Category: stories
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What would level 3 look like?
Coronavirus lockdown day 24 The same, but different. Only slightly different. It’s really stay at home if you can, limit bubble expansion and hang tight. Covid19.govt.nz explains it (text) Covid Alert Levels Detailed (pdf) So for now, that’s more music from a distance, working from home, waiting, re-watching Scrubs and pottering about the house. More…
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Friday on my mind
Coronoavirus lockdown day 23 A good Friday, in the sense the work week had rounded out, jobs were done, and there was an end of week catch-up with friends. We played online 500. Everyone’s the same – staying put, hoping it’s going to be over, half-working, half-wondering what on earth the future holds. Bit of…
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Feedback is good
Coronavirus lockdown day 22 Today was a good day – not one, but two pieces of unsolicited and positive feedback. So that means tomorrow it might all fall apart, but today was good. We take the wins where we can get them!
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Balance? There is no balance.
Coronavirus lockdown day 20 Today was a run around, email, chase the tail, task, task, re-task kind of day. Took some time away from the computer, persistent slight headache kind of day. Felt like everything was out of balance. Plus it was cold as a well digger’s duck. I was reading recently about how there…
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Rain, and a snow day?
Coronavirus lockdown day 19 Monday, is a Monday, Tuesday’s a perfect day with a wind that chills you to the bone … DD Smash, Outlook for Thursday It rained, which we needed, but it was cold. It feels like snow tonight. I’m eagerly looking out for the pumpkins to sprout or the citrus to spring…
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What day is it? Where am I?
Coronavirus lockdown day 18 Sunday? Yes, It’s Easter Sunday. I know this because I went out today. Yes, into the real world. The supermarket. It’s this place where food and drink and household products are stored in something called aisles. You get hand sanitiser at the door, navigate your way around line by line, keeping…
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Average Saturday
Coronavirus lockdown day 17 The dog was restless. Up several times. Each of us got a turn to be barked at and ignored and to stand by the door waiting. Morning chores were going okay until I was outside putting stuff in the rubbish and heard the drain bubbling away. So it was off with…
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Good Friday: the hacking of the hebe
Coronavirus lockdown day 16 As good a Friday as could be expected, I guess. Early start, thanks to the dog. Fine weather. Worked on some music. Did gardening – or more correctly hacking of hebe. It was about 3m in diameter and not much foliage. It’s a stump of twigs now really. Also trimmed the…
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You’ve yet to have your finest hour, radio
Coronavirus lockdown day 13 In the blink of an eye, I missed three days? Where did that time go? I mean it’s Easter, so you could use the joke about disappearing for three days and then coming back and taking all the credit … but that isn’t the case here 🙂 Instead it’s been rinse…
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And the wind cried, really?
Corona virus lockdown day 12 Sometimes you surprise yourself. You work on something for a while; it’s good. But then you collaborate with someone and something unexpected happens. Flamenco triplets turn up in a straight 4/4; a new cut builds momentum where there was a lull; Random chord injections, resolve and make sense. Suddenly the…
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A knock at the door…
Corona virus lockdown day 11 Sunday, it was Sunday. I have to keep reminding myself what day it is. We stacked more wood, I did some work. A bit of garden and work outside. A shared lunch, chat with a neighbour or passer by from a distance. Later, after getting the Multitrack input working yesterday,…
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Solved: H6 interface and DAW on a Mac
So I’d been having trouble getting separate tracks into Garageband, Reaper and the like when using the Zoom H6 . When the H6 was in Multi-track mode as an interface, I’d select input 1 and get nothing. Same on input 2. When I switched to setero mix I got level through – but only one…