Lost Weekend

I didn't get anything done this weekend. I swore I wasn't going to be like Brent and still be working on my presentation for the defense the night before, and I still think I can finish tomorrow, but I didn't get nearly as much done this weekend as I wanted. I have just started figuring out how I want to arrange the presentation, and it's been a lot of trouble to try to keep all these pictures organized. I moved the bulk of the pictures into PowerPoint onto their own slides, to have as a backup in case I get asked about something in the thesis that isn't in the presentation. This is also a tough presentation because presumably my committee have all read my thesis, and it's supposed to be a defense of the thesis, but I'm also doing a presentation, which has to cover the same information as I wrote in the paper. I'm trying to strike a balance between just re-stating my thesis and covering the same information.

On the list of things I did this weekend while I should have been working on my presentation is the organization of my music collection. Most of it was still organized from the Second Great Laptop Crash of last spring, but I've added quite a bit of music since then. I added any missing information, put the files in the correct folders, and added everything back into iTunes. Just for the record, I have a lot of music, and a lot of Johnny Cash. One thing I didn't do was check for duplicates of Johnny Cash songs. I have several CDs, many of which contained the same songs. Sometimes they were different versions, like the At San Quintin live version and studio cuts of several songs. And it's Johnny Cash, so if it comes up a little more often, no one is going to complain. And if they do, it's my music, so they can shut up.

When most of you read this, it should be the 62nd anniversary of the first use of an atomic weapon in war. I guess by time zones, the anniversary is actually today for most of the U.S., but the recorded date is August 6, 1945. We've been fortunate as a people that such devastation hasn't been necessary since 1945. I believe it was Einstein who said, "I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World Wat IV will be fought with sticks and stones." More tomorrow.