Biking again, Skype
Apr. 10th, 2025 03:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lillilahToday was supposed to be rainy, but so far, no rain (which is fine). Joel's bike tire patch worked, as I was able to bike up to the bus stop and back. It is a lot of work to get out of the valley, but I did it. I'll continue to do it daily to try and build up those muscles.
In other news, I have a lot of socialization that happens over Skype, and now Skype is going away. It looks like with groups of friends that I'll be meeting them with Google Meet, and I'll try using Signal (a phone messaging app that also can be used on the desktop) for talking to just one other person. We'll see how that goes. * crosses fingers *
I finished up the last of the podcasts last month that I had organized music for, so I've been working hard sending out requests for new songs. I was anxious, as I've been focused more on listening to books recently than music, but it turns out to have been less bad than I thought. First of all, I have maybe 100 songs that I only sent out one request for more than 500 days ago, so I can send out requests to all of those (if it looks like the contact info is still good). Plus, I've listened to many more songs than I thought, so I have maybe 30 new songs to send out requests for. I only need 60 songs total for the year, and it looks like I need to send out about 100 requests to get those permissions. Of course, with blanket permission from 5 record labels now, that is a bit easier. On top of that, a lot of musicians have given me blanket permission. A lot of musicians have gotten back to me overnight, which is heartening. All this activity with permissions reminds me that I need to clean up some of the database stuff (if I have requested a song twice with no response, then I give up and mark the band as unavailable, which I haven't been doing). Happily, I'm nearly at the end of another round of listening, which means I should be able to squeeze a few more song requests out of that. I'm also trying to organize statistics so that I can predict approximately how much music I need to download to find enough songs to request. When I finish this batch, I should be able to do it.
In other news, I have a lot of socialization that happens over Skype, and now Skype is going away. It looks like with groups of friends that I'll be meeting them with Google Meet, and I'll try using Signal (a phone messaging app that also can be used on the desktop) for talking to just one other person. We'll see how that goes. * crosses fingers *
I finished up the last of the podcasts last month that I had organized music for, so I've been working hard sending out requests for new songs. I was anxious, as I've been focused more on listening to books recently than music, but it turns out to have been less bad than I thought. First of all, I have maybe 100 songs that I only sent out one request for more than 500 days ago, so I can send out requests to all of those (if it looks like the contact info is still good). Plus, I've listened to many more songs than I thought, so I have maybe 30 new songs to send out requests for. I only need 60 songs total for the year, and it looks like I need to send out about 100 requests to get those permissions. Of course, with blanket permission from 5 record labels now, that is a bit easier. On top of that, a lot of musicians have given me blanket permission. A lot of musicians have gotten back to me overnight, which is heartening. All this activity with permissions reminds me that I need to clean up some of the database stuff (if I have requested a song twice with no response, then I give up and mark the band as unavailable, which I haven't been doing). Happily, I'm nearly at the end of another round of listening, which means I should be able to squeeze a few more song requests out of that. I'm also trying to organize statistics so that I can predict approximately how much music I need to download to find enough songs to request. When I finish this batch, I should be able to do it.
