May/June Music

Music was made this morning. I started a song idea (#2 for June) on my iPad late last night and put guitars on it this morning. That’s probably going to be the plan going forward. I did not use my Deluxe Reverb as my amplifier, even though it’s in the pictures, I used my Vox MV50’s direct output and speaker simulation into my USB interface. No speakers involved at all. That makes me sad, but it also let Jen sleep so that’s a huge win in my book. I suspect the only chances I am going to have to put a dent in music projects this month, or even this summer, will be to do it before work and that means we’re going direct.

Now I just need to write 10 songs within the month of June, and finish all 10 that I started in May. Yeah. Right.

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Smoke

We made blackened fish in a cast iron skillet last night. It was excellent.

Cleaning the skillet requires rubbing it down with vegetable oil and then burning it off. That didn’t go quite as excellent. Especially when I had all of the windows open at 10:30pm when it was 48 degrees out, and that was before the smoke alarms went off.

Insult to injury, 15 minutes after the smoke cleared and the alarms were silent, one of the smoke alarms started giving that dying battery chirp. Perfect timing, ass munch.

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At least the skillet is clean and ready for the next meal.