Party; tracks

A good party, though a little sparsely attended. Not unusual -- lots of people hold Halloween parties. Several people dropped in briefly, then headed off to other things. Many of them left food, though, so that's OK.

I spent much of the party in the office showing off tracks. Along the way I managed to do some mixing on "Silk and Steel" and "Uncle Ernie's". Two more easy ones; after that it gets harder. And I still have to decide whether to redo guitar on "Silk and Steel". I'm not really happy with it, but we'll see. The people I played tracks for seemed to like them.

Tracks: cicero

A little eq and mixing on Cicero in the Twenty-First Century. I think it's better; I may still need to even out the volume on guitar to pull it up more. No, I'm not going to post the ogg -- you'll just have to wait for the album! Nyah nyah nyah!

The bad thing is that now I've done all the really easy ones. There are now 7 with missing pieces, and 3 to redo, and one ("Demon Lover", of course) where the guitar might need work. Can I do it all in a month? Plus the mastering (?!), typesetting, and graphics? Probably not. That might mean Consonance, which is probably where I should have been aiming in the first place. Well, I'll keep slogging on, and I'll know by Thanksgiving whether or not I've made it.

Sunday night update

Got up 8ish, thankful for the time change. There was enough time to grab some coffee and leftovers for breakfast and start a load of dishes before heading off to the wilds of Benicia for semy_of_pearls and shadowwalkyr's wedding. Lots of old SCA and old fandom at the wedding; when you've been around the Bay Area as long as we have, ...

It was a nice Pagan ceremony, short and sweet. What people were wearing ran the gamut from punk teens in T-shirts and jeans, to formal garb of all centuries from the 12th to the 21st. The buffet lunch was superb; I went very easy on the desert and ended up nicely filled but not overstuffed. We left earlyish, after the toasts (which were fun), but before the cake and the dancing. Colleen doesn't do too well in folding chairs, and we needed to get home to feed the monsters kids.

The flower_cat had originally planned to make scalloped potatoes (to use up some leftover cheese sauce), but neither of us were hungry so in the end she just went out and got Burger Thing for the kids.

Worked a little on tracks; got "Cicero" put away, but decided that "Mushrooms" needs to be redone -- there was an unfixable editing glitch. It was done before I learned to make a clean copy before doing anything irreversible. It would help a lot if Audacity had multi-level undo, but it doesn't.

Managed to get the dishes put away and the roasting pan (from last night's ham) emptied of ham fat and put in the sink to soak. I don't think I'll be able to stay up much past 10pm, even though I know I'll pay for it by waking up at four. The flower_cat's already asleep. I'd take a bath, but the front tub's still full of cans and bottles.

All-in-all, a very pleasant but very tiring weekend.