Nov 13

Magix Music Maker 11

Been playing with Magix Music Maker 11 all evening (and watching Dirty Jobs). You can check out my latest efforts at my Personal Site (see link at right). I think I do a pretty good job; for an old man. I really like this latest one! Every music ’loop’ I make starts out at around 30 seconds and ends up at least a full minute. I usually add some video effect and export it to .mov & .avi formats then convert one of them to an .swf file for posting. Unfortunately they’re usually about 12mb big! Thank goodness for broadband internet! These are not something you’d want to download at 2400 baud like when I first started (with the old BBS’). I get into a beat and can play with this program for hours!

Guess the storm we had yesterday was stronger than I thought. Trees down all over the area and people without power. I think this is the first time (since I’ve lived up here) that a storm of that magnitude hasn’t knocked out our power. All we had was that phone line downed. (That was fixed this morning so SWMBO didn’t have to drive in to work today. Cool!) The wind storm just didn’t seem that bad in our area. It’s supposed to be a lot cooler for the next few days so I’m keeping a fire going in the wood stove. Not hard to do but I sure will be glad when we get our dome built and away from the wood stove. Mostly because it keeps the house so dirty/sooty.

Nov 12

Bamg/Thump…Thrumm…..

Had a minor wind storm come through earlier today. Only lost power a couple of times! But, I was sitting here at the computer and heard a loud bang/thump and the house kind of ’thrummed’. Went outside but didn’t see any damage to the house or anywhere near. When SWMBO came home from her visit with her friends she says "Did you know there’s a power line down across the driveway?" "Why, no." says I. So she took me out and showed me. It’s the phone line that goes from pole to pole. That bang/thump I heard must have been the line snapping. Thrummed the house. Looks like something at the top of the pole gave out too. So I got hold of the phone company (via Vonage and the tv cable) and put in a report. They say it’ll be up to 24 hours before a repair crew gets out here.

Unfortunately, that’s also SWMBO’s ISDN line for work (so she can work at home). So she had to drive in to the office to get any work done today. Bummer! She’ll probably have to go in tomorrow also. Bummer!

Me been doing not much of anything. Feeling better today. Finally got dishes and laundry done. Working on the look of this blog. Trying to get the Polls widget working. Don’t know why (except for practice) as it appears no one but me is reading this blog. Oh well.

Warshington Weather! Ugh!
Nov 11

I Need A Doctor!

Not for this sore throat, fever & chills I’m having. For the first damned Christmas commercial I saw on tv a few minutes ago. SWMBO says they at least waited until after Halloween. I think they ought to wait until after Thanksgiving! Looks like I’ll be watching more DVD’s to get away from them damned Christmas commercials. I hate them with a passion.

As usual, not much else going on. It’s been raining off and on. Thinking of making cup cakes…