Friday 21 February 2025: Ebooks all backed up

I only managed my 3 chair exercises yesterday before going out to run my errand. At some point this week I’ve twisted my knee. I don’t know if I turned funny on my foot or if I twisted it doing the step exercises. But it’s crept up on me and on Wednesday night it was actually swollen and it tingled if I bent my leg. I forgot, though, that I was supposed to be putting an elasticated bandage on it the next morning, and just went out regardless.

This time I drove to Edlington where the band drummer has his butcher’s shop. It was one of his days off and his eldest son served me while the younger one cracked a funny about me being 2 days early. I bought chicken breasts for yesterday’s tea and sausages for today’s tea, a toad in the hole. Then I had a hankering for a bacon sandwich, so I asked for back bacon too. And then I thought streaky bacon would also be nice if the poet wanted to stuff and wrap the chicken pieces. They didn’t have any unsmoked streaky bacon, so I asked for another 4 slices of back bacon.

On the way to Edlington was a police traffic control unit. There was an incident involving a broken down articulated lorry just off one of the small traffic islands, and one police officer was making sure everyone had a fair go at getting around it. The traffic island didn’t help as that meant cars were coming from more than one direction. It was still ongoing on the return journey, but there was no unnecessary build up of traffic.

Once back home I put everything away and started the big job of getting my Calibre book library off Google Drive and onto the Mac. As there are more than 10,000 files in the Calibre book library (when you add mobi files, epub files and pdf files plus duplicates), neither the Mac nor Google would let me zip it all up. So I had copy and paste them in batches of 30 folders, then delete the download directory as I went so I didn’t clog up the storage on the Mac. 

While I did that, I carried on reading the current book. This is my 5^th book since the new year that I’ll also be writing a review for. Three of the books were in one omnibus. Two of the books were re-reads to jog my memory. I updated my reading log but still have about 1¼ hours left of Book 5. I really ought to start catching up on those reviews now I’ve bothered with the reads.

When it was done, and I was confident it was done, I deleted the folders from Google Drive and emptied the bin. It took a few refreshes and one browser restart to get my storage to go down from 4.75Gb to 95Mb. But go down it did. 

That means My Kindle Content is now on the Mac and so is my Calibre library. They’re already also on the Seagate hard drive (PC), and when I do my next weekly backup, they’ll also be on the Crucial hard drive (Mac). 

I shared the gig list and I shared yesterday’s blog post to BlueSky. 

I had Cheerios for breakfast and I made a bacon and mushroom sandwich for my dinner. It was only when I sat down to start today’s blog post that I remembered the elastic bandage for my knee. Of course, I couldn’t find it and instead had to try a complicated strap thing that never stays in the right place. Then I had a brainwave and found not just one elasticated bandage, but an entire roll of tubular elastic bandage.

I pulled it onto my leg and doubled it over, like we’re supposed to, but it was more like a wrist bandage than a bandage for my big fat leg. I forced it on, though, even if the top did keep rolling over and cutting off my circulation. I only had to leave it on for a couple of hours, but I did wonder if it would even last that long.

Then I finally settled down to do some work, just as the poet called to let me know he was on his way home! And looking forward to his own bacon sandwich…(Not *that* poorly, then!) (Mind you, bacon sandwich?) I started off Monday’s blog post, as it’s a publication day post, then had a look at The Haunted House Hotel.

No gigs this weekend, but we might go to the motorhome show in Birmingham or we might just take the van out for a run. Whatever you’re doing, have a good one!