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🌴 Seph 💭 👾

Three weeks

Three weeks since my husband passed. I took this week off in a number of ways, I went back to work, I needed to get some normal back in my life.

Bit of a rough week, little work for me Wednesday and Thursday, so I worked yesterday, and still fell short of goal. Wednesday wasn't a surprise, my main #gig RXD doesn't have much on Wednesday, and most of what they have is garbage, but Thursday was a surprise, I couldn't get a route for the life of me. Also I wasn't available Monday as I was taking care of things at his office.

This week I've got a Better Trucks shift lined up for Wednesday, and depending on how the week goes, I might start signing up for more shifts. Pay wise its better than RXD, however I actually have to work, so... Might go back to my old zone if'n I do, my husband was a good part of why I dropped it, at least until winter, that zone has an 1140 load time and takes 6 to 8 hours, so I'd be getting home after him by an hour or two, no more dinner together. Now though? Yeah, my night vision sucks, so when it starts getting dark at 1700, I'll have to drop it again if'n they don't shift the load time earlier by then.

Any how, as I said, going for a normal week, not dealing with his passing in any way this week, being a little lazy, I do have some proofread work that I should've been doing, I'll just have to make time this coming week to get that done.

Friday brought an interesting phone call from the crematorium, I had been wondering what the delay is. Apparently they're having problems getting his death certificate signed, for some reason his GP was listed, and he refused to sign it for obvious reasons, he works out of SSM DePaul, Vik died at SSM SLU, so no real surprise that he's refusing to sign when he wasn't there. Not sure if'n that was a mistake, or its standard practice out here for his GP to sign off on a nature cause death. I've emailed them about the mistake, and I think they were contacting the city Medical Examiner for some help, so hopefully this'll be sorted soon, and things can get moving, I kinda need the death certificate to close accounts, collect life insurance, and so on. Might also need to grab a few copies of my marriage license as well, might be necessary to prove our marriage.

Got his car cleaned out today, though the interior will definitely need cleaning. Also have a link for sorting out the title as he didn't put down a TOD for whatever reason. Trying to avoid probate court if all possible, I mean my relationship with his family is fine, they expect that I inherit everything, so there's no real reason to get the courts involved, the only thing is on Apple, but if'n I'm reading that right, that'll just get me access to his iCloud, and I'm not sure I need anything there.

So, that's about all the news.


Vik-Thor Scott Rose
1967—2025
#family#Life#death
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Miro (Micr0byte)

looking for part time work / gigs / commissions to fund my car addiction and general existence

skills:

  • full stack dev (react, go, python, C#, whatever)
  • built accessibility tools that thousands of people actually use (altbot)
  • can wrangle apis, databases, and make things work that probably shouldn't
  • decent at ui/ux
  • devops stuff, server management, the usual stuff

what i'm looking for:

  • remote/online only (i'm busy building cars and stuff)
  • web dev projects, apis, automation scripts
  • accessibility consulting/implementation
  • literally anything programming related that pays

why i need money:

  • potentially buying a old asf go-kart that goes 50mph (priorities, im gonna restore it)
  • car parts are expensive and addictive
  • also food, i need to eat so that I don't die

portfolio: micr0.dev
github: github.com/micr0-dev

hmu if you need something built or automated or fixed. i write clean code and know how to actually finish projects

also accepting weird technical challenges that sound impossible. those are usually the most fun

oh also interested in trade gigs, if you have something you need done but have another skill such as being an artist we can probably work out some sorta exchange

micr0.devmicr0byte | Developer & Community Builder
#getfedihired#fedihired#fedihire
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Charles Céleste Hutchins

Domifare at Folklore

Even Rascob (aka BITPRINT) has been organising regular Live Code gigs are Folklore in Hackney. I played Domifare last night . . . sort of.

I’ve blogged before about pitch recognition being flaky. And it is, but usually within the first three minutes or so, the SuperCollider autocorrelation UGen does actually recognise the pitches and the piece runs.

Not last night. Instead, I spend 15 minutes playing the same four note phrase over and over and over again, in front of an audience.

What went wrong

  • Normally, when I play this, I have the mic right down in the bell, and it was up slightly higher this time, which may have caused problems.
  • When I practice this, I lip the pitch up or down slightly and this often works. This level of subtlety and control is extremely difficult after several minutes of failure on stage. Instead, my playing got messier and messier over the course of the set.
  • As I was trying to piece out, I couldn’t decide whether to use my old mouth piece, or my new one which is slightly more difficult with greater freedom. It didn’t seem to make a difference when I was practising, so I went for the newer, freer one, which might have been a mistake.
  • My sound card’s output was also extremely low, which is a problem I’ve had before with Pipe Wire. This was concerning during the tech setup, but turned out not to be an issue during the performance.
  • My laptop was sat on a stool in front of me which was not a distance that worked at all with my glasses. The screen was so blurry, I couldn’t properly tell what notes were arriving.

How to fix it

  • If I need consistent mic placement that’s down in the bell, I should make a mount that goes into the bell. The would be a cork-covered ring, with spokes, a mic suspended in the middle.
  • Flucoma would allow me to train a neural net to recognise a series of pitches as a cue. Because the tuba spectrum is weird and the mic is most sensitive at the weird points, I would probably have to do the training on stage. Would his be more tedious of 15minutes of failed command input? No.
  • Practising this piece is essentially training myself to be decipherable to the algorithm, which is subtly different than normal practice goals or technique. I did not get as much practice as I would have liked. I spent a lot of time building lip strength, with the idea it would make my notes clearer, but not as much time getting feedback from the autocorrelation algorithm. It may be more practice with the program would have helped. Or, the algorithm was confused by background noise or mic placement, perhaps it would have made no difference whatsoever.
  • Taking the bus with a tuba, a laptop, an audio card, cables, a mic, a mic stand and so forth is already a bit much, but it may be the case that I also need a laptop stand so I can ensure my computer being at a height and location where I can see it. Or my old reading glasses required more and more distance. Maybe a laptop on a stool is not a good use for them.

How I dealt with everything

I think my stage presence was fine, actually, except for when I was giving up at the end. I should have launched a few minutes of solo improv starting from and around the cue phrase. I’m going to practice this a bit, not that I expect the piece to fail like this again.

This was not my first performance of this piece. It went fine when I played it in Austria, 3 years ago.

Well, at least the failure of that piece was all that went wrong

Shelly Knotts and I were also meant to play some MOO, but discovered during the sound check that most of it wasn’t working, so we cut it from the programme.

Audience Reactions

People were generally positive. Multiple people used the word “futility” but with a positive intention. Which goes to show you can’t trust nerds.

To do

  • Incorporate Flucoma
  • Play this on Serpent because it’s more portable and I really do have more freedom of pitch.
Video by Shelly Knotts
#Domifare#gig#music
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