Author: robertjames1971

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4:37pm on Day Seven

I had a weird moment earlier. I mentioned it briefly in the post with the new music. I had a moment, just as I was getting ready to get up and make lunch, where I was hit with a wave of light headedness. It made me think I had a migraine coming, but it never arrived. The spell lasted for five minutes or so but once it passed it left me feeling completely exhausted.

After lunch I had to lie down and sleep a little. I was out for about an hour. I feel a little better now. My head is clearer but I am still pretty worn out. I think I am going to flake in front of the TV until dinner. We’re not going to order out tonight but we’re on our own. Jen is thinking of making herself a sandwich. I’m thinking of a protein bar with some peanuts as a chaser. We’ll see. My last bite of lunch was at 2:03. I want to wait until at least 6:03 before dinner. I think I can do that.

I am working tomorrow. A full day. You heard it here first.

Three New Mixes

I have mixed three songs today. I’m hoping to do a couple more but I think I am out of energy thanks to Covid and possibly because a migraine is coming. Not sure on the migraine yet, but I think it might be happening. I am going to try and make some lunch and see how it goes.

The first of the three songs I’ve finished would have been one of the album in a day things if not for the aforementioned Covid. The song isn’t very good but I don’t care.

The second song was started earlier in September and also isn’t very good.

The third song was started in August and finished in September and also isn’t very good.

Energy

Daily writing prompt
What things give you energy?
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Another vague and kinda pointless daily prompt. Oh well. They can’t all be bangers.

The literal answer is food and water, right? Biochemistry and all that? When you feed your cells they produce energy and you get to keep running without issue for a few hours or so. I took a biology class in high school. I took a chemistry class in high school too. I never took a biochem class. What I’ve learned in that regard comes from either learning about my step son’s type one diabetes, or just listening to my step daughter talk about her job.

The figurative energy sources are more interesting, but also pretty obvious and straight forward. What gives me energy? Being with my wife. Being with my step kids. Being with my niece and nephews, though that doesn’t happen often because I am a terrible uncle and likely just a terrible person all around.

Being creative gives me energy. For me that means music, both making music and just listening to music, or playing with the cameras and photos as if I knew what I was doing. Sometimes a good movie or TV show can be a source of energy on some weird level. A good book can do the same.

Traveling can do it. Driving on a road trip, visiting a new place, exploring something or somewhere. What does not give me energy, quite the opposite, is spending time with crowds of new people. That just sucks the life right out of me. I think that is the textbook definition of an introvert. Maybe?

Okay, there are a few vague thoughts on this vague question. I guess it got the job done in that it did prompt me to write more than a few words worth of a post. Success.

6:55am on Day Seven

I wanted to sleep a lot more this morning than I did, but my stomach had other ideas. I went to bed at a little after 10:00pm last night. My alarm was set for 8:00 but my stomach woke me up at 5:00. It’s a thing I’ve dealt with since the surgery started to heal. If I go too long without eating my stomach, or what’s left of it, gets empty enough that it starts to hurt in complaint. When I told my doctor about it her response was basically, “duh, you’re hungry.” If I have something to eat I start to feel better within a few minutes.

That was the case today. It had been eight hours or so since I ate anything and my stomach was just empty. I like to start my day with some water and my morning vitamins so I delayed food for a bit and had eight ounces of lemonade mix and my three pills. Oddly, one of those pills made me a little nauseous but it passed quickly. I waited the required 15 minutes and then had breakfast and now my tiny little redesigned stomach is full and happy again.

As far as Covid, I’m not feeling 100% well, but I would say I’m about 75-80% well. My nose is still a little stuffy but I can breath through it, and I haven’t coughed a single time in the last two hours. Fatigue is still an issue, but not nearly as bad as it was 3-4 days ago. As soon as I tested positive on Tuesday I started planning on my next Covid test happening on Sunday (today), regardless of how I was feeling. I will stick to that and test about an hour from now. All of my testing through this process has happened at around 8:00am. Don’t ask why, that just seems like a nice time to me.

I fully expect a positive test today, I just hope that it’s not as emphatic a positive as it was on Tuesday. Last time the test line turned bright red before the solution had even reached the control line. I’m hoping it at least has the decency to be a faint line this time. Fingers crossed, eh?

Wish me and my immune system luck. Happy day seven, everyone!

Fed Ex Fail

Before I go into this bitchy rant, know that I used to work for UPS and my shipping company loyalty lies squarely with them. In fact, once while I was working a temp job running a medical instrument company’s shipping office a competitor’s driver actually complained at how much business I was sending UPS’ way compared to everyone else. What he didn’t know was that I had no control over which shipping method each individual shipment used, but I didn’t tell him that.

Okay, that paragraph is going to be longer than the actual point of the post. Sorry. Anyway….

Fed Ex just delivered three packages to our front door. All three packages had different ship to addresses. One was for me, the other two were for two other houses.

The fuck, Fed Ex?

Covid Tunes

You thought I forgot about the music project, didn’t ya? Well, I have been a little preoccupied the last week or so.

This would have been the first song for the album in a day challenge thing I was going to work on during our first full day home after the Disney World fail. That project, along with the larger 50 songs in 90 days challenge that enveloped it came to a pretty clear fail that same day when the covid symptoms started. I felt up to trying to mix something after lunch today, thinking that maybe I could get one song in before I was completely worn out. I was right. I got one mix in and now I am completely worn out.

I like this song. I don’t like the performance or the mix or the recording and the vocals are utterly atrocious even by my non-existent standards. Like I said though, the song itself is okay.

Accept the Attention

Twice today, Miss Robin Sparkles the cat has allowed my beloved wife Jen to pick her up and hold her. That’s huge. Even better, the second time she hung around for a while after Jen put her down. That’s huger!

(Mostly) Daily (goofy) Haiku for You #36

I saw someone talking about a new guitar repair shop* on Facebook today that just happens to be in the same town my in-laws live in. I have both reached out for a cost estimate and written a haiku. I think I have earned a nap after all of that.

Old guitars need love.
Frets and wiring harness.
Haven’t forgotten.

*I don’t know if it’s actually a new shop, but it’s new to me.