Started feeling kinda funky a while ago, and as a guy that simply Cannot Get Sick, it is my responsibility to now ingest a significant amount of Ny-Quil.  So until tomorrow, dear reader….

N.P.: “Anubis” – Tad Morose

Kept awake for much of the night by cries of batrachian lust emanating from some kind of amphibian orgy happening in the back field.  It happens after every rain, but last night they were really Going For It.  It sounded like the last days of Rome, had ancient Rome been populated by frogs instead of Italians.
For a while, I thought it might be retribution…you know, revenge for all the noisy orgies that happen on this side of the walls and kept the frogs awake.  Then I remembered that there hasn’t been one single orgy, noisy or otherwise, on this side of the walls since I arrived…at least nothing I was invited to.  Which was a very depressing thought to have as I laid there, waiting for sunrise, listening to the sound of a thousand frogs fucking.

N.P.: “Immersed” – VNV Nation

The Super Bowl was allegedly today.  Nobody watched it.  Those Anti-American racist virtue-signaling fucks at the NFL along with the other corporate sponsors of BLM™ somehow managed to take the fun out of football, I guess.  No matter…football was never actually relevant to anything anyway.  And we’ve certainly never needed an excuse to have whiskey and wings around here.  (That shit was delicious, by the way.)

N.P.: “New Day Rising” – Van Hertzen Brothers

I opened the blinds this morning and was disgusted by the inordinate amount of sunlight.  “Gah!  That’s disgusting!” I actually yelled out loud before slamming the blinds closed again and getting back in bed.  I got up again a minute later because I’ve learned recently that the amount and/or quality of sleep I get is completely irrelevant to how exhausted I constantly feel.  The rest of the day went more or less like that.

N.P.: “How Did I Find Myself Here” – The Dream Syndicate

I’ve said it myriad times here before, dear reader, but “May you live in interesting times” is one of the oldest Chinese curses, and we indeed live in interesting times.  I’m kinda tired of it.  I’m meant to be an interesting guy in boring times…it doesn’t work when reversed.

N.P.: “Machine Guns and Peacock Feathers – Carpenter Brut Remix” – Ulver

Another day, yet somehow even less time.  Wrote my ass off.  Literally.  No idea how I’m going to sit anymore…wrote my ass completely off.

N.P.: “Light Up The Fire” – Cheap Trick

Worked a ton, didn’t seem to get much done, ran out of time  before I even started…you know how it goes, dear reader.  Gotta get back to it…just wanted to say hi.
Hi.

N.P.: “Rock and Roll Part II” – Gary Glitter

There have not been enough hours in the day for quite some time now.  But this is just getting ridiculous.  I don’t know what can be done about it, but something very clearly needs to be done.

N.P.: “Suzie Q” – Lemon

I simply Put It To this goddamn To-Do List that has been taunting me and growing daily for at least a year and a half, dear reader.  Kicking the shit out of it.  The To-Do List has no idea what hit it.  The new studio has been helpful in this direction.  But, speaking of the new studio…

I feel I would be remiss if I didn’t take a moment to bitch a bit about Microsoft and Windows and everything else associated with it.  I’ve been working almost exclusively in the Google environment for over ten years now.  Not for music…everything music related is done on Apple software, but everything else has been Gmail and Chromebooks for many years.  And it’s been great.  Chromebooks boot up in one second (literally), and opening or closing apps is instantaneous, as is switching back and forth between tabs and apps.  I need to be able to do that because that’s the way I work…total monkey mind: while I’m writing this, I’ll suddenly think of a sentence for something I was working on three hours ago, and I’ve got about 10 seconds to get it down and in the right place or it will be lost forever.
So.  The new studio.  Completely windows based (due mostly to client needs, but a lot of the book compilation software I want to use is unavailable for Chromebooks, so….).  And I really wanted it to be amazing.  Sure, Microsoft was the absolute shits earlier in the century, but I’ve given them plenty of time to get it together.  That much time, it would be like they had to try not to just naturally improve.  But goddammit, dear reader, Microsoft still sucks.  Their products themselves are solid, but the time it takes to open any app, or to just flip back and forth between tabs…it’s absurd.  I’m kind of speechless.  Speeds like this should have gone the way of the dial-up modem.  These computers are, what…a month old?  They were like this out of the box.  People want to like you, Microsoft, but you make it ridiculously difficult.

N.P.: “Voodoo Child” – Tom Morello