My youngest brother and hiswife & two kids will also be at the funeral: they're staying with a friend about 90 minutes from their place on Tuesday night then driving the remaining three hours & plan on going straight home from there. Which is easier, Angus is now 17 and can help share the driving load.
@tomas Not so bad, only 5% humidity for the funeral day. A few years ago I managed OK with long sleeves & a hat in 43° with humidity at 8%. That was about 60km from where the funeral's being held.
Weather forecast for funeral location is 34° to 37°C for the 3 days we'll be in the area. Tuesday: 34°, 16% humidity; Wednesday 35°, 5% humidity & Thursday 37°, 16% humidity.
Mum will love it, I will not.
And a third flooding incident in the northwest hills. Weather reports tell us to expect rain until tomorrow evening.
So wet that in the hills to the north and flat areas to the southwest at least two incidents of house floods have occurred, according to the emergency services iOS app.
@tomas It's just too random, I can never nail down a reason or possible cause but overthinking probably doesn't help.
@tomas Whilst I recognise it from your description and can relate via personal experience I cannot identify this emotion with a name or title. But then, I'm usually not very good with emotions anyway.
Sorry.
I can get a bit stubborn at times. I had modified a SystemConfiguration .plist file on my MacBook Pro so the Apple USB SuperDrive would work with it. The tweak, after restarting the Mac allows a bit more current through to the USB drive, allowing it to kick in.
My reason for doing this? Easy: the MBP is normally used in clamshell mode, held vertically in a cradle thingie jigger. Such an arrangement means the slim laptop DVD SuperDrive inside is forced to work vertically & it just plain ain't happy doing that, read/write error creep in or it gets all stuttery as gravity moves the optical disc too far from the laser for it to work properly.
But the Sierra update not only reversed that setting, it added copy protection so I couldn't modify the file. First I tried using TextWrangler to do the edit, that's what had worked previously but I could only save a copy & not replace the .plist file as I had previously done. So I tried doing it in Terminal, same result, copy only. As the file I'm working with is an essential part of the bootup process, I wasn't able to replace the file.
FU, Apple. Back to TextWrangler, make the needed changes, save to desktop instead. Then boot up from my Thunderbolt-connected TechTool Pro ProToGo diagnostic SSD.
Open the MBP's desktop folder & remove the word copy from the .plist file's name. Open the SystemConfiguration folder & replace the desired .plist file making sure to have a copy of the untouched original available elsewhere.
Replace the .plist file. Restart Mac to normal boot volume.
Lo & behold! The external USB DVD now powers up and can be used again with the MBP.