Where Have I Been Hiding?
By Jim Bauer
@porwest (111876)
United States
November 22, 2025 7:00am CST
I am quite behind here lately. Granted, many might be like, "Porwest who?"
I will be doing some catching up. Maybe tomorrow. We'll see.
Of course, as you all know, I have been playing around with AI a bit. It's got my creative juices flowing again, even. For example, I've started working on a new song to make a demo for that I might run through AI to see how it interprets it. In fact, that's my actual plan.
That's part of the fun of just being a hobbyist musician.
I also decided to start a new channel on YouTube to display some of the AI renditions of my songs. I got the channel all set up and even completed the first video, as well as a second one which I plan to release on Tuesday or Wednesday. We'll see.
No rush when no one is watching yet.
So, that's where I have been and what I have been doing. Well, among other things like dragging the camper back and forth from having it winterized and mulching the trillion leaves forming in my yard.
Here's the video on the new channel I mentioned if you want to check it out. Not a crazy good song, but it's my lyrics and foundation, which, like I have said before, is how AI should be used, I think. Not just blind prompts that spit out something you didn't have a hand in creating at all—but actual covers of things you have already done on your own.
Let me know what you think.
***Video is NOT monetized!!!***
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@Traceyjayne (6880)
• United Kingdom
22 Nov
Who are you ? ….never heard of you in my life !
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@porwest (111876)
• United States
22 Nov
@Traceyjayne Now that you mention it, if I were a brilliant hacker wouldn't I go after a big bank or something? This would be like a counterfeiter printing up fake $1 bills. Hmm. lol
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@DaddyEvil (165137)
• United States
22 Nov
I THINK I remember you... I didn't realize you have an account on myLot, though. 
Sorry, not interested in music.
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@DaddyEvil (165137)
• United States
22 Nov
@porwest 
You made an inadvertent funny there! When I was working at Walmart, one supervisor kept calling me "Tom" even though my name tag clearly said "Robb". It became such a big joke that the HR department called me to their office and put the name "Tom" on the back of my regular name tag. When that supervisor was around, I'd flip my name tag over for her.
One of the other supervisors got tired of hearing her page "Tom" to different parts of the store and confronted her about it. It was hilarious!
I don't listen to music at all. I thought you knew that. Music sort of scrambles my brain and I don't think well when I hear it, so I try to avoid it as much as I can.
You made an inadvertent funny there! When I was working at Walmart, one supervisor kept calling me "Tom" even though my name tag clearly said "Robb". It became such a big joke that the HR department called me to their office and put the name "Tom" on the back of my regular name tag. When that supervisor was around, I'd flip my name tag over for her.
One of the other supervisors got tired of hearing her page "Tom" to different parts of the store and confronted her about it. It was hilarious!
I don't listen to music at all. I thought you knew that. Music sort of scrambles my brain and I don't think well when I hear it, so I try to avoid it as much as I can.
@moffittjc (126820)
• Gainesville, Florida
22 Nov
Welcome Porwest! Are you new here?
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@moffittjc (126820)
• Gainesville, Florida
25 Nov
@porwest It’s nice to see fresh blood here!
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@porwest (111876)
• United States
25 Nov
@moffittjc Badly needed, so I hear. lol
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@porwest (111876)
• United States
23 Nov
I can't see the purpose, personally, of just letting AI do all the work for me. I much prefer this option, and am having fun playing around with it. And like I said, it's got me back "in the studio," so to speak, out of pure curiosity to see what it does with my own ideas.
@BarBaraPrz (51081)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
22 Nov
"Maybe tomorrow" .. my favorite words.
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@lovebuglena (48500)
• Staten Island, New York
23 Nov
Good luck with your new endeavor! Didn’t seem like you weren’t around here.
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@lovebuglena (48500)
• Staten Island, New York
25 Nov
@porwest You’re usually always here so when you’re not here it doesn’t seem like you are not lol.
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@LindaOHio (210169)
• United States
23 Nov
Very good. I still am not sure that I understand how AI works.
@porwest (111876)
• United States
25 Nov
Music comes from a lot of places. Granted, it depends on if someone is a musician at heart. Sometimes it starts with a melody in your head. For me, I can translate that melody into notes played on my guitar. Sometimes there's a catchy line that enters your thoughts and you jot it down somewhere and one day revisit it and it turns into something.
Either way, music sometimes just happens. It is always good when it all comes together. Although, many times it unfortunately doesn't.
It's like when a band sits down to work on an album. They might write 50 songs. But only 10 or so make the cut.
