took some small presents to her father along with a short Christmas carol -- a pumpkin pie and some heavy warm socks -- and checked on the progress of the drive cloning.

The drive clone is about half finished and predicts another 3-plus hours to completion, but is showing none of the errors that the previous attempts did. I had hoped to shut my computer down and put it away for Christmas, but it looks like I'll need to leave it running overnight to finish the job, then come have a look in the morning. Fingers crossed.