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Wow.. Talk about an amazing birthday.  I don’t think i’ve had one that good in years.  Saturday I knew i had a busy day working on a school project for Hannah.  We shot some video for them and then went home to start editing.  Also needed to get a master DVD made for Ivan Tait and and a DVD for Carey and Glory and the Fire is in town.  Even though we are not hosting them this year, doesn’t necessary mean that we’re off the hook.  They were having problems with one of their amps on Friday night.  Then on Saturday, they were having problems with their main audio mixer.  The entire thing would drop the entire audio output for a second or two.  Sounded almost like a cd dropping audio.  So i went out to the venue in the middle of editing Hannah’s video.  That one was harder to fix than the first problem.  Ended up removing the main audio from the main outs of the mixer and used the un-fadered output from the Rec Out of the console.  granted, it’s a high impedance output instead of low but i put two direct boxes in-between so that helped to match the outputs as much as possible.  I knew that Paula, was coming over at 4 30 so at 5 I’m starting to panic.  Finally at 5:30 the problem was fixed and ready to come home.  Took Jason and Blake over to their hotel to pick up some laundry and brought them over to the house to wash while we had cake, or so i thought.  I walked in the back yard and come to find a backyard full of people.  And they kept coming out of the house.  Even my parents were their.  I was totally surprised and overwhelmed to see all the people their.  My wife must have worked so hard to get all those people and food and the house cleaned.  And all the while not letting me know about any of it.  I think everyone i knew was there.  and for a while apparently.  And none of them let me know what they were planning.

Patti, thank you so much for pulling that off.  I love you so much.  You truly made it a very special day.  Thank you for everything you did to pull that off.  I love you more than i could ever put into words.

Thank you everyone else for showing up.  It was great spending time with family and friends.  i had an awesome time.

So in the new office, they are about 50% Mac, 50% PC.  Being a part of the A&M University, it’s not likely i can convince them to go 100% PC so if you can’t beat them, figure them out.  I got my first Mac last friday and spent the weekend trying to figure this thing out.  So far i’ve learned about the Dock, Time Warp, Finder, Apple Mail, and safari.  I also got to learn about installing the OS.  Then i didn’t know the previous owners password so i found out about Single User Mode (thanks Jonny), come to find out if you boot in Single User Mode you get a linux prompt!  Hey.. i know linux.  So back to a familiar command prompt and a few lines later, we had the user name discovered and the password changed. 

I ran protools on it (because they say it works better on a mac) it does. 

The wifi autodetect is pretty slick. 

But..

the exchange integration only works with 2007,

I imported two videos side by side.  (pictured above) One of a PC and one on a Mac, the mac took longer because it wanted to build tons of thumbnails.  I don’t want thumbnails, i let my editing program do that. 

The updates took a while.  The appear to be coming from akamai and i was about to do a blanket block of akamai at the office only come to find out all of this traffic to akamai was mac updates.

So.. i’m putting in an order for mac server.  See how well these things can be tamed.  I’m curious. 

and i don’t even work there anymore!  Tuesday evening there was some really bad storms, i was driving to the weekly tuesday evening dinner at the Leals and i was listening to 105.5 just for a change of pace.  When i was about to the 281 interchange i heard the signal go silent.  i was going to flip to the other dials but a few seconds later it was back on.  ok.. that was weird but not really my problem anymore.  a few moments later Milton is calling in a panic. 

Well.. 8 hours later pretty much came to the conclusion that lightening hit the tower and took out all of the video displays in all of the control rooms as well as a few other pieces of electronics including the entire phone system.  Toasted the cpu card.  all that the phones were showing on the display was “major alarm”

http://www.nextgenfoodus.com/news/Processed-food-a-silent-assassin/

This article was rather frightning.  Especially after finding out the burger (bullet) i ate for lunch this afternoon had over half of the DAILY recommended calories..

Several rogue websites have declared today, September 9, as a Day Without Cats. In typical cat fashion, we will ignore this ridiculous notion and simply be posting the Best of Cheezburger videos throughout the whole day. Caturday 4ever.

I literally LOL’d on this one..