Miserable.
Oct. 18th, 2014 23:31![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mapsedgeThis is sort of a new thing for me. My left ear is aching deep and sharp, and I have a sore throat where the swelling is causing my lower jaw and neck muscles around the left-side node to hurt. If I don't turn my head to my right, I'm mostly okay, just the usual ouchie you'd expect from a sore throat, but when I do it's really painful through my jaw, neck, and (weird) over the top of my head. I picked Katie up from dance, and by the time I got there - lots of head movement when you're driving, right? - I was miserable. I'm trying to keep the ibuprofen going on a regular schedule, and can really feel it when it starts to wear off.
I got some new toys - or, officially, Map's Edge got some new toys.A Zoom H1 audio recorder, very handy for clean stereo recording in pretty much any environment. I borrowed one for use at a wedding a couple summers ago, and the quality was unreal. It will certainly beat the hell out of relying on my video cameras and their cheap mics for program audio; large SD card for my 2nd camera (8 hours of capacity ought to do...); 2TB hard drive for project backups. I have a program to record Thursday night for Luff, and I need to start getting stuff together.
After last year's videos were so late coming, I was surprised to be contacted by both Luff and Fairmount and given complete schedules for both. In total, it's about a dozen projects over the next five months, so I'm going to have to find a way to streamline my process. I found a tool that (supposedly) looks at all assets in a timeline and automatically synchronizes them by audio waveform - that's pretty much what I do when I'm working it. The waveform is visual, with peaks and valleys, and I find the matching patterns. If there are a lot of pieces, that can take a long while, so if the tool works that's some savings. I also purchased a third camera earlier in the summer, so now I can shoot a program with three cameras that each will create continuous video (as oppsed to filling in with my DSLR, which overheats and can't shoot more than a minute at a time.)
Lots of sewing this weekend. Fifteen skirts were due by this morning, and we got all but three. My 5-thread started getting fussy, breaking the needle thread with frustrating regularity, then, an hour into the morning, my phone starts ringing urgently. Apparently one of our servers at work, a linked SQL server taking on logfiles from our primary server, failed to boot or got shut down or something, and the database server choked when it couldn't find it. Vantage started calling, texting, emailing, sending up smoke signals and dispatch riders, anything they could think of to get the issue fixed. Someone really needs to tell them that when the tech says, "I see the problem, I'll get it fixed as soon as I can." this is not code for, "Call me every five minutes for the next hour." Calling and texting doesn't speed anything up.
So, we got all but three skirts done, though in any event only half the wearers were present for fittings at dance anyway. I'll finish all that work tomorrow, with somewhat less stress than last night and this morning.
I got some new toys - or, officially, Map's Edge got some new toys.A Zoom H1 audio recorder, very handy for clean stereo recording in pretty much any environment. I borrowed one for use at a wedding a couple summers ago, and the quality was unreal. It will certainly beat the hell out of relying on my video cameras and their cheap mics for program audio; large SD card for my 2nd camera (8 hours of capacity ought to do...); 2TB hard drive for project backups. I have a program to record Thursday night for Luff, and I need to start getting stuff together.
After last year's videos were so late coming, I was surprised to be contacted by both Luff and Fairmount and given complete schedules for both. In total, it's about a dozen projects over the next five months, so I'm going to have to find a way to streamline my process. I found a tool that (supposedly) looks at all assets in a timeline and automatically synchronizes them by audio waveform - that's pretty much what I do when I'm working it. The waveform is visual, with peaks and valleys, and I find the matching patterns. If there are a lot of pieces, that can take a long while, so if the tool works that's some savings. I also purchased a third camera earlier in the summer, so now I can shoot a program with three cameras that each will create continuous video (as oppsed to filling in with my DSLR, which overheats and can't shoot more than a minute at a time.)
Lots of sewing this weekend. Fifteen skirts were due by this morning, and we got all but three. My 5-thread started getting fussy, breaking the needle thread with frustrating regularity, then, an hour into the morning, my phone starts ringing urgently. Apparently one of our servers at work, a linked SQL server taking on logfiles from our primary server, failed to boot or got shut down or something, and the database server choked when it couldn't find it. Vantage started calling, texting, emailing, sending up smoke signals and dispatch riders, anything they could think of to get the issue fixed. Someone really needs to tell them that when the tech says, "I see the problem, I'll get it fixed as soon as I can." this is not code for, "Call me every five minutes for the next hour." Calling and texting doesn't speed anything up.
So, we got all but three skirts done, though in any event only half the wearers were present for fittings at dance anyway. I'll finish all that work tomorrow, with somewhat less stress than last night and this morning.