Productivity
Mar. 26th, 2026 03:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nyykiFurther progress…
I got my pst file off the old Dell's hard drive, so I have my email archive back. I'm still integrating things into the old directory tree, but I've got everything hitting the same inbox now, and that's taking some adjustment because I got engrained to the stopgap structure I used. It's a comforting problem to have because I feel like I'm no longer in a sort of holding pattern.
I got my six space rack integrated into my cockpit-like computer workspace – it has my two space rack drawer, a sliding rack tray with my old turntable on it, and two audio interface units below those things. The old four space is wedged in at the floor level with my QSC power amp in it and nothing below that – I can't think of anything rack mountable that I'd need in that workspace, and I may move the interfaces when I get my DAW computer up and running, because those belong there more than in my bedroom. I'm thinking that I can do format conversion from the bedroom and also audio mastering, though of course the room isn't long enough for the lowest frequencies (professional mastering suites are rooms forty feet long so the lowest bass frequencies can have room to cycle). In the garage my roommate found my old computer monitor and an old keyboard, though I think those were for my music computer in the past (which will reside again in my 44 space4 server rack when I get my full studio back working), so monitor needs are taken care of; I'm going with keyboard configuration unity for my workspaces, so I'll track down another Microsoft Internet Explorer keyboard (model: Rt9420 nb 5ftw and MS part number: x0 562767) and locate the rodent I was using before. Then comes the task of figuring out where to stuff it into the Zen Room.
All of this is making it clear that my computer desk and the sort of shelf arrangement I've got next to my computer is also stopgap, and all of this would be so much easier with my planned computer desk because the space under the computer shelf is designed to be terrain-free. That's going to involve locating an unstained bookshelf 4'x4'x1.5 and an unstained tabletop 3'x4' for the desk surface; both are elusive it seems.
Tomorrow I'll repack my different drums into my trailer, arranged much better this time, so more can fit in there and the garage will be far easier to deal with – I'm hoping through all of this my tea machine, second gallon pitcher, and my food processor will be easier to find, along with all of the other stuff the roommate put there during the Possum Apocalypse. Maybe the other stuff will show up too, so I can put to bed that garage searching thing.
MY tech to-do list is getting smaller – it's down to getting some stuff from a friend of mine in Irving, fixing the older computer with the dual floppy drive in it so I can rip data from a bunch of floppies of both form factors, configuring my all-in-one so it doesn't require messing with the touch screen after each scan job, fixing my server issues (most of which are hardware things but with a bit of configuration in Server 2003), updating and imaging three laptops and updating my Mac Pro, and fixing some things on my phone. A hint of a horizon is peeking up in the distance for all of this stuff
Oh, and a friend is going to be staying with me for a bit because his living situation is untenable; my two big concerns are him letting someone take all the things he's done there while resisting the urge to rescue them, and him trying to stay as busy here – I don't need that level of help around here because I dealt with that kind of stuff myself for so long. That said, he's a fellow musician, and he can help me with some of that stuff without me having to explain things for an hour or more and also do troubleshooting if a snag comes up in the process. We've been having a seriously difficulty in making music together, so that may improve too – the ideas are all there, but with how much he was doing he didn't have time. He's also going to focus a lot on his side job of building boutique guitar FX pedals and selling them on Reverb.
Life is change and change is life, and through change knowledge is gained. To me that's a good thing.
I got my pst file off the old Dell's hard drive, so I have my email archive back. I'm still integrating things into the old directory tree, but I've got everything hitting the same inbox now, and that's taking some adjustment because I got engrained to the stopgap structure I used. It's a comforting problem to have because I feel like I'm no longer in a sort of holding pattern.
I got my six space rack integrated into my cockpit-like computer workspace – it has my two space rack drawer, a sliding rack tray with my old turntable on it, and two audio interface units below those things. The old four space is wedged in at the floor level with my QSC power amp in it and nothing below that – I can't think of anything rack mountable that I'd need in that workspace, and I may move the interfaces when I get my DAW computer up and running, because those belong there more than in my bedroom. I'm thinking that I can do format conversion from the bedroom and also audio mastering, though of course the room isn't long enough for the lowest frequencies (professional mastering suites are rooms forty feet long so the lowest bass frequencies can have room to cycle). In the garage my roommate found my old computer monitor and an old keyboard, though I think those were for my music computer in the past (which will reside again in my 44 space4 server rack when I get my full studio back working), so monitor needs are taken care of; I'm going with keyboard configuration unity for my workspaces, so I'll track down another Microsoft Internet Explorer keyboard (model: Rt9420 nb 5ftw and MS part number: x0 562767) and locate the rodent I was using before. Then comes the task of figuring out where to stuff it into the Zen Room.
All of this is making it clear that my computer desk and the sort of shelf arrangement I've got next to my computer is also stopgap, and all of this would be so much easier with my planned computer desk because the space under the computer shelf is designed to be terrain-free. That's going to involve locating an unstained bookshelf 4'x4'x1.5 and an unstained tabletop 3'x4' for the desk surface; both are elusive it seems.
Tomorrow I'll repack my different drums into my trailer, arranged much better this time, so more can fit in there and the garage will be far easier to deal with – I'm hoping through all of this my tea machine, second gallon pitcher, and my food processor will be easier to find, along with all of the other stuff the roommate put there during the Possum Apocalypse. Maybe the other stuff will show up too, so I can put to bed that garage searching thing.
MY tech to-do list is getting smaller – it's down to getting some stuff from a friend of mine in Irving, fixing the older computer with the dual floppy drive in it so I can rip data from a bunch of floppies of both form factors, configuring my all-in-one so it doesn't require messing with the touch screen after each scan job, fixing my server issues (most of which are hardware things but with a bit of configuration in Server 2003), updating and imaging three laptops and updating my Mac Pro, and fixing some things on my phone. A hint of a horizon is peeking up in the distance for all of this stuff
Oh, and a friend is going to be staying with me for a bit because his living situation is untenable; my two big concerns are him letting someone take all the things he's done there while resisting the urge to rescue them, and him trying to stay as busy here – I don't need that level of help around here because I dealt with that kind of stuff myself for so long. That said, he's a fellow musician, and he can help me with some of that stuff without me having to explain things for an hour or more and also do troubleshooting if a snag comes up in the process. We've been having a seriously difficulty in making music together, so that may improve too – the ideas are all there, but with how much he was doing he didn't have time. He's also going to focus a lot on his side job of building boutique guitar FX pedals and selling them on Reverb.
Life is change and change is life, and through change knowledge is gained. To me that's a good thing.
