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2026 50/90 Challenge Day 51/90

I was hoping to have a lot of time to work on music, specifically vocals, on day 51 but I was also pretty sure I would not have time for anything. Turns out I didn’t have time for much. No vocalizing for me yesterday.

I did add two new songs to the list. No real instruments yet, but all of the music has been worked out including the melodies and lyrics. They are songs 46 and 47. I also managed to mix one song. Yet another song with really crappy vocals. Hooray.

I’m not sure how the time is going to work out this week. I have three days in the office coming up and there will be one late night when I will check seeing a band off of my I-have-to-see-them-before-I-(or-they-or-we)-die bucket list. I’ll try to get short bursts of musical work in whenever I can.

Oh yeah, and spoiler alert for tomorrow…

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Saturday

Last week we took Robin Sparkles the cat to the vet. We put her in the cat carrier and felt just awful about it. It is the closest I will ever come to feeling like a nazi.

Today we did the same thing with Lily. Like… if I feel this awful doing this to a cat, how could I ever even imagine doing it to a human?

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Lily spent the whole day at the vet. I tried to cheer myself up with other things.

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Yesterday my step daughter spent most of the day packing. Tomorrow we’re going to help her load up the u-haul pod thingie that is in our driveway right now. That’s the plan for Sunday. Fortunately there won’t be any cats in cages to worry about.

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Inside a music shop

St. John's Neighborhood, Portland, OR

📷Canon Eos Rebel G

🎞️Harman Phoenix I

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Street musician

St John's, Newfoundland, Canada (Not the 51st state - not now, not ever!)

August 2025

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2026 50/90 Challenge Day 42/90

Day 42 (yesterday) is in the books. What progress did I make? I still had three songs that are ready to mix and I was planning on getting to some of those but I never did. Instead, I put rhythm guitars onto two songs (numbers 37 and 38) before work. After work instead of mixing I added two new songs (numbers 39 and 40) and immediately put rhythm guitars on those as well.

I now have three songs ready to mix, three ready for vocals, and four waiting on lyrics and melodies. What will I work on for day number 43 (today)? Who knows. At this rate I’ll probably just add more songs. Why not, right? I have 30 songs finished and 10 more in progress. We’re rolling along nicely.

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Weekend

The weekend is here at last. It feels like it’s been days and days since the last weekend, right?

I started off my weekend in a pretty good way tonight…

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2026 50/90 Challenge Day 40/90

I went a little berserk on day 40.

I’m not supposed to exercise following the tooth extraction fiasco so when I woke up I immediately started recording vocal tracks. Why not, right? I had nine songs in progress and all of them were ready for vocals. I didn’t expect to get to all of them, but I wanted to get a chunk of it done. I did not expect that singing would cause pain at one of the tooth extraction points (mostly the socket that used to hold the lower left wisdom tooth) but it did. I pushed through it though and managed to crank out six of the nine songs. Six! Crazy!

But wait, there’s more!

Last night after dinner my wife had to work for a while so I was left to my own devices. I was planning to spend a little time before work one day 41 adding lead guitars to some of newly recorded vocal songs but instead I went down cellar to the music nook and started adding lead guitars last night. I once again plowed through all six songs. Six! Crazy! My finger tips were a raw, horrid, mess by the time I was done, but I got through all of the songs that were ready for leads.

I guess now day 41 is going to be a day to do some mixing. We’ll see.

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