Weekend Update With Bonus Moana 2
Dec. 1st, 2024 10:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperI did not get nearly as many things done in the four-day weekend as I might have hoped, being highly distracted by having a new computer to set up. Also, seeing the family was a good thing.
In the pursuit of seeing the family, I took Julie to the movies today to see "Moana 2". I liked it a lot. When the movie ended, I was trying to ask Julie what she thought of the film, but she just kept waving me off. This lasted until we got to the car.
At which point she *exploded* in delight. She was very, very happy with the film. She just hadn't wanted to talk about it in the theater (or while walking to the car) for fear of being very, very loud. But she liked the movie even more than I did, so the expedition was a success.
I got not a lot of other things done this weekend. I was able to send Mary two songs for the GAFilk songbook, having gotten the recording setup working in the office. I did some minor work on "Liftoff to Landing" and am going to have to do a *lot* of work this week if it is going to make it out the door in time for GAFilk. I'd like to manage that, because my next sales convention is planned to be OVFF, which is a *very* long time in the future.
And while a lot of the setup of the new computer is done, not all of it is done, so I can't plug it in to replace the older computer. This meant that I had to grab the monitor, USB, and network cables and move them back to the work laptop, because if I don't show up for work tomorrow, it will be bad. That's done now and the work laptop is rebooted and verified to be working.
In the meantime, I got a bright idea before rewiring things. I set up both of my desk computers, old and new, to work with Remote Desktop Connection. Then I found a network cable, wired the new machine into the switch on my desk, and now I'm able to connect to it from the old machine via RDC. This will make finishing the machine setup at a leisurely pace a lot easier while still letting me do everything that I need to do on the old box.
There is, however, a whole lot of computer sitting in that corner of the desk...
In the pursuit of seeing the family, I took Julie to the movies today to see "Moana 2". I liked it a lot. When the movie ended, I was trying to ask Julie what she thought of the film, but she just kept waving me off. This lasted until we got to the car.
At which point she *exploded* in delight. She was very, very happy with the film. She just hadn't wanted to talk about it in the theater (or while walking to the car) for fear of being very, very loud. But she liked the movie even more than I did, so the expedition was a success.
I got not a lot of other things done this weekend. I was able to send Mary two songs for the GAFilk songbook, having gotten the recording setup working in the office. I did some minor work on "Liftoff to Landing" and am going to have to do a *lot* of work this week if it is going to make it out the door in time for GAFilk. I'd like to manage that, because my next sales convention is planned to be OVFF, which is a *very* long time in the future.
And while a lot of the setup of the new computer is done, not all of it is done, so I can't plug it in to replace the older computer. This meant that I had to grab the monitor, USB, and network cables and move them back to the work laptop, because if I don't show up for work tomorrow, it will be bad. That's done now and the work laptop is rebooted and verified to be working.
In the meantime, I got a bright idea before rewiring things. I set up both of my desk computers, old and new, to work with Remote Desktop Connection. Then I found a network cable, wired the new machine into the switch on my desk, and now I'm able to connect to it from the old machine via RDC. This will make finishing the machine setup at a leisurely pace a lot easier while still letting me do everything that I need to do on the old box.
There is, however, a whole lot of computer sitting in that corner of the desk...