Stormy Weather

Snow continues to fall and uncertainty about weather conditions is making me leery of going siteseeing -- even into downtown Reno's casino region. Much of the time, medium-to-large-sized flakes of snow drift toward the ground. When they hit rock or asphalt they tend to melt quickly; but they are sticking to grass, plants, parked vehicles and rooftops.

I've enjoyed conversation with residents of the Sky Peaks facility and have been given permission to print a version of a column created by the editor of a building newsletter. But my general sense of well-being has been disrupted a bit today.

First, I would have liked to get out of the building and am feeling a bit cowardly for not venturing forth in what is really a very mild storm.

Second, I've now failed to convert some raw audio data into a radio clip for the second time. I am discovering that creating a minute of produced programming takes about an hour. Unfortunately, it also takes an hour to FAIL to produce a minute of useable product. I'm six or seven hours into part two of a series of pieces involving Paull McCoy of Santa Rosa, but find myself pretty much at ground zero.

It's all pilot error, I fear. I'm just not getting better with the software and hardware. I've made mistakes that have resulted in lost data and chopped up results.

I'm attempting to be philosophical about the time spent -- realizing that it's likely that I'll get better at this and wil one day look back with some kind of nostalgia at this time of fumbling with the dials and switches.

Meanwhile, I'm closing the studio for the afternoon and concluding that today is not a good day for radio clip production.