What a long day!  After laying in bed with Stephanie last night talking about what we need to do next to MemoirSite until 1:30 AM and then getting up at 6:30 today, and now I just got back from the TV station at 11:45PM, it sure feels like it was a long day.  It’s gotta be just me, though.  Isn’t it normal to work 16 hours on 5 hours sleep and have no money to show for it?  Hmm, sounds like I’m a character in ‘The Jungle’.

I got an email from Norwich U asking me to stop by and today I could.  Their projector was all green.  At first I thought the the red wire went bad, but when I arrived I saw the whole screen was nothing but green, as if someone put a green gel in front of the lens.  I tried the analog jack, but the projector didn’t see anything.  I opened the connector and everything was alright, so I set it back to the way it was.  I called up the menu and – POW – it was back to normal.  I don’t know what happened.  To finish off, I reset some lighting and set up the new DVD playback station for 4×3.

I stopped in Montpelier for mail and peanut butter then went home.  Bonnie came over and she and Steph worked on Audrey’s room all day.  I changed tires on the Volvo.

I put the summer tires on the back, which are larger than the front, and I moved the right rear to the front.  That right front tire, the one that ran most of the winer on a broken balljoint, was worn down to the cord in spots.  I can’t see it, but the tire has mountains and valleys and the mountain tops were worn down.  This also made the car jump over 60 MPH.  This came on slowly, first is was 70, then 65, and now it was down to 55.  At 60 the wheel bounced so bad it felt like the front end was going to be torn apart.  When I went to Norwich I didn’t get on the highway, I drove the back roads all the way down, since the top speed for the car was 50 anyway.

The car feels almost new.  It doesn’t pull to the left so hard, almost not at all.  I got it up to 65 and it feels great.  The brakes wobble a bit, I probably need a new rotor.

Let’s see, what’s next.  A quick shower and off to the TV station.

I got to the station 15 minutes late and had to race through my setup.  I got it done in time except that I forgot the shotgun mic.  I held the meeting to set it up.  It was short, exactly the same time it took to set up!  After I got the equipment put away and the video edited and spooling into the MaestroVision I went back to the Leightronix setup.

But I realized that before the setup could happen I needed to fix the network.  The wireless router and switch were fine, but the original gigabit router wasn’t working.  It was handing out IPs but wasn’t connecting to the gateway.  I never got it to work but there were enough ports without it to go around.  The Office and VMX have to connect via wireless, still.

Now for the bad news.  The old Compaq from Susan Woods turned out to be too old to run the Leightronix software!  I looked at it’s specs and it was a 650MHz P3, probably 12 years old or more.  I think these are the same as the hundreds of workstations sold at the UBO auction where I got my Pismo!  Sure it runs WinXP, but it simply could not load the Leightronix programs.

So I tried it on the Maestrovision, and it worked great.  I looked at the software a little, reading along the quickstart guide and making some basic changes.  Even though I didn’t see it on the DHCP table it was there.  I had to enter a static IP into the device.  Oh, duh.  Of course it’s not on the DHCP table!

Anyway I poked around the software for a while and realized I was too tired to go further, it was about 10:30.  I setup the MaestroVision for the Woodbury meeting from almost two weeks ago.

Boy, I need to go to sleep…