I understood more of that than I thought I would, so thanks! I’m happy you entrusted me with all that data. Igor always said I had a “mind like a steel trap: everything that goes in gets mangled,” so I felt fortunate I could picture it all.
I love going outside at night, here, as we are far enough away from Vegas to give us some pretty spectacular night lights, when looking anywhere but north.
Venus and Mars are especially beautiful, early in the AM, and if I had a place to sit with an unobstructed view of the sky, I would go out with my binoculars for an hour, once or twice a week. All the places with seating have roofs. :o[
And now add doing all that in the dark by braille (once I shut off the desk light to save battery..) ;-) I did learn that I need to have the charger for at least one on my laptops (I have three - two Win 7 and one Linux Mint) on a ups for those rare-except-for-hurricane outages that last for two or more hours. But that will require excavating my project table to accomplish. (Picture: all the wires, power cords, mousies, keyboard cables, and monitor cables have become buried under successive layers of parts, paperwork, install cd/dvd's, assorted toolthings, a basketfull or so of USB drives, assorted ram sticks - usually obsolete as they were yanked from a box-in-varying-stages-of-dismemberment, hard drives of questionable utility... So, when I get the gumption I'll shovel it all off, rearrange the wiring to the new specification, and then... bury it all again. ;-)
If it wasn't so chilly outside last night I would have stayed out longer, but I ventured outside with a thinner layer of insulating material than was required by the then extant climate that had changed since the glowing cause of global warmth sank into the Western sea..
I also learned that a lot of what I thought I remembered about what was what and which imaginary god/goddess/mythological critter/musical instrument/whatever was who in the heavens had leaked out of the fissures in my brain, so I need to reacquaint myself with some star-maps..
Beyond of course 'that's Orion, that blur over head is the Pleiades, Ursa the Dipper is that-a-way (or is that Dipper the Big), that's Polaris.. '
And now, I need to finish a printing project for someone. She publishes a monthly newsletter and had been using Staples to print it for her. Since about April she has had me print it for her and is paying me what it cost her at Staples. It's a just-a-bit-better than break even thing but I have found sources for more cost effective* supplies of laser toner and the 27# bright white paper she wants so I don't need to go to Staples for them. And she is willing to wait while supply replenishment is coming. The typical run is 100 or 150 copies of the six page (three sheet of paper) duplex printed and collated. I ran out of paper after 105 copies of this issue, and The Brown Truck People delivered my box of paper yesterday so I can now print up the remaining 45 copies..
For your storage area of trivial info, a ream of 27# paper is 300 sheets..
*Cost effective - the engineer's way to say "cheaper"..