This is becoming a trend for me. Pictures of the street lights during snow storms. Granted I haven’t taken any pictures of a storm of this magnitude yet.
Stay warm and dry out there folks. Better yet, don’t leave the house!
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Folk Music?
You call this folk music?
It has Begun
Snowpocalypse 2013 is well under way.
Still not enough to completely bury the twigs in the yard, but the grass and the street are gone, and it has only just begun. It is really coming down out there.
The Blizzard of ’13
Today has a high potential of a tremendous amount of sucking from a meteorological perspective.
The forecasts are calling for one to two feet of snow today into tomorrow. Some are even saying it could be more than two feet. The initial estimates were for the crap to start falling from the sky this morning and continue all night. Now they are saying it won’t start until the afternoon. The local media hype is on super ultra mega overload. Supermarkets have been picked clean. Panic is everywhere.
Every year New England seems to go through this at least once. A storm is predicted and the news networks blow it up into some sort of world ending event, everyone freaks out, and then the storm fizzles. I’m not saying the storm today is going to fizzle, but it’s a blizzard. It’s going to suck. All of this is true, but it’s not worth the panic people are displaying.
Jen and I are both working from home today, and the kids had school canceled. All of this before a single flake fell. Again, I’m not saying the preparations are unnecessary, and I for one am going to be seriously thankful come 5:30 tonight when I don’t have to drive home.
I guess what I’m trying to say is… This is New England. We get snow. We get blizzards. Every single one of us has been through this a million times before. Get a grip, people. Stop acting like rookies and man up.
Here we see our front yard… nothing yet.
RPM Day Eight
The Calendar says it is February 8, 2013 but only by two minutes. It’s just after midnight and I just finished arranging four more song projects (what I am calling my groups of loosely connected ideas) into actual songs (verse chorus verse and what not). I’m up to eight songs and 26 minutes and 41 seconds. Still a ways to go. I started another song project thingie today and added rhythm guitar parts to two of the existing projects. I now have two projects that are not yet ready to be arranged into songs, and that’s it.
The writing goal for RPM is 10 songs or 35 minutes. The writing goal for FAWM is 14 songs. I hope to get somewhere in the vicinity of 14 songs and 40 minutes if I can. Last year I had 15 songs (there was an extra day so FAWM called for 14.5 songs) and I think I used 13 of them in the RPM album. I would like to have enough written to allow for the crappier stuff to be left off the final RPM album again.
Here is a soundcloud playlist with the eight arranged songs, not counting the two verses worth of vocals I added to one of them this morning.
I continue to think positive!
So Long Timmy
There are reports on Twitter that the Bruins have traded Tim Thomas to the Islanders for a conditional draft pick.
Hey Tim, thanks for that Stanley Cup and all, and I’m sure eventually we will remember you as a Boston Sports Hero, but for now…
Don’t let the door hit you on the ass on the way out.
Hehe, the Islanders. Hehe.
Is it 5:30 Yet?
Patches desperately wants it to be quitting time so that I can pay full attention petting her.
SM58
Someone has a Birthday Today
Today is someone’s birthday. Someone special. Someone beautiful. Someone brilliant. Someone I want to spend every waking moment with. Someone I love more than anything imaginable.
Someone I married.
Happy birthday, Jen. Many, many happy returns.
I love you so much!
RPM Challenge Day 7
Nothing much new to report. Last night I mentioned finishing one of the unfinished song project thingies and coming up with a possible guitar/vocal only song. That was about it for yesterday.
Beyond that, I did something very unusual for me. This morning before work I wrote and recorded lyrics and melodies for two verses of one of the songs I posted yesterday. Normally I take a day off from work and crank out all of the horrible lyrics and horribler vocals in one day. Telecommuting gives me an hour and a half or so worth of home-alone-before-work time on Thursdays. I only worked for about 20 minutes, but it’s a start.
Still thinking positive.
Oh, and the Bruins beat the Canadiens last night 2-1. Seguin tied it a few seconds into the third period just as I was posting last night, and then shortly after the B’s took the lead for good. I do so love beating the Canadiens.
Inside the Red Head's Head 