Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

Not my most productive weekend. Spent large chunks of yesterday catching up on sleep. Hadn't planned it that way, but it was probably a good thing. Felt like I was moving in slow motion today, but I did get a few things done, including re-routing audio cables in the office so that I can listen to the CD player and RuPaul (my Win95 box) and my guitar all at the same time -- I've temporarily given up on getting any sound out of BoyGeorge (my WinNT machine), and putting audio into RuPaul will have to wait until I get more adaptors. I also finshed (I think) tweaking the melody of a jig I started writing more than a year ago. Now if I could get the chords to work right...

I've got a slight sore throat, so it's probably a good thing I didn't try to go photograph the Fyrdraca today (I'd already decided not to go, when I found out today's voyage was cancelled anyhow). I don't think I've ever actually seen Fyrdraca in person, though I've ridden in Gyrfalcon, the Longship Company's smaller vessel. (I'm not a member of the Longship Company, I just have a bunch of friends who are.)

Here's hoping that a) I can finish the stuff my boss is waiting for tonight, and b) someplace within driving distance has reasonable weather for viewing the Leonid meteor shower Tuesday morning.

This morning I woke up from a dream in which I ran out of paper to write my questions on in a music theory class, so I started writing in small print on the blade of a knife. Just after I turned in a half dozen writing-covered knives to my teacher, I woke up.

Hmm. I just checked, and Tipton (my main Linux machine) does have a sound card. I wonder whether I'd do better dealing with sound stuff with freeware on an underpowered Linux box than on an underpowered Win95 box. That'd be a kind of longish cable to go from the mixer in the office on the second floor to the server room (half of the living room) on the first floor, but it wouldn't pass near any fluourescent lights or parallel to any power wiring. It would be following the same path as two 10baseT cables.) Maybe there's a way to run it as a set of balanced lines? The mixer has XLR inputs, though the sound card is of course stereo mini-phone jacks, but I guess four transformers would take care of that.

Eventually I'm going to need a bigger mixer.

Heading out to West Virginia tonight to watch the Leonid meteor shower. Got a bunch of stuff done between midnight and dawn, then slept most of the middle of the day. Must remember to bring my gloves tonight (and to pick cameras easy to operate with gloves on -- one of the benefits of some of my older cameras).