I bought a new mixer: an Electrix EDJ-6. It is a four-channel, DJ-style stereo mixer with built in effects. It is much bigger and heavier than my current mixer, which is not good, but it has a built-in, tempo-synced effects unit and a much better UI for the sort of music I am making. I will have to rebuild my music system around it but I think the result will be an improvement.

Adam and Janet had another barbecue on their roof deck yesterday. We had some beer and started talking, and decided that the solstice ought to be celebrated by blowing stuff up. Of course we are good law-abiding citizens, so we spent the rest of our evening drinking more beer and doing nothing in particular, but it did so happen that we saw a couple of guys (average height, dark clothes, nondescript appearance, didn’t see their faces) push a small pyro barge out into Lake Union and, after struggling with the wind, eventually set it alight. It flashed and banged and hissed and kicked up a lot of smoke and made us happy. We didn’t happen to notice which direction the two miscreants went.

After that we collected Ava and went out to the Noc Noc. Dancing, talking, and (more) drinking occurred.

Today I spent half an hour playing Hot Lava Monsters on the machinery at Gasworks with a pack of twelve-year-olds.