I simply Put It To this goddamn To-Do List that has been taunting me and growing daily for at least a year and a half, dear reader.  Kicking the shit out of it.  The To-Do List has no idea what hit it.  The new studio has been helpful in this direction.  But, speaking of the new studio…

I feel I would be remiss if I didn’t take a moment to bitch a bit about Microsoft and Windows and everything else associated with it.  I’ve been working almost exclusively in the Google environment for over ten years now.  Not for music…everything music related is done on Apple software, but everything else has been Gmail and Chromebooks for many years.  And it’s been great.  Chromebooks boot up in one second (literally), and opening or closing apps is instantaneous, as is switching back and forth between tabs and apps.  I need to be able to do that because that’s the way I work…total monkey mind: while I’m writing this, I’ll suddenly think of a sentence for something I was working on three hours ago, and I’ve got about 10 seconds to get it down and in the right place or it will be lost forever.
So.  The new studio.  Completely windows based (due mostly to client needs, but a lot of the book compilation software I want to use is unavailable for Chromebooks, so….).  And I really wanted it to be amazing.  Sure, Microsoft was the absolute shits earlier in the century, but I’ve given them plenty of time to get it together.  That much time, it would be like they had to try not to just naturally improve.  But goddammit, dear reader, Microsoft still sucks.  Their products themselves are solid, but the time it takes to open any app, or to just flip back and forth between tabs…it’s absurd.  I’m kind of speechless.  Speeds like this should have gone the way of the dial-up modem.  These computers are, what…a month old?  They were like this out of the box.  People want to like you, Microsoft, but you make it ridiculously difficult.

N.P.: “Voodoo Child” – Tom Morello