Yep. I am dead serious about eliminating digital notes from most of my workflow.

In the valley below the old family farm, floods were terrifying. You could hear phones ringing all down the valley, "Get on the ridge". Then you heard the roar. The Hughes river would go from being waist deep to carrying 20' logs and farm equipment off. Then you spent the next week helping people clear out the mud and repair the damage.

I am afraid to ask what that is.

If I had a message like that appear on mine, I'd remain totally ignorant of the emergency.

Lamenting the fact that Staples isn't open at 05:30. I'd love to pick up some new notebooks before the morning rush. Could use a smaller folio/laptop bag too. The thing I carry now is cavernous..

You can ultimately file most technological promises in the same bin as Santa Claus.

[twilson@RHEL6 ~]$ scp coffeepot.kitchen.home.lan/coffee coffeecup.office.home.lan/:
ssh: Could not resolve hostname coffeecup.office.home.lan/: Name or service not known
lost connection

Linux is worthless.

Asking for trouble is opening up all the honeypot ports and watching the scripted attacks sink in the mire.

No. I kept it unfurnished until the French drain system was extended and a secondary pump was in place. This, also, was an extraordinary rainfall year. Rained almost daily from Thanksgiving until January.

[twilson@largo ~]$ sudo iptables --list IPBLOCK -n | wc -l19

It's quiet out there. Too quiet