Insert a sigh of relief here.
I put rhythm guitars onto three songs. Progress at last!
Now let’s go celebrate my wife’s birthday!
That’s Better
Litter
In between contractor consults we did something huge. Something… Earth shattering. Not for us, but for the cats.
We have replaced the two litter boxes with one new box. The Earth shattering part? It’s a self cleaning, automatic litter box thing.
It has an app. A litter box app. Literally a shit app. It told us that one of the cats has used the box. Based on weight we are guessing it was Robin.
We are going to know everything about our two cats’ bathroom behaviors.
Like I said, Earth shattering.
Busy
As crazy busy days go, this has been one. It’s not even lunch time.
Two contractor visits down and at least one to go.
Here’s a couple of cats to tide you over while we wait for contractor number three to get here.
(Non) Daily Haiku for You #145
Today is my wife’s birthday!
Today is the day,
We spend celebrating you.
Happy birthday, Jen!
Give Me a Break
Give me a break. Give me a break. Break me off a piece of that kit-kat bar.
You deserve a break today at McDonalds.
I hate myself for typing the two previous lines.
Do I need a break? Yes. Of course I need a break. Who, living in the American capitalistic rat race (see the first two lines of this post), doesn’t? I need a break from work, from stress, from guilt, from pain, from thought (sort of), from… well… life. Take me and my wife and my step kids and put us on a plane heading west. Drop us off in San Diego, CA right on the shore of the Pacific ocean and let us flake together for a few weeks.
That’s the kind of break I need. Just leave us alone and let us… be. Just for a little while.
Hey Google Bard, generate an image of a Jedi Knight relaxing by the shore of the Pacific ocean…
I asked for a Jedi and it gives me red light sabers? I don’t recall asking for a Sith Lord, thank you very much. Oh well. Close enough for a Wednesday morning.
Tail
Shortly after I took this I was sitting up in bed watching For All Mankind on my laptop and eating a little cup of sugar free pudding. Lily strolled past me and accidentally(?) stuck her tail into my pudding cup.
Oh good.
(Non) Daily Haiku for You #144
Today’s haiku for you is political, inspired by this article:
Trump has no immunity from Jan. 6 prosecution, appeals court rules
No immunity.
No one is above the law.
Loser once again.
First Thing this Morning
I had a pretty crappy night’s sleep last night. Fortunately, just after I woke up this morning I saw these two things…
This made it a little easier to handle.
2024 RPM Challenge Day 5/29
Here is what I wrote on my lame ass tumblr page:
My update for day five is identical for my update to day four. Just as I was drifting off to sleep I forced myself to wake up and noodle out a couple of bass guitar lines. Together they make up song number eight.
That’s all I have for February 5th. Hopefully I will be more productive tonight, but I somehow doubt it.
Musical Meanderings
Lame. Two days in a row of the absolute bare minimum. I need to do more tonight, but it’s a work in the office day today so there won’t be a lot of time. It would have been nice to be further along by the end of the first week, but I think I am about where I usually am at this point. I know I have a lot of progress in me, I just have to get it done. Or something like that.
Maybe before I sleep tonight I can work out the song form for songs seven and eight and in the morning tomorrow before the world wakes up I can crank out a crap load of rhythm guitar parts. I am off work tomorrow for Jen’s birthday (WOOHOO!!!). We have a couple of house painters coming over to give estimates, and we are planning on a birthday dinner together. I am not sure what we’re planning for the rest of the day. Hopefully our Star Wars re-watch or something goofy and fun like that. Maybe we’ll go shopping for computer components or something else like that. You know, the things my beloved bride likes to do for fun. There probably won’t be a lot of time for music and I am 100% fine with that. Tomorrow is my sweetie’s day and I am up for anything she wants to do.
PC
I don’t know every invention that happened in my lifetime. I’m sure the military has some crazy stuff that would blow all of our minds if we knew about it. My lifetime started in May of 1971 and there have been a lot of things that have been invented over that time. There is one that stands out to me though.
The personal computer. Whatever it may have been. Google tells me the first PC was invented in 1971 so we may have to squint a little to put it into my lifetime, but you get the deal. IBM and Apple had the first consumer level computers that I knew of. The Apple II was everywhere when I was in school. Microsoft’s deal with IBM to license their Disc Operating System (DOS) rather than sell it allowed for IBM clones and soon enough they were everywhere too.
DOS led to Windows, the Apple II led to the Macintosh which eventually led to the iPhone which more or less brought us to where we are today. Everyone in the civilized (or should I write that as “civilized” because, ya know… nazis and shit) world has some sort of computer or smart phone. The internet is essential to operating our society now. Computers are basically our lifeline.
On a more personal note, the invention of the Personal Computer led to me having a career as a programmer. It led to my wife having a career as a software engineer and a software architect. It led to our family earning a living. I would call that a pretty important development, wouldn’t you? Damn right.
Hey Google Bard, generate an image of a jedi knight using a macintosh computer.
Inside the Red Head's Head 