Death before dishonor, but...

...nothing before coffee!

Both of my children now drink coffee. We've been getting the Good Stuff from Barefoot Coffee Roasters; the kids are now officially coffee snobs. The family now goes through roughly a pound a week; the flower_cat just goes in on Monday and buys a bag of whatever is freshest.

All of Barefoot's coffee is Fair Trade, and their website is a Wordpress blog. Can you tell we like the place?

Tracks

I finally decided to do something about my track for Guilty Pleasures, which had a lot of problems. There was clipping on the guitar, and swallowed initial consonants on the vocals. It was awful, and being the title cut for the new album that of course wouldn't do. I finally started doing what I should have done in the first place: recording separate guitar and vocal tracks.

( stuff that's probably obvious to anyone who's done much recording, and probably boring for anyone else )

Now that I have a little momentum going, I'm pretty sure I can have all the basic recording done before Baycon. Then it will be time for the other 90% -- I'm just hoping it won't take the cannonical other 90% of the time.

That was close

I've been rearranging directories in my public website, and corresponding directories on the fileserver. The most recent operation was to move theStarport.com/people/steve/Doc/ to theStarport.com/Steve_Savitzky/. Everything went well; I did the move, made the corresponding move in the CVS repository (it's done using a one-line find command), fixed up the Makefiles (two similar one-liners), and then went to move the latest backup directory so that the next rsync wouldn't have to copy all the sound files and other bulky stuff.

That's when I noticed that /bak/usr/local/starport was a symlink. I'd installed a new, large disk on the fileserver a little over a month ago, and moved /usr/local into a separate partition called /local. I then made a new /usr/local just for the fileserver. I was backing up the new directory, which was in the same old place, but not the new partition. Oops.

No real harm done -- there haven't been many changes since late March when I installed the new disk. Except for the major changes I made this weekend, and I've backed all that up now.