It's been so long since I made a blog entry I don't know where I left off. My latest diversion has been my jump into portable MP3 players. Starting with the wife, a Sansa c250. Seeing the immediate addiction (the headphones are in almost constantly), I figured I needed some of that. So between the Zen and the Zune, the Zune went on sale first and that is my new player. So that's been fun, fixing all my MP3 tags and searching out missing music. And of course organizing some CB music. Right now it's limited to Seq 3 and 4, because there's only so much Brains you can listen to at a stretch.

Maybe I mentioned it, maybe not, but I'm now running the new PC with an Emu 0404 and and Edirol USB MIDI port. Last I recall, I was experiencing massive latency when playing MIDI, but in a later test, it may have been because i was using the Microsoft GS wavetable sounds. Yeah, that would suck.

Yesterday I decide I want to try out some things. I fire up the sequencer and now the ASIO driver is erroring out. I can't even imagine what I've installed to break it. A few uninstall/reinstall/reboots later, it's no better. I can't launch the sequencer and I can't configure the ASIO drivers. So even if I wanted to do something productive, I can't. Different causes, same results.

I also saw a Washburn guitar in a pawn shop that was in serious need of a good home and some TLC. Very tempted, but I already have two guitars I don't play already.