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Just as I was gathering up my coffee, breakfast, jacket, etc., and preparing to walk out the door to work, I felt a muscle in my neck (right side, down into the line of the shoulder) seize and cramp.  Now I can't turn my head to the right more than 10 degrees or so. 

Made driving an interesting chore, especially considering that 291 to Liberty is a collection of hills and the gravel trucks were out in force.  Oh, and fog, too, the entire way, with visibility less than a half mile. 

I've been trying to rub the kink out, but it's deep and I can't reach it.  Waiting for the ibuprofen to kick in and hoping the anti-inflammatory will do some good.

Arrived in my office to find that DataGuy bought me a present.  It was wrapped and waiting at my desk, a collection of flavored instant cappuccino mixes.  *shudder*  Flavored.  Instant.  His heart is in the right place, and I didn't let on that his choice wasn't the best he could have made (I don't do flavors; and I own an espresso machine so mixes are unnecessary.) 

I'm dead tired today, but hoping my large-ish breakfast will eventually translate into energy.  Got caroling tonight, a small party with friends (yes, I'm taking my guitar, although I don't know any Christmas carols), that I'm really looking forward to. 

The Willie's Wenches demo is proceeding well.  K & K did the rough edit on the "previews" portion.  I came in behind, tightened up the edit; added sound effects (ADR and foley is actually kind of fun*); finally, some visual tweaking with the color balance and saturation and it looks really sharp.  Funny as hell, too.

* the real challenge is matching the room characteristics so it sounds like you were actually there.  Sonar is my friend.  So is Audacity.

Four day weekend coming up.  That's a "yea-in-a-box" right there.

Comments

[brotherwilliam.livejournal.com]

I like audacity. Hadn't heard of sonar.

Take your belt off (lay a towel over your shoulder if dressed nice), put the belt across your shoulder and grasp both ends, one in each hand. rub the belt till the friction creates a bit of heat, rest, relax, repeat. Add an ice pack during the relax if you have one available. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, these last weeks for me, not days or hours and are SOOO easy to re-injure.

Sending thought of heat and cold your way,
brother william

[billthetailor.livejournal.com]

Sonar is a tool for audio engineering and MIDI sequencing. I like Audacity for noise removal and cutting up audio because it doesn't have a "grid" per sé; Sonar snaps to measures by default and makes editing a bit of a chore. However, Sonar has a much better set of filters for reverb and equalization; Audacity's aren't very good and tend to freeze my PC more often than not.

Thanks for the heat/cold advice.

[glesyn.livejournal.com]

ouch. :(