Preferences among genres of music

I consider my tastes to be fairly mainstream, there is a wide range of music that I enjoy hearing. A notable exception might be that there are fair chunks of country and folk music of which I am not much of a fan, especially if the lyrics are sentimental story-telling, also the kind of heavy metal that is more incoherent growling than it is melodic guitar work. I don't have much sophistication: while I might like a range of semi-popular classical music, in jazz I enjoy Keith Jarrett but don't go as far as liking much of John Abercrombie's stuff.

Anyhow, one genre that I like more than many is synthpop, also fairly minimalist electronica. After all, I'm the kind of person who can get an earworm of the music that Rob Hubbard provided for the video game Lightforce. This morning I have been happily productive for a while as I listened to some late seventies tracks from the Yellow Magic Orchestra and am now wondering where I put a Larry Fast album.

Experiments with masks

With the advent of the omicron variant, I have been upping my masking game. I'm unconvinced by my experiments with P100's, I don't think I'm getting enough of a seal against my face, though I'd say the 3M feels as if it fits better than the Honeywell, and I remain intelligible from behind each. Also, I have safety glasses with side panels all around, to help protect my ACE2-receptor-rich eyeball surfaces from passing viral miasma, and these don't sit well against my face atop the bulk of the P100's. I also plan to cut larger HEPA filters for the pouches of my cloth masks, I worry there is still too much surface for airflow through the cloth only. So, my current go-to for grocery shopping will be the glasses with a cloth+HEPA mask atop an FFP2. I won't look much like a crazy person at all, even if the inner me would rather prefer to be wearing a full-face CBRN respirator for such excursions. No long COVID-19 for me, thank you.