Sojka's Call

Music The best album of each genre was based on my ratings of songs on Jriver Media Player that I recorded during the year.   I figured ratings gathered over several months were more reliable of my overall impression than a snapshot of my tastes over the the last month of the year while writing this post. There was some really good hip-hop this year that got marred by excessive auto-tune.  I can handle some amount like what Future has become a multi-millionaire doing.  But, as an example, the excellent music on Khalid's Suncity was overshadowed on much of it by autotune that did not add anything and distracted from great music. The difference between the number of tracks I really liked on albums 5-24 was one song.  The top 4 were a cut above with Chris the clear standout. Here is my top 24 albums from 2018. --> --> Rank Artist Album 1 Christine and the Queens Chris 2 Masego Lady Lady 3 Ariana Grande Sweetener 4 Kali Uchis Isolation 5 DJ K...

Sorry for getting this post out after the battery replacement cost increased to $79 on 1/1/2019.  Here is the short and sweet or dirty as you may see it. My iPhone 6s has been having problems holding a charge.  Sometimes in the span of 3 hours without hardly using the dang thing the charge would drop from 95% to less than 50%.  I took it in twice to the Apple store who ran tests and looked at app use data and other technical stuff.  They told me the battery was fine, BUT, if I wanted to replace it they had a special going on to do the deed for $29.  So, I made an appointment on December 24th to have it done on December 28th. When making the appointment you are counseled that they are going to lose all your data and apps and you will have to restore your phone.  So, I went through backing it up to iCloud though I didn't have my computer with me.  That means you can get your apps back but if you have a music and audiobook library of stuff you rippe...