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Oh hai LGays it's been a while since I contributed some original content. Rest assured that I'm a busy beaver IRL both working for cash money and for pleasure.

Currently I'm furnishing a podcast for a monthly alternative relating to one of our arts districts as well as issues of urbanism, heritage and whatever else. It's an exciting proposition as the gallery has a storefront and undoubted interest from a variety of demographics. This may be the first instance I've been involved with if a podcast that actually already knows it's niche audience personally. The challenge here is a heavy boomer audience that needs podcasting to be simple and seamless. I may be getting comfortable learning to screen cast tutorials. We have lots of 20-something cool kids who should be able to subscribe and participate seamlessly so I'm not too worried about that.

After launch I suspect the goal is to engage the most core audience I realtime. Be it a hosted discussion, call-in show or otherwise. The brilliance of working this on James St. North is that the real world community connections via Art Crawl are already well established and covered both locally and nationally thanks to the papers.

We are using Square Space which seems like one of the better CMS out there. It's a paid service but as an Apple cultist I'm a firm believer in getting only what you pay for. So far all the features I desire are up and working out of the box.

I also completed wiring the whole space with gigabit Ethernet for a few technical reasons given the display LCDs heavy use of VNC. It's truly inspiring to know first hand that most 802.11 gear works flawlessly out of the box. For under $1000 we have 12 ports if switched gigabit Ethernet backing up automatically to an NAS and a wireless distribution system that covers the whole building. This is totally fucking cool to me.

I've spent two weekends in Buffalo with my Huw. Visiting this part of western NY state has been a fascinating trip into urban exploration. I like Buffalo for all the reasons I love home. There's a tenacity and love of their home town but also a sorta downerness about the troubles their town has seen in the last 30 years or so. I'm still convinced the post-industrial cities of olde are highly under rated in an era of peak oil, sub-urban foreclosure and a crisis of credit. The very scale of these century old streets blends with our more and more pressing need for local living. Buy while places like Buffalo and Hamilton are still cheap.

My Mom's healthy has been steadily improving following a rather new low around Xmas time. Her new neurologist suggested a return to the basics of symptomatic diagnostics and found mom had been experiencing pretty severe sleep apnea. Her CPAP experience has given her back some energy in a quantifiable way. She's doing projects she loves and generally acting more like a retiree than somebody who is disabled. This makes me extremely happy.

I'd been inspired to grow my own food this summer for quite a while. A green thumb runs in the family and I'm enticed not only by the prospect of my own tasty food but also the meditative quality of growing things. Particularly I'm interested in a Victory Garden style altered to my needs of limited space and only fruits and veg that I like to eat. The first step is to start sprouting some seeds indoors hopefully providing myself with some heirloom tomato and bean seedlings that will likely not be available at my local nursery. The focus here is not dropping cash at nurseries anyhow. The focus is to be self sufficient, "sustainable" if you will.

I suppose that's all for now? Any questions?it is question month apparently.

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