Thankful Thursday

[mdlbear]

Today I am thankful for...

• My keyboard arriving last Friday without any problems. NO thanks to FedEx, which has failed to deliver m's keyboard to their home in Seattle. Twice.
• Remembering a very little bit of how to sight-read.
• Finally solving my audio input problem. NO thanks to Zoom and Audacity, which fail in entirely orthogonal ways to sanely handle my UA-25.
• Thanks to them, however, for at least allowing the system default as a device. Differently, of course.
• Linux command-line tools, including (but not limited to) Grep, Find, Ls, Sed, and of course Bash, for always being there when I need to do some trivial but off-the-wall bit of data-mining. Like listing all Thankful Thursday posts with fewer than four list items.

  $ for f in ../2*/*/*thank*; do echo $(grep "li>" $f | wc -l) $f; done |grep ^[2-3] 
    3 ../2019/09/12--thankful-thursday.html
    3 ../2020/06/05--thankful-friday.html
    3 ../2020/06/25--thankful-thursday.html
    3 ../2021/04/25--thankful-sunday.html
    3 ../2022/02/24--thankful-thursday.html
    2 ../2025/01/03--thankful-thursday-addendum.html
    2 ../2025/06/12--thankful-thursday.html
  

NO thanks to 2025!me for continued procrastination., and NO thanks to 2022!me, for letting the MakeStuff/music toolchain languish with no maintenance and inadequate documentation, making it way harder than necessary to put a two-song concert set online. Which might get done this week.