Ronald Reagan, the great communicator, died yesterday.

I didn’t vote for him. And I still believe that supply-side Reaganomics is probably one of the worst things that every hit this country’s economy.

But I believe him to be a warm, generous and funny man who loved life, his wife, his family and his country. My heart goes out to his family.

Autisic Youth won the battle of the bands today! Yea! Congratulations, boys. I’m proud of you!

I’m so glad it’s Friday!

Short weeks that start on Tuesday always seem longer than regular weeks. Maybe it’s because I feel like I’m trying to play catch-up.

Short weeks that start on Monday and end on Thursday, however, rock!

We should change things so that all of the holidays fall on Friday.

The problem was with the 25-year-old cassette deck that #1 Son’s band uses. It was a piece of shit when it was new, and the years haven’t treated it well. Last night we mastered directly from their 4-track recorder to my computer and the results were much better.

Yea!!!

#1 Son brought home a tape from his band yesterday and asked me to put it on my computer and burn it for him. I did, but I was really tired, and it sure didn’t come out sounding very good.

I’m going to try again tonight. I don’t know if it’s my sound card (shouldn’t be) or the software I was using (a distinct posibility).

I’m not a bad producer, but I’m not great as an engineer apparently. Somehow, “It’s supposed to sound like you recorded it in a garage on cheap equipment,” is a rather hollow explanation.

I’m feeling a little better towards WP today. I got a news feed up and working. And I figured out how to do some of the side-blog stuff by using link categories. So things are looking up a bit.

The newsfeed formatting isn’t perfect and CaRP isn’t creating valid XHTML, so I think I will need to tweak it a little bit, still.

But it works. And, as every good programmer knows, that’s more than 1/2 the battle!

[UPDATE 06/06/04] I plunked down my hard-earned $18.95 for CaRP Evolution, which gave me access to the ReplaceText plug-in. And that, boys and girls, has solved my invalid markup problem by allowing my to “fix” Yahoo’s invalid ampersands in urls.