I had a nice little lie-in until about 09:30 and then I was up and about to see what the weather was doing. And we were having the heaviest snowfall that we have had for a couple of years.
That put paid to just about every plan that I had for today.
Instead I stayed by the fire, watched a film and uninstalled all of my 3D programs. You might well wonder why, but I’ve come to realise that I’m doing everything back to front and making far more work for myself. As well as that, some new product that has been released would simply not work at all and as the support for the previous versions has now discontinued, I needed to have it sorted out;
After many vicissitudes, several false starts and some help from a contributor in an on-line forum, which included the classic, if not legendary explanation “Just because you’ve used the program’s automatic installer does not mean that it has installed the files where the program is looking for them” – and I wish that I could have a pint of whatever the software designers were drinking when they thought that a satisfactory manner of progressing.
But much to my surprise, once I’d sorted that out it fired up first time and seems to work perfectly.
I’ll try it again tomorrow to see, but if this is indeed the case, then not only can I completely bin the older version and everything that i’ve done on it, I can bin the last couple of months’ work too.
As a postscript to today’s post, something has happened that I don’t think has ever happened before.
We had absolutely no solar energy – hardly surprising seeing as how much snow fell during the day (the snow in the raingauge melted down to 13.5mm of rain, so that’s about 135mm of snow). That’s happened a couple of times of course, but it was not a totally blank day, because I had about half an hour of wind and thus a small amount of wind energy.
I’m sure that this is the first time that I’ve had more wind energy than I’ve had solar energy.
