Playtime

The day started much as usual. Some light rain was forecast for the morning, but it didn't start until I was eating my porridge. I had no firm plans for the day, but Diane was going out with her friend Kathie. As Di set off for West Dean (where they were meeting), I headed for the study.

I had a couple of minor projects in mind. The most important, but the quickest, was to amend the program template from which I start all new programs. I have recently observed a condition that introduces an error into the code being developed. It only took about 10 minutes to change, test, and file the changes. This took me on to my second project, which I seeded from this new template. This was a routine that would run daily to clear out any accumulation of log files that were over a certain age. It is too easy for these files to build up and slowly choke the disk. By lunchtime, the code was written and tested, and the program was installed and scheduled to run just before midnight daily.

This seemed like a good time to go for a walk. The rain had stopped, and the pavements had dried up. I set off for a slightly modified route around the estate. As I walked, my audiobook chattered away in my ears. As usual, I was out for just over an hour and then headed back to grab some lunch and settle down with my Kindle. I only read for about an hour as I had the urge to play some more. I returned to the study and reviewed the way in which my external drives are mounted on the iMac. With a little research, I found a mechanism that was not dissimilar to the approach I had adopted on the Raspberry Pi's. This looks most satisfactory and seems to have worked consistently each time I rebooted the iMac. (The old method always seemed to miss one or two drives, and I had to handle them manually.)

Di got back from her day out soon after 17:00, and we have just finished dinner (pork loin steaks, since you asked).