I haven't vented here a while, so I guess I'm due. Non-geeks may prefer to skip the next three paragraphs ( Read more... )

In previous posts, I've mentioned our new bathroom. What I have not mentioned is that we put in a hardwood floor rather than tile, since the builder convinced us that it would work (its a water-resistant Brazilian cherry), and it was a lot less expensive. Whether that is always true, I cannot say, but it was for us. The hardwood guy cautioned us ( Read more... )

... I'm trying to find it ( Read more... )

 Mom asked me to come over this morning to help her bf put up a flat-panel TV, or more accurately, to help him lift the sucker, which requires two people of the male persuasion (Yay brute force - there's a reason women keep us around). Then, as long as I was there, I was asked to help bf get his computer online. In this case, via Wifi, as there is ( Read more... )

Or... further explanations of my lack of time to mix.

The idea of new closets is that you can hang up your clothes, right? But when builders build you a "closet" what they actually tend to provide is a space, or in the case of a walk-in closet, a tiny room. You could just toss your clothes in there, but they'd just fall on the floor, and that's not ( Read more... )

Heh. I figured that would get somebody's attention.

The story starts about a year ago, when my mother remodeled her kitchen - extensively. She took over what had been a breakfast room and part of a hallway to expand her kitchen and update it. So when she came over to my house, with its dinky little kitchen, the contrast was too much for her. Add to ( Read more... )

I took vacation from Xmas to the Friday after New Year's, figuring lots of time to record / mix. But...

I forgot about family obligations. Three parties / get-togethers in three days. Then...

1. The internet went down. We are having some electrical work done and the electricians must have broken the fiber. We were offline for half of Monday, the Verizon ( Read more... )

Mom and her boyfriend came over for brunch, but boyfriend was antsy and left early to prepare for a party tonight. So I took Mom home and got a chance to rummage through a pile of hardware store junk she had in a cabinet... and found some molly bolts! A few minutes with the hacksaw and the towel bar is up!  Wow, the things it takes to get some ( Read more... )

I'm not working... really. But the engineering mindset doesn't allow you to rest when you are in the middle of a problem...

A co-worker showed me the problem with my  cygwin install - apparently, the interaction with FAT32 is kind of broken. In earlier versions of cygwin, there was a work-around, but the latest version removes that because it causes ( Read more... )