Job Hunting
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Well.. After 20+ years at the same job, I’m unemployed.
Laid off on October 22nd, due to lack of work and a “logistics” issue (they say), I now am hunting for something as income to make it through the winter.
I’ll keep you posted.. Career Center on Monday and a Dr.’s appointment in the afternoon. It will be an eventful day.
Wind Power
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VINALHAVEN ISLAND, MAINE – September 12, 2009
Three big wind turbines are being erected out on Vinalhaven. These are visible from the mainland 12 miles away and will be operational sometime in November of this year.
This is the only island wind power project on the east coast of the US.
The middle is the Cianbro crane that’s doing all of the heavy lifting. To either side are sections of two turbine columns.
Disc Frisker (Presents)
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Just set up another WP Blog/Website for a friend who promotes and reviews regional (and world) music. In fact, his first site review is a band called Lowpitch. Interesting music.
So hop on over and check out Disc Frisk Presents. (Link opens in new window.)
Summer?
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Not sure when it’s going to start. (I have my little space heater on right now!) Yes and it’s July 24th! The temperature right now is only 61F outside. The weather has been terrible all summer. Only had 3 days of sunshine in June!
Our Maine Lobster Festival starts here next week. Five days of food and entertainment at Rockland’s Harbor Park.
I’ll try to pop back in here before fall.
Ghostly Things..
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Another new site going up.
www.midcoastghost.com
Dedicated to helping people make the informed descision on whether their home or grounds may be haunted or not. Only actual activity is presented to the client, not conjecture or magnetic/radioactive activity that could be influenced by real world events.
In the Dead of Winter
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What’s that I wrote about the first snow? I was right. The city barely plows when we have a plow able snowstorm. They did manage to kill two of my trashcans with the city plow. I think they feel guilty about it as now the plow out my driveway after I leave for work. That’s okay by me, I’ll buy a couple more trash cans in the spring!
Here we are in February and I’m told the Groundhog said we’ll have 6 more weeks of winter. Well, I have news as we always have 6 more weeks of winter until the sun crosses the equator! It’s an excuse for them to have a festival in the middle of winter. I’ll stay inside where it’s warm.
First Snow
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Well.. it did finally shed some white ice from the sky. We must have got about 2 inches of the heavy wet variety. I can’t believe that the City actually thought this was plow able. We’ll get a foot of snow in January and they won’t bother.. I’m sure my road will be a cavern by spring as the plow keeps pushing an extra layer of pavement onto the roadside every time they do plow. (Sigh..)
PCDJ DAC-3 Arrives
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My new (heck of a deal) PCDJ DAC-3 controller and PCDJ Red and DEX Software are here. 
Installed and running daily as I figure out ‘how-to’ do all the looping functions and save the loops, trigger and import into Acid. This thing has so many features, it’ll be months before I figure them all out – with my hectic schedule that is.. Here are some shots of the hardware installed in the rack and skin on the computer monitor.
(Click on a picture for a larger view)
Acid Pro 7 Arrives
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The new Acid has been released with its many new features. It’s installed and I’ve been reviewing some of them. A different added interface (the old one is still there) but it’s 
more intuitive – more like a real mixer.
New music arrives at Acid Planet this winter after I get my feet wet.
A Few Days into Vista
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Well I mentioned “Computer-ific” in the previous post. I must say that after reinstalling 99% of my software, so far so good. There were a few tweaks, but nothing major.
One thing I have found.. Printers. Sometimes they install easily, sometimes they will only install and be available for certain applications, sometimes not at all. If you have a network printer and change your network – be careful. I could not remap a new (IP address) to the old driver. I had to add a new printer (Copy 1) in order for it to print. Even trying to add a new TCP/IP Port would not allow the printer to print. In the list of printers, it would classify as ‘Ready’, but sending a job to the spooler would only cause it to hang. I would have to Stop and Restart the Spooler application to release the stuck job.
Waiting on Windows 7.. (and it’s only been about a month on this Vista install!)
