The state of things so far

[mdlbear]

Attempted to lay down a track on "Demon Lover" this morning, but discovered horrible irregular ticking noise that, on investigation, turned out to be due to dropped samples in the recording. The likely culprit seems to be the shared-memory video. Unfortunately, that's not easy to fix on that particular hardware; it only has one slot, and the soundcard is filling it. So it's either the present soundcard plus an X terminal, or a USB sound "card" plus a video card. Or a new box altogether, which would be money I wasn't planning to spend this year. Or a command-line recording program, which would mean a major change in the workflow but might not be a bad idea.

Forgot to mention that we had crab for dinner Saturday, as the flower_cat's cousin and uncle came over. A little experimentation over Thanksgiving indicated that the Cat can go back to eating shellfish (both molluscs and crustaceans), though possibly not fish (vertebrates) yet. The bad reaction appears to be mostly to fish oil at this point. (Unfortunate, because it's good for you.)

On the health front, I have an exam scheduled for tomorrow morning with my regular doctor, and a carotid ultrasound next week. (And I'm giving blood on Wednesday.)

Work on putting the office back together continues at a *cough*measured*cough* pace. I'm rather enjoying having lots of desk space clear, though there isn't nearly as much as there was a week ago.

Comments

[jilara.livejournal.com]

Just have her be careful on crab. I know people who have *become* allergic to crab just by consuming too much at a single sitting. Don't want to backslide!