Done Since 2018-03-18

I actually got a few things done. Mostly research, but related to possible money-makers -- Alexa skills (which only make money if you tie them to something you can charge for); Jekyll, Hakyll, and other static site generators; frameworks for building cross-platform apps in Javascript and HTML5; Ethereum (there's a whole ecosystem of companies attached to it, via a company called ConsenSys, and many have remote jobs).

An interesting contact relating to Ethereum, which is how I got pointed at it. A highly amusing question on Quora, which I simply had to answer. A good music lesson.

I've been learning that I can sing at least a second or minor third higher than I have been, and a lot of songs (especially the ones with low notes that I have trouble with, like Desolation Row, The Mary Ellen Carter, and QV) sound better capoed up. That means that I'm having to re-arrange Desolation Row and QV in C or D, because they were already capoed up to C from G. Drop D has a lot of potential for QV. Last week's singing lesson was also notable because I'd forgotten my songbook, so I had to sing stuff I know cold.

I also got MakeStuff to the point where I could -- finally -- rebuild my Songs page properly, using templates. Also LookingGlass Folk's Song page, which has been lame since the site was created.

Aside for techies and musicians: Each song has a page, built from the metadata in the lyrics using a template. Tags in the lyrics are used to determine whether the lyrics should be visible on the page. The song page includes audio and body text if they exist.

Rebuilding the entire directory takes a couple of seconds per song. I haven't tried, yet, but it shouldn't be too hard to get it set up on a Mac.

Lunch with the Younger Daughter on Thursday (a couple of days before her actual birthday, which is today, but a day that she and her fiancé had free). Our first trip to Port Townsend by ferry, which requires planning because you need reservations. Door-to-door it takes most of an hour, but that's less than half what took from Seattle.

( Notes & links, as usual )