Written by Joseph Weidinger.
It’s been a whole year since I posted last and I CAN’T BELIEVE IT Nah. I’m joking. I can believe it. Thoughts on the Pandemic Although I was…
As I mentioned numerous times towards the end of my 2019 blog series, I was working on some new original tunes that I wanted to release…
Well, and just like that, 52 weeks are over. Here’s how I did… 1. 52 people interviewed 48% completed. As mentioned before, I reformulated…
I’ve been spending most of my days this past week alone in my room. My only objective is to write as many songs as I can before January 4th…
Today I spent most of the day working on various new songs for some projects next year. In addition to doing more stuff with Sizable and…
In the last week or so, Sizable has been in the studio four times mixing our last record for the year. We have two more sessions booked…
I was thoughtfully listening to / studying Nevermind the other day and writing reactions I had to each song. Here are those thoughts with a…
I’ve been lately spending a lot of time trying to write songs to “satisfy” my interview goal. Here’s a basic summary of my process with some…
“This is it,” I spontaneously declared as a 12” crust rotated to a halt on my left hand. A few moments earlier, I had just watched the clock…
My first week at ES was long and all over the place… my kind of week. I spent most of my first day getting my computer set up for ES’s dev…
Disclaimer Before I get started, I want to mention that, while I currently feel this way, it doesn’t mean I won’t have a different…
Last Friday was my last day at Carfax. I awoke at 3:30 AM and couldn’t go back to sleep. I had a new simple song in my ear, so I fleshed it…
As I’ve mentioned in countless other blogs, I’ve been working on a GraphQL Library for . A week or two ago, I finally got it to a state I am…
India nite was October 19th. It went well. This year, Anup and I made some lineup changes. We had Zack Clark return on bass and my long-time…
1. 52 people interviewed Not on track. I’ve reformulated this goal to be a composite of a few goals. You can read more about that here and…
I downloaded this simple app that helps build/break habits after listening to a co-worker talk about it months ago. I think it’s called…
We’re getting close to wrapping up the third album with Sizable. A lot of my time this past week has been spent on that. I tend to focus on…
In addition to playing a lot of pedal steel I recently purchased (which I’ll detail more below), I spent a lot of time this past week…
Starting this past Wednesday afternoon, I am taking a week of time-off to learn the pedal steel guitar. It arrived last Monday, and I’ve…
Five of my co-workers have left Carfax for another company. Three of those had their last day today. While I’m happy for them, I’m pretty…
My car got broken into sometime early Sunday morning. They busted out the window on my Volt, opened my glove box, and that’s about it. I don…
Got a cat named Sophie. She’s a nine-year-old cat from a neighbor lady. The neighbor is moving away and wanted the cat to stay with someone…
I bought a green screen for my streaming experiments. Caleb set it up for our Dead Slice stream. It just works. OBS is a pretty fantastic…
I got a haircut. And for almost the first time in my life, it was not done by my Mom… alt text My roommate Caleb and I both got our hair cut…
1. 52 people interviewed I interviewed only three people this quarter and gave up on the idea that I’d be able to interview 52 people. I…
I’ve been working on the time tracking system that my friend and Carfax co-worker Conner built. I’m working on a pretty significant rewrite…
The Raid After all the equipment came in for streaming, Caleb and I hosted our first twitch stream. It was 3-4 hours long. We made a lot of…
A year ago I tried creating an entertainment channel on Twitch where I played Fortnite while walking on a treadmill while trying to…
I’m giving up on the goal to interview 52 people, but I’m replacing it with a new goal(s). I’m tired of hassling people to interview them…
Like a few months ago, there was a Hackathon at Carfax yesterday and today. And like a few months ago, I won the same award: Best…
As I mentioned last week, I bought a banjo recently. Last Saturday I made a trip to St. Louis to buy some more stuff from Music Folk. I was…
I decided to not host my interviews in SoundCloud any more. I’ve used SoundCloud as the host of all my audio files since day one. When I…
I smiled when thinking about the tinnitus I have for the first time in a while. I gave myself tinnitus 2.5 years ago when I played drums in…
This past week at Carfax has been one of great excitement! I’m working together every day with our platform engineers to design and…
At this point much of my life is organized by cards: digital notes that tell me what to do at any given point. At Carfax we use Jira…
I applied for a different coding gig and after doing all the interviews and such I found out that I didn’t get it. I kind of promised that I…
Spent time in the studio with Wil Reeves again mixing and mastering two songs I produced. One song was with Anup and one was with Caleb. In…
This week has been a pretty dynamic one for my work life. Early on in these blogs I wrote about some work-related projects that I had been…
Q1 ended a few weeks ago and I want to check on how I’m delivering on the goals I made a few months ago. 1. 52 people interviewed So far, I…
I’ve been listening to a lot of Nirvana recently. I started listening to them heavily when I was around 10 years old. Since the very…
I’ve been doing a lot of projects recently with my roommate and friend, Caleb Salyer. For the last few weeks we’ve been recording podcasts…
Just got done with a long day in the studio with Wil Reeves and Sizable. We mixed the last few songs for this record and he also added some…
It’s March Madness. Every TV at Shakes has a different game on. Everyone at work is talking about their brackets. In the spirit, Carfax…
Today is my dad’s birthday. All of us kids surprised him by showing up in Vienna today. It’s hard to call it a surprise though. He pieced…
Here are some things I did this past week… Interviews I interviewed Thomas Blower last Saturday. We did the interview at Nourish at 10 AM…
Today marks the first anniversary of me buying my little home. I’m still in love with this pad and feel so lucky that I was able to be in a…
Sizable met with Wil Reeves earlier this week for 3 hours to mix 2 songs. It was awesome! I worked with Wil a few years ago on these two…
Last week my younger brother Phillip hit me up to go grab a beer and some dinner at Jazz, a New Orleans themed restaurant. He knew some…
A few hours ago I was at Shakespeare’s rolling pizza dough. It was my first shift back wearing Andrew Pracchia’s old hat. I had lost track…
I feel like another week has gone by and I haven’t done anything. But that’s a lie. My log shows me otherwise. (And at some point in the…
A quick run down Just got back from Carfax’s annual Employee Appreciation Party; it was a good night of talking (shouting… it was loud) with…
Just took a shower after working at Shakes. It was steady but not that busy. Woke up Sunday morning with a stiff neck. Or maybe it was just…
Hello from Vienna, MO. I’m trying to write this blog at the dinner table and my family members are playing Rummikub at the other end. I…
I have 52 weeks until I’m 30 years old. By the time my own father and grandfather were 30, they were married, had kids, and created…