What Should I Do?

Tomorrow is Sunday. I get my teeth extracted on Monday. What should I do with my last day before parts of me are ripped out of my head?

Should I work on music and record some vocal tracks in the car in the morning? Should I go into Boston with a bunch of cameras and take pictures of stuff? Should I just sleep late like a normal person would?

I’m leaning toward the car music, but we’ll have to wait and see.

The theme today has been upset stomachs, mild nausea, and insane levels of toothache pain. I am so sick of this crap.

2026 50/90 Challenge Day 35/90

Any day that involves even a little bit of guitar playing is a good day, and day 35 was a good day.

I put rhythm guitars onto three songs, lyrics onto one, and both melody and lyrics to two.

The current state of the project is 27 songs finished, three ready for vocals, and three ready for lyrics. There are 33 songs total at this point.

Crash

I tried to watch this week’s episode of Silo this morning but the AppleTV app on my Mac crashed twice. Twice. IIt’s working on My iPad now though so sigh of relief. No that I’m remedying that issue, maybe I can remedy the whole toothache thing?

2026 50/90 Challenge Day 34/90

Right then, yesterday was day 34. I did a few things and have also already done a few things today (day 35) which are out of the scope of this literary masterpiece. Where was I with the write 50 songs in 90 days challenge when I woke up on day 34?

I couldn’t remember so I went back and read yesterdays recap post. I had 27 songs finished and four songs in progress that were ready for rhythm guitars. Now I remember. Before work I started the day by recording guitar tracks. I got through three of the songs. I wanted to get through them all but I ran out of time. Sorry.

That was not the end of things though. After work, and after my appointment with the oral surgeon (read the previous post and share in my irrational yet total mortal fear), I added two more songs into the pipeline. Songs number 32 and 33. I also added a melody to one of the songs that got guitars that morning (song number 28, I think), but that was where I ran out of steam. My wife and I did some rearranging of stuff in the living room after that and then I went to bed.

So the state of the project after 34 days was 27 songs complete, one song with a melody that is ready for lyrics, two songs with rhythm guitars that are ready for a melody and lyrics, and three songs ready for rhythm guitars.

Considering it was a work day with a scary (to me) doctors appointment, day 34 was pretty successful.

Monday is the Day

My teeth are going under the knife and Monday is the day. I’m losing one of my wisdom teeth and what is left of a molar that broke off years and years ago. Are these teeth the cause of the pain and suffering? Probably? Maybe? We’ll find out. I have had a Dentist and an Oral Surgeon both agree that these two suckers need to go away regardless of whether or not they are the source of the terrible, icky pain… so they are going.

I don’t wanna lose any more teeth. I’m already well below the allotted 32. Whatever, it is happening. I go to the clinic on Monday, take a nap, wake up and have a couple of days eating pudding and mashed potatoes and then hopefully all of this bullshit comes to an end. Here’s hoping.

2026 50/90 Challenge Day 33/90

Day 33 was a little better than the previous two days. I was able to spend a little time before starting my work day and I added two new sets of bass riffs. I called them idea numbers 30 and 31. After work I was able to take those two ideas and the two from the previous two days and work out the full song structure and finish the MIDI bass and drums. Now I have four songs ready for rhythm guitars.

The musical assembly line is rolling along again!

Awful Day

Yesterday was bad from a toothache perspective, but I was under the impression that things were maybe starting to improve. That ended today, in a big way. The Tylenol I’ve been taking by the fist full decided to stop working at all today. I took three Tylenols at 11:00am and then at about 11:30 the toothache decided to ramp itself up to 11 and it started to roar. It’s now 8:30pm and it hasn’t calmed down at all. Not even a little bit.

Add to that the fact that the antibiotics are making me nauseous. I spent the whole day on the edge of vomiting. Fuck me, today sucked.

I meet with the oral surgeon tomorrow. No idea when they are going to pull the bad teeth. No clue if the teeth they are planning to pull are the cause of the pain. Shit, this sucks.

2026 50/90 Challenge Day 32/90

For the second day in a row I did absolutely nothing until literally minutes before bed. Then I just snuck in a couple of bass riffs. I am up to 29 songs in the project pipeline now, all but two are finished.

That’s two days in a row with the bare minimum. Here’s hoping I start working up some steam again.

Ouch

I am so sick of this effing toothache. I can’t even tell you. Five full days of antibiotics with two days still to go. It’s only just now starting to feel a little better, but not enough to make me not be sick of this effing toothache. Seriously. The country is going to run out of Tylenol if this toothache crap doesn’t end soon.

Random thought number one. I haven’t had a good nights sleep in weeks. It is mostly the toothache’s fault. That’s not the point of this random thought though. One of the rules following gastric bypass is that caffiene is no longer allowed. The random thought is that I miss caffiene. 

Random thought number two. Apparently today is national chocolate chip cookie day. My step daughter just went out and bought chocolate chip cookies for the family. My wife has one. My step son has one. My step daughter has one. Post gastric bypass Robbie though… I can’t have sugar. It makes me sick. Am I sad about this? No. Why? Because I have a bunch of sugar free chocolate chip cookies in my sugar free snacks stash. Let’s celebrate! 

2026 50/90 Challenge Day 31/90

As hinted at in day 30’s recap, very little happened on day 31. I fully expected to come up with zero progress but I lucked out and had a few minutes in between punching out of work and leaving for the movies where I was able to noodle a couple of bass riffs in GarageBand on my iPhone. I labeled them as song idea number 28.

That was it. I might get a little more work done today (day 32) but then again I might not. We’ll see.