I started “upgrading to Windows 10” last Sunday and have been trying various things to get it working. Today I think I made some progress. I created a DVD that is supposed to contain every thing I need.

The reason I feel better about it is that after the ISO disk image was downloaded, the software actually verified it. Then I burned and verified a DVD. I’ll wait until tomorrow to try it, but the DVD should work for both my Win 7 machines without waiting around for Windows to download several Gigs every time.

A minor annoyance is that every time I boot the big box it says it has installed another update. At this point I don’t think I could honestly say I had installed all of the updates to Windows 7 if I hadn’t just finished checking.

Fairbanks News-Miner has a bare-bones report of the incident:

“Race officials said [Aliy] Zirkle, currently running in third place, was approaching Nulato when a person on a snowmobile repeatedly attempted to harm her.

One dog on her team received injuries that officials described as non-life-threatening.

[Jeff] King, a four-time Iditarod champion, was behind Zirkle and fared worse.

King was 12 miles from Nulato when three of his dogs were hit by the snowmobile.

Nash, a 3-year-old male, was killed. Crosby, another 3-year-old male, and Banjo, a 2-year-old male, received injuries and are expected to survive.”

Nulato is a small community so “a suspect has been identified” and I would guess that “chemicals” were involved.

If you read the rest of the article, there is confusion: Dallas Seavey won the race last year and he is the son of Mitch Seavey, who is leading at Noon CST in Kaltag.

Update: One Arnold Demoski, 26, of Nulato is currently ‘enjoying the hospitality of the Alaska State Police while helping them with their inquiries’. Mr. Demoski said he was drunk.

Nash and Crosby were part of the same 4 puppy litter. Their other litter mates were Stills & Young.

Just to screw up your life, don’t forget that Congress is stealing 2:00 to 2:59AM Sunday from you. They should at least have the decency to wait until the equinoxes to do this sort of thing. There’s barely enough daylight to do what needs to be done, much less save.

It’s a government conspiracy to make you late for church 😈

Brent Sass is in the lead this morning, and while Mitch is starting 2nd he still needs an 8-hour, which Aliy has already completed. It is down to how fast is your team and how little rest can you and the team exist on…

Ellen left the Red Lantern in the care of Billy Snodgrass in Ophir. Alas, Billy returned the favor at 4:30PM.

There is some information that both Aliy and Jeff King were harassed by a snowmobile on the trail into Nulato. The Iditarod Trail Committee have made it nearly impossible to find out what’s going on without “donating” to their “non-profit” corporation. [Update in separate post]

Rick Casillo & Scott Janssen have both scratched. Rick lost his lead dog to an injury in a fight with another male. [Many of the females are in heat, a good reason to run the race at a different time.]

Standings at 8:30PM CST.

Beyond Kaltag
Brent Sass (32)
Aliy Zirkle (13)
Dallas Seavey (16)
Wade Marrs (33)
Mitch Seavey (19)
John Baker (66)
At Kaltag
7 Robert Sørlie (37)
8 Nicolas Petit (12)
9 Peter Kaiser (11)
10 Noah Burmeister (39)
11 Joar Leifseth Ulsom (31)
12 Jeff King (61)
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