I slept late (6:38) then turned on the computer, and headed out the door to get some things I should have gotten yesterday.
I hadn’t been in the house 15 minutes when my friend called, and that kind of upset my day. I would rather plan ahead, but still...I like working on the car with him.
It’s been a long time, but we still work well together, and for the most part, he doesn’t have to tell me what to do. Not to mention the fact that my small hands can get into places where his big ones can’t.
It’s windy and ugly out, and though I would like to have stayed and had supper with him, I had things here that I had planned to do today. Unfortunately, I probably won’t get them done. Or even started, since I’m now stuck to the chair...
Cleaned up some of the garage while the sionnsareens went off on a venture to discover the dining room table top. (They found it, along with my frequent-flyer gold elite card which had been misfiled as junk mail). The LP/45-ripper (Ceol) was the obvious candidate, plus it would be nice to regain the space in the stereo cabinet, but... how was I going to rip LPs? (Not that Ceol was doing a good job -- running a wirelessly-accessed desktop AND ripping was marginally too much for it.) LoM reminded me of her laptop, I then discovered I could run the ripper software (Audacity) from a USB drive and.. I was off! Ripping an old scratched LP right now that would make the youngest sionnsareen laugh. Next transfer it to the Linux box (also with Audacity) and see if I can make a decent CD out of it.
If it works, Ceol will move to the family room though undecided whether it will remain Windows or run Linux -- part may be whether we can get Linux WiFi drivers for its card.