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So, remember last Weeknote when I said I changed mailing list providers?

Going through some things in my basement, I stumbled across these two beautiful envelopes that I believe were my mom’s, probably from the late-1950s/early-1960s.

This morning I was walking the dog when a guy on a bicycle called out to me, “Training for anything?”

Hey.

Busy days around these parts as the summer starts its decline.

This is a truly fantastic album cover: Is the guy on the left aiming to block the shot of the guy on the right?

Happy 150th birthday (yesterday) to my great-grandfather Andrew.

OK, so again a month has passed between Weeknotes.

About three weeks ago, a neighbor down the street posted to a local group that she found an orange cat laying on her porch.

If you’re reading this, you’re seeing laze.net at its new home.

I’m not a typewriter geek in the least, but having grown up using my mom’s typewriter and, later, in middle school, an electric typewriter, I can certainly understand how people enjoy typewriters as a hobby to obsess over.

Yesterday I went to Safeway–a grocery store in town we only go to once or twice a year–because they’re the only store in the area currently carrying the (very good) Waterloo Root Beer Float seltzer.

This weekend, on the way home from a drive-in event at the mighty Mahoning (largest screen in the US!

The Occasional Weeknote seems to be getting every so slightly more occasional with each week that passes.

Today I scanned some photos taken by my grandfather, possibly during the late 1920s/early 1930s in California (at a period in his young life where he ran away from home and travelled across the country on the rails as a self-described hobo) or slightly la…

The conversation continues in favor of physical media over streaming (or at least working some physical media into your listening rotation).

Every so often I’ll search for a rare album and find a link to a Bandcamp page and get momentarily excited about it.

Following Robert Birming’s lead, for the month of June I’ll be maintaining a list of posts that I’ve enjoyed.

I’m at the stage of life that I definitely don’t shoot for “productive” weekends as much as I do “relaxing” ones with lots of downtime.

Cross your fingers for me this weekend as I attempt a supposedly “easy” fix of the lid switch on our 26-year-old washing machine.

This week I read Ben Lerner’s new book Transcription, a fictional dive into the early days of the pandemic, technology, and the effect of both on memory and experience.

I was 20 years old–a college sophomore–and civil rights leader/anti-gangster rap activist C.

My company’s new health plan covers an online personal trainer, so for the first time, I’m giving it a shot.

Our internet bill was too high.

I once again have a functioning 8-track player, so now I can play my grandfather’s old Sons of the Pioneers1 cartridges as well as knock off Monkees and Beatles groups doing covers.

It’s been a while since I’ve posted an #ArchiveTheUnimportant item.

Richard MacManus wrote a piece last year titled “Replanting Articles: Bring Legacy Posts to Your Website” and it resonated with me before I even got to the text.

Sometimes catching someone else up on your life (or writing such a blog post) is like those weekly status calls at work where it feels like you’re justifying your continued employment to your co-workers.

Quiet days are a must.

The 25th weeknote is a bit short and uneventful.

A few things I’ve learned in the last few weeks: Good stress is still stress.

(Read part one here, where I discuss my month with Qobuz.)

Streaming sucks for artists because the major players pay squat per stream.