Hmmm.

I don't think it's a coincidence that my fileserver stayed up happily all week, and has frozen twice since I got my workstation back on line. Not at all. I'm guessing something odd in either the memory or the networking.

Fry's has an AMD CPU/MB combo for under $80 this weekend. It'll eat more power, but it'll be worth it for both reliability and print speed.

13:09 Hmmm indeed. Let's see: problems with SATA, problems when the fast workstation with GigE is online, wimpy 1GHz C7 CPU... I/O bandwidth. In many ways I'm relieved to know that it's simply not fixable without replacing the MB. I can do that.

On the list for this weekend

The weekend's to-do list is already getting slightly full.

• Fry's run: selkit wants some stuff, and I need a new MB/CPU to replace the one in the fileserver.
• Record a scratch track of The Toolmakers, in the right key this time (Bm), and incorporating the changes I made this morning to the last verse. It said what I wanted to say, but I was dissatisfied with the wording.
• Start setting up the album collaboration area so I can start selling preorder/subscriptions, and so that cflute and others can start working on arrangements. Should have done it a month ago...

Meanwhile, tibicina should be arriving in an hour or so, having finally made it over the snowy passes of southern Oregon. So there may also be music in the offing.

Album Status: Amethyst Rose

This is the first of what I expect to be an increasingly frequent series of status posts about Amethyst Rose, the album currently in production.

My production software is currently something of a shambles, and the web pages are something of a mess. About all I've done so far today is upload the latest tentative track list. I think it's getting there; I added The Queen of Night (which is a space song, but I wrote it thinking of Colleen) and Daddy's World, which is on the last album but is a family song as well. I'll happily take comments on the selection.

Track order is completely undefined at this point, except that I think the first and last songs are in the correct places.

Pix from Conflikt

From this post by hsifyppah, come a couple of great pictures of cflute's concert: here and here. I don't quite recognize that old guy with the little guitar...