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At least a little. Things seem to be slowing down a bit, though it will take until Sunday to get past all the fuddle and flurry.

That load of hay finally came in this morning. The big wagon, but fortunately we can take the whole weekend to unload it.

Service guy came to look at the heat pump, too. This time we got the guy out from the place that installed it, though they are much more expensive and not always helpful. He says a circuit board needs replacement ($250) and found the pressure in the underground loop was down again after just being pumped back up a month ago. That worries me a lot more.

Sent off my entries for the show in Woodstock, in spite of my doubts about the validity and security of our month long lease on the show space. Booked my gallery sitting hours. So that's taken care of. Scheduled October 4 off to help put up the show display.

Car goes in for service in the morning, but should get it back by 5 pm. With any luck this time they'll find and fix the slow leak in one tire. Gary and Rob are scheduled to play in Belvidere at the Pioneer Festival Saturday mid-day, so Rob is coming out by train and will stay over Friday night. And by Saturday evening, all the fuss should be over. Maybe I can even go pick apples on Sunday.

Oh, and we had a "technology" meeting with the trust board committee on Wednesday evening. It seems my new boss is backing down on her previous desire to get rid of Linux and put Windows on all the public access machines. She has recognized the clear cost savings we get from Linux, and also that it isn't as "alien" as she first thought it was. She used to be sure that people couldn't use OpenOffice, but now she has seen that they do so every day without complaint or difficulty. The actual cost of our Linux installations, including hardware and software maintenance, comes to just more than half what it would be to equip the same number of seats with Windows 7 and Microsoft Office. It also saves on electricity since we drive the equivalent of six workstations from one multiheaded server, something that Windows can't do. With Linux we get 18 working seats from three machines, where Windows would require 18 separate PCs, all of them with extra ram, newer CPU, more disk space, and half a dozen management and security programs added (all with annual license fees.)