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Fitness: After an embarrassing 204.4 on Monday, I’ve managed to drop six pounds in the last two days (like I knew I would) and have made it to 198.4 this morning. A little St. Patty’s Day indulgence might throw me off a bit tonight, but I’ve got more cardio tomorrow and I’ve been watching my diet like a hawk over the past couple of days, so that weight should drop even more. Mouse: He’s been holding steady over the past few days! He’s eating a lot, he’s in pretty good spirits, and aside from the tongue cancer and the mildly matted fur on his face and paws from errant food, you’d think everything was status quo with him. I’m hoping he stays like this for a while. On to a progress report! |
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Happy St. Patty’s Day everyone! I’m kind of short on time this morning, so I’m going to give a rundown of how things are coming along for this month – some of which I outlined in Beware the Projects of March. Mouse This is part of the reason I’m short on time this morning, as I spent a good 45 minutes this morning laying in bed snuggling with him. Before he got tongue cancer, that number would be in the 10-15 minute range, but I’m trying to spend as much quality time with him as I can before it’s his time to go. It’s one of the main reasons I haven’t done as much as I’d like this month, but projects can wait in this situation ’ spending time with the cat that’s been with me since I was 11 is easily more important. I already talked about laying in bed with him and reading for an hour and a half on Saturday, and I’m hoping to repeat that this weekend as well. A Chip off the Shizz Block, Volume Two It’s started! Other than that, there’s not much to say. I did find an old chiptune that was almost completed on my laptop (only needs mixing), so I’ll clean that up and go with it. I haven’t received anything from anyone else yet. So far, so good I guess! New Concrete Mutant Album (Ruination) Outside of some preliminary work on the album (track order, a bit of drum programming and riff writing), I’ve done very little. I actually had a decent-sized post started about the momentum that’s building with the Philistine on the Sidewalk project and how I was having a hard time finding inspiration to work on this project, but after I wrote it, I started thinking more about Ruination and how and when I could work with it. I’m going to start on it this weekend in earnest, and I’ll try to at least get all the songs named and a few tracks more fleshed out. I’ve had (and still have) a few too many social engagements this month to put as much time into it as I can, so I have a feeling that I’ll be engaging hermit mode in April and working like a dog to get this album done. Creating Project Websites Outside of getting the banner done for the Concrete Mutant site, I’ve done nothing on this. In theory, it shouldn’t take too long to get these going, as the layout for them will basically be the same as this blog and they’ll all have the same pages (news, albums, mp3s, etc.) between them, so it’s only a matter of sitting down and getting to them. Mastering a Cyanidic Rapture Album I haven’t touched this since talking about it, but there are still a couple albums to come out on Concatenation Records before it has any sense of urgency to it. I seem to think I work better under pressure, though I’m not sure that’s the case any more considering my Philistine on the Sidewalk project. Then again, the last song recorded for Philistine on the Sidewalk was done in six hours and it came out well and was well-received, so it depends on the circumstances. Remastering Two Zio and TEH LOLZ Albums I’m sure Zio and his LOL buddies will be happy to know that I am working on this actively. It’s currently my bus project, which means I’ve been dedicating my commuting time to it. I’ve got a rough mix of Chemicaldyne done and I’m a little over half way through tweaking the mix of Subfusion: Ice Light Army. I’m hoping to finish it up this week and get a better mix of both going on the home monitors, since there’s only so much I can do on a laptop with a pair of earbuds. One Week On, One Week Off I’m thoroughly convinced this only works if your job has flexible hours. Mine doesn’t at the time, so I’m going to go back to the usual way of doing things for now. That being blogging on MWF, doing something music-related T&Th, and getting whatever I can knocked out on the weekend. I do have my Wednesday nights back now that I’m closer to my weight goal and don’t have to do four nights a week in the gym, but those go by way too fast and I’m finding that I like to use them to catch up on sleep. Ah well. Personal Training I’m on my 8th personal trainer now and we’ve got five sessions left. I can tell he’s a lot more standard a trainer than Ting was, and it seems like he’s going to try to run me through the meal plan and get me on the gym-endorsed supplements. Been there, done that, don’t need to do it again. I’m really close to my goal and I know how to get there and tweak it as need be, so I’ll finish up my sessions and call it a day. He wants to work with me through June and wanted to get together twice a week, but that’s not happening. I decided this after he ran me through a bunch of plyometric drills, which I’ve done with trainers and on my own a bunch of times before. He’s got five weeks to bring something new to the table, so we’ll see. Another thing that’s funny is that he’s given me a goal of losing 1.25 pounds per week starting at the 204 mark, even after telling him on Monday that I was carrying weekend weight and would drop it by the next time we got together. He set a goal of 185 to end up in June, so I guess I’m already five weeks ahead of the curve! That said, if I can make it to 185 by April 20th (the last session), that would be awesome. The Office Job Things have been changing fairly rapidly around the office, most likely for the better. I’ll have more to say about it on Monday, since that’s when things are really going to pick up. You’re Out of Touch, I’m Out of Time I’m making a decent go of things so far this month, as I’ve got some other non-music projects I’m working on that I didn’t have time to write about, and Philistine on the Sidewalk is still going strong, so that’s good. Until next time! Discuss this post at [The Forum of Jason Vincion]! Posted on March 17th, 2010. |
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