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May 17, 2002
Yeah, I get a new

Yeah, I get a new project and I start staying up way too late. It's probably not good for me, but it's nice to be working on something. Even something as frustrating as getting this new recording stuff to work.

As yet, I haven't been able to do that. On my PC, the card just hoses everything up. I've tried everything I can think of, changing slots, installing it in every way I can, manually setting IRQs, and all kinds of other incomprehensible crap, but to no avail. It crashes spectacularly every time. I sent an email to tech support and they returned a generic, cut-and-paste "hardware conflict" reply, even though I had explained that I had already tried all of those things. I'll try to either call them or email them again.

So today, I decided that I should try to get the thing to work on Liz's Mac. It's a fancy-pants G4, and it could use a job. Installing this type of thing is certainly easier on a Mac too, no worries about crazy shit like IRQs and all that nonsense. Just drag the files around and off you go. Or so I hoped. So far, the Mac angle hasn't worked either. I think I have the card installed, and the drivers too, but I can't get Logic (the recording software) to recognize that the card is there. Without that, of course, there's nothing to record to.

So now I'm getting every version of Logic I can find to see if any of them will have this mysterious ASIO folder that I'm supposed to drag the drivers into. It's slow going.

I remain ever vigilant and somewhat confident.

In other completely self-centered news, I sucked at volleyball tonight. I've felt a bit off for both matches this week, and it was frustrating as hell. We still managed to win 4 out of 6 games this week, but I'm not sure that makes me feel any better. Bah, it's a slump, fahgettabadit.

Layoff rumours abound at work once again, but there's not much I can do about that. It's still a relatively fun place to work, but I'm thinking I should start at least thinking about what I'd want to do should I lose this job. I'm thinking a half a year or so of hanging out playing music and playing volleyball sounds pretty good. Maybe some traveling after that. A nice long road trip. Yeah, that sounds preTTy good.

I've also decided, and I know this is getting unbearably exciting, that... you know what? I'm not even going to get into it. It's simply not at all interesting. I gotta think of some new material, this is just getting sad.

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