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Aug. 17th, 2007 02:59 pmI still have a bunch of posts queued up and almost ready. Right now, I'm handling a special assignment for a couple weeks. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lightfixer has been gracious enough to let me handle his clients while he's on a well-earned vacation.
I'm setting up a bezel iMac (the kind where the LCD monitor is attached to a half-sphere base by a pantograph stick) as a test bed for customer problems. Man, I'd forgotten how much 1024x768 can chunk.
Yesterday I went withoneagain, gravitrue and peacefrog to the Entrain show out at Crane Manor in Ipswich. ceelove has been raving about this band for a long time so I was eager to check them out. I found out it wasn't my scene: the musicians are great but the lyrics are bar band quality. oneagain explained to me that it's just about dancing, which helped me to let go. Later I took a nap, which also helped me to let go.
This was not my usual crowd for a concert. There were tons of families. When I got to the dance area, there were mostly middle-aged women. I got this weird sense that this was about 500 other people's Thelma and Louise moment. I was off kilter.
The band played on the patio of the mansion, which is on top of a hill. The lawn slopes downward from there, levels off, climbs and then goes back down again. The lawn is bordered by woods to make the lawn look like a mall. The effect is that you can only see the band if you're on the part of the lawn next to the patio, about 1% of the grounds. Otherwise the band is invisible. It's like hearing a haunted band: they're everywhere but nowhere.
I'm feeling better, which is important. I spent all of yesterday doing things, which helped. I got home and went to bed. For some reason I needed eleven hours of sleep instead of eight but okay. I wish the waves of depression would finish. The only way I can think to force that issue is to get up every morning, bother y'all, do stuff and then do more stuff.
I started working on the longer version of my stories about Australia. There is a good, long story in there. Anyone wanna test read it as I come up with pieces? Lemme know.
-"Analysis of the arbitrary is what we gnomes do!"
lightfixer has been gracious enough to let me handle his clients while he's on a well-earned vacation.I'm setting up a bezel iMac (the kind where the LCD monitor is attached to a half-sphere base by a pantograph stick) as a test bed for customer problems. Man, I'd forgotten how much 1024x768 can chunk.
Yesterday I went with
oneagain, gravitrue and peacefrog to the Entrain show out at Crane Manor in Ipswich. ceelove has been raving about this band for a long time so I was eager to check them out. I found out it wasn't my scene: the musicians are great but the lyrics are bar band quality. oneagain explained to me that it's just about dancing, which helped me to let go. Later I took a nap, which also helped me to let go.This was not my usual crowd for a concert. There were tons of families. When I got to the dance area, there were mostly middle-aged women. I got this weird sense that this was about 500 other people's Thelma and Louise moment. I was off kilter.
The band played on the patio of the mansion, which is on top of a hill. The lawn slopes downward from there, levels off, climbs and then goes back down again. The lawn is bordered by woods to make the lawn look like a mall. The effect is that you can only see the band if you're on the part of the lawn next to the patio, about 1% of the grounds. Otherwise the band is invisible. It's like hearing a haunted band: they're everywhere but nowhere.
I'm feeling better, which is important. I spent all of yesterday doing things, which helped. I got home and went to bed. For some reason I needed eleven hours of sleep instead of eight but okay. I wish the waves of depression would finish. The only way I can think to force that issue is to get up every morning, bother y'all, do stuff and then do more stuff.
I started working on the longer version of my stories about Australia. There is a good, long story in there. Anyone wanna test read it as I come up with pieces? Lemme know.
-"Analysis of the arbitrary is what we gnomes do!"
