Holds coming due..

I spent a certain amount of time over the past months gloating over the things available from my library, and specifically over e-books that I could check out.

I am transparently not the only one, as most of what I considered the good stuff was checked out and had people on the waiting lists, which might be anywhere from one to forty people long.  I added my name to a number of those lists, several times over the past few months.

Six of them have become available in the past week or so.  When that happens I have 3 days to check them out or they go to the next person on the list, which is fair enough.  I think I didn't get to one of them in time, and I'll have to get back in line and wait some more, but that's not a real problem, since I now have a plethora of books on my reader. 

Hopefully I'll be able to get to them before they go back to the library.

In other news I have dealt with 20 pages of the 47 page initial chunk.  Actually they are 24 pages now, because I mark the deletions rather than making them myself and include bracketed comments when I can't figure out what the author was trying to say.  This slower, but the plan is to make it easy for the author to overrule me if he (or she but he in this case) decides it adds to the handmade charm of the paper that he can't decide between "Loop 2" "loop 2" "Loop2" and "loop2." for the same loop.

I have also been mixing like a mad thing. ( Long digression on How I Mix for those who are interested )

I feel like I'm nearly done, which probably means I have several weeks of hard work yet to go.

The New Speakers Came Today

And I spent a couple of hours setting them up.  It's not that they were complicated in and of themselves, but the directions said to set them up in the middle of a short wall so I had to move my desk, and level with my ears, so I got my adjustable sawhorses out of the garage, which meant brushing all the cobwebs and shavings off them, and getting a board, and moving the desk meant moving a bookcase, and some crickets had crawled under the bookcase to die in peace sometime since we moved in, so I vacuumed the carpet, and you know how these projects can get.

But I figured the speakers would probably work better if I set them up the way it says in the booklet, and the money I spent on them would be wasted if I they didn't work properly.

I measured everything out, got the desk in the middle of the wall (it's half an inch off, okay? But I moved it five times and I'm done; it's in the middle of the wall), set the speakers in an equilateral triangle with my head (roughly--I didn't actually measure it carefully.  But it's about right.) And once I got them set up, I listened to them.  They sound nice; I like them fine.  Then I listened to my mixes on them.

And I don't hear anything I want to change (yet-I haven't listened all the way through everything.)  I actually hear more problems with the headphones than I do with the speakers.

So I don't know if that means I did something wrong, or everything right.