Hmmmm, I went skiing yesterday, and I, idiotically, forgot my snowpants at home, so I went skiing in jeans (with layers underneath, of course). It was probably close to the zero-degrees-F mark, and my goggles kept icing up, making it nearly impossible to use them. The next coming week(s) will yield geeky fun for me, as we are nearing the Drama Club’s debut of “Dear Edwina, Junior”, which means that us A/V monkeys have to scurry around setting things up for the performance, attending Tech/Dress Rehearsals, and stuff like that. I had about 8 mic packs to check and whatnot (it sounds like not too many, but it really is). Luckily, we only had one dead mic, and it was quickly and easily replaced.. If we hadn’t noticed it, we would have had quite a problem during tommorow’s Dress Rehearsal (which, unfortunately, I can’t go to; Mom’s planning “a surprise”) But, other than that, everything’s been fairly normal. Oh, one last thing. The computer in the TV studio at school has been acting up the last couple of weeks, so they took it in for upgrades, and a fresh install of XP. Well, we thought everything was working fine, until we hooked the SVideo out of the computer to our video equipment. No signal. At the time, I wasn’t in the studio to help, so, this is what happened: IT staff installed a new videocard, and plugged it in, got no signal out of the S-Video. So, we bypassed any unnecessary video equipment, and ran an S-Video directly to our main switchboard. Nothing. So, they had to run the show without any computer graphics. I, luckily, stopped in during a study hall to ask Mr. Eberts, the temporary AV guy (permanent next year, once Mr. Bundschuh retires) how the show went. He told me what happened, so I went through basic tests, got nothing out of the svideo. So, I went to check display properties… The IT department forgot to enable TV-out/clone the display. I was stunned. I was absolutely stunned that they were so bad at their job, and what are they paid for? It took me 5 minutes to diagnose, and less than a second to fix. Unbelievable.

Edit: Oof, I got a Sandisk Sansa c250 (mp3 player) on Wednesday night. I used it for skiing, and it replaced my m240. I like its microSD slot and ability to record radio.

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