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 Recently Spotify began running ads for ICE and the women in my life decided they’d finally had enough of Spotify and its shitbag CEO. We decided to switch. I did the main research and it was between YouTube music and Apple Music. YouTube music would have been nice cause I could have gotten premium with it and not had commercials when I watch videos, but in the end we decided on Apple Music since it just seemed a little better from reviews.  Transferring playlists was fairly painless. They have an option for it but you have to copy your whole liked songs playlist to another in order to get that one. Other than that all my music is there. In fact, there are a lot of bands I hand started following while doing the Cockpit but when I switched to Spotify, liking their bands just never got done. Those bands are in my list still. The UI isn’t as good as Spotify on the whole. Of I scroll down to a band I like, it’s doing it in my library. If I then open an album that has a song I favo...

Leadership is a tough nut. There are countless educational opportunities to help with it, but at the end of the day, a person has to be a good leader before that stuff in order to be a good leader with it. Whether it's politics, business, or other, it all ends up the same. No procedure, government type or oversight can stop a bad leader. A dictatorship can work if you have an actual good dictator. Not sure if that has ever happened though. I often wonder if Korea as a whole would have been better off if South Korea had lost. Maybe South Koreans would be worse off a little, but maybe the "Communist" dictatorship that's there now wouldn't have gotten so bad. One of the things that's always got me is that in order to lead, you generally need to be an extroverted person who is comfortable with others and have the right education to get in. Sure, your bachelor in business management and ability to talk on panels is great, but someone who has the education of the wo...

I sit here at home, looking outside at the fresh snow, and am glad that I am currently between jobs. My last day at Concept Plus was Wednesday and I start at Mainstay on Monday. That means two days off! WOOOOOOOOO!!!! I did some running around yesterday but today is strictly a stay at home and be lazy day. Play a bunch of video games, watch some YouTube, and wonder why my keyboard keeps pushing up when I type. Ghosts, maybe? I'll say ghosts. One of my errands yesterday was finally cleaning out the Mitsubishi and saying goodbye. I won't miss it that much. I'll still have payments for a little while to remind me of it. I managed to convince SGI to give me an extra 200 bucks which I'll take. Honestly more than I expected. Dealing with them was pretty good. I had a couple minor annoyances but they were the same ones you get everywhere. Not reading my entire email and missing a part is just what happens with emails. We've decided to stick with one car, at least until I...

I have been using a computer since before I can remember. From growing up with our Tandy (Which I usually needed help getting into a game from Pilot) to the CAD machines I work with to the mac mini I have at home, there have been many, many changes. There isn't too much left from the old Tandy days that goes into my day to day life. Maybe the format of file locations but that's about it. But Windows and MacOS, while changing a lot, still have the basic interface that is similar to what it was thirty years ago. And in all that time, there is one piece of software that remains largely unchanged that I use on an almost daily basis. Sure, Excel still just does Excel, but there are more properties and the it has the ribbon now and really has changed. Same for other "simple" programs like Word, File Explorer and even the legendary programs of Task Manager and Paint. Even they've changed! But there is one that hasn't changed much at all. Sure, the title bar has a dif...

Whelp, I did it. I accepted a new job at Mainstay Engineers and Owner Reps. Mo' money, mo' time off. It's not a massive change in what I am doing but will be back to the industrial side of things that I am more used to. And speaking of changes, how about that music streaming? I originally switched over back when Pilot and I were doing a radio show on 91.3 FM CJTR called *checks notes" The Cockpit? That can't be right. Anyway, buying and album or 3 each week to play on the show was getting very expensive so we both ended up switching to Spotify. I've been happy with it since. I'm still happy with the product. Sure there are minor issues like songs randomly leaving my liked list, but for the most part, I'm happy. As more comes out about how artists make even less that they did with physical media and AI is increasingly sneaking in, I keep thinking that maybe it's time to go back to Bandcamp. This means having to buy any albums from the last +5 years t...

Dear reader, you almost didn't get this post today. I came very close to being t-boned by an arsehole blowing through a stop sign today. Luckily I was paying attention and a little paranoid after my previous incident and the fact that there is ice outside. Yeah, it's that time of the year. One of the bonuses to totaling my Mitsubishi is that I get to drive the Subaru which has AWD and better tires. It should be much better in the winter. Plus the steering wheel warmers. Fuck seat warmers. The steering wheel is where it's at. I finally heard back from SGI and my car is official written off, which isn't a surprise. They're giving me almost 12K for it but since I still have 15K left on the loan I'm gonna search around and see if I can get a bit more. Initial look says that's a good price though. Oh well. So, I might not buy a new car and we might go down to one. This isn't a huge issue but it would be way easier if we didn't live outside of Saskatoon. O...

Yesterday I was struggling to think of something to write about. I then realized it was Thursday and I could wait another day to struggle. Cut to the drive in this morning. I went through a few existing ideas in my mind but didn't like them much. Sure, asking about driving myths and rules is great, but it's also pretty much just asking my main reader to get to work so I passed on that one. But then I came upon the perfect idea! A great topic that everyone would enjoy. Something I could write a decently long post about! You can probably tell by my delaying that I have forgotten what that topic was. This is why I have a list of ideas on my phone so I don't forget them. I was driving though so I couldn't write it down. I could have used Siri but then my music would have stopped for a short time and we can't have that. I've only listened to that album a hundred times. I need to keep going. This is very typical in my life though. My short term memory is absolute tras...