I successfully acquired a pair of scissors. I was going to take a picture and post it here but I forgot to and I left them in the car when I got home so… Yeah.
Mission accomplished.
Author: robertjames1971
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Absent Minded Doofus
Once every three days or so I go to my father’s to help him out with a little issue. Nothing major, and I am not going to share details. Suffice to say that the visits require me to bring scissors. You don’t need to know why, but they do.
I am going over to his place on the way home from work today. It’s been on the books all week. I’ve known about it for days and days.
When I left the house this morning I forgot to bring scissors.
You absent minded doofus.
Moron.
There is a drug store right near his place. I will stop and get a pair. That’s not the point though. The point is that I am an idiot.
Q.E.D.
Scheduling Things is Difficult
The band’s facebook messenger chat page is exploding right now. We’re trying to get all four of us into a room together and it’s proving to be more difficult than ever before. Our traditional 6pm on Sunday rehearsal time is not doable. We’re waffling back and forth between earlier on Sundays and after work on Thursdays. Thursdays appear to be in the lead at the moment.
Scheduling things is difficult. Was it this hard to do when we were kids? Is this an adult thing? Is it a middle aged adult thing? It’s tough to say. Sometimes acting like a grown up sucks, but what can you do? The alternative (not being a grown up) is probably worse.
Okay. We’re booked for Thursday. I put it on my Google Calendar. It is officially set in stone now. Or something like that.
Faux Artsy Goofball
Yup, that’s me. Your friendly neighborhood faux artsy goofball.
2024 50/90 Challenge Day 29/90
Hello and welcome to August, month number two.
Not a lot of progress on day 29, but I thought I was going to get shut out. I was already thinking of how to write the “I did nothing” post. Instead, I stayed up a little late and added two new songs. They have full song forms and MIDI bass and drums. There are now 30 songs in the 50/90 pipeline. I also woke up this morning (day 30) feeling kinda sick and one of my ears is completely blocked. Oh good.
Bird Feeders
I have been neglecting the birds in the back yard. No longer. The bird feeders are full.
Adjusting That Mindset
I got up from my desk and walked out to the kitchen to heat up the air fryer and start cooking some lunch. When I walked back into Harry’s room, Robin Sparkles was laying down on the day-bed. I reached into my pocket for my iPhone and then stopped myself. My Z5 was literally three feet away. If I want to start using the real camera instead of my phone camera then I actually have to stop reaching for my phone, right?
I picked up my Z5 and snapped a picture of Miss Robin. There. Let’s adjust that mindset, Robbie. Let’s do it. Let’s get back to using the real camera instead of the iPhone camera. I need to get a new point and shoot if I am going to move away from the iPhone again. Something pocket sized, and no one makes those anymore. At least they don’t make decent ones anymore. Well… Nikon doesn’t make them anymore. Ugh.
Anyway, here’s a cat.
My Camera is Back
I haven’t had my Nikon Z5 available for the last week and a half. When my step son is home in Vermont I work from home at a desk in his bedroom. When he comes home to stay with us I stay out of his bedroom and work from home at a desk in the cellar. For the last week and a half he has been home with us. At the time he came home, my Z5 (and both of my film cameras) were in his room on the desk. They stayed there while he was home because I don’t like sneaking into his space, probably because I feel a little guilty about using his room for work.
He went back to Vermont yesterday so I’m back in his room today and I have my cameras again! Today’s photo a day picture is a mirrorless sucker!
I also moved the plants that are clipped from my step daughter’s plant back into his room too. They spent the week and a half in the living room on the bay window. The cats ate a couple of leaves off of one of them.
I want to try to use the mirrorless camera for the every photo over the last month of the current photo a day thing, but I doubt I will be able to do that. I’m too dependent on my iPhone. sorry.
Who Knew?
As random subject matter posts go… this is one.
The inner lining of our shower curtain was getting pretty ratty. I thought it was time to replace it. Over the weekend I went to Target and bought a new one. I didn’t get around to actually hanging it until last night.
It didn’t fit.
It was way too small. Every shower curtain we’ve bought since we moved into the house has had 12 curtain ring holes. This one had 10. I still put it up, just to see what would happen, and it is not long enough to cover our entire shower.
So… shower curtain sizes are not standardized? Who knew? I totally did not know that. You mean all the shower curtains I’ve purchased in my life have been the correct size by accident? Really? Is that where all of the luck I’ve been hoping for when I play the lottery has been going? Have I been the luckiest shower curtain shopper in America all this time without really knowing it?
Guess I’m going out shower curtain shopping again after work tonight.
2024 50/90 Challenge Day 28/90
Remember that goofy, pointless goal I mentioned a couple of times? The one where I wanted to get 20 songs mixed and finished before the month of July ended?
Yeah, I totally did it. I mixed three songs yesterday, bringing my total finished song count up to 20. That’s two (2) RPM Challenge rules albums in 28 days. That was fun. As a cherry on top, I also added two more song ideas. That brings the total pipeline count up to 28. And there are still two full months to go!
Optimistically, that means that things look good.
Realistically, it just means that there is plenty of time for me to fall off the wagon and blow this thing.
Welcome to August, music lovers.
