We're watching "It: Welcome to Derry". I only finally made the connection by episode 6 that the psychic character Dick Halloran is the psychic character from The Shining.

If you believe the folklore about Wooly Bears (or whatever you call them) and their predictions for winter, I don't think this is a good sign.

Looking for something fun and different to do tonight in the #WinchesterVA or #MartinsburgWV area?

We're hosting Music Bingo at The Pub in Bunker Hill from 7-9 p.m. Come join us. Good times, great food and cold beverages.

This won't mean anything to most folks, but I was today years old when I realized that Gravity Wiz (the team behind a bunch of awesome 3rd-party Gravity Forms add-ons) is also based out of Virginia Beach (the same place Gravity is based out of).

Watched "Now You See Me, Now You Don't" last night. It lacked some of the magic (pardon the pun) of the first 2 films, but it was still enjoyable, and it had a nice twist, as well as some nice cameos.

I paid $139.99 for an SSD in February last year. That same drive is "on sale" today for $349.99, with a regular price of $489.99. This is sad, ridiculous and unsustainable.

Watched Backrooms last night. I sincerely have no idea what we watched. I'm guessing it might have made a bit more sense if we were fans of the web series, but it honestly made no sense at all to me. I saw a few reviews on IMDB that seemed to have the same issues we did. It felt like the middle of a story with no beginning and no end; just the middle.

We've reached that point in the year where I wake up with a sore throat and horrible congestion every morning. I'll have to get the humidifier cleaned out and running again to mitigate a little of it, but I'm not sure what else to do.

Fascinating interview with Rick Baker: https://letterboxd.com/journal/monster-mash-rick-baker-career-interview/

New single out today that's a collab between P.O.D. and Norma Jean. Also another new single from Hatebreed today. Not a bad day for those into heavy music.

When I said "up to 10 copies" of some songs, I was a bit off. I've started trying to clean things up a bit, and near the beginning of the process, I found one song where there were more than 35 versions.

I take that back.

What an incredible ending to that game. Would have never expected that.

Ravens are gonna Raven. They always play a good first half, but they seem to forget to come out of the locker room for the second half more often than anyone else.

If you're curious what "large" means in this case, I think there are somewhere around 200,000-250,000 files. I'd be willing to bet there are fewer than 100,000 unique, good karaoke versions in there.

I inherited a large #karaoke collection from some of my former KJs that shared them with me. One of those KJs is a digital hoarder, so there are up to 10 different versions of the same songs. I'd love to find a tool that would identify these duplicates (and maybe files that have bad filenames) and clean some things up, but I'm not having any luck finding anything.

So far, the best I can do is use the "Mark as Bad" feature in OpenKJ, but that's 1 at a time.

Any advice?

My first night hosting karaoke by myself (meaning that I wasn't filling in for someone else, or doing it as part of something else) was pretty good. We had a great crowd, and only a few minor hiccups in getting things working.

I have to say that the OpenKJ software worked beautifully (better than the paid apps I've used in the past), and their online song submissions are a great feature.

I wonder what I'm doing wrong. Maybe different cables? Maybe disk format?

I just copied ~80 gigs of files from one drive to another in about 1.5 hours.

I'm now trying to copy those same files to a different drive, and it is estimating it will take 20+ hours.

The 1st drive (NTFS Crucial x9) has read/write speeds up to 800mbps according to the manufacturer specs.

The 2nd drive (exFat Samsung T7) has read/write speeds up to 1050mbps.

Source drive (NTFS - internal SSD) has 560/530mbps speed.

If you're looking for something fun to do tonight, I'll be hosting #karaoke at The Pub in Bunker Hill, WV.

There are Happy Hour specials from 3-7 p.m. and karaoke goes from 8 p.m. until midnight.

You must be 21 or older to enter The Pub.

#MartinsburgWV #WinchesterVA

Guess I won't be getting much work done today. My ISP tells me there are no outages in my area, but their chat bot is also broken, so I can't even report it.

Meanwhile, my Ting sensor tells me that there are at least 380 homes in my area with a Ting sensor that all went offline at the same time (and I can't imagine there are a ton of households in my area that have those sensors, so it seems like it might be a pretty widespread outage).

This little critter has been hanging out above our hummingbird feeder for the past couple of days, defending its territory from other hummingbirds in the area. It gets downright brutal whenever any other hummingbirds come near.