Today has been a weird telecommute day.
I came home from dropping the kids off before school and put on a load of laundry and filled up the dishwasher. I made myself a little breakfast and sat at my computer looking into blogging options (svbtle isn’t a free service? It used to be free, wasn’t it?). I read a news story about Pixies front man Black Francis. I read up on the Orion launch situation. At about quarter to nine I logged into work for the morning.
At lunchtime I made myself a half cup of quinoa and a bowl full of green grapes. I also took a shower. I usually sacrifice my morning shower time slot to my step daughter on telecommute days. I then told a Comcast door to door salesman that I wasn’t interested in switching off of FiOS and folded that morning’s load of laundry. Now I am writing this in the last few minutes of my break before getting back to work for the afternoon.
Now you may be asking yourself, what’s so weird about all of that?
Well, I’ll tell you.
I haven’t tried to write or record even a single note of music. Since February 1st all of my free time at home on telecommute days was spent working on a music project. It’s December 4th now and I haven’t started a new project. December has been free of original music so far. I don’t know if it’s going to stay that way or not, but it might. I have a left over song from November, another from October, and that big 20 minute sucker from September. Maybe I’ll finish those this month. Maybe not. I’ve thought about re-recording a couple of songs from the distant past. I’ve also been thinking about covering a Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd song. Maybe I’ll do it. Maybe I won’t.
Maybe I’ll take December and January off from writing projects and stick to learning songs for the band. We’ll see.
Originally published at robj2112.wordpress.com on December 4, 2014.
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