Author: robertjames1971

I'm wicked tall.

Something I’m Thinking About

The RPM Challenge is about three weeks away. I’m thinking about what to do as far as guitar gear and I think I have an idea…

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I would add a Crybaby wah pedal to this. It would be off the board to the right, but in the signal chain it would come after the Fuzzface and before the Dyna Comp. Pedal chain law requires a Fuzzface to come first. It’s an impedance thing. I’m not an electrical engineer so I don’t really get it, but it’s true. wah->Fuzzface sounds terrible. Fuzzface->wah sounds… okay.

I’ve wired this for power but I haven’t put velcro on the three new pedals. Outside of that and adding the Crybaby, I am all set to try this out… someday. Saturday? Sunday? Someday.

Guitar playing… I haven’t forgotten about you, my friend and favorite hobby and possibly unhealthy obsession. Just need to make some time.

As if I Needed Another Reason

I don’t need another reason to want to work from home more and work in the office less, but I have one. A good one.

There is something about the lighting and the mirror in the men’s room in the office that really points out how much grey there is in my hair. Especially around my temples and right above my ears. The grey hair really just leaps out at you.

Yeah, that’s a damn good reason to want to work from home more and work in the office less. As if I needed another reason, right?

Play

I didn’t have a chance to play any guitar last night. I didn’t blow off an opportunity, the opportunity just never arose.

This weekend? We’ll see. I need to start preparing my fingers for February’s album-in-a-month challenge. Also, hopefully the band will start practicing again. I have no calluses on my finger tips right now. It’s been almost two months since I’ve played a single note. It’s going to hurt when I start. That’s okay. I will survive. I will persist.

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I’m thinking of downsizing the pedal board setup for February. Just to shake things up. We’ll have to see.

It’s time to start playing for real, Robert. Get to it.

Flurry

I checked the weather before I left the house to drive to the office today. Very cold and very windy. That’s what we can expect.

Just before I got to my exit off of route 128 it started to flurry a little. Just a tiny bit. By the time I parked in the parking lot that flurry was actually sticking. How? It’s still just a flurry. There is so little snow falling that you can almost count the flakes as they drop. Somehow though, that tiny amount of snow is sticking to everything.

There is so little of it that you can’t even call it a dusting. This feels weird. We just had a sander come through the parking lot. Do they know something that the weather forecast I checked doesn’t?

Could this be related to the fires in Los Angeles? What a horror that is. The pictures are terrifying. If you’re in L.A., stay safe. If they tell you to evacuate, do it. You’re too important to risk otherwise. I’m 3,000ish miles away so I cannot even imaging what it’s like there.

Okay. I have to go in to work now. I’m sitting in the car typing this on my phone and I’m freezing. I hope everyone has a happy Wednesday. Stay safe out there.

Hootie

My wife and I watched an episode of Friends tonight. It was the episode where some of the gang went to a Hootie and the Blowfish concert.

Wow… Hootie… for those of us who lived through that period in history… those were dark days, bro. Dark days.

They weren’t like nazis in the US government dark, or ex president incites a riot in an attempt to overthrow a legitimate Federal election and then four years later the schmucks in the voting population actually elect the treasonous cunt to a second term dark… but they were certainly dark days.

Insert my shiver in fear here.

Feet Up

The joys of having a new, redesigned living room.

The irony here is that we are sitting on the new couch, which has a recliner at both ends, and we are both literally sitting on a recliner, and yet are feet are up on the ottoman. Goodness, are we spoiled or what? Heh heh heh.

Hanging With Me

I’m not sure why but the two cats have spent almost the whole work day so far in the room with me. They are just hanging out and being all mellow.

There are three pictures here and they were all taken hours apart from each other. Lily and Robin are just sacking out in here with me. It’s pretty cool.

I do have a theory as to why they are spending time with me rather than spending time with my wife, Jen. She actually tried trimming their claws. She got a couple of Robin’s last night and a couple of Lily’s this morning. I think they might be trying to avoid her a little bit.

You can try, cats, but those claws are getting trimmed eventually. Sooner rather than later, I guarantee.