Today’s gig was on a farm in Norfolk, not my normal quartet, but another I sometimes dep for. Given the various possible stressors there, it was remarkably low-anxiety.

But I am having one of those single-point headaches above my right eye now, so we’ll see what that develops into.

Playing others’ arrangements makes me realise how lucky I am in my regular quartet: there were examples today of: wrong harmonies; broken rules of notation; melody obscured in a bunch of needless and awkward passagework; wrongly labelled repeats and DS al Codas; perverse enharmonic spellings; and some that plain didn’t make sense to any of us.

Sure, no one within hearing complained, but that’s not the point…

#Ranting about work is a human right.

Dear Friends of Mastodon Everywhere,

I want Mastodon on a key-drive/thumb-drive or similar. Not a phone. Useless things can barely use them to stay phone zombie free. Click-baited and infected with data collection AI sloppies.

I tried to run my own server. Even bought a dedicated server to put it on. Could I? NO! It was mind numbingly hard. With many false leads, turns and list after list of instructions going nowhere...

It made think I am stupider than a sack of potatoes. Which I probably am... (oh dear)

I don't want a 'service provider' at cost. AND there is no way I am using two factor phone based 'authorisation' as required by Signal which I use for video calls...

Maybe I am too kind, senile, dangerous, naive or something, to believe others have done and I can-can too...

#Help #Server #Podcast #Ranting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tails_(operating_system)

I thought Jira couldn't get any worse. And then the employer upgrades Jira to the next level of absurdity version. I was wrong 🤦

#jira #ranting #enshitification #atlassian

Tonight fuckin blew...

Chatters be crying in my damn twitch chat because I cannot read chat frequently. These people have to understand that my current setup is not a streaming setup with two monitors.

Chatters, I say this, you are NOT entitled to make people read your messages. Stop acting like that and just grow the fuck up.

As a matter of fact, why do I keep streaming to these people to begin with? Streaming is a habit! It's like a caffeine addiction that takes over an entire being.

#venting #vent #ranting #rant #streamer #twitch

I swear dealing with complaints to big companies goes something like this:

I call them. No one answers, the recording tells to send them an e-mail or fill some form.

No one ever replies to the e-mail or form.

I give them a 1 star review. I'm almost instantly contacted by a customer service rep, whose mandate is to get me take that review down.

#ranting #dystopia

I can feel every muscle aching. Today's surfing session was a game of hide and seek with the rain and the moments of sunshine. #Stupid #weather.

#littleme #ranting