So in advance of my trip to Sweden, I received a surprise in the mail... my new phone, a Galaxy S10+. And a new phone line, for that matter. I may wind up just dumping my old Dayton line and using this one as my primary. Why not? I barely use my phone anyway, aside from calling home. This would be like a raise.
I also got a laptop from work... although not yet the software I'd need to use it for my job. Luckily, I found a loophole in installation of my DAW and installed an older version of the program. I can travel anywhere and put together a show, then transfer the files to my actual current DAW and up upgrades the session and then I *can* add the plug-ins I am licensed to use.
I will ask if they simply haven't gotten around to buying those (inexpensive) plug-ins, since I was supposed to have this phone months ago, perhaps those are somewhere out in the ether too, waiting for me to find them.
The main excitement about having this phone is just that I can take incredible photos during my trip to Stockholm, of which there are many to have. We're apparently going to do a canal tour and perhaps go to the ABBA museum, which I am not that into except that it would make many of my gayer friends jealous.
Of course I am not that good at taking photos. They're mediocre. I will enlist my brother's help in the meantime to learn some tricks, hopefully, since that kind of photography is literally what he does for a living.
Right now I am ripping another rental DVD, which will finally fill up my 256GB USB stick with most of my favorite movies, so I will be ready for flying across the Atlantic and will not really have to talk to people next to me. I am mostly taking redeye flights anyway, so hopefully it will not be that full anyway.