Tag: february

Happy Leap Day

Happy Leap Day, everyone! February 29th! IF today’s your birthday then you’ve been waiting four years for this day. Congratulations and make the most of it!

Leap Day means it’s the last day of February which means the RPM Challenge ends today. I have mixed two of the remaining six songs this morning but I have to put off the rest of them until after work tonight. I also have to finish cleaning out the kitchen so that everything is ready for kitchen demolition day tomorrow. I also also need to setup a little kitchen-esque space in our bed room, just in case we decide we need to cook something.

The mixes have been very quick and dirty and rough at best this year so I am sort of plowing through them with the minimum amount of time and effort. I’ll get the last four in tonight without too much of a problem. The question is whether any of them will be good enough to use on the final album.

I have 20 songs. I need 10 to submit an album to the RPM Challenge website. I will pick the best 10 songs and bundle them into something that resembles an album. I will take the remaining 10 pieces of dog shit and bundle them into something that resembles an outtake album. I’ll submit the 10 good songs and not submit the dog shit. Unfortunately, there are probably only four or five songs that I think are good enough to submit… so some shit is going to make it’s way into the submitted album. Oh well. That’s normal for me. I just have to decide what songs to include.

Here’s one I just finished. It will probably be included, though in a better year it would not have been. Oh well.

Four songs left to mix, then I need a cover image and a sequence. That’s all that remains for this year’s RPM Challenge. Almost there, folks. Almost there.

Happy Leap Day.

Welcome to February

January is over.  It’s February.  That means two things.

First, February is crazy music month for me.  I haven’t started yet, so you are safe from the I-wrote-a-drum-part-on-my-iPad idiocy for now.  Expect those posts to begin either later tonight or tomorrow morning.  I can see by your faces how thrilled you are to be subjected to more of that crap.

Second, the bonus is in so it’s time to start planning vacations!  Plural!  Again!  We’re kinda crazy like that.  Nothing is set in stone, of course.  It’s way to early for anything like that.  The rough draft of a plan is to take the kids some where during their school vacation.  They are going on a trip with their dad during their first week off, so we want to take them on a trip during the second week off.

More recently there have been discussions between my wife and the kids’ father about swapping weeks for grown up get aways.  We will watch the kids for a week while they go away, and they’ll watch the kids for a week while we go away.  I have not been privy to these discussions, but I do know that on Wednesday night my beautiful bride became all consumed with coming up with ideas for what the two of us should do on a week long vacation in the early Autumn.  Far be it from me to disagree, right?  I may be dumb, but I ain’t stupid!

I need to confirm the dates for the Spring trip with the kids.  Once I have that I will book the vacation time at work.  I have started collecting the various documentation I need in order to get a passport.  Hopefully I will be able to submit the passport request paperwork soon.

It’s February.  It’s cold outside.  We’re expecting more snow this weekend.  What better time to start planning a trip or two?