ProfessorTomoe

Give it time, give it time. Word is just now spreading.

So much for that thought, eh?

Well, @The Old Hack, you are welcome to show yourself at any time once you have arrived in the forum.

Our weather cleared up for today, but they''re saying it may rain again tomorrow after flooding yesterday.

I found out because someone PMed me and I got an e-mail notice of it. Do you think anyone has PMed The Old Hack?

I am glad to see that the forum is back online. Who else has been contacted to let them know?

As long as the charge clears, I'm not going to argue with it.

Oww. I sympathize with your shoulder. I was just diagnosed today with a problem with my right rotator cuff. Slept on it wrong about 6 weeks ago, and now it's waking me up in the middle of the night with the pain, despite oxycodone. I'm supposed to ice it 24/7 and do an exercise to remediate it. Fun.

I have something that can help with that. https://leejackson1.bandcamp.com/album/calibrations

Very much obliged! Mein Gott in Himmel!!! Someone just paid $125 for a copy of Derivations on Bandcamp! I have no clue why. They sent a note that simply said, "Thank you." I should be the one thanking them!!!

It's finally happened - my album, Derivations, has dropped, at least for digital and streaming sales! You can get it at Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Derivations-Lee-Jackson/dp/B087ZLHH23), Apple Music/iTunes (https://music.apple.com/us/album/derivations/1510247826), and in high-resolution 96KHz/24-bit format with bonus art at Bandlab (https://leejackson1.bandcamp.com/album/derivations). All of this for $10 or less! Please grab a copy today!

Time has come again, as the song goes - It's back surgery time again. Time for another lumbar rhizotomy on my left side. The pain has been getting to the point where oxycodone alone won't control it. So, I go in a week from today (June 9th) and have some of my nerve roots killed via radio frequency bombardment. I'm concerned because I was planning on starting the eBay sale of Derivations CDs on Monday, but now I'm going to have to postpone it until at least Wednesday or Thursday.

While our cat, Baker is still on wet food for treatment of his urinary tract, we have transitioned both our cats, including Loudmouth, to that new Purina Pro Plan LiveClear Cat Allergen Reducing food for the dry portion of their meals. (Yes, they get wet and dry.) You see, my son's wife is extremely allergic to cat dander, making it impossible for her and our son to come visit us. We're hoping that this new food will reduce the amount of cat dander in the air sufficiently to allow her to return one day. (Don't ask me why she doesn't take allergy shots - she's squeamish to the nth degree, and would probably have to take a very strong shot for years. She's got a compromised immune system to boot, so apparently shots are a non-starter.)

You said a mouthful. My son's a Spotify user, so he got on and looked things up. Couldn't find my original version of the song, but he found a metric assload of cover versions. That must have had something to do with it. He also Googled the dates of the lawsuit. It was filed in 2012, settled in 2017, and the payout worked out in 2019. Eight years it took for me to see money from something I originally had no hope for when I signed up.

Jeezus H. Gut-Blowing Christ! If you'll recall, many years ago a class-action lawsuit was launched against Spotify for streaming songs without permission of the artists who own the songs. That lawsuit was settled a year or so ago. I'm part of the settlement, for Grabbag. I've been getting a bunch of legal minutiae that I've had to keep up with, to the point where I was beginning to expect a check of eleven dollars or something similarly puny. Well, I got my check today. $711.92!!! It nearly knocked the wind out of me. Good lord, how many streams did they have to account for in order to come up with such a sum for one song??? I'm still staggered. This is going to help pay off a huge medical bill from my last toe amputation.

I posted the above on Facebook, then boosted the post with a "Shop Now" button added. The ad just started running, and already 11 people have clicked on the button. If every one of those equates to a purchase, at $9.49 a copy, that's $104.39 already. I won't see all of that if it's true, since CD Baby and Visa/MC/whatever take their cut, but it's a nice start for an ad that's scheduled to run for 3 days in the USA and Europe. I hope.

My new album, Derivations, is available for MP3 pre-order on Amazon! https://www.amazon.com/Derivations-Lee-Jackson/dp/B087ZLHH23

At the very least, it would give you a dirty pool.

More:

Pictures of Crystal:

A little something Mrs. Prof typed up about our current foster cat:

Until someone adopts her.

Saw my podiatrist today on a follow-up to the Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome. I was able to report that I hadn't had any pain in the arch of my right foot since about 3 days after the cortisone shot near my Achilles tendon. No additional shot called for today. I brought up a couple of new-ish problems. First, my feet have been flaking something fierce. I won't go TMI on this one - suffice it to say he thinks I have a fungal infection. He prescribed a cream and an oral antifungal. The other problem has to do with the hardware that's been installed in my right ankle since I broke it back in 2009 - seven screws and a plate. It's been hurting something fierce at random times. It comes in waves, like someone is taking a fecking sledgehammer and slamming it into it. The doctor didn't really have much to offer here. He mentioned the possibility of removing the hardware, which is a no-go: I had the hardware taken out of my left foot about 2 or 3 years after the fall, and it took forever for the surgical wound to heal (and only with the help of a wound care specialist and another operation involving implanting T-cells). I don't know what's going to happen this time around.

Mrs. Prof's foster cat project in the sewing room is coming along nicely. With Mrs. Prof out taking care of TNR trapping tonight, I'm home with only cats for company, so I thought I'd go in and pay Crystal (the foster cat) a visit - my first solo visit to her. To my surprise, she did not freak out and run off to hide. She was on a platform of a cat tree, and all she did was look up at me as I walked toward her. When I reached her, I easily began petting her. She leaned into it and, for lack of a better phrase, started enjoying the hell out of it. I gave her pets and scratches and rubs for a solid 10 minutes. She ate it all up. The only thing she wasn't a fan of was tummy rubs, so I took that off the buffet line rather quickly. She was willing to go for more beyond the 10 minutes I was in there, but my back was having no more of it. Fortunately, she didn't complain when I left. She just sort of rolled and purred. Interesting encounter.

I've been hyping the upcoming pre-release sale on iTunes of my new album, Derivations, which begins this Friday the 22nd. Shiat is about to get very real, folks. Seriously, if you're on iTunes and if you buy the album before the official release date (June 5th), you'll get early access to the first song on the album, "CyberFlight." Also happening Friday: I'm officially unveiling the Hearnow website that I let you folks in on earlier. More info, including info on CD availability (as in "will they be available?") in my new blog post.