Last night I had a quiet karaoke session with my sister, and five seconds before the big quiet finale (Bad Moon Rising), my laptop got the Blue Screen of Death! My computer was shot and I was ready to go out of town tomorrow to buy a new laptop, which I wasn’t looking forward to (I want to upgrade, but not right now) but I stayed up late and fixed the corrupted windows files using the command prompt and it’s all running smoothly!
I have a new nephew! From my brother Ryan this morning: “Blaze Wilder Baker born 5:09 am 8 lbs 5 oz. Rachel and he both healthy”
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The only thing that kind of sucks is that this could indicate drive failure overall, especially if files were just mysteriously corrupted for seemingly no reason.
On the plus side, you don’t need an entirely new system if that’s all it is!
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Yeah, seems to be working fine! We’ll see how it goes. I wanted to upgrade my laptop next year. My day job hours have been reduced due to politics, so I don’t wanna shell out a bunch of money at this moment. If it fails again, I’ll probably just replace the drive.
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I got 2 radio plays today on my new album and I’m really stoked about it!
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What did you get? New gear is so fun. I’m getting a talk box this week for no reason whatsoever
Met somebody yesterday, we flirted a bit
They were actually willing to talk to me today. Here’s for it going ahead tomorrow 
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2 in ONE DAY? Look at Mister Big Time™ over here!!
Me, I love receiving the weekly “Apple Music for Artists” weekly recap showing my 0 plays. It’s all about consistency.
More seriously, happy for you & hope you keep getting them! It’s especially a nice touch when you get random plays from random countries.
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I’m getting rid of pretty much all of my gear (for a very exciting personal reason), so I dusted off my old Launchpad MK II, plugged it into Bitwig and couldn’t believe how much juju they put into it. From what I can tell, their support and feature set crushes Live’s – the DAW it was originally meant to be used with!
Also if anyone wants any of my shit for cheap, all things must go! I’ve got guitars, drums, mics and lots of miscellaneous stuff. Shipping to some places might be the only main drawback
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I’m wondering about this bit (ie nosy) - most people wouldn’t consider less equipment a win. Don’t get me wrong, the wannabe-minimalist Marxist in me is totally into the idea, just that a lot of people don’t celebrate downsizing as exciting. You don’t gotta spill the beans if you don’t want, it just tickled my curiosity.
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I’ve kind of been gravitating toward a more minimal setup for a while now, and I was sort of waiting on something cool to really seal the deal. Since getting into Reaktor and some of the other great prototyping tools we were talking about in the other thread, I find myself less interested in even playing guitar or writing proper songs anymore in favor of seeing what other types of things can be done from scratch. Even miking up weird sounds kind of lost its appeal for me some time ago.
Also I have a micro kvlt on the way and our ‘spare’ bedroom I was using needs to become a real one! Got to soak in that free time for weird projects while I still have it 
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I’ve been journalling for a week now. IDK if it’s coincidence, but I’ve been doing better mentally. Like, it really helps to sit down at the end of a day and ask myself why I feel the way I do about things, and what I want to be different. Interested to see how this goes longer term, this is definitely better than meditation or cheap app psychiatry.
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is it praying, or is it deviously rubbing its appendages together in a diabolical fashion as it plans your death?
I understand this entire head game but i just wanna let you know Pingel: outside looking in, i think you’re pretty great
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I’m going to be disappoint if you don’t circuit bend the shit out of their toys… “daddy, why does my teddy bear have a 1/4” jack?" 
Seriously though, congrats!
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