Busy weekend. Saw lots of friends, played some games, had all our kids hang out, and really had a good time. Early in the day on Saturday an old friend from high school came over with his wife and four girls. Seeing my son play with the four girls was pretty funny: At first, my son seemed a bit overwhelmed but he adjusted fine. Before my friend left, I went up to a box of stuff that I had unpacked from the move and I gave him a sound forge hardware piece that used to connect to the Amiga computer that we both had back in 1989. My friend had lent me the sound digitizer way back then and I had never given it back to him. Well, never say never as they say. My friend took the piece and laughed seeing how old it was and told me that he still has his Amiga packed up in his basement. I sold mine about five years ago on eBay. Unfortunately, there comes a point in which you just run out of space for old computers that you don’t use any longer so I opted to make a few hundred dollars off of the old thing.
Back in 1989, the Amiga was a glorious computer. With true multi-tasking and stereo sound (and excellent video capabilities for a machine back then), the Amiga 2000 was my first real computer outside of the Commodore 64. I used it to write, create a newsletter (The Menagerie) that a girlfriend and myself put together (with help from other students) from my college, play music, watch video, surf bulletin board systems, and play games. The Amiga was a great machine. It’s funny to see how much has changed in the last 16 years. Now a small laptop can blow away anything that the Amiga was able to do. Heck, even the iPod video is pretty darn impressive compared to the breadbox sized Amiga. But back then, it was a great PC. I loved it.
In other news, work on the house continues. I painted some trim (one coat on Saturday and another on Sunday) in the basement and then fixed two cracks in the living room ceiling. I’m hoping to go home tonight and continue prep on the walls. I have to clean the walls in preparation for them being painted, but first I have two holes (from nails) that I need to touch up with spackle. We also received some other good house news: Our two sofas for the basement should be delivered on Thursday. Having them before the super bowl and the Olympics is extremely nice. We had thought that we weren’t getting these until late February. I’m really looking forward to finishing the last details of the basement. After the sofas, we just need to bring down two bookshelves and get some curtains. (The bookshelves won’t be brought down until I finish the front living room, turning it into the library.)
Speaking of which: I am so looking forward to unpacking all of my books. I have boxes and boxes of them unpacked. It’ll be nice to be able to straighten up the house and put all of those books away (as well as putting away all of the DVDs and such I have into the basement). Little by little we’re getting there.
Finally, I performed a recording test for The Magic Sock while on a call using Skype and my PC crashed. Seems that I can’t run all the software necessary on one machine. A friend suggested that I use Skype and the recording software on another machine. Then I can record the video from my main machine. That should work fine. Still, I’m leaning toward doing another episode without video and just voice. I’ve been really impressed with the sound quality of Castblaster along with all the sound clips that I can play. We’ll have to see what I can come up with. I’d like to do another episode soon. I just need to make the time.
Back in 1989, the Amiga was a glorious computer. With true multi-tasking and stereo sound (and excellent video capabilities for a machine back then), the Amiga 2000 was my first real computer outside of the Commodore 64. I used it to write, create a newsletter (The Menagerie) that a girlfriend and myself put together (with help from other students) from my college, play music, watch video, surf bulletin board systems, and play games. The Amiga was a great machine. It’s funny to see how much has changed in the last 16 years. Now a small laptop can blow away anything that the Amiga was able to do. Heck, even the iPod video is pretty darn impressive compared to the breadbox sized Amiga. But back then, it was a great PC. I loved it.
In other news, work on the house continues. I painted some trim (one coat on Saturday and another on Sunday) in the basement and then fixed two cracks in the living room ceiling. I’m hoping to go home tonight and continue prep on the walls. I have to clean the walls in preparation for them being painted, but first I have two holes (from nails) that I need to touch up with spackle. We also received some other good house news: Our two sofas for the basement should be delivered on Thursday. Having them before the super bowl and the Olympics is extremely nice. We had thought that we weren’t getting these until late February. I’m really looking forward to finishing the last details of the basement. After the sofas, we just need to bring down two bookshelves and get some curtains. (The bookshelves won’t be brought down until I finish the front living room, turning it into the library.)
Speaking of which: I am so looking forward to unpacking all of my books. I have boxes and boxes of them unpacked. It’ll be nice to be able to straighten up the house and put all of those books away (as well as putting away all of the DVDs and such I have into the basement). Little by little we’re getting there.
Finally, I performed a recording test for The Magic Sock while on a call using Skype and my PC crashed. Seems that I can’t run all the software necessary on one machine. A friend suggested that I use Skype and the recording software on another machine. Then I can record the video from my main machine. That should work fine. Still, I’m leaning toward doing another episode without video and just voice. I’ve been really impressed with the sound quality of Castblaster along with all the sound clips that I can play. We’ll have to see what I can come up with. I’d like to do another episode soon. I just need to make the time.
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