I just cleaned the living room, including sweeping and mopping the floor. The cats are so confused right now. They are utterly devastated. Miserable beyond words. I have literally ruined their tiny little lives.
Just wait until I vacuum the little area rug in front of the couch. Woah boy are they going to lose their shit.
Sorry, ladies.
There could be another reason for their misery. I’m listening to a Deep Purple live record and Glenn Hughes keeps screeching the way he used to on stage and they may just be mad about that. I can’t tell, but I am pretty sure it’s the sweeping and the mopping at the core of their displeasure.
Nope. Not playing today. This pointless bloggie is a solo venture. I don’t do interviews. Back in my college radio talk show days (91.5 WUML, Lowell) it was my co-host, DJ Dina, who did the interviews. I just drove the board and threw in the occasional comment.
It is 4:54pm. I get off work at 5:30. 36 minutes to go until the long weekend.
Do I have any plans yet? I want to do some cleaning. Jen and I might take a lunch time drive tomorrow. I want to go grocery shopping in the morning.
Anything else?
The weather is supposed to be clear all three days. There has to be some photography fun. I might get up for some ocean sunrise tomorrow. The sunrise is after 6:00am now. I can handle that. I might shoot some film at the ocean, including some black and white film. How would a sunrise look on black and white? Dreamy and cool or blah? We might find out.
I need to book a Genius Bar appointment. My iPhone’s lightning connection is failing. I need to get that fixed. They probably just need to clean it, but we’ll see. I might wait until next week for that one though.
As previously stated, there is a Disney World trip this month. It’s a short one, but it’s coming up quickly. Is it too early to write up a packing list and start planning that? Do I need to buy a bathing suit? What are the chances of Jen and me hitting the hotel pool? I don’t know. I’ve lost over 200 pounds since the last time I owned a bathing suit or a pair of shorts that could pass for a bathing suit.
In other words… I have no idea what we’re going to end up doing over this upcoming holiday weekend. All I know for sure is that it is now 4:59pm and the weekend is 31 minutes away.
I have a feeling there are going to be a lot of posts today and they are all going to be anxiously awaiting the start of the long weekend. You’ve been warned, I guess.
Holiday weekend, Just a few hours away. Hey clock, hurry up!
It’s just after 8:30am on the Friday before Labor Day weekend and I haven’t punched in to work yet. I had a few things to do first. I went with Harry to the garage to drop off his rental car and pick up his car. It’s all set and it looks as good as new. He just left to go back to Burlington. He’s going to miss his first class this morning, but that’s about the only downside to this visit. All is well again.
I’m less than nine hours away from a three day weekend. I just finished season 11 of the new Doctor Who. I have 20 episodes over two seasons left to go and then I’ll be all caught up. I’m on episode 17 of season seven of the original show. Eight episodes left in this season and something like 2346123472572 episodes left in the full series. I don’t expect to finish either series this weekend, but I can pretty much guarantee I’ll be done with the new show in a week or so which means I will be 100% caught up before the next episode airs in November.
What about the music project? I have 27 songs finished and 39 total in progress. I have four more songs ready to mix and I hope to crank them all out tonight. I have 30 days left, including today, and a ton of work still to go, but I think I am more or less on pace to finish on time. I’ll have a few days at Disney World where it will be tough to make progress, but I think I will be okay. I should note that even though I took over two weeks off in August, I still managed to finish an RPM Challenge Rules album in a month as I started and finished 12 songs within the calendar month. I started and finished 10 in July too. In order to hit 50 songs over all I will need to start and finish 11 songs in September. Three album in a months in a row isn’t a bad place to be. I think once this project is finished I will try to get back into the last re-recording project which has been left hanging for a little more than a year now.
I mentioned in the last post that my stomach has been a little less than 100% this morning. I had some trouble with water early on and had to deal with a minor bout of The Foamies after taking my vitamins. I only got eight ounces of water in during my exercise, but afterwards I was okay for breakfast and I am feeling much better now. I’ve managed another eight ounces since I came home from Harry’s auto shop. I think we’re back on track today. I might have a hamburger on the grill for lunch today. We’ll see how it goes.
Okay, it’s 8:50am now and I have to be punched into work by 9:00. I think I’ll hit publish on this masterpiece of an update and get my work day started. Lots to do today, lots to do. Eight hours and 40 minutes to go until the long weekend.
I’m feeling alright, mostly. It’s 5:25am, I’m about to take my morning vitamins and do my morning exercise. My stomach is feeling pretty gassy right now. That’s the only negative. I did something last night to earn it, but I’m not sure what.*
My step son is here. He got word late yesterday afternoon that his car was ready for pick up so he drove his rental car home and stayed overnight. We’ll go and pick up his car as soon as the shop opens this morning, a couple of hours from now. It’s not really a social visit, but it’s always great when he’s here even if it’s a short visit. I’ll take it.
It’s Friday and this weekend is Labor Day weekend. A couple of weeks from now we’ll have another long weekend as we travel to Disney World again. I am really looking forward to both mini-breaks. We don’t have any plans for Labor Day weekend, but it doesn’t matter. It’s going to be great no matter what we do.
The moral of the story? I’m feeling alright on this Friday, pre-dawn, morning.
*Okay, just a little comment on stomach issues. Folks have been making suggestions on what I should do to stop the issues. While I appreciate the advice, it is coming based on normal people’s normal digestive systems and that is not me anymore. The troubles I have are side effects of gastric bypass surgery. I no longer have a normal stomach or a normal intestinal tract. Hell, the post surgery literature tells me that I don’t technically have a stomach anymore. What I have is referred to as a pouch. I was told before the surgery that the issues I am having today would be the norm.
It’s not down to diet, it’s down to the physical changes. I have very strict rules for how I eat, as well as what I eat. Sure there are things that I can’t eat anymore. If I have anything with more than a couple of grams of sugar I will get seriously sick. As time goes on I will find other things that I can’t handle anymore. Every time I’ve had Cod I’ve gotten sick. I won’t have Cod anymore. When I write about having problems, such as having a lot of gas this morning, it’s not from what I ate, it’s how I ate it. I either had too much food overall, or I ate it too fast, or I didn’t chew it thoroughly enough. Things like that are what cause my stomach issues today.
So while I am very appreciative of the advice, it’s no longer applicable to me. I’m not a normal human anymore. I am Bypass Man. I am He Who Has a Pouch Instead of a Stomach Man. I am Rewired Digestive System Man. I am something different and I will be for the rest of my life. I have a lot to learn, and a lot of rules to follow, but I’ve also lost over 220 pounds in just over a year and I feel healthier than I’ve ever felt in the previous 50+ years so all of these ridiculous changes are absolutely worth it. That’s why I am feeling alright today.
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