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May. 25th, 2005 09:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kirkcudbrightI feel like Jim Inchower from the Onion: "Hola, amigos, I know it's been a long time since I rapped at ya." Haven't read personal email in a week, haven't read LJ in I don't know how long. Nothing to say? No, actually a lot's been going on. Too busy to say? No, not exactly that either. Just, I don't know, not too social lately.
1. I finished the Photoshop course at UMass a couple weeks ago. Really ought to post the pictures from that.
2. Started a new time-sink hobby – ripping vinyl. This is complicated by the exceedingly crappy sound card in my laptop, so what I do is a) record to my Archos Jukebox (hard disk-based mp3 player/recorder), b) copy the mp3 to the laptop, c) convert mp3 to wav, d) run the wav through a program that removes clicks and finds tracks, e) write the tracks back out as mp3. This can take a couple hours per album, not counting the recording time, and we've got something like 400 LPs, so this could take a while.
3. Work is kind of a cluster-fuck. We're putting out a major release, involving every engineering group, and it seems like more than usual has been left to the last minute. I mean, usually it's just me, but this time they're making changes to the configuration management and build/release infrastructure. Oh, and they're doing build-out next to my office, so there's intermittent noise and fumes.
4. Francie's mother was in the hospital all last week, so Francie has been driving back and forth to Portland (Maine) a lot. She was released on Monday, and Francie spent the last two days at her apartment, doing the shopping and laundry and cooking and such. Meanwhile, I've been a single parent, leaving work at 2:30 to pick up Kylie from school. Not complaining, just saying.
5. The dog broke a toe a couple weeks ago. She's pretty stoic about pain, so it wasn't immediately apparent what was wrong, but we took her to the vet after she'd been limping for a couple days. Now we're going back once a week for followup and split-changing.
6. It's almost Memorial Day, and we still haven't planted the garden.
That's about it, except for the monkeys in the kitchen. It sounds kind of whiny, but it's more 'eh', y'know what I mean?
1. I finished the Photoshop course at UMass a couple weeks ago. Really ought to post the pictures from that.
2. Started a new time-sink hobby – ripping vinyl. This is complicated by the exceedingly crappy sound card in my laptop, so what I do is a) record to my Archos Jukebox (hard disk-based mp3 player/recorder), b) copy the mp3 to the laptop, c) convert mp3 to wav, d) run the wav through a program that removes clicks and finds tracks, e) write the tracks back out as mp3. This can take a couple hours per album, not counting the recording time, and we've got something like 400 LPs, so this could take a while.
3. Work is kind of a cluster-fuck. We're putting out a major release, involving every engineering group, and it seems like more than usual has been left to the last minute. I mean, usually it's just me, but this time they're making changes to the configuration management and build/release infrastructure. Oh, and they're doing build-out next to my office, so there's intermittent noise and fumes.
4. Francie's mother was in the hospital all last week, so Francie has been driving back and forth to Portland (Maine) a lot. She was released on Monday, and Francie spent the last two days at her apartment, doing the shopping and laundry and cooking and such. Meanwhile, I've been a single parent, leaving work at 2:30 to pick up Kylie from school. Not complaining, just saying.
5. The dog broke a toe a couple weeks ago. She's pretty stoic about pain, so it wasn't immediately apparent what was wrong, but we took her to the vet after she'd been limping for a couple days. Now we're going back once a week for followup and split-changing.
6. It's almost Memorial Day, and we still haven't planted the garden.
That's about it, except for the monkeys in the kitchen. It sounds kind of whiny, but it's more 'eh', y'know what I mean?
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Date: 2005-05-26 01:12 am (UTC)Sounds like you've had a lot on your plate. Hope things get easier soon ... and that Francie's mom is ok.
Hope to see you at some point this summer - it's been a while and your hugs are some of the best.
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Date: 2005-05-26 01:56 am (UTC)Although I will add that I hope the broken toe is mending well...
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Date: 2005-05-26 02:16 pm (UTC)If you can figure out a way to avoid the extra convert-to-mp3-and-back step, that'll probably be worth it to avoid the extra lossy-compression stage. Ripping my ~100-album vinyl collection to CD took about a year, off and on, even though I was able to pipeline it to some extent.
Best wishes to Francie's mom.