And with the finished mix of this stink nugget, I have successfully pulled off the 50 songs in 90 days challenge. Yup, this is finished song number 50. I was hoping it would be a banger, but instead it is not. Oh well.
2014, 2020, 2021, and now 2024. My forth victory.
Day 86 (yesterday) was a nightmare of stomach pain and post-gastric-bypass surgery awfulness. I woke up at 5:00 feeling pain and it didn’t go away until about 9:00pm. In short, yesterday sucked.
I did manage to put both rhythm and lead guitar tracks onto one song. I was hoping to mix something and maybe add another song to the pipeline as well, but my redesigned innards had other plans. At least I didn’t get shut out, right?
Well, looks like Friday is going to be one seriously shitty day for ol’ Robbie and his rebuilt guts.
I had more sleep last night than any day for about a week. I should have awoken feeling right and spiffy and good. Nope. I woke up with stomach pain. Lots of it. I never wake up with the hunger pains I get when I haven’t eaten for a few hours. I don’t know why that is, but this morning that was exactly what I thought happened. I got up, went down cellar to do my exercise for the day and have a bottle of water. I thought that would alleviate things, at least for a little while. After the exercise was done I could have breakfast and I fully expected that would be the end of that.
Nope. Exercise made it worse and I only got a few ounces of water down before I decided to stop and have breakfast. Unfortunately, eating didn’t help at all. Nope, this is not hunger pain. This is something else. Shit.
I sat there, staring at the walls for a while and then tried to power through these aches and pains. I played some guitar and did some laundry and then went upstairs. In the past, when these out-of-the-blue stomach pain issues hit me (I think there have been five since having the gastric bypass surgery on May 4, 2022… maybe six. I’m losing count) the only thing that gives me any relief is laying down on the floor on my side, curled up in a ball. Yeah, I don’t get it either. Today has not been nearly as bad as the really bad times, but I tried it anyway. I went fetal on the floor in front of my desk and just stayed like that for about an hour. It helped and by 9:00 I was able to get up and punch into work.
That was an hour ago. I’m starting to feel worse again, but is that because I have been up for four hours and have only had four ounces of water? Is it because it’s been almost three hours since I had anything to eat? My water bottle is staring at me. I think I am going to try to have a drink and see how it affects things. Wish me luck, oh my readers and only friends.
I was able to take some pictures in an effort to crank out the photo a day thing. Here’s one that I did not add to the photo a day photo album on Flickr…
Here’s another that I did not add to the photo album. The record is The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, side one, by Genesis…
Here’s the one I added to the Flickr album. This is the winner. Robin, of course. Photo a day 27/365.
Let’s see… I put all of the guitar tracks onto one song before work. After work I added another song (why?) and then mixed song number 49. The project is officially 98% complete.
I’m hoping day 86 is going to look pretty much the same.
I mentioned last night that I stupidly added a song to the 50 songs in 90 days pipeline even though I was almost finished with the whole project and there is less than a week left before it ends.
What I didn’t mention was that I put all of the guitar tracks, both lead and rhythm, on the song this morning before work. I could have spent that time mixing a song or something and actually getting closer to being finished but no… I played the guitar.
I did it and I am not sorry.
I over did things without making any major progress. Somehow… I guess.
I mixed a song. That’s good. Before I did that though I added a song. MIDI bass and drums down as well as a melody and lyrics. The pipeline is up to 54 songs now. Why did I do that?
I mixed another song. It’s been uploaded to Alonetone.com and cross posted to the 50/90 challenge page. 48 songs down. Two more completes the challenge for this year. I’m 96% finished.
All I had to do was mix a few song demoes and I could call the 50 songs in 90 days challenge done.
What did I do instead? I added another song.
What a dumbass.
I mixed one song last night, just before bed. That’s all I had time for. 47 songs complete. Three more to finish the 50 songs in 90 days challenge. Three more on top of that to empty my in-progress pipeline.
I have 11 songs that were started in September. It would be more fun if there were 15, don’t you think? I have this weird compulsion to add four more songs. I think this whole project might be getting to me. We’ll see.
47 songs down and three to go in order to complete the 50 songs in 90 days challenge for 2024.
If I pick out 5-10 songs from this year’s batch to make an “album”, it’s safe to say that this one won’t be included. It’s not the worst song, but it’s not terribly good either. Can 7/8 time swing? I guess not.
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