1. Blood Pressure? 129 over 82. It should be 120 over 80 which means it is still a little high. I just went to the doctor on Monday and he upped one of the meds to make the numbers go down. The thing is I’ve yet to take the stronger meds. I have to start tonight when I take my new daily dosage.
2. Did you practice your guitar playing today? Yes, but I only worked on one song. It’s called Breath Me and it was recorded by someone named Sia. I first heard the song while watching the final minutes of the series, Six Feet Under. The combination of the powerful manner in which the series ends and the overwrought emotion of that song; I couldn’t have been any more deeply moved. After that I simply had to find the song on the Internet, download it, and then find the guitar chords to it and learn to play it on my guitar.
3. Where are you on your house-cleaning project? I have completely cleaned the inside of my house. But I’m starting to slack on keeping it that way. I need to go through it again now and deep clean, dusting the furniture and washing the floors and wiping everything down. I haven’t let it slide all that much, but I want to get it back to where it really looks nice again. Then I want to wash the windows and winterize them where the cold can’t get in. And then I need to go outside, and clean the sheds and my truck and work on the yard and landscaping. Oh, I really should wipe sweep off the roof and likewise winterize it. There is a leak around my swamp cooler sometimes when it rains. Wow! There is still so much to do!
4. What loved ones I have contacted lately? I’ve been isolating. I’ve just been going to work and then coming home and hanging out by myself. I’ve been spending the majority of my evening time lying on the couch watching Nip/Tuck-Season 3. I am one of the best customers at the neighborhood movie rental store, and when I found out the latest Nip/Tuck DVD had been released, I requested the store owners gets it for their library. After all, they already had season 1 and season 2. It was just a day or two that passed after my request and I walked into the store and there season 3 was on their new release shelf. Yes, the store owners do spoil me. Yes, they do.
Ah, but characters in DVD television series are not real life loved ones and I do need to contact my real life loved ones more. I did see my parents on Monday and Tuesday. Tuesday was especially fun because my parents and I, along with my older brother, met at the local casino for breakfast. We all had a fun time stuffing our faces and teasing each other and laughing and generally being the loudest people in the joint. When we were through eating, I must state right here, I DID NOT go gamble. It has been 38 days since I flushed my hard earned cash down the gambling toilet. I know this because I have been tracking my bad gambling habit with my calendar. With me being the poor man that I am, the last thing I need to be doing right now is feeding some slot machine with little or no payback in return.
Oh yeah, I did also hang out with my best friend, Sy, and another friend, Chelsea, at McMenamin’s Oregon Hotel Saturday night. The Portland band, Sneakin’ Out, played a set there in a double billing along with the artist, Ashleigh Flynn. It was the first time I heard these artists perform and I will say here I was duly impressed, especially by the musical abilities of Sneakin’ Out. One man played a mandolin, another played a bass acoustic guitar, while the third man played all these different types of instruments he had surrounding himself. These included a pair of bongos, a xylophone, cymbals, drums, chimes, a typewriter(!), a steel tie he wore that he clicked with steel finger attachments, etc.
I was so impressed by it all that I ended up buying two CD’s, one full of Sneakin’ Out instrumental originals, and one where Sneakin’ Out played back up to Ashleigh Flynn’s incredible vocal talent.
The highlight of the evening though was when Sneakin’ Out did their version of the Pink Floyd piece, “Money” from the album, Dark Side of the Moon. Oh. My. God. It was so incredible. You’d simply have to hear it to know what I am talking about. I’ll leave it at that.
5. What art piece have I worked on today? Because I am writing this entry it has propelled me to add to my Self Portrait: Man Wearing Backwards Baseball Cap. I’ll post the latest version of it in an upcoming post.
6. What exercises did I do today? I went to the gym tonight and I worked out on two different exercise machines that aim to exercise your stomach. Plus, I stretched for about 5 to 10 minutes. Plus, I did the usual fifteen minutes on the cross-country machine. Plus, I lifted weights focusing on pumping up my biceps.
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