A Week At Home

This past week, like many weeks this summer, we didn’t go out of town. To be honest I have really enjoyed it. Once the baby comes we may feel like we don’t have a choice in the matter, and maybe I won’t feel the same way, but for now it is really relaxing.

This is not to say we were bored!

Heather and a neighbor who is also expecting around the same time attended some sort of baby themed open house at the hospital where both of them will be giving birth.

I shot in my second ever pistol match. Not particularly well, but I had fun.

Heather and I walked over to the mall to listen to theΒ  Dueling Piano act that was playing in the little amphitheater area there.

It was a really nice way to spend Sunday evening!

The only other thing of note this week is that the construction across the street demonstrated what it looks like when you hit a water main:

We were only without water for a few hours, so I can’t complain too much πŸ™‚

-Jordan

 

 

Free The Music

Heather has a fairly good sized music collection on her laptop / IPod, and I also have a fairly good sized set of songs on my computer.

the problem is that everything Heather has is locked in ITunes, and to put it gently I don’t like that. One of my goals once we setup a household together has been to have every meaningful byte of data backed up at least once, if not twice. ITunes is going to be a huge pain in that regard, so I was hoping to figure out a simple way to get the songs back into MP3 so I could just burn them out to DVDs or back them up to the server I plan to build.

I wasn’t sure how hard that was going to be, but I happened to see an article on LifeHacker about getting files out of .wma (the Windows format, with all the same problems as .acc) and saw links to a few options.

With any luck, one of those programs will let me quickly and easily unify two music collections into one big happy pile of mp3s.

-Jordan