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library_lynn and I went out to the airport, picked up Maria, and headed over to Del Taco so Maria could get some ground beef soft tacos, a chicken quesadilla, and some diet coke. obishawn and colleency met us there -- they were sittiing at the far side of the place, just waiting for Maria to notice them. She went eek! when she finally spotted them, after standing a while studying the menu and breathing in the fast food smells.
We had a lovely time there, and then after an hour or so we adjourned to IHOP for dessert. (That banana caramel cheesecake's very tasty...) Coming home, she showed us the stuff she brought home for Xmas gifts for her father's side of the family, and I helped wrap presents after Lynn went to bed.
Now that's done; in the morning I drive her and the loot out to Cerritos; Lynn and I are having dinner with the Crosbys, and then I'll go back out and pick her up so she can (as she always does) go to bed Christmas Eve here and wake up for cinnamon rolls Xmas Day.
The house is crowded with stuff left over from Loscon etc., and the fresh pine sap of the real tree Lynn bought is filling the air -- it makes my mouth taste of pine. Yuck. But that's the price we pay, I suppose. Lights are up on the tree, although not the house.
In other news I bought another folding cart to replace the one lost at Loscon. This one I took down to Earl Scheib and had them paint it purple. It's lovely. But one of the coasters is stiff - I have to see if oiling it good takes care of it, or if it's jammed and needs to be replaced. It really throws off the steering.
And Lynn's laptop has almost all of our Xmas music. (The exceptions would be songs like Lennon's Happy Xmas which isn't on any of our Xmas compilation albums -- it's on his own albums -- and the full Tchaikovsky Nutcracker. But we do have Shirim's Klezmer Nutracker...)
For those who've been following along on the projects I've talked about over the last ten years, this is part of the Jukebox Server Project -- instant random access to our entire music collection. (In this case, the holiday music subset of the collection.) The Linux box I was going to use for the file server won't fit inside the ent. center (because I was going to hook its sound card up to the stereo) and would need better ventilation besides; but still it's encouraging to have a thousand tracks of music on shuffle play, dishing up over 2 days' worth of holiday music without a repeat... I've talked about this informally for a long time, and got a lot of the MP3 encoding of our music collection done five years ago; so it's not something I've rushed into. Maria returning home is a bit of a catalyst for getting this far; with any luck I'll have more of the project ready to use before she moves out again.
Merry Christmas, everyone.
library_lynn and I went out to the airport, picked up Maria, and headed over to Del Taco so Maria could get some ground beef soft tacos, a chicken quesadilla, and some diet coke. obishawn and colleency met us there -- they were sittiing at the far side of the place, just waiting for Maria to notice them. She went eek! when she finally spotted them, after standing a while studying the menu and breathing in the fast food smells.We had a lovely time there, and then after an hour or so we adjourned to IHOP for dessert. (That banana caramel cheesecake's very tasty...) Coming home, she showed us the stuff she brought home for Xmas gifts for her father's side of the family, and I helped wrap presents after Lynn went to bed.
Now that's done; in the morning I drive her and the loot out to Cerritos; Lynn and I are having dinner with the Crosbys, and then I'll go back out and pick her up so she can (as she always does) go to bed Christmas Eve here and wake up for cinnamon rolls Xmas Day.
The house is crowded with stuff left over from Loscon etc., and the fresh pine sap of the real tree Lynn bought is filling the air -- it makes my mouth taste of pine. Yuck. But that's the price we pay, I suppose. Lights are up on the tree, although not the house.
In other news I bought another folding cart to replace the one lost at Loscon. This one I took down to Earl Scheib and had them paint it purple. It's lovely. But one of the coasters is stiff - I have to see if oiling it good takes care of it, or if it's jammed and needs to be replaced. It really throws off the steering.
And Lynn's laptop has almost all of our Xmas music. (The exceptions would be songs like Lennon's Happy Xmas which isn't on any of our Xmas compilation albums -- it's on his own albums -- and the full Tchaikovsky Nutcracker. But we do have Shirim's Klezmer Nutracker...)
For those who've been following along on the projects I've talked about over the last ten years, this is part of the Jukebox Server Project -- instant random access to our entire music collection. (In this case, the holiday music subset of the collection.) The Linux box I was going to use for the file server won't fit inside the ent. center (because I was going to hook its sound card up to the stereo) and would need better ventilation besides; but still it's encouraging to have a thousand tracks of music on shuffle play, dishing up over 2 days' worth of holiday music without a repeat... I've talked about this informally for a long time, and got a lot of the MP3 encoding of our music collection done five years ago; so it's not something I've rushed into. Maria returning home is a bit of a catalyst for getting this far; with any luck I'll have more of the project ready to use before she moves out again.
Merry Christmas, everyone.
