Catching Up
Mar. 4th, 2024 10:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperI am officially behind on things now, having spent the weekend at Dorsai Thing where I got a chance to see a bunch of old friends, do some singing, and generally have a good time. So let's see what I need to mention here.
The two-tablet system for my filk book worked admirably. The batteries in the tablets are large enough that I had 2/3 of the charge left after two evenings of singing, which seems to indicate that I don't need to panic about them running down quickly. I *do* need to fix one song (at least) where the imported PDF is only one page of the actual two, but I just need to remember to do it. We'll call this strategy a success, although it probably won't stop me from carting the heavy paper filk book to conventions for a little while yet.
I had rewired a new switch into the light attachment for the bedroom ceiling fan last week, but this left the difficulty of actually getting it wired back up to the ceiling fan. The problem is that this is best done during daylight and with an extra pair of hands. This afternoon, I finally had both at the same time, drafting K to stand on the bed and hold the lights while I reattached the wiring. Happily, I seem to have gotten it right the first time. I also lengthened the chains for the pulls so that Gretchen can reach them more easily, as the original positioning was fine for me and *very* optimistic for her.
Today at work, I discovered that a change that I had made was laid low by my old enemy, negative zero. I have not had a negative zero problem since I was working on PLATO back in 1980, but here it was, rearing its ugly head again. I have neutered the beast and will check in the fix tomorrow after a bit more testing.
The two-tablet system for my filk book worked admirably. The batteries in the tablets are large enough that I had 2/3 of the charge left after two evenings of singing, which seems to indicate that I don't need to panic about them running down quickly. I *do* need to fix one song (at least) where the imported PDF is only one page of the actual two, but I just need to remember to do it. We'll call this strategy a success, although it probably won't stop me from carting the heavy paper filk book to conventions for a little while yet.
I had rewired a new switch into the light attachment for the bedroom ceiling fan last week, but this left the difficulty of actually getting it wired back up to the ceiling fan. The problem is that this is best done during daylight and with an extra pair of hands. This afternoon, I finally had both at the same time, drafting K to stand on the bed and hold the lights while I reattached the wiring. Happily, I seem to have gotten it right the first time. I also lengthened the chains for the pulls so that Gretchen can reach them more easily, as the original positioning was fine for me and *very* optimistic for her.
Today at work, I discovered that a change that I had made was laid low by my old enemy, negative zero. I have not had a negative zero problem since I was working on PLATO back in 1980, but here it was, rearing its ugly head again. I have neutered the beast and will check in the fix tomorrow after a bit more testing.