We saw the new Spider-Man movie tonight. We went as a family. All four of us. It was wonderful, both the movie and the company.
Some numbnutz on Instagram spoiled the Sadie Sink character though, after Sony and Marvel and Disney and everyone involved so diligently protected the secret.
It didn’t change the fact that I loved the movie though.
I am so sad. It’s Sunday night at bedtime. My week’s vacation is coming to an end. I have to go to work tomorrow.
Oh, how depressing. I don’t want to go to work tomorrow.
As expected, nothing. No time for my own music. Too much traveling to New York to see Rush for the first time in 11 years.
Totally worth it.
I have seen Rush 25 times…
1987-12-03 – Worcester Centrum – Worcester, MA
1990-05-10 – Worcester Centrum – Worcester, MA
1991-12-10 – Worcester Centrum – Worcester, MA
1994-03-11 – Worcester Centrum – Worcester, MA
1996-11-09 – Fleet Center – Boston, MA
1997-06-23 – Great Woods – Mansfield, MA
2002-07-12 – Tweeter Center – Mansfield, MA
2002-10-28 – Fleet Center – Boston, MA
2004-08-12 – Tweeter Center – Mansfield, MA
2007-06-27 – Tweeter Center – Mansfield, MA
2007-07-09 – Mohegan Sun Arena – Uncasville, CT
2007-09-06 – Marcus Amphitheater – Milwaukee, WI
2007-09-17 – Madison Square Garden – New York, NY
2008-06-15 – Comcast Center – Mansfield, MA
2008-07-05 – Saratoga Springs Performing Arts Center – Saratoga Springs, NY
2008-07-07 – Mohegan Sun Arena – Uncasville, CT
2008-07-11 – Verizon Arena – Manchester, NH
2010-09-14 – TD Garden – Boston, MA
2011-04-08 – Giant Center – Hershey, PA
2011-04-10 – Madison Square Garden – New York, NY
2012-09-07 – Verizon Wireless Arena – Manchester, NH
2013-05-09 – Mohegan Sun Arena – Uncasville, CT
2013-05-11 – Etess Arena – Atlantic City, NJ
2015-06-23 – TD Garden – Boston, MA
2015-06-29 – Madison Square Garden – New York, NY
Tonight will be number 26. I’m so excited!
Can you believe it? I am officially on vacation. See you next month, work!
My toothache is killing me. I booked a Dentist appointment yesterday but the nearest time I could get is on Monday. Good thing I am already off work, eh?
No plans for the vacation week apart from two days in New York to see Rush. Did I mention I have tickets to see Rush on Tuesday? Oh the happiness.
Okay, I am going to go take a fist full of Tylenol in the hopes that it dulls the tooth pain enough to let me sleep for a couple of hours. G’night, all.
I have a toothache. The pain is all consuming.
This sucks.
It has been a quiet Tuesday, apart from the huge thunderstorm that rolled through this afternoon and almost drown the entire state. There was some minor flooding on route 128 during my drive home. Just the odd lane that had a couple of inches of standing water. Just enough to make you think you were going to hydroplane your way right off the road.
Other than that, work was okay. The Red Sox 14 game winning streak is safe for the day as they were rained out. Bummer. I worked on some music for the 50 songs in 90 Days Challenge.
Mostly I am just starting to get psyched up for next week. I took the week off. Partly so we could go see Rush in New York, but that is only a couple of days. The rest of the time is just because my company has a max on the amount of Personal Time Off you can carry and I was just about to hit that max. Use it or lose it, you know? I’ve already worked my two days in the office so the last three days before my time off will all be working from home. I like the sound of that.
So for the most part, today has just been a kinda nothing day in a good way. Here’s hoping for more of the same tomorrow.
Today has been a long one. It’s at least the fourth day in a row where I have failed to get six hours of sleep. That’s catching up with me in a major way. I’m working in the office and it has just been one thing after the other. We have been up to every challenge but they just keep coming.
I will be heading home in about 17 minutes. My current audiobook is going to finish before my drive does. I’m listening to The Masked Rider by Neil Peart. I think I have only read 2–3 of his books before. This is my first time through this one. It was his first. I have enjoyed it, partly for catching him using phrases that would eventually end up in song lyrics. “Time is a spiral, space is a curve.” “The Larger Bowl.” There have been a few others.
I am always cold. I was never cold prior to weight loss surgery. Now I don’t have any insulation and I’m always cold. It is 90 degrees out today and I am in the office in the air conditioning wearing a jacket. Life is so weird right now.
Rumor has it that the fat nazi fascist piece of shit in the white house is going to try and overturn the two Georgia senate elections and throw out their two senators. If that happens we secede, right? Enough of this authoritarian bullshit.
Ugh… show me the way to go home. I’m tired and I wanna go to bed.
First:
Then:
It is Friday afternoon. I still have a couple of hours before I finish my work day but it is time to start preparing for the glory that is the coming weekend. I have a few things I want to do and a few things I have to do.
First, the have-to-do’s…
I have to get a haircut. If I don’t get a haircut I am going to lose my freakin’ mind. I am probably a month overdue, if not more. I have to I have to I have to get a haircut.
I have to shave this fur off my face. My facial hair does not grow terribly fast but I am completely unable to deal with the itchy stage of beard growth. It’s been two weeks since last I shaved and oh my goodness the itch is driving me insane. I can’t stand it anymore. If I don’t shave this weekend I am going to go certifiably crazy.
Okay. Those are the things that I HAVE to do. How about the things that I want to do. Some of these wants are very close to needs, but I won’t go insane if I can’t get to them, I’ll just be somewhere between sad and pissed.
Music. Fifty songs in ninety days. I have to make serious progress on the few songs I have in progress at the moment. That includes writing lyrics, recording vocals, and recording various guitar parts. I want to dedicate some serious time to the music project.
Have a nice visit with my in-laws. They are coming over tomorrow afternoon. It should be a nice time.
Shoot a roll of 120 film for the Frugal Film Project. This one might tie in with the next one…
Go into Boston and see the Tall Ships. My beloved Bride, Jen threw this out as a possibility for Sunday. My step daughter, Bellana says she’s up for it too. I hadn’t even thought of it before this morning but now that it’s out there? I really want to do this. Like, big time want to do this. My cameras want me to do it too. Load up a roll of 120 in the Lubitel and a roll of 35mm in the N90 and a clean memory card in the Z5 and just go effin’ bonkers.
Do my best to try and sleep some, because I haven’t done very much of that over the past week.
There you have it. My hopes and plans for this weekend. It is less than two hours away. In the immortal words of Van Halen, I think the clock is slow.
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