I must be dreaming. Three days in a row with no need to close windows nor run the air-conditioning. Gorgeous weather, can it really be August near Washington?
Temperatures are still getting up to 90 in the afternoon, but there is so little humidity that it’s comfortable to be active, work, or even exercise without being drenched in sweat in a few minutes. Very unusual, very welcome. The cats have been enjoying more outside time with us, and I have been pulling weeds and doing a little yard work. Erci is still prepping for her RHCE/RHCT class and exam, and writing papers for her MBA financial class. Yesterday she got out for a couple hours of errands and I enjoy turning the music up and catching up on some house-cleaning.
Scott get’s pedantic for audio geeks after the fold…
Some time ago I finally got around to hooking up the speakers around our house to a 12 channel amplifier in our basement. The amp is connected to each of 6 pairs of speakers via speaker cable and a volume knob in the room with those speakers. I have no way of changing the channel at each volume knob, but I can control the volume locally. The amp can switch between two sets of incoming “RCA” cables for each pair of channels, but we rarely use that feature, simply listening to the “RCA” out on our family room Audio/Video receiver.
The A/V receiver can listen to any source in our entertainment center stack of gear (DVD, Laser, DISH Player, CD-Changer, FM, AM, etc), but it usually listens to “Video1” which happens to be our Apple Airport Express with “Airtunes” set to listen to streaming music from our computers over wired ethernet and wireless 802.11b/g/n network. In our library/great hall/dojo/ballroom we have a Mac Mini wired to an Audio Receiver and really nice speakers; but the Mac Mini also sends it’s iTunes output to the Airport Express.
The Mini; named “Amadeus” on our network, has a webRemote installed, and I can control the iTunes from any browser on any computer on the network, or even via FrontRow with an Apple remote control, or even from my Tungsten C or Erci’s iPhone (via web broswer). I am working on playlists for dancing, for gardening, for lounging on the patio, for rocking through the chores, etc… I want to figure out how to get iTunes to play dance numbers randomly, but only play the first 90 to 120 seconds of each, and to vary the dance type (foxtrot, chacha, waltz, rumba, etc). It has been nice listening to my music again (when it was on CD only I rarely got through all of it).
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