With the housecleaning finally done, I installed the replacement hard drive into the laptop in which it will live and started the re-installation process. I've done this so many times now it's almost routine. I wish there was a way to leave it sit all night, but of course it will stop now and then and ask for user input. Oh, well, that's how it goes.
Speaking of hard drives, I started to drive down to the Fremont Hub this afternoon to buy a few things, mostly groceries, and found the place sealed off. I may have mis-heard -- the police officer ordering cars out of the parking lot didn't really have time to explain a lot -- but it appears that there was someone loose in the center brandishing a gun.
calm