Flashes of Panic

Two days later, I’m still working on that Mac OS 10.3 upgrade. Once I’d cleared the decks work-wise (and I’m a little surprised that that actually happened,) I discovered I had some work to do if I wanted to get this done “right.”

“Right,” in this case, means backing up my data and doing a clean install on a freshly-formatted disk. To make that easier, I had to clean out my working files and archive as much as possible to CD- and DVD-ROMs. After that, I had to address backup media: the external HDD I planned to use was stuffed with about 40 GB of working files from last year’s DVD. I pruned those, compressed them into two archives, and filled two more DVD-ROMs. Now the backup has begun. With any luck I will be able to start the system upgrade before I need to head home and feed the hungry tiger.

Now playing: Custer’s Blues from Too Close To Heaven • The Unreleased Fisherman’s Blues Sessions by The Waterboys