#eurorack

i am Mildly Sick. headache, fatigue, aches, temperature. i keep thinking i'm fine then making the mistake of standing up. i have stuff i want to do. i'm running out of summer weekends.

a final few days in Cornwall, went to Portscatho to eat mackerel from the Hidden Hut and find out who is the best at beach (it's Adorable Three-Year-Old Nephew). made a sandcastle with a tower and a moat. couldn't get the moat to hold water so i had a brief stint as a river goddess. love watching hydrology happen right in front of me. then the tide went out and my— uh i mean, the river's— water table got too low. got in the sea. sunburnt my legs under the water. 10/10 would beach again

then Paradise Park, a childhood staple for the inlaws. it's a little bird sanctuary in Hayle, great fun. saw a red panda get fed then sleepily climb forty feet up a tree. yes i know that's not a bird. ate a Philps pastie; went around the little train a couple of times; didn't get landed on by a sun conure during the free flying bird show, although the pram in front of me did. hornbills are straight up dinosaurs.

that evening a barbecue. Matt invited Choo. Choo brought her entire family. Molly caught wind of it and brought Olly, Martin and Akira. Akira brought Max. and so a low key outdoor family dinner turned into a Get Together. i had fun at least! Matt and Meli had fun once everyone left and we could chat around the table and watch the satellites fly past.

the drive back was surprisingly tame; no Adorable tantrums, did it in under six point five hours which is pretty good going with two stops. finally dinner with the father- and step-mother-in-law where i even said some words.

thursday, drove to Royal Albert to drop off the car then drove the DLR into the City for the office. back to work not with a bang but with a whimper. in hindsight maybe starting to come down with whatever it is i have now. a day full of provisioning AWS services which was in fact fun. ate a Shake Shack korean BBQ burger which tastes exactly like a Burger King bacon double.

been gradually working on getting the Good Sounds out of my big eurorack case. i picked up a Ziqal Dimension Mk3, a gorgeous little wavetable synth voice that does MIDI polyphony and sounds incredible.

like that adage about engineering teams being immutable (you can't add or remove team members, you can only create a new team with an additional or removed person), every time you get a new eurorack module you've got a whole new instrument. it's starting to feel like an instrument that makes the kind of music i want to make. i really really need to practice more.