.:Saturday, May 28, 2005:.
another all nighter!
SubhanAllah, I am DEAD and it doesnt seem like I'm going to be going to sleep anytime soon..
Originally I had wanted to stay up to study and figured I could go to bed around 2. I ended up not starting my studies untill 2 though! All day me and UmmQaylah have been working to get the Yasir Qadhi lecture in DC recorded. So for most of the day we were searching for and downloading programs that record audio and are compatible with macs. Finally found one that met our criteria. So UmmQaylah takes her laptop with her to the lecture and records it, but one problem, the files are only compatible with macs.
From around 9:30pm my time untill around 1am we did nothing but mess around with these files. First we try sending them to my windows computer, doesnt work no matter what I do to the files. Finally I give up and log onto the laptop which is a mac and get the files to PLAY there. The files are HUGE and its not fun waiting for them, so we decided to send the smallest file (adhan) and to work with that till we are sure we know what we are doing. So I try to convert this file to anything but an .AIFF to no avail. Ya either gotta pay or you dont get a good converter. At the end I give up and decide to go back to windows. Alhamdulilah after another hour of downloads and trial and error we get the file extensions sorted out.
Once that is done there is the annoying process of SENDING the files. So UmmQaylah decides to send the next smallest file, salaat al maghrib, with about 1/4 of it left the transfer gets inturrupted and ya its gone. Now you're probably like why not do this tommorrow? well UmmQaylah decides to do something REALLY smart and update her system, so now if she turns off her computer or restarts the files will be lost! Anyways, we decided to do the salaat al 'isha file, that takes about half hour to forty-five mins but alhamdulilah it gets transfered and converted. I told her to forget about the maghrib file for now and send the lecture/qa. She does, a few minutes into it she signs out and transfer goes away.. I sit for five mins hoping that she didnt loose the files lol.. and just like I thought she had to reboot her system but somehow alhamdulilah, the files were not deleted! So ya.. she sends the file again and goes to bed.. its been more than three hours now and the files not done lol..
After I get all the files I'm supposed to clean up the audio.. convert to mp3.. make them smaller.. send back to her.. so she can give them to Darul Arqam masjid.. ahh alhamdulilah 'ala kulli haal...
so from 2ish I decided to start studying, couse my first exam is tomorrow. Alhamdulilah its been going ok so far, but I'm dead now. I've been trying to keep myself alert with sugar and being on paltalk.. but its starting not to work lol.. Alhamdulilah am getting a chance to talk to yasi which helped me stay awake for a while. I had decided to take a nap on the living room floor with my MSN sounds really high just incase anyone signed in right when she came online... Alhamdulilah... I was worried.. i guess I still am but a little less..
so ya, Imma get back to studying.. moms up for fajr.. hopefully I'll make it through the day :P.. couse its supposed to be a busy one..
chotu-meyeh
@ 5/28/2005 04:26:00 AM
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