In theory I stuck to the simply filling weight watchers plan yesterday.

In theory.

The reality isn’t so clear. Simply filling approves of snacking on peanuts. Thursday while I was working I emptied a jar of peanuts into a bowl and sort of forgot about it. Next thing I know I’m reaching into the bowl and it’s empty. What What What???

Once my brain realized that I’d eaten the entire bowl my stomach decided it was clear to start hurting. Not a lot, but enough to make me uncomfortable.

After a couple of hours worth of being a chauffeur for the kids, my stomach had returned to normal and all was relatively well. Then I ate dinner. The discomfort came back with a vengeance.

I’m seriously trying to be good. Really, I am. I think though that I should tweak my goal a little for the short term. I should just focus on maintaining until the holidays are over. Don’t let yourself cheat, Robert. Don’t worry about losing, just try to stay level for the next five weeks or so.

I absolutely have to go to a meeting on Saturday.

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Originally published at robj2112.wordpress.com on December 5, 2014.

Today has been a weird telecommute day.

I came home from dropping the kids off before school and put on a load of laundry and filled up the dishwasher. I made myself a little breakfast and sat at my computer looking into blogging options (svbtle isn’t a free service? It used to be free, wasn’t it?). I read a news story about Pixies front man Black Francis. I read up on the Orion launch situation. At about quarter to nine I logged into work for the morning.

At lunchtime I made myself a half cup of quinoa and a bowl full of green grapes. I also took a shower. I usually sacrifice my morning shower time slot to my step daughter on telecommute days. I then told a Comcast door to door salesman that I wasn’t interested in switching off of FiOS and folded that morning’s load of laundry. Now I am writing this in the last few minutes of my break before getting back to work for the afternoon.

Now you may be asking yourself, what’s so weird about all of that?

Well, I’ll tell you.

I haven’t tried to write or record even a single note of music. Since February 1st all of my free time at home on telecommute days was spent working on a music project. It’s December 4th now and I haven’t started a new project. December has been free of original music so far. I don’t know if it’s going to stay that way or not, but it might. I have a left over song from November, another from October, and that big 20 minute sucker from September. Maybe I’ll finish those this month. Maybe not. I’ve thought about re-recording a couple of songs from the distant past. I’ve also been thinking about covering a Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd song. Maybe I’ll do it. Maybe I won’t.

Maybe I’ll take December and January off from writing projects and stick to learning songs for the band. We’ll see.

Originally published at robj2112.wordpress.com on December 4, 2014.

I went to Old Orchard Beach for the sunrise on Veteran’s Day.

I am mildly obsessed with seeing the sun rise (or set) over the ocean. I can’t help it.

I have spent more time playing guitar over the past 10 months than any other period of time in maybe the last 10 years. I have been writing bad songs and recording bad demos using Garageband. I’ve written over 100 bad songs since February. To make things worse, I’ve recently joined a friend’s band. I am completely out of control and I like it.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I hate snow.

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Originally published at robj2112.wordpress.com on November 27, 2014.

There was a thread on ello asking people to mention something about themselves that no one would know. The first thing that popped into my head was that I once used Lord Stanley’s Cup as an arm rest.

Proof:

I want ello to be worth visiting, I really do. It’s just sort of… Not. I’m trying to engage in the process, but I get so little back that I feel like an idiot.