Journal one

June 9

Yay! Clo Sur released their new song and now I have vocals to work with. Already started something and you can go check it out on my secondary SoundCloud @ soundcloud.com/alexsikeda.

Other than that, things have been usual—I've been making music, doing English 12 and Math 3 online, eating pasta for lunch every day, writing in my new book (kind of not new, I guess), and trying to fix focusrite driver issues. The horrible noises produced from the drivers have decided to start appearing in exported audio, so I need to fix it soon. It's odd how these issues are behaving much like a virus, infecting different parts of the system instead of all at once.

Next year, a ton of people from my elementary are coming to my high school, and also I get to see everyone from junior high again. I feel like this is maybe just life's way of giving me friends (because I don't have much); being in high school forced me to make new friends and I still have those from elementary and junior high. So yay, I'm not almost lonely anymore.

I'm reading Flowers for Algernon right now. I read Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon, and in that book there was a spoiler to Flowers for Algernon. So that was a fun coincidence.

As recommended by @nicholasz2510, I got Habitica, only after a long process of getting permission for account changes on my phone then signing out and downloading it with a different account, since I have my normal App Store account tied to a family group thing which prevents me from downloading unauthorized apps. The only downside to Habitica over Reminders is that I don't have unlimited time on the app (I'm restricted by iOS Screen Time), so it timed out after 7:00.

I've been doing some convincing, and hopefully my parents will let me get some of the stuff I've wanted to get for a few years. That includes:

1. Xfer Serum (music production plugin)

2. A piano (especially right now, I can't practice weekdays anymore because my parents are always working from home)

3. Recently, a desktop. I do everything on this laptop, but originally I had bought it with the notion that I would be aloud to bring it outside of the house. My parents don't allow that for some reason, so I might as well sell it and buy a desktop. It was on a sale when I bought it, I think, because now I can't find the same model for under $700, so I could probably make money off of it. I love when this happens—I also had an Behringer UM2 as my original audio interface, and I bought it when it was cheap and priced at $20, it's now $50, so I sold it for $40. Fun.

That's all I have for this week. Stay healthy everyone!