Time is tight

As Booker T. said. (Well, he didn’t really say it, since it was an instrumental, but you get the point.) I am backed up on e-mail (thanks, Peter, for the note, and I’m dying to answer your questions . . . perhaps tonight). Last night I had to fight with the Zip drive, and after much experimentation came to the same conclusion that I had started off with, that the drive is dead. Debated upgrading to a much bigger Zip drive, but the real need is just to be able to completely backup my hard drive from time to time. Drives are now so cheap that that’s affordable, and much more likely to happen (and to be useful) than incremental backups of all the bits and pieces that appear on 80GB of computer. So, in order to get the old stuff off the old Zips, I’m off to eBay, where I can get a drive that will work for a while. (I have another external Zip drive, but the SCSI-to-USB interface that I would need will cost more than a replacement drive. Crazy.)

So, that took up last night. That and a trip to the library to pick up a book that was waiting for me, but of course I had forgotten my library card. I had flashes of old WWII “Is This Trip Necessary?” posters in my head on the way back. Sea level will rise, albeit imperceptibly, because I’m a moron. I don’t mind if it happens for a purpose, mind you.


Lots of changes around here, very interesting how everybody’s shuffling for the third term. Then I heard that a colleague in another state was getting a judgeship, and in searching for that story, found that California Governor Gray Davis went to his inaugural celebration in jeans. Let’s take ALL the dignity out of government, shall we?