I am especially calm right now. There is something about being in the mountains.

When I woke up, I wanted to dive into whatever was announced at the 2024 Keynote. Then I found myself wanting to go on Mastodon and reading all the knee-jerk complaints about said announcements. Instead, I grabbed some coffee, iPad with pencil, and a spot on the couch looking out at the Skytree. Giving myself some points for fading into the day today.

When someone asks me "how was your show last night?", I usually just say it was a good show and add some memorable details. On rare occasions, something annoying happens and I do a little rant to get it out. That's pretty rare though.

What I never do is include all the things I am actually doing for a normal local show in Tokyo.

- got all my drum gear and merch ready at home (30 min) 
- carried two heavy bags to the train station (10 min) 
- rode a crowded train an hour-ish to the club's station (1 - 2 hour) 
- carried the two heavy bags to the club (30 min) 
- wait to do soundcheck (30 min) 
- did a half hour soundcheck (30 min) 
- set up a pop-up shop at a merch table (30 min) 
- killed time til we played (30 min - 3 hours) 
- played a show (30 min - 1 hour) 
- wait until the show finishes and tear down pop-up shop (1 - 3 hours) 
- carried two heavy bags (hopefully a little lighter... ( ^ _ − )b) to the train station (10 min) 
- rode a crowded train an hour-ish to home (1 - 2 hour) 
- carried two heavy bags to the train station (10 min)

By the way, I love every second of it. I wouldn't change it for the world. I do need to appreciate the basic process and that it does require a lot of time and energy.

 Latest Project

• Bandcamp
• Apple Music
• iTunes
• Spotify
• Amazon Music

There are two Homepod Minis on my desk. Randomly one will stop playing but the other keeps going. If reach over and put my hand near the one that stopped playing sound, it suddenly repairs with the other one.

Problem solved...lol.

Here is the way I set up a view that lets people download media in Drupal. Not sure it is the" correct" way but it seems to work for me and it's very flexible.

1. Go to /structure/views  
2. Click Add view  
3. Choose to show Media of type whatever you want downloads of.  
4. Choose "Create a block" and click save.  
5. In your block add a relationship and choose Image file.  
6. In Fields, add "URI". Exclude it from display and make sure "Display the file download URI" is checked.  
7. Click into Media: Name. Make sure link to media is unchecked. click rewrite results and then check" override the output of this field with custom text.  
8. Add this code...

<a href="//frozen-octopus.com/%7B%7B%20uri%20%7D%7D" download>{{ name }}</a>

9. Click Apply
10. Save the view.  
11. Place the Block somewhere and people willl be able to download media.

There is other ways to do it but I like the rewrite the field way. You have a lot of freedom to get your link looking and acting how you like it.