Almost There

The work day is more than half way done. Just a few hours to go until the weekend. Solving the equation and making use of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity shows us that a five day week that follows a four day weekend that followed a three day week is going to feel like a 20 day week. Do the math. It totally checks out.

After this impossibly long work week, the weekend shines like a beacon in a dark and stormy night. There are a lot of things I want to do this weekend. Christmas lights, a little cleaning at my parents house, cleaning up the post-decorating mess we left in the living room, and music music and more music.

There may be an alternate plan though. One inspired by the love of my life. This morning, I got out of bed a few minutes before she did. When I got up, the cat immediately took my place. Actually, she was on the bed before I got up, sort of willing me to piss off and leave so she could be alone with Jen. As I was starting to make the long journey to the bathroom Jen told the cat that she was just going to spend the entire day in bed. She wasn’t going to get up at all.

Now THAT is a plan!

I could not live that particular dream today, but tomorrow? And Sunday?

Bring it on!

Thanks, Jen! I love you!!!

Laziest Cat Ever

Ms Patches: Laziest cat ever. I’m so jealous.

Terrible Time Management

Last February there was a very important change to my daily routine that more or less allowed me to finish the RPM Challenge. Telecommuting. I worked from home on Thursdays. That allowed me to do a hefty chunk of musical work before work in the morning, and then during my lunch break. There were other contributing factors too, but Thursdays at home was a big part of finishing on time.

Now that I am trying another album-in-a-month deal I have the added benefit of telecommuting two days a week (for now at least), Mondays and Thursdays. This week I didn’t do anything musical on Monday morning before work (I watched the previous night’s episode of The Walking Dead instead. Priorities, man) but I did spend my lunch break working on a rhythm guitar part.

How about today? How’d I do?

Well this morning before work I sat on my fat ass on the couch eating Coca Puffs and watching Futurama on Netflix. At lunch time, I drove to Burger King because my ass obviously isn’t fat enough.

When it comes to music in November, my time management skills just plain blow.

On the upside, I did a little work on my iPad last night. It’s probably going to be short, the tempo is pretty fast, and I don’t know where I’m going to work the 12-string into it, but it’s a new work in progress. I can’t tell how many I have going now. At least three. Well, two if I take two of the three and stitch them together. There are other things, but I haven’t looked at them in about five days. So let’s say two actual works in progress. Pretty crappy progress, but still more than I had done on 11/30/12, right?

Nothing Going On

There’s nothing going on right now. Nothing worth writing up anyway.

The kids are at their dad’s this weekend, which kinda blows. My nephew’s 5th birthday party is this weekend, that’s good, but my step kids can’t go so that’s not good. The love of my life and I are planning to spend the next few days under the radar, just being stay-at-home types.

I’m back to being pissed off at the bird feeders. The squirrel’s ruin my lame old person fun. I’ve wanted to try taking some moon pics, but the weather has not cooperated since 2010.

Today’s Friday. Yesterday felt like Friday, which is going to make today difficult. There was one humorous moment yesterday when a coworker asked me to handle a task. She thought it was Friday, so she used the Friday protocol (I have to handle some things differently on Friday, no big deal) and I thought it was Friday too so I went right along with it. Five minutes later she tells me, it’s not Friday. I was all like, D’OH!

I should probably mow the grass again this weekend. I should clean up the living room and the kitchen and the bathroom and all the floors too.

I should also put some new strings on the Les Paul and get back into the music groove. I’ve got two old songs started, one on the MacBook and the other on the iPad. I should finish those, then do the three still outstanding from 2008, then call the two current projects done. Then what? I’m clearly not playing along with 50/90. Wait until February? I hope not. Maybe I’ll do a mini-RPM in August or September. We’ll see.

So yeah… nothing much going on. Let’s just have a lazy July weekend, okay? Sounds good.

One Free Day

I had a day’s worth of comp time banked last week when my boss suggested I use it or lose it. When do I need to use it by? Asks me. End of the month says he. Well, far be it from me to turn down a four day weekend, I booked the day after Memorial Day. Aka, tomorrow.

Now what? My beloved will be at work, the kids will be at school. How should I spend the day? I was reserving it for possible yard work if it rained all weekend, but I got the yard work done yesterday. I am free and clear tomorrow.

I have three ideas. I just need to pick one.

Obviously idea #1 is to flake the day away. Watch some tube, a movie or whatever. That’s probably what I’ll do, but I’d like to at least think about doing something more involved.

Idea #2 is music. I’ve got a lot of in progress recordings that could be polished off over the course of a full business day. That would be nerd-hobby productive, and therefore acceptable to my nerd brain.

Idea #3 is to have a photo day. Take the camera somewhere and take a pile of new pictures to feed the Flickr. But where? Boston is the obvious place. Harvard Square in Cambridge? Maybe some places near home like the Spicket or Merrimack rivers? I don’t know. It sounds like a good idea.

Which do you suggest, oh Internet?

Lazy Deer

We were getting ready to go to the mall so my wife could go gadget shopping. I happened to look out the window and saw a deer in the woods! It’s been so long since I’ve been able to snap a picture! This time was a first for me though. The deer I saw was at the top of a hill near the edge of the woods behind our house and he was laying down. Just sitting there, being all lazy. I called Jen and grabbed my camera. I opened the window in the bedroom to get a good shot and after staring for a few minutes we found another deer, then another! The third was in front of a tree and looking right at us. We eventually saw more. We weren’t sure if we saw five or six.

I do so very much love when the deer come to visit us.