Why? Well, mostly because I have a lot of different skills, music and coding in particular but also a modicum of visual art and a good nose for creatively interesting questions, and I love to work on little side projects and explorations with friends. But I always overcommit myself. Even the smallest thing is an overcommitment, I fear. I never have time to finish things, then the weeks roll by since I last had the the time and my guilt grows. Sometimes I pay it down with an evening or weekend squirrelled away from other guilts; usually I just go rupt.

The Frustration of Collaboration is supposed to be monthly. We often record the next one right after releasing the last. Then the unedited audio files sit on my hard drive, the weeks tick by, I keep thinking “I should do that, but it’ll take an entire goddamn day” and I don’t have many days to give.

What I do have is dad shrapnel. A few dozen spans of 5-15 minutes. I haven’t trained myself to context switch into something useful. My score in Threes is pretty good — I’ve almost made a 3,072.