Simple Banking
Years ago, I signed up with Simple Bank to manage my money. The premise was implementing a system similar to the envelop...Currently listening and drum cover candidate:
Boring
I dove head-first into the boring stuff today. Laundry, replenished the salt to the water softener, changed the filters ...Finally, a break from the -20 F temps we’ve had all week.
I spent the day yesterday recording drum tracks for friends. Spending some more time to clean up some mistakes and inconsistencies today.
Signing up to watch chatbots talk to each other is very reminiscent of that thing a few years back where people could join conference calls or whatever on Twitter to hear idiots speak.
100%
A one-day slowdown is irritating. A one-month slump is terrifying.
With support for abolishing ICE growing and a bipartisan backlash prompting Trump to at least feign a more conciliatory approach in Minnesota, this is the moment to exert pressure. bit.ly/4aoo0an
Scott Galloway says Resist and Unsubscribe. Now we’re talking.
Bowie understood.
Powerless Fit of Rage
Cancelled my BlueSky account, the only large social network I’ve been a part of. Cancelled all of my Apple and Go...I really don’t know how to respond to the bullshit going on around us, so I made some drawings to put in my son’s cardboard mailbox tonight when I get home.
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I am a sucker for Japanese engineering excellence.
Despite the long drive, I’ve been really enjoying working in Lincoln 3 days per week. The clouds yesterday and 50 degree weather brought back some Seattle feels too.
It’s so disgusting.
🎶Pink, pink, pink, pink, pink….pink moon🎶
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
The boy decided that The Wild Robot series needed a fourth installment, so he wrote his own book: “The Wild Robot Bilds” (unedited first draft)
Lawnchair Youth is a great music YouTube channel, and has been my main music discovery source besides KEXP. Currently jamming on the band, Street Lamp - www.youtube.com/watch
As the President took yet another cognitive test, I reserved this QWERTY phone.
About a month ago, I finally took the leap and got glasses. It’s been a game changer not awkwardly squinting while reading one of The Wild Robot books to my son or running my phone at an absurd font size.
The real kicker though has been revisiting the Daylight dc-1, a device I had written off because I thought it had a crap screen, only to now be floored at how readable it actually is with my reading glasses on. It’s so silly that I didn’t make the connection to my actual shitty eyesight sooner, though to be fair my other devices didn’t have the same challenge (at least nothing a simple text size change couldn’t resolve). I think part of the issue is the textured screen exasperated the blur.
Maybe an e-ink phone is in my near future. Anyways, thank friggin god for this ancient tech in the form of glasses.
Albums
Happy New Year y’all.
Santa showed up with a Shure SM57 over Christmas and I got a chance to start messing with it yesterday. I still need to find the best spot for it so everything is balanced (ride cymbal is too loud and I was barely playing it) but pretty happy with the possibilities.
Man, it has been over a month since I picked up the sticks, maybe longer. Went into this Jimmy Smith song (8 Counts for Rita) cold and it shows.
Went hiking with my wife and son today in 65 degree weather as January approaches in central Nebraska, what a trip.
