October 5, 2025 - Daily Inventory

 Sunday is always a busy day for me. We start with church which is always good for me. After church, we do a coffee hour with the congregation. I bring cookies to that.

Once we got home, I had about an hour to myself before we left here to attend a committee meeting for the 2026 midwinter roundup. that went relatively well, not much stress at that.

We came home and I finished cooking supper which I had started in that hour I previously had at home.

I met with a guy I sponsor at 6 pm. Another one at 7 pm. Then, we host a zoom meeting at 8 pm. 

Checking my email, I see that my day isn't over just yet.

October 4, 2025 - The Backup

 I had a few false starts with those backups I was doing. At first I started with that thumb drive. That didn't work out. So, then I found some space on one of my external drives and combined with some other space on another external drive it seemed that would work. Then, I remembered I had a blank drive that had about a terrabyte of free space on it so I tried that. It is way too slow with file transfers. I did a bit more digging and I did locate a 2 terrabyte drive that is about half empty so that would provide me with one terrabyte of storage space. A terrabyte is a thousand gigabytes and trust me, that's a fair amount of storage space. I should be able to get the completed backups on that drive.

I noticed a few things while doing this. The music foles are currently stored so that there is no band name in the file title so when I move each file to its respective year folder, I'm having to rename each one so that I will know which band it is. That is time consuming, but there is also a plus to storing these backups on a hard drive. 

When I made the original dvd backup, most of the discs were writable but not re-writable, so its not possible to add data to them. But, with putting them on a hard drive, I can very easily add data to the folders. Since the probability exists that I will have acquired music for each year after I had made each backup, then I will have extra data to store in each year. So, I'm happy with that.

I'm just taking the files I recently started and storing them all on the terrabyte drive. Taking a bit of time but not too much.

October 3, 2025 - There is always one more.

 I started a new side project. I came up with the idea by setting out to do something else. Every new year, in January, I make dvd backups of all the new music I acquired in the previous year. The years end will soon be upon us so I thought I'd pick up a spindle of blank DVDs. On my way to Staples, the thought occurred that I could just use an external drive to back them up on. I found a cheap thumb drive, less than 20 bucks so I decided to try that out. I have found that you get what you pay for. It was on sale for a reason. Frustrated, I checked the hard drives I have here and i did find one with about 350 gigs of free space on it, so I decided to store all the music backups I have on that one drive. The ones that I do have date back to 2010 and I should be able to get all those on there. I'll pick up a newer drive later and transfer them all to that.

Then, I had a lightbulb moment. I found another drive where I could temporarily store a large amount of files. On that drive, I created a folder called Backups. Inside that folder I created sub folders for 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009. Then, I went to my master drive and started going through each folder looking for albums released in those years. The theory is that I will in this way create backups as far back as 2000. Once I get the new drive, which I presume will be a terrabyte or two, I'll transfer all the backups to that one and then create backups of the 1990s and then the 1980s and then the 1970s and so on. It should take me about a year. Or longer. 

October 2, 2025 - the Tenth Step Journal

 Someone remarked that doing a blog like this can be considered a tenth step journal. I write about my day and run off on little tangents and may quite possibly learn things about myself in the process. Today had its ups and downs. My word today was expectations. I wrote about that in my god box blog and afterward I tried not to have expectations about a couple things I had planned for the day. Both of those things involved meeting with people I sponsor. Long story short, both of them canceled. One canceled about an hour prior to us meeting and the other one canceled almost two hours after our planned meeting. Needless to say, I was not impressed.

I did have conversations on social media with other persons whom I do not sponsor and those talks seemed to be helpful to the persons involved, so that was a bonus. Because of the free time I had, I was able to record next week's podcast so that was another plus.

Nancy was out with the girls so I made us a nice meal for when she got home. then, we went to a meeting. One of the other guys that I sponsor drove us there. As it turned out the meeting was just what I needed. I often say that I don't need to go to a meeting every day. I probably only need one meeting a week, but I never know which one it is. So, I go to seven a week and by the end of the week I have it figured out.

October 1, 2025 - One Day At a Time.

 First of October already. It's been a good day so far. I uploaded my weekly podcast and spent some time working on next week's episode.

Nancy picked up a pre-cooked barbecue chicken from the superstore. I made a tossed salad from iceberg lettuce, grape tomatoes, sliced cucumber and sliced mushroom so thats supper. I also have some pumpernickel bread to go with it.

We're going to tallahassee tonight. I have cookies that I baked yesterday while I was doing the Sunrise stuff and I also have leftover chocolate cake from that, so that's all good.

My wednesday afternoon just canceled. Can't say I'm surprised, but it is what it is. I might be able to meet with someone else if she hasn't committed to anything else. Really, it's about priorities.