This Morning

A cat moment from earlier this morning.

Open Windows

It is November 1st and I have all of the windows open. The cats are not concerned about climate change, but in the spirit of full transparency, I am a little weirded out by the temperature right now.

Big Day

As a black cat, Halloween is sort of Lily’s big day. She was very fascinated by the door being open but as usual, once the strangers started showing up she was nowhere to be found. She tried her best though. Good job, cat.

Robin also tried to get into the spirit of the day. Mostly showing support for her daughter, like a good parent. She also was nowhere to be found once people started coming by. Oh well. Both of our cats are just wimps, I guess.

The good news from the Trick or Treat experience is that we gave out a shit load of candy. The bad news is that we did not give it all out. I have a few leftover bags. In the pre-gastric bypass surgery world I would have started eating the leftovers by now. Today? Post-surgery? I can’t eat sugar anymore so… I don’t know what’s going to happen to the leftovers. We’ll see the kids in a couple of weeks. Maybe they’ll take it.

Hope your Halloween was a good one. Happy Halloween, everyone.

Bring it On

The Trick or Treat window in our town opened three minutes ago.

We are ready.

Bring it on.

Happy Halloween

The cats would like to wish you all a Happy Halloween.

Ho Ho Ho and shit.

Comfy

I saw this and thought to myself, she can’t be comfortable like that, can she?

Then I looked away for a minute, and when I looked back I saw this:

Now she’s looking super comfy! Laid back and relaxing. Good kitty.

Stay Focused

I have tomorrow off from work. It’s Halloween. I like taking Halloween off. I don’t have any real reason to take it off, I just like having it off.

I also have a shit load of work to do for a deadline at the end of next week. Like, a literal mountain of paperwork type stuff.

My brain is starting to get into you-have-tomorrow-off-woohoo mode where I am easily distracted by trivial things and lose focus on what I am doing and I start slipping into day off mode early.

I cannot do that today. I cannot. I must not. Too much stuff to do. Too many tasks with a fast approaching deadline. Stay focused, Robert. Keep your nose to that paperwork-grindstone. Don’t let your attention slip!

Oh look, here is a picture of a guitar that I took this morning.

Huh… uh oh.

Silhouette

I’m not sure which cat this was.

New Music Project Coming Soon

Today is Tuesday October 29th. This coming Friday is November 1st.

A new annual, internet based music project begins on Friday. National Solo Album Month, NaSoAlMo. Write and record an album’s worth of music all within the month of November, and do it all yourself. No collaborations. Just you.

I had a thought about trying to write two songs of approximately 20 minutes in length, like a good Prog Rock nerd. I said two 20 minute songs, not four. What do you think I am, Yes? Sheesh.

Something tells me that once I start rolling on this (assuming I actually start rolling on this) I will just do my usual 10, 2-3 minute rockers and call it a day. We will see how (if) it goes. I’m sure I’ll post about it 20-30 times a day, or some crap like that.