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Music: There’s a new [Philistine on the Sidewalk] song up entitled “Left Alone in the Uncompromising Wild”, and it’s a 12-minute piece that starts out guitar-oriented and ends in a rather atmospheric way. Check it out! Fitness: I was really good with my diet and eating habits this weekend, even with eating dinner out twice. The eating out could have been a bit of a pitfall, but I got a chicken salad and shared a plate of nachos, so I’m only up 1.2 pounds to 197.8, which is really good for me as I have the tendency to gain 4 to 8 pounds on a weekend. It likely helped that four of the six meals I had on Saturday and Sunday were the same as the ones I do during the week, I ate small lunches like I do during the week, and my beer intake this weekend was limited to a six-pack over the entire weekend. I’ll keep this up and I’ll be down to 190 in no time! Mouse: He went in for another antibiotic and steroid shot on Saturday, which are to prevent infection in his tongue, reduce the swelling in his tongue, and stimulate his appetite. He’s perked up even more since getting those, though he did spend a ridiculous amount of time on my lap and snuggling with me this weekend and this morning. I’m not complaining! On to purpose! |
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This is a follow-up to Friday’s post, wherein I was talking about changes at my office. That change is that there’s been a downsizing in my department, wherein it’s gone from two people doing the job to one person. I was the one they kept in the position since I’ve been there a lot longer and know the job extremely well. I’m happy that my former co-worker landed in another department through our contractor so she’s able to stay employed, but as long as I’ve been in the job, I’d say it’s been overstaffed for over three years. When I first got there, it was insanely busy and my co-worker at the time and I were barely able to keep our heads above water. We had a huge backlog of cases that kept piling up and I remember at one point, we had huge stacks of cases lining up against the wall and we were close to two weeks behind. I got there in May of 2006 and by September of 2006, they finally approved a couple weeks of overtime for us, though things were beginning to taper off to a manageable level by then. Then things tapered off some more, and by the beginning of 2007, I’d say things were slow enough that one person could handle the job. There were certain projects that came up which made things busy enough for two people again, but those were often short-lived and it was back to a slower speed. Now it could be because I’m inclined to work really fast because of my time in the pizza kitchen, but I’d say that even at a non-frenzied pace, the job is doable by one person. One thing that’s interesting is that they’re increasing the workload shortly here, so I should really have to be on my toes when I’m at the office – that suits me fine. There’s another key area of my life where I notice that I have a renewed sense of purpose thanks to things that have occurred recently, so I’ll tell you about it too! Music This has been a big one that kind of snuck up on me, as my Philistine on the Sidewalk project has taken over my musical output this year. I’ve finished eight songs for the project so far, totaling a little over 78 minutes worth of material, giving me almost a completely full CD’s worth of tunes in a little over two months. I have demos for at least a few more tracks and ideas for so many more, not to mention ideas for albums in various formats. I’ve been getting a rather positive response from everyone that’s been kind enough to comment on the output. I’m also able to listen to these songs multiple times, which I have a hard time doing with a lot of my previous work. What’s surprising is that with all the disparate elements that I’m using in the project, a sound is really starting to come together. I haven’t tried streamlining the sound at all, but I keep running into various elements that work really well together. I can also find or record a loop of something and go to town building at least a five-minute improvisational track off of it. Working rather fast with this project is something I can also do, as I’ve put together two of the songs in under six hours thanks to participating in Punchfest. With all of that in mind, I’m supposed to be working on a Concrete Mutant album right now. I’ve done little work on it outside of track arrangement, some precursory drum programming and a little guitar riffing, which shouldn’t be a surprise given the previous four paragraphs. I still want to make music for my other projects, but with all the enjoyment I’m getting out of Philistine on the Sidewalk right now, it seems kind of pointless to stress out about getting an album done for another project. I’m the only one that’s pressuring myself to do so, so why suffer the grief? I’m not going to any more, so I’m putting all of my other projects on the back burner until I feel I’m ready to bring them out again. I don’t want to disband Amaranthine Skies, Concrete Mutant, or Mystic Nova as they have sounds that I still want to explore, but I’m not going to force myself to make music for one project over another because I feel I have to. With that said, I’m going to start working on the first EP for Philistine on the Sidewalk in the very near future, then a full-length album which will feature the leadoff track from the EP on it. The EP and the album are going to be full of spacey video game tunes, so hopefully I’ll do them justice. Discuss this post at [The Forum of Jason Vincion]! Posted on March 22nd, 2010. |
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