Administration Happy birthday to dkollin ! Medical Hm. Pretty okay today. Sleep Oh hey, okay, I figured out why I dread going to bed so very much. It's because I hardly dream/remember my dreams anymore, thanks to the meds. Used to be the sleep was like drifting off into another, weirder world. Now it's a complete shutdown. I feel vampire-dead-til-morning. Iran Is horrifying and trainwreck...

Administration Happy birthday to miashell ! Hello to new reader cypherindigo ! Medical Hangin' in. Zoom! Spent pretty much the entire afternoon yesterday allocating final tickets, doing the draw, posting the post, notifying all of the donors and winners via e-mail so they could give necessary info and addresses. Phew. Have packed up the Elayna-earrings and chapbook; I need...

And the winners, per the random number generator, are: Story Tuckerizations 1. Tuckerization in Farscape comic by kradical : chris_walsh ! 2. Tuckerization in Stargate novel by terri_osborne : slipjig ! 3. Tuckerization in Shayara : shinysayyadina ! Autographed Copies 4. "Fortune" chapbook - story by me, art by ultra_lilac , chapbookening...

Here're some things I found interesting this week that aren't economic in nature: From ysabel , have Susie Bright on the many problems of "NSFW" and self-censorship . If you're interested in photography at all - or just want to see some cool photos of an Dubai falconer and his bird - this photographer's blog entry is of real interest . The Obama administration's desperately-needed high...

The last one-plus sentence meme around here was on the theme of "porn adventures or dish-washing adventures: I decide!" ...and the results are finally in!   for vagbond_sal : Batman and Kyle Rayner They're the only two left after the JLA meeting, and Kyle says, "I knew it!" and, "I *told* you that you could walk around naked under the cape. No one noticed. *Superman* didn't notice....

So, ysabel played the short test recording of January to a friend, and now diego001 is my first CD's second sponsor! Thanks! ^_^ (I still can't get over the idea that anybody would want to do that. It just makes me giggle. Hee hee hee hee hee *^_^*;; ) (I guess I'm gonna have to actually make all this shit work now! Today it only took 10 minutes to get the DAW to acknowledge my microphone...

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So, now that I have all the equipment working, I made a test recording today of a new mandolin instrumental (called "January") I've been writing, and got the equalisation drop-ins and such working, and did a stereo mixdown and export to figure all that out. And it worked, yay! Then I threw it at a few people online to get reactions. I know the noise floor is still too high (that's why I need carpet...

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I would hug him. I know this is preaching to the choir, but he has some good insights and makes a powerful point. (Via ysabel .)