Good evening, folks. 25 degrees and clear this evening. Temperatures will continue to drop into the low 20s tonight with calm conditions. If you’re up early tomorrow, look for shooting stars. I didn’t see any on my evening walk but they expect more towards morning.

Tomorrow will be somewhat warmer mercury wise but with a brisk breeze will make it feel colder. It will be mostly sunny, with a high near 50. Light southeast wind becoming south 9 to 14 mph in the morning.

Caught four mice in mouse traps since I set them up yesterday. I guess I had a bigger mouse problem then I realized. I should have been more on top of it earlier but I just figured I keep my garbage locked up inside and out and try not to leave food around, so not a big deal. I don’t hear any more mice in the wall now but then again they burrow in the gap between where the wall doesn’t quite meet the slab foundation. I reset the traps and bated them again. It will be interesting come morning.

Upgraded my laptop to Xubuntu Linux 15.04. I was using 14.04 LTS but I wanted to get the Bluetooth speaker adapter I use with my speakers and phone camping to work with my laptop at home. That way when I want to listen to music or sound on my laptop it doesn’t have to be physically plugged into the speakers. Saves wear and tear on the cord and simplifies docking and undocking. The Bluetooth speaker driver on Ubuntu 14.04 seems broken, the reviews seem to suggest that the new version has better support. I was fine running the long term support version but the speaker issue plus the pain and problems of using lots of back ported software made the upgrade make sense. I thought I would have to upgrade 14.10 then 15.04 then to 15.10, but apparently I could go directly from 14.04 LTS right to 15.04 then 15.10, so it really only was two distribution upgrades. It took a while but the computer did most of the upgrades itself. Still running the final upgrade to 15.10 but I expect it will be fully upgraded by morning.

Good night! Sleep well.