It’s that time of year again to do yard work. This year, I’m trying something a little different. The photo to the right show blue green stuff all over my yard. That’s “Scotts® PatchMaster® Sun & Shade Mix” which is Grass seed with fertilizer and recycled paper as a mulch. It’s a simple idea: Any places that need patching, rake the dirt, put this down on it and watter for a few weeks.
In actuality, It’s a lot of work. My backyard lawn is better than last year, but that’s not saying too much. Since the Mrs. and I like to occasionally entertain with a BBQ, I figured I better do something about it. The Patch mix has to be watered every day for at least a couple of weeks in order to get it to take. When the grass is thick enough, the paper should be absorbed into the ground.
In the mean time. it looks really weird…
I’ve also planted vegetables again. This year:
- 9 broccoli plants
- 2 sweet basil plants
- 2 Greek oregano plants
- 1 cherry tomato plant
- 2 rows of Mesclun mixed salad
- 1 row of regular lettuce
- 1 Strawberry plant
Should be good when done. This photo is just opposite the one above.
Music I’m listening to right Now:
“Counting The Days” by Collective Soul from the “Youth” Album.
"Thor" being the host name of my server. What an educational rebuild that was, I really should document rebuilding the server as this is the third time I've done it in a year and a half.
Naturally, after I painlessly finish an upgrade of Movable Type, I wake up this morning to my server making a horrible noise from it's power supply. I could replace it, but the power supply probably cost more than I paid for the server in the first place. I'm thinking of using an old PC, but frankly, I like that the disk is a RAID array and the PC isn't equipped for RAID.
Not so painful as last time I upgraded. In fact, other than backing up my DB and BLOG, it was fairly painless and done via a command line.
One of my biggest tasks is backing up data to DVD. The Nikon D80 is a 10.2 mega pixels camera and I shoot in RAW. Each raw file averages about 7.8 megabytes and with over 10,000 photo's I've taken since August, that adds up to a lot of disk space. With 
