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January 4, 2025

Oh! made it just in time. Happy Birthday, Arthur! Hope it’s super special !

Sun Jan 5 09:37:48 2025

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Ok but just because you told me to!

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Sun Jan 5 08:22:36 2025

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Sat Jan 4 23:39:40 2025

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Just the right amount of cowbell

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Sat Jan 4 21:35:12 2025

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Spent some time at a lovely little pub with my friend Laura. We had some Frites with spicy ketchup (basically shoestring french fries) and some shrimp cocktail. We debated whether the couple next to us were X gen or Boomers. Of course, I found a way to ask, and I was right. Who says I can’t be subtle? Everyone in the world, that’s who. But I can get away with asking an old couple how old they are, so there’s that.

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Fri Jan 3 09:41:40 2025

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Well….

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Fri Jan 3 07:27:21 2025

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Saw this on Reddit. Do you know the way to Topanga Mall?

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Fri Jan 3 06:53:20 2025

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Probably my favorite

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Thu Jan 2 22:46:18 2025

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I asked chat to give me what it would look like if Blue Man Group played something like “Mars the Bringer of War” for a new project I am working on

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Thu Jan 2 19:03:52 2025

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What if we just started to call him the PINO - president in name only?

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Thu Jan 2 07:50:13 2025

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If I announced that I was going to hold a talk for an hour somewhere, would you go?

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Thu Jan 2 07:32:17 2025

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I mentioned something recently about a mad scientist making a record, this is one of his pieces.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wClwaBuFOJA

Edgard Varèse Ionisation (1931), pour 13 percussions dont 1 piano Editions Ricordi

Solistes de l’Ensemble intercontemporain Elèves du Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris Susanna Mälkki, direction

Percussions : Gilles DUROT, Samuel FAVRE, Victor HANNA (Ensemble intercontemporain) / Matthieu DRAUX, Adelaide FERRIERE, Jean-Baptiste BONNARD, Noam BIERSTONE, Christophe DRELICH, Julien LACROUZADE, Thibault LEPRI, Sylvain BORREDON, Othman LOUATI Piano : Sébastien VICHARD

Enregistré à la Cité de la musique le 20 novembre 2012, dans le cadre du Festival d’Automne à Paris

Réalisation et montage : Jérémie Schellaert

Enregistrement sonore : Radio France

Production exécutive Ensemble intercontemporain

Remerciements à Laurent Bayle, Directeur général de la Cité de la musique et à ses équipes, à Christian de Portzamparc

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Wed Jan 1 07:13:00 2025

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Happy new #whatAboutBob

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Wed Jan 1 03:30:13 2025

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It’s the rules, I didn’t get to make them up.

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Wed Jan 1 03:16:59 2025

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Stop looking at other people and fight for all of us.

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Tue Dec 31 12:42:43 2024

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In honor of Jimmy Carter. IYKYK

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Tue Dec 31 08:45:07 2024

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One of my friends here posted a retrospective of the last year, and I thought I’d try to do the same.

In my country, people are defined by what they do for a living, so I’ll start there. For most of this year what I did was be unemployed. I was laid off at the end of last year, but they kept me on salary until January. I spent the first few months of my unemployment so depressed I spent much of my day swinging in my hammock. I did the requisite 5 job contacts a week, but they were mostly perfunctory. I used to work at a place here in town, and every couple weeks my phone would suddenly light up with sometimes as many as six recruiters with varying skills in diction wanting me to apply to the same one job. I think I missed out on some of those because I accidentally got myself submitted twice to the same position. There are apparently a lot of jobs in my town that pay well and require security clearances, but I’m not going to do that again for reasons.

I considered the possibilities of what if I retired now, I’m old enough that it’s a real question, but do I really want to lock in the lowest benefit available for the duration? Probably not yet.

Sometime in the middle of the year, I started to speculate on whether living in the USA in the future was a good idea, and for a little bit I contemplated what it would be like to emigrate. I thought it would be nice to visit Slovenia and/or Croatia because there are people with my last name there I’ve never met in person. I considered Svalbard, Norway because you can live there without a visa. One friend who lives in Germany whispered to me that my skills might be appreciated there. Nothing really came of all that, but I joined a Facebook group about Norway, so I get some nice landscape pictures sometimes to look at.

