One year ago today: May 14, 2023, one busy day.
Five years ago today: May 14, 2019, tame, tame, tame.
Nine years ago today: May 14, 2015, I still don’t own one.
Random years ago today: May 14, 2006, typical computer talk of the day.
The video did not work, but we have some excellent audio sections. These were recorded directly off the PA so there is no fooling with the raw quality. The Tascam is crap for live recording but it does an accurate job of capturing every mistake. I now have enough material to give a demo sound. It picked up my habit of saying “uh” at the end of long lyric passages. I stress these are not studio quality productions. They are live dance music and part of that is glossing over what are technically errors. Focusing on technique, which we are fully capable of, does not make for the right live sound and now I have a lot to back that up.
I was able to edit a few short clips. The timing is tighter than it needs to be, maybe we could channel more effort away from that. Otherwise, it is the music slot we were shooting for. It is not perfect and is not intended to be—going that route makes the music less fun and the audience can tell What’s more important is any soloist and most guitar duets will now have a nearly impossible task trying to duplicate this show. Never forget after I discovered Jimbos and put it on the musical map, every soloist who was not already on the beach circuit tried to hijack that location from me.
And the picture this morning is just for a placeholder, it is from the train museum in Plant City.
It rained all morning, so we have Tampa news, where you listen between the lines because they are a bunch of losers consistently behind GAB for new items. The comic relief stems from watching the live events on-line, then hearing the spin some hours later. The prevalent theme this time is the complete panic on the Left who know they have lost the popular vote, but only hve their time-worn tactics to fight back. And those methods are not working Trump. As they ramp up the attacks, their motives become shamefully blatant.
The FDA says the upcoming bird flu will kill one in four Americans. Here are my favorite GAB responses:
1) Hope we don't get fooled again.My favorite meme today (not reprinted) says I need A.I. to do my laundry and dishes while I read poetry. Instead, it is reading poetry while I do laundry and dishes. The Oscars went woke and now they are broke. Begging for money on-line. New York City has banned white-owned companies from bidding on tne billion-dollar airport upgrade.
2) Of course they are
3) Get your Ivermectin now
4) The summer before an election, what are the chances??
5) The plan is to kill off a large portion of us useless eaters.
6) I don't foresee any problems with that.
7) Start with vaxxed & boosted Democrats
Somewhere in Switzerland.
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Just like that, I took the day off. Doing the light work of converting the recording to a computer-compatible format, my old shoulder cramps began to bother me. I made some tea and laid down. Just like back when they put us on shift work, I lost the day, waking up at 5:30PM, just in time for Festus Tuesday. This is not a new thing for me, but a holdover from nearly 30 years ago. I hate shift work for this reason alone and it is my opinion those who like shift work have no real life and don’t need one. They don’t miss what they don’t know.
There should be a photo of the unfinished box nearby, with most of the hardware already installed. It is probable only box exterior will receive any finish, probably just wood stain. All six sides of thit unit are solid ¾”, the joints all secured with gorilla glue and sixteen 2-1/2” exterior wood screws. If I can’t build the boxes fancy, I can build them strong. I plan to make more boxes of this style, as the silo taught me these are the only economical way to store anything rats can eat, like the buttons off my old drum machine.
I may put in a small divider as well, since operating the device requires at least six cables sold separately. Some of my old travel tales can be real gems. They were often made in the Cadillac, I had a one-hour timer and on long trips, I would record a few minutes of the plans or scenery, or just what was on my mind. Sadly, I gave up this practice when I lost the Cadillac around 2004 or 2005, two completely lost years to me. Other than the journals, that is. Today I found a cassette tape from my birthday in 2018, must have been one of the last.
Because shortly thereafter, this blog itself became the medium for keeping track, since after that point, the journal changed to made-for-posting. Or as JZ puts it, the most accurate record of some people’s lives that will ever exist. The tapes could be recorded directly into the computer but the plan is to get up to speed on the Tascam. So far, what works is all the controls turned to the lowest settings and letting the equipment find it’s own levels. This is not an efficient machine.
Not too tired for Gunsmoke, today’s episode was the Morgan gang taking the whole city hostage to rob the gold shipment. Festus and Dooley repair a Gatling gun while Kitty and the saloon girl, Jenny, upset all the menfolk. The history books are wrong, I saw Matt Dillon personally plug old Morgan and capture the entre gang almost single-handedly. The expected shootout did not happen because there was no gold, which no doubt saved the producers from filming expensive scenes.
Another muggy night, I stayed in the shed and added some hardware to the recording box. I took one of the travel tales to practice more on the Tascam. I found my GE recorder does not rewind, instead you must flip the cassette over and fast-forward. It will not play stereo and I found things like the reverb have to be turned off manually. It’s a workable system and I now have the tape rolling specifically to discover parameters, like how much memory is required and which levels work best. I’m not tired, but that extra snooze today didn’t rest me up either.
I have a booklet on tales from World War Two, the last “good” war. A collection of short chapters published in 2007, it is amazing how much of the censorship and propaganda has persisted. Nobody seriously believes in the Holocause anymore, not because it didn’t happen, but because the victims have lied too often and shown no remorse for lying. It is great for details of lesser-known campaigns, like Finland, Alaska, and Tobruk.
ADDENDUM
So, you think Jeff Bezos is a self-made Internet billionaire, do you? Wrong. His grandfather was head of the Atomic Energy Commission at the time a shipment of uranium went missing. Three years later, Israel tested and atomic bomb and the radioactivity confirmed it was the stolen material. All government records of the incident were destroyed.
I found an excellent documentary on the Do X, the Dornier giant flying boat, careful it is 2.1/2 hours long. I wish I’d a chance to ride one in my life. This all-metal airplane was ahead of its time, carrying 60 passengers when 14 was considered tops for other airlines. Only three were built. One flight carried something like 120 people including 9 stowaways.
