Glad to see Apple are finally selling the refurbished iPhone 13 mini. Just placed my order to downsize from my 13 Pro Max. Portability, music, reduced screentime, and texting. Those are my goals. No YouTube, minimal web browsing (probably just NetNewsWire and micro.blog feeds).
During these next few weeks my focus is going to be staving off burnout.
Balancing crazy work hours and making sure I’m available for family has resulted in very little rest or pursuit of hobbies and such.
I’m not really stressed but can feel my body starting to reject the status quo I’m in.
Poser.
Dave Abbruzzese, Pearl Jam drummer for the Vs. and Vitalogy albums dropped a comment in one of my YouTube covers.
I’ve been going down a Pearl Jam rabbit hole, especially the Vs. and Vitalogy albums with Dave Abbruzzese on drums (my favorite PJ records and all time favorite drummer).
I’ve never really played along to or tried to learn their songs in my youth. I’m focusing on learning Vs. first, starting with Animal. Such a foot work out. So much energy in this song.
Purple corn, with occasional flowers.
How Far the Song has Fallen from the iTunes Tree
I have nothing against streaming music (I do so on occasion), but I prefer buying my music and downloading on to my device. iTunes used to be really great at this. In the last two or more years, I keep running into this glitch where 1) I buy an album from iTunes on my iPhone. 2) The tracks all go through the “Downloading” motions and successfully download. 3) New album or songs don’t show up on my Apple Music library for anywhere between 2 - 24 hours.
Rebooting or killing Apple Music process does nothing to accelerate anything showing up on my library.
Yesterday, while accidentally deleting a song off of a playlist, the album I purchased not 3 hours prior magically showed up.
“Could it be that by manipulating a track list in a playlist resets the library somehow to show the recently downloaded track(s)?” - my brain
Yes, my friends, this is indeed the case. I tested this by buying a track, creating a playlist called “Test” and adding a random song from my library.
Bam, track shows up in my library immediately.
What was once a service I never had to think about on my phone, now requires multiple steps to get a purchased piece of music to show up in my library.
Man, I sure miss Bowie.
Today I posted a Stone Temple Pilots drum snippet and a lame attempt at playing samba.
My go-to beer is the Run Wild IPA from Athletic Brewing but it’s hit or miss finding it in the stores here (or any NA beer besides like O’Doules). Today they had Stella NA and I was skeptical but it tastes great!
