Busy day
Of course. It's Wednesday again.
Gary had to go into Chicago last night because he's filling in for a friend's wife who was unexpectedly hospitalized. They had musical performances booked and need the income, so he's helping out.
That means I get to do all the animal chores here, and I can't really complain about that because he does the bulk of it when I'm at work. Fortunately, it's Wednesday, so I have the morning to get barn chores done. Since I stay at work until 8 pm, which is dusk now, I'll have to rush home on my dinner break to feed and bed down everyone.
It rained again last night. We are slowly sinking into muck and mosquito-ridden hell. I'm sure glad I got new dry rubber boots. I hate the smell of OFF! but I hate mosquitos even more.
To further remind me that it's Wednesday, the library system server is offline all day for software upgrades. This was a scheduled maintenance, and originally was going to take two days, so we can't complain a lot. The upgrades are overdue, having been deferred for two years by the Big Messed Up Consortium while they were in control of our equipment. Still, it means that all books will be checked out today by scribbling on bits of paper, which is highly error-prone. No books can be checked in at all until the system comes back online tomorrow.
Two weeks ago we had a similar down day for data conversion, and that time we closed the library completely. We can't get away with doing it again now, and yet another time in September though.
I have a pile of flax waiting for me to turn it into thread, too. Looks like I won't get to that until later. Off to the barns...
[EDIT, after barn chores: Tess is chafing to get out in the pasture, as she hasn't been out for several days. Unfortunately, half the pasture is under water, I just went out and looked. Checked the NOAA weather broadcast, and though the sun is out just now, they predict showers and thunderstorms this afternoon, and more thunderstorms tonight, possibly heavy. The flood warnings continue. Several major rivers in the region are already over their banks, and not expected to drop back to normal levels until Sunday at the earliest. As with my earlier connection, I'm on our regular voice telephone line. The computer line is out. It started with heavy static Sunday night, and has deteriorated to no dial tone as of this morning. AT&T service promises to have it repaired "by September 7". How's that for customer care?]
Gary had to go into Chicago last night because he's filling in for a friend's wife who was unexpectedly hospitalized. They had musical performances booked and need the income, so he's helping out.
That means I get to do all the animal chores here, and I can't really complain about that because he does the bulk of it when I'm at work. Fortunately, it's Wednesday, so I have the morning to get barn chores done. Since I stay at work until 8 pm, which is dusk now, I'll have to rush home on my dinner break to feed and bed down everyone.
It rained again last night. We are slowly sinking into muck and mosquito-ridden hell. I'm sure glad I got new dry rubber boots. I hate the smell of OFF! but I hate mosquitos even more.
To further remind me that it's Wednesday, the library system server is offline all day for software upgrades. This was a scheduled maintenance, and originally was going to take two days, so we can't complain a lot. The upgrades are overdue, having been deferred for two years by the Big Messed Up Consortium while they were in control of our equipment. Still, it means that all books will be checked out today by scribbling on bits of paper, which is highly error-prone. No books can be checked in at all until the system comes back online tomorrow.
Two weeks ago we had a similar down day for data conversion, and that time we closed the library completely. We can't get away with doing it again now, and yet another time in September though.
I have a pile of flax waiting for me to turn it into thread, too. Looks like I won't get to that until later. Off to the barns...
[EDIT, after barn chores: Tess is chafing to get out in the pasture, as she hasn't been out for several days. Unfortunately, half the pasture is under water, I just went out and looked. Checked the NOAA weather broadcast, and though the sun is out just now, they predict showers and thunderstorms this afternoon, and more thunderstorms tonight, possibly heavy. The flood warnings continue. Several major rivers in the region are already over their banks, and not expected to drop back to normal levels until Sunday at the earliest. As with my earlier connection, I'm on our regular voice telephone line. The computer line is out. It started with heavy static Sunday night, and has deteriorated to no dial tone as of this morning. AT&T service promises to have it repaired "by September 7". How's that for customer care?]