Out of The PIT

I just noticed a carcass in my backyard. The location of the body was such that the camera was blocked by one of my trees so I could not tell how or when it got there. We also had a couple of warmish days just now so much of the snow melted, revealing the dead animal but I had a lot of trouble trying to figure out how long this wildlife buffet was around, seeing that there was not much left apart from fur, bones, and a smattering of meat. Apparently the city will pick up dead wildlife from private property so long as the animal was at least as big as a racoon, but the owner would have to bag it and bring it to the curb first. Smaller animals are to be disposed in the garbage. I could not tell initially what animal it was, but it was not small. When I got my bags out and took a closer look, I noticed the tail was striped, and concluded that this used to be a racoon. There was not much left, not even a head to speak of, so I just dumped it into my garbage bin. Pickup is in two days anywa...

I upgraded my NAS this past week. I had found an article detailing how to expand the memory of the device and figured that it was worth spending time and money to try out. My NAS was running quite slowly due to the lack of memory, and I was running out of space on the drive itself, so I purchased a couple of 4 TB drives to go along with the new memory and voila! I have twice as much space, double the redundancy, and eight times the memory. I can even start running some docker stuff with all of this extra RAM. Well, let's see how it performs over the next couple of weeks first. I have noticed a strange short on the USB port which may have been the reason that my external hard drive got fried. (Oh, I also got a new external hard drive for backup.)

So it looks like another lockdown is coming. I had been a little too busy to get my hair cut this past month and now it looks as if I will be getting my hair cut at home again..

Starflight Zero. I had been looking for this book for a while. Not to own, more to remember the name, since I recalled that Stonaday and DL completed that puzzle book and I remember being moved by one of the pages in that book. Another book with a page where a lone warrior held the bridge. I am not sure if that was Helmquest, but I need to see a copy to verify. I did find the " Ten Doors of Doom " but this was not a book I recognized.

 Our COVID-19 tests came out negative, which is a good sign, but we are to isolate for a further several days at least to see if symptoms change. EYS is definitely sick, and it is likely that the rest of us are as well. We just do not know what we have quite yet.

EYS started getting a fever yesterday. We set up an appointment to get tested for COVID-19 this morning. It may be hard to trace since we were at the zoo twice in the past two weeks..

Cases of COVID-19 are going back up so I've put together this PSA because I waited too long to get a hair cut in March and paid the price: Get your haircuts!