Tick, Tick, Tick
Happy New Year!
Today is the next-to-last day of my vacation and there are still *way* too many things that aren't done the way that they should be. But I continue to work on moving the pile.
Today, I have washed two weeks of my shirts, which keeps me up-to-date there. I also have washed the lightweight comforter so it can be packed up until the weather gets warmer, which I don't expect for several months now.
While down in the basement, I took the big Dyson vacuum cleaner and went to try to clean up and vacuum out the recording booth in the studio as the first step in getting things back under control there. Gretchen had asked me to consign the Dyson to the basement, as it is big, heavy, and has a monstrous beater brush which will be much more useful on the carpeted floor down there than it is on the hardwood everywhere else. Then the lightweight Dirt Devil (which *also* has a beater brush, but doesn't weigh a ton) can come upstairs and Gretchen can use it and there will be much rejoicing.
Unfortunately, the handle on the Dyson wouldn't unlock into vacuuming position, so I had to call Gretchen down to help. After about 10 minutes and consulting the Internet, we found the stuck lever on the underside of the vacuum head, moved it, and the handle unlocked and I could start trying to clean up the floor. At this point, the exposed surfaces are as clean as the vacuum can make them and it is now time to bring down the Green Machine to try to clean the sections of carpet that were subject to youthful food spills when the room was being used as a classroom during the COVID lockdown. We'll see how that goes. Later. Maybe tomorrow.
But *tomorrow's* priority interrupt will be getting up early to remove the five to nine inches of snow that we've been told to expect tonight from the driveway and sidewalks. The snow is already coming down with vigor and there are a couple of fresh inches that have accumulated.
We also have to get the kids up early so that there is *some* hope that they will wake up on time on Monday and/or Tuesday when their classes start up again. This will be a joy.
But the recording booth is coming back into view as a useful room again. I moved the Focusrite Scarlett interface into the rackmount with the Behringer headphone amp as part of the portable recording kit. If, for some reason, the Yamaha mixer went out to lunch in the field, I could *still* manage eight tracks with the Scarlett and do a mixdown in Cubase. This is less *simple* than doing it with a real mixer, but as an emergency stopgap, it would do in a lot of cases.
And I managed to reassemble the guitar stand, which had been separated into three parts of varying size. One of the foldable music stands remains a casualty, as a wingnut is missing without which the piece that the music sits on won't stay in place. It must be here somewhere...
Today is the next-to-last day of my vacation and there are still *way* too many things that aren't done the way that they should be. But I continue to work on moving the pile.
Today, I have washed two weeks of my shirts, which keeps me up-to-date there. I also have washed the lightweight comforter so it can be packed up until the weather gets warmer, which I don't expect for several months now.
While down in the basement, I took the big Dyson vacuum cleaner and went to try to clean up and vacuum out the recording booth in the studio as the first step in getting things back under control there. Gretchen had asked me to consign the Dyson to the basement, as it is big, heavy, and has a monstrous beater brush which will be much more useful on the carpeted floor down there than it is on the hardwood everywhere else. Then the lightweight Dirt Devil (which *also* has a beater brush, but doesn't weigh a ton) can come upstairs and Gretchen can use it and there will be much rejoicing.
Unfortunately, the handle on the Dyson wouldn't unlock into vacuuming position, so I had to call Gretchen down to help. After about 10 minutes and consulting the Internet, we found the stuck lever on the underside of the vacuum head, moved it, and the handle unlocked and I could start trying to clean up the floor. At this point, the exposed surfaces are as clean as the vacuum can make them and it is now time to bring down the Green Machine to try to clean the sections of carpet that were subject to youthful food spills when the room was being used as a classroom during the COVID lockdown. We'll see how that goes. Later. Maybe tomorrow.
But *tomorrow's* priority interrupt will be getting up early to remove the five to nine inches of snow that we've been told to expect tonight from the driveway and sidewalks. The snow is already coming down with vigor and there are a couple of fresh inches that have accumulated.
We also have to get the kids up early so that there is *some* hope that they will wake up on time on Monday and/or Tuesday when their classes start up again. This will be a joy.
But the recording booth is coming back into view as a useful room again. I moved the Focusrite Scarlett interface into the rackmount with the Behringer headphone amp as part of the portable recording kit. If, for some reason, the Yamaha mixer went out to lunch in the field, I could *still* manage eight tracks with the Scarlett and do a mixdown in Cubase. This is less *simple* than doing it with a real mixer, but as an emergency stopgap, it would do in a lot of cases.
And I managed to reassemble the guitar stand, which had been separated into three parts of varying size. One of the foldable music stands remains a casualty, as a wingnut is missing without which the piece that the music sits on won't stay in place. It must be here somewhere...