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) -- 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!