Tag: Recording

Hosed

Work has been insane this week. Since Friday, really. In:Sane.

I took a minute to check on the Lake Asshole Bucket. It was maybe 15% full. I put the wet vac’s hose into the bucket and sucked all of that shit right up. Bucket:Empty. That worked much better than trying to get the blender out from under the pipe without spilling anything (which was impossible).

The dehumidifier is still cranking away. I had to empty it once. The floor is pretty much dry. Oh happy day.

Two weeks (approximately) until they come to replace the water heater. Two weeks of Lake Asshole monitoring.

Now I will have time to have dinner with the love of my life, watch What If with the love of my life and possibly with my step son (via a watch party), and then add lead guitars to the four songs that are currently ready for them. The finished 50/90 song count is currently sitting at 38. Four more are ready for leads, six are ready for vocals (car music in the morning?), and two barely exist.

Hopefully going to make a push over the next couple of days… assuming work lets me. Have I mentioned work has been insane this week? In:Sane.

Oh, the Crazy

For the last few months, going to work has often seemed like a break from all the rest of the stuff going on in the world. That is kind of the opposite of normal, right? Being away from work is supposed to be the more enjoyable part of your day.

Welp, we’re officially back to normal! Oh, the crazy stress right now. My head is spinning! WHEEEEEEEEE!

Jen just made an appointment with a plumber to come and look at the source of lake asshole. They are coming for the first look tomorrow. Oh happiness! I am so looking forward to a day when I can go into the cellar without getting my feet wet. That’s going to be a good day.

So much music work to do. So little time. When am I going to finish all this stuff off? When, oh when?

Audience

Between singing in the car this morning, writing lyrics this afternoon, and playing guitar tonight, I have honestly lost track of everything I’ve done today.

It was cool though, I had an audience while I was tracking guitars. I was down cellar because I was too lazy to set up the bedroom rig that I partially cannibalized for the cellar rig and as I was playing along I noticed this big honkin’ spider hanging out at the base of the stairs, just grooving along.

It was not, as far as I could tell, from Mars.*

*If you don’t get that reference… well I don’t even know what to tell you.

Car Music Today, Car Music Tomorrow

I did some car music today. Five songs. I had eight ready to go and I think I could have managed one more, but the MacBook was running hot and the internal fan was freaking out and when I brought up what would have been the sixth song there were a ton of lyrics to sing and I figured I’d error on the side of caution.

I have 18 days left this month and a ton of stuff left to do. I don’t know how much time I’ll have today, but for this coming week? Guitars, car music vocals, mixing. All of it. It’s going to be like an avalanche of getting shit done.

Because if it isn’t I am going to end up being right on the cusp of finishing the challenge and I’ll still fail… and I really don’t want that to happen.

Song Number 32

Here’s song number 32 out of (hopefully) 50!

I don’t like the guitar sound in the solo at the end. Everything else is okay. I guess the melody is kinda bad too. All three stanzas of the lyrics are haikus, so I guess I score points for nerdy poetry and cultural appropriation? Okay, I’ll shut up now.

Today in 50/90 Challenge News

Okay, let’s see what we did today. There’s a decent amount of stuff, I just didn’t keep the best track of it all.

I added two new songs. Numbers 47 and 48. The arrangements are all set, but I didn’t have time to add any guitar tracks.

The rest of the time today was spent writing lyrics and melodies. I believe I wrote lyrics for four songs and melodies for three (one of the four lyrics already had a melody written).

I now have four songs ready to mix, six ready to sing, five ready for lyrics, two ready for rhythm guitars, and two that don’t exist yet. That plus the 31 already mixed should bring me to 50 but I am too tired to do that much math so… yeah.

Hopefully doing car music on Saturday morning. Fingers crossed.

Healed

I don’t get it. I was in so much pain yesterday. I couldn’t believe it. I couldn’t think straight. It was awful.

Today? It’s a little tender. A little sore. Not bad at all. I’m not even limping or anything. What the hell happened? Stupid foot. Stupid, stupid foot.

Anyway, 24 hours from now I expect my little quarantinie fun time to be over and history and a memory buried so deep I am not even sure it’s real. Covid-19 test at 8:09am. Freedom to roam the house without a mask approximately 15 minutes later. Kick ass, dude.

I have so much music to do in the next three weeks that I’m starting to freak out a little. Just warning you all that there might be a lot (I mean, a lot) of 50/90 music posts coming in the immediate future. Just so’s ya know. I mean, I just came up with terrible lyrics for song #40. I have three songs ready to sing. I can’t do car music until Saturday and I want to have 5-10 ready for vocal tracking by then. Yikes!

Okay, I need to fill up the cat’s food bowl, grab myself a caffeinated diet soda, and start my work day. The laundry is running already and the puddle formerly known as Lake Asshole has been cleaned up, including emptying the wet vac and the dehumidifier.

I think I’m good to go for now.

Wish my quarantinied ass luck.