Stuff to Do at Home

I forgot to take a card reader to Florida with me so I had to leave all of my pictures on the card until I got home. I’ve sorted through the 1300 or so and weeded it down to maybe 500. I used to use Google’s Picasa application for that because it made it easy to sort through all of the duplicates, but that app won’t run anymore. I used Apple’s Photos and it kinda sucked. Once they were sorted out I started editing them, using filters and the wizard in Photos. Nothing special. I’m about 1/3 through the keepers now. I’d like to finish that today and get them all uploaded into Flickr so I can post some of them here.

It’s not likely to happen though as I still have three songs to finish today. Two need quick lead guitar overdubs, and the other needs all of the guitars, rhythm and lead, and then all three need to be mixed. I have the cover art, but once all the mixes are done I need to decide which songs get dropped and then which of the two mixes of each acoustic song gets dropped.

So much to do and so little sleep to do it on.

Actually, I did get a good night’s sleep last night. I’m just overtired from the last few days combined. I’ll get it all done tonight. Well, I’ll get the music done at least. I can sleep when I’m dead. Or, you know… tomorrow.

We Are Home

We’re home, and this little bastard is whole again…. the prick.

How to Play

Saving this for later: how to play Sabacc.

Sabacc

If you don’t know what this is, go watch Solo: A Star Wars Story

I won that hand, but I didn’t win a starship.

Resort Jumping

In the last 24 hours we have paid visits to five Disney World resorts:

1. Yacht Club

2. Wilderness Lodge

3. Boardwalk

4. Polynesian

5. Contemporary (including Bay Lake Tower)

We are flying home tonight but wanted to check out possible future options.

Poly Revisited

We stayed at The Polynesian last summer. Today we made a nostalgic return visit for lunch. We all kinda love this place.

Boardwalk

The Boardwalk hotel. Disney World at its creepiest?

No More #RPM2020 For This Vacation

I just posted this to the RPM Challenge website:

Everything that I can do while on vacation in Florida has been done. Nine electric songs mixed, seven acoustic songs mixed, six of those seven acoustic songs’ alternate versions mixed.

I have a few songs worth of guitars still to do once I get home on Saturday. Every guitar part I have done this year has been played through a pair of amplifiers (one Fender Bassbreaker 15 and one Fender Bassbreaker 18/30 at 18 watts) and the 18/30 is a seriously loud little bastard. I have been playing it with the volume set as low as I can get it and still produce a sound. The 15 watt guy needs to get cranked a bit in order to keep up.

Last Saturday I tried to pick off the last three songs worth of guitars but my family had reached their limit and told me to shut up (in the most polite, supportive way possible). I got pissy and shut it all down. On Saturday I am going to finish those damned songs using just the 15 watt amp so that I don’t deafen my family. I have leads to add to one of the acoustic songs, and leads to add to one of the electric songs. The last thing is an instrumental idea that needs rhythm and two leads. I want to finish all three, mix them, and then sequence the album, including figuring out which songs need to be dropped. I think two or three electric songs need to go. I don’t know if any of the acoustic songs are bad enough to eliminate, but one might be. We’ll see.

Everything I can do in my hotel room is done. Saturday is the final day of the month so it will be musical crunch time.

For now though… sleeeeeeeep