Carl Setzer

A good chunk of this evening was spent dealing with a strange issue. For Christmas, my dad gave my son an Alexa. Connecting it to Spotify has been problematic. We connected it to the Alexa app, but the unit kept directing us to connect a Premium Spotify account. Well, it is such.  At first my research showed issues with family premium plans. But nothing in any official capacity. Neither the Spotify nor the Amazon sites. Thus, I decided to keep exploring.  I noticed that my father's name was attached the Alexa unit. Resetting the unit solved the problem.  So, it had nothing to do with the Spotify family premium account, as some sites suggested. If you're having the same issue, reconnecting your Alexa to your app might be your ticket. 

Saw this photo on KEXP's homepage today. This wall of cassettes! OH.MY.GAWD! Ah, the musical history therein. Memories of siting by the play button waiting for my favorite songs, of the awesome feeling once I got a double cassette recorder, so I could create mix tapes. And sharing my tapes with my friends, introducing them to the music I loved. Oh, and crafting mix tapes for those I loved. A custom blend of music as a gift. For someone who loves music, I couldn't think of a better gift. There were groups of my friends that would swap these tapes, with meticulously detailed liner notes. The purpose was to connect friends with music, musicians they hadn't heard before, but would certainly love. The best were getting tapes with great bands that got no air-time. Fulfilling the ultimate proto-hipster delight of knowing a band before they became famous. As for this photo: she is Jen Cloher , an Australian musician. I'm now streaming her self-titled album via Googl...

Daylight has faded Yet light's power is still strong Tapping our spirit Well, the weekend is about at is close . I hope everyone feels recharged and ready for another workweek .

Your voice may be weak Singing doesn't call angels You still own beauty

Quantum mechanics  With its weird magnificence Lewis Carroll's dream 

The morning's still dark The sky is much lighter, though Spring-time slowly comes 

A friend just told me My haiku reached her heart's depths Connecting to truth

February 1st is a week from tomorrow. Anyone else feeling like time is rocketing by?

This morning's meditation: This place has my heart Seattle's Grey skies call me It's always been home

I adore Albert Einstein! And I appreciate the notion behind this. Change is challenging, and critical, and, well, hard.

Thought of this as an operating principle: "Do my best and iterate forward!" Maybe I need to create a motivational poster?

When I change the length type from "Decimal" to anything else, my units on the drawing change dramatically.  When changed to  The line length shifts to  This is driving me nuts. Any suggestions, CAD folks?  Evernote helps you remember everything and get organized effortlessly. Download Evernote .

My team is reading Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin. Just read a line about young SEAL leaders in training who "often try to develop a course of action that accounts for every tingle possibility they can think of".  I get stuck in that thinking, too.  Besides creating a exceptionally overly complex plan that's very hard for everyone to understand, I found that this comes from a place of fear with me. I develop these mammoth plans as I try to build a counter for everything my fears percolate out. Faith and trust in the mission, for me, has always built the simple plans.