Okay gang, the long absence is almost over. Finished up a show I was doing double duty as sound designer and engineer on for Columbia University (a production of LaChiusa’s amazingly complex The Wild Party), only to spend a couple weeks slammed with OT at the shop, and then into a last minute design/mixing gig for a teen theatre academy, with a 14-hour corporate party thrown in in-between!
In the interim, the CompUSA saga has finally ended. (7/8/07: Oh, wait. No, it hasn’t.) The computer, last I checked (see below) was still functioning properly, and I’ve gotten (and used) the credit Keith promised me. Geeky as it may make me, I’m now the proud owner of a networked color laser printer, which is really frickin’ cool, LOL. Auto-duplexing for double-sided scripts, and I can print wirelessly from my bedroom. I’m such a geek :-)
In the vein of new toys, the reason I haven’t checked the infamous CompUSA-fixex laptop lately is that, in the interim while that was being fixed, I needed a functioning laptop for (among other things) my work on “The Wild Party". At the urging of the rest of the guys at the shop, and nearly everybody else I know, I finally made the jump, and in late March became the proud owner of a MacBook Pro 15″ laptop. Within two days I was finding myself cursing under my breath when I tried Mac shortcuts on the PC at the shop. I’ve had to boot into XP (thanks, Boot Camp, although Parallels is becoming a must soon) for a few things, like AudioCore and my not-yet-upgraded-to-V6 Smaart, so it was definitely not a leap I could have made easily before the era of the Intel Macs, but boy, am I glad I finally did. It’s just so much easier all around!
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