I was actually planning on taking an official break from all music blogging duties later this week, as my 3 little nieces are coming to town to visit during an upcoming heat wave that’s got ‘lake/pool day err day’ written all over it, but this morning my iPhone 6’s battery decided that it would completely check out of being an active participant in this existence and now it won’t even work when plugged in (which is how I’ve pretty much had to use for the past month).

And since I have long ago opted for a ‘pay as you go’ phone plan option that let’s me keep my monthly costs down to about $15 a month, that means that my dead phone does not come with an easy replacement that I can just pop into the store to get. I also live in an area where there is not an Apple store within 300kms + it turns out that the option of mailing my phone to Apple is “not currently available” for my ancient 2014 phone model.

So I did some Youtube-ing, and like with most diy fixes you search for on Youtube, I came away thinking, “I should be able to do that”…

… and then, because of my beautifully isolated mountown location, I ordered an iPhone 6 battery replacement kit from the bad-man-who-wants-to-travel-around-in-space-instead-of-end-world-hunger’s website and now I just have to wait around patiently without a phone until that package arrives and I can once again test out my ability to follow along to advice found on Youtube.

But, until that package arrives, I’m completely phone less. Which kinda makes it impossible to use / keep up with social media sites, especially Instagram, which kinda makes it seem like this would be the perfect time to just announce that I am taking a total break from posting any new HI54 content until I get either my phone working or some kind of replacement. This timing should also perfectly line up for the time that my nieces are in town visiting, so I was gonna be plenty busy enough with non-blogging duties anyways (ie. uncle-ing). Message delivered universe.

So consider this break in new content to be a good time to check out a bunch of HI54 stuff that maybe you missed or haven’t checked out in awhile. For example:

• Have you checked out MTR | FRESH TAPES before?

• Or what about FM/TV?

• And I bet there’s gotta be a few #HI54MIXCDS that you’ve never got around to listening to before + do you have any idea how many great music/movie/tv/book/etc recommendations can be found in all the HIGHLY RECOMMEND Q&As from over the years of doing that series?

• Are you curious about what’s going on lately with that ‘mountain town’ site I sometimes link out to / mention that I also work on?

• Honestly, just go to the HI54 homepage and keep scrolling until you find something that catches your fancy — there’s literally thousands of things that someone who is still reading this sentence might think is worth checking out further.

And then—fingers crossed that my diy battery replacement plan goes according to plan—HI54.BLOG should be back to it’s usual blogging duties in no time (as long as by “no time” we mean at least not until after July 2nd).

Enjoy this last bit of June & I’ll internet you next month!

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JEREMY / @HI54LOFI