As I tap out this post on my iPad, I wish I had decaf coffee in the house; I want a coffee, but itās far too late in the day for me to have one. I know itās Saturday, but I donāt want to be up all night. Well, I always have my NA beers. By the way, it IS weird to tap out a blog post instead of type. This is a much better solution than using my phone if Iām not going to use a computer, but itās justā¦ not right somehow.
Iām also enjoying my musical setup right now - but more on that later.
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Somebody - and I forget who now - mentioned https://soma.fm in their week notes. I tried searching through my feed reader at all possible people I would have read this weekend, but could not find what I was looking for. I wanted to thank them for reminding me of its existence, and say that I listened to the Underground 80 station this morning and loved it. I need to add this station to my repertoire going forward.
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I got a heat warning alert effective tomorrow through Tuesday. Before I read it I thought it was effective today! Wouldnāt be too surprising since itās already very hot out today. For a minute I thought it would dash my plans or another evening bike ride, but thatās still an option. Juryās out on whether or not that happens.
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I successfully adjusted the speed on my cassette deck today! I noticed this past week that Deck A was playing slightly too fast, while Deck B seemed to be mostly okay. I wanted to buy a 3000hz test tape, but didnāt want to A) wait for it to arrive, and B) pay $25+ for it1. I did some very rough testing on a few other decks I had in the house and found a unit I thought was close enough to correct to record a tone to a blank cassette. Once I had that, it was as easy as taking the outer shell and turn the small screws to change the speed while monitoring with a free app called Sonic Tools.
And that musical setup I mentioned - my last thought for the blog today.
My wife is away this weekend and often that means I spend more time on things I donāt spend a lot of time on while sheās home. One of those things is video games; what ends up happening is I bring my PS3 upstairs and spend the whole weekend playing instead of doing other things.
This time I specifically made a point to leave the PS3 hooked up in the basement, so itās in a different physical space entirely. My books and writing equipment is all on the main floor, and my personal computer is upstairs in the office. I did some work up there today ādevelopingā photos but didnāt want to spend all my time there.
Back to the main floor. I threw in 5 CDs to play on random to have on in the background for writing/reading:
Today's albums on random for reading & writing. Surprisingly the only disc that has t played anything yet is Learn & Burn. #music
This is doing several things:
Itās keeping the TV off
Itās giving me something new to listen to other than streaming algorithms
Itās creating a separate, middle space on the main floor for me to encourage me to do my writing and reading.
So yeah, itās been a nice couple of days (last night I was playing a couple of cassettes) in terms of doing things differently. Still debating whether or not I want to go for that bike rideā¦I might skip it.
