Author: robertjames1971

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Ouch

Guitars! I didn’t do a singing-in-the-car trip this morning because I’ve run out of songs that are ready for vocal tracks. Instead, I put rhythm guitars onto one song and leads onto four. I have three more songs ready for lead guitars. I wanted to pick those off too but my fingers were starting to hurt and I needed to take a break. If I can get back to them later then I will have run out of songs that are ready for guitar tracks as well as running out of songs ready for voice parts. Looks like it’s time to start writing some new riffs and some new lyrics. Outside of that, I have a big stack of songs ready to mix.

I’m feeling pretty good about the state of this year’s 50 songs in 90 days silliness.

332/365
332/365

2024 50/90 Challenge Day 24/90

Day 24 was a good day. I put vocals on five songs. That’s five songs that have gone past my personal bottleneck. Vocals are where things always get hung up for me.

After that I mixed two songs. That’s two songs moved to the complete bucket and posted to Alonetone.com, my personal source of truth. Nice. That brings me to a total of 10 songs finished. Only 40 left to go. We’re 20% complete, kids.

Songs

I’ve mixed two songs today. That brings the finished song count for the 50 songs in 90 days challenge to 10. I guess it also means that, by RPM Challenge rules, I have a full album-in-a-month too. Nice.

This is one of the two. I kinda like it. I dipped my toes into a swing groove and it kinda almost works for me. The lead guitar playing isn’t too bad either. I don’t know why, but I seemed to have had a good day that day.

Sugar Crash

My last two check ins with my weight loss surgery surgeon included a lot of talk about low blood sugar incidents. What triggers it, how to fix it, what it feels like.

Just the other day I was thinking about that subject and how it feels like it’s been a long time since I’ve had a low blood sugar episode. I pondered, what is it that I am doing now that is preventing the issue that I wasn’t doing six months ago? Whatever it is, I am happy about it because going a long time without that particular side effect was making me happy.

Fast forward to today. I’m in the grocery store, grocery shopping and I started feeling a little foggy headed. My hands started shaking. I felt weak. Aw, damn it. I thought about it the other day and jinxed myself. My days-without-a-low-blood-sugar-incident streak is officially over.

I sat in the car and had something to eat and felt a little better. I still feel a little beat up but that’s not the point of this post. The point of this post is I jinxed myself and that makes me sad. Maybe I’ll work on some music to cheer myself up. That would be both fun and productive.

Car Music Saturday

Insert the sound of giggling here.

I did some more car music today. I drove to a not-quite-as-empty-as-I-would-have-liked parking lot in town and sat in the car recording vocal tracks. I got through five songs. Every song in the 50 songs in 90 days pipeline that had lyrics but not vocals, now has vocals. Sweet.

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Lily is not impressed with me at all.

Robin is so completely unimpressed that she barely acknowledges my existence.

2024 50/90 Challenge Day 23/90

Last night after work I added lyrics and melodies to three songs. I think that means I have some singing in the car to do today.

After that I mixed two songs. Eight songs finished, 42 to go.

Both songs are meh, but what can you do. Quantity over quality and stuff.

So Close

The weekend is so close. Less than 11 minutes until my shift is over.

I have to go to my dad’s to help him with something tomorrow. I also need to go grocery shopping tomorrow. Other than that? My schedule is open and clear.

If only I had booked vacation days on Monday and Tuesday… and Wednesday… and Thursday and Friday. Naw, a normal two day weekend will be enough (insert maniacal laughter here).

Less than nine minutes to go now. So close you can feel it. So very close.