David's blog

--- **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...

I really couldn't get to sleep last night and was really perplexed why not kept waking up every hour. In the end I got up much earlier than usual and was puzzled why I couldn't sleep then it dawned, erm on me not the day that I had bought a new jar of what I thought was decaffeinated coffee yesterday.  I went to check the jar thinking I had maybe made a mistake and had bought the proper one, when I looked I had brought the proper one and it would explain why I had not slept as I drank the coffee last nigh thinking it was decaff.   The decaff these days taste quite similar to the normal stuff I am not sure if that means the quality of the proper one has deteriorated or that the quality of the decaff had improved anyway I will have to be more careful next time when buying coffee if I don't want to be spending all night tossing and turning and listen to shit night time radio for hours on end.  I guess these issues will arrive as I have not got good eyesight I ran...