Restarting Points
May 9, 2011 in Blogs
It is fresh in my mind to thank Turtle Beach for their prompt respond to my call for technical support, despite the fact that I failed adequately to communicate the problem to them. It seems that the software I purchased from them (when they were Voyetra) which has been so useful over the years for creating recordings and sheet music has failed me due to its internal fraud protections. I had to reinstall it on my computer after having to replace the boot drive and reinstall Windows, and when it went to register itself online the online registration site no longer existed (it is a discontinued product). They sent me a code to register it, but it’s the code I already have that causes the software to attempt to connect online. I have every reason to believe that they will within a day or two send the necessary activation code (I don’t expect them to restore an obsolete web site just for my benefit). Meanwhile, I’m hampered in my efforts to sketch sheet music for both Collision and the church band, but hopefully I’ll have the matter resolved before that’s a problem.
Speaking of Collision, I remain unable to contact John Mastick to find out whether he is going to be part of this band or return our borrowed equipment to us. I’m starting to look for more serious solutions to the problem, because I’m going to need to know. We seem to have a local drummer very interested in working with us, and while at one point we were talking about having two drummers I really don’t want to create conflicts.
Meanwhile, I have been joking that today’s thirteenth article in the Examiner temporal anomalies series on Timeline, Timeline part 13: the last original history, finally gets us to the beginning of the story. We’ve worked through all the trips to the past which precede the one on which the film focuses, and so we have a version of history that would be the past for these travelers the first time they leave from the future. It actually gets wilder from here, but we’re heading toward the culmination.
I’m sure you all know how fond I am not of change. I allowed Firefox to upgrade me to the new faster version, and it’s slowing me down terribly. At least two things have been changed arbitrarily. The one that stymies me most often is that the drop down menu for a right-click on a link has been resequenced; I’m constantly clicking the top line that was “open in new window” and getting a new tab. As I said to a Facebook friend, it’s not faster if I have to stop every time I do something I use to do automatically. The second is that I keep looking for the reload button on the top left and it’s now on the top right, but that might be something I can customize in my preferences if I ever steal the time to do that.
I’ll try to refrain from mentioning how far behind schedule I am. The poster the other day seems to be correct–this is my Monday schedule, after all.
–M. J. Young