Detweeted

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Week from Monday 3rd February 2025 - Having taken my customary STEP BACK for a few days, I've now reached the next stage of our "UNTITLED ABSTRACT PIECES" project. This is where I enjoy selecting and editing down 'THE GOOD BITS'. I am taking the most interesting(?) of my versions and those of CLOUDLAND BLUE QUARTET's, and concatenating them together to form one of my famous, continuously flowing, "MINTYMEGAMIX" seedies. I've now assembled the 'piece' and have indexed it as individual 'episodes' for CD purposes... and now I take another break and come back to it later "TO SEE IF I STILL LIKE IT!"...

I've been taking a similar "WAIT AND SEE" approach to TWITTER... I've stayed away from it now for a few weeks, probably long enough to determine that I no longer NEED it anymore. But I can't yet make myself let it go altogether. Perhaps I should just delete the APP from my portable devices, thus making it more difficult to access? Then again, I've spent a great deal of loving care and attention, installing and maintaining that 'special' version of the Twitter app, which provides me with a much nicer "SANE ALTERNATIVE" way of using 'X', so I don't want to just dump it! Oh! the quandary...

Ah! soddit! Whip it off like an old plaster! I've done it! I've been and gone and DEACTIVATED my Twitter account! Quick! before I change my mind again! "Nothing but Blue Skies From Now On!"

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I've programmed a very sparse, almost freeform, bass and drums piece. I intended it as a backing track for maybe soloing over, but now I think it stands up on its own. I don't think I will need to keep all twenty-five minutes of it though! #windbaggery #goesonabit
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I got a copy of my latest clinical review in the post this morning, so I've just spent an hour looking up what all the medical terms mean. As yer do. Fun words like "ischaemic issue" and "osteonecrosis" and "external acoustic meatus"... #LugHoles

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