Music

My current hyperfixation continues to be a pretty big priority for me. However I’m trying to think a bit more and ensure that I’m doing at least some other things too. One of the rules I try to live by is Leave things better than you found them. Googling this doesn’t give me a good source in the first page and I’m not up for digging right now. I try to practice this in an everyday kind of way for myself.

Nearly all of last week, when I wasn’t working, was dedicated to more Destiny 2. Bought the Witch Queen campaign and it is just incredibly good. Running it with my best friend. One of the bosses took us probably an hour and a half with just a ton of wipes. And it felt like a fun rather than a drag. I’m 1537 gear level now. Only 13 away from the powerful cap.

Daylight savings time has absolutely destroyed me this week. I did nearly nothing I planned on and zombied my way through. I’ve heard similar things from those around me. Instead of pushing through, next time I should just step back and focus on resetting. I have slips in sleep schedule pretty often and that always works best. It’s just hard to remember to do the right thing when I’m already sleep deprived.

3D Scanning As I write this, my second 3D print of a scanned object is printing off. By the time I post this a full single-topic article will be up describing my experience. I started working with this device over a year ago. Why did it take me so long to get back to this? I’ve put more detail in the article, but it really comes down to procrastination. Getting this done has been hanging over my head, in part because the scanner is a loaner.

I released a new long(ish)-form blog article Please take a look at my latest single topic article, on understanding systems from different points of view, when you get the chance! I worked hard on this! It has been in draft form for more than 2 years -_- I’m glad I finally sat down and cleaned up my thoughts on this topic this week. Airsonic Possibly the last time I will write about Airsonic for a while, not because of any issues, but because of how well it is going.

Airsonic + beets My airsonic + beets journey continues. It turns out there’s no really good way to merge singletons into an album in beets aside from re-importing (references here and here). So the tracks I imported with the -s flag have been an enormous pain the ass. In addition I somehow did something, I don’t know what, that wiped all the track data for the Umurangi Generation and Umurangi Generation Macro soundtracks.

So I’m attempting to set up my music collection with airsonic and beets. So far airsonic works great… for the music which happens to be in a /artist/album/track folder structure and is properly tagged. So the most common solutions for getting your music organized this way are MusicBrainz Picard and beets. Picard is a non-starter for me because my music is on a headless server with only web interfaces and shell connections exposed.