Tired

I am just really tired of everything right now. My job, into which I'm not really all that settled, is now in an even more unstable state as my boss, the only one I've worked under in this position, has been moved to a different department. Which leaves me kind of in the lurch as far as what's going to be expected of me from here on out. My "band" has not been together for at least a month now. I asked them probably six months ago where we wanted to get as a group, and I heard all the right things, but we obviously haven't moved very far in the direction of either recording or playing live. No, we still play probably once every two or three weeks, on average, in the drummer's family room. The girlfriend wants to move to Austin in the next couple of months, which means that we'll both get to start over in our career paths. That should be loads of fun. I just don't know that I want to go through all of this crap all over again. Damn it, I'm tired...

Day off...

I took the day off from work today. I had hoped to get a few things done around the house, and specifically I'd hoped to get some things done with my music. I have a couple of songs that I've been trying to work on lately, but I'm having a hard time getting the parts recorded well when I have the ambition to work on them. Unfortunately, today I didn't get them done, either. I did at least get the bass part for one of them recorded fairly well, though, after realizing that the drum part that I'd come up with didn't quite have the right structure. So now I have a bass part with no drum part, but I'm hoping I can resolve that problem tomorrow and work from there.

I did get a new light hung up in the bedroom, which made the girlfriend quite happy. It's been kind of dark in there since we moved down, but the new light fixture brightens the place up quite well. Not sure how I feel about the fluorescent bulbs, but they're a whole hell of a lot better than the dingy yellow light that came through the shade on the old fixture. So it wasn't a totally lost day, in any case. But tomorrow, it's back to the grind...

Dinner at the Agave Azul

The girlfriend and I went down to Carrollton and met a couple of her friends at the Agave Azul, a nice little Tex-Mex restaurant tucked into the little downtown shopping district. The service was good and the food tasted and smelled quite delicious. I had the Jalisco platter, which was a cheese enchilada, a pork tamale, and a beef taco, along with rice and beans. Everyone else had fajitas, since it was fajita Tuesday, with a $9.99 price tag on that particular dish. She seemed pretty satisfied with hers, too, and David, one of the friends we were with, cleared his plate out in record time. So I gather his beef fajita was pretty good, too...

My girlfriend's Etsy shop

This weekend, my girlfriend has opened a little shop on Etsy.  She does knitting and crocheting, some embroidery stuff, and is generally a pretty creative gal.  So, feel free to stop by and see if she's got anything on there that you'd love to have in your own home.

I'm taking the day off from work. It's pretty much a mental health day, because for the past couple of weeks, I've felt like I was getting more and more testy with the people who I have to work with, and more and more likely to just finally say "Fuck it!" and walk out without really thinking through my actions. And that wouldn't be good, because for now, I need the money to keep a roof over my head and gas in the car. And just to keep the car, for that matter.

I had a bunch of things that I wanted to get accomplished this weekend, and with the day off, and I've been gradually working on some of them. One load of laundry is done, another is washed but not dried. The dishwasher is half emptied. And I've moved my amp and power supply from out of my portable rack and replaced them with my main synth module, bass processor, main guitar processor, and tuner. So I think I'm set up to play music a little better than I have been in the recent past. So, now it's time to get on with it and play some music...

Fall is definitely in the air, and I'm rather ambivalent about it. The temperature is nice right now, but I know it's going to be getting cold in the near future. While I don't like the hundred degree weather that we've had most of this summer, I also don't particularly care for the freezing cold that we had for several weeks last winter. I suppose on the plus side, I can always bundle up when it gets cold, but you can only take off so much clothing when it gets hot.

I was just looking at some old blog entries in other places. I've had a number of different blogs on different websites over the years, and it seems that I go through phases of writing a lot for a while, then not writing anything for months on end. Maybe one day I'll take a little time and move all of those other entries over onto this blog. I don't know. But I do know that I should write more. It's good for me to get stuff off my chest now and again, instead of just letting it eat away at me. Nothing much to say right now, though. It's late, and I should be going to bed. It's going to be another early day tomorrow, and probably another long day tomorrow. I just despise going back to that place, though...