I have a couple of groups on Facebook and Reddit where I post a fair bit. One is called the Dull Men’s Club (well, actually two, if one is being picky) and I’m on a few groups about being neurodivergent and I find a lot in common with both. Someone asked who are these people in the DMC. Someone answered âmostly undiagnosed autisticsâ and that made me smile.

I spent a week in the woods for a festival, but I worked in the kitchen this year. Last year I tried the job that had me all up and down the hills and it tweaked something in my ankle that is still bugging me. I should get to a doctor, but you know, America. The fest was nice, and I was glad to spend some time in nature. I spent more on a single repair on my car than when I bought it, but I have a car that doesn’t have a screen, so I think I’ll try to keep it running as long as I can. It’s a couple oil changes shy of a quarter million miles.

I guess I was instrumental in helping a friend decide to stick around on the planet after a bad breakup. I don’t know, all I really did was agree that pizza and some beer was a good idea sometimes. Turns out those conversations were helpful. I like to be helpful, so that’s nice.

I eventually kind of gave up on the emigration thing because it seemed likely that the Really Bad Outcome wasn’t likely, or that’s the impression I got from the news. I spent a lot of time listening and watching the news and causing trouble on Facebook and Reddit. I don’t have enough money to really make the emigration thing work, and I have a house full of crap again that I’d have to leave mostly behind.

There’s a special young person I didn’t get to see all year. I’m a little bit sad about that, but the world is a funny place.

An old friend did the Phish tour that ended up in my area, and I got to see a Phish show for the first time. I was unemployed, so figured it would be fun to ride back to Portland with him for a few days. I flew back in the first plane flight I’d taken since COVID started (don’t get me started about when it âendedâ). It was nice to see his house again, meet his roommate. I think he’s in good hands. He needs to have someone around when he goes a little crazy. I didn’t get to the beach, but I got to visit Powell’s bookstore again. You gotta go there if you’re ever in Portland, Oregon.

That same weekend I went to my first anime con for a few hours. Felt kind of old, not really into that culture, although I’m as nerdy as anyone, but it was fun.

Got to see my friend Arthur when he came through doing his first weekend drumming workshops since COVID. I am still drumming, maybe a little more now than I had been last year. I suspect I’ll be doing more of that next year. I have some new ideas about drumming that I’d like to explore, something more northern European than African-influenced.

Around about October, I got a hot prospect for a job that is a hike up the road, but it required a drug test. I failed it. They called back a month later, and I failed the test again. No biggie, it was paying much less than I think I’m worth. But then my unemployment ended so I had to do something. The grocery store had a couple of possibilities, but they didn’t pan out. I ended up taking a job at this feed store, where ranchers, farmers and other people with different sensibilities than me like to shop. I bought my first two guns there during the Black Friday sale. Some of my friends were outraged, a bunch want me to go shooting with them sometime.

The first couple weeks at the feed store were really hard on me because I wasn’t used to standing on my feet. By the time I stopped working there on xmas eve, I had built up enough strength that I didn’t take NSAIDs every day, just some days. I met some cool people there, some of whom are kind of young. I always seem to enjoy hanging with young people, whatever my age. It was an odd place to work. Being an elder white dude with white hair, I think those folks thought I was One Of Them, even if I did wear tie dye underneath my employee vest. I found out that I really liked to walk up to people and ask them if I could help them find something and maybe upsell them on something they didn’t realize they needed. The occasional multiple 50# bag of feed loadouts to folks’ cars weren’t too bad. I remember one lady who was telling me about she appreciated the help, she’s 55, don’t you know. Sure lady, I’m 62.

Around the time I started working there, I got wind of a couple positions at that place I used to work. One of them panned out, after what seemed like a lengthy background check process in which they actually contacted the community college where I got an associate’s degree forty years ago. There was some discrepancy about when exactly I got my degree. July 1983 vs April 1984, after forty years who really gives a damn? I also had to provide some W2’s to prove when/where I worked. This required me to do something about The Box of Chaos, the place I’ve been stashing my tax forms for many years. It’s now the Box of Order and I have an action plan for dealing with my long-standing tax issues. It appears that I may have gotten away with What Happened In 2011. My last day at the feed store was xmas eve, it looks like I’ll get my first paycheck from the place where I worked before as a contractor (both times) just after the first of the year.

