Tag: plans

Quiet Day

It has been a quiet Tuesday, apart from the huge thunderstorm that rolled through this afternoon and almost drown the entire state. There was some minor flooding on route 128 during my drive home. Just the odd lane that had a couple of inches of standing water. Just enough to make you think you were going to hydroplane your way right off the road.

Other than that, work was okay. The Red Sox 14 game winning streak is safe for the day as they were rained out. Bummer. I worked on some music for the 50 songs in 90 Days Challenge.

Mostly I am just starting to get psyched up for next week. I took the week off. Partly so we could go see Rush in New York, but that is only a couple of days. The rest of the time is just because my company has a max on the amount of Personal Time Off you can carry and I was just about to hit that max. Use it or lose it, you know? I’ve already worked my two days in the office so the last three days before my time off will all be working from home. I like the sound of that.

So for the most part, today has just been a kinda nothing day in a good way. Here’s hoping for more of the same tomorrow.

The Weekend is Coming

It is Friday afternoon. I still have a couple of hours before I finish my work day but it is time to start preparing for the glory that is the coming weekend. I have a few things I want to do and a few things I have to do.

First, the have-to-do’s…

I have to get a haircut. If I don’t get a haircut I am going to lose my freakin’ mind. I am probably a month overdue, if not more. I have to I have to I have to get a haircut.

I have to shave this fur off my face. My facial hair does not grow terribly fast but I am completely unable to deal with the itchy stage of beard growth. It’s been two weeks since last I shaved and oh my goodness the itch is driving me insane. I can’t stand it anymore. If I don’t shave this weekend I am going to go certifiably crazy.

Okay. Those are the things that I HAVE to do. How about the things that I want to do. Some of these wants are very close to needs, but I won’t go insane if I can’t get to them, I’ll just be somewhere between sad and pissed.

Music. Fifty songs in ninety days. I have to make serious progress on the few songs I have in progress at the moment. That includes writing lyrics, recording vocals, and recording various guitar parts. I want to dedicate some serious time to the music project.

Have a nice visit with my in-laws. They are coming over tomorrow afternoon. It should be a nice time. 

Shoot a roll of 120 film for the Frugal Film Project. This one might tie in with the next one…

Go into Boston and see the Tall Ships. My beloved Bride, Jen threw this out as a possibility for Sunday. My step daughter, Bellana says she’s up for it too. I hadn’t even thought of it before this morning but now that it’s out there? I really want to do this. Like, big time want to do this. My cameras want me to do it too. Load up a roll of 120 in the Lubitel and a roll of 35mm in the N90 and a clean memory card in the Z5 and just go effin’ bonkers.

Do my best to try and sleep some, because I haven’t done very much of that over the past week.

There you have it. My hopes and plans for this weekend. It is less than two hours away. In the immortal words of Van Halen, I think the clock is slow.

Nothing Going On

It’s Friday night. The weekend is here. Thank fuck, you know? The weekend… finally.

We have nothing going on this weekend. I have to pick something up at the drug store but other than that… nuttin’.

Man, is that weird or what? It’s been a long time since we’ve had a weekend with nothing going on. 

Like… weird, right?

That Time of Year

It is that time of year again. The time where my loyal readers (all zero of you) start getting inundated with posts where I say something like, just you watch… tomorrow I’m going to go to the ocean and take pics of the sunrise.

I haven’t taken a photo-walk or anything like that since last August. Eight months. I have the day off tomorrow and the forecast calls for clear skies at sunrise. Let’s do this!

The way this works is… I say I am going to go to the ocean to take pics of the sunrise the next day, and then the next day arrives and I stay in bed. That’s how these things usually go. Will that be the case this time?

Probably.

Do the Right Thing?

I don’t want to go into details but here’s the deal.

I have something to do tomorrow and I don’t want to do it. Originally, the plan was for my wife and I to do it together. It involves driving for an hour and a half, doing something that may not take a lot of time, and then driving home for an hour and a half. As of now though, my beloved bride needs to work tomorrow so if this happens it will be me doing it alone.

So there are two options. One, I do the right thing and I go and do this task. Two, I don’t do it and I stay home and run errands for my wife and just be here with her, which is absolutely what I want to do.

Frustrated sigh… If I do this then it will help someone out and if I believed in karma (which I absolutely do not) then it would be a good thing for everyone, karmically speaking (is karmically a word?). I just selfishly do not want to do it because it is going to take up the entire afternoon and most of the evening and I really just want to spend time with my wife.

I am probably going to do it. Like I said, it’s the right thing. The other person involved has already done a similar thing for me. It’s only right and proper for me to do the same in return. I just don’t want to spend three hours in the car round trip.

Ugh… I didn’t expect this post to feel so negative. I really just thought it would be an unemotional stating of the two sides of the coin and instead I feel like this reads like I am pissed off and defeated by the situation. It’s not that big a deal. For me, it’s not that big a deal. For the other folks involved it is, but me being involved is a microscopic piece of it. Ugh… I don’t know what I am saying anymore. I’ll shut up now.

On the upside, the Boston Bruins appear to be putting an end to their 10 game losing streak by beating the shit out of the Whalers tonight. Too bad it’s WAY too late to have any meaning. Ugh. The Red Sox got rained out today so they are going to play a double header tomorrow. Maybe things will go well and we’ll get to spank St Louis twice in one Sunday. That’d be nice.

Gotta

Gotta go to IKEA to return something.

Gotta go to Best Buy to return something.

Gotta go into the city, Cambridge, to pick something up.

Gotta find two 9v power plugs for guitar pedals. I know I have a bunch of them around here somewhere. Probably need to grab a power strip too.

Gotta setup the guitar rig I want to use for the next practice (tomorrow?). Guitar (Gibson Les Paul Standard) -> Duel overdrive pedal (Keeley D&M Drive) -> Digital reverb pedal (TC Electronic Hall of Fame 2) -> Amp (Fender Bassbreaker 18/30 which does not have a built in reverb, hence the digital reverb pedal). We’re going simple for a while. My big pedal board is making a ton of awful, squealy noise and I want to rip it apart and see where it’s coming from (guaranteed it’s the power supply).

Gotta write and record some music. There are only three days left in March and I haven’t written or recorded any music this month. I still want to try and get something in for the RPM Challenge’s Record Every Month challenge. Probably not likely, but we’ll see.

I also need a shower because… ewww, gross.

Good Day on Tap

There’s a good chance that tomorrow, Sunday, is going to be a good day. My step son is coming home tomorrow morning. We’ll spend nearly the whole day with him. I have a band practice that I am looking forward to but trying not to be overly excited about. See my post on the subject from earlier.

I just had one of my sugar free bakery cookies and it was goooood.

Yeah, Saturday was super busy and stressful. Sunday, I hope, should be a little more relaxing. Fingers crossed at least.

For now though, I’m going to bed. G’Night, Moon.

Saturday Plans?

Normally, one of the first things I do when I get up on a Saturday morning is start to make a list of things that need to be accomplished over the course of the day. Well, it’s Saturday now and it’s about quarter past seven in the morning. Time to make that list….

You heard me, red head… time to make that list…

Whenever you’re ready…

Yeah, I have nothing. Nothing on the agenda today at all.

The good news is, tomorrow we’re going to have a visit from Harry. I guess the agenda today is to just get ready for his visit. I can do that.