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.