Last night after I posted the daily music update I added idea number 13.
Today’s progress is just ideas 14 and 15. No song form yet, just bass and drums phrases.
More tomorrow? I hope.
Author: robertjames1971
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Work Anniversary
I almost forgot about this one. Fortunately I am a nerd and added it as a recurring date on my Google calendar many years ago. Today is a noteworthy day, but this date next year will be a much more important occasion.
On this date, July 12, in the year 2004 I started a new job. 19 years later, I’m still here. 19 years, one promotion, countless reorganizations, one wedding, one house purchase, two high school graduations, one college graduation (and counting), one ridiculously invasive stomach surgery, and one continuing global pandemic later, and I am still here.
My 19th workaversary is a big deal, but my 20th next year… that will be a big deal. We’ll see what happens in the meantime. For now at least, go have a piece of cake or something to celebrate for me. You know, have the kind of sugary thing that I can’t eat anymore in honor of me not getting sacked at all over the last 19 years.
Lame Photo-a-Day Day
The whole photo a day challenge thing gets pretty lame on the one day per week I work in the office. It’s usually just a picture from the highway, or from the parking lot at work, or of my desk, or something lame like that.
What Strategies Do You Use to Increase Comfort in Your Daily Life?
Daily writing prompt
What strategies do you use to increase comfort in your daily life?
Huh? The eff?
Did ChatGPT come up with this question? Strategies to increase comfort? Who talks like that?
The answer? Who the hell knows? I don’t know that I do anything to increase comfort. Do I answer this literally? When I am cold I put on a coat. When my stomach is empty I have a bite to eat. What other strategies do you need?
What about figurative answers? I try not to be an asshole. I fail at that all the time, but when I don’t I guess my daily life is more comfortable.
This question is pretty terrible. Here’s hoping tomorrow’s question makes more sense. That’d be a nice change.
2023 50/90 Challenge Day 7 & 8/90
The recap of day seven is simple. I didn’t do anything. Zip. Zero. Zilch.
Day eight is a little more interesting. I’ve already written about most of it. I put vocals on five songs this morning while Jen was out of the house. The performances are all pretty crappy. Almost as bad as the lyrics and the melodies. The only other thing I accomplished today was coming up with the 12th new song idea. Super simple, but it has the complete song form.
Tomorrow is a work from the office day so there isn’t much chance of making any progress before work, unless I can manage to get out of bed ridiculously early. I won’t have much time after work either. I may be shut out on day nine the same way I was on day seven.
Ahsoka Trailer
A new trailer for the Disney+ series Ahsoka came out today. I am hyped like you wouldn’t believe.
This show comes out on my brother’s birthday. It’s his birthday but I feel like I am getting a present. I am so ready for this show!
Lunch Break in the Back Yard
Just sharing a couple of scenes from the back yard today, while I was cooking a hamburger on the grill.
First, there is a bird living in this bird house! Jen and I have both seen it!
Second, Robin still does not know how to deal with me being outside. She freaks out when I talk to her through the window.
Also, that window is super dirty. I should hose it down.
Works in Progress Playlist
I do this every time I do a music project like 50/90. I create a playlist on some music sharing site that is made up of works in progress. Quick rough mixes of whatever I have in the pipeline at any given time.
I start these things and then never update them and never listen to them and never do anything with them… but I still set them up for some unknown reason.
Here’s this summer’s 50/90 works in progress playlist.
Morning Music
Raise your hand if you put vocals onto five songs this morning before work.
*Robert raises his hand*
I didn’t need to hide in the car. I did it at my desk in the cellar. Five songs with vocals. That’s 10% of the 50/90 goal. Not bad, red head.
Excited About the Future
What am I most excited about for the future? Again, a vague question when you think about it. Is this a personal thing? Small scale? Large scale?
We’re going to a wedding in Bar Harbor next month. I am looking forward to that. We’re going back to Disney in September. I am super looking forward to that.
Larger scale? I’m looking forward to seeing where Bellana goes to grad school. I am looking forward to Harry graduating from college. I am looking forward to whatever comes next with Jen. Good, bad, or indiferent, everything with Jen is an adventure and I can’t wait to experience anything and everything.
On a more silly note, I can’t wait for the next Bruins Stanley Cup win and Red Sox World Series win. Someday. Given the current state of the Red Sox… well… it’s going to be a while.
So there are a lot of things to be excited about. I can’t really say which I am most excited about. Though… Disney in September, ya know?
Inside the Red Head's Head 