A wet and dreary morning in central Maryland. It wasn’t bothering this guy below grazing in my back yard. The sun did break out at noon to brighten my spirits.

Spent the morning doing security updates due to a data breach at my old company, thank you very much for another parting gift. A company that keeps on giving, our information away.

All I know is that when we had a good number of database engineers all assigned to their systems and infrastructure teams above that made data, hardware, operating systems, networks and backups all secure, when I worked there. I think the applicable phrase is “Not on our watch.”

I was disappointed by my new Dell laptop this morning. The first bios update it gets and it’s frozen. I retired from working with computer a while back and I don’t want to spend my time working on them now. Previous models have been very solid.

I’m tired of technology letting me down. It’s been that way from the start. The damn IBM 8086 and 8088. The crappy Mac Plus and Mac II. And everything in between, to today’s suspect engineering. Yeah, I’m old and probably don’t give credit to the level of today’s technology but I see and hear the same number of people complaining. Not to mention increasing threats from hackers, frauds, scams, thefts and other nefarious threats.

After getting Dell Support, I’m back in business with the laptop. Their engineer was pretty good, and it wasn’t a huge time drain getting it operational again. Being out of the IT game for a while I’m smart enough to seek help when I don’t know.

I’ve got to look at some external online attached storage for next year. I also realized my best camera is 13 years old. At the least it needs a good cleaning. The new equipment is so expensive. Then again, it’s not the equipment pointing the camera.

Time to get outside and get some new images, the camera is fully charged, and I will be soon.