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As they say, "It's not over until the fat lady sings." Left home in a light drizzle, soon needed windshield wipers, by the time I got to work it was snowing. Now it's snowing hard, and accumulating. Current forecast calls for up to two inches before dark. I imagine it will melt quickly, but this further establishes the new record for snowfall in a single winter here. Looking at the long term forecast, there's a day next week with possible snow as well.

The Drupal hangup has been resolved. Sometimes the stability of Linux-based systems actually can cause unexpected little obstacles, and this was one of them. Drupal was unable to connect to the PostgreSQL database I had installed a month ago, even though I'd been using the database for various tests all that time.

The reason? Drupal was using a TCP/IP connection, while the local psql command uses a Unix socket. Though the first thing I did after installing was to alter the PostgreSQL configuration file and send a reload command to the server, it turns out that there are a few small things that can't be changed by a reload of the config file. Opening the TCP port is one of those. The system had not been rebooted since a power outage took it down in December. Once I realized what the problem was, I did a reboot of the Alpha server and now Drupal is happy and I can start exploring the possibilities for redoing our web site with it.