Data movements

Yesterday was a fairly quiet day, but headed down to see Rob and Em in the evening to watch the rugby and drop my old phone off to Rob. I did put it on Ebay but two people failed to pay for it. My theory is that because most of the stuff I sell on there is fairly specialist (vintage computers, etc), generally the people bidding for it aren't twats. We also watched a fascinating programme about travelling by train from Berlin to the Rhein area of Germany, the only downside was it being presented by Michael Portillo, who is downright embarrassing at times.

Today was a weird day. Despite the reports of torrential rain and flooding elsewhere in the country, it was nice here for most of the day, only raining in the evening. I almost took advantage of the weather but ended up spending quite some time sorting out stuff on the computers. I've been thinking for a while that three Alienware machines is probably a bit much so today I transferred all the stuff on the M15x to the M17x, wiped it, and listed it on Ebay. It had two bids before it had even been on there an hour, so that's a good sign. The M15x has been replaced by the newer M14x for over a year now but they seem to hold their value pretty well. Perhaps because they are more modular, with the graphics card being a separate board, while the M14x has it built into the motherboard. Well, we'll see how it does.

Also treated the M11x to some new feet since the ones on it are pretty useless. The new ones are much grippier and lift it up more so that there is better airflow.

I did make a start on sorting out some of the crap that is lying around on the two remaining machines, but got distracted by watching movies. There is a lot of stuff that's just been transferred from machine to machine to machine and never been sorted out. Not least some of the stuff that dates back when I was still using a Mac.

Not much else to report really. Still seemingly unable to start exercising, which is proving more and more frustrating.