90 days is about three months. What is 50/3? 16.6. Rounding to the nearest integer means in order to complete 50 songs in 90 days you should average 17 songs per month.
How did I do on day 10? I added two more loose song ideas. How many song ideas are in the pipeline now?
17.
Yeah, babie.
10 minutes before I was supposed to leave for the first full band practice in 3.5 years our singer let us know he was going to be stuck at work and had to back out.
Damn it.
The rest of us still got together. It was loud and fun, the way it should be. I’m not sure when we will be able to try for all four of us again but hopefully it will be soon.
My playing was terrible but most of the songs we played came back to me… eventually. It was good to see Kevin and Mike, and it was fun to play music with other people.
Until next time….
I have an amp and a pedal board at Mike the Bass Player’s house already. Pretty sure there are a bunch of mic stands too. I packed the bare minimum. A mic and a cable. Two guitar cables and an over drive pedal. One electric guitar. One pack of emergency strings.
Assuming my amp works… I’m ready to play.
Now I just have to finish the work day and drive to Mike’s house. I’m ready, kids!
Scenes from lunch time.
Last night I sent a message to the band’s Facebook messenger chat. I asked if we were still on for a practice tonight. Everyone said yes.
It’s been almost exactly a year since Mike, Kevin, and I got together without Greg. It has been a whopping 1,258 days since the last time all four of us were together.
I’m really looking forward to this. I should put new strings on my Les Paul, right?
I have been hyper aware of this for the last few years. Ever since I started sleep apnea therapy I have gone a little nuts keeping track of my sleep.
Ideally I would go to bed at around 10:00pm and wake up around 6:00am. There literally aren’t enough hours in the day though so that rarely happens.
Realistically, I got to bed at 11:00pm, or even a little after. Jen has an alarm set on our Amazon Echo for 6:00, but I have one set on my Apple Watch for 5:00am. Most mornings I hit snooze for nearly an hour, but I would prefer not to. Six hours of sleep isn’t really enough, but it gets the job done for me most nights.
Checking my sleep stats from last night, I went to sleep at 11:05pm and woke up at 5:45am. I was also awake from 4:40 to 4:50am as I needed to pee. I was asleep for 6.5 hours, 74% of which was in restful sleep. My sleeping heart rate dip was 19% and my average sleeping heart rate was 52 beats per minute. My sleep distruption was 2.5%, or 10 minutes.
Like I said… I’ve been sort of hyper focused on this for about four years now.
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.
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.
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?
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