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Making some Magick
Apr. 28th, 2025 08:46 pmI have baby pea plants! And we got some potato seedlings into the ground outside yesterday, nice and near the compost pile/pit, so we can add dirt as they get tall. The spinach, beets, and turnips are still sleeping under the ground.
Last night I worked on recording a song, Magic Comes From Within. I did it a little differently than I did for the 2022 FAWM, when I did it as part of a "no strings no synth" challenge, and used one of the Idiopan tongue drums and chimes and singing, all in one track. This time I started with the drum, all on its own track, added the lyrics, and then on a whim tried adding some more Idiopan instead of the chimes. I really liked the result of that, and then added some bass. I'm very pleased with it!
I'm thinking about what song(s) to work on tonight. BandCamp Friday is this Friday, and I want to get at least another short album out for it. (It will be either a very short album or a medium-length one, depending on how things go.) At least, that's the plan. My lungs are tighter today, now that I'm out of the prescribed oral steroids, but I've been singing with asthma since I became a teenager, so the only issues should be time, energy, focus--all the stuff the stupid long Covid is still affecting, with sadly unpredictable severity.
And, you know, all the normal tasks of daily living.
I am tentatively calling the album Magick In My Heart right now, since I think our world needs some good magic and many blessings. Wish me luck with my energy levels (and with city noise levels when I'm trying to record).
I wanted to get the onion starts into the ground today, but I had a doctor appt with the CPAP doc. One good thing that happened due to this is that I learned I'm just one month from being able to order a new CPAP machine. The current one has been giving me occasional weird error messages, so they're ordering a new one for me (next month). This is a very good thing, with the Dummy's Tarrifs, because it would be a disaster for me if I could not replace the CPAP when it inevitably fails. After the doc appt, I stopped at a grocery store for some veggies and dairy stuff, and by the time that was put away and the chicken was in the oven, it was too dark to do gardening.
Well, there's tomorrow, with no doc appts and no PT for My Angel either. I can make plans!
Last night I worked on recording a song, Magic Comes From Within. I did it a little differently than I did for the 2022 FAWM, when I did it as part of a "no strings no synth" challenge, and used one of the Idiopan tongue drums and chimes and singing, all in one track. This time I started with the drum, all on its own track, added the lyrics, and then on a whim tried adding some more Idiopan instead of the chimes. I really liked the result of that, and then added some bass. I'm very pleased with it!
I'm thinking about what song(s) to work on tonight. BandCamp Friday is this Friday, and I want to get at least another short album out for it. (It will be either a very short album or a medium-length one, depending on how things go.) At least, that's the plan. My lungs are tighter today, now that I'm out of the prescribed oral steroids, but I've been singing with asthma since I became a teenager, so the only issues should be time, energy, focus--all the stuff the stupid long Covid is still affecting, with sadly unpredictable severity.
And, you know, all the normal tasks of daily living.
I am tentatively calling the album Magick In My Heart right now, since I think our world needs some good magic and many blessings. Wish me luck with my energy levels (and with city noise levels when I'm trying to record).
I wanted to get the onion starts into the ground today, but I had a doctor appt with the CPAP doc. One good thing that happened due to this is that I learned I'm just one month from being able to order a new CPAP machine. The current one has been giving me occasional weird error messages, so they're ordering a new one for me (next month). This is a very good thing, with the Dummy's Tarrifs, because it would be a disaster for me if I could not replace the CPAP when it inevitably fails. After the doc appt, I stopped at a grocery store for some veggies and dairy stuff, and by the time that was put away and the chicken was in the oven, it was too dark to do gardening.
Well, there's tomorrow, with no doc appts and no PT for My Angel either. I can make plans!
