On the whole it's been a pretty good week -- busy and productive. (You can identify the busy and productive days in the log -- they're the ones with the fewest links. Most of the productivity was in band practice -- we're working on scratch tracks for the new album, and rehearsing for our upcoming concert gig at MillCon 4, which is a week from yesterday. There is a lot of overlap between the setlist and the tracklist -- there will only be one song in the set that isn't on the album. (The reverse is not true, because the concert set's only half an hour.)

Yesterday's rehearsal went particularly well, and I realized that my guitar-playing is back pretty close to pre-COVID levels. My singing is better, thanks almost entirely to m's warm-up exercises and associated coaching. There's a reason why they're our music director. "Riverheart", in particular, was a real high.

We're planning to release the album, to be called Winds of Time, early next year.

There were also a couple of st/rolls with m -- there are a coffee shop and an ice cream stand in Wateringen -- it's about 2.5km round trip, which is double my current walking range, and almost too far for m. Taking turns on (folding scooter)Lizzy, they're possible, and fun.

Down in the links, you can find Robert-van-Engelen/tinylisp: Lisp in 99 lines of C and Build an Emergency Food Supply List, both on Wednesday.

( Notes & links, as usual )

Today I am thankful for...

• My health, what's left of it. Beats the alternative.
• USB-C Power Delivery making some of the random chargers I need to carry around obsolete. Less thanks to things that take IEC 60320 cables. NO thanks for the many things that still use wall-warts. Power bricks with IEC cables are somewhere in between, because brick. So are charging cables with USB on one end and some random connector on the other.
• My bandmates, m and N.
• My little Zoom H2 recorder, which I have had since August 2007. Eighteen years later, it still does a great job of recording concerts and practice sessions.
• High-capacity SD cards and micro-SD cards. (I usually get micro-SD and use an adapter, of which I have more than I can use at any one time.) Pro tip: wrap a post-it around your micro-SD and label that.