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Wednesday, April 14 2021
I had pseudoephedrine again, so I took a 150 milligram dose before the day got going. And what a day it was! The weather was absolutely perfect in the way that normally only happens maybe 5 days of the year, though we've had about twice that many already.
Meanwhile, I was trying to get a clone of the SSD on Wolverine (my "ideal" Windows development box) installed on my work-issued laptop (an HP Envy with an AMD Ryzen 5 processor). I was having trouble getting the image to boot that laptop, but I eventually got it to work by enabling "legacy support" in the BIOS configuration. One of the benefits of making my work-issued laptop into a clone of my ideal Windows development box is that it no longer is part of the Symantec Endpoint Protection Cloud, which the corporate masters had made me install (I hadn't had presence of mind to not install it while claiming to have installed it). This had prevented me from having complete control over my machine. One of the things I'd wanted to do was uninstall Symantec Endpoint Protection Cloud, but once it was installed, that wasn't possible short of doing what I just did.
As I've mentioned, in the past, clones of Windows installations generally didn't run well on new hardware, and for many years I was in the habit of doing fresh Windows installations when I needed Windows on some new computer. (Part of the reason I have so many Compaq 2740ps is to have interchangeable hardware for known good Windows — and perhaps Linux — installations.) But with Windows 10, it's mostly possible to relocate boot drives between very different computers (so long as the processors are compatible). So now I can do what I've been doing all along with Raspberry Pis: perfecting a setup on one particular machine and then cloning it to others as needed.
At some point today I drank a beer and then had some booze, as has become my new Wednesday ritual. At 5:00pm, I started making one of the two dishes I make as my weekly contribution to the preparation of dinner. Tonight it was spaghetti with tempeh, mushrooms, and onions. Otherwise I would've made chili (containing tempeh, mushrooms, and onions, among other things).
This evening I ate some totally-legal cannabis and read something about the evolution of the vertebrate eye. I'd been led there as part of the wave of research I did after watching My Octopus Teacher several nights ago.
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