After playing around with the programs that weren't working the way they should be working this past week and a half, it looks like maybe it's all good now. I sure hope so.
The camera videos are still there. I'm backing them up a couple of times a day, just in case, but it is really nice to login and see them still where they're supposed to be, not lost in the ether forever. Still, keeping an eye on them. Just in case.
We did have a little burp with the Plex system. And it was all because of closed captions in television shows. Almost 40% of the dialog was missing. We have a lot of ambient noise here and when people whisper, the volume goes up. Then they get loud and it blows us out of our seats. I had to completely uninstall Plex on the PC (I used Revo portable to do this, great software, right now it's on sale, two years for $15, and let me tell you, it's worth every cent; it gets rid of all the bits and pieces of software left behind), then I reinstalled it. It was a PITA to have to wait to have all the media reindexed, but it's great now. The only "grrr" moment was when I lost all of my playlists. But I did have most of them saved as different extensions and used MusConv to convert them back to Plex extensions and they're working, too.
I cut Brian's hair yesterday, vacuumed, and dusted.
Because of the problems with the closed captioning, I also got the headphones working again. Brian has his, I have mine. I use one of these, there are cheaper versions, but they aren't the most reliable in the long run. This thing is great. I did lose the manual, so I found the English version online, downloaded it, printed it out in color, trimmed it down, and made a cute little booklet out of it, highlighting the parts that are pertinent to me. As I've been doing for a while, I used an acrylic pen to mark the connections on the unit that work with my application. (So, the next time I have to do this, it doesn't take me over an hour to figure out why it's not working, which is what happened yesterday.)
All in all, it was a good weekend.
I was disappointed to find out that I'd most likely missed the opportunity to watch the comet, but it won't be the first time I've missed something spectacular. We did have clouds last week then this weekend, when it's clear, the comet has pretty much faded. So, I'll just have to wait 80,000 years to see it, I guess.
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