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Weekend To Do List Review

Here is the to do list I wrote up on Saturday. How did I do?

  • Vacuum the rug in the living room. (already done)
  • Sweep the floor in the living room. (already done)
  • Sweep the floor in the hallway, the dining room, and the kitchen.
  • Wash the floor in the kitchen.
  • Do something with the ever growing piles of cardboard boxes in the hallway, the kitchen, and the back porch.
  • Take steroids.
  • Use mass quantities of calamine lotion.
  • Take mass quantities of Advil.
  • Try to not get calamine lotion on the bandage on my hand.
    • I tried… I failed.
  • Add at least two more song ideas to the 50/90 pool.
    • I don’t think so… I think the last couple of ideas I added to the pool were done on Friday, but I’m not sure.
  • Add guitars to at least six songs in the 50/90 pool.
    • Four songs, not six.
  • Write lyrics and a melody for at least five songs in the 50/90 pool.
    • Epic fail
  • Record car vocals for at least five songs in the 50/90 pool.
    • Epic Fail Continued
  • Decide whether or not the tendinitis in your hand is in a good enough condition to put together the new cabinet we bought for the dining room.
    • Pushed off until next weekend.
  • Watch mass quantities of Marvel’s Agents of Shield. I’m in season two. Is season two the best season? It might be.
  • Get some take out for dinner tonight via doordash or some similar internet service. Preferably Indian food.
  • Be sad because I miss the kids.
  • Be sad because Bellana is leaving us next week.
  • Watch the Bruins game tomorrow night. Or at least listen to some of it on the radio.
  • Try in vain to not scratch the poison ivy.
  • Clean the litter box.
  • Pet the kitty because she’s furry and fluffy and adorable.
  • Tell my wife I love her (already done, will be done again).
  • Take two more days worth of photo-a-day pics. You’re almost there, Robbie. Constant Vigilance!

Another Corona-Monday

Looks like another corona-Monday…. Sing that to the tune of Tequila Sunrise. I’d come up with more, but I don’t know any more of that song. Like most American guitar players who grew up in the 80’s, I had a cup of coffee with Joe Walsh fandom, but I never really connected with The Eagles. Sorry, guys. James Gang… Funk #49… I wouldn’t mind The Lizardfish taking a crack at that one. I brought it up once, but it didn’t connect. Really, if you want to go James Gang, I’d rather go with something from the Tommy Bolin years. Bang is such a great album. Alexis is pretty close to perfect.

What was I talking about? I don’t know. It’s Monday and I am tired and sad and I want to go back to bed. The ‘Rona’s got me feeling blue today, I think. Bellana’s leaving for school on Wednesday. I saw a news report of the police department in Burlington breaking up a college party with over 100 people. Ugh. I can’t find the article now so I’m afraid I dreamed it. I just don’t want her exposed to that. There’s too much Covid out there.

Speaking of Lizardfish… well, specifically lizards… is it normal for your poison ivy rash to turn into lizard-like scales? That’s sure what it feels like right now. I’m all swollen from the steroids, and I am apparently growing armor on top of it. That can’t be good. Clearly the poison ivy situation is developing. The itch has been much lower today. I even forgot to take the Benadryl last night. The tendinitis though… is that just the new normal? Is my thumb going to hurt a lot for the rest of my life? That’s kinda the vibe I’m getting off of it right now. It’s been over a month without any positive changes. Am I going to keep the Ace Bandage company in business for the next 30 years? Ugh.

I got into a conversation in a guitar players bookfayce group today. It had something to do with using Klon style overdrive pedals as a boost. I mentioned I once tried a setup with a Klon pedal into a fulltone OCD into a a Klon clone, with the first Klon as a clean boost and the second as a huge volume boost. That discussion did too things. Once again it pissed me off to remember how the guy behind fulltone is such a racist prick that I can’t let myself use his products anymore… and I had to explain once again to a fellow bookfayce user how racism = bad, which added to the overall depression of the day, but it also made me realize that I haven’t needed a volume boost for lead parts since the last time Lizardfish played together which was February 1st. We’re coming up on seven months since I last played with the band. Well, fat boy, why don’t you just keep piling that depressing crap onto your shoulders like some kinda of glutton for punishment. Dumb ass.

Two of my coworkers are on vacation this week, which pretty much guarantees one of our customers is going to have a total system melt down within the next 4.5 days. It’s kind of a given. Oh good.

The Bruins won last night. Well that’s good, right? Game two is tomorrow. If Jaroslav Halak leads us to the Cup will he automatically become Mayor of Boston? Is that like… a thing? What will the Stanley Cup parade look like this year? If Boston wins, will there be one? If, let’s say, Tampa Bay wins (they won’t because Boston is going to bounce them in the second round, right? RIGHT???) will there be a giant parade without any masks or social distance measure that will result in thousands of new Covid-19 cases? Crap.

If there’s one thing about the nearly six months of Covid Lockdown (so far) that I have learned about myself it is that I still love Chef Boyardee Ravioli. I think I am eating it 25-30 times a week. I’m not getting sick of it yet. I might at some point, but not yet. I just had some for lunch. Bliss.

That Pedal Show usually does a Monday afternoon (US Easter Daylight Savings Time) live Q&A show. They are usually on when I go to lunch. I went to lunch half an hour ago and they still aren’t on. I think they knew I was feeling low today and are just rubbing salt into my emotional wounds. Not even Chef Boyardee Ravioli can pull me out of this one. A big plate of Quinoa for dinner tonight might be able to do it though.

What the hell was I talking about? This post was going to have a point. Now? Not so much. If you have kids, go hug them. If you have a spouse, go hug him/her. If you have poison ivy, for goodness sake STOP SCRATCHING IT!

By for now, kids.

Weekend To Do List

Things I want to accomplish this weekend, despite my injured/itchy state.

  • Vacuum the rug in the living room. (already done)
  • Sweep the floor in the living room. (already done)
  • Sweep the floor in the hallway, the dining room, and the kitchen.
  • Wash the floor in the kitchen.
  • Do something with the ever growing piles of cardboard boxes in the hallway, the kitchen, and the back porch.
  • Take steroids.
  • Use mass quantities of calamine lotion.
  • Take mass quantities of Advil.
  • Try to not get calamine lotion on the bandage on my hand.
  • Add at least two more song ideas to the 50/90 pool.
  • Add guitars to at least six songs in the 50/90 pool.
  • Write lyrics and a melody for at least five songs in the 50/90 pool.
  • Record car vocals for at least five songs in the 50/90 pool.
  • Decide whether or not the tendonitis in your hand is in a good enough condition to put together the new cabinet we bought for the dining room.
  • Watch mass quantities of Marvel’s Agents of Shield. I’m in season two. Is season two the best season? It might be.
  • Get some take out for dinner tonight via doordash or some similar internet service. Preferably Indian food.
  • Be sad because I miss the kids.
  • Be sad because Bellana is leaving us next week.
  • Watch the Bruins game tomorrow night. Or at least listen to some of it on the radio.
  • Try in vain to not scratch the poison ivy.
  • Clean the litter box.
  • Pet the kitty because she’s furry and fluffy and adorable.
  • Tell my wife I love her (already done, will be done again).
  • Take two more days worth of photo-a-day pics. You’re almost there, Robbie. Constant Vigilance!

Fulltone Alternatives

I saw this posted on bookfayce today and thought I’d share it here. It’s alternatives to popular Fulltone pedals for folks like me who are turned off by racism.

He mentions a couple of JHS pedals but those don’t work for people like me who are turned off by homophobia, but there are still some interesting ideas here.