August.
Ish.
We finally have our access road back. Mostly. There’s still a big torn-up mess all around it, but our dirt hill exit has been obliterated and we have fresh asphalt, curbs, and retaining wall. The house is still being violently shaken at all waking hours of the day, however. BUT they have opened a long closed intersection and a whole new service road that didn’t previously exist so there are two new ways to avoid the snail-crawl on the highway depending on where we need to go when we leave the house.
My desk chair appears to have an air leak in the pneumatic piston that controls the height. I’ll be sitting, minding my own business, and it will suddenly start dropping down, notch by notch, every few seconds until it bottoms out. Then I have to raise it up again so I’m not craning my neck to see my monitors. Then it will stay where I put it for hours, or a day or more, before it does it again. I’m debating on whether I want to buy a kit to replace the part or just trade chairs with Bob since we have the same model and he keeps his at the lowest height anyway.
We are at the top of a five-day weekend because Baldur’s Gate 3 has finally arrived and Bob has big plans to play for hours.
I have big plans to provide color commentary as he plays.
So does Jinx.
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BREAKING NEWS: Last.fm now works on my phone. It’s not that the app is new or anything, but I had been under the impression it only worked with big-name streaming services, which I do not use. On a whim, I installed it just to see what the options were and lo-and-behold, my little lesser-known, non-streaming music player was an option. Now all my car/bed/kitchen/not-at-my-computer music listening will be recorded for posterity because these are the things that matter in life. (It was another Wicked White soundtrack kind of month.)
Top 10 Most Played Artists for July 2023…
1.) The Killers … 626 plays
2.) O.A.R. … 254 plays
3.) The Fray … 136 plays
4.) Splender … 104 plays
5.) The Monkees … 103 plays
6.) Brandon Flowers … 89 plays
7.) Nine Days … 65 plays
8.) Matchbox Twenty … 60 plays
9.) Panic! At the Disco … 58 plays
10.) Train … 51 plays
Honorable mention: Ingram Hill, Fall Out Boy, Sara Bareilles, Elton John, Toad the Wet Sprocket, P!nk, Survivor, Gavin DeGraw, Eve 6, Keane
Total of 1,976 plays of 223 tracks from 78 albums by 31 artists.
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