My sex life is essentially nonexistent, except for, well, you know. I have a couple of female friends I hang out with on occasion, usually dinner, maybe a movie or some TV and that’s cool. I have a bunch of friends I essentially only experience through typing on a screen, whether it’s my phone or this silly computer setup I built from bits here and there. I have a bunch of computers that I poke at sometimes to keep in practice.

I just finished Better Call Saul, finished several TV series that I’d only gotten partway through. I’m thinking âDark Shadowsâ might be fun to watch next.

My siblings and I have a âsibling chatâ that we’ve been using recently. I like that. I have a couple of elder relatives I text with via Facebook or SMS, but other than that, I really don’t have much family that I’m in touch with.

There’s a job prospect on the horizon that would draw on skills I haven’t used in a long time. If it comes through, it would be the highest grossing position I’ve ever had, and I could ride it into the sunset. I’m trying to relearn Perl in preparation because I suspect it will be key. The company specializes in supporting government, healthcare and other corporate systems that nobody uses any more. I suspect that working with government systems in the next couple years could be story-worthy.

I guess I could edit this into something more coherent, but this way is more like how I would tell the story if we were sitting in a pub with a couple of beers. Oh yeah, I think I’ve made the jump from identifying myself as an unapologetic stoner to recovering addict who slips up sometimes. Now all I have is untreated ADHD, but I think I’m in a better place.

Happy New Calendar, if you made it this far. I hope you have lovely pictures hanging on your wall in the next year.

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Tue Dec 31 07:12:28 2024

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I can see my house from here. No, seriously, the little blob at about 7:00 from Denver is Boulder, and the one at about 8:30 is Longmont. The triad to the left is Ft Collins, Loveland and Greeley at the top point. In the Longmont blob, I am basically at almost the leftmost tip of the arm that goes north. We call it Main Street, but it’s also US-287

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Mon Dec 30 22:22:24 2024

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Outside the local Snarf’s sub shop

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Mon Dec 30 22:12:54 2024

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https://soundcloud.com/john-finan/the-ballad-of-touchdown-jesus

My friend @[100063481720652:2048:John Finan] wrote this story about an actual statue at the Catholic college where he works. I encouraged him to post a recording of it, missed the moment when he did it. I hope you like it.

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Mon Dec 30 21:58:05 2024

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stoners…. cigarette smokers don’t pass their lighters around

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Mon Dec 30 19:40:52 2024

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One of them would probably get away, but it’s worth a …

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Mon Dec 30 13:53:39 2024

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It’s not like it’s cool or anything.

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Mon Dec 30 13:52:45 2024

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I saw the cited video a whole back. Mr Gump makes some valid points, even if I’m not currently indulgent. And for crying out loud, do you know what this other dudes company does? Septic cleaning. Nuff said.

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Tue Dec 31 09:12:47 2024

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An enormous tower filled with 100 tons of bronze bells, some the size of a car, that you play with a massive keyboard at the top of the tower. Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/RobScallon

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The one that was ever so subtly mentioned at the end of the video.

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Thu Jan 2 07:32:17 2025

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Edgard Varèse Ionisation (1931), pour 13 percussions dont 1 piano Editions Ricordi

Solistes de l’Ensemble intercontemporain Elèves du Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris Susanna Mälkki, direction

Enregistré à la Cité de la musique le 20 novembre 2012, dans le cadre du Festival d’Automne à Paris

Réalisation et montage : Jérémie Schellaert

Enregistrement sonore : Radio France

Production exécutive Ensemble intercontemporain

Remerciements à Laurent Bayle, Directeur général de la Cité de la musique et à ses équipes, à Christian de Portzamparc

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Thu Jan 2 19:54:41 2025

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https://autos.yahoo.com/racoons-mistake-cybertruck-trash-123000087.html

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Thu Jan 2 21:11:05 2025

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Here’s a Volkswagen commercial circa 1997 featuring the song “Da Da Da” performed by the German group, Trio. I recall Trio actually making a mini-comeback during this period and had this 80’s album re-released in the United States.

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