What Was This?

I saw this out the window today at work*. One car pulled over and seven state troopers on the scene, including one who was blocking the second lane.

This was a little before 1:00 PM. A little more than an hour late I heard two co-workers talking about all the staties and I looked out the window and not only were they still there, but there were two more along with an ambulance.

*I misspelled “more” like four times. I thought it was me. Then I misspelled two more words that had “r” in them. Now I’m wondering (this was another “r” typo) if I am seeing the first sign of the fatal MacBook Pro keyboard issue.

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Work

We start our extended work from home on Monday. Today is supposed to be our last day in the office. This is what the basement of the garage looked like when I arrived.

Okay, full disclosure. I was about 30 minutes earlier than usual, and a lot of people normally work from home on Fridays. Still…

We were just informed that during our (estimated) two weeks out of the office the operations staff are planning on disinfecting the holy hell out of the whole building. We were told to not leave anything on our desks. I can do that.

Today’s commutes: A Theme

From the morning commute:

From the evening commute:

Are we seeing the trend here? Let’s hope for better luck tomorrow, even though it’s my work from home day.

Strat… Delay

I brought my Fender Stratocaster up from the cellar this morning. I cleaned everything out of the case (except for the whammy bar and a couple of strap locks that were there when I bought the guitar six years ago). I plugged it into the little Bassbreaker and made sure everything worked. The volume pot is a touch on the scratchy side, other than that it’s top notch.

Then I put it back in the case and leaned it against the wall and left it there. I was going to take it to Guitar Center tonight after work to see how much they would give me for a trade in. I paid $700. Strangely, $700 is about the retail price for a Vox AC15 amplifier. Weird how that works out, eh? I know Guitar Center has a reputation for being stingy about trades and if they offer anything less than $700 I’ll take it somewhere else. Maybe ebay. Maybe reverb. I’m not taking a loss on this baby. No way.

I’m not doing any of that tonight though. I’ll take a look at the world situation on Saturday and see how things look. This is the very definition of non-essential. It can wait.

Groovy Sky

Dig the groovy sky over my (mostly) traffic-free evening commute.

Not Today

No recording before work today. I need to be out of bed by 5:30ish to pull it off. I woke up at about 6:15. Oh well.

RPMarch 2020

Back in 2014 when I insanely did an album in a month project almost every month for the entire year, I started with RPM in February and then kicked off a new project in March. I was looking at an old blog post where I referred to this 2nd month as RPMarch. I also referred to how the nickname is ridiculously stupid, but I kept using it anyway.

Welp kiddies, RPMarch 2020 is well underway. Three songs arranged with rhythm guitars. One more is just a two bar guitar riff that I haven’t done anything with yet. I will though, it’s mildly groovy in a dad-rock-bluesy kinda way (in other words it’s about as cool as rotting cheese). I am such a tool.

The plan is simple. Literally, that’s the plan. Guitar, bass, drums, voice. No doubling, just one rhythm guitar track played with as few punches as I can manage. I’m also (gasp) not using any pedals (gasp, again). I told you this was insane. It’s just my Les Paul straight into my 15 watt Bassbreaker. I’m not even using my tuner pedal. Last Christmas I got a clip-on headstock tuner from my Secret Santa. I’m using that. I am only using one cable. It’s utter madness!