In re: myself, addressing some earlier posts: Zettelkasten is out! I won't use it. It would be great for a project, but I don't have a project. I do not need to catalogue away things I have to sometime, maybe, have a thought about them. It would end up being counterproductive or..really, non-productive (but, as always, not that doing something has to be productive).

I'm still not using FLAC files - there really is no perceptible difference for me - but, after downloading basically whatever and trying to focus on 320kbps CBR MP3s, I've seen the light of variable bitrate MP3s and am now...re-encoding my entire library. Which means redownloading FLAC or WAV sources to transcode. It's a long process, but it is making me reevaluate my library. Since I'm building it myself for me, I want it to be full of music that I really care about from across time; there are a lot of albums that I actually only care about a single and there are a lot of albums that just aren't meaningful to me anymore. I like the process of honing down what I have and refining it all with really good, cared for/about files. (Incidentally, I'm also doing this with my movies and TV shows, looking for AV1 and Opus encodes, and it has similarly been nice to think about what that library should be.)

The reading came and went! I'm still endeavoring to do it, but it's just not sticking. I've been obsessed with computer for some reason and really talking myself down from throwing out my Apple products and replacing them with other, less wall-gardened in tech. So I've just been very digital right now. I was reading Stoner, but there's this interminable section - not even that far into the book! - where the main character courts and marries a woman. God, it's just awful. I don't want to read that straight shit. It really killed the mood for me and I've just used that along with the stress of my life right now to avoid books totally.