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Listening to the David Becker tune. Really nice. : ) Kool that you put it up on BL site too. Listening to DMD Band. Funky! Were they playing to backing tracks or was other musicians there?

Waiting. : )

Me too! But I think that's where the problem comes in. : )

Glad I grabed the GW.

Yep. I said that long ago. Except now they are undercover!! We don't know who they are! : )

Yep!!

I use Outlook. Gave up Thunderbird when they dropped development on it. I had used Thunderbird for years too. But that said, I have Outlook 365 and Gmail, 1and1 email. Last two are web based. Only one account from 1and1 is connected to my Outlook client.

Took me a minute, but I see now!!

If your gonna wear socks with sandals, go all out!! Cause everybody is gonna see it anyway!!

I saw early on that there were very strong women being portrayed in Star Trek Voyager. And back then I took it as a very positive thing. And they did it so well. Each character had their own story line that contributed to the whole story. Really well written and acted show. I am on the eleventh episode of DS9. All this talk about it got me wanting to watch it again. I have been watching one or two episodes a day. I watched an episode with Brian Keith (I get my middle name from him my mother told me) as an old man that Kira got attached to. Really good episode. There was a scene in which Sisko is talking very sternly to Kira as her commander, then takes a pause, steps out of his role and talks to her as a friend and Kira starts to tear up as she comes to realize some deep emotions she has been denying. Powerful stuff. Great acting! There is another completely different story line going on in that episode that I don't really know if all who watch it catches what was said. Anyway....

It's an old man thing! : )

Definitely! : )

Earlier that day I was at the in-laws watching the Saints and Rams game, then we had to go to the grand kids house. But I finally made it home long enough to get the telescope set up and dress up! It was cold! For me it was a set of events that all fell into place. Which is rare. I was off from work. Didn't have to get up early the next morning for work either! No cloud cover in southern Louisiana. I was at home. Neighbors didn't have the spot/flood lights going!

Depends on how hard it is?

Why, did another fred get locked?

Did it ever stop for ya? I have gotten this a few times before. Task Manager shut down was needed.

I may not be a profession sound man. Or work as a recording engineer. But I know, as well as many other pro's on this forum, these plugins can sound just as good as anything out there now. Prove me wrong. You don't have to be a noob to use them. Articles have been written by professionals that still use these plugins today.

Thanks for the updates Chamlin.

Chrome and FF here on my Surface Pro and no emojis either.

I watched Andromeda but can't remember it. I wouldn't have remembered it had you not mentioned it. And Rain I feel the same way about the Abrams films. I will watch them, and enjoy them. But they sure are trying to get Star Wars like for sure. I am not a Star Wars fan. I went to the theaters when it first came out years ago, watched it and loved it. I think we went back and watched it several more times too. But I didn't go see the second, or the third, or any episode since.

Great comments in this thread. Practice is number one. I learned the hard way the most all of the songs I write ebb and flow, it's never the same! I haven't found a drum program able to follow along and allow me to 'feel' like I am playin with a real drummer. Jamstix 4 gets real close though. But at times it too can not keep up with the feel. I mostly do sections at a time of playing my guitar, bass, and vocals. But After I have the drums all fleshed out I will record a rough guide of each instrument/vocal to get the feeling down before it slips away (this can be done many different ways, thinking too much, trying to get it too exact, too loose, too perfect.....). Later I'll add the parts I want after much practicing. For me, nothing beats getting it done right in the first set of takes. However, I have gotten great results at the last few takes of a twenty take session! So again, as they say, there are no rules. That's why I love rock-n- roll!!

My exact thoughts on DS9 Rain. And I had forgot about Garak until I was watching the episodes of the first season and he was on the third one I think? Something about the way Andrew Robinson plays Garak that makes him stand out from the ordinary. I think most of the Cardassian's in DS9 are played really well. My fav Cardasian show (from STTNG) was the one with Jean Luc as a prisoner. (There Are Four Lights!) Will look up the Orville for sure now!!

I got lucky! It was cold but it was clear. I was able to watch with my telescope from the beginning till just past total. Then I went to bed. When I started picking thing up, there was frost all over my stuff!! It was cold! But a beautiful site. My wife had never seen it though a telescope.

That's what I have in my Home PC now. That replaced the Intel Q6600.

I love my Surface. Working on a song in EZ Keys right now. I have also used my Surface to do some practice mixing on it using headphones. I was surprised at really how much I can do with it. I have a project that has almost 50 audio trks and I had Waves SSL/PA bx_Console SSL on every channel with other fx thrown in. Use Window WASAPI Exclusive and it works like a charm. The Virtual Keyboard that comes with CbB is great to use with the touch screen. I use it to get ideas down and then work from there. In fact my last three or four songs was started on the surface. A lot of the time I have a song down and all togeher somewhat, then use the Surface to program the drums Jamstix/EZD2. I have a Surface with an i7 4650, 8gb RAM, 128 hd and a 128gb SansDisc micro SD card. It ain't got much space at all, but if I manage it right, I really don't notice. I can tell you this much, when this one bites the dust, I am getting another one. About the cursor, It never happened to me. Then it started doing it and was happening almost everytime I used it. I would have to restart it to get the mouse to come back. Then it stopped. Don't know why, but it hasn't done it in a while.