Sunday, August 20, 2017

A Normal Day in the Office

For us, the work day begins normally at 8:15 AM. We walk from Christine Platt's house (the CEO of Global Recordings Australia) to the office. It normally takes us about 15 minutes, depending on the traffic to cross the major road. This will take us to Global Recordings.


























The offices that we are working in is on the ground floor of the building. Marc has been working on the remastering of the audio files, to make them cleaner sounding by taking out the extraneous noises and extra files. He then will begin to input them into the system, making them available for downloading from the Web.


















Diane has been working with the Original recordings that do not have any information in the database, and adding the data to make it complete.
















She has also been working with Cheryl to inventory the cool room. This is called the cool room for the obvious reason of the temp: 17 degrees C (62.9 degrees F). But it is low humidity, making it seem cooler.

Cool room

Media files

































These are some of the people working on various projects: Erin and Henry, editing materials. Henry has an Arabic Bible. Cheryl is working with materials in the database.


























Thursday, August 10, 2017

Weekend Warriors, Part 2


On Sunday, we started the day going to a car show. This was down the street from us and we got to see some cars made in Australia and some from the states. It was weird seeing the steering wheel on the left; for the past week I have wanted to get in on the opposite side of a car.





The ONLY car to go to an Ohio Football game in!






We then ventured downtown to see the Opera House. We took the bus to catch a train and finally a ferry. We were able to travel on the harbor to see the exquisite building.  The architect of Sydney Opera House, Jørn Utzon, was a relatively unknown 38-year-old Dane in January 1957 when his entry was announced winner of the international competition to design a ‘national opera house’ for Sydney’s Bennelong Point. His vision for a sculptural, curved building on the Harbor broke radically with the cube and rectangular shapes of modernist architecture.








The ferry took us to Manley, AUS. The water on the beach was so clear that you can see the ripples in the sand at the bottom. We ate on the pier, watching boats, people, and birds.





 

Monday, August 7, 2017

Weekend Warriors, Part 1

Saturday was a day for us to go and explore. We were able to take the bus successfully to Featherdale Wildlife Park. We were able to look at the different animals and birds that you find throughout Australia. This is definitely a place to go! There were so many different koalas, wallabies, and kangaroos throughout the park. All were from Australia, with the exception of the two Macaw Parrots, which are from South America (interesting!). We then took the bus to Westpoint Shopping Centre to get Diane a purse (hers broke) and to go to Aldi's. There is also a local produce area and we scored a huge deal on bananas. Normally these go for $4.99 per kilo, but we got some for $1.99 per kilo. We got some additional fruit and vegetables that would be good for lunches and evening meals. It was good!



Diane feeling a wallaby.








Wombat

 



One REALLY big guy!



















End of the Second Week


It has been an interesting week this week. Marc has been working with Noel to learn the process of his job. He has been working with the program masters and original recordings. Diane has worn many hats this week. She assisted Cheryl with the inventory of the tapes in Australia, worked with Helen and Noel in learning more about the database and how to work with the data, and continuing on the project she works on in the states.
Working on the database.
Marc and Noel.

But things came to a halt on Tuesday. On Tuesday the fiber optics cable was cut, and there were additional issues with the server. The cable was repaired and the servers now seem to be functioning. We have learned, when living on the reservation, that technology can be an interesting fellow and are used to our network fluctuating. So we did other things that day that did not involve Internet. Unfortunately our phone lines were also down.  Life is always interesting, and we are just going with the flow. Thank you for bridging the gap for us!