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RPM Day Three

I’m actually losing track of how many things I have in the musical pot right now.  I think I have four on the iPad and one on the iPhone.  Yesterday I added some pieces to the piano melody I had on the phone.  I like it significantly less now than yesterday, but it’s still alive.  I added two new things on the iPad.  One is a quiet little electric piano thing that I’m not sure what to do for the guitar.  I can’t do anything without a guitar part, ever.  What would be the point, right?  But this one… kinda doesn’t need a rhythm guitar.  I’ll squeeze something in somewhere.  The other thing I played with will probably be dumped.  I was testing the lightning cable adapter by plugging in my guitar.  I recorded the first thing that popped into my head.  At the time I was pleased, but now I think it’s a riff that is awfully similar to one that became an RPM song a couple of years ago.  I’ll try to salvage the idea somehow.

Is it possible that I might have five songs in the works and it’s only February third?

Wicked!

San Diego

We just watched a travel channel show detailing the best aspects of life in San Diego, CA.

Apart from constantly pointing at the screen and saying, “we were there” it has seriously wound up our desire to go back and then never leave.

If it is possible for a metropolitan area with a population of over a million people to be paradise, then San Diego is it.

My wife and I absolutely love it there and we can’t wait to go back.

Border Cafe

We haven’t been here in ages. My former favorite restaurant is a bit of a chaotic mess today, but I’m hoping to get me some Tejas chicken.

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ADDENDUM:

No Tejas chicken for us. We walked out. The restaurant was half empty and they made us take a pager. M’kay. The next couple of groups that came in also got pagers. After that, while we were standing there patiently waiting to get a table in the half empty dining room, they started seating people as they came in. We walked out. To hell with them.

Pages?

So wordpress.com.  I just wrote a new page.  When I published it I expected it to show up in my header the way my last two pages did.  About is there.  My Favorite Toys is there.  Where is My Music?  I don’t recall having to do anything special to get the other pages up there, and there is certainly plenty of room for more.  I suppose my theme might cap me at two, but that’s seriously lame.

Any suggestions?

ADDENDUM:

I tried clearing Crome’s cache and all of that fun stuff.  Nothing worked.  I added a Pages widget into the sidebar and then forgot about it.  Later in the day, after posting a couple of pictures of shoes, I noticed the Page was displaying in the header.  Okay, it was clearly a cache thing but maybe it was on the server?  Who cares, problem solved.

RPM Day 2

The RPM Challenge officially began for me last night at a little before 7:00pm. My wife ordered take out from our favorite Indian restaurant. I was in the car coming home from work so I drove straight there to pick it up. I arrived about 10 minutes early so I started noodling on GarageBand on my iPhone. I got a couple of little melodies down on a piano. There’s not much there, but it will be developed into something useable. After dinner my wife was watching TV so I took out my iPad and pulled a second idea out of my ass. The second one is bass and drums. This morning I woke up and started on idea #3, using the iPad again. This one is bass, drums, and an organ.

I’m thinking of making one process change this year. Last year I would come up with a couple of riffs or progressions or whatever and arrange them into song structures on the iPad. GarageBand for iPad is really limited in that respect so this time I am going to work out a handful of related parts and transfer them to the Mac before arranging them together. I’ll do voices and leads on the Mac, but all of the individual sections will be done on the iPad. Assuming, of course, that all of it ports successfully. We shall see.

The project is underway!