{"id":162,"date":"2006-10-21T03:01:53","date_gmt":"2006-10-21T03:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.gregbueno.com\/wp\/sakufu\/2006\/10\/21\/a_halfweek_of_suck\/"},"modified":"2006-10-21T03:01:53","modified_gmt":"2006-10-21T03:01:53","slug":"a_halfweek_of_suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/2006\/10\/21\/a_halfweek_of_suck\/","title":{"rendered":"A half-week of suck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sunday<\/em>: After <a href=\"\/sakufu\/?entry_id=2881\">cleaning up<\/a> my studio of all the cord spaghetti, I discover the Kawai K4 synthesizer I bought from eBay more than a year ago produces nothing but static. I embark on a search for a software emulation of the keyboard.<\/p>\n<p><em>Monday<\/em>: A blackout caused by all the rain resets the DHCP server of Windows, thereby reassigning all the home network IP addresses. As a result, my internal web site configurations get messed up because the domains aren&#8217;t resolving correctly.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tuesday<\/em>: I find a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundtrackers.de\/synths_without_frames.html\">Kawai K4 virtual synthesizer<\/a>, which requires a SoundBlaster card. I also find some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;q=+site:www.hammersound.net+%22kawai+k4%22+soundfont\">Kawai K4 soundfonts<\/a>. Neither really helps me. I attempt to fool the Windows DHCP server to assign the same IP addresses before the blackout, but I fail. As a result, I must reconfigure my firewall. I also have a bad case allergies, which makes me leave work midday.<\/p>\n<p><em>Wednesday<\/em>: I take my Kawai K4 down to Strait Music Co. for repair on the hottest day of the week. I&#8217;m dehydrated and exhausted after having spent the day running around preparing for a conference at work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday: After cleaning up my studio of all the cord spaghetti, I discover the Kawai K4 synthesizer I bought from eBay more than a year ago produces nothing but static. I embark on a search for a software emulation of the keyboard. Monday: A blackout caused by all the rain resets the DHCP server of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vital-signs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Bkjq-2C","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}