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  • “We’ve hit a little bump, and we’re going full speed ahead.” Chuck Amato

    Holy whackadoodle. Time flies….and then it crawls.

    I’m not sure what kind of trouble I’m getting into, but it definitely seems like the kind that keeps me from blogging.

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    I managed to fire up Pro Tools again, and determined that it’s so complex that I’ll never know what the hell I’m doing, but simultaneously user-friendly enough that it won’t matter. Got what I needed to get done, and now there’s a folk song (slash) limerick that I’ll be recording soon enough. Who needs three chords when you can play just two?

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    There’s been a warp in the space-employment-time-flux-thingamagjig. I’m more or less a “dead man walking” at work which is quite the curious feeling.  It’s a lot like knowing the exact date of your death, but everyone else around knows it too and tries to pretend that they don’t. Some (I’m sure) will be glad to get rid of me and my half baked theories that manage to hold up long enough to prove them wrong (or myself right) and resolve the issue. They’ll breathe a sigh of relief knowing that it’s only a matter of time. No matter

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    I did something nice for someone on Valentines day, I bought some flowers.  The weird part is that I had my keys in my hand with my car alarm remote and ended up accidentally dropping them into the bucket of flower water. Those inside the flower tent were roundly greeted with a choice expletive from my mouth-hole. My alarm unit has held up so far, but I fear internal corrosion now. It’s a hard life. Sometimes bad decisions require nothing more than a firm hand and a blast on the gas pedal.

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    I’m not quite sure why this has turned into such a brain expanding year, but it continues to be.


  • “Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt” – Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

    Owwwwww.

    When you’re younger, you always giggle or roll your eyes when someone older than you has mysterious pains. “You’re getting old!”, you unsympathetically declare. The older person momentarily glares at you and rubs the twinging arm, leg, back, or other assorted pained extremity.

    So here I am. Wondering why I’m waking up at 6:30am on the first true day off that I’ve had in a year.  Popping ibuprofen tabs, hobbling around the kitchen and wondering what I’m going to get done today if I can barely walk. I had to stop unloading the dishwasher halfway through. Maybe later.

    My crime? Sleeping “wrong”. How is it possible to sleep wrong? I assure you it’s not just a matter of semantics. It’s most decidedly “wrong” if you wake up in pain. That’s what happened here. When you’re younger, this happens too but you end up shaking it off the first ten minutes of the day. “Well, golly, that sure was weird!”, you exclaim.

    When you get older, it’s a different thought process.  Middle aged paranoia starts creeping in the longer the pain lasts. Is it internal? Is it a growth or a tumor? How can I prevent this from happening again? The pain will go away, right? Right? Do I need to mention this to my doctor?

    On the up side, at least it gives me a good excuse to fool around with ProTools.  For some reason it worked fine on my ultra-prepared PC the last time and now my entire system is bogging down and crashing.