Rambles that are fluffy, by fluffy
Remember that idea I came up with a couple months ago and then rambled about a bunch and then stopped talking about it?
I finally had the spoons to write a draft of what I hope will eventually become a specification, which I am (for now) calling Canimus, after the Latin word for “we sing.” It also has a few other meanings, such as “we play an instrument,” “we prophesize,” and “we hoot.”
Or, more broadly, “we make music.”
Just some brief stuff:
Hey! How’s it going? I think things are fairly okay on my end.
Now that I’m doing even more performing in VRChat and also making use of occasional backing tracks (instead of just doing everything totally live), it’s time for me to improve my audio setup. But Windows audio is super tricky and annoying, so it took me a bunch of iteration to figure out how I want to make it work now.
Hey, stuff’s happening and it’s generally feeling okay. Hopefully posting about positivity won’t jinx it.
I’ve been playing around with some protocol ideas and I have some more thoughts.
You can always tell when I’ve been deep into a project when my feed reader stats go off-kilter:
Anyway yeah I’m working on the radio thing!
Over on my music site I wrote a bit about the current state of streaming providers, specifically to encourage people to go back to buying their music and listening on local devices.
The problem with this line of thinking is that people really want the convenience of being able to listen to all the music, all the time, anywhere.
A thought’s been pinging around in my brain for a while about how this could be done differently, without falling into the trap of having a single service for people to have to subscribe to and put their trust in: what if we could make an IndieWeb-style streaming platform?
I’ve not been doing super great lately. I’m trying to get better, but I don’t know how.
I’ve changed my Lyrica dosing schedule to take it all in the evening, which has helped a little with my fatigue but I’m still just so very tired throughout the day and can barely get anything done.
I’m also still in a lot of pain and can barely get anything done because of that, too. I feel like what few responsibilities I have these days are falling by the wayside and I feel awful about it.
In particular, I have a few pieces of music I need to get done soon and I want to get done but I just can’t work up the energy to do so. Plus I still want to finish the basement reorganization project and that just feels Bad right now.
This weekend was also pretty draining, from Song Fight! Live (which went well but which I have some Thoughts about which aren’t suitable for sharing in public), and then yesterday my ADHD support group had a somewhat-impromptu meeting at Cal Anderson which was a bit of a nightmare to get to and not worth the energy expenditure given how few people actually came.
I’m just so tired of being tired.
