Chris Vreeland @Devils_Rancher@octodon.social
Devils Rancher is an anagram. Musician, Printer, Father of Erin the Spaceship Builder, photographer, Mac, Adobe guru chrisvreeland.com... Austin, TX #MeFite
FINALLY making a systematic effort to go through 500+ CD's & rip everything. It's been interesting -- I thought I had 9/10ths of my CD collection ripped, but it's maybe barely 2/3ds. Completing lots of incomplete albums from back when I didn't have a big enough hard drive. I've also culled about 30 clunkers, so far. #houskeeping
Arrival is not the answer
Arriving is not even the question
Destination is no more than the door
Where the leaving begins
Been trying to take a picture every day -- some are film so I won't have something to post every day, but today I got lucky & spotted a red cockeaded woodpecker in the neighbor's tree & he was still there after I ran inside & grabbed the 300 mm lens. https://octodon.social/media/3dgLrgr-AkKmsApsVmQ
Digital vs Film. Color: Nikon D80 b&w 1950’s Zeiss Contina. Trampas, New Mexico.
https://octodon.social/media/lQ0EBPHi3BepMRcEkOM https://octodon.social/media/4oKhb0gqxu5_i-uDho0
I am burning CD’s for a friend who’s “not much of a tech guy” but finds our music meditative. I put a Carbon 7 album on the headphones last night & was sound asleep by the middle of the first song. I’m not sure if this is good or bad, but I needed the sleep.
obviously, the excellent cover photo is by the kind & generous @joshmillard
I haven’t gone away - work has just gone insane, so I don’t have much to report. Got home in time to finish up some CD inserts so I could make a few physical CDs of the last Carbon 7 album:
Oh, hey, one of my bands might have a gig at the end of February. My reason to live hasn’t totally left me high & dry! Rehearsals start while we wait for details. It’s original stuff that I got to craft my own bass parts for so I’m emotionally invested in this music.
Crazy couple of days at work, trying (& mostly succeeding!) to keep my cool. I decompress at bedtime by turning out the lights, plugging in the earbuds & meditating to music. It’s a Jeff Buckley kind of evening.
Hey people, do you remember Abstruse Goose, the #webcomic? Its author resumed posting after three years of silence!
Seriously who even is Cactus Boy Records? I know one person who has a physical copy of this CD. He ripped it for me, which is why I have it. https://www.allmusic.com/album/veg-mw0001195211/releases
What a ridiculously overlooked gem. The whole thing just smokes, end to end.
The best song of the 90's (this week) I've had this on repeat in the car for a while:
https://www.parthenonhuxley.com/track/707893/ballad-of-reginald-denny?feature_id=135660
VeG, a short-lived project of Parthenon Huxley from '97 -- good luck finding it on CD.
Bass practice with the headphones tonight - I finally have the bridge to The Fez nailed down, I memorized 16 bars of JPJ’s extemporaneous fills at the end of In The Light & fixed a dumb error I’d been glossing over in the turnaround to Starship Trooper. If I could do this every night...
@tootleapp I’m consistently getting a crash when I try to save an image. iPad Air iOS 11.2.2
Would buy you another coffee to see this & the apostrophe bug fixed 😁
Put on a nice dress shirt & jacket to go pick up my 20 year chip down at the AA club... it’s been so long since I’ve dressed up I feel like I’m wearing a spacesuit.
And I finished a 10.5 hour work day with 75% of my battery charge left. It’s such a relief.
Finally decided I couldn’t afford an iPhone 7 after much deliberation, so I took my 5s in for a new battery. When I got back, they informed me they’d broken my screen trying to replace the battery, but here was a brand new 5s for the price on the battery replacement. Seems like a win to me.
Can vouch for the cpu throttling with worn batteries- this new one is much smoother & faster with a fresh battery.
Maybe it’s just my brain, but I can’t stand animated avatars. Is it overly grouchy of me to reflexively mute anyone that shows up in my timeline with lots of flashing going on? I literally can’t read when something on my screen is wiggling or flashing. Maybe it’s some sort of cognitive disability.
I just noticed, phonetically at least, that Marc Gasol is a subset of LaMarcus Aldridge. #NBA
By the way, how the hell is everyone? It’s been a busy few days over here at The Ranch. (I don’t really have a ranch)
