Currently listening to the best movie soundtrack ever made.

A music player app is displaying "Burn" by The Cure from "The Crow" soundtrack, featuring dark artwork of a crow.

First dust bowl like storms, now fuel shortages, it’s all fine.

A news report discusses a gas supply shortage in Nebraska, with a notice at a fuel pump explaining the unavailability of regular unleaded and premium gas.

Rice cookers are great, but one should still learn how to cook rice on the stove top.

Trump tightens control of independent agency overseeing nuclear safety

First shower heads and lo-flo toilets, now radiation standards offend these people (bold emphasis mine):

Trump tightens control of independent agency overseeing nuclear safety

NPR has also seen a draft of an executive order “ordering the reform of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.” The draft calls for reducing the size of the NRC’s staff, conducting a “wholesale revision” of its regulations in coordination with the White House and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency team, shortening the time to review reactor designs and possibly loosening the current, strict standards for radiation exposure.

Learning a stupid drum part for my stupid mental health and my stupid hands and stupid feet are being stupid

This week I have taken the plunge to learn WMA by Pearl Jam from their wonderful Vs. album.

There isn’t much on the internet (footage or tutorials) on this song which is too bad, but also a little refreshing. I think I’m close in my pattern, I still haven’t figured out how to incorporate the hi-hat part yet with everything else going on. And I can’t sustain the pattern through the entire song (while being in time)yet so going to spend more hours on it.