It’s almost noon on Friday. The weekend is so close I can feel it sitting just out of reach. So close you can almost touch it.
Music this weekend? Photos this weekend? Who the hell knows, but I can’t wait to find out. I am ready for the weekend, babie! Bring it to me!
They don’t understand that they can’t fit on the top of the cat tree together anymore. They are both all grown up now.
I played some guitar this morning before work. That’s good. The bad part was that I lost track of time and nearly made myself late for work. You have to be better at clock management, Robert. Point noted.
I worked on four 50/90 Challenge songs. Two got rhythm guitar tracks and two got leads. I swapped from my SG Standard to my Les Paul Custom because… I don’t know why. I just wanted to. I’ve used three guitars on the 25 songs so far. The only one I haven’t used is my 50th birthday Les Paul because I have been using that at band practices and it’s upstairs while my music nook is downstairs. I will put the birthday Les Paul to work on 50/90 soon enough.
Pics because… because.
They seem all calm and peaceful here, but a few minutes later they were starting to show signs of the zoomies. It hasn’t started yet, but at some point tonight they are going to go freakin’ insane and start bombing around the house like crazy wild animals.
I’m feeling kinda blue today. I don’t know why. The weather is ugly today and I am in the office when I’d rather be home and I just don’t feel like today is going to be a good day. Once I am home I am sure my mood will turn around.
Part of me thinks that maybe I feel low because the summer is flying by and we are missing out on what it has to offer. I don’t think that’s true. The summer has been good so far. Lots of cookouts, lots of kid visit time. What more could we ask for? That can’t be it. No, I think I just needed to be at home on a sunny day today and neither is the case.
Blah.
Here’s today’s photo a day pic. It’s the same guitar again because I don’t have time or energy to think of anything else. If I get a chance to play some before work tomorrow I am going to use a different guitar. I think. Maybe. We’ll see.
She literally just said to me, “what are you looking at, loser?”
She’s so mean to me.
My phone is an iPhone 14 Pro Max. I didn’t upgrade to a 15 last year. I used to always skip a generation, then there were a few years where I did not, now I am trying to get back into the every-other-iteration way of thinking. When the next iPhone is released I will probably upgrade. Not because I necessarily want to (though I absolutely do) but because my trusty ol’ two-year-old is starting to get weird on me.
Are there any other 14 users still out there? Are they experiencing weirdness too? That’s a rhetorical question. I’m not expecting a discussion here, I’m just an old man yelling at clouds, so to speak.
It’s not so much weirdness as slowness. Everything, both native and 3rd party applications, just seem to need a little more time to do what they gotta do. Launch? Crunch some data? Open a photo? Play an audio or video file? It just seems to take a little longer than it used to. In some cases it takes a few full seconds more than it used to.
I wonder… is this some planned obsolescence program kicking in? Is Apple trying to convince me to upgrade this cycle by hamstringing my system over here? It’s possible. I don’t think it’s likely- (I mean it’s a 14 not a 4, right?) but it could be.
Not that I need any arm twisting or anything. I do want a new phone and it will probably just be a few months until the 16’s hit the market. I just wonder.
Anyway, I took today’s photo a day challenge pic before I left the cellar this morning. Yeah, it’s another guitar pic. What are you gonna do about it?
We’ve hit feline cuteness factor 10, Captain.
It’s always a good morning when you play the guitar before work.
Three more 50/90 challenge songs have lead guitars down and are now ready to be mixed and put into the finished songs bucket. Good morning, indeed.
I think today’s band practice is going to be cancelled. I think we need to start planning on a different day and time.
In place of band practice I have done a ton of work on 50/90. Well… maybe not a ton, but a really good morning’s worth. I have added tracks to six songs. There might be time for more too. We’ll have to see.
Additional good news. Whatever was wrong with my stomach yesterday has cleared up. I knew it would, it just took most of the day. Here’s hoping it doesn’t come back for a while. A long while.
For now though, here are the obligatory guitar pics from this morning’s goofiness.
Inside the Red Head's Head 