Sunday update

Verified that I can now burn copies of About Bleeding Time using an up-to-date Debian Etch system. I can. Took one into the car to listen to on my way to and from my walk. Oddly, it was silent during the first track; this probably has to do with its being a mixed-mode disk. Needs to be further investigated.

After my walk, I came home and got my main desktop system, harmony, ready to move into the bedroom studio for some recording. This took a bit longer than I anticipated thanks to not all the old configuration (from the last time it was the recording machine) having been properly moved off the old disk. But it's there now, and it works; I tested it by recording The Toolmakers [ogg] [mp3], which a couple of people have inquired about.

After that I got involved in one of those trivial projects that somehow ends up taking a great deal more time and effort than one expects. For some time, I've been planning to upgrade the ethernet going to the back of the house to Cat6 and Gigabit. The plan was simple: attach one end of the 100-foot Cat6 patch cord I bought at Fry's a few weeks ago to the end of the old 50-ohm coax cable that I'm no longer using, attach some nylon twine so I could repeat the process eventually, and pull it all through from the office.

It seemed like a good idea at the time. As it turned out, the coax was badly snagged in the attic. It took several trips back and forth between the garage attic, the side yard where the conduit runs (and is, fortunately, accessible through a couple of L-couplings with removable covers), and the house attic (which is only accessible through a hatch in the Younger Daughter's room), and about an hour and a half.