Talk about a case of the Mondays gone wrong, right?
I got up early, did my exercise, watched a Doctor Who (priorities, yeah?), ate breakfast, wrote a blog post, showered, went to the grocery store and got a few things that we forgot to put on the shopping list yesterday, took a photo for today’s photo a day challenge entry…
355/365
…Came home and put away the groceries, went down cellar and put rhythm guitars onto two songs that I started fiddling out last night, put lead guitars onto one song from last month, took a couple of obligatory I-played-guitar-today photos, and punched into work with about 10 minutes to spare.
Here’s hoping the work day is that productive too. Let’s keep the motivation rolling! Happy Monday, gentle readers!
My plans for today included going out in the morning and taking some pictures, playing guitar and working on the 50/90 challenge, going grocery shopping, and finishing two seasons of Doctor Who.
How am I doing?
Welp, I didn’t take the camera out today. I could have. I was up early and the weather was great. I just couldn’t get myself moving to do it. I just stayed home. Sorry.
In my defense though, while staying home I played a TON of guitar. I worked on seven songs, as I posted earlier, and recorded a mountain of really shitty guitar tracks. I have been ignoring 50/90 over the last three weeks, and probably screwed myself out of completing the challenge again, but we’re still trucking along. I have also mixed two songs today. Maybe starting tomorrow I’ll get back to the daily update posts to try and guilt myself into making more progress. Who knows.
As for the TV stuff, I finished season five of the old Doctor Who this morning while faux jogging (pronounced yogging), and then after I came home from grocery shopping I finished season nine of the new Doctor Who series. Both TV goals for today, complete! Now I have one more season to go on the second doctor in the old show, and one more season to go on the twelfth doctor on the new show. I am ready for regenerations on both shows, even though I am enjoying both doctors. It’s weird. As soon as I get a new doctor, I want another new doctor. I guess I am just an asshole.
I’m writing this at around 3:30pm. What am I going to achieve with the rest of the day? Probably nothing. Harry is still here. He’s going to his father’s house tonight, for a while at least. Jen and I will have dinner together. Other than that, there’s a new That Pedal Show that I haven’t seen yet. Maybe I’ll watch that now.
I didn’t use my Nikon point and shoot at all over the weekend. I took it out of the back pack on the drive home and much to my sadness, the lens cover was damaged somehow. It won’t close when the camera is off and it won’t open all the way when the camera is on. I can’t seem to fix it.
Looks like my official point and shoot camera is now the little Casio that Jen bought me as an engagement present. I used it for today’s photo-a-day, more in a symbolic way than anything else.
I dropped one of the point and shoot cameras into a cup of water this morning. Whoops. I cleaned it off and tested it by taking a pic of the not-board pedal chain March music guitar rig.
The sky over Tewksbury was lit up nicely. My mother always said that her fisherman father, my grandfather, was fond of the old saying, red sky at night, sailor’s delight. That fit well last night.
The 2023 RPM Challenge starts tomorrow. I do not expect that I will have a whole lot of time or energy for it right off the bat. I’m still committed, but the real world is getting in the way.
I want to write down what’s going on with my mother. Not for anyone else, just for me. I don’t need/want/care if anyone reads it, I just want to have it saved here with everything else.
I’ll do it today, but not right now. Have some cat pictures in the meantime.
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