Saw the tall reeds in the back moving in a way that meant either the groundhog was back or deer were browsing earlier in the evening than normal. Went out front to get garbage can in, then walked to the back. The mourning doves pillaging the bird feeder like hungry teenage boys skittered, but I didn’t notice big movement in the back, so I walked to the gate. Behind the fence is kinda like a hedge (but wild) that screens the right side, but the left side is open to the woods. I stood still leaning on the gate for a minute or two without seeing anything and almost opened the gate to get a closer look at some wild asters, but then I saw movement in the hedge. Eventually the deer made her way into the open (moving from right to left), about 25-30 feet in front of the gate. She turned and gave me a quick look, unable to decide if I was capable of movement. She had to bob her head around some plants to get a good look at my face. Finally she decided I wasn’t just an image and she snorted to startle me. I had heard this before but forgot how loud it was. I was able to hold still, and she kept on snorting at me, probably 40 times over the next 5 minutes. Finally she decided to turn and go into the woods, but not without giving me a few more snorts from cover. I wish I had taken my phone to record.
The deer have learned they can bound the fence and have been seen inside the fence where we previously thought our hydrangeas and other flowers were safe. Thinking about putting up some temporary netting to discourage bounding. It won’t prevent it the first time, but maybe the inconvenience will convince them that they don’t want Mrs G taking more severe measures.
FINALLY sold two of the 5 servers I pulled out of the data center a couple months ago. They’ve been sitting on the floor in my office taking up space. So the pile’s a bit smaller now.
tan to annoyed thoughts, I paid IIRC $4k each. Got $100 per. Jeepers. And the horrible part is, they’re still way overpowered for most any type of online work.
And I’ve still got like a dozen hard drives to dump as well. High end expensive enterprise drives, nobody wants them at any price. Sitting in my office.
But I sold two servers!
(Seen in my Facebook feed today, but story appeared on USPS.com in 2017) Jax of hearts – USPS Employee News
from that USPS coverage
What a wonderful day. Took.my camp stove to my buddies moms place. Made fish and chips for lunch for me, my buddy, his 85yo mom and her home keeper. Sat on the front porch and had English style battered perch and my world famous french fries, and talked for an hour or two.
Then buddy took us to his electronics manufacturing plant for a tour. 100,000 square feet of sci fi, I bet there’s nothing else like it in Canada. I was overwhelmed before we were done the tour.
He offered to tour me through their robotics manufacturing facility but I deferred to next visit. I couldn’t take any more in.
New fridge is in! It’s the updated version of the prior one, exact same dimensions. There are a few changes but overall it’s comparable.
More thoughts on my buddy. One of the things they manufacture are those cams on wires that they use for sports stadiums. I asked if anyone else makes them, yep.
This is the type of thing he does. He said he’s buying some company that’s related to those cams. Then he said he’s got three or four other things that will be coordinated and that’ll likely be the end of the competition.
He also said they were looking for a test facility, he came up with the bright idea to put it in the local arena. Town of 2500 people in the middle of nowhere, now with a state of the art stadium camera system lol.
Isn’t that old technology? I thought drones would do a better job.
I’m certainly no expert, but I don’t think so, not if my buddy is doing it. He said all the NFL stadiums have it, theyre all over Australia, they do all the big cricket matches in India etc.
Perhaps it’s easier to use and more accurate than drones. But I actually don’t know. I should’ve asked him but by the time we got talking about that I was overwhelmed.
Gonna make some cream of butternut squash soup and bake some bread tonight!!! 
I’ll have a look out for them next time I’m in Australia.
Made it to San Antonio, flight was delayed a few hours so I’m a little hangry. Free margarita at the hotel check-in is helping!
I’d think battery time on the drone could be an issue. And the fact that they don’t want them crashing into the spectators or onto the field. I remember once when a line broke and the camera almost crashed into the field and they had to delay the game half an hour or so to remove it.
Happiness is cooking a bunch of food on Sunday and having leftovers all week!
What did you make??? 
Plain shredded chicken: can add preferred BBQ sauce or add it to anything… like stir in some taco seasoning and make a quesadilla or stir it into spaghetti & favorite sauce or… anything!
Also made homemade mac & cheese to go with it yesterday and veggies. The veggies won’t last but I’ll make more.
Noticed right before bed there was a solid chance to see the aurora tonight, so I hopped in the car and …
My first flight today was delayed, my connection was only an hour so I didn’t have a lot of wiggle room. We landed, and I saw I only had to walk two gates over, made it with about five minutes to spare. So I’ll be home in time for dinner.
I had a similar one… I think sometimes they do that on purpose.
Was flying to visit STBX’s parents (back when we were together obviously) and had a tight connection. The initial flight was delayed quite a bit. I looked at the gate assignments… different concourses in ATL with 15 minutes to deplane, get to the right gate and board. Nope, no way. Texted STBX I was going to miss the connection and would keep him posted.
Got a notification on my phone that there was a gate change. The second flight was boarding at the very next gate over from the first flight that was deplaning. At Atlanta!
But I had noticed a preponderance of paraphernalia for the local sports team at the city of my final destination on my first flight, so there were a bunch of us making the same connection. I assume that the airline didn’t want to deal with rebooking ALL of us, so they made it easy on us. No way that gate change was a random serendipitous coincidence.
The sort of thing that technology probably helps with.