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50/90 – Two Month Update

I did nothing musical today. I thought about it, but that was it.

So tomorrow is September first, and we will be into the final month of the challenge. Where do I stand right now?

I tried to view this thing as three album-in-a-month deals, with a goal of 17 songs per month. In July I completed 14 song and had an additional eight in progress. In August I completed 13 new songs and finished the eight left over from July. I also started but haven’t finished six more songs. That’s 35 finished and 41 total. The 17 per month goal would mean 34 complete at this point. Believe it or not, I’m ahead of the pace.

Now I just have to keep up the pace and not get lazy so that I can have the whole mess finished before October first.

The Wall has been Hit… Again

On Friday night Jen and I were discussing weight. What can we do to lose it? Surgery is an option, but it’s a really scary one. Let’s put that on the back burner for a while. What about diet and exercise? That sounds good, but we both lack motivation and will power. What can we do? Some extreme options were mentioned, like a vegan diet, or an all liquid veggie diet. Those are also on the back burner. We decided to join weight watchers again. We both tend to do well in that framework, especially when we go to regular meetings. It’s damn expensive but the results have been pretty good. We had our first weigh in yesterday and we went to a meeting. We can’t get into the habit of missing meetings like we did last time. We have to stick with it. I lost about 20 pounds when we joined just after New Years. Since we stopped, I’ve gained 25. Not good.

As for exercise, we decided against a gym. With our work schedules and long commutes it’s just hard to make ourselves go enough for it to show any results. Instead, we bought a treadmill. Let’s start with that and see how it goes.

35 Songs Down, 15 More to Go

I mixed two songs tonight. I wanted to get some guitar playing in, but we’ll just have to settle for the mixes.


This one is sort of about how much money Market Basket lost during the whole CEO fiasco. Now that it’s over I haven’t been into a store yet, but I will at some point this weekend.


Tonight’s second song is about being a teenager who knows everything. I guess. Sort of. Something like that. Originally it was going to be about how the music sounds like Journey and how much that pissed me off. But somehow it turned into a high school kinda thing. I guess. Sort of.