The past few weeks have been busy, and the next few weeks don’t show any sign of slowing down. We are attempting to meet some deadlines that are best described as “impossible”, but I’ve always liked a challenge. I’m getting used to working from home; starting to enjoy it even (not commuting rocks). I set up my new desk and created myself a proper office space:
I’m currently working on my personal laptop, with what would today be considered an ancient 17″ external monitor hooked up to it (yes, it’s a flat-panel LCD, but hey, I brought it all the way from Toronto more than five years ago!). I have a much sexier work computer coming my way eventually but Apple has yet to ship it.
I’ve got some photos of Cannibal that I’ve posted to my gallery. It’s not a thoroughly representative selection but it’s nice, and I think the cast photo looks great:
I will miss the show, but we had a good run (three shows for five weekends with almost no small houses!) and I’m pleased to have left it on a high note. I still catch myself singing the tunes from it, and probably will continue to for a while. There is talk about us mounting again next year, which I would definitely be up for.
In other news, at long last the reconstruction of the exterior of our condo complex is underway. I had serious doubts it would ever actually happen, and I’m relieved to see actual progress being made after more than a year since we finally voted to approve the project and assessment. I’m a little anxious because I want to take advantage of this opportunity to add some connectivity to the living room… when I first moved in the living room didn’t have any cable TV access whatsoever, and there was no unobtrusive way to wire it from either the bedroom or the den. I had a cable run through the walls outside my condo from the den to the living room, and it was just tucked away under the siding in a very haphazard fashion. I know I’ll get a chance to improve it when they strip off the siding on my unit, but what I want to do is add two new cables: an Ethernet and an HDMI cable, so that I can have both wired Internet (instead of relying on wireless) and a high definition TV signal from my computer. This is tricky because I may have a fairly small chance to act, and a lot will depend on the attitude of the construction workers. It certainly helps that I’ll be working from home… when the siding comes off I know there’s plywood underneath, but am I even going to be able to go around things like beams and columns? I can’t really tell just by looking at it.
Another timing factor is that I want to upgrade my living room electronics in general. This primarily means a new (read: bigger) television, but it also might mean a sound system, something I’ve never considered in the past. If I want to install rear speakers, it would be a good idea to attempt to run speaker wire outdoors at the same time, but I don’t know if that will be possible, and won’t even know if it’s relevant until I get a new TV, which is still a tentative matter at best. It’s all so confusing and hectic, and with the holidays coming up is unlikely to get any less so.
Dan.
