The Time it is a-Changing

[mdlbear]

This morning, after getting up significantly later than usual (even factoring in the extra hour due to the time change), I finished up work on the Tres Gique concert at Consonance. This consisted mostly of fixes to scripts and makefiles; not surprisingly a couple of bugs showed up. There will be a little more hacking involved around cflute and tibicina's set, since I don't have distribution rights on the songs. That means I'll have to keep them out of the index, which in turn means I have to write an index.html file rather than relying on Apache's automatic one. Well, it's not particularly hard -- mostly cut-and-paste.

After that I went out for a four-mile walk. The weather has turned warm over the last week or so -- it's entirely possible that we've seen the last wet, cold week of the season.

As for album status, so far I've worked on four tracks today: "High Barratry", "Mushrooms", "Pigeon Flight", and "I Wanna be a Webmaster". "High Barratry" and "Mushrooms" were the only ones that involved more than tweaks. This leaves me with 7 tracks essentially done, 5 needing little more than editing, and 2 wanting new parts, and 4 wanting old parts rerecorded. I'll be taking a day off this week (having to take my car in for service makes a good excuse).

8 new preorders on paper, and 2 by PayPal since Consonance. The main task now is to set up a mailing list.

Spent a little while unpacking the last bits from Consonance -- I'd tossed my suitcase under the bed and collapsed in a heap after the con. Also boxed up the last of my old T-shirts and took three boxes up to the attic. Did I mention that I bought more banker's boxes? Office Max was having a 3-for-2 sale.

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

We haven't seen the last of the cold and the wet up here, and it's blustery, too.

As for mailing list... if you want something more than just an entry in /etc/aliases or client-side, I like Ecartis (http://www.ecartis.org/); it's pretty simple, has good functionality, and you can get tech support from kendaer (not that it needs it much). Apt-gettable. Make sure and get the ecartis-cgi so you can web-admin it. (Mailman was always just a bit overkill for me...)

We slept in, too. Think we needed it.

[callibr8]

tibicina wrote Lullaby. We co-wrote Lost My Melody, using vixyish's tune. I don't think that catsittingstill would have a problem with our use of How Far Back. I wrote the lyrics to Circles of Music, inspired by Gwen Zak's Circles, which was filked from Alan Bell's Windmills. That's the only thing in the set that I can recall off the top of my head as being potentially problematic. Will comment more cogently on the rest when I find my setlist notes. :)

[mdlbear]

Thanks -- that's useful information. I'll try to get your set split up later this week.

It seems quite solid at this point that Tres Gique will be on the schedule for Baycon.

[tibicina.livejournal.com]

I think everything else was catsittingstill... err in that I /think/ the only other things we did were 'Nuts from the Hazel Tree', 'Wings' and 'Flatten the Tune'.

[mdlbear]

The splitting is done -- I seem to have missed "Lullaby" and "Nuts from the Hazel Tree" (due to my own stupidity setting up the recording). Grump. I'll upload them later tonight after selkit is done with whatever he needs bandwidth for. Should be appearing linked from here in about an hour.

[tibicina.livejournal.com]

Thank you! (Though I'm sad you missed Lullaby).

[mdlbear]

So am I! Next time? (Conflikt, if not before)

[mdlbear]

It occurs to me that johno might have a copy; I know he was recording off the board at some point; don't know whether he caught yours or not. Rick Weiss (who's up in the Seattle area) was definitely recording; we were setting up at about the same time.