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This weekend I came across someone who filed their music by year he discovered the band...then alphabetically.

I've never seen it done that way before.

It was a collection of low thousands and the music ranged over many genres, amassed over a few decades.

He said it was the best way for him to decide on what to play and his collection was for him not others. He would "connect" with what period of his life he was in the mood for and then go look in that section.

I would never organize my music that way, but sitting at home afterwards and thinking about it, I could see how it could work for some folks.

Edit: "They" to "he" in first sentance. I meant "they" as in the guy, but quite right, it makes it sound like the bands are discovering themseleves...

Has anyone been able to figure out how to have voice attack use a better speach recognition engine?

So I was trying to find the name of a band from Seattle in the early 90's and came across Sky Cries Mary and their debut album A Return To The Inner Experience (never did find the band I was looking for)...why have I not heard this band before?!? I'm loving them! Definately not what you would expect coming out of Seattle in 1993. Digging into their alumni you have folks from the Posies, TAD, the dude who sings for Yes, a guy that went on to be a producer for The Strokes.

I haven't listened to the rest of their catalog, but I really hope it stays close to this style.

Excellent new album from Waves Crashing...so new it's not even listed in Discogs yet!

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I stumbled on Waves Crashing when I found their first album (Effection) in a local record store; that one fully satisfied the nostalgia for my late 80s/early 90s college days. This new release is a great, and personally I think better, follow on from Effection. They always come at their music with shoegaze layers. Mostly keeping it more towards the layered up sound of the early 90s. Then they pull in some other influence before building those layers, one of the tracks will have you thinking they're going to pull off a late 80s Cure, before distorting out. A very nice treat that is included on the album is their rendition of Radioheads - Creep.

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These guys are a lesser known band out of the Pacific Northwest who deserve a listen.

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You can find it direct order from them or on Bandcamp.

I have a Pro-Ject Debut EVO 2, and just swapped out my stock cartridge for a Ortofon bronze. The music is excellent and an obvious upgrade, but now there is a static build up on the arm. The static build up has no impact on the music playback, but when I pick up the arm to return it, I get sparked everytime.

The green ground on the cartridge is correct. The grounding from the turntable to the phono-arm was not touched and is as it was for the stock cartridge.

I read somewhere online that the bronze needle, going deeper in the groove, can build up static quicker, but even if that was the case, which pwrsonnal I find it hard to believe, if grounded correctly it wouldn't matter.

Has anyone else experienced this and found a solution? Does anyone more knowledgable than me have any suggestions?

Summary: I acknowledge, I may be just blind and missing something obvious, but where on the Bandcamp phone app of website do I find a list of physical media that I have purchased.

Detail: I buy music on bandcamp, nearly always albums as physical media (records). Artist being generous often include the downloadable files when you buy the record. Those records have always arrived by mail (this sounds a weird thing to say here, but the reason for this statement should become clear below).

Recently, I thought I had purchased three albums. They were purchased several weeks ago. None have turned up yet. Now I don't expect things to turn up quickly from bandcamp. Artists often are dealing with purchases themselves in whatever little time they have spare or they may be on tour. However, one of the more recently purchased albums comes from a band that is typically responsive. Therefore, I went to check to see if there was an email about shipping.

Step 1. I didn't find an email saying anything had been shipped. So I went to see when I had made the purchase.

Step 2. I didn't find any emails confirming any purchase in any form for these three albums.

Step 3. I logged into my bandcamp account and in my collection were the three recent albums, with the availability to download, that appears after you make thw purchase.

Step 4. I went into my account and looked under purchases and found nothing. Not just the last three records, but anything I had purchased before and had physically recieved (thus the statement above about receiving things in the mail). I wondered if I don't see anything in the purchase list because those physical media deals are made directly with the artist, but quickly remembered that I also have purchased several downloadable albums and they were not listed either. So that hypothesis was null.

This means that my position is, I have downloadable file albums in my collection, that infer I purchased the music. I have nothing to confirm any purchase ever, since owning the account, listed in my account purchases section, yet historically have recieved the media. I have no email records, that I can find, of the purchases, which I remember doing.

I want the albums. I will purchase them if I did something wrong, or something happened and my order didn't go through. However, I don't want to buy two of the same thing, so need to confirm that I did not actually purchase the albums. Typically easy, it would be listed, but no purchase is listed in my account, so I don't have positive confirmation that the system records the purchases.

What am I missing?

It's a long email, so I appreciate any one reading through it, and I appreciate any help or direction someone can give.

When you first get diagnosed with CLL it messes with your head, but make sure that you talk to your specialist and you don't go down the internet rabbit hole.

I've been on watch and wait for 4 years. I have a great GP and he saw some things with my white blood cell (WBC) count that he wanted checked. I have the "better" single mutation, so I am lucky. When I was formally diagnosed in 2022 my WBC was 18k. Today it is 21k. The last 2 years it has, statistically, plateau'd around 22.

All this to say to newly diagnosed folks, I don't know what may lay ahead for you, but the scarey thing is the word "cancer" and what it does to your head. I like to say that I have "little c cancer" when people ask about it. So don't over research CLL, don't assume that everything on the more negative side that you read on this sub is applicable to you (although this is one of the greatest, supportive subs that I've found on Reddit), and please don't dive into AI chat bots. Go see your specialist, believe their expertise and follow their direction.

Mindfulness is an awesome way to manage your mind over this.

Peace and calm be with you, my CLL tribe. You are not alone.

Tell me your stories of how you escaped the corporate world and are doing something that you enjoy to get to retirement. I'm not assuming that you'll stop working at retirement, just what are you doing to get there?

I'm 56. I have a decent amount of retirement savings, enough to be comfortable when retired, but not enough to call me a wealthy retiree. I see the writing on the wall for my team at the company I work for. Could be disbanded in 6 months or 2 years, not sure, sure it will be disbanded. so I need to start thinking about paying the bills between now and 62. I am so done with this job, industry and sector. I'm hanging in there to get closer to retirement before they kick us out because of the good old golden handcuffs. I get paid well and should recieve about a years pay in severence when I get ousted, so I don't want to quit. I have a strong education, including a PhD in a hard science, but long for a job where I'm not constantly generating reports to satisfy higher ups. A luxury would be something that doesn't have me dealing with other peoples urgency, overshadowing what is really important or useful. Acknowledging, what is important and useful in my mind may not be the same as others. I've also become an enabler, I prefer to "lead from behind". I've done the career and management thing, but have now found myself avoiding the spotlight. At my age I get my satisfaction from helping the youngsters build their careers, gaining confidence and watching them get ahead.