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A slower day, didn't get everything done but that's OK. Weather was decent, a bit warm and humid but not stifling. Mosquitoes still in evidence but they seem to be declining somewhat. (And it's about time.)
No hay to stack, but lots of laundry. I went out to gather Queen Anne's Lace and Goldenrod flowers to dye some wool, and that was the only time the mosquitoes really "bugged" me. The cut flowers will sit until tomorrow in the garage, so as to allow more of the ants and other insects that came with them to escape before I simmer them in a dye bath. I've thought for ten years that we had no goldenrod on our property, but it turns out there's a large stand of it back in the pastures. Gary has been less compulsive about mowing this year, and the plants made it to flowering size. Both goldenrod and Queen Anne's produce a nice clear yellow, with goldenrod tending a bit more toward orange.
I put Tess out in the morning so her hooves would get wet with dew, as the farrier recommends. Bugs still harrassed her, but at least her eyes weren't all runny when I brought her in. I think the flies do that to her, but she hates wearing a fly mask. I did have repellent on her face, but it's not 100% effective.
Ran a Fortran performance benchmark on both of the Alphas. The older one at home is a 433 MHz clock, while the one at work is 620 or thereabouts, so I did expect that machine to be faster. I did NOT, however, expect it to finish the task in 8 hours as opposed to 26 hours on the slower machine. Evidently the performance differences between the generation 5 and generation 6 CPU chips is a lot more than I thought, or else the memory bus speed is much higher in the newer machine. This program is almost all double precision math, though, without arrays or other storage processing and with almost no I/O.
No hay to stack, but lots of laundry. I went out to gather Queen Anne's Lace and Goldenrod flowers to dye some wool, and that was the only time the mosquitoes really "bugged" me. The cut flowers will sit until tomorrow in the garage, so as to allow more of the ants and other insects that came with them to escape before I simmer them in a dye bath. I've thought for ten years that we had no goldenrod on our property, but it turns out there's a large stand of it back in the pastures. Gary has been less compulsive about mowing this year, and the plants made it to flowering size. Both goldenrod and Queen Anne's produce a nice clear yellow, with goldenrod tending a bit more toward orange.
I put Tess out in the morning so her hooves would get wet with dew, as the farrier recommends. Bugs still harrassed her, but at least her eyes weren't all runny when I brought her in. I think the flies do that to her, but she hates wearing a fly mask. I did have repellent on her face, but it's not 100% effective.
Ran a Fortran performance benchmark on both of the Alphas. The older one at home is a 433 MHz clock, while the one at work is 620 or thereabouts, so I did expect that machine to be faster. I did NOT, however, expect it to finish the task in 8 hours as opposed to 26 hours on the slower machine. Evidently the performance differences between the generation 5 and generation 6 CPU chips is a lot more than I thought, or else the memory bus speed is much higher in the newer machine. This program is almost all double precision math, though, without arrays or other storage processing and with almost no I/O.
