Ramblings From Justin Penney

It obviously makes sense that I have a lto fo computer failures since I work in the coputer industry.

This post was supposed to be a good one about how I ripped down the ugly dropped ceiling and flourescent lights in the live room and how in the next couple weeks the walls will be framed and the ceiling insulated. Well... it was not without incident.

The people apparently didn't care about the way in which they attached the grid for the ceiling. I took one screw out and a whole section fell onto me. The flourescent light fixtures were attached to the gridding so it came down too, hanging about a foot hight. I grabbed one of the pieces and moved it and there were sparks and the power went out. No problem, I shouldn't have moved the big metal rod anyway. So I don't think I got shocked. I didn't feel anything but the end of the piece I grabbed was burnt. So I clip the wires, tuck them away and remove the rest of the fixtures before doing anything else. Oh yeah, at this point I put on gloves, safety goggles and a respirator. Should have done that before!

Anyway, ceiling is down, all is going good. My mother-in-law has a play that her kids are doing for their church on cassette. Not much good having anything on cassette lately so she asked if I could make a CD for her. No problem. I grab the old bookshelf system rig up all the adapters and notice it's really quiet. The computer is off. Hit the power button... nothing. Pull the power to let the caps drain, plug it back in... nothing. Pull it out of the desk and the power supply smells awful. Great. This is one of those little Shuttle small form factor ones so it's not a regular power supply. I'm about 1.5 weeks away from getting a whole new machine for the studio so it's not horrible but what a pain.

So now I'm up in the office using that machine to record this. I'm using the built in sound card and Audacity. I love the open source world. A quick little download and I have a pretty freaking powerful wave editor right there! Luckily I still have my CD Architect serial number. I almost lost that in a drive crash in my server last week.

# posted by Justin @ 9:51 PM