Well, I’ve not been still. For what the past months have been, this week has been pretty active. I’ve done a bit of everything, except drawing. And since this is a blog, I’m gonna tell about it.
First of all, I’ve been enjoying my new monitor. It’s great, and I only have two little complaints about it: it’s not rotable, and it’s brighter if you look at it from above than from below. I have plans for the rotability feature, but unless I cut the base, I don’t know what to do with the other thing.
I’ve also been correcting the internationalization of Vistered Little, helping Tom with the little mistakes and omissions he did for 1.7.4. I’ve also localized it to spanish. I don’t know what does Tom think of my changes, since he hasn’t answered back yet.
I’ve done a little bit more of PHP, a while ago I did some scripts to detect collisions in DWI files, that’s different songs with same steps. I’ve redone it with a correct (albeit simple) DWI parser. Well, I’ve not finished, the parser is almost done but there’s still a bit of code ahead. I’ve done this collision thing four or five times, the first times using cumbersome Excel tricks, but hopefully these PHP scripts will make it fast and easy, and maybe they’re useful to others too.
I’ve bought two books more this week, The Boat of a Million Years (Poul Anderson) and Beggars and Choosers (Nancy Kress). I just discovered that the Beggars thing is the second book in a series of three - I hate that. I would have preferred to buy all three, or none. Now I’ll have a hard time finding the other two. Or at least, the first one! However, Anderson’s book is gonna be great. All that after Norstrilia, of course.
I’ve also designed new shelves for my room, to replace the current book shelf I use now. It has a lot of wasted space: four too high shelves, and I can only use three. The new one has seven shelves, with different heights calculated by my books heights, I can use six of them, and combined with the top one, I think that in the same space it’ll fit twice the amount of books. Designing it has been fun, but I have no skills nor tools to buy the panels and do 66 precise holes in 12 different cut pieces. If I can, I’ll have someone to make the pieces and I’ll assemble it. I also plan to design a new computer desk and a wood frame for the monitor to put it vertical. And I need to get a printer, even if it’s the cheapest in the market.
I’ve also been drilling holes in the small plastic stool I bought a couple weeks ago. I use it below my desk to put the subwoofer over it - without touching the desk itself, so vibrations don’t go thru the desk. It makes it sound weird, plus it’s kind of a disgusting feeling. Problem was, the stool was a little bigger and with bars between the legs. I had no saw at hand, so I drilled holes and finished the cutting with a simple kitchen knife. Not MacGyver, but sorta. Now it has the right (unbalanced) height, and I can put in the keyboard tray to the end again. Oh yes baby. But I’m going to see around little blue plastic shavings for weeks.
And finally, after three years, I’ve made a hole in the wall, to hang something that my grandmother (who died this past winter) made for me. It’s a panama, a little thin towel with my name in cross-stitch, and framed.
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