Taking turns

After the dreadful night's sleep I had on Sunday night, it was Diane's turn last night. She was still reading her Kindle late at 1 a.m. and was again disturbed by another bout of Jasper's howling in the early hours. I got up at 06:30 to greet Ellie when she was dropped off. I told her that Nana was still asleep, so she remained downstairs and sat quietly while I made her breakfast. Di did come down a while later, but I told her not to worry about joining me for the school drop-off, as I would do that.

It poured with rain as we prepared to walk to school, but we didn't get too wet. I decided that any walk could wait until later, and went straight home for breakfast.

The first order of business for the rest of the day was the renewal of our travel insurance. This involves ticking the "Over 70" box for each of us and going through the medical declaration for Diane. Knowing how pernickety insurers can be, I decided I should check the answers I gave last year (after all, I knew I had them in an email attachment). Whoa there! Not so fast, compadre. The file was encrypted, and I could neither remember nor find the password. This meant a phone call to Allianz. They were very helpful, and after all the security checks re-sent the password. All was well, and the policy has been renewed for another year.

The rest of the morning was spent trying different approaches to accessing my NAS drives from the new Raspberry Pi. Some worked, some didn't, but I eventually came up with a strategy that I thought would work. Rather than fiddling about, I explained the strategy to ChatGPT and asked it for its analysis. It responded: 

"You’re implementing a reliable, resilient, and non-blocking mount mechanism that avoids the risks of /etc/fstab + hardcoded credentials.

Your thinking is sound, and your design is both safe and flexible."

Well, that'll do for me. I have nearly finished the changes and tested what I have done so far. I should be able to finish this in the morning.

I did manage to get out for a walk at lunchtime, looping through the village so that I could collect Di's meds on the way round.

I collected Ellie from school and helped her carry all of her classwork and books home (as the term ends this week). She wasn't with us for more than a few minutes before Zoe turned up to collect her.