Ghosts

Its the 29th of Feb. so lets watch some ghosts on this strange day that only appears every four years

There are Good People Too

This article about Dan Price, the boss of a card payments company in Seattle who
introduced a $70,000 minimum salary for all of his 120 staff - and personally took a pay cut of $1m.

Is giving me the feels.

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-51332811?utm_medium=10today.ad3li.20200228.421.1&utm_source=email&utm_content=article&utm_campaign=10-for-today---4.0-styling

Positively Thrilling

Something beautiful for this Friday

From Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychobilly

And not a single reference to Mojo Nixon.
 
Mojo released his entire catalog for free back in 2009 I wanna say. I gobbled it up and it lives in the ether on my Google Play music app.

Some contest is probably due here.

Ive been going thru some app preference changes lately and reevaluating what I like and what I want to change. For no other reason than wanting to try something new, I decided Pandora would get the boot and Spotify would be my new go-to. While learning what made Spotify special, I also dusted off the Google Play app and set that puppy to shuffle. Shuffle magic reintroduced me to that bookshelf of cd's and numerous downloads from days gone by.

Up popped Mojo and damn if he doesn't put a smile on my face. 

Modern Annoyances

My car Bluetooth stopped working - partially. Half way thru a Boogie Monster podcast on the way to work it went kaput. Only "Media Disconnected" seemed to be the issue because it clearly showed Bluetooth still available on both my phone and car. I could still make a hands free call - if I ever made phone calls.

So of course that meant trouble shooting, and google searches, and more google searches, and testing, and removing apps, and factory resets, and reinstalling stuff.

Time.
So much time dedicated to this.

Time spent trying to resolve the issue and time spent considering alternatives.

Bluetooth in my car is not something important for survival. Its not on the first layer of Maslows hierarchy. But still, its something Ive come to enjoy and rely on. It improves my daily commute to and from work. It keeps me informed and entertained.

And its an annoyance that consumes too many brain cycles when it has a hiccup.

This morning it automagically started working fully again. Not because of any steps I took or time I spent researching how to fix this. It just. started. working.

So now we wait.
Wait until it happens again.

Toothbrush?!?!?!?!

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/pdfs/FacialHairWmask11282017-508.pdf

Just a Thought

For no particular discernible reason, I have been thinking about something that happened in our family long ago. For some reason Im hearing an echo I never heard before now. Its strange. Why now? What happened, happened when I was too young to realize what was going on. I have no memory of the event and only snippets of the story. But the echo started yesterday and now I cant not think about it.

How did my father feel in the following days and weeks and months.