I over did things without making any major progress. Somehow… I guess.
I mixed a song. That’s good. Before I did that though I added a song. MIDI bass and drums down as well as a melody and lyrics. The pipeline is up to 54 songs now. Why did I do that?
I mixed another song. It’s been uploaded to Alonetone.com and cross posted to the 50/90 challenge page. 48 songs down. Two more completes the challenge for this year. I’m 96% finished.
All I had to do was mix a few song demoes and I could call the 50 songs in 90 days challenge done.
What did I do instead? I added another song.
What a dumbass.
Just some random things going through my tiny little brain right now.
I don’t get hungry anymore. In this post-gastric bypass universe I go from feeling comfortably satisfied, skip right past normal hungry feelings, and catapult straight to oh my god I am so hungry it hurts why does my stomach hurt so much?
Normally that isn’t a big deal. I have something to eat and I feel better. Some days though, like the last couple of days, it gets a bit annoying. Some days I just can’t get out in front of the problem. I eat something, then an hour or so later I feel the hunger pains coming back. Normally I can go about three hours without any issues. Sometimes, like when I was visiting my father in the hospital and had other things on my mind, I could go twice that without my stomach perking up at all.
Today I finished breakfast at around 8:00am. I started feeling it at a little before 11:00am. I was drinking water at the time and had to pause for 15 minutes before I could eat again so I didn’t get any food into my empty stomach until 11:20. I had a quick snack. I was done at 11:26. The hunger pains were back in full force by 12:11pm. What the hell, bro? I went on lunch at 1:00pm so I made myself wait to eat anything more. I didn’t want to fill my new little stomach pouch before lunch and then throw off my schedule even more. I was able to sneak in a little water which helped a little but come on, stomach… you have to do better than 45 minutes, right?
Change of subject. Television shows that are currently being worked through.
Dude… that’s a shit load of TV. I’m pretty sure I’ve forgotten a couple of shows too.
I have some linens that I took from my father’s apartment. The plan is to donate them somewhere. My sister suggested the MSPCA at Nevins Farm in Methuen. It’s right around the corner from my house. I wasn’t sure if that was something they’d take so I Googled it today. Sure enough, they take bedding. They don’t take pillows or knitted blankets though. If I have any of those I’ll have to bring them somewhere else.
I also took a combination turn table, AM/FM radio, CD player, cassette player from his apartment. I haven’t found a home for it yet. I am thinking that tomorrow I’ll plug it in next to my desk and listen to old Rush records on vinyl while I work. That sounds like a good plan to me.
Okay then. Here’s hoping the hunger pains are taken care of for a few hours at least. I’m crossing my fingers… and symbolically crossing my bypassed digestive system too… whatever that means.
I don’t know… maybe it’s time to just stop with the photo a day crap. Maybe I should just force myself to skip a day and be done with the whole thing.
I mixed one song last night, just before bed. That’s all I had time for. 47 songs complete. Three more to finish the 50 songs in 90 days challenge. Three more on top of that to empty my in-progress pipeline.
I have 11 songs that were started in September. It would be more fun if there were 15, don’t you think? I have this weird compulsion to add four more songs. I think this whole project might be getting to me. We’ll see.
47 songs down and three to go in order to complete the 50 songs in 90 days challenge for 2024.
If I pick out 5-10 songs from this year’s batch to make an “album”, it’s safe to say that this one won’t be included. It’s not the worst song, but it’s not terribly good either. Can 7/8 time swing? I guess not.
Five seconds after I took this they tried to assassinate each other.
I wasn’t going to do this… and then I was. I am going to have over 50 news songs thanks to this year’s 50 songs in 90 days challenge. In the past I’ve picked out about 10 songs from a successful 50/90 and made them into an “album”.
I wasn’t going to do that this year. Then about a month ago I thought maybe I’d do something. Maybe instead of picking 10 out of the 50+ songs I would pick five and do half of an album.
Today I started listening to some of the recordings from July. The first three songs I listened to went onto the list of songs to redo. Then the list grew to four of the first five songs. I stopped listening at that point. I think I need to be way more critical of myself. I’m usually ridiculously over critical, but for some reason today I was thinking this batch of songs might not be that bad. We’ll see if I change my mind over the next few days.
Yeah, we’ll see.
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