journaling: enabled

Well, I guess I haven’t posted in a while. I’ll just touch on some recent events. This past Thursday, I took liz4jc4ever to The Machine Shed in Woodbury for dinner. It was very yummy and of course we have leftovers. Friday evening I don’t remember much about. Not sure why (no, it has nothing to do with drinking). Saturday was pretty busy … got up and finished my homemade coffee tables. I’m not completely thrilled with the results, but they’re functional. After that I took a break and putzed on the computers for a while before going out and mowing lawn. After that was lunch and wash up before heading to pick up Liz, flutterbyefred and tinytom to head to Buca Di Beppo’s in St. Paul for dinner. That was very yummy. After that we headed into downtown to find parking for Blast! at the Ordway. We sat around in Rice Park for a while and got to see an awesome sunset behind the cathedral. Very cool. The show was suitably awesome and I recommend it to anybody.
As far as projects go, I have started digging into editing the video from this past spring’s Dance Theatre concert. Apparently I have the only decent video footage of the concert available. Unfortunately the audio track has some issues, so I’m learning how to dub over it … which is a challenge because of course the concert is set to music and I have to get it sync’d up perfectly or it won’t look right. It would be nice to include some elements of the original audio track in the final version, but I’m not sure I can do it reasonably. For example, some of the pieces feature some jumping that the mic on the camera picked up the sound of … plus there’s the applause, though I think I’ve edited that out in the past. Anyway, all this editing would be a lot more fun on a faster computer, so I ordered myself a new computer … dual 2-GHz processors, so it should have plenty of ponies to meet my needs for a while.
As far as other computer projects go, I’m thinking of trying to develop a calendar system … sorta. I installed php icalendar on my server and decided that I really like it. Unfortunately, unless I get webdav going and convert all my friends to Macs (okay … I have to admit that’d be nice, but it’s not likely to happen), there really isn’t a way for friends to add items. So, I am thinking of creating a mysql database from which an iCalendar file can be generated. I think I’m going to tackle that after my video project is done tho unless that becomes not-so-fun.
Work continues to suck the big one. One of my student employees gave two weeks notice last week. Unfortunately, he was my most experienced Windows technician and a good worker. I can’t blame him for leaving tho … he has to cut back on work hours to keep up with school (= organic chem, calc-based physics and calculus!!). So, instead of hiring 2 new technicians I get to hire and train 3. This will keep me very busy. I wanted to do some training with one of them today but there seems to be an epidemic of sick children at work, so two of my coworkers were out of the office leaving me to back up the HelpDesk. Ick. I spent pretty much the entire day doing paperwork for new computers. The depressing part is that the paperwork isn’t even all done! I still have to create inventory database records and print off data sheets for the new orders. Bleh!
Well, I think I’m going to turn in now … I’ve been sleeping like a stone the past few nights. That’s a good thing, but would seem to indicate that I really need more sleep. Sleep good…. mmmm …. zzzzzzzzz