Cold. I despise being cold. This big old house is never warm, except in the summer when it’s to hot to breathe. The downstairs bath is still gutted - I discovered last weekend that a joist needs replacing (or at least sistered), and the fact that its dark by the time I get home from work is doing nothing to encourage me to work on the weeknights. I did get all the wiring re-routed Monday evening, so perhaps this weekend I can get the joist in and start on the floor - that might help the heating situation a bit.

In other news, I’m looking for a mixer. Specifically:  12+ channel, at least 4-bus, decent, older, affordable (so not Mackie/Yamaha/Behringer, but not a Trident either…).  I’ve got it in my head to minimize the options I have when recording, so I’ve decided to start treating my PC as an 8-track recorder.  Granted, I can bounce to my heart’s content w/o worrying so much about noise as one would in a truly analog setup, but it will still force me to work within a set of confines. I’m hoping establishing a set of ‘rules’ will help me get unstuck.

Got the banjo cleaned up and rebuilt - took quite a bit of polishing to get all the years of crud off all the metal bits - it still shows its age, though, so that’s cool.  I put a set of regular strings on it, they just don’t work quite right with this short scale length.  I have a tenor set, just need to take 15 minutes and put them on.  I’ll post pics eventually…