New week, poo, squeak

Well boys and girls, always save all your receipts. That's my wisdom for this week. Our new loo seat is splitting, which I noticed while shitting. Actually I noticed while peeing but that would have spoilt my wonderful rhyme. Spose it could have been: as I stand heroically to pee, a split in our new loo seat I see. Doesn't flow either, which is a disappointment when pee is involved. Anyway, I digress.

Am finally getting a new keyboard for the Easel tomorrow. Will be interesting to see if it behaves the same way, whether there are new ranges of keys that regularly fail, whether all is now well. I'm still considering the value of the aux card and may ask whether they'll take it back so I can purchase 3 eurorack modules instead (GTCV1 x 2 and A-141-2 or similar, probably a multi too) and make up a better 'aux card' myself.
Received some modules for review in a neat little Roland case - really love the case. I want one even though it is very expensive. It'd sit nicely and neatly behind the Easel.

Not much snow here but while it was around we went out and sniffed it.

Well, the keyboard replacement still hasn't showed up. That's another week of waiting for one to try and see if it works better. In the meantime, I started getting the 'sudden bursts of random gates' problem that others have suffered. What a crock of shite.
I've spoken to a few people who tell me why the BEMI version will never work properly and have been in contact with someone who has offered to make one for me - to a much higher standard than BEMI. I can't say much as I'll soon be signing an NDA (after which nothing, obviously) but suffice to say the issues I've battled with should be a thing of the past. I'm assuming the shop I bought it from will honour their refund commitment of course but that should be OK since I've complained pretty much from the start and only didn't return right away because they were supposedly trying to get a resolution. Phew! I ordered the CVGT1 too but that should still be useful. Eventually.

I should probably stop reading Alastair Reynolds. In the one I just started, it seems he's going to deal with art. It's like he's going over all the same themes I have, just from the point of view of an adult and a proper writer rather than someone who stopped progressing in his mid teens.

Easel info I found interesting

The problem with the keyboard is gate trigger is not strong enough and false triggers its a fault on motherboard depending on what version they use.  The bemi and roman clone that are wrong gate voltage and obviously bemi just copies not corrects.

Almost Friday and noodletime. Just had good chat with Easel shop who will still send me a keyboard to try (mixup but I have no worries about them being genuine) over the weekend. If I can get one that works I will stick with this one but if not, they're happy to refund. So we'll see...

Bad back seems to have come back yesterday evening and today. Alcohol to the rescue!

Today there was quite a lot of wheat beer and this