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Every night I’m back at the shack
I’m sure no one else is there
I’m putting the aerial up
So I can go out on the air
— Peter Gabriel
I’ve been working on the station’s music scheduling/playlists. With such a diverse library there’s a lot of juggling when setting up different rotations that flow from one genre to another and having it sound right, some things just don’t work together. A lot of it is just experimenting and then listening back and seeing what works and what doesn’t.
I added new rotations over the weekend and have been fine tuning it over the week. Set it up the tentative schedule last night. I thought it sounded great. Still tweaking it here and there but I’m happy with it as it stands.
This morning I looked at the stats and all my listeners were gone.
Current listeners 0, they had all dropped off.
Haven’t had 0 listeners in the middle of the week in years.
After about 10 minutes I started getting some listeners but they weren’t the same ones.
I normally listen to the station from my computer, before it goes out streaming. When I want to crank it I listen to the online stream on the home stereo.
I was listening on the stereo, music was flowing and I was really wondering what happened – the new rotations do sound great, what was going on?
Then I got knocked off, lost the stream. Went back to the computer and the other listeners got knocked off too. 0 listeners again.
Apparently we’re having technical issues.
— David
… Walking now, over covered ground
There’s a chance if I move around
I need a moment to reflect
On the friendships I have wrecked
Why is it time, don’t I always try?
… I hear them saying (tomorrow’s just another day)
— Carl Smyth
I’ve given up on scheduling. I was getting things done unless it was on the schedule.
I had set up a schedule with repeating reminders that would reset everyday on a “To Do” list. Every two or three days I would go through the To Do list and check off everything I hadn’t done.
Things need to get done, but like rust – another day, another week – it’s not a big deal until it is.
— David
Yes, we speak of things that matter
With words that must be said
“Can analysis be worthwhile?”
“Is the theater really dead?”
— Paul Simon
The blog police say to keep your readers engaged you have to update regularly.
Next week I’ll be adding to the site and making some changes to the backend but for now I got nothing. All is good.
— David
Where is my mind?
Where is my mind?
Where is my mind?
Way out in the water, see it swimmin’
— Black Francis
One of the issues I’m having writing this blog is looking at it from the outside and seeing a whiny bitch.
I’ve gotta make some changes and that’s what I’m working on. Hopefully I can share some strategies that work. Whether I succeed or fail, there’s going to be stages I go through. Maybe being a whiny bitch is a stage to be gone through, then again maybe it’s a step going in the completely wrong direction or maybe it’s not even reality, just the way I’m viewing it.
Probably all those things and more in various degrees. And then it could just be that I am a whiny bitch. I have no idea – It’s not helping though.
Whining about whining, it’s a loop.
I keep forgetting the basics: Focus on the big picture. If I focus on my insecurities and what other people think (or what I think they think) I’m just making it harder to stay or even get in the game. Spending one’s life in relentless, obsessive negative thoughts doesn’t have many benefits.
— David
👉 Life Strategy Tip #1 – Don’t be a whiny bitch 👈
👉 Life Strategy Tip 👈
#1 – Don’t be a whiny bitch