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$20 MP3 player (Ruizi x50, clip style) arrived in the mail with a 64GB microSD card. Loaded that bad boy up with a bunch of songs and pretty charmed with the novelty. Two minor complaints: loading songs onto both the card and the device's internal memory confuses it, and multiple disc / volume albums also seem to confuse it. I think my temporary workaround will be leaving all my music on the card (which has more than enough space; I'm converting everything to 320 and 192 mp3 anyway) and making playlists for those "problem" albums. The main purpose of this device is to keep me company on the airplane, in the car, and on walks in Indonesia anyway, so 99% good enough is more than good enough -- I get music on the go with little effort, which is all I'm wanting from this thing.
Just learned that my current hosts are inviting 14 people over for Easter. They are not Christian. If I get COVID, I won't be able to visit Indonesia on my due date, and will be out several hundred dollars. I asked my hosts if they could please ask each household to test for COVID-19 before coming and even offered to pay for test kits. They were very offended by the request, for some reason, saying that if one of their guests has COVID-19, that's just the way it is. I do not have any viable housing alternatives for this ~10 day period before I depart. How frustrating.
Finished the Kizumonogatari film series -- plenty fun.