Hi 🙂 yes and good and no. In Seattle, enjoying a bit of down time before I get back to programming work, exploring music, being house husband, midlife crisising gently, currently baking cinnamon rolls and modifying my minimalist Qun mk2 synth to be a little bit more maximal: adding speakers. You?

I really like the green with the rocks kind of erupting from it

Ramble: There is a new Tony Hawk video game coming out soon. It's a remake of an old Tony Hawk game. Tony Hawk and other people who are not named Tony Hawk ride skateboards. You control them all with joysticks. I believe the player still won't feel the full Tony Hawk experience, but it's coming soon

You are not the only one.

Personally I find there's different modes that I need to be in (also see "five thinking hats" book ... I forget what The hats are.) Anyhow, sometimes I need jamming music and lyrics are good. Other times just absolute emptiness of the vacuum of space quiet.

To 'yes and', merit may be made less accessible to minorities. .. Ofc the complication with taking care of oneself / meritocracy is when a minority is subject to institutional racism and is misguided, misled, and mistreated so that achieving merit is arbitrarily harder and unwelcomed by their world.

Bender the bending robot to the rescue! ⤴️