Searching For A Save Point (Continued...): Executive Vault Explorer (Vlog 4.30.26) - Ship "check point" usb vault in progress to cxy
A real-time documentation of the challenges I created for myself, making the last minute boss call to include a 2nd USB of Videos, Photo's of context that couldn't fit on the main USB Vault.
Context: C.Y. was expecting the delivery of this package to arrive on Friday (May 1st) when he returned from Los Angeles, to have the weekend to test how it integrated with the Sleeve note Player.
After speaking with sleeve note team the week prior, I realized the things I prioritized working on and adding would serve no purpose in testing it's integration with the current version of the sleeve note software, So while this was originally intended to ship early in the week, to ensure a Friday arrival, I made the call to delay the shipping as long as possible to give me time to do the work required on the backend (attaching meta data) to as much music across folders and folder of both released and unreleased music spanning 4 decades. While also using the new window to include some of the oldest unreleased stuff I would want him to be able to preview before the final.
By April 29th, I packed the final test version with the plan to ship first thing in the morning.
By chance I happened to listen to one the final and last minute additions made to usb, and realized the audio was missing an entire layer (audio) track, so I unpacked the usb, re-exported the track, and since it was already back plugged into my pc, I replaced the newest body of work (The album released via Catalog Works) with A new version that removed the redundant tracks that also appear on "The Tree That Fell In The Forest" but most importantly, added the meta data that allows the still "unfinalized" album to be presented in the tentative order and sequence when integrated with sleevenote, since I never got to download a version from catalog before it sunset that had any meta data attached.
After completing this, I was reminded that nearly all of that album was documented onchain, in real time as videos of me participating in sample challenges that began in the "Proof of Life" (Continued...) collection on Zora, which we lost the ability to keep adding to collections a while back, and since the Zora even removed the ability to link to the original organized collections.
Before anything, I called UPS to find out the cut off time in which a package shipped overnight would be guaranteed to arrive next day, I was told 5, but told that their truck doesn't arrive until 5:30 so as long as it's in before that were good.
So, I quickly created a 2nd usb, to place all the videos on. I took steps to compress the data and speed up the transfer time, and at first it was going smoothly, until it wasn't, the transfer time kept increasing, and the time it showed was cutting it too close to the cut off time, since I still needed to factor in the possibility of uber surge and not instant availability, but also couldn't schedule ahead of time to avoid that variable due to the fluctuating transfer time of data, it was quite nerve-racking and I would have abandoned the 2nd usb if the data transfer didn't keep fluctuating giving false hope...
In the end, it sped up and called the uber, I unfortunately was too scatterbrained to notice the location I was heading to was not the location I had been in communication on the phone with (They are both located on the same road) The Location I ended up at must have been the pickup trucks stop before the location I needed to head to, because it ended up in front of me on the way to proper location... In the end, The package was shipped, and arrived on Friday.
I was able to complete alot in this side quest (check point) version of the usb vault, but my LEGACY WEIGHS A TON... and so much more work needs to be done to not reach perfection, but still be something I don't regret sending out after 5 years of now sunset effort to use blockchain as the permanent storage to build and add context that could be linked to and easily followed in it's intended organized purpose.
To be continued......
(BONUS CONTEXT: There has been something of the most critical nature, I've been privately forced to keep navigating and prioritizing the past year, but especially since January of this year. It's unfortunately in separatable from both what I've already publicly documented and shared both on chain and to my friends, family and years of supporters, and tethered to my future as both a public facing artist, and one who uses their voice, and it's not something I can publicly be transparent about while it's still unresolved, so apologies for my depreciated participation in showing up to publicly document in real time like I love to do)
Peace Peace...<3 Dutchyyy