After two long weekends in a row, I write a haiku for you…
Working tomorrow.
No more long weekends for me.
What a bummer, right?
Dictionary Edits
Daily writing prompt
If you could permanently ban a word from general usage, which one would it be? Why?
I don’t have the mental focus to answer this question today. I’ll try, I am just completely out of sorts this morning and I don’t know how to fix myself. Ugh… but I must try so…
One word to remove from the dictionary, as it were. Is maga a word? I don’t need to remove the word, I just need to remove the fascist philosophy, if that’s even what it is rather than just open hate and racism and sexism and general fascism out and proud for all of the world to see.
One word… crud. I can’t think of anything. There are phrases that come to mind. “It is what it is” was used by nazi trump to justify thousands of Covid deaths and therefore has been removed from my usage completely forever. Fuck that fascist fucking fuck.
People misuse the word “myself” all the time and it makes me want to punch them in the eyes. I can’t say I want to remove the word entirely though because some people actually use it correctly.
I would say the word “nucular” needs to be eradicated from existence, but it is not a word. It’s an idiotic stupid mispronunciation of an actual word, nuclear. Pronouncing nuclear as nucular is an IQ test. If you do it, you fucking fail.
I am swearing a lot in this post. Clearly that means the word fuck is not my choice to eliminate. Embrace it.
I really don’t have an answer to this one. Let’s just go with mosquito because maybe if we all stop acknowledging them they’ll just fuck off and leave us alone. Yeah, that’s what I’m going with. Fuck it.
Frozen the (Car) Musical
I’ve been home from this morning’s car music for about 15 minutes and I’m still frozen solid. It was 15 degrees out when I left the house and I sat in the car recording my dumb ass self singing (badly) for a touch over an hour. By the time I finished I was so cold, I can’t even tell you.
Despite the frigidness, car music was a success. I put vocals on all five songs that needed them. That means all 20 songs in this year’s RPM Challenge pipeline have their vocal tracks down. Holy shit snacks, Batman! 20 songs!
Now I just need to add lead guitars to 11 of those songs and mix 17 of them… with only four-plus days remaining. Crud.
Pics!
The view from my “studio.”
The obligatory clock pic from the drive home, Hipstamatic style.
And just for funzies, a bonus zoomed in clock pic.
And as an added bonus, Lily exploring our newly bare shelves, pre-kitchen remodel.
I Did It
I just wrote the lyrics for the 20th and final song for this year’s RPM Challenge.
20 songs, 20 lyrics. Five still need to have the vocals recorded. I will do that in the car tomorrow. Car Music 2024, babie.
So much left to do still, but there’s a strong chance that I will end the month with enough music for two submissions. Two albums… One month.
My brains are tired. I’m worried they might start leaking out of my ears.
Rock and roll, kiddies.
Upcoming Stuff
The IKEA kitchen deliveries are happening on Monday and Tuesday. A few boxes on Monday and almost 200 on Tuesday. The plumber is coming to disconnect everything on Monday. Demolition of the current kitchen is Friday and installation of the new kitchen is Saturday. They are telling us they only need one day to install but that seems crazy to me. The plumbing hookups, electrical work, and the addition of the backsplash all happen at some point after the install. When? We don’t know yet.
Both of my step kids are going on trips over spring break. They are coming home the week after the kitchen install. I have to take a day off to drive them both to the airport. We have Harry’s flight information already but not Bellana’s. Not yet at least. The following week we’ll pick them back up at the airport but as of now it doesn’t look like I’ll need to take time off from work for that.
I also have five days to finish the RPM Challenge. I have three songs finished, six ready to mix, six ready for lead guitars, and five waiting for vocals. Two of those five have lyrics and a melody written. I did those earlier today. I am hoping to get to the other three before I sleep tonight so I can get them all recorded tomorrow morning. If I can’t get through it all tomorrow I’ll have to finish up before work on Monday. Then I just have a ton of lead guitars to record and multiple tons of mixing to do. I can get to it all, but it’s going to be tough. I have some late nights and early mornings in my near future.
There are so many things to do in the coming weeks. So very, very many things. It’s going to be pretty crazy around these parts. I’ll post lots of pictures as things progress.
I Woke Her Up
I was trying to sneak in a picture while she was sleeping, but she woke up as I was lining it up. Sorry, cat.
One Room to Rule Them All
Our dining room and kitchen are both moving into the living room. It’s weird.
Haiku for You #149
I haven’t posted a haiku in quite a while. How about one inspired by the previous post, where I mentioned we are preparing our kitchen for a serious remodel?
Why are you watching,
British travel videos?
You have work to do!
Get to work, Robert!
Challenges
Daily writing prompt
What is the biggest challenge you will face in the next six months?
There are a couple of things I could use for today’s topic. The one I am going to pick is going to sound a little silly, but it is valid.
We have a home improvement project on tap. Our kitchen cabinets are going to be replaced. This has been a hypothetical kind of thing for us for years, but a few days ago it instantly ramped up from hypothetical to oh-my-god-it-is-happening-right-now kinda thing. We have started prepping for it and it is my entire to do list for the whole weekend. The delivery is going to happen on Monday and Tuesday and the demolition starts on Friday.
It’s not what you would call an Earth shattering challenge, but it is quite clearly a challenge. It’s going to suck but it is absolutely going to be worth it in the end. We just need to hang in there while it happens.
Challenges build character, or some shit like that. Bring it on.
Album Title
My wife, Jen, just accidentally named my RPM Challenge album.
She was reading over the instructions for one of the dinnerly.com dinners that was delivered today and she mentioned:
The Potato Situation.
Oh, hells yes! Album title confirmed! I expect I’ll take a photo for the cover at the grocery store this weekend.
Inside the Red Head's Head 