Mostly not what I'd planned on doing

Got up ungodly early, for some reason -- 4:30 or so and I couldn't get back to sleep, so I got up around 5am. Grah. Figured I'd get some work done on the network setup while nobody but me was using it. Hah!

Went out for a walk (4 miles, same route by Los Gatos Creek as yesterday), came back a little after noon, had some leftover ribs, and got back to hacking the gateway. Almost made it. There are still some serious oddities on selkit's machine, but I think that any machine that gets its IP address from DHCP should get the fast connection now. Still need to finish making the switch for the static IPs. And at least the laptop isn't pretending to be a router anymore.

( geeky details )

About the time I was finished stabilizing the network, the chaoswolf was in serious need of some attention. Since her fiancé was busy, I went up and mounted the shelf standards and tabletop for her hobby center. There was a certain amount of stupidity involved -- it didn't look level, so I remounted one of the standards only to find the screws going in the same holes they'd been in before. But that's done.

So, at this point in the writing of this post, is the front yard rose-pruning I've been meaning to get to all week. Part of the problem is that I only think about it when I'm actually looking at them, which means going in or out of my car, and the pair of pruning shears that's normally on or near the front porch has disappeared. So has the pair that lives in the shed under the back stairs. Fortunately, I keep a pair hidden in my toolbox in the office. The good pair.

The net result is that I haven't gotten a darned thing done on the album, but what I have done definitely needed doing. I probably still have time to work on the bonus album, which is very close to done. But I need to get printed blanks ordered and figure out exactly what I'm going to burn on them, if I'm to have them in hand by Baycon.

( album contents/format geekery )

If anyone out there has any experience making dual-session (CD-Extra) disks, and especially doing it in session-at-once mode on Linux, let me know. I'll be burning them at home: the short-run duplicators I've found will take uploaded audio files or ISO files, but won't let you mix 'em. Foo.

Tracks, but not as you know them

I've just spent the last hour or so persuading my album build system to cook me up a CD-ROM with audio tracks. The Mac and Linux, at least, are perfectly ok with this. I will see tomorrow whether a range of other, mostly cheap, players can handle it. It turns out that multisession insanity probably won't be necessary for About Bleeding Time -- CD-ROMs are allowed to have audio tracks.

And I might have enough information now to make multi-session disks correctly; the documentation for TOC files seems to have improved considerably during the last few months of the run-up toward Etch.