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Our kitten Jake has been on a destructive tear lately. Tonight he managed to eat the “” key on Jodi’s TiBook. Bad Kitty!

On the morning drive:

Jodi and I found a small antique dresser that needs a bunch of work done on it. I’ve already started stripping and sanding the old finish off, and we’ll be painting it up to go with the (as yet to be determined) color scheme for LT’s room. I’m enjoying it too, as it gives me something special I can create/restore for my future son!

One of my few “prized” possessions is a cradle my grandfather made, that my brothers and I used as infants. He even hand-carved animals into the end panels, and carved our names and birthdates on the sides. LT will be a bit big for the cradle, but I’m really hoping that he will be able to use it at least a bit.

So here’s the dresser as it is now. Note the REDMONK license plate in the background.

I figured out a better solution for doing the audio blog thing. It’s based somewhat on the system that Hugo Schotmann got going, and works pretty well. Dave Slusher is using the same system now for EGC, and notes in his latest audio post that there is some echoey stuff going on in the headphones. I had the same thing, but I think I got distracted by it, where Dave seems to have done just fine.

The trouble I’m having right now is that the drive makes too much noise when chewing through audio data, and without a proper external mic, I get all kinds of whiney noise in the recording. Grr.

Ok, so this is the part where |Jodi| starts rolling her eyes is dramatic fashion, but I’ve succumbed to the temptation of responding in audio to Dave Slusher’s latest Evil Genius Chronicles audio post. So of course I couldn’t just record it, I had to give it a name:

Just Keep Talking - Sept 27, 2004

I may try and figure out how to get that into an <enclosure> thingy, but for now I’ll just throw it out there and see if it sticks.

P.S. Another link mentioned in the post: Hugo Schotmann’s instructions for recording an audio post on OS X.

I had a dental appointment today, and (despite it’s very low battery) decided to take the ‘pod along to give me something to listen to behind the whine and grand of the drill. Shudder.

Surprisingly, the battery lasted all the way through the hour+ appointment, and I got to listen to some backlogged Gilmor Gang from IT Conversations. Cool!

Despite the occasional requests and comments from the dentist, and the inevitable experiments in bone-conduction, I found that I was able to follow the show and it really made the time go by faster.

We’re in late-night mode again at work. With deadlines upon us, we’re scrambling to get stuff done, and wiring bits of applications to other bits as fast as we can. This is the part of software development that sucks, when deadline-driven production takes you off of replacing the tools that desperately need to be replaced.

Sigh.