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Things that go 'wash me' in the night
Apr. 27th, 2008 12:30 pmLate last night, I got up from bed to visit the bathroom. As I came out, in the half-light I glimpsed an unexpected dark form outside the door, which startled me immensely. Once I'd regained my composure, I saw that this was merely my impressively large pile of worn clothing. Hence, today is laundry day.
Apart from that, there's not been much excitement this week. Work has continued to be a bit frustrating, but I expect most people could say that about whatever it is that they do. I managed to see a fair number of people on Wednesday evening which was good. On Friday I was helping with DJing some of the metal sets at the student rock night, which started off mildly stressfully due to claustrophobia and a PA that was set up wrongly, but it got better. We seemed to play some good stuff and, to paraphrase one person, "when I saw the dancefloor that full, I thought the industrial set had started". Quite.
At home I've been trying to work on music some more, and exploring the new features Sonar Studio 7 offers. Some of the stuff it has for electronic music is very impressive. It makes me wonder why I labour for years with guitars and amps and microphones and stuff when I could just use all this technology to knock out an EBM or trance track every day. Ah well, I guess we know where the real talent lies. I'm also finding it quite hard to find room for my MIDI controller, MIDI keyboard, normal keyboard, mouse, and graphics tablet on one desk though. Some reorganisation needed, I think.
Today, will probably be another visit to the Salutation Inn to get a pub lunch with friends, but will probably have to get something other than my usual burger. Recently the burgers have been consistently undercooked to the point of still being mostly pink inside, which is rather unfortunate. From what I gather, they're made fresh on the premises from minced beef (ie. ground beef to some of my overseas readers), and yet at home when I cook that stuff, it really doesn't take long to cook it properly. So what on earth is the cook here doing? Showing the food a picture of a grill or something? Trying to hypnotise it into cooking itself? Bizarre.
On a completely unrelated note, has anybody noticed Facebook locking up Firefox for a couple of seconds at a time? It seems to be Javascript related, since it doesn't occur with my copy of Firefox 3 Beta (which, incidentally, I can crash instantly with the extension I wrote). But I guess it could be one of my installed extensions.
Apart from that, there's not been much excitement this week. Work has continued to be a bit frustrating, but I expect most people could say that about whatever it is that they do. I managed to see a fair number of people on Wednesday evening which was good. On Friday I was helping with DJing some of the metal sets at the student rock night, which started off mildly stressfully due to claustrophobia and a PA that was set up wrongly, but it got better. We seemed to play some good stuff and, to paraphrase one person, "when I saw the dancefloor that full, I thought the industrial set had started". Quite.
At home I've been trying to work on music some more, and exploring the new features Sonar Studio 7 offers. Some of the stuff it has for electronic music is very impressive. It makes me wonder why I labour for years with guitars and amps and microphones and stuff when I could just use all this technology to knock out an EBM or trance track every day. Ah well, I guess we know where the real talent lies. I'm also finding it quite hard to find room for my MIDI controller, MIDI keyboard, normal keyboard, mouse, and graphics tablet on one desk though. Some reorganisation needed, I think.
Today, will probably be another visit to the Salutation Inn to get a pub lunch with friends, but will probably have to get something other than my usual burger. Recently the burgers have been consistently undercooked to the point of still being mostly pink inside, which is rather unfortunate. From what I gather, they're made fresh on the premises from minced beef (ie. ground beef to some of my overseas readers), and yet at home when I cook that stuff, it really doesn't take long to cook it properly. So what on earth is the cook here doing? Showing the food a picture of a grill or something? Trying to hypnotise it into cooking itself? Bizarre.
On a completely unrelated note, has anybody noticed Facebook locking up Firefox for a couple of seconds at a time? It seems to be Javascript related, since it doesn't occur with my copy of Firefox 3 Beta (which, incidentally, I can crash instantly with the extension I wrote). But I guess it could be one of my installed extensions.
