Photo a Day

I forgot to take a picture of something… anything… before I left for work this morning. As a result, here is my iPhone’s charger’s eye view of my office… because I had to do something to stay on pace for this silly project…

Heading Back

This morning I posted a couple of pictures of the Zakim Bridge in Boston from the Northbound side of route 93. Now here are two from the Southbound side. Why? Because the universe is a circle, or some bullshit like that.

You can see the TD Garden in these pictures (better in the first one). That’s where the Boston Bruins are currently losing 1-0 to their captain’s new team. Stupid Florida Panthers. Stupid Don Sweeney trading Brad Marchand. Stupid, stupid Bruins. Ugh.

In on the Fun

Just for completeness sake, Lily is enjoying the open windows too. It’s not just Robin who is in on the fun.

Windows Open

The temperature hit 60 degrees today (Fahrenheit) so I opened the windows. Robin Sparkles approves.

Confused Cats

They had the house to themselves last night and I expect there was a great deal of confusion. They are trying to shrug it off today though. Look at them being all calm, cool, and collected… now that I am home again.

Crazy Day Coming

Last night Jen and I stayed at the hotel that is hosting her company’s function. I got up at 5:30, took a shower, and drove home. It’s a little wacky, but I am working from home on a day when we aren’t actually home. Does that make sense? No? So what, it’s how it is. Heh.

Tomorrow I will work in the office, so I’ll be driving there from the hotel instead of from home. That’s going to be weird too. I was thinking that I would bring my camera with me and wander around the city after work tonight, but if I am going straight to work in the morning I will have my work laptop with me… so I think I will be going to the hotel after work, and it will be late enough that the sun will be down by the time I get there and put my stuff away. So maybe I won’t be wandering around the city after all. Maybe I’ll just stay in the room and watch Daredevil while I wait for Jen to come back from her post-work, work-events.

We’ll see. I did tell Jen that if I happen on a music store in my wandering and said music store had a Gibson guitar for sale for under $1,000, then I am totally buying it. I should see if I can make that promise come true. Heh heh.

Anyway, time to get ready for work. There is a contractor coming this afternoon as well as a delivery that I have to open the door for. All of that on top of having a crazy busy schedule. It’s going to be a weird one today. Big time.

Are You Getting Tired of This?

I sincerely hope that you, my dear readers, are not getting tired of constant pictures of cats looking lazy and uninterested in the world around them…

Because I am not going to stop posting them… ever.

Prelude

They were playing nicely together, grooming each other like good cats.

Five minutes later they were trying to decapitate each other. Oh well.

Nap

She looks like I feel.

Two Weeks in a Row

We did it. We have had two band practices in a row. Oh thanks be to the gods of bad middle aged cover bands, we pulled off two Sunday practices in a row!

I fought with my gear through the whole thing. I have something in my signal chain that is adding a weird whistling noise and when it reaches my overdrive pedals it gets LOUD. I ended up bypassing half of the board and it seemed like it fixed the problem for a while, but eventually it came back and kept getting worse. If I had to guess I would say it’s probably my power supply. I don’t know. I think I might bring my stay at home pedal board next time and see if it had any similar issues.

I also just wasn’t vibing with my amp. The Vox AC15 is fun and I like using it when I record at home, but when the band was playing I was missing my Deluxe Reverb. I might swap them next time. Or maybe I’ll swap the pedal board next time and then swap the amp the time after that.

Look at me, making plans for the next two practices, as if I wasn’t just worried about ever having two practices in a row again. Why don’t we focus on the next practice actually happening before we start looking beyond that, m’kay?

As for me personally, my playing was awful. Probably worse than last week. That’s okay though, I will get back up to speed soon enough, assuming we get ourselves on a regular schedule, of course.

How about a couple of gear pics?