Friday Thoughts 03
It's a Friday and I'm working from home, with all my urgent work complete. Must be time for some thoughts!
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I was spoiled by amazing weather this week. It's been so sunny and warm, and then rain hit on Thursday. And then overnight? It had the gall to freeze. Today looks sunny so hopefully that was the last freezing spell we'll see for the season. Isn't today the first day of Spring?
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I don't talk about my audio Weeknotes Podcast very much because part of the point of it is to just put it out in the world and let people find it, so that I don't put pressure on myself to release episodes. (It's working by the way, I went through a few weeks without posting anything and I didn't stress out about it.)
Before I get too far into this thought, some context.
The last episode I pushed out was for Week 10, something I recorded on my phone using my earbuds while organizing the kitchen. I know the audio quality was going to be lower than my expectations but it would be okay - I'd done it before on a walk. But when I got it into Reaper, the audio sounded all garbled. But! When listening back after uploading it was actually OK.
Fast forward to last night, recording on my Yeti mic in my basement studio. Because I don't also monitor the audio as I record, everything looked okay from a waveform standpoint. While I was pulling in music and moving the audio around, and did a little playback, the audio was a little messed up again like last time - I figured this was a problem with my Bluetooth speakers; it's something I had to fix before. So I pressed on (at this point it would have been too late to fix the audio without re-recording, but I'm getting ahead of myself).
I listened back later on in the evening, and...yikes. I sounded like Max Headroom. I even recorded a short note from my phone to sort of apologize for the audio. Oh well. It seems like there's a sample rate issue that's cropped up that I need to fix before I can record again.1
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I'm also writing these notes as a test of a potential setup for passing notes from my phone to a markdown file to copy into Bear Blog. It's a four step process.
Step 1: Start the note in Obsidian (on Android). Completed 11:08am
Step 2: Find the synced file on my iPad, and upload to OneDrive. Completed 11:18AM
Step 3: Download from OneDrive and finish editing on my work computer in Notepad. Completed 11:41AM
Step 4: Copy the note contents into Bear Blog. Completed 11:42AM
OK - this is a workflow I can work with until I figure out a way to access files from my server remotely (if I ever do).
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I've been playing a lot of PS5 games lately, specifically Spider-Man (a PS4 title) since my time with it is borrowed - literally, I borrowed it from the library. But I think from here on I'm going to take a step back a little bit and start work on a LEGO project. I still want to finish the game if I can, I have a couple of more weeks to go with it.
A quick search told me that the main story is approximately 17 hours, and I've played around 6 so far - but that includes some side missions and such. I'm not going to "math" things out here but I think if I play 2-3 hours a week (spread out over several days) I could probably finish the main story. I would probably need a loan renewal though. We'll see how it goes!
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I just got an email from one of my softball teams confirming our team is registered for the Spring/Summer season, complete with how much we owe for fees. Exciting! I can tell we're almost there...the diamonds we play on a lot are almost entirely free of snow. They're still way too wet to play on, of course.
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This just means that I'm recording at a different bit rate than the playback in Reaper. That's the simplest way I can think of to explain it.↩