I’ve waited more than half a year to order a Monome GRID for my synthesizer. In any case, I’ve had more than enough to keep me busy and the last thing I needed was more equipment. I finally gave in when a few of these came back into stock; at times they are difficult to find as the New York manufacturer has trouble sourcing all the parts. I had been hoping for this to arrive on Monday considering how far it was traveling and that it was getting later in the day on this Saturday and so with no real hope of taking possession of it yet we headed to Starbucks for me to do a bit of blogging of some seriously old stuff and Caroline was going to work on finishing a new pair of socks for me.

Turns out that she’d forgotten the heel enforcing thread that will let them last longer and so she went home to fetch it when “bing” I get an email from the Post Office saying my package had just been delivered. So I called Caroline frantically hoping she’d not been there and gone already and sure enough, she picked it up and I got to unpack it within minutes after its arrival.  Those are my new socks in the background.

The GRID is a kind of sequencing device that I bought to work specifically with my Monome Teletype. One of the developers recently pushed out some new firmware for the Teletype that lets it and the GRID talk to each other. I’m pretty excited about this new acquisition and am looking forward to one day getting an ARC and hopefully a NORNS from them too.