I gotta check Le Hubwheel better!! I like to do drafts and then sneak in a posted reply off the activity bar's watchful gaze. I'm such a spy and stuff. Ah man, no dice for the X-mas party. But a band did play! I was glad that the division had a band already, honestly, because I have been hyper-focused on something else. Still solo. Hooking up everything into itself, basically. I will now spend some months getting almost comfy with breaching the visual side of things. So much to do. I have an entire testbed setup that I'm permutating through slowly, and that's just the tip of one of many icebergs. I was in Denver for a couple nights for New Year's Eve. Was seeing an artist at Meow Wolf, French guy, Darius. Event fell through at the last minute, but we couldn't cancel flights and hotel. Went to Kulture instead, off of Federal near Mile High (would absolutely love to hear your complete uncensored thoughts on this, if any, lol). And the art museum! The Mrs. and I wanted a couple nights to ourselves, and had a wonderful time around town, actually. OH, but also, new guy at work who plays All The Horns just bought a house and it's very close by mine, and we're planning on speeding up Jeff Jarvis' "Critical Mass" (btw shutup jeff, i'm gatekeepin' physics-sounding words now) to 122 BPM, despite Jeff's explicit warnings in the sheet music's "forward" section NOT to speed up the tempo. So we gotta. I'm the rhythm section. Bass, piano, drumset, and probably some guitar I'll add. We'll see, I need to jam it many more times before I'm comfortable. Hubski's thoughts on a madman's visual microphone are welcome. Ehhhh like what do you think of when you hear the phrase "visual microphone"? I might should do a whole separate post sometime on methods, motivations, and obfuscations. This is a new era. I don't want a new era though I just want one era to last like more than a few years. As a treat. But yes I think I am going to be switching many p2p convos to Signal, unless someone recommends another service. Might look at proton mail. Was really hopingn I wouldn't have to do this but. oh well the link fairy will visit ur dms tonight