Day 8
It was a windy & chilly day, sort of proto-Autumnal. We both slept WAY in, like almost till one!
I had wanted to go hiking today, but Carrie had made earlier plans to play tennis with her sister and our niece. It was good moving around and getting vigorous exercise for the second day in a row.
Feels a little melancholy out with the wind & chill, but honestly, it was still a relaxing & decent day. It's possible I'll work on music (mixing & finishing for The DIsappointement Engine) in a little bit after I catch up with social media.
I talked with one of our neighbors in the apartment where the missing neighbor lives, and he didn't know anything. I guess like she's fighting with everyone in that apartment complex. No surprise. Still quite concerning. She's been out of work for a long while due to medical issues so we don't think she's paying her rent & has no money. If she disappeared our guess is that she's either in the hospital or in jail. Yikes. She sure as shit isn't on vacation or something. The windows appear to be open, so if the cats are in that apartment, I presume they'll be able to escape? I hope? Uh. ?
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I did indeed work on music. It was tough just doing that alone, but I have decided to try to mix & finalize the tracks while listening through my powered monitors, which means I have to route the sound to my USB audio interface. Both Cubase and T-Racks are fussy with the interface, and don't want to play nice. Neither of them will play through it at the correct bit rate, so it's disorienting switching from working on the mix to trying to finalize it with T-Racks because the pitch shifts. But hey - I worked on that stuff! Howbout that! First real heavy lifting work in nearly 6 months!
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A baby raccoon hissed at Carrie when she went out to smoke, then came up to the door and was being very curious and almost sweet at both of us. I think the parent must have been shot by our neighbor with an air gun - so it's not around anymore. Carrie heard that happen a week or so ago. I wanted to punch my neighbor's lights out for that. I haven't even SEEN them though, so I can't talk to them about it. Weird people. We're weird too, but we don't shoot neighborhood wildlife.
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Felt a pang of melancholy late tonight, just realizing how much desperate sadness there's been that I've been unable to process, just too much. Felt like it was hanging over my head and I had to do something about it, but couldn't. I feel like it's still hanging up there, Damocles' sword and all that. Maybe I can let it go though? I sure want to just let it all go.
I had wanted to go hiking today, but Carrie had made earlier plans to play tennis with her sister and our niece. It was good moving around and getting vigorous exercise for the second day in a row.
Feels a little melancholy out with the wind & chill, but honestly, it was still a relaxing & decent day. It's possible I'll work on music (mixing & finishing for The DIsappointement Engine) in a little bit after I catch up with social media.
I talked with one of our neighbors in the apartment where the missing neighbor lives, and he didn't know anything. I guess like she's fighting with everyone in that apartment complex. No surprise. Still quite concerning. She's been out of work for a long while due to medical issues so we don't think she's paying her rent & has no money. If she disappeared our guess is that she's either in the hospital or in jail. Yikes. She sure as shit isn't on vacation or something. The windows appear to be open, so if the cats are in that apartment, I presume they'll be able to escape? I hope? Uh. ?
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I did indeed work on music. It was tough just doing that alone, but I have decided to try to mix & finalize the tracks while listening through my powered monitors, which means I have to route the sound to my USB audio interface. Both Cubase and T-Racks are fussy with the interface, and don't want to play nice. Neither of them will play through it at the correct bit rate, so it's disorienting switching from working on the mix to trying to finalize it with T-Racks because the pitch shifts. But hey - I worked on that stuff! Howbout that! First real heavy lifting work in nearly 6 months!
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A baby raccoon hissed at Carrie when she went out to smoke, then came up to the door and was being very curious and almost sweet at both of us. I think the parent must have been shot by our neighbor with an air gun - so it's not around anymore. Carrie heard that happen a week or so ago. I wanted to punch my neighbor's lights out for that. I haven't even SEEN them though, so I can't talk to them about it. Weird people. We're weird too, but we don't shoot neighborhood wildlife.
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Felt a pang of melancholy late tonight, just realizing how much desperate sadness there's been that I've been unable to process, just too much. Felt like it was hanging over my head and I had to do something about it, but couldn't. I feel like it's still hanging up there, Damocles' sword and all that. Maybe I can let it go though? I sure want to just let it all go.