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To continue from last time, I was able to record from my MIDI keyboard to LMMS<\/a>. But LMMS doesn\u2019t have a way to export MIDI files. Something about the trickiness of the bass loops. But there is an external tool<\/a> for converting LMMS files to MIDI, and since I didn\u2019t find another free MIDI sequencer I liked better than LMMS, I\u2019ll just record that way for now.<\/p>\n Ways I want to use MIDI recordings:<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n The first half of last week was getting ready for my siblings to visit. I didn’t get much actual cleaning done, but I boxed up the clutter, took stuff to Goodwill, and vacuumed. I was proud of myself. I’m going to try to develop new habits for keeping things organized.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Wednesday night I took a break from housekeeping to drop in on an open house for my friend from work who’s leaving the state to work at an amazing new job and join an interesting church plant. Fortunately they’ll only be a couple of hours away. I intended to stay for an hour at most. I left about three hours later.<\/p>\n One highlight was learning about the hand game Chopsticks<\/a> from their third-grade son. It seems more sophisticated than the games we played at that age. Looking that up led me to this interesting study<\/a> of Australian children’s playlore. I’ve wondered about how children’s traditions got passed along. I didn’t know people actually studied it.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Thursday my brother and sister arrived. My sister was passing through on her way to visit a friend. My brother was staying for the weekend. Visiting Chicago requires deep dish pizza, so that was dinner.<\/p>\n\n
Life maintenance<\/h2>\n
Socializing<\/h2>\n
Easter<\/h2>\n
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