I’m supposed to be writing now. Writing that means I am. On Sunday night I was ready to go to sleep when I realized how preternaturally quiet it was; that called for a change of plans and recording Gord’s Gold during the window of quiet. I already had it all planned out and scripted. I recorded the first segment, but the playback was filled with skips. That had never happened before. I tried again, same thing. I checked my mic connection, same thing. I rebooted my computer it still happened. Then I tried playing one of the songs through Audacity, and that skipped too. That meant the problem was in the app. Then I noticed that it was recording in mono, and I couldn’t switch it to stereo. That was because somehow the input was Windows WASAPI. That’s supposed to be better, and I didn’t think I had changed the setting. I switched to MME, don’t aske me what those things mean, they are both ways of processing the audio input. Now it recorded in stereo and without skips. I have no idea why that would affect the playback of music.
All that took a lot of time and I started at the time I had wanted to go to sleep. By the time I was finished it was very late and my mind was too active to sleep immediately. I should have meditated but I didn’t. I woke up at my usual time on Monday so was tired. In the late afternoon I was too sleepy to take a walk. Then I remembered that my psychiatrist told me that’s when it’s most important to get up and do it; I did. I’m a good patient. I took the shorter route, 3.5 miles. I stopped at DD on the way to try their new Sunrise Batch iced coffee. It was not just on sale for $2 down from $3 but there’s a promotion going on, a bonus of 100 points when you order on the app on Monday. You only need 200 points to get a free drink of your choice. I do that again next Monday and I’ll earn the free beverage; that usually costs $5. I will have spent $4 for $11 worth of cold coffee drinks. That’s enough to justify the expense. It also kept me awake. Going out was a great decision. I also got my free donut from Krispy Kreme. This was a Donut & Coffee Walk™ from two separate donut/coffee shops.
When I got home my dinner dreams were crushed. My plan was to make a flatbread pizza. I had the flatbread, mozzarella, and sauce. I have not made this before but thought it was a good idea to make it the way I make my matzoh brei pizza, in a cast iron skillet with olive oil on the bottom. I preheated the over as high as it would go and went to grate the cheese. It was multi-colored. Mozzarella is not supposed to be multi-colored. I had wrapped it tight in plastic wrap, but the fungi still had a field day. It just hit me why. When I bought it I forgot to put it in the fridge for a couple of days. Oh well. Now I have to buy more. I’m craving homemade pizza now. Do you know why I left the cheese out? That’s right, I’m an idiot. An idiot that wants pizza.
Yesterday my fantasy baseball league had its trade deadline FAAB (Free Agent Acquisition Budget) auction. There are 11 teams in the league and many players available. I had to work out a fair system. We each had 100 points to spend but that doesn’t mean we allocate a certain amount to each player with the total being 100. That would be easier, but we wanted to have more options; to be able to say, I bid 70 on player A but if that doesn’t win I want to bid 60 on player B. The system I devised was each player prioritized their bids which would be processed in that order. It’s not obvious how to fairly handle that so it gives a unique outcome but Marc, my co-commissioner and I came up with the same results so I’m confident it worked. This is the kind of thing that I think that I’m good at. I can’t be sure, maybe it’s an example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect, people that are bad at something tend to also be bad at their judgment of how good they are. The most important lesson of Dunning-Kruger is that it applies to you too.
I was good and wrote this before breakfast, now to reward myself. I think I’m going for grits ala Horvendile.
Wise Madness 