Blaugust Rambling About The Olympics and my Hard Drive

Rio Olympics

The 2016 Summer Olympics started this weekend and I spent quite a bit of time vegging out and watching the various sporting events. Here’s the current medal count…

US and China are tied at the moment with the most medals and I’ve found I’ve enjoyed watching other countries compete when the US wasn’t in the finals.

Here are my favorite events that I’ve seen so far, not necessarily in order:
1) I’ve enjoyed watching the bicycle road races, both men and women – they were pretty intense and came down to the last 500 meters, and there were some significant accidents where the leaders ended up out of the race.

2) I liked the women rugby even though the US lost to New Zealand. I even think I started to understand some of the rules.
3) The excitement of Kirsten Flipkens when she realized she could beat Venus Williams in the first round was pretty cool. She played a great match and while I’m a Williams fan, Kirsten certainly deserved the win.

If you’ve been watching, let me know what your favorites have been.

USB troubles

For some reason, when I updated to Windows 10 on my old computer and then received it on my new computer, something happened to my primary USB storage drive. It’s a nice 4 TB Seagate that holds my videos and screenshots that I’ve taken for posting and admiring – actually, I’m lucky it doesn’t have them all. What happened is that it is now showing up, but I can’t access it in Windows 10…no clue why…but it’s not allowing me to get to any of my images.

After doing some research, I figured out that the drive is listed as being in the RAW format. Not really sure what that is, but I never reformatted the drive to anything – it should be in NTFS because it’s big and I use it with both my Mac and Windows. Also, after fiddling around a bit, I saw that while I can’t read the drive with Wimdows 10, I can still read it when I use OSX, which is actually good since I want to use my Mac Book Pro as a Mac rather than bootstrapping into Windows once everything settles down. In the meantime, I’m backing everything off that drive so I can see if I can reformat it to be visible for both Windows and OSX.

Such a pain.