The leaves are raked, the gutters are clean, and the hole in the roof is patched (sort of); we're ready for the big storm expected to hit tonight. As with many storm predictions in this area, there's a good chance that it will pass us by. The DC area seems to be right on the edge of many storm fronts that are difficult to predict.

Getting a little obsessed over recording and cleaning up old LP's. The fun part is rediscovering some great older music that I haven't heard in years. The downside is trying to find all those skips caused by dust or scratches on the record. They appear as spikes in the soundwave that can easily be corrected manually, but it's a tedious process. Reminds me a lot of when I did computer mapping and had to clean up poorly digitized map data. After a while it becomes a sort of addictive, mindless activity that results in a decent sounding WAV file.
posted by Bruce Wright at 5:44 PM #