Furiously Bad

 Well, yesterday began fine weatherwise, but then the clouds rolled in... again, as did the sporadic thunderstorms.  As I lay down to sleep last night, I could hear the patter of rain on my windows... again.  For now, I think the rain has passed.  We've got clouds scuttling across the sky, but the temps are mid Spring, down in the mid 50s (F).  According to Accuweather, the next 5 days should be dry.  I don't think anybody quite believes that will happen.

Most of yesterday morning and early afternoon was spent adjust the kbps on different chapters of the audiobook and more importantly the volume.  Translation:  I'm equalizing the decibel range.  ACX (read Audible) requires what they call a standardized volume and all chapters need to fall into specific number of decibels.  This can be done during recording, but unless you're in a sound studio it's rather difficult because, as humans, we tend to move our heads when we're speaking, we get a little closer to the microphone, or pull away the tiniest of bits.  The changes I have to make are small, 1 decibel up, or possibly .8 decibels down.  The only way to know how much to change is to upload the chapter, wait for ACX to analyze it, and then make that tiny correction before uploading it again.  I'm using an app called Audacity, which simplifies the process.  I should be finished either today, or tomorrow.

And I went to see the latest Mad Max movie last night.  Avoid it at all costs.  A very chiseled Chris Hemsworth is the villain and is Anya Taylor-Joy as the heroine. While they obviously go to the gym daily, no one else does, since the rest of the cast is overweight and either scared or missing body parts.  There are long action set pieces and a few, short bits of dialogue that are intended to move the story... possibly forward.  About 2 hours and 15 minutes into the two and a half hour long saga, you get a voiceover because someone, somewhere decided that the audience needed to know what was going on.  This movie is a prequel to Mad Max - Fury Road (that film won 6 Oscars), so during the credits you actually get to see clips of that earlier, much better movie.

And, of course, the jury is still out.  There seems to be a little confusion, he only needs to be found guilty on one of the 34 charges against him to be declared guilty.  This is how it works most often when there are multiple charges, which is why having a Hung Jury doesn't happen when there are so many multiple charges.  That doesn't mean there isn't one person who's going to vote not guilty on every charge, it's just that the odds of that happening are very slim.  One thing you can count on, his cultists will be furious if he's found guilty, and I don't doubt that many will be waiting for a voiceover to tell them what in hell is going on.