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snoozefestaudio58F with rain and thunder out there today.
Couldn't stay up past midnight last night. Woke up at 6AM unwillingly, and feeling depressed for no reason... panic attack... rode it out... finally fell back to sleep at 7AM, and slept well because the storm rolled in. Got back up at 12:30PM... back to normal!
I feel like sleep deprivation/drastic changes to sleep cycles should either be illegal or require hazzard pay or something.
But at any rate, I'm drinking my coffee now, and watching it rain, and soon I'll get the car and take it over to Benton Auto. Then walk back here, likely with an umbrella.
Okay! I went out to get some beer, brought it back here, then went over to Benton Auto and dropped the car off.
No rain on the walk back, but high winds.
Hopefully AutoZone gave me the right parts, and this all goes smoothly today!
They just called to say the break pads are wrong! He said they're for a 6 cylinder.
I specifically put in my car's VIN into the AutoZone app before searching for the pads, so this is on AutoZone.
So now the Benton guy is gonna go buy the right ones and this whole job's gonna cost more than expected... goddammit!
Another case of professionals screwing up their only jobs... AutoZone!
I picked up the car about half an hour ago. Final price: $220.00.
Nice to have them working again! With as little driving as I do, they'll be good for another two years!
Still a bit steamed I'll have to return the other break pads. Could've done that today, but I want to catch up with the singles!
I did my fixes to the Miss Fortune mix. Exported a new main music stem with the piano (and it's convolver impulse) very low in the mix. Then I exported a piano stem by itself with no convolver impulse.
Doubling that new piano stem in Audacity, 40L/60R with 70ms lag sounds perfect!
I then redid the compression for the outro vocals... leaving the belted "whoas" uncompressed to give them a little more volume and bite.
The result sounds great so I exported as 16bit WAV. That WAV will be uploaded to SoundCloud, but I also threw it into OpenShot to create a video version for YouTube with the splash graphic as the video and the TwinCat logo fading in at the end.
I then got the Beta2 of Reavis and created a new video for that, because YouTube only has the Beta1, which was not mixed right.
So in a moment here, I'm gonna upload the vids to YouTube and then the WAV to SoundCloud.
Okay!.. it's been a busy night here in 1106, with the rain and thunder returning at sundown, in intermittent passes that continue as I write!
The original version of Reavis on YouTube (which only had 25 views) was deleted. Revais-Beta2-YTR.MP4 was uploaded to take it's place, and then Miss-Fortune-Beta1-YTR.MP4 was uploaded next... and a YT playlist was created for them.
Next I uploaded Miss-Fortune-Beta1-R.WAV to Soundcloud... and after a vetting, was allowed to opt-in to the First-Fans algorithmic, week-long promotion at 7:35PM.
I then created a new TwinCat blog post to announce the release, with embeds of both the SoundCloud, and YouTube versions, right after the opener.
This new blog post establishes a template I'll use from here on out, where it starts with a theory-query generated description, followed by song history, technical challenges, a fun fact, and then a, "what's next?" before signing off.
Back at SoundCloud, I put Miss Fortune into my Spotlight section, along with Reavis.
And then, in the "description" for the SoundCloud track, I put a copyright first, then a notice to "check the COMPANION BLOG in my profile for more info on this song," before listing the lyrics.
Also did the dishes, while waiting for different things to upload.
Now that there are two beta releases, it feels like the whole campaign has finally taken shape!
Tomorrow I'll need to finally run the "Sunday errands" on a Tuesday, and do the laundry and soforth. But I should still have time to get a start on the beta mix of, "Our Cold Feet."
But there's no rush, because OCF won't be due out until Miss Fortune's had it's time to find whatever plays it can get on SC.
After some tight budgeting through FEB, MAR, and early APR, I was able to isolate a paycheck to use for car repairs, and today successfully got the front brakes redone, with only the one glitch of now having brake pads to return to AutoZone.
After the sleep deprived, April Crunch, mandated by the annual Senior Lock-in this past weekend, I was able today, to regain psycho-physio-emotional-temporal normalcy, and not only get the 2nd beta release out there, but wash the dishes!
I've still got tomorrow to get a start on Cold Feet, and then over the work week, April will turn to May on Friday.
I'll do building checks this coming weekend once more, perhaps getting a bit more done on Cold Feet.
Next Tuesday will bring us the final play-total for Miss Fortune's week of algorithmic push, and also a paycheck to pay the May rent, and May car payment, at the last minute.
And... I'll surely do a theory-query about Cold Feet between now and then!
So stay tuned!.. and I'll be back on Saturday with an update about how Miss Fortune is faring!
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Date: 2026-04-27 06:11 pm (UTC)