This Time Tomorrow…

At this time tomorrow night, 24 hours from now, we will be in the air on our way South to Orlando, FL and a long weekend away at Disney World.

Our clothes are packed but we still need to pack our carry on stuff, like the laptop upon which I am currently typing this masterpiece of a blog post, and 15,000 different Apple product charging devices. My film camera is packed, along with a new roll of film I loaded into it and my spare film stash, but my digital camera and it’s charger are sitting on the desk still waiting to be put away.

My step son, Harry, is going to spend the weekend here watching over the cats. I cleaned the bathroom in anticipation of his arrival because it was getting pretty grody in there and I didn’t want him to see it. It’s all good to go now.

I have packed enough protein bars to feed an elephant for a week, no pun intended… wait a tick to let that one sink in… I’m not as physically fat and elephantine like I was a year and a half ago, but that fat elephant of a red head still lives in my brain so the fat joke is still relevant… mentally, at least. Boy did I go a long way for that one.

Lily the Cat is acting like a mentally insane feline person tonight. It’s like she knows we’re leaving tomorrow so she’s trying to impress us with as much crazy as she can while she still has us around. Freakin’ gremlin-cat.

What else… I wrote lyrics for a couple of songs tonight and also finished season 10 of the original Doctor Who. Now it’s 10:20pm and I am completely exhausted to the very core of my being and I need to go to sleep so that I can get through the work day tomorrow and get to the airport and get on the plane and get to Florida and get to the hotel sometime after midnight.

I am so ready. Florida, here we come… 24 hours from now.

36 Minutes Left

It is 4:54pm. I get off work at 5:30. 36 minutes to go until the long weekend.

Do I have any plans yet? I want to do some cleaning. Jen and I might take a lunch time drive tomorrow. I want to go grocery shopping in the morning.

Anything else?

The weather is supposed to be clear all three days. There has to be some photography fun. I might get up for some ocean sunrise tomorrow. The sunrise is after 6:00am now. I can handle that. I might shoot some film at the ocean, including some black and white film. How would a sunrise look on black and white? Dreamy and cool or blah? We might find out.

I need to book a Genius Bar appointment. My iPhone’s lightning connection is failing. I need to get that fixed. They probably just need to clean it, but we’ll see. I might wait until next week for that one though.

As previously stated, there is a Disney World trip this month. It’s a short one, but it’s coming up quickly. Is it too early to write up a packing list and start planning that? Do I need to buy a bathing suit? What are the chances of Jen and me hitting the hotel pool? I don’t know. I’ve lost over 200 pounds since the last time I owned a bathing suit or a pair of shorts that could pass for a bathing suit.

In other words… I have no idea what we’re going to end up doing over this upcoming holiday weekend. All I know for sure is that it is now 4:59pm and the weekend is 31 minutes away.

Less Than Nine Hours to Go

It’s just after 8:30am on the Friday before Labor Day weekend and I haven’t punched in to work yet. I had a few things to do first. I went with Harry to the garage to drop off his rental car and pick up his car. It’s all set and it looks as good as new. He just left to go back to Burlington. He’s going to miss his first class this morning, but that’s about the only downside to this visit. All is well again.

I’m less than nine hours away from a three day weekend. I just finished season 11 of the new Doctor Who. I have 20 episodes over two seasons left to go and then I’ll be all caught up. I’m on episode 17 of season seven of the original show. Eight episodes left in this season and something like 2346123472572 episodes left in the full series. I don’t expect to finish either series this weekend, but I can pretty much guarantee I’ll be done with the new show in a week or so which means I will be 100% caught up before the next episode airs in November.

What about the music project? I have 27 songs finished and 39 total in progress. I have four more songs ready to mix and I hope to crank them all out tonight. I have 30 days left, including today, and a ton of work still to go, but I think I am more or less on pace to finish on time. I’ll have a few days at Disney World where it will be tough to make progress, but I think I will be okay. I should note that even though I took over two weeks off in August, I still managed to finish an RPM Challenge Rules album in a month as I started and finished 12 songs within the calendar month. I started and finished 10 in July too. In order to hit 50 songs over all I will need to start and finish 11 songs in September. Three album in a months in a row isn’t a bad place to be. I think once this project is finished I will try to get back into the last re-recording project which has been left hanging for a little more than a year now.

I mentioned in the last post that my stomach has been a little less than 100% this morning. I had some trouble with water early on and had to deal with a minor bout of The Foamies after taking my vitamins. I only got eight ounces of water in during my exercise, but afterwards I was okay for breakfast and I am feeling much better now. I’ve managed another eight ounces since I came home from Harry’s auto shop. I think we’re back on track today. I might have a hamburger on the grill for lunch today. We’ll see how it goes.

Okay, it’s 8:50am now and I have to be punched into work by 9:00. I think I’ll hit publish on this masterpiece of an update and get my work day started. Lots to do today, lots to do. Eight hours and 40 minutes to go until the long weekend.

You can do it, Robbie! You can do it!

Maine Views

Two stops in Maine. First, a scenic view spot in Kennebunkport.

Hey, who lives around here? Oh, only the president Bush family. Too bad they weren’t Democrats like respectable people, but at least they never appeared to be card carrying fascists like a lot of current republicans.

The view from the other side of the house is more impressive, but this is where we stopped so it’s what you get.

Our second stop was a call back to our first trip to Bar Harbor. Back then, 11 years ago, Jen took me to a spot near York Beach that I didn’t even know was there. It was the start of my interest in New England light houses.

Nubble Light House. Last year when I declared I was going to take photos of light houses all summer I managed to get exactly one. This year after I declared I was going to take photos of light houses all summer I got one and then declared I was giving up. Now I have two. Crazy. Also, the right shift key on my MacBook keyboard is sticking or something. That’s why capitalization has been a little screwy of late. Just in case you noticed.

Home at Last

Jen and I left Bar Harbor this morning after having breakfast with Bellana. She’s staying for one more day. We took a scenic route home so that we could have a few views of the ocean in Southern Maine. It was beautiful.

I had a great time on this long weekend, but I am seriously happy to be home.

I’d rather not have to work tomorrow, but them’s the breaks, right?

Welcome home.

Miracle!

I got a parking spot on the street in downtown Bar Harbor!

Weather and Wedding

The reason we’ve traveled up to Bar Harbor, ME is to go to a wedding. The wedding is late this afternoon. Right now it’s 8:40am and I’ve been up for three hours. Jen and Bellana are still asleep. I showered, had my morning vitamins, had my breakfast protein bars, and have watched a couple of Doctor Who episodes (new series, season eight, episodes nine and 10, and 11 is running as I type this).

We’re more or less shit out of luck for touristy things today. It’s raining out. Lots of rain. Serious rain. No Acadia National Park sight seeing today. No wandering around downtown today. I’m not sure what we’re going to do, apart from getting ready for the wedding and all that fun. It’s going to be a good time tonight, but until then it might be a little on the extra low-key side.

weather be damned, it’s going to be a good day.

Summit Views

Views from the summit of Cadillac Mountain. Digital version. There will be 2-3 film shots someday in the distance future.

This one was from the hotel restaurant where we had breakfast. The four mast sailing ship is the Margarette Todd. I wish I had a huge zoom lens, don’t you?