"Aren't all your days "Me" days, Jim?" Oh, if only that were true. Yesterday was supposed to have nothing on the schedule. The first call came in before 8:00, from our account manager at the management company. Yep, HOA stuff to deal with. That led to 3 more hours of phone calls. Yeah, I was about to clean up when that first call came in.
I was able to get into the hot tub around 6:30am (before the calls) - it was relaxing. It was too hot last night to even think about taking a soak. Hot? Yeah, 114º on Tuesday, 117º on Wednesday, and 118º predicted on Thursday.
Between 11:00 and noon, I was able to work on a set-list for the upcoming gig with Mark and Podge. There are considerations to that: you want the music to flow, but we need to take into consideration guitar changes for Mark. So, we'll run through that to see how it feels.
Joan and I got out for lunch at In and Out Burger, home at 1:20, then more HOA phone calls and dealing with a "Facebook shit stirrer" who just delights in trying to turn people against the board, and is happy to use misdirection and outright lies in his attempts. Our policy is generally "don't feed the trolls" on social media. He reminds me of a former competitor of mine who said, "Love me or hate me - just don't ignore me." My style is more: "let's work together to get things done."
This was the theme for the rest of the day: I didn't get back to our house until just after 7:00pm; except a break around 5:00 to get kitties fed. A lite supper for the humans, take Murphy out for some hot patio time (still 105º after the sun went down). Then spend some time with Steph and Dan's furry kids until their bed-time.
First time in years I had to plug my phone in during the day - it got a lot of use on Tuesday.
The neighbor "kids" while I was cleaning dishes this morning so I could prepare their food...
"Hurry up, Grandpa!" (all three in unison).
"Chill, my little fur babies, this all takes time." Still not as whiny as the shit stirrer.
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Music with Mark and Podge today. We will get one more rehearsal in before we play out. Something goofy with my pedalboard and amp combination, making some odd noises. I just bypassed the pedalboard so we didn't lose any rehearsal time. I will get it figured out in the next couple days.
In the words of the philosopher Rosanna Rosannadanna: "It just goes to show you, it's always something." ;-)
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