My bikesharing project is coming to the finish line (for me) in the next week or two, so it’s all I’m focusing on. Getting all twelve government-shaped ducks in a row is hard; it’s a lesson in both vigilance and letting go. But I love how this project runs entirely on internal motivation. I’m very motivated to make it work because how cool will it be to have a regional bikesharing system out there in the real world next year with my hard work and vision behind it?

Last week I had a small bout of fever. Not enough that I felt bad for myself but it enough to fog my mind up and anchor me to the couch in various blankets. I watched an ungodly amount of YouTube music gear reviews because I’ve been toying around with the idea of getting some kind of DAWless groovebox in an attempt to hone in on the fun of making music. I just wanna sit on the couch with headphones in layering drums and electronic melodies on top of each other. I’m on the fence as to how easy I want (or need!) my learning curve to be. Right now I’m eyeing a Roland MC-101 because it’s both compact, capable and has every Roland sound I could ever want. But it’s not as ez pz as a Circuit Tracks. Elektron’s Digitakt/-tone look more dope than those two but also a lot more complicated and (maybe?) better suited to music for hip Berlin industrial nightclubs than, say, trying to make something Boards of Canada-y. I’m hoping to find a store somewhere to just fiddle around with these - play to find out so to speak.