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2024 So Far

I have a feeling of moving earth or walking off my itchiness. The growing fat in my belly tells me I am failing on many occasions to give in to this urge. My eyes are blurred by morning glory. I remember my father having the same ritual in the morning. After his weak stroke, he couldn't speak much, just a grunt but he would demonstrate with hand how he liked to wash his face. The weather wasn't helping. It's been raining cats and dogs the past week. The province of Rizal was soaked and spilled volumes of water into the bay and Laguna lake.

Our Caimito tree was cut to no more than 4 feet from the ground. It was towering above the corrugated sheet metal of our roof. Now it lay horizontal on the yard. I calculated it could be made into a whole table and chairs set by a talented carpenter artist. I showed Lino the two big pieces of trunk that could only be moved if cut by a power saw in place.

The road widening project in San Mateo was in the middle stage. One side of the road was dug up and the other side was soon to follow. By the rate this is going, it will stretch to 3 mayoral terms and nobody was going to own it and its mistakes. My part in this long drama is going to be repairing the electric meter board that is going to be consumed by moving the sidewalk farther by a meter.

I bought a new 4 TB Seagate external hard drive. It is intended to be part of the ZFS pool but after retiring a 1TB device I reconstituted the remaining 3 devices into a raid5 pool. I placed the new 4 TB device on stand-by or a replacement device. This new Ironwolf Seagate hard drive is marketed for 24/7 use and costs 4,499. The new zpool named dpool has a capacity of 5.45 TB.

I will not add anything more to my operating system issues. I had had these past days made posts on the issue. It's sad and disappointing. It's also a lot of work.

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From a photograph by Manuel Arias Rodriguez. He was executed for the crime of rebellion.