I got Robin an iPod Shuffle today. She loaded it up with a bunch of her favorite music and she’s been rocking around the house since then. Robin says random shuffle is fine, if it’s choosing from music you love. And she’s right, as usual.
On Saturday we saw Kate in the Essex Community Players‘ production of Lend Me A Tenor. It was great to see her up on stage again (and doing an incredible job I might add). She played Diana, a role she obviously enjoyed and played quite well (in this father’s humble opinion). The play was delightful, [...]
Last night I took Calvin and Gage to catch the Rane show at Nectar’s. Great music and a great performance, they even played a couple songs from their upcoming album. A high point was when Jen Hartswick joined the band onstage and belted out “Pieces of Me,” the song Ashlee Simpson had problems with on [...]
In the middle of copying over the third chunk from the crashed drive this afternoon, I noticed that said bad drive was mounted on my desktop, and that I could read it! I’ve spent the last hour furiously backing up the photos, mail, address book, time log, GarageBand mixes, notes, and other stuff I thought [...]
The replacement drive has been working fine after the old one crashed last month, but it’s been bugging me that there were some files that I couldn’t recover, like some family photos taken around Halloween. Yesterday I bought FileSalvage, a program that promised to scan the bad drive and recover what it could, but it [...]