Small joys that make sense

So been having a pretty fuck all week. Can't really pinpoint why. But it's usually quite bad mental health-wise around Dussehra-Diwali. 

So anyway, guess what (of all things) took away a huge chunk of my stress today? 

Discovering Premiere Pro has a transcription mode! And it's quite kickass.

We were at edits and meddling around with Premiere when I spotted this open Effects box that read 'Transcript'. I had our editor click on it, and a progress bar popped up. There was a video in the timeline that we had been working, and the bar took about 5 minutes to fill up, during which time nothing happened.

So I threw on the latest Brian Eno track on Spotify. 

Brian fucking Eno is a millionaire. His net worth is $60 million! 60 fucking million dollars! Not only is he a first-rate genius, he's a goddamned rich genius. The best kind there is to be. 

Anyway, so by this time the progress bar had reached the other end. And guess what awaited us on the other side?

Oh sweet subtitles, transcribed almost 95% correctly. Except for a few names (Rahul became David... fuck knows how) and some places, everything else (including the font, placement and text size) was bang on. 

I became delirious for a bit. These are the small joys that make sense in life. Like saving so much time (and a little bit of money) commissioning subtitles for each and every fucking video we do. 

This is going to sort things out quite well. 

On a separate note, a few days ago I took out our old 5G router and connected it to the existing router we have. I put out a long LAN cable from the new router to the old one and voila! we now have high-speed Internet in the office! It was like 20 Mbps earlier, and now it's a crazy 200 Mbps. 

This is another one of those small joys that really make sense. Also turned around an otherwise pretty shit day.

Anywho - here's hoping the future is full of shit days so small joys that make sense can happen more and more frequently.