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I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I got home, did the dishes and then started cleaning up my desk. After that (well, kinda during) I performed some needed wire management under my desk and cleaned out all of the dust accumulating under there as well. In the midst of that I set up Time Machine (which is actually still running).

I initially set it up on a 300G disk that I had laying around – but after a random amount of time it’d make a single loud click and then the disk would hang. Time Machine just sat there, waiting and there was no way to gracefully kill it – I just had to turn off power to the external enclosure. I swapped that out with a much smaller 80G HD that I had laying around and it’s just large enough to backup with some meaningful file system exclusions (such as my music and download folders for starters).

In my rummaging I found the above Dilbert comic that I cut out when I read it. It’s dated 8/17/97. I’m good at holding onto things – such as all those HDs I have laying around (but it turned out useful tonight!). The colors look nowhere as close to vibrant as they do in the image above – but 11+ years on newsprint with no real effort to preserve them will do that to most things I wager.

With my desk organized, I have some Legos to unpack and organize – which is actually one of the catalysts for all of this cleaning in the first place. I’m surprised that it’s only a bit past 10 and I’ll still have a couple of hours left to futz around before crashing – which is always nice.

Productivity + Relaxation = Win