IKEA threw up all over our house. Now I have a ton of pre-fab furniture to deal with.
This is me getting a jump on things tonight by assembling the first of (I think) five items.
IKEA and I are going to spend some quality time together tomorrow.
In an attempt to replace any apps owned by billionaire fascists like musk and zuckerberg I created an account on Foto today. Hopefully it will help cut the instagram chord. It just came out of beta and there are bugs and server issues and the search function appears to be garbage. Still, it’s not a meta app.
My user name is the same as my Flickr account, robj_1971.
Sometimes I am such a nerd.
Foreground in focus and background blurry…
Background in focus and foreground blurry…
It’s fun knowing how to do stuff like this with your camera. Seriously. Knowledge is both power and a source of goofy entertainment.
I did play some guitar before work today. I noodled out a new song idea on the 12 string. Acoustic madness in 3/4 time, if you will.
Assistant Mix Emgineer, Lilly.
I kept catching Robin in the middle of a nap today. Lily was in hiding all day so I don’t have any pics of her. Robin, however…….
WOW! Five years is a LONG TIME.
The saxophone came out of its case and amazingly, miraculously, I can still play it.
Can I play it well? Oh my sweet christmas I CANNOT. I SUCK! I put sax parts onto three songs including the instrumental where the sax plays the melody. It sounds awful, my playing is awful, and the whole thing is just awful and I don’t care because oh my goodness was that fun.
I lasted about 10 minutes before my body started to reject the whole experience. I mentioned calluses in the last post. When you don’t play guitar often you lose your calluses and it hurts. It is a similar thing with wind instruments except it is about muscle strength. There are muscles in your mouth and around your jaw that you don’t use very often that are used A TON when you play a woodwind instrument. I made it about 10 minutes before those muscles decided they were done. I would then play for 20 seconds or so and follow up with a 2-3 minute rest. After about half an hour of that I had to stop. For now at least. I am going to break for lunch and maybe watch a TV show and then see how I feel. It’s entirely possible the 2025 saxophone experiment might be over. We’ll see.
Speaking of lunch, one thing about playing sax that I forgot all about is that it makes you wicked hungry. I think that’s a wind instrument thing in general because I remember everyone in my high school band complaining about how they were starving at the end of each rehearsal. Yeah, I needs me some lunch now.
Saxophone, babie! I can still play!
Over the last hour and a half or so I have added lead guitar tracks to five songs. My finger tips are in a state of pure burning agony. That’s what happens when you don’t play enough and your calluses fade away. Ouch town, population me, bro.
I need to give my hands a break. Know what that means? It means it’s time for some saxophone. It’s been five years since I’ve taken my cheap little alto out of it’s case. Can I still play? Let’s find out!
I just got home from some car music. I think it was a success. I’m not sure though because I am literally frozen solid and can’t tell if I am even alive or not. It is soooo freaking cold out right now.
I spent about an hour and a half in the car in the (mostly) empty movie theater parking lot, singing my lungs out while trying to keep my extremities safe from frost bite. It is tough to use a laptop while wearing winter gloves, but I sort of made it work. I put vocals onto seven RPM Challenge songs all while the temperature topped out at 19 degrees Fahrenheit (that’s -7.2 or so for our metric, Celsius using friends).
Right now I am sitting in my living room, hoping that the feeling will return to my toes soon. Once it does, I will go down cellar to my music nook and start recording lead guitar tracks. Today is Music Day, boys and girls, and it is off to a cracking good start.
I was sneaky this morning and I did something that if I were smart and responsible I probably would not have done. I did not oversleep at all, which is kind of miraculous. That means I was able to get my morning exercise in nice and early. It’s an in-the-office work day today and usually on those days I start packing up and getting ready to go as soon as the exercise is over.
Because I finished early I decided to sneak in a little guitar playing. I put two tracks of acoustic guitar onto one RPM Challenge song. It was the one that I started working on last night. Now it’s on the list of songs that are ready for tomorrow’s expected singing in the car session. Nice. If I had more time I would have tried to sneak in a second song, but that would have been pressing my luck. I smartly didn’t even try.
I did take today’s photo a day picture. Day 172/365, to be exact. It’s a guitar pic, of course.
This wasn’t the pic I had planned though. The pic I had planned ended up being awful, as you can see here:
Oh well. Here’s hoping I can write some lyrics and some melodies so that I can have a lot of stuff ready for singing in the car on my vacation day tomorrow. Fingers crossed I can make the time for it tonight.
trump, the felon in chief and first rapist of the fascist states of america, yesterday claimed that Ukraine started the war with Russia. Despite, you know, the solid fact that Russia started the war when they invaded their neighbor.
Given his rapist history, it’s no wonder that the fucker claimed Ukraine was asking for it, just like I’m sure his rape victims were all asking for it. Obviously. I mean, they all had vaginas so of course they were asking for it.
Also, about half of the voters in the nazi states of america agree with his statement.
We are so beyond saving.
Here’s a cat picture to enjoy while we still can.
Inside the Red Head's Head 