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.
Are You Getting Tired of This?
Category: iphoneography
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?
Still On… So Far
First, allow me to say thank you to Lily the cat for sitting still this morning so that I could take a picture of her in the mostly dark room without the iPhone’s low light functionality turning her into a blurry mess. Thanks, Lily Pad!
Next, all of my Sunday plans are still on. Fingers crossed it stays that way. No word about canceling band practice. No one has backed out, and our meet time is less than two hours away. It’s never going to be back to normal if we can’t get at least two weeks in a row in, know what I mean?
Fingers crossed.
My step son is coming over today. He’s not here yet. I hope he gets here before I leave for practice, but if he doesn’t that’s fine too. I’ll have the whole day post-practice to hang around with him.
Two Weeks in a Row?
I didn’t get my hopes up last week and everything worked out. Now we’re shooting for two weeks in a row. Should I be excited?
Last week we had our first band practice in months after more false alarms than I care to remember. After all the fails I refused to get excited about it until we were all actually in the room together. Once we were though… rock and roll bro.
Now we’re talking about practicing again tomorrow. One week later. Is it going to happen? Is it going to fall through? Are we on or are we dealing with another false alarm? I don’t want to get too excited. I don’t want to get my hopes too high… but we’re practicing at noon tomorrow and my stuff is already packed up.
Rock and roll, bro.
Stop Light Theater
I went out to run some errands today. I took a stop light theater pic. I promise the light was red as I was pointing my phone at the intersection. It turned green as I clicked the shutter button. No one was acting in any dangerous manner, I promise.
Also, I went to the sugar free bakery for the first time in ages. I owe myself a small reward for cranking out another RPM Challenge last month. I’ve earned a nice sugar free snack. Also, notably, unlike the last time I went to the sugar free bakery, it was open. Nice.
Fluff and Fuzz
I’m thinking about giving the cats new nicknames. Fluffy and Fuzzy, or Fluff and Fuzz for short. I just don’t know which cat should get which nickname.
Hipsta-Lily
Robin has been getting most of the blog attention lately so here is a pic of Lily. She wants me to use the Hipstamatic app more often. Okay, Lil. I can do that.
Windy
It is so windy out right now that one of our big metal patio chairs was just blown over. I didn’t think that was possible. One of the bird feeders blew away as well. I don’t see it anywhere. I’m going to have to go outside and see if I can find it along the tree line. I hope the wind doesn’t blow me away, though it might be fun to feel like I’m flying for a few seconds.
The cats are disturbed by the noise of the wind. Just wait until the second contractor of the day shows up and see how much more disturbing that will be to your little feline brains.
