XMas 2013 Part Final

It's XMas day. I got my wool overcoat, and some sweaters, and a book of poetry by cats. Well, a book of poetry that someone wrote as if it were penned by cats. Cute. XMas dinner was broiled beef and mashed spud, eaten with Madre, my sisters, my niece Megan and her dude Ash. Madre talked with my brother on the phone, and my sister the ex-teacher talked with my niece Erin from Japan.

My cat Thyme got a toy that is a cloth-covered spring. She likes the toy. I myself got her a stainless steel water dish from PetSmart because her old water dish was too heavily encrusted with minerals from the water. (I have no water softener; there is no space in the utility room for one.)

Last Monday was a short day at work, during which I worked on a Mac from which a disk image will be extracted. I will probably use that on the Mac Mini server with DeployServer on a given set of target Macs, to see if this will work.

Speaking of the Mac Mini, the tech store in the library had a clearance sale. I had wanted to buy a MacBook Air for one of my sisters, but the store ran out by the time I got there. The store did, however, have one remaining Mac Mini on sale at half-price. So I bought it. It was the same make and model of Mac Mini as the one in the server room, so I was very familiar with this.

I did not have anything for the Mac Mini, though. I had a free monitor, but it is bonded with an Rπ, so I cannot use it. The television is supposed to be usable with a computer, but the TV rejects the HDMI signal from the Mac Mini. So I went to Fry's to buy a monitor for the Mac Mini. It turned out to the Dell S2340M I bought was good enough for my main box, and its monitor went to the Mac Mini. I also bought a set of keyboard and mouse for the Mac Mini.

The weather was chaotic for the past several weeks. First came a heavy snow that forced the annual meeting of the local library Friends to postpone until the next weekend. Then came a long rain that turned my lawn into a pond; that has only happened a couple of times before this year. I had to take alternative routes to work. Now it is a bitter cold.

That annual meeting was relatively short this year, because there was no entertainment. I am president of the Friends this coming year. This is not a good time: There are fewer people in Fairmount since when the Friends was started ten years ago; fewer are readers, or are inclined to back reading in their children; and those who are, are old. We need more readers, more people to participate in the Friends, even if their participation was just to show up at our meetings.