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what I did on my birthday
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I goofed off around the house. I thought at first I might go out and see the Sponge Bob movie, but after a morning of puttering, I decided I needed an afternoon of puttering. I did some updating of backups and decided to scan a book of standard songs (folk songs through hits of the late teens). After I'd scanned a few pages, I decided to save post-scanning time and adjust the scan settings. That made things oodles faster. As long as I got it straight on the scanner, a scan needed no additional work beyond saving and naming the file. I gave the files names that gave title info as well as the page number, so that was even better. I was pretty happy with it, all in all.
I also thought I'd be looking online and at LJ more, but for some reason, I just didn't. It was kind of unusual.
A few days earlier, I increased my opera and vocal holdings considerably by harvesting some stuff I'd had for eons. A co-worker gave me all these sampler CDs. There were a couple of opera 'best of the year' disks from '93 and '94, samplers from Sony and RCA, and a whole pile of the CDs that came with Classical CD magazine. Usually, I scorn these, with their excerpts from movements, but with opera, these little chunks can be very entertaining. I ended up with almost a CD worth of mp3 files -- about 650 MB of them -- so I've been dipping into strange operas and enjoying it; finding new stuff.
When I was scanning, I put some of it on, and it helped the work go by faster. Then right at the end, when I'd scanned about 90 pages in a row, and the computer found a clever new way to dump them, it helped me re-scan 90 pages in a half hour in order to go pick Sarah up a little early and try to go to a playground. I say 'try' because Sarah dawdled and we lost a few precious minutes of daylight, and then she insisted on going to the playground that was farther away. It was so cold when we got there, I don't know that it would have made a difference anyway. I wish we had a nice indoor playground to go to.
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I goofed off around the house. I thought at first I might go out and see the Sponge Bob movie, but after a morning of puttering, I decided I needed an afternoon of puttering. I did some updating of backups and decided to scan a book of standard songs (folk songs through hits of the late teens). After I'd scanned a few pages, I decided to save post-scanning time and adjust the scan settings. That made things oodles faster. As long as I got it straight on the scanner, a scan needed no additional work beyond saving and naming the file. I gave the files names that gave title info as well as the page number, so that was even better. I was pretty happy with it, all in all.
I also thought I'd be looking online and at LJ more, but for some reason, I just didn't. It was kind of unusual.
A few days earlier, I increased my opera and vocal holdings considerably by harvesting some stuff I'd had for eons. A co-worker gave me all these sampler CDs. There were a couple of opera 'best of the year' disks from '93 and '94, samplers from Sony and RCA, and a whole pile of the CDs that came with Classical CD magazine. Usually, I scorn these, with their excerpts from movements, but with opera, these little chunks can be very entertaining. I ended up with almost a CD worth of mp3 files -- about 650 MB of them -- so I've been dipping into strange operas and enjoying it; finding new stuff.
When I was scanning, I put some of it on, and it helped the work go by faster. Then right at the end, when I'd scanned about 90 pages in a row, and the computer found a clever new way to dump them, it helped me re-scan 90 pages in a half hour in order to go pick Sarah up a little early and try to go to a playground. I say 'try' because Sarah dawdled and we lost a few precious minutes of daylight, and then she insisted on going to the playground that was farther away. It was so cold when we got there, I don't know that it would have made a difference anyway. I wish we had a nice indoor playground to go to.
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