Finally!

The main PC is finally back to where it was before the boot RAID mirror degraded, with the major diff that boot is now on a single Seagate drive, and I'll do my backups to an external. No more messing with Intel's broken RAID manager or Western Digital's fragile drives. So far I have broken five drives simply by doing a hard reset on the PC. The Seagates so far have not had a problem with this.

There was a frustrating couple of hours yesterday when a routine windows update rendered the PC useless, until some error messages showed me that all the required services had been stopped and set to "disabled". It took half an hour to reset them all, but now everything is fine. I still will have to re-register some programs, but that's about all.

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Last night I went to KFJC's psychotronic Film Festival, which was lots of fun. Bad shorts, trailers, and theater commercials from the 30's through 60's. A huge number of raffle items (I won a DVD for a truly bad anti-drug film from the 50's). It would have been a lot nicer if the asshole who kept shouting out totally not funny Rocky Horror style comments wasn't right behind me. I'd have been fine if he was funny, and didn't drown out the soundtrack.

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Another low blood sugar incident at 4:30 am, slept till 11, haven't even been outside yet today. Probably for the best, nowhere to shop and who needs to be in holiday traffic? My baby sister called at noon, we had a long chat about the parents' upcoming move.

Nostalgiacon

Bangkok Community Theatre recently launched a new! improved! web site, and some email correspondence with the webmistress revealed that the group lost most of its archives a few years ago when firefighters, putting out a fire in the next warehouse (go-down) over, flooded their go-down.

So I have pulled out my slides, taken backstage while people were putting on their makeup, and dug out my script, which also had the cast list, and am scanning the slides for them, and will also scan the cast list and a couple of other things (rehearsal schedule, plea for help from the cast from the tech director). Looking at the script, something I had forgotten is I also did some of the lighting design, and since Bill Sykes doesn't arrive onstage till Act II, I ran the pre-show light sequences.

I'll put a pointer to flickr once I've done scanning and photoshopping. They are in pretty good condition for 33 years old, especially since they were developed in Bangkok, probably in very warm fixer.