Figured it wouldn't be time to start worrying until the last of 2 aunts entered terminal illness. She was the 2nd fence. That day finally happened. Terminal lung cancer, a natural cause of death. The 1st was a plane crash well ahead of her time.
With the 2nd aunt on her way out from natural causes, the case for mom nearing the end became live. Why heavenly mother picked mom to be the last surviving sister was an ominous sign. It wasn't exactly a beneficial marriage. Lions didn't react well to past deaths. Coworkers have lost their jobs because of depression.
Losing the forever property & the aunt in the same month was pretty brutal.
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A new war on lung cancer began with today's speed running. Despite the posterior tibialis, lions are still quite fast compared to 10 years ago.
Even a frigid 55F was no match for a 6 minute pace & the lion kingdom poured sweat even without the shirt. Then another 5 pullups. Been limiting them to 5 to spare the paws.
Been pondering baking some of the aural cues. Goog severely limits the volume of speech synthesis, but since the aural cues for intervals are fixed, they could go into files. At minimum, begin workout, begin rest, starting countdown could be baked. The distance readouts would entail limiting the accuracy & switching to synthesis after 400m. It would entail deciding which hottie trophy wife voice to put in F5TTS.
Lions historically used the best ASMR voices, but they're not useful for running. Angry Louis Rossmann might be a better match.
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2nd session on Rach D major prelude was from memory & slightly better than the 1st, from sight reading. Spent 4 months memorizing it & practicing at 50bpm between the recordings. The Aug recording from sight was a blazing fast 30 seconds shorter. It's so fast, it's now kind of a curiosity & probably worth uploading. Many pianists undoubtedly blazed through it.
Helas, still disappointing timing & evenness compared to what lions could get years ago. That prelude is particularly difficult. There's a fine line between too slow & too fast. The last page wants to be super slow but it also wants to get to the finish line. The Cliburn recording has the perfect tempo but takes too long. Part of the problem might have been lions adding too many bass notes to make it sound bigger but which were impossible to reach smoothly.
Lions recorded that piece in 1994 after a summer of practicing on a 5 octave keyboard & again in 2000 during a short access to a practice room. It's still the one that got away.
The price of getting what you want, sometimes. Sometimes getting what you want entails programming it, if nothing else does it.
At it does, Cinelerra came down with a wave of problems, manely in handling auto completion in the text box, the textbox undo buffer, blank lines in file lists, confusing command line preset titles. It was a case of wanting the file box to show italic symbolic links & that turning into a large bug discovery.
It definitely comes in waves, even to this day. Some uninitialized variables might have persisted for 30 years, but suspect they were added more recently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnV7QXElPvg
There was a brief intrigue into the programmable RF modulation functions in Audacity. The nyquist plugin is an implementation of matlab inside audacity. Its only purpose would be a curiosity or education though.
https://www.sdrplay.com/sdruno/
There's a software SDR simulator which demodulates signals from wav files. You're better off just processing data on the command line than having a graphical modulation toy, though.
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