Eagles Over the Kennebec

Hello, internets!

Yes, yes, no doubt about it -- next week will be an exciting one, so it's a good thing that the week just now clearing our small harbor was so relaxing and uneventful.

Tomorrow (rescheduled from Today), I'll start with the requested changes to Ghost Ship, which I'd actually hoped to have done this weekend, but at this point, that's probably not the way the smart money bets. Possibly, I'll have them done before we head out to Old Orchard Beach Thursday night. This depends on the day-job behaving itself (insert laugh-track here), and Steve's Tuesday a.m. doctor's appointment going well (cross fingers here).

I have perhaps failed to note here that, starting Bright! and! Early! Monday morning, Carousel Tides snippets will be tweeted from @BaenBooks. I'll retweet from @ClanKorval, and will do a digest for the tweetless as we did for Mouse and Dragon -- which is the purpose (oh, you thought I didn't have a reason, silly human?) of this particular message/techology test to the thousand points of light.

And, now -- as soon as I see if this actually posts -- time to do the dishes. Well, past time to do the dishes, but the day got pear-shaped early and never really recovered. Who knew what a process checking out of the hospital is? There's a clear need for TV checkout, here.

Again, many,many thanks for your good wishes and support!

Today, I have laundry, and going back two chapters to put in the set-up for the action in this chapter, and a headache.

It would be nice to lose the headache.

Also! Today's mail brought the extended battery for The Leewit, who is even now powering up and looking annoyingly smug.

The Leewit is an Asus subcompact that weighs less than the book I'm reading at the moment. It has 1024 MB of memory and is running eee-PC 1.0 (which is based on the Linux flavor known as Xandros) on an Intel mobile processor. For ease of moving things between it and the desktop (still no wireless at the Confusion Factory; we're working on it, but it's 'waaaaay down the list and not moving up very fast due to the various necessary things that keep jumping line) -- anyhow. Because the Leewit has very little on-board memory, I bought it a 4-gig PNY SD card. The idea was to save everything I worked on to the card, then move the card to the desktop and download. Simple, easy, efficient.

Except. The desktop -- an HP Pavilion, call-name Altair, that I keep thinking of as "the new computer," though it's obviously not, since it's running XP version 2002 -- does not recognize something so heady and strange as a 4-gig card.

Now the Leewit, which can see and save to this card justfinethanks, informs me that it is looking at Partition One. Which gives rise to the notion that there Could Be a Partition Two and indeed a Partition Three, if I only knew how to partition SD cards in Linux. And! the thought further goes that, if the partitions are small enough and tasty, the desktop will be able to see them.

So, techie-types: Is the second assumption at all valid? And, if so, can someone walk me through the partitioning process?

Abundant Spanish Aunts.