January 24th, 2021. This one goes here…

Went down to Ellicott City again. Needed a walk in the sunshine. The very, very, very cold sunshine.

It’s a slow Sunday. I’ve occupied myself. I’ve created a pedal board MESS that may or may not be what I want it to be, I’ve done a lot of calendar entry, calendar clean up, website entries, random crap like that. Updated mailing lists for Focus and IMT and ilyAIMY. Added another old Journal entry (I’m into May of 2011, which means I have shy of six years to go yet! I rewired my computer to unwire my mouse and am not entirely sure I’m happy with the new one but it sure has more buttons. I’ve cleared space in the bathroom for the new toilet, but in all fairness I did that a week ago. Then I moved the stuff back out of my streaming space into the bathroom so that I could run my open mic. Then I moved it back out of the bathroom so the plumber could come and install the toilet. But then he had to reschedule so I moved everything back into the bathroom so we could go Live from the Lair. Then I moved everything out of the bathroom so that the plumber could get in. But the plumber didn’t get in and now tomorrow’s open mic night… we’ll see how it pans out.

With my friend Ana who’s home from Germany right now! Would be nice to see her FACE – but that’s just not in the cards right now.

For a day of “I don’t wanna” I’ve actually had a relatively productive day. Discovered that some noise in our stream wasn’t coming from the cello but was coming from the cello cable, so that’s good. Practiced with some Joey songs since we’ll be adding him to this week’s Live from the Lair. I don’t know about you, but my Life’s always a little bit better when I add some Joey to my stream.

Oh dear. Yes Brennan. I swapped the Bad Horsie out for a very cheap-ass SONICAKE “VolWah”. I think I genuinely like it better! I enjoy creating textures, though I don’t just sit here doing it enough. I’m frankly very self-conscious about it. Like Kristen’s going to come storming down and demand to know WHAT I think I’m doing. I’ve somehow acquired a LOT of pedals over the years – a number of which have been retired, some sold – almost every pedal I’ve sold I kind of regret – almost every pedal I’ve retired comes back in eventually. And then generally gets chucked back out. I THINK… I THINK I could probably sell a little multi-effects pedal or three, a volume pedal, a wah pedal, a couple of distortion pedals and a couple of loopers. But maybe not. I’m sad I sold the only flanger I ever liked a long, long, long time ago. But happy to have bought a nice chorus recently. It’s the little things.

Just in general moving right along. I know there’s other stuff I OUGHT to be doing. I did a bunch of it. I have a client in 20 minutes. The rest can wait. I’ve got to prep not for this Monday but NEXT Monday’s open mic by writing a song inspired by “taken by the wind” but that can wait because first I should be thinking about Sunday’s Focus Annual Meeting which needs some performers and people and structure and thought. But that can wait because first I need to think about the NERFA Streaming Panel I’m moderating on Thursday. But that can wait because I’ve got to think about Joey’s songs for Wednesday. Hell, everything else can wait because THAT’S going to be a lot of fun!

My mom ALWAYS said “eat dessert first”. I mean. Once I was a grown up she said that. I don’t remember her ever saying that as a kid. Probably for the best, really.