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I just finished mixing the new opening for the show.

This required me to find new mixing software, teach myself how to hack through it, find some text to speech software with the right feature set, pick some decent background music, and probably most important find my motivation and/or my muse. Probably 12 hours work for about 3 minutes of finished audio.

I was so happy I screamed at the top of my lungs "I DID IT!" when I finished. This confused Mrs. Illya, and I should note she puts up with quite a bit of nonsense from me. I then bombed a friend of the show and... shh... a new staph member with the finished product. Now that I have ruined everyone's data plan for the month, I could use a snack.

Seriously, the completion of this step makes it feels like that BSR is really back in business.

Now where did I put the damn music library???

Finally, a couple of articles of recent interest:

American Museum of Natural History learns to ask who is being honored before you rent the place out for a party - NPR via FARK

"No Drama" Tenant desired in London - The Onion

--Illya

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