See the little thing sticking out above the tree line?
No? Here, let me zoom in.
See it? That building off in the distance? Thats Fox Hall. It’s a dormitory for the University of Massachusetts Lowell. I graduated from UML in 2004. 20 years ago.
That building was important to me because I had a show on the campus radio station and our transmitter was on the roof. The station itself was in another building in my day, but today the station is in Fox Hall somewhere.
Fascinating, eh?
No details will be shared at this time except to say that it’s nice to be out of the ER. I just wish he had a private room.
Are we all wondering what Miss Robin is looking at?
Yeah… that kinda goes without saying, doesn’t it?
The Family Feud is on TV in the ER because of course it is. Just like old times.
Robin was purring like a corvette. Loud and powerful.
Come on, Miss Lily. Do something funny to cheer me up. Come on. Do something. Anything. Ugh, okay just walk away.
I’m working in the office today so there was no time to spare to sneak in any guitar playing before work. I hadn’t actually realized until just now though that even if I had had some time to play I don’t have any 50/90 challenge songs that need guitar tracks at the moment.
I have eight songs with rhythm guitar parts done whose next step is to write lyrics (yuck). I have an additional eight songs that I’ve finished tracking completely and just need to mix them down before I can count them as finished.
That’s it. I guess it’s time to start writing lyrics and adding new ideas to the list. Get crackin’, Red Head!
I just put lead guitars onto six 50/90 challenge songs, including all four that got vocal tracks this morning.
My ears are dead from wearing the headphones and one of my finger tips is about to fall off, I think.
Not a bad afternoon’s worth of musical work.
I screwed up my morning routine today and I don’t know how I am going to recover. No details needed, as they are neither important nor really noteworthy, but I did manage to straighten it out enough to get a couple of things done.
First things first, car music. I put vocals on four 50/90 challenge songs. I was hoping to get to five, but I didn’t have time to add another song. I didn’t do particularly well today, and a couple of the melodies were a bit more complicated than my no-talent self usually gets. We’ll see how it comes out when the songs are done.
After the car music was complete I went on a quest. My father asked me to bring him a newspaper. I had a paper route back in the 80’s. Long time ago. I tried to remember the last time I bought one… given that the newspaper industry is effectively dead and the fact that they still exist is laughable. The last time I bought one was… I think… 2007? When the Red Sox won the World Series I bought a Boston Globe. I think I did it in 2007. I know I did in 2004. Let’s just say it’s going on 20 years.
Where the hell do people buy newspapers? The one my father wanted isn’t one that you could ever regularly find near my home (we’re in Lawrence Eagle Tribune country and he wants a Lowell Sun). I went to my old home town, Tewksbury, thinking there were a couple of stores where I might be able to find one. The first store I went to does not carry newspapers anymore. Big surprise. The second… is now a dentist office. Again, not a surprise. I finally decided to just hit any grocery store or convenience store I saw and I found one.
Quest complete. Newspaper acquired.
Now some random pictures… just because…
Finally… cats.
We are all going to be going out for a little while this afternoon so that cats are resting up to prepare for having the house to themselves. They are planning on zooming around like insane crazy felines and beating the ever loving hell out of each other. You know, like cats do.
Inside the Red Head's Head 