Sound of rain on the window panes. It is a wonderful sound.
Been homeless for a couple of years when I was young and everytime I am happy and appreciative to be where I am now with small things like rain, or taking a warm shower for example, eventhough it has been decades ago I have been homeless.
I often still have dreams not being able to find my home.
It is viewed as antisocial behaviour to leave your cart on the parking space, where I am from. I always put my cart back in the shortest row of carts. I like to make it as conveniant as possible for the people working at the supermarket.
I really liked a sitcom called Detectorists (2014-2017) from and with Mackenzie Crook. Ran for three seasons. Not many people know about this show here in the Netherlands. I hoped it had stayed on for longer.
Same happened to me with Recycle, Reason Studio's stopped online activation. I still have the official, useless CD-Rom. So I have the 2.1 version that I did not pay for.
Didn't have any issues with that either (from memory.) Lightweight and solid. Until version 8 Reason was pretty good.
I only use Reason sometimes as a plugin now into Studio One. It does have some unique features I still like to use, but as a main sequencer I would not recommend any version later than 8, which you can't buy.
My advice for beginners to start with Reaper and it comes very cheap and full featured compared to most major DAW's.
I am from the Steinberg era back in the 80s with a C64/Amiga, 90s with Cubase on Atari and PC…that is why I switched to Studio One. Suits me best, and the Artist 5 version came free with the Presonus controller (that I did not need) for an extra 20€ on the normal software price.
As a day one user since release in 2000 (and before that Rebirth and Recycle)...
It can be pirated, lately eats resources, crashes a lot, overpriced plugins, audio crackling no matter what buffer settings after updates and to this day doesn't have any ootb support for MIDI routing. After 20 years, and 400+ projects later I ditched that software. It became unreliable, used to be rock solid.
Propellerhead got aquired by an investment company, and Ernst left...became Reason Studios and then went downhill slowly. Last version I bought was Reason 12 upgrade and got more and more disappointed, stopped using it almost 2 years ago after another crash losing ideas.
Just 1 kilo more weight on a cat is 10+ kilo weight on humans. A 5 kilo cat that is 1 kilo overweight has already 25% more bodymass.
Our cat is almost 19 years old, less active, had to go on a diet for being too heavy. Our cat is a big one normally at 5 kilo and didn't look overweight, but needed to lose a kilo as he gained weight since his last checkup. He gained weight pretty quick.
It is harder to get nowadays, we call it knolraap or meiraap in the Netherlands. The greens are rarely eaten because supermarkets don't sell it whole, it is mostly processed into strips or whole with the greens cut off. Also it is mostly cultivated here as cow feed.
Very good eats, luckely we have farm stores in our neighbourhood and it is available all year round. I like it stir fried with rice noodles.
It was a mandatory instrument on the Rudolf Steiner school I attended back in the day. 20 kids blowing that thing horribly. My music teacher was actually a conductor of the North Holland Philharmonic Orchestra. Must have been torture for him.
One can extend battery life with Home Assistant and any phone that can run the HA companion app.
I have a Samsung S9+ stuck on my fridge as a home assistant remote with a script controlling a 5V/1A charger + power switch. It will turn on when the S9+ battery is at 20% and off when at 80%. Charges slow but that is on purpose. HA monitors it's battery health as well and will notify me when the state changes.
My AKAI S-1100 sampler. I never could afford any sampler but I bought one second hand for cheap, had to repair the display and it is still running solid 35 years after production date.
Your Grandma must have been a wonderful cook. I am sorry for your loss shweddy.