Rubber, Vinyl & Surprise Birthdays
I got up early and got my flat rubber tire taken care of. I went to the place that we went to the last time someone got a flat - Guarenteed Used Tires. These guys didn’t have my size, but they had one that was just a little bigger. They swapped the front with the rear and put the newly used tire on the back. $20 for tire, $7 to mount, $3 to dispose of the flat tire, and $7 for computer balance. Odd … I stood there the whole time and didn’t see a computer. I just watched a guy switch tires and throw the newly used one on.
In other news I got some audio components to connect a record player up to my computer. I ran into some problems when it came to background noise. Audacity has this nice feature to remove noise from an audio file. It removed it all rite, but it removed half of everything else as well. I tried to set it up so that it wouldn’t remove so much and I was left with some random computer jibberish in the background of all of the audio.
The noise itself is very familiar. I remember hearing it with my dads old stereo and a few other old stereos growing up. I guess as technology advanced, the manufacturers somehow figured out how to reduce the amount of noise. The other problem is that the audio is either too loud or too low - but usually not good quality. I’m wondering if it has to do with the needle, the vinyl of the record aging, or the record player itself. I’m going to start looking into what it will take to get a new needle. Maybe I should just give up. I don’t know …
After playing with the record player a little bit, I fell back to sleep. My trip to the zoo just wore me out yesterday. On another note, my brother “Krozy” decided to leave funny notes and tags on all of those images on my flickr account yesterday. Funny guy …
I woke up and my mother in-law was here with the kids. I looked around and the place was a mess. I had been trying to keep it clean for the past week by putting every little thing back in its place. She kindly informed me that it was my sister in-laws birthday and that there was cake in the kitchen. Wow, I sure slept through a lot. After she left with the kids, I treated my wife to a grand dinner at China King Buffet. We didn’t get too artistic with our food like we usually do, but we did have a good time. She always says that they get our fortune cookies mixed up between us two.
For the rest of the night I surfed the T.V. with boredom. The End.
Tags: Rubber, Vinyl, Birthday, Flat, Tire, Audio, Record Player, LP, Noise, Audacity, Sister In-Law, Cake, Fortun Cookies, Chinease Food, China King Buffet, Dinner, TV