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Photo of a diver sculpture with a speaker rather than a glass window in its helmet. It is painted with gold and brown, dripping paint.
Audio Diver at Industry City

An errand took us near Industry City on Saturday. So, we stopped by for lunch and poked around some of the shops. That is where we met the Audio Diver pictured here.

I softened my YouTube ban in the last couple weeks by not totally blocking it on my computer. Unsurprisingly, I started slipping back into old ways. There are so many “interesting” things to click on in YouTube. Go there to watch something specific; the next thing you know, it’s midnight and you’re watching 35 minute clips about running an all sourdough bakery in Arizona.

My new strategy involves following the few channels I really care about with RSS. That lets me watch their new videos without being tempted by the constant stream of related or “you might also like” stuff they serve up.

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Spent some more time on the personal newsletter script I started back in July. It’s in a pretty good place right now and I like getting the updates every morning. I’ll post a quick write-up on my projects page shortly.

This week’s Jamulus jam was just two of us. Thankfully, we weren’t plagued with the same connection/sound quality issues as last week. We started messing around with an original song by the lead singer. It has a lot of potential, I just need to come up with a grooving bass line.

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I took this week off. While some might call it a staycation, I call it a mini-retirement. No matter the terminology, it was awesome. I got some late season sailing in, accomplished most to the things on my to-do list, played some bass, made pizza—an all around good time. Now, I need to gird myself for the return to work on Monday.

Since 2022, I’ve been using a docker image someone created to run our Jamulus server when we need it. It’s quick and easy to set up and it works great. If you’re interested in doing a similar thing, I put together some instructions on running your own Jamulus Server. While I was at it, I noticed that the docker image hadn’t been updated in 3 years, so I forked the repo, updated the Linux and Jamulus versions and rebuilt the Jamulus docker image.

I also did some more work on the personal newsletter (mentioned previously). Now, it also lists the day’s events from a shared calendar. The more dynamic content in the newsletter, the better. Knowing what’s coming up that day is very helpful. I think weather might be next.

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Since I had more leisure time this week, I amassed quite the collection of interesting links. So many, that I decided to save a few for next week. You’re welcome.

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Last week, I talked about how the four-day work week felt so long. Sad to say, this week’s 5-day week didn’t feel any better. I am off next week, so I’ve got that going for me.

The new song I mentioned last week is starting to come together in this week’s session. We managed to all play in the same key and got through most of it. The drummer is really the standout here, perfect time, they never miss. For the rest of us, it’s just a matter of playing it a few times together. I think it has the potential to be one of our better songs.

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Photo of a blue sailboat named Fury being moved in a boat yard.

Spent some time this weekend splashing a friend’s boat. Instead of sailing, we cleaned. Power washing is almost as fun as sailing though. This might be one of the prettiest project boats I’ve seen. She’s going to be gorgeous next season, and a hear a new name is coming as well.

Also spent some quality time with a wood fired pizza oven, which inspired me to make some more pizzas at home. We don’t have space for a wood fired oven, but I think we can turn out some quality pizzas in our kitchen.

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