Week is going good!
Having a random Tuesday off always screws up the vibe, though.
My brother recently convinced me to start playing WarThunder, so I’ve been spending a bit more time than I would want playing that… It is fun so far, though! I have another friend who has played for a long time and we’re trying to find a time when all 3 of us can squad up. I’ve stayed up way past my bedtime every day this week, oops.

I got my flu shot yesterday, and it always makes me super drowsy and sore and lethargic the next couple days, so I’m dealing with that, too.

Maybe they have indeed been dead for several minutes and it’s a sign they need to be brought back to life

John Harvey Kellogg is that you?

I went to her live show I think 2 years back, it was very fun, definitely would go again as long as the content is new!

I leave for Paris tomorrow and while I’ve been planning the trip I had the strangest urge to smoke a cigarette at a streetside cafe sipping some coffee… and I have never smoked in my life. Feels like a real deep cultural meme has gripped me.

I just learned that the band Flake is playing near me soon… I stumbled across their stuff when a particular instagram reel went viral a while back and love their sound. Very excited to go to that show, and I am hoping I can convince some friends to come with me since it’s definitely way WAY mellower than my usual stuff lol.

Also in other news I might be going to a goth/darkwave club next month so that will be interesting.

Syncatto mentioned!!
I stumbled across his stuff in 2021 with the album A Place to Breathe and instantly fell in love. I really like the blend of more “traditional” guitar sound with the prog side of things.

I feel this.
I have had the same 4GB Kingston USB2.0 stick hanging off my keyring for what feels like the last 15 years or so, and it just continues to work perfectly fine… But yet every single modern USB stick I have feels like it wants to die at any moment. I bought a 5 pack of 16GB sandisk cruzr glides at a thrift shop for $5 last year, you know the ones, black housing, red slider to pop the USB part out… Only 2 of them still work. I’ve gone through about 5 32GB microcenter sticks in the last couple years, and had one 128GB microcenter stick go bad just recently.
I also have a 1GB Lexar USB2.0 stick that I got in 2006 and it also still works perfectly fine despite looking like it got run over by a truck. It’s been the 3d printer usb stick for like 5 years now, no signs of quitting.

I am constantly on the edge of just dropping a couple hundred bucks on a 32GB SLC stick from someplace with a warranty like Cactus Tech or something and hopefully just never worrying about it again.

“Hey that second photo looks familiar…”

https://thesamueljackson5.bandcamp.com/album/achieve-junk-sofa-melts-sj5-rmxd

I’m not as much of a fan of these remixes as the originals, but still good.
I listen to SJ5 as good atmospheric driving music for misty grey days or drives up through the mountains.