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.

Currently reading: The Black Bird Oracle by Deborah Harkness 📚

The All Souls series is the first I have been excited about in a very long time. Going to dig in to this one tonight. Witches, Vampies, Demons. No zombies—at least none that I recall in the first four books.

A lot of my physical music collection features notches and drilled holes. I don’t care. Get it any way you can. Right?

Tonight’s niche pick is Round the Outside! Round the Outside! by Malcolm Mclaren and The World Famous Supreme Team Show, which I rescued from a cut-out bin in the early 90s. I especially enjoy two tracks: Buffalo Gals II (Remix) and Un coche de agua negra.

Alas, my Series 4 Apple Watch and my 2019 MacBook Air are not going to get the next OS releases this fall. Everything else is rolling forward and I will have to think about what eventually will get replaced or recycled.

Spent the night with an awesome group of people hosted in Minneapolis to hear Chuck LeMonds.

Me and my Little Buddy

When your mom is a Queen super fan and she takes you to One Vision of Queen at the Northern Wisconsin State Fair

I’m federated everywhere I can, except on Meta products. I want them to be endpoints and Meta wants me to put them at the top of the pyramid. If they allow inbound posting, I’ll include them, too. Deleted X a while back. Occasionally I follow a link to a post there but generally don’t miss it.

Blasted my ears tonight doing yard work and listening to Echodrone. I have favorited Tranquility and Energy on their new album The Curvature of Sound.

We all want to be seen and accepted just as we are.

Many of us have been taught again and again to keep our masks tightly in place.

Because of terrible things visited on us by those whose acceptance we have sought, we visit those things on others.

Reinforcing the patterns we wish to break.

I am amazed. I haven’t had a hibiscus bloom like this before

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One fun thing in the midst of my CD Re-rip project has been digging into the contents of the “Enhanced CD.”

For the most part, I just grab anything that has the MOV extension.

But it’s a window into a brief period of history when playing video on our computers was amazing. Further, it made production sense to try to cram several video files into the space a song occupies, instead of delivering the content online. It would have taken many hours to download each of those small files.

The later Enhanced CDs really are just interfaces to launch hyperlinks to content on a server somewhere, and probably long offline by now.

The artists seem so young and little, though they were once giant to me.

23andMe is running a decent promotion for July 4th in the USA: $79, down from $119

Just backed the latest OrbitKey

Just did Ancestry DNA. The surprised at the regional focus. My genetic background is less diffuse than others close to me. Nearly half Swedish and Norwegian. The percentage of German is actually lower than I anticipated.

I have had the diagnosis of ADD (ADHD now) for almost 30 years. I no longer take meds nor do I attend any type of therapy. Instead, I’m protective, and I have the luxury of surrounding myself and working in places with people where I do not have to explain or defend myself.

Oof. I just spent hours answering questions for a survey about ADHD. Go [@catieosaurus]!(https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7ia8GKMYr2/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==) It made me feel things and remember things, but also helped me to feel proud of everything I have managed to accomplish despite this. Please share. If you have the diagnosis or are seeking it, I see you.

Three Technical Support Truths:

1. All hardware sucks
2. All operating systems suck
3. All applications suck

Many other truths and corollaries can be derived from support experience, but these are ones I’m willing to state out loud.