Sonnet 1

For ev'ry breath I draw upon thine earth
Thoughts of thee entertain so concisely
And fill my being with bittersweet mirth
Separated from you imprecisely
No relief from this torturous ordeal
No solution to be found lock or key
I suffer in silence and each night kneel
Remembering the scent of you upon me
No release in supplication's bent pose
An unquenchable desire as my fate
Song, book, merriment, music, or a rose
Failed attempt after attempt solo sate
Held hostage by uncertain future's rope
Kept alive solely by a fleeting hope

TTS

Had an idea that would require learning how to utilize AI for text-to-speech projects, but I had to learn some things first. There's an Nvidia-specific application which sounded fun (Tachatron 2), but the RTX4090 is Ada Lovelace architecture and the app only supports Volta, Turing, and Ampere and the next one which looked interesting was ESPnet, which appears to work best on linux. So I fired up the old desktop (the one with the RTX3070) but I had to replace a brand new monitor that went out after only two months of use (ugh), then patch and upgrade the operating system since its been so long since I've powered it on.

Really only three tasks left: Figure out how to install all the inane prerequisites using incomprehensible GitHub links which don't tell you *where* to put stuff so everything can work together, try to start and run the damn thing, and (if all that works), figure out how to actually use the application. Which reminds me, since this is text-to-speech, I probably ought to hook up some sort of audio output device to the linux box.