In another life (my teens, twenties, and early thirties to a degree)
I was a musician. I played in bands, ran a mobile recording business
for a bit, co-ran a record label, etc. As you get older it is harder
to get a bunch of people all together in a room to play music. So,
slowly but surely things tapered off. Up until a year or two ago I
still recorded some solo music just for fun. Programming takes up
most of the hobby time now and that is mostly the time that I would
have used for music at this point in my life (I do get the odd check
for royalties, but nothing serious so I could not really call it
professional time anymore).

Anyway, I have been contributing software to the gemini protocol a
bit (Bombadillo, my non-web client, supports gemini and I also just
made a blog aggregator similar in spirit to moku pona). There has
been a good bit of talk on the gemini mailing list about trying to
get more content that does not revolve around gemini itself up on
gemini servers. To that end I have decided, partly after being 
inspired by Cat's wonderful gemini capsule, to post an album or ep
every week or two of music that I am able to distribute freely.

I'm not sure if it is to anyone's tastes in gopherspace, but I
figured I would link it through my phlog here incase anyone is 
interested in checking it out (since gemini has a little bit lower
discoverability at the moment). There are currently two albums
up: The first is an ambient drone album for the project bearing
my gopher/pubnix user nic: sloum (the first of three albums that
were released under that name). The second is a kinda folksy
project a friend of mine and I made over a weekend or two back in 
2013. I have a bunch of different types of things most largely in
the ambient, drone, folk, post rock, shoegaze, spacerock kind of
vein. Feel free to check them out here:


Drift Theory:
gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space:1965/~sloum/

(You will need a gemini client. I would have done this as a
 gophermap, but gopher does not easily link out to gemini...
 though gemini can crosslink gopher no problem. I can definitely
 recommend Bombadillo for either gopher or gemini:
   gopher://bombadillo.colorfield.space
 though that is a bit of shameless self promotion in a phlog that
 is already pretty shameless self promotion)

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Other than that, I have been cooking a TON. My wife, baby, and I
are all eating pretty well lately. I rather like being at home
all the time, though I do not love the dual duty of full time 
remote work and child care. I am lucky to still have income
throughout this time and feel fortunate for that, even if it is
a bit stressful. I baked biscuits yesterday and did a pretty 
good vegan stir fry today with lots of veggies. My wife got some
good looking chard at the store, so that will be on the menu
tomorrow maybe.

I have been reading 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. I have been
enjoyingit quite a bit. I'm still using Haiku on my secondary
machine, but do not have much new to say on it. I plan to
learn enough C++ to check out their api and maybe throw together
a gui app of some kind... sooner or later. Probably later.



Stay safe out there everyone!