Had my annual physical last week. The good news is that I’m still alive. The bad news is that, after a decade of being told I’m prediabetic and can reverse it with diet, exercise, and oral meds, I’m now diabetic. My A1c is just too high, and it crossed the threshold. So here I am. …
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Drill Sargent Dad
The reason I don’t succeed in life is because I don’t go to sleep before midnight and wake up before six, but that’s just what Drill Sargent Dad tells me. Of course he’s not real. But he is a mental reflection of those of you who would say, “Well, yeah, obviously.” And I write this …
AFK errand
Now that I’m fully settled into my apartment, have my work-from-home desk going again, and have fully set up my couch and entertainment center (complete with TV, amp, speakers, and all the A/V gear working together, unlike the last apartment), I seldom spend any quality time at my personal workstation. With all the time I …
Intake
I’ve turned a corner into a transitional period in my life. Once upon a time, I was a producer. I wrote, drew, created, sang, played, built, did lots of really nice things to build something where there was once nothing but parts. Now I’m primarily a consumer. I eat, drink, watch, read, listen, and do …
Thin Wall Holds Everything Back
Thumbing through my mental notebook on reasons why my music project suffers as much as it does. It occurs to me that the sound is dull, lifeless, muted. A song could be full of big sound, and I could be using the fullest extent of my mixing and mastering skills to date, but the final …