Gregorian: Sunday, 12 October 2025 Mayan: Long count = 13.0.12.17.18; tzolkin = 2 Etznab; haab = 16 Yax French: 21 Vendémiaire an 234 de la Révolution Islamic: 19 Rabi II 1447 Hebrew: 20 Tishri 5786 Julian: 29 September 2025 ISO: Day 7 of week 41 of 2025 Persian: 21 Mehr 1404 Ethiopic: 2 Teqemt 2018 Coptic: 2 Babah 1742 Chinese: Cycle 78, year 42 (Yi-Si), month 8 (Yi-You), day 21 (Jia-Yin) Julian day: 2460961 Day of year: Day 285 of 2025; 80 days remaining in the year Discordian: Setting Orange, Bureaucracy 66, Year of Our Lady of Discord 3191 All the above are descriptions of the current rotation of the particular point on the surface of the planet in approximate relation to the planet's position in its orbit to the sun. It also, coincidentally, is my fortieth orbit of said sun, or my birthday. Time, though scientifically defined such that one second equates to the duration of 9,192,631,770 cycles of the radiation corresponding to the transition between two specific...
Yesterday, July 11, 2025, my cat, Kačka, died. I woke up to find her body in the kitchen. It still feels surreal to think that she is gone. Twelve years of her goofiness, cuddly-ness, and presence. This is a music blog, so I will include some music: my own. From my album Untitled No. 2 (West Texas Fantasies) which was recorded between winter 2020 and summer 2021 and, as it is apt to happen when recording ambient sounds in a house with a cat, has a sample of Kačka in the final track, "Just drips in an empty sink". Untitled No. 2 (West Texas Fantasy) by Justin Houser Kačka came into my life with a bit of a scare. In late July 2013, I was working as a TA in the School of Music at Texas Tech getting the computer lab I taught out of ready for classes when I received a text from my mother that just read "We need to talk." Anyone will recognize the concern of "what have I done" or "what horrible thing has happened" that ran throug...