Tuesday 31 October 2023

Farewell October

 It's getting rainy now as we approach the end of the month. This week's walk has been marred by various appointments - discovered the secret to getting one at the doc's is to stand at the door at 8am rather than try and get through on the phone. Nurse read podiatrist's letter and booked x-ray, took bloods and gave me antibiotics - all without looking at the toe. She didn't know how to wrap it up again afterwards, apparently. Tuesday and I'm going to see someone else who does and there's an appointment tomorrow too, but I don't know if today's means that isn't necessary. Dentist too tomorrow then William coming until Friday, at which point I'm taking mum for a covid jab.

All in all, not a week I'm going to get much studio time in, which is frustrating. Saturday also limited by the need to drive to Kendal in the evening for Penguin Cafe - Tony taking Pat's ticket and John gonna get up here himself so I needn't leave Broc alone too long while fireworks going off (!). Yeah, Pat's off to some do.

Next week currently looking clear, last before Scotland so I hope to get time for play as really itching to use the studio at the moment now it's all tidy again. May order that MIDICake Arp thing, just awaiting answers to a few more questions. Seems like it would be a good fit for the JD-XA in its new position or possibly even Setup 2 - but am I buying it for no really good reason? Emailed Udo to see how they're getting on with my Soup, hope that isn't away too long. 

That was the cover I made for David Law's hastily-assembled collection of tracks, can't actually remember which ones. Don't think I'll make available on bandcamp, plenty on there already. 





My ModFactor pedal was playing up the other day - flickering like the TimeFactor and ModFactor did. Flaky buggers, may swap power supply around and see if that helps. Have yet to find a power supply for John's fx, will see if the one for the 1202 turns up as he can have that. 

Oh, and as our American friends (and now us, inevitably) would say, happy fucking halloween!


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