Lazy for the Win
Get Out There
I need to shoot film!!!
I need to get outside and shoot film again. I’m going stir crazy with all these raining, cloudy, miserably awful weather days. Spring was a bust and Summer isn’t looking much better.
Lunch Break
If the weather would just cooperate and stop raining once in a while, I would spend my lunch this way more often…
Oh my goodness, does this cheap, frozen burger patty taste goooooood. It’s four ounces and I don’t know if I can eat the whole thing, but it is so gooood.
Also, is it hot enough for ya?
ADDENDUM: An hour or so after posting this I am happy to report that my tiny little surgically altered stomach and I were able to eat the whole hamburger and a handful of french fries I had on the side. I am pleased with the whole experience. I’m also feeling very full right now. Not quite stuffed, but close. I really want a glass of water but I still have to wait 42 more minutes before I can drink anything.
Guitar Rig
Okay folks, the guitar gear is setup and ready to record some new music.
I put the new Analog Man King of Tone overdrive pedal onto my stay-at-home pedal board and plugged the whole thing in. I have three amps setup. The Fender Deluxe Reverb will be used when I can make oodles of noise and want to record with a microphone. The other two amps are the Fender Bassbreaker 15 and the cute little Vox MV50. They are both connected to the ABY switch so that I can run them both at the same time, and they are also both plugged directly into the USB audio interface so that I can run direct at times when I cannot make any noise.
Now I just have to actually play. Any minute now, right?
Feeling Like a Failure Today
I made the decision last night before going to bed. I was going to sleep a little late and skip today’s running. I just knew I didn’t have a 30 minute trot around the neighborhood in me. My legs were still sore from almost 48 hours before, I was stone dead tired all day yesterday, I just wanted to wake up an hour or so late and go down cellar and watch Star Trek Strange New Worlds and just not worry about running. I did the running in place thing (pronounced yogging) instead so my exercise ring is closed.
So in other words, I feel like a total failure today. That’s nice.
Where do we go from here? I am not sure. I should do a run tomorrow and get myself back on track. Instead, I might give myself another day and then get back to it on Saturday. I am also considering going back two trainings and instead of doing week three, run two, I would do week two, run three. Week three, run one kicked my ass so thoroughly I feel like I need to build back up to it and then try it again. We’ll see.
I don’t think I am ready to quit yet. I ain’t no quitter, but… maybe in a few days I will be. I don’t know. We will have to wait and see how complete a failure I end up being.
Romantic
This is another difficult question. Why? Why isn’t this an easy question. It should be, shouldn’t it?
Also, is the answer the same as yesterday’s gratitude question? Is the answer kindness, love, attention, affection, patience? All things I know I am capable of that I fear I fail to do at literally every opportunity?
Is the end result of this silly writing prompt game going to be discovering that I really am a terrible person? I’m afraid it might be.
Once again I asked Google Bard for it’s thoughts and now I feel like an even crummier person somehow.
The word “romantic” has multiple meanings, depending on the context in which it is used.In the context of love and relationships, romantic can mean:
- Exciting and passionate: A romantic relationship is one that is characterized by strong feelings of love, passion, and excitement.
- Idealized and imaginative: A romantic person may have idealized notions of love and relationships, and may be drawn to the dramatic and the mysterious.
- Spontaneous and adventurous: A romantic person may enjoy spontaneous and adventurous activities, and may be looking for a partner who shares their zest for life.
In the context of art and literature, romantic can mean:
- Expressive and emotional: Romantic art and literature is characterized by its focus on emotion and feeling.
- Subjective and individualistic: Romantic artists and writers often focus on the individual’s inner experience, and may be critical of traditional values and institutions.
- Idealized and imaginative: Romantic art and literature often depicts an idealized view of the world, and may be characterized by a sense of mystery and wonder.
In general, the word “romantic” can be used to describe anything that is associated with love, passion, excitement, or the idealized view of the world.
Here are some examples of how the word “romantic” can be used in a sentence:
- “He gave her a romantic dinner for two.”
- “She had a romantic vision of their future together.”
- “The movie was a romantic comedy.”
- “The painting was a romantic depiction of the countryside.”
- “The novel was a romantic tale of two star-crossed lovers.”
I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions.
https://bard.google.com
2023 50/90 Challenge Day 2/90
As expected, working in the office meant I was in the car commuting when I normally would be trying to make a little music so there wasn’t a lot of progress made on the current musical challenge.
I did come up with three little eight bar noodles that may be worked into a song somehow. Better that than nothing, right?
Streak
Do you think I have a problem?
No Good
Someone is up to no good.
Natural Caffeine Alternatives
I was a teenager when my taste buds and I first fell head over heels in love with Coca~Cola. Thus began my lifelong dependency on caffeine. That ended at one of my first weight loss clinic appointments when the dietician told me that one of the costs of the surgery was never having caffeine again. Despite my addiction, I was okay with that. Maybe because of my addiction. I was more than ready to put an end to caffeine.
Here we are, a year and a half and one gastric bypass surgery later, and I am working in the office today. I am in a conference room with two other staff members. One of them is drinking a diet coke and for the first time I am finding myself gazing longingly at the can. What the hell, Robert? I thought we’d moved beyond this.
I’ve also been finding myself getting really sleepy in the afternoons. It’s just the sort of things that a little caffeinated beverage would go a long way toward helping. Nope. We’re not going down that road again. My caffeinated days are 100% over.
It did start me wondering about natural caffeine alternatives. Is there anything that is reasonably healthy and gastric bypass friendly that I could use as a replacement? The first article I hit on had a couple of things that might be worth looking into. What is Carob? It’s a chocolate substitute? Interesting. There is a link to a carob bark recipe that uses some weird berry I’ve never heard of. I wonder if I could replace the berries with peanuts?
One thing the article listed will not be going into my diet today or ever. Cordyceps. First of all… mushrooms? Eh, no. Second, I saw The Last of Us and cordyceps literally* brought on the end of the world so keep them the hell away from me!
I have also brought this up in a post to one of the bariatric surgery facebook groups. Sometimes I get a ton of responses when I ask questions there. Sometimes I get nothing. I expect to get nothing this time, but it was worth a try.
I will keep digging around and see if I can find anything interesting. I’ll let you know.
*Cordyceps literally brought about the end of the world in a fictional story. Would it be then more correct for me to have said Cordyceps fictionally brought about the end of the world? Ah, grammar.
Inside the Red Head's Head 