Hippo, birdies, two ewes...

... to the lovely and talented tibicina!! Have a great one!

Sating my lust

It shall be mine! (Bwahahaha!)

Not surprisingly, their site is incredibly slow right now. Be very patient if you submit an order -- it took several minutes before the "order completed" page came through.

This may explain a few...

... Ooh! Shiny! Adult ADD / ADHD: Recognizing the Symptoms and Managing the Effects

ADD / ADHD in adults can seriously impair work, finances, and relationships. Adults with ADD / ADHD may have the following symptoms of inattention and hyperactivity / impulsivity:

• not remembering being told something,
• "zoning out" in conversations,
• being late or forgetting to show up when expected,
• speaking without thinking,
• pressured rapid-fire speech, seemingly random, and aimless hopping from one topic to the next,
• perceived as aloof and arrogant, or tiresomely talkative and boorish,
• compulsive joking, often about personal life history and feelings,
• easily frustrated or bored,
• leaving a mess,
• procrastination (difficulty starting tasks),
• incompletions (starting tasks, household projects, or book reading, but not completing them before new projects or new books are begun, leaving a never-ending to-do list),
• underestimating the time needed to finish a task,
• insecurity and self-esteem issues because of unmet high personal expectations, and
• often a high achiever, even an overachiever, but with poor self-image because of beliefs that more could be accomplished if not for disorganization.

Nice while it lasted

The little LG UP3 music player I bought Saturday worked fine yesterday, but as of this morning it would turn on, display the current title, and turn itself off. It's behaving like the battery won't hold a charge.

Well, I'll take it back to Fry's tomorrow. I have other devices I can play music on. Or maybe I'll get one of the super-cheap ones. In any case, whatever I get will not have rechargable batteries -- I've had too many rechargables crap out on me.

update after deleting all the old files and putting one back in just to see if the problem was reproducible, it now seems to be working. I still don't trust it.

Grumble

Well, I think I have a pretty good idea now of what I want in the way of graphics for the album. What I don't have is any way of getting from vague ideas to something Oasis can actually, like, print. I have absolutely no talent for graphic design, and no experience with the tools I'd need. Spent about an hour playing with The Gimp and Inkscape (comparable in capability and complexity to Photoshop and Illustrator, respectively) and discovered that it would probably take me several days to get to the point where I could even do an approximation of what I want.

I may have one or two coworkers I can turn to. Not clear; it's a very busy couple of weeks at work. I will probably end up throwing more money at Oasis -- their rates are actually pretty reasonable.

Meanwhile, I think the main thing I have to do to the tracks is cleanup. Audacity doesn't seem to have a way to leave a track in the project but not in the mix -- you can mute them on playback, but they still get added in when you export. Reducing the volume sort of works, but they're still in there adding to the noise floor, and although I suppose you could expand the scale to the point where you really could reduce them down to zero, it'll be simpler to just copy the projects and delete the tracks I don't want. Not rocket science -- I think I can do it pretty quickly, then re-tweak the mixes if necessary.

Next week sometime? It's not totally impossible, if I can just keep focussed on -- Oooh! Shiny!