Feb

Audacity ate my podcast.

I had forgotten the joy, the wonderfulness, the excitement….

Maybe you know it: when you sit down to record your podcast, get all the settings right, have notes at hand, sip some water, and then hit the little red button and start talking? And then, after a great stream-of-conciousness flow of verbal glory for 30 minutes or so, you stop recording, hit the save button… and it crashes?

Yeah, that joy

That was last night, around 8:30pm. Another half hour, and I had located the temporary files Audacity had saved during recording, downloaded a crash recovery program (didn’t work), updated to the beta version of Audacity (with auto-recover), finished cursing, and was back at it.

After another 10 minutes of fiddling with the settings, I resumed recording, stopped and saved often, and got the job done.

Tuesdays are my day of admin work: I have 4.5 hours between knitting classes, and if I take my laptop with me, I can park myself in a nearby cafe (with free Internet, woot!) and work uninterrupted for most of that time.

On today’s work list: edit the audio, get it uploaded to Libsyn (my host, who pushes it out to iTunes and everywhere else), post it on here and Ravelry, and then switch gears and do some work on my next submission - involves steeking a bit of knitting that didn’t work in its current location but will be the glorious base of my next design, teaching myself to crochet bobbles, and getting a start on the writing for the package.

If I still have time after all that, then I’ll do some more website tweaking.. but since Wednesdays are also a major day of work-at-home time, it won’t be a big deal if I don’t get there.

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