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Momentous Occasion

Could today be the day?

Could today finally be the day?

Could today finally be the day where we stop having water drip from our tub onto the sub-floor, which rots a hole into the sub-floor and then drips down into the cellar and screws up the cellar floor and some unfortunately placed furniture?

We have a contractor here who took out a chunk of the wall next to the tub where the water pools up to inspect the damage and he thinks he found the source of the problem and even more important, he thinks he has a fix that does not include ripping out the tub and starting over. 

Oh please please please let today be the day that this ends and please please please let the fix not include ripping out our tub and starting over. I am crossing my fingers, my toes, my eyes, and even a couple of my teeth.

ADDENDUM: As I was typing this he found another possible source of the leak and he’s going to fix that too. Oh please please please let this end today.

Just Sleep

My stomach has been kind of a jerk the last couple of days. Fun with post-gastric bypass surgery and stuff. I’m uncomfortably full one minute and literally painfully hungry the next. 

I want to sleep through the night and my stomach won’t let me. Now I’m exhausted and I just want to watch an episode of Carrie but I’m too tired.

I Scared the Crap Out of a Huge Bird

We were sitting in the living room today when something weird happens. There was a loud bang coming from the side of the house. BOOM. What was that? We all asked at the same time.

It was not a cat. Both cats were in the room with us. I had a suspicion about what it was. Every now and then we’ll have birds come out of the woods behind our house and fly right into a window. That’s sort of what this was like except it was a lot louder.

I went to my wife’s office and opened up the curtain and looked outside. Sure enough there was a bird on the ground right there. Not just any bird. It was a huge bird. It was a freakin’ red tailed hawk! Well, I need a photo of this puppy, sure do!

I ran back into the living room and grabbed my point and shoot which just happened to be on the end table right inside the doorway. With the camera in hand I went back to the office. My gigantic bird friend was still there. Just hanging out. It didn’t look injured. It looked more… bored. 

I pulled the curtain open a little wider, raised the camera, and our new bird friend saw the movement, turned toward me, looked me straight in the eyes, said “oh shit!”* and then bolted into the woods at near the speed of sound.

Chances are, the hawk didn’t just crash into the house. It’s likely that it was hunting and it crashed into the house while slaughtering a small animal. Let’s call it a taking the good with the bad sort of thing.

*You think this is the part of the post where I say the bird didn’t really speak English it was more of a symbolic thing but no… our friend the hawk actually said, “oh shit” before flying away.

Lanterns

I had a million and one things on my to-do list for today and I didn’t Get to basically any of them. Now it’s 9:32pm and the only thing left is to watch the season finale of Lanterns. Let’s see if I can at least get that right. What do you say?

So Depressed

The Cornell rape case

Trump expressed support for the rapists because of course the rapist supports the rapists.

They fired a bunch of generals. How much you want to bet that the firings were based on some sort of loyalty test? Gotta get rid of those who might not support the next January 6th, right?

Now we find that they are launching a probe to try to clear Nixon? Fucking Nixon?

The US is no longer worth saving.

Leaf Peeping

They are saying that the fall foliage is going to look really great this year but it for some reason is reaching peak early. We usually try to go u pto the mountains the second weekend of October. We might have to go the first weekend this year. That’s this weekend. Tomorrow is Thursday October 1st. How the hell did that happen?

Last week I went for a walk through the woods on a hiking path in North Andover, MA. I had my little medium format camera with me. I wanted to shoot a roll and that seemed like a good place to do it. The lens is slow though and the film I had was slow too. It was a bright sunny afternoon but in the woods I would have needed a tripod. I thought it would be fun to go back to that place when the leaves changed color in Massachusetts but I would not have much photographic success with the setup I had that day.

So the internets just delivered a few rolls of 800 speed film. That plus my cheap-o tripod plus some fall color and I think I might get some good pictures in the woods. I’ll let you know how it goes.

In the meantime, I’m watching game two of the Red Sox wild card series against the fucking Yankees and the Sox have now gone 13 innings in the series without a run. I don’t know guys… maybe score some runs, m’kay?

2026 50/90 Challenge Day 77/90

Day 77’s update is the same as day 76. Nothing. We drove 2656382755 miles going from San Diego, CA to Phoenix, AZ via the moon or something. Today we are flying to Cleveland, OH and tomorrow we fly home.

We are travelin’ folks.

2026 50/90 Challenge Day 70/90

I’m typing this while sitting on an airplane. Ain’t life weird?

Yesterday was day 70. What did I do?

I put rhythm guitars on three songs. I put vocals and lead guitars on two of them.

I have 57 songs so far. 45 are done. I’ve been stuck on that number for a while now. Of the remaining 12, all but one are finished, I just need to mix them and upload them to the interwebs and then they’ll all be finished. The one remaining song has bass, drums (both of which are MIDI), and rhythm guitars. Next up I need to write the melody and the lyrics.

50 songs in 90 days. I think I’m gonna make it this year. Fingers crossed.