Author: robertjames1971

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Late

Yesterday was my first day back to work after a week’s vacation. It was not the usual first day back as I walked right into some big process changes that needed to be handled and communicated to my staff. It was an odd day all around.

Today is more like the usual first day back. I left the house at 7:30am and got to the office 10 minutes late.

Yeah… welcome back, Robert.

I did manage to get my exercise in for the day and to take a stupid photo-a-day-challenge picture. Nothing special.

24/365

Here’s hoping the rest of the day/week/career is less frustrating.

2024 50/90 Challenge Day 82/90

A good day. I put vocals and lead guitars on the last three songs. I also mixed the last song that was started before September 1st.

There are 46 songs mixed and complete. There are seven more ready to mix. 53 in total. There are eight days left. I have more days than songs left to mix. I think I am in good shape.

Correction

A slight musical correction to a post from earlier today. I said that I wasn’t going to have a chance to play guitar again until Thursday morning. Well, I was wrong. I played guitar tonight. I put lead guitars onto three songs… the last three songs. All of the tracking for the 50 songs in 90 days challenge is complete. Unless I decide to add another song or something silly like that.

How about a little ambiance?

Draining

What a day this one has been.

I was out on vacation last week and it was glorious. Today I went back to work for the first time and KA-BOOOM!!! A huge administrative change was announced just as I punched in for the day. I had 506 emails in my inbox and a meeting with my manager at 9:00am and a meeting with my director at 10:00am and DAMN did that come out of nowhere and just bowl me over.

It’s nothing bad. It’s going to make me very busy through October and November and into the beginning of December, but busy in a good way. I just didn’t see it coming and it has left me feeling drained and worn and sort of like a wrung out dish rag today.

I mean, woah!

Not Quite Done

I had a vision in my head of finishing the tracking for the 50/90 challenge yesterday by adding vocals and lead guitars to the final three songs. Instead, I didn’t do any of that which lead to me sneaking out and putting vocals on those final three songs this morning. I won’t have time for the last few guitar tracks until… Thursday? I have a bunch of songs still to mix so there’s plenty of work to do between now and then. I mixed one song last night and started mixing another. Hopefully I’ll finish that tonight, but I didn’t get a lot of sleep last night at all and I expect to crash hard tonight. We’ll see.

Pictures. One guitar picture as a reminder to myself that I didn’t play yesterday (or today) even though I wanted to.

Next, a view from my “recording studio” this morning.

Finally, yet another picture of the downtown clock from the drive home. Fascinating.

23/365

I have eight days left to finish the 50 songs in 90 days challenge. I am feeling some pressure, but I am also optimistic.

2024 50/90 Challenge Day 81/90

Okay, let’s get nervous now. Less than 10 days left. Just over a week.

I mixed one song. That’s it. I had SO much more planned. I thought I was going to be able to finish all of the remaining tracking but I didn’t get to any of it.

The nerves are irrational, I know. It doesn’t matter though.

45 songs complete. The challenge is 90% finished.

Clock

No car music today but I did drive past the downtown clock so that’s nice.

22/365

I’m going back to my dad’s place today. Just for a few minutes. I need to pick up a few things. Other than that? Who knows. It’s the last day of vacation and the first day of Fall. That’s the story.