Third support scenario: An important leader in your department is having issues performing tasks that _should_​ work on the face of it. You can demonstrate to your supervisor that it does work and via multiple avenues. Important leader is on a conference call and you must wait for more details.

Second support scenario: Simple software request reveals deeper and deeper issues caused by security policy changes since the workstation was purchased, in addition to lack of access to critical passwords. More than an hour passes of attempts to work around limits. No success.

One support scenario: Executive Assistant notifies you about someone else having a problem. You must wait for that person, and you spend that time thinking about possible causes and resolutions. When you finally get time with that person, the thing that wasn’t working works flawlessly now.

Tonight’s listening included In Through The Out Door and Meddle.

With some thoughtful setup, two speakers playing a record sounds every bit as good as surround sound programs played through 5.

Interesting. Updating a Windows 11 laptop at work. 24H2 update is available. After it downloaded and began the install process, I walked away from it to do some other work. When I came back to check its status, it’s back to downloading. Concerning, but interesting. Watching.

Waiting for the machine to make my morning cuppa at work, I had two completely different conversations. One where the individual was completely vulnerable about a tic. And a second revealed a mind-blowing but simple, tiny little thing a parent can do for their kid.

Miffed. One of my email providers does not mention in their mobile device set-up instructions that you must log into your account on the web and check a box to allow email retrieval on other devices and apps. My internet search revealed a forum where Apple support helped them do this.

I am a sucker for sequencers. In high school in the mornings I turned this up really loud. Had the house to myself for a half hour or so before catching the bus: The Fixx, Deeper and Deeper

Brief but spectacular Northern Lights visible overhead in my back yard in Saint Paul, Minnesota. I had the wrong device with me and could not capture good images.

Today I listened to side one of Peter Gabriel’s So album, and side 1 of Led Zeppelin’s In Through the Out Door. I had been gifted an inexpensive turntable and it was the first time I have played vinyl in at least two decades.

On the same token, if I meet people with more musical overlap on the Venn diagram, I’m never fan enough or weird enough or my collection is too shallow. I like what I like, and deeply so. But on that front I don’t feel like I’m part of a community.

If there was a Venn diagram of the music I listen to relative to almost anyone I know, the overlap is low. I’m not proud of this, but it’s a real thing. I’m super interested in learning more about new (to me) music and artists from others, but I don’t know many people who feel the same way.

Found more of my record collection, tonight. Last vinyl I bought in 2005 was all together. One of the albums, released in 1982, appears to be in original shrink wrap.

Connected a working turntable to my system, only to spend about a half hour attempting to coax the amp to use analog RCA inputs over HDMI. In these days of complexity, I needed to have the TV monitor on so I could see the settings menu. That operation not available on the front panel or the app.

Finished reading: The Black Bird Oracle by Deborah Harkness 📚

Now I will have to wait for the next installment. This has been a very enjoyable series, so far. If you’re the sort of person who would be interested in witches, vampires and demons then I say 5 stars, would recommend.

Amazing. After several weeks, Keybase let me know they verified me on Reddit. That wasn’t working for quite a while. Makes me wonder who or what was the problem.

I feel like an adult! In my fifth decade of life, my vinyl is no longer in crates.

It is officially 56 years since I took my very first breath

I thought that it was just the stylus that my kid broke on my turntable. The record player sat idle for years as a result.

I bought an upgraded stylus, which arrived today. However, after re-situating items in my setup to connect the ‘table, and pulling a crate of records out of storage, I learned the drive belt was wrapped around the gears in the mechanism under the platter. Unwinding the belt and returning it to its proper position was too little, too late.

I’m guessing there was probably some grinding or something stopped and was forced, unbeknownst to me, during a play session with a box of grandma’s 45s.

I believe I had personally played a single record when It was initially connected. In the intervening time I had been focused on converting digital media.

Today I’d love to play and convert analog media, but that project will have to wait.

Watching Big Brother, tonight. I have never seen such a meltdown and so many tears so early in the season.

That feeling when you read an article on any topic that can be summarized with the statement “Still, nobody knows.”

DNC better come in hot with real alternatives

Recoil’s Want - The Architect Mixes were released in 2010, but are still available for download. The 24-bit WAV files are amazing. There is a video set to the first track, but I haven’t found that for download, yet. The lyrics were my introduction to Nicole Blackman.

EBN - Electronic Behavior Control System — For those who appreciate a little commentary with their beats. Though the track was composed circa 1995, and the video clips and technology come from another era, it still hits.