Weird question, but hear me out. I haven't been in the mood to listen to anything much lately. I don't get excited about any of the music that I used to listen to. I kind of was tired of most pop music lately, and I got tired of the EDM I listened to too. I tried a big synthwave playlist; got bored partway through. I listened to a bunch of orchestral "soundtrack" style music. It's fine as long as it's kind of quiet and I'm doing something else too. I listened to some classical music. That's what I'm enjoying probably the most right now, but I feel like I need to pay attention to it more than I can afford to do, so I've found that I'm not actually doing it as much as I'd like.
Recently, I loaded up my Duran Duran stuff on my phone, mostly for when driving. And then I had to take a business road trip where I spent six hours or so on the road. Between that and a day or two of commuting, I finished off the entire playlist. What I enjoyed probably the most, though, was actually just turning it off and not playing anything at all. What used to be my favorite tracks ("Hungry Like the Wolf", "New Moon on Monday" and probably "View to a Kill" were all still cool, but I wasn't really paying close attention to them. I also found that I wanted to think more and playing music while driving interfered. I preferred just quiet. This isn't the first time I've had that vibe, but I feel like it's been a noticeably longer and more severe than in the past. Maybe I won't listen to much of anything lately, unless I just need quiet background music in the background while reading, writing or working. And if that's what I'm doing, then "listening" is kind of a misnomer. But, y'know.
Maybe while driving when I'm not thinking and talking to myself, I'll call my folks or my siblings and catch up. And maybe I'll track down some audiobooks or something too.
Meanwhile, like I said, I traveled and spent the night for work the next state and about three hours over last night. I'm also traveling pretty much all of next week; I'll have Monday and Tuesday in a hotel, Wednesday at my sister's house near the airport, and then Monday and Thursday will mostly be travel, so I'll probably read and listen to background music. Get caught up on a couple of books. And I'd also like to spend some time in the hotel, or even before I go, making at least one more YouTube video, maybe two. The next racial deep dive video to make is the kemlings, and the next 5x5 video to make is the Southumbrian one, much of it in the Thursewood Forest. It's called Terrors in the Thursewood, in fact. It's a little bit of an unusual one in that all of the rows of the 5x5 column are mostly unrelated to each other and in fact represent smaller discrete items to investigate that are united only by being geographically close to each other rather than anything else. If I can't get those done before heading out of town, I'll do them while out of town and sitting quietly in my room. Beats having to socialize with work people at night after already spending the whole day with them.
I'm also expecting my B/X combined POD to arrive from Lulu tomorrow. Assuming that's on time, I'll take it with me as an extra book (hardly like I need it) but mostly so I can inspect the quality of the print, and make sure that the Lulu service is what I want for my printed version of Shadows of Old Night. I imagine that it'll be fine, but I'll have to run it and see after getting the "prototype" of another book that someone else already did the work to make a printable version of. If everything pans out as planned, I'll have a printed version of my rules before the end of May.
UPDATE: For whatever reason, I've commuted the last day or two with the Ultra Street Fighter IV 5-disc soundtrack on my playlist. I'm about halfway through it. For whatever reason, I've enjoyed listening to that, but with the volume down a bit. I'm also considering loading up an Erasure and then a Pet Shop Boys playlist for while I travel. But if I'm reading, I might want instrumental. But I have to fly, and then I have to drive. You can't fly directly to the town I'm going to, so I need to drive at least three hours on both Monday and then again on Wednesday.
Busy night with phone calls last night, so I didn't get any YouTube videos done. But I still think I'll do at least one of them this weekend, and maybe another one in the hotel. I should remember to pack my little lavalier microphone. It does help my sound quality a bit.
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