Depressing weather...
Oct. 11th, 2001 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpHalf of the relief this morning was not able to show up, so I stayed behind an hour or so until the quickly summoned replacement was able to arrive. It was no big deal, but by the time I got home, it was 10 am. Before I knew it, noon had crept around, so I hit the sack, hoping to be able to wake up a little earlier than I did last night.
I got my wish, though I had hoped to wake up around 7 pm or so, and not 4:30 <groan>.
The folks coming in to the MCC this morning were literally dripping as they walked. It was wet out there, and the local news on the TV downstairs showed footage of damage left by a tornado over in Pasadena, just a few scant miles away.
It wasn't raining as I went out to the car, but by the time I pulled into the driveway in Pearland, the rain had begun again. Apparently, it hasn't stopped since then, and there are pools of water out on the lawn, testifying to the saturated state of the soil around the house. (It would take quite a bit more for things to get actually dicey, but still...)
* * * Between a Winamp plugin called Tara and an Open Source MP3 encoder called LAME (which is YARA1, and stands for "LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder"), I've cracked the problem of how to convert a RealAudio file into an MP3. This allows me to download .rm files of Jean Shepherd broadcasts from the flicklives.com site and move them - as .mp3 files - into my MP3 player.
A minor victory, but mine own.
Off to... do something around here that doesn't involve computers, or cleaning, or paperwork!
Cheers...
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I got my wish, though I had hoped to wake up around 7 pm or so, and not 4:30 <groan>.
The folks coming in to the MCC this morning were literally dripping as they walked. It was wet out there, and the local news on the TV downstairs showed footage of damage left by a tornado over in Pasadena, just a few scant miles away.
It wasn't raining as I went out to the car, but by the time I pulled into the driveway in Pearland, the rain had begun again. Apparently, it hasn't stopped since then, and there are pools of water out on the lawn, testifying to the saturated state of the soil around the house. (It would take quite a bit more for things to get actually dicey, but still...)
A minor victory, but mine own.
Off to... do something around here that doesn't involve computers, or cleaning, or paperwork!
Cheers...
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Date: 2001-10-11 05:18 pm (UTC)you made my day with that!