They’re out! They started making a showing last weekend. The earliest of the bloomers are the red Asiatics…the yellow Asiatics started popping out about 2 days later. Hot on their heels are the Lollipops, with their creamy centers rimmed with rose pink.
April Gallery of Flowers
Contact form not working
Blargh…looks like a problem with the form plugin this site is using. I’m troubleshooting the problem, and I’ll hopefully get it back up and running soon.
TSVNCache.exe
I heard some disturbing hard drive noise from the server over the last week. I began to suspect imminent failure, but the click of doom was too intermittent and unusual sounding to indicate a hard drive failure. Just this week I began experiencing issues browsing the server using RDP. A defrag didn’t help speed things up…Windows Explorer would hourglass and take a very long while to open folders and navigate through directories. A big concern.
I checked task manager and discovered TSVNCache.exe sitting in the top 10 list…so I Googled up the process and discovered it was quite a cpu/memory hog. I ended the process right away and Windows Explorer was back to its zippy self.
I still have to perform some diagnostics on the server this weekend after a lightning strike blew the UPS up. My workstation setup is currently running on surge protectors.
A dog eating grass…
…is his way of telling you he has an upset tummy. Specifically, gastrointestinal blockage. In the case of our 125lb Great Dane, the blockage was caused by an Ace bandage. His lack of appetite had us puppy parents rushing him to the vet after 3 days of lethargy. Of course, after dropping $350 in medical expenses (as DH had to point out this cost to me), Dill cured himself. The source of his discomfort unraveled like a black river in our living room. Fun times having to clean up the mess, but we were rewarded by Dill’s happy old self again.