Well, it's the day before Cthulhumas eve, and all through the Château, lots of tentacles were stirring...and I'm not trying to rhyme...

Was an early start, was having a lovely visual dream about a bay or a loch or something in the UK. Lovely view of fog over water, then a rainbow through the fog. Then I woke up...and was wide awake. Got up, wished Amythest a happy spawning day, and noticed that Hydra's external 5tb drive wasn't mounted. Or detectable. *sigh* USB3 is one of buggiest bits of hardware out there. Verified the drive is fine by plugging it into two other systems. I tried making all kinds of changes to fix things, and eventually gave up. Went back to bed and dozed. Sadly Hydra didn't fix itself while I was sleeping. The plan is either to move the drive, figure out a hack fix for usb3 and Linux Mint 17.3, or test some other linux version on Hydra's gear. But not tonight, the plan is to do it on Saturday. See what I can do. I guess I could always reinstall Linux Mint 17.2 (where things just worked). We'll see.

Got back up, got mail, went to pick up a small gift bag...and I saw someone who might have been one of Mom's friends back when she lived in Menopause Manor before her fall. I ducked down an aisle and got out of the store pretty quick. I just couldn't handle telling someone that Mom had passed. Not right now. *sigh* Did the daily critter care, but I didn't stay long...I just wanted to be home. So I came home, got comfy, nuked some dinner, and I'm watching episodes of 'The Expanse'. Pretty nifty show so far, fair amount of science in the science fiction. Probably going to stay up late again, I don't have to be anywhere tomorrow til late afternoon. Then Star Wars and friends. Yay. On that, I'll call this a post. Catch you all later.