testing out MB-Manager by timapple for linux….so far so good….looking forward to preview on posts.

living in a flawed world with flawed people seems particularly hard to accept today….but i’m trying….trying to extend grace and acceptance where i can….trying to contribute positively where i can…our country is not who we are….but we should be striving to make it the best possible place

your’s truly is in a new issue of the Chiron Review Issue #139, Winter 2025. Poem titled “framing a metaphor”. Odd wrote and submitted this last year…things take time I guess.

20 more jazz funk greats

20 more jazz funk greats - Bandcamp Link

its all misdirection…the scene is pastoral…the context and font evoking a 60’s gospel album…while the title alludes to backroom speak easies and wild soulful release…its all misdirection….. the man bedecked in flared collar and pastels has a cold iron in his gaze….his eyes…and this music…are rooted in all night drives through garish city scapes….pensively searching on a nicotine edge…for something….something elliptical that seems to fall off the horizon….right as you reach it…conjuring your inner monologue….questions without reason….this bicklesene journey needs to be ridden to the end.

A man in a white jacket stands in a grassy field with trees and text overlaying the scene, mentioning 20 More Jazz Funk Greats.

Playing with the CMT-CPX22.

That escalated quickly….

An open electronic device with visible circuit boards and components is placed on a red surface.A dismantled electronic device with exposed circuit boards, wires, and components is spread out on a red surface.A mechanical assembly with gears, spools, and a circuit board is placed on a red textured surface.

New board is in and what better way to test it out than playing some Hench?

Something very right about flipping through this book.

Now that the old board is all the way out I can see that I probably just need to reflow these solder joints and we’ll be back in business.

A circuit board with a soldering iron and metal heatsink attached is set on a wooden surface.A close-up view of a green circuit board being held by a hand, featuring various electronic components and soldered connections.

Our world is under a weird double attack.

General Cultural Sentiment: Get as much as you can, you are shit if you are not RICH!!!

The System: keep the rich rich and the poor poor

There is very little talk about quality of life or living small within a community and being happy with simple things.

Seems I may have a problem. Next foray into electronics is the Sony CMT-CP100. Little guy had a non functional tape player which I managed to fix. But, optical out and one channel still not working…some more fun to have I guess. (Music Mr. Dinkles tr.ee/gPBE7NCrP…)

A disassembled tape mechanism showing circuit boards, gears, and mechanical components rests on a wooden surface.A disassembled tape mechanism showing various gears, circuits, and components on a wooden surface. Clearly visible motor in upper left and new belts around gears and fly wheel.

Of marble mice and men.

My trusty Elecom HUGE started giving me fits with the scroll wheel. Little investigation and seems I needed a new encoder. YouTube really does excel in helping boost confidence when tackling this kind of thing. Back together and working like a dream.

A disassembled Elecom HUGE marble mouse is resting on a wooden surface with visible circuit boards inside.A small plastic bag containing mouse scroll wheel encoders components rests on a wooden surface beside a keyboard.A red ball wireless ergonomic mouse is placed on a wooden surface next to a keyboard.

Lovely morning, lovely weather, lovely music, lovely classic VW. Sometimes these things line up…

Music : Chet Baker & Wolfgang Lackerschmid - Five years Ago (from Ballads for Two 1979)

#chetbaker #vw #classiccar #squareback #typeIII

Have the house to myself this evening. Playing New Model Army way too loudly. Winter may be my favorite album they have ever done.

#nma #newmodelarmy #vinyl

It’s a rainy Sunday in the PNW. Time to organize my LP’s. Took longer than anticipated and realized I had way more Bill Nelson and Paul Revere and the Raiders than I knew.

Six piles of vinyl records are arranged on a wooden floor. Visible are Iron Chic, Berlioz, No Knife, Bud Shank, and Spider-Man story book/recordVinyl records are scattered on a wooden floor, with Finn’s paws visible nearby. Visible records, Chet Baker, Dogleg, Altin Gunn, Hard Girls, 88 Fingers Louie, Devil’s Children Australian punk comp.My legs surrounded by various vinyl record covers scattered on a wooden floor.

Downtown Seattle today. Them clouds was after it.

A waterfront scene features a large Ferris wheel, people walking near the street, and a cloudy sky.A ferris wheel and waterfront view are framed by a window from inside a building.

My son. while riding in the car with me the other day.

All your music is just so …. dramatic

I have never felt more seen and insulted at the same time. Viva la jeune!

Secret World - Living Less

Black and white band phote from low angle of the Sydney Au band Secret World.

Finn being a finn and the weather being agreeable. #nokings #justdogs

black lab Finn explores a grassy area near a red barn surrounded by trees with autumn foliage.

First time I noticed this Ralp Bakshi-esque mural in Olympia Wa. Guess we should walk our streets in indignation more often. ;) #nokings

A Ralph Bakshi-esque Star Wars mural on the side of a brick building. Contains a Stormtrooper helmet, a Jawa, and a Boba Fet

I’ve been at it again. A rainy morning scouring old shops came up with a couple winners in my mind.

3 vinyl record albums are displayed on a wooden surface, &10;The Great Sarah Vaughan HL7158 Columbia records (title in yellow font and purple hued pic of Sarah in profile)&10;Wes Montgomery a day in the life - text in black on white album cover with black and whit photo of cigarette butts.&10;Ambassador Satch - white album with title in Red font with black and white full body pic of Louis Armstrong smiling holding a white kerchief up to his chest in his left hand and his trumpet in the crook of his left arm. His right holds a suitcase at his side.

Took the Jams down to the beach to collect rocks. Sometimes we can get along….sometimes

A driftwood log lies on a rocky beach beside a tree-lined hillside under a clear blue sky.A peaceful shoreline features scattered rocks along the beach, with a calm body of water extending to the forested horizon under a clear blue sky.A scenic view of a beach with driftwood in the foreground and calm water under a clear blue sky.

Current mood….SOLIDARITY

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[Lyrics taken in part from the song “Solidarity Forever” originally written by Ralph Chaplin (1915); the phrase “Ash Heaps and Millionaires” is a quote from Perfect Future’s song by the same name (2015)]

Some Friday nights are meant for memories

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