My fingernails are short and the new keyboard is fun to type on.
I guess I can stop giving Mozart credit for my creative ideas. Last year within 30 seconds of putting Mozart on, I came up with that card. Yesterday I went for a walk at lunch. Instead of putting This Amercian Life on as is my usual walking accompaniment, I put on some tunes. The temp according to The Weather Channel said it was 53. Kind of cool but for some reason it felt glorious. And since the time change, the mid day sun is already hanging off to the side–you can’t beat autumn light. Anyway I take off for my walk and wondered if I should put some thought to this year’s Xmas card. I almost said nah, I still have time to worry about it but then before I could talk myself out of it, I came up with my idea. Of course my idea is top secret at this point.
Tomorrow we go to Indiana to see Steely Dan at the Holiday Star Theater. It should be a good show.
Yesterday I got my USB musical keyboard. Hollace spent the next hour having fun making music. It is going to be fun. If I get the latest version of Garage Band, I can maybe learn how to play the piano with it. I am thinking of getting the upgrade for the guitar lessons for Hollace. I say give that a try and if she really gets into it we can get her a real guitar and some real lessons. I am thinking this Christmas’s theme is going to be music.
Last night apparently the monitor fairies came visiting at work. First I was slightly upset that my monitors had been left on (I make it a big point to turn them off every night unlike everyone else in the office) then I realized that my old CRT was gone and in its place was a wide screen LCD. I then spent the next hour rearranging my desktops. The resolution was set tighter then it was so the other monitor was off too. I really gained a lot of real estate. I finally got them tweeked to perfection when I realized in a week or two my new Mac Pro is coming and I finally ditch the damn Windows machine, so really what was the point.
Tonight we went to the College of Lake County for their art museum’s show opening. It was a show of art from their faculty. They have a little food to nosh on and live music. We never get out and this was free and hopefully some inspiration can be gained. Ran into Diana from ArtWorks there. I guess Artworks is finally closing their doors and just keeping Bubba the Bus. I have no idea how they had been able to hang on as long as they had. We first became aware of ArtWorks when Hollace was 2!
This week I have wasted a lot of time playing IT for the old computer. It would hang up while starting up. Tech Tools told me that I had hundreds of bad blocks. How many I will never know because I think the thing was going to run and keep counting for a week. Since that is the family’s computer that meant the family was coming to my newer machine to do their surfing (did I mention Hollace has a bit of a FaceBook addiction)
I eventually just reinstalled the OS and all was almost ok. It came up but both Firefox and Safari kept crashing. Trying to reinstall them turned into a big ordeal. Since I couldn’t get the browser to come up I had to go in the other room and download them. I put them on an old Firewire drive. While coping Firefox from their, I accidentally kicked the cord from the Firewire drive and corrupted the dang thing.
Now things seem ok on that old computer for right now but I guess I should probably look into getting a new hard drive
Ok, I guess that is enough typing (740 words). I have successfully wasted the whole night. As I was getting ready to start this entry, the brother of my old bosses from the photo lab IMed me and we talked for an hour. I don’t recall ever talking to him that much in real life back in the 80s! Gotta love Facebook!