A drippy, grey morning today. 

Re-synced my data backups of my main home machine so feeling pretty good about that. Too much on there that I’d rather not lose. I still want to have an offline mirror of the vacation photos (8 TB covering quite a few years) but will likely need to code up some tools to make that happen.

I’ve got to clean up the rsync scripts that handle this chore sometime soon. Currently they’re scattered all around the system and named things like aaa.cmd and such. I should run this process more often to make sure that I don’t lose too much if I have a problem…making that easy is the first step to making it happen…

Got to grab the Xilinx Spartan-6 tools sometime soon…even if I’m not ready to do too much with VHDL, having them around would be nice. Just created a Xilinx account for work reasons anyway so should be straightforward.

Relatively unexciting weekend overall. More digging and some image post-processing of shots from our trip to England a couple of years ago (yeah, it seems to sometimes take that long to get these things done). I’ll probably post some galleries here once I get some decent sets of shots finished. Mostly focused on shots for Lorna’s scrap-booking first though.

Finished digging out the main trench for the walkway and back-filled it with sifted clay to the level that I want to start from. I’ll likely wind up putting another inch or two of base in there before I get to layering in the aggregate.

I did find out that the ‘T’ on the trench (which I had thought was fine) is actually neither wide enough or deep enough. I’m in the process of getting that addressed at this point.

I’ve been dumping the sifted soil from this area down the front slope as that is more convenient and I’ve got plenty of material in the piles that were dug out earlier to top up this trench once it is deep enough.

I’m also putting the left over small rocks (from the sifting process) on the paths up to the far side of the driveway. I had planned to put crushed rock here, but the supply for the parking spot was used up elsewhere and these stones are available so I’m expecting that they’ll do.

The weekend finished on a down note at one of the life cables for the garage door snapped. Amazon did come to the rescue as they have replacement cables and so I should have a pair (may as well replace both) in hand by mid-week.