The Face of Adversity

When I woke up in the morning, I made some coffee and was looking at my phone when I noticed that there was a missed call from a former IT colleague. We still have a group chat with the team that gets used once or twice a year, but none of the guys ever call me, so this was out of the ordinary. I texted to see if it was intentional or a butt dial. … Continue reading

39 Again

One of the great things about getting older is seeing young people turn into functioning adults. I mean, it doesn’t happen as much anymore, but you know what I’m saying. I’ve been blessed to have married into a fantastic (and very large) family full of former kids who have become pretty cool adults. I often call people on their birthday and sing horrible renditions of the birthday song. Horribly bad. And always extemporaneous. But the … Continue reading

Keep My Head Down

This will be a somewhat abbreviated post because I’ve actually written my song for February 4th and I want to get to it before I lose the muse. Let’s quickly go over this one, though. My writing day got started a little later than usual. My morning was largely spent writing a blog entry, fixing some style things on the website, and other musically-non-productive things. Then it was dog park time. And then the dog … Continue reading

I Don’t Really Want To Today

After the general success of yesterday’s track, I was itching to play some more guitar. I need to get better at it, but I have trouble with practice. I’ve been unable to learn modern programming languages because I need a project to write… I can’t just do exercises. It’s the same with instruments. My practice comes from actually producing a project. “Wait a minute,” you might say. “There’s no … Continue reading

Here and Now

The last track! I’m normally happy to post anything at this point in the journey and have certainly thrown some “contractual obligation” pieces up. This one, however, is one of those happy times where I not only had a decent idea, but the time and energy to actually produce it.1I’ve admitted multiple times that I go way overboard on my production during the month. Now that I’ve got #10 under my belt, I’m considering doing … Continue reading