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Lily Says Good Morning

Both cats were hanging out with me while I was on a video call earlier. They were both well behaved. Very professional.

What’s She Looking At?

Are we all wondering what Miss Robin is looking at?

Yeah… that kinda goes without saying, doesn’t it?

Purr Machine

Robin was purring like a corvette. Loud and powerful.

Cheer Me Up

Come on, Miss Lily. Do something funny to cheer me up. Come on. Do something. Anything. Ugh, okay just walk away.

No Playing This Morning

I’m working in the office today so there was no time to spare to sneak in any guitar playing before work. I hadn’t actually realized until just now though that even if I had had some time to play I don’t have any 50/90 challenge songs that need guitar tracks at the moment.

I have eight songs with rhythm guitar parts done whose next step is to write lyrics (yuck). I have an additional eight songs that I’ve finished tracking completely and just need to mix them down before I can count them as finished.

That’s it. I guess it’s time to start writing lyrics and adding new ideas to the list. Get crackin’, Red Head!

More Music

I just put lead guitars onto six 50/90 challenge songs, including all four that got vocal tracks this morning.

My ears are dead from wearing the headphones and one of my finger tips is about to fall off, I think.

Not a bad afternoon’s worth of musical work.

These three pedals played great together today, but the fuzz pedal, the Wren and Cuff Tall Font Russian, is the clear MVP for the day.

Morning Music and a Quest

I screwed up my morning routine today and I don’t know how I am going to recover. No details needed, as they are neither important nor really noteworthy, but I did manage to straighten it out enough to get a couple of things done.

First things first, car music. I put vocals on four 50/90 challenge songs. I was hoping to get to five, but I didn’t have time to add another song. I didn’t do particularly well today, and a couple of the melodies were a bit more complicated than my no-talent self usually gets. We’ll see how it comes out when the songs are done.

After the car music was complete I went on a quest. My father asked me to bring him a newspaper. I had a paper route back in the 80’s. Long time ago. I tried to remember the last time I bought one… given that the newspaper industry is effectively dead and the fact that they still exist is laughable. The last time I bought one was… I think… 2007? When the Red Sox won the World Series I bought a Boston Globe. I think I did it in 2007. I know I did in 2004. Let’s just say it’s going on 20 years.

Where the hell do people buy newspapers? The one my father wanted isn’t one that you could ever regularly find near my home (we’re in Lawrence Eagle Tribune country and he wants a Lowell Sun). I went to my old home town, Tewksbury, thinking there were a couple of stores where I might be able to find one. The first store I went to does not carry newspapers anymore. Big surprise. The second… is now a dentist office. Again, not a surprise. I finally decided to just hit any grocery store or convenience store I saw and I found one.

Quest complete. Newspaper acquired.

Now some random pictures… just because…

This place sold me a newspaper because it’s still 1980

Finally… cats.

Five More

I put rhythm guitars onto five more songs this morning. My schedule is all topsy turvy and I’m not sure if I will be able to do anything more today, but five songs worth of guitar tracks is a nice haul for the morning.

I am actually out of songs that need rhythm guitars now. I still have two that need leads, but we’ll be getting to those soon enough. I want to write some lyrics tonight so that I can have at least five songs ready for a car vocals in the morning.