Wasted Days

Day +27.

After two very late nights in a row, there wasn't a lot of vim and vigour in the day today. Being in your fifties may mean you need less sleep than in your twenties, but I think it means you actually need more regular sleep.

I did manage to get one main thing accomplished today — a rebuild of the 15" MacBook Pro.

I initially made an OSX Lion bootable USB drive, as per these instructions or these. That worked fine, up to a point. Since it is a laptop, when I re-formatted the drive after booting off the USB, I decided to make it encrypted. Unfortunately, the OSX Lion install doesn't work on that. Then, when I re-formatted and tried again with a non-encrypted format, it still didn't work. I'm not exactly sure why — nothing really showed up in the logs and the error message was the rather useless "An error occurred - please try again" variety. Sigh.

So, I ended up reinstalling from my Snow Leopard DVD and then upgrading. Simple, and a bit time consuming, but at least now I have a working Lion Laptop.

It's been practically all weekend without programming and I miss it. Not fun.

A final note — we continue to be plagued by the &^%$*))(*%$% chinook winds. My head feels like a balloon and the migraine this AM was not fun.