Last night, after my talk, we sat around the bar and discussed who had learned to drive on a tractor. Canadian people are so nice as a general rule, or perhaps it’s just the Canadian library faction, but man I’m happy every time I come here, looking forward to talking to people. Second, I’m in Canada, Regina SK to be exact, for another few hours. First, I haven’t upgraded to the new WordPress and I know I’m supposed to and every time I see my classically lovely custom CSS here I know it’s not long for this world and I despair. I’ve been staying away from this blog for a few reasons, all of them surmountable. 17May08 | 399 Words | 2 Comments resisting the upgrade Yes, this is what I do for fun while I have a discretionary day. Thanks to iDupe without which this would have been agonizing. Over a few hours, during which I kept an eye on the progress and did a lot of small other things (bill paying, receipt organizing, spreadsheet filling out) I managed to import over 5000 songs of which about 18% were already duplicated in my collection. They’ve needed merging for some time now and today was the day. I have basically an archival computer with my music collection from sometime before that (from Topsham), and my current laptop with everything I’ve gotten afterwards. There’s always front burner and back burner projects and today the project was “Get all the music off the iMac and put it all on the Macbook and remove all the duplicate music and then back it all up.” Due to user error, I deleted an entire hard drive of MP3s at one point consisting of my entire music collection. However, I’ve gotten a little used to the big blocks of time I have up here for what I’ve always called (before the term was co-opted) getting things done. One of the things I don’t get to do when I travel is concentrate, on anything really. I had food and drinks with twenty librarians one night. Not that I don’t have friends up here or not that there aren’t people up here, but getting together for a beer with more than maybe two or three people if I’m not hosting a party myself is a bit of a challenge. I get to see people and talk to people and have meals with people and generally be social in a way that I’m not up here. A little more about the Vermont Library Conference and the Berkman Center Tenth Anniversary maybe in a bit, but this is about today.īeing on the road is fun. I’ve been away again and I did the usual get back super late at night (or early in the morning) thing so I could wake up in my own bed and start the day doing something other than driving or getting on public transportation.
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