Prep for weekend trip

[catsittingstill]

I'm running around the house trying to print out music and find my _I Promised Eli_ songbook (which I really need to update, darn it) and wishing I'd practiced more this last couple of weeks.

I have packed clothes and toiletries (in a new travelling kit that my brother gave me for my half-birthday, so I have my own soap and shampoo and so on all in one place; chortle) and a sleeping back and a bed (it's inflatable) and now I'm wishing I'd thought to stop in at AAA this afternoon and get a TripTik (except I don't know exactly where I'm going because I'm not sure yet where I'm crashing tomorrow night--but I should know by tomorrow morning). Maybe I'll have time to do it tomorrow; I think I need to go almost to AAA anyway in order to get on 1-75, so why not?

I still need to try to download something from my new Zoom H4 (also a half-birthday present) to make sure I can do it, before I get all the housefilk recordings stuck on its chip in limbo; I'm bringing my old iRiver as a backup and so I can listen to Common Ground on the way up in the hope that if I hear the 2 against 3 rhythm often enough I'll finally be able to play it that way. But if the Zoom works well I may quit bringing all the iRiver stuff.

Trip food; I need trip food. I wonder if I should put new strings on Pearl? Should I bring Lark *and* Pearl? Two instruments would be a bit much, surely? Considering that I also want to bring my music stand and my instrument stand.

I feel like a travelling circus, complete with mimmoths. And I'm sure I have forgotten something.

Comments

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's just having two users logged in; I do that all the time. I'm doing it right now, as a matter of fact.

I suppose it could be Firefox, or X-windows or the combination.

(I'm not sure I know what X windows is, but it sounds like you don't mean the Mac default GUI, which is all I ever use.)

I've thought about using Firefox, but haven't got around to trying it yet.

[mdlbear]

X is the display technology underneath the GUI on almost all other Unix systems; you need it for many Unix programs ported to the Mac.

On the Mac it sits uncomfortably on top of the Mac's GUI, behaving oddly and occasionally causing trouble.

[mdlbear]

Firefox is usually faster and more standards-compliant than Safari; it also behaves more-or-less the same on all operating systems. Since I occasionally have to use Windows or MacOS, this is a Good Thing.

Other cross-platform software I use a lot are Emacs, OpenOffice, and Audacity.