What, oh what, should I write in these short little intros to each post?
Media Logs
Vlog
Github Study Respository
Link to my Github repository containing music notes.
General Session Records
| Date Session | Duration (Minutes) | Public Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-08 | 20 | Berklee Vocal Technique and experimenting with low notes. |
| 2025-09-09 | 20 | Berklee Vocal Technique and experimenting with low notes. |
| 2025-09-10 | 30 | Berklee Vocal Technique and experimenting with low notes. |
| 2025-09-11 | 30 | Berklee Vocal Technique and experimenting with low notes. |
| 2025-09-12 | 40 | Berklee Vocal Technique and experimenting with low notes. |
| 2025-09-13 | 30 | Berklee Vocal Technique and experimenting with low notes. |
| 2025-09-14 | 20 | Berklee Vocal Technique. |
Memories to Share
Getting What I Deserve
Today, I discovered that my computer’s root partition was at 100% capacity. I do not know why, still.
At first, I spent an hour trying to repair the drive, but didn’t make much progress. With Google Gemini’s help, I was able to clear up enough to get about 350 MB of space available, which was enough to get it functioning, but I was not able to progress any further.
The last time I rebuilt my computer system, I split out the drives and partitions so that the data I care about was stored on an entirely separate drive. The idea was that, in the event of a reinstall or system failure, I would be able to clear off the operating system’s drive without having to damage or worry about personal data loss.
Feeling a bit overconfident — okay, extremely overconfident, even arrogant — I went ahead and rebooted off a USB stick, formatted the main operating system drive and partitions, and reinstalled.
As I began the six-hour process of rebuilding my system from scratch, I then realized my mistake: my databases store in the root directory by default. DANG IT!
I do have some older database backups, but the latest was about one month old. I lost about one month’s worth of data, including about four days’ worth of data cleaning on a personal data journal that I did over the summer. I also lost all the specific start/end times of my singing database — although the blog post archives did contain the dates and duration samples.
Am I dismayed? Yes. But am I challenged to do better? Also yes. I’m going to recover that personal-project data with some new and improved scripting. My punishment is well deserved and I accept the pain.
Artificial Intelligence Transparency Report
No artificial intelligence was used for the writing or performing portion of this blog post.
I used Google’s Gemini AI to help me create and manage my sql database for tracking relevant data. For example, I used Google Gemini to write a script that exports my singing data records from my custom PostgreSQL database and format the data as an HTML table.
How You Can Help
I need your help to become established as a teacher and storyteller.
Here is a link to a blog post that describes how a supportive reader can help me in my quest.
In short, you can…
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