And So It Ends

sexybass and sueposter headed back to Toronto this morning, after spending nearly three weeks here helping us look after Katie while daisy_knotwise recovered from her recent surgery. We're very grateful to them for the help.

Last night, we pulled out the guitars and spent some time playing, interrupted in a middle by a run down to Culver's where we introduced our guests to frozen custard. Yum!

And Tom's got the Cubase scratch tracks that we recorded for the next Dandelion Wine album loaded on his computer, so when he gets home (around trips to the cabin and FilkContinental), he'll be adding bass tracks and other instrumental tracks to the mix.

So stay tuned on that. :)

And So It Ends

sexybass and sueposter headed back to Toronto this morning, after spending nearly three weeks here helping us look after Katie while daisy_knotwise recovered from her recent surgery. We're very grateful to them for the help.

Last night, we pulled out the guitars and spent some time playing, interrupted in a middle by a run down to Culver's where we introduced our guests to frozen custard. Yum!

And Tom's got the Cubase scratch tracks that we recorded for the next Dandelion Wine album loaded on his computer, so when he gets home (around trips to the cabin and FilkContinental), he'll be adding bass tracks and other instrumental tracks to the mix.

So stay tuned on that. :)

Back in the Basement

Meanwhile, back in the basement, we continue to have several items that we'd like to send to a good home, since they otherwise will land in the trash.

Two lightweight pine bookcases, stained and varnished, each four feet high, one three feet wide, one two feet wide. The top shelves will pop off if you lift by them, but otherwise they're in good shape.

One six foot or so high 12 inch deep metal shelving unit.

A wood and leather office chair that is slightly wobbly on its base. Otherwise, it's in good condition. It's a lovely chair, but wobbly is not my friend. :)

anach had expressed some interest in the bookcases, but they're still here, so... :)

Back in the Basement

Meanwhile, back in the basement, we continue to have several items that we'd like to send to a good home, since they otherwise will land in the trash.

Two lightweight pine bookcases, stained and varnished, each four feet high, one three feet wide, one two feet wide. The top shelves will pop off if you lift by them, but otherwise they're in good shape.

One six foot or so high 12 inch deep metal shelving unit.

A wood and leather office chair that is slightly wobbly on its base. Otherwise, it's in good condition. It's a lovely chair, but wobbly is not my friend. :)

anach had expressed some interest in the bookcases, but they're still here, so... :)

Secret Plots: We Shoot! We Score!

If you didn't read about this before, it's because the previous posts (here and here) were filtered. But now all things (well, most things) can be told.

decadentdave has spent some time coping with screen-reading software that had become increasingly antique. A number of us got together and have collected funds (facilitated by minnehaha K) to buy Dave some newer screen-reading software that can actually cope with modern hardware and software. I picked up the 60-day evaluation copy of Window-Eyes and loaded it onto our former studio computer (which is a dual-processor Athlon running Windows XP Pro) when it arrived, about two days after Dave arrived here.

Dave was suitably surprised and happy. It took a while working through the manual, but before he left to return to Winnipeg, he was happily reading LJ, which had become very difficult with the old software. He never quite got around to posting to LJ and since he's now off to Germany for a bit, I thought that it might be time to update you with the results. :)

I'm getting the full version of the software in the next week or so, which I'll then load onto the computer. Dave is going to try to see if he can make arrangements with Erin to bring the computer north; if that doesn't work out, we'll figure out an alternate plan. Since Dave will be in Europe until late October, there's no great rush.

I'm not yet sure exactly how much money we've raised (I need to get a final accounting from Karen, who's been rather busily on vacation herself :) ), nor do I yet have a list of all the contributors to forward on to Dave, but I expect I'll have that soon. I am fairly sure we've arrived within shouting distance of the required total.

But thanks to everyone who participated (and to artbeco and ohiblather who apparently hatched a similar scheme a year or so ago, but got talked out of it by Dave at the time).

He seems to be very happy with it. :)

Update: Karen's checked in and it looks like we've got enough to get the software and the maintenance agreement, although I'll be calling them on Tuesday to find out exactly what that covers.

Thanks!

Secret Plots: We Shoot! We Score!

If you didn't read about this before, it's because the previous posts (here and here) were filtered. But now all things (well, most things) can be told.

decadentdave has spent some time coping with screen-reading software that had become increasingly antique. A number of us got together and have collected funds (facilitated by minnehaha K) to buy Dave some newer screen-reading software that can actually cope with modern hardware and software. I picked up the 60-day evaluation copy of Window-Eyes and loaded it onto our former studio computer (which is a dual-processor Athlon running Windows XP Pro) when it arrived, about two days after Dave arrived here.

Dave was suitably surprised and happy. It took a while working through the manual, but before he left to return to Winnipeg, he was happily reading LJ, which had become very difficult with the old software. He never quite got around to posting to LJ and since he's now off to Germany for a bit, I thought that it might be time to update you with the results. :)

I'm getting the full version of the software in the next week or so, which I'll then load onto the computer. Dave is going to try to see if he can make arrangements with Erin to bring the computer north; if that doesn't work out, we'll figure out an alternate plan. Since Dave will be in Europe until late October, there's no great rush.

I'm not yet sure exactly how much money we've raised (I need to get a final accounting from Karen, who's been rather busily on vacation herself :) ), nor do I yet have a list of all the contributors to forward on to Dave, but I expect I'll have that soon. I am fairly sure we've arrived within shouting distance of the required total.

But thanks to everyone who participated (and to artbeco and ohiblather who apparently hatched a similar scheme a year or so ago, but got talked out of it by Dave at the time).

He seems to be very happy with it. :)

Update: Karen's checked in and it looks like we've got enough to get the software and the maintenance agreement, although I'll be calling them on Tuesday to find out exactly what that covers.

Thanks!