Noticing

/132 - Ping Pong

It snowed hard all morning and the ground was completely covered. 45 minutes later spring returned and all was blues skies and sunshine. It was still very windy but Emi and I still took a nice walk. We were also delighted to find that the wind had freed her kite from the tree we crashed it into a week-ish ago.

In other events, I am officially out of work. Most of our clients (very understandably) put all projects on hold and after wrapping things up there’s nothing left to do for a lot of us. I know that the work will come back, but like everything else these days there’s no sure idea of when. We have our health and some savings so I can’t and won’t complain. My thoughts go out to those who are experiencing otherwise.

/071 - Snow, Continued

It snowed all day again. I love days like this, just bumming around the house doing this and that. Played my acoustic guitar for the first time in as long as I can remember.

Another coat of paint on the riser first thing this morning, and then brought it inside to dry because it just wasn’t happening in the freezing garage. Fingers crossed that tomorrow morning it’ll be good to put on the desk. I’m not good at waiting.

/070 - Snow Day

Emi and I had a great snowy Friday.

I woke up to silence and complete darkness at 2:00am. No power. We got a mix of snow and ice yesterday and it must have been too much weight for the wires. Power came back on around 5:30 and I was very thankful to be able to make coffee.

We got about another foot on top of what we had yesterday. Emi and I watched a movie and played with basically every type of builder (magnet tiles, legos, lincoln logs) toy we have. Went outside to shovel the walk and clear the end of the driveway while she romped around. It wasn’t the right kind of snow for snowballs.

Post bedtime I finished cutting and assembling the parts for the riser shelf. It’s currently in the 20° garage with its first coat of paint. Drying might take awhile.

/039 - Bluster

It was a beautiful day outside my window. Snow squalls all day long, the sky rapidly switching between intense sun and blasts of snow. Hard to focus on work, but it was the best kind of distraction. Sat down to play music this evening and nothing was working, literally. Bad cables? Reset the machines? Try try again. Finally things started behaving and almost immediately there was soft, snowy music coming out of the monitors. It was just that kind of day.

/002 - Winter Walk

We got a lot of icy rain yesterday that turned to snow overnight. I have been meaning to try more field recording so thought this was a good chance. Was looking at hardware options last week, but since I don’t record much I decided to use what I already had - a Audio Technica AT2020 usb mic and my iPhone. The recording turned out fine for my purposes, but was very fiddly dealing with getting the app to recognize the mic via usb adapter. I will try another adapter I have laying around here, but it’s very likely that getting something standalone will be easier to work with. I was walking fast because I was on my lunch break…