David's blog

Anyway I went away at the weekend to a college reunion an decided to give airbnb a try.  When I got the house some bloke turned up.  He was very nice but forgot to tell me about how the things worked in the house I eventually managed to get the telly to work though.  I got the room wrong which was a pain. I thought the room would be bigger than it was I guess the camera angel they took the photo caught me out.  The room was also pokey and it got very hot there over the weekend it was really quite claustrophobic.  I got so fed up of it I came home earlier than I had planned. Next time I will use a proper b and breakfast it was really nice to see the other people from my college days but there was a lot of sitting about I guess.  This was also a reason why I came home earlier and wasted £30 quid I guess I could not be bothered to sit around a pokey little room all day the weather had improved though it has cooled down on Sunday and was quite cold by the t...

--- **Shifting Seasons, Old Friends, and New Frustrations** The weather’s taken a gentler turn lately—less biting cold, less soggy drizzle. I went for a swim yesterday. The pool was eerily empty, the usual crowd off on holiday. Peaceful, sure, but it means next week I’ll have to rethink how to get down there. That bus... let’s just say it’s not winning any awards for reliability. I’ve been diving into some new music software—Sonar, now free to download. Sounds like a good deal, right? Except the commands I’m used to in Studio One don’t translate over, and the YouTube guides are more haze than help. I keep fumbling through trying to do the simplest things—bit maddening, honestly. Over on Facebook, I’ve been catching up with people from my college days through an old 1980s group. It's strange—and a bit unsettling—how many have passed away. More than you’d expect for a group our age. The college was a specialist one for people with sight problems, but a lot of us faced other health ch...