It's been pouring rain which means the guy who was going to weed kill some bigger things taking over the backyard couldn't. Which is sad.

I made some strawberry lemonade concentrate and canned it and it's very nice. Most of the strawberries were grody though unfortunately.

I'm so itchy! It's hot, I sweat, my sweat dries and itch itch ITCHY!

Kitten says eeeeeAaaaaa

My son had an incident the other day. He got introuble over something, and felt so embarrassed, before I even got a chance to talk to him about it, he took off on his bike.. like took off took off. I had to get the police involved, my entire neighborhood was looking for him. 3.5 hours he was gone, they found him 9 miles from home, covered in mud, wet and cold, just before sunset. It has been hands down, the most terrified ive been as a parent since I birthed him.

He's going back to a youth out patient group therapy program. He loves it there. During the intake yesterday, we got a lot of hope. They are going to retest him for ASD. He has been before, the result "shows symptoms but not enough for diagnosis". But this center knows my son pretty well by now, and they are really recommending we test him again. Half my siblings have ASD, guess it's obvious to a lot of people just talking to others about it.

So out of a scary thing, were getting some hope. My son is getting support. I am "the future looks bright" once more

I woke up to a push notification for ticket presale for Sonic Live. I feel personally attacked lol.

No hate for Sonic, I'm just not the right demographic for it to have been a part of my youth so I lacked exposure.

do you guys have the same thing for breakfast everyday too?

Let me tell you how yesterday went.

Title: “Yesterday”

Yesterday, at the start of my day i discovered the update for the app i use to connect to my music server has an issue and couldn’t play anything.

After some hours i discovered it works find in other apps and it was not a networking vpn issue and therefot not an issue with The navidrone server itself.

I tried a bunch of other apps during but none allowed to sort artists by rating except eventually one free app that is not open source developed by an anonymous entity in a far foreign jurisdiction.

I do like amplify very much so i lock back in to troubleshooting what the issue is. I discovered it works fine with the public Navidrome demo.. so it is my server after all?

At this point i am back home and move from working on just my phone to a pc on my servers homenetworking making troubleshooting a heck more comfortable. Though i did experience intens withrawelsymptons and overstimulation from having been gone outside without working music for so long.

I also haven’t eaten anything yet because i am still only starting my day in my head though its noon.

At some point i discovered only a single album worked. Pink Floyd dark side of the moon [MFSL edition] which by coincidence is my goto answer to name a favorite album of all time.

I eventually downloaded tracks from the demo that i verified worked and put them on my server to really compare the networking connections. I eventually discovered navidrome has a menu to force transcroding for specific clients. It was coding everything into aac and on the demo it was flac.

Of course i have troubleshooted codecs in the app since the start. But i never found this menu while on a phone.

The pink floyd album is a 24bit flac.. other flacs where seen by amplify as mp4, m4a and mp3 also didn’t work.

Things really don’t add up but i started copying the demos setting for transcoding to my server and this worked for some albums but not all.

At some point i had the brilliant insight to just select the codec name and press delete making the field blank (it responds as a dropdown but also accepts typed texted confusingly) this removed any kind of transcoding interference from the server. Respected the settings of the app. And my music worked again!

At this point it was the evening of my day and i was ravaged of hunger. But i was to depleted to function and could no longer cook. Because i was no longer aware of other options which where in retrospect available i ended up eating one of the ingredients of what i was going to cook but in a larger amount to compensate for not eating all day.

I hated every bite, then i played Minecraft before going to bed.

I am good! I played my piano a bit earlier; I am tantalizingly close to finishing this song, but also very very tired. I wanted to play Chess but my WiFi is sabotaging me. All there is to do is wait for dinnertime.

This buddy came right up to me this morning and let me pet him. Then in typical cat fashion, abandoned me as soon as I stopped.