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A little sample of the new family member.

Oops. I tripped and a vibraphone landed in my car.

Eeeeee-maaaaail!

I’m doing great {{citation needed}}

Three red congas mounted on stands, a tambourine is mounted on a stand between the left two congas, and an iPad displaying sheet music is mounted on a stand near center. Bluetooth page turn pedals are on the floor under the drums.

Be a percussionist, they said. It’ll be fun, they said. Ok it IS fun, but I like to snark about how much time I spend schlepping. I wouldn’t trade it.

Tonight’s office. A church hired me for a couple of services.

Rehearsal: 40:00 driving, 30:00 load-in/setup/teardown/load-out, ~8:00 playing.

I hate that it's been so long since I released any new music. But here's my first officially finished track in.... I don't even know how long any more. Hopefully you'll hear it some time on @nightvaleradio.bsky.social but until then, you can hear it here.

Me: I’m going to attack this list of things I’ve been putting off for the last month because busy.
The boys: Yeah, about that.

Happy #caturday.

I swear this year’s monsoon is like the gifted kid stuck in “normal” class. Started early and strong, got bored and slacked off most of the semester, then suddenly realized report cards are coming so is trying to cram in extra credit work to make up for slacking.

Alarm because dentist, dentist, Covid shot, voted, grocery shopped… I don’t think this is how vacation days are supposed to work.

And here comes the photobarf.

I’m taking a mental health week. Made it up the mountain for a hike today. So many wildflowers. And some teeny tiny acorns.

Same in AZ. Saw a headline yesterday (I think) about our governor demanding a blanket rx for all AZ residents but I haven’t looked further than that.

It’s a vicious cycle.

Sometimes you truly need some downtime to recover from all the things. Sometimes you’ve had too much downtime & need to kick your ass into gear to fucking do something. Anything. I know which side of that line I’m on right now. I don’t like it. Also don’t really feel like doing anything about it.

Despite my year+ Amazon boycott, a friend has their first book out and that’s the only place I can get it. Amazon offered me a month of Prime for free, so here I am. What’s some good sci-fi/fantasy that I would’ve missed over the last year? Yes I’ll catch up on WoT and Rings of Power.

Keep putting your Good out there. You never know who might see it, pick it up, run with it, and build some Good of their own with it. #MacAdmin #MacAdmins #JamfAdmin #JamfAdmins #Jamf

Use the Jamf API to Update a Smart Group with App Versions from AutoPkg This post will outline a method to get app versions from AutoPkg and apply those version numbers to a single smart group in Jamf Pro. I was inspired by the Jamf Tech Thoughts post, “Custom Se…

Weird (good weird, FINALLY) thing this morning. Searched about A Thing for work, clicked a promising looking blog post... and discovered that one of my @jamfsoftware.bsky.social Tech Thoughts posts had been an inspiration for something cool that someone else built. mostlymac.blog/2022/12/01/u... 1/2

They’re Definitely Giants.
The B-53’s.
Ned’s Atomic Landfill.
Everyone’s Bloody Valentine.
The Screaming Heads.
The Apples In Surround.
Quadraphoniclab.

I can’t tell yall how happy I am to be able to play my Rhodes again. Yeah my laptop with MainStage and a MIDI controller are easier to move but they’re not the same.

Shit’s hard right now. Sometimes things suck. Sometimes they suck for a long time. Sometimes the best we can do is hope the light ahead isn’t another god damn train. Sure are a lot of trains though…

The cat has been observed to be both in and out of the bag.

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Super thrilled and honored to be highlighted on the public Jamf Heroes landing page in Jamf Nation’s shiny new platform. community.jamf.com/p/jamf-heroes @jamfsoftware.bsky.social
#jamf #jamfHeroes #macAdmin #appleAdmin

Is it possible to surgically remove despair? Asking for all of humanity.

Arthur haz a flavur. Happy #caturday.

YouTube video by CaptainValor Jonathan Coulton - First of May - ASL Song

It’s that time of year. If you celebrate… don’t get caught. m.youtube.com/watch?v=gEjR...

Faces of #caturday. We’re not always pretty, but we’re here.