Random updates
Hey! How’s it going? I think things are fairly okay on my end.
Improving my VRChat performance audio
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.
Health stuff (positive)
Hey, stuff’s happening and it’s generally feeling okay. Hopefully posting about positivity won’t jinx it.
More rambling about this streaming radio thing
I’ve been playing around with some protocol ideas and I have some more thoughts.
More IndieRadio(?) progress
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!
A fair independent streaming platform
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?
The state of the fluffy
I’ve not been doing super great lately. I’m trying to get better, but I don’t know how.
So tired
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.
Various updates
Here’s some things going on these days, since it’s been a little while since I’ve posted here.
I FOUND IT
I finally found the song I was looking for: it was “Lolita” by Moneyshot off the album Bliss.
Which I CANNOT FIND ANYWHERE ONLINE. Spotify doesn’t have it, iTunes Music doesn’t have it, Musicbrainz doesn’t have it, even Discogs doesn’t have it. CDDB probably has it (given that I’m sure someone submitted it when they ripped the CD back in the day) but they don’t make it easy to search. And FreeDB doesn’t.
But anyway, mystery solved.