Monkeys are doing to take the shad away

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Today I:

• Woke up early and did my exercises as prescribed by the ortho doc. This is the second day in a row I've done them, which is good. I really haven't done the exercises enough since the guy prescribed them however many weeks or months ago. I might've overdone them this morning just slightly, since I was a little sore It's so difficult to know my boundaries when it comes to this stupid injury thing.
  
• Fretted that "exercise" is one of those words I can never remember how to spell, so I always have to look it up.
  
• Was anxious to listen to the new track I constructed last night, although it's been in the works since May 1. It's one of the Electret Quintet tracks, so all the sounds come from a single drum machine, in the case of this particular track, a TR-808. I thought I was going for a rhythmic track, but somehow it ended up being a completely abstract, crackling noiseambient thing, more akin to my collab with PBK than to techno.
  
• Was busy in the morning. Laid out orders, wrote some P.O.'s, took some castings out of molds, re-poured the lazy bunny sculpture, since I didn't like the first one.
  
• Noticed that my metal did that weird "switching" thing that it does sometimes. I had a casting where the resevoir had possibly the most brilliant purple-BLUE patina I've ever seen, then suddenly the next casting was white. I don't have any good way of describing this to anyone outside our industry... the metal I use sometimes acts unpredictably. I thought it was temperature related, but the temp seems to be fine. Clearly some reaction is occurring, and I don't understand it, and I don't have the time or resources to study it, but I am really, really curious about what causes my metal to blush and then turn pale.
  
• Am trying to cram as much mastering work as possible through Scott before his leave of absence, and so I took it upon myself to hunt for molds today, to save him from the trip, after leaving him with a bunch of prepped castings to work on. I took it as slowly and easily as possible, but my hand clearly stiffened up, and my forearm protested loudly, but the shoulder didn't act up any worse than it was already doing. Took an aspirin and an extra turmeric / bromelain, but the hand / forearm thing is still going on. Still, I wouldn't have been able to do any of that work at all two months or so ago.
  
• Had songs from that new Portishead stuck in my brain today.
  
• Got a little excited as the sky darkened, and the wind kicked up... but still NO RAIN! When will it ever rain? I think Colorado will be part of an inland desert once global warming kicks in and we all die or move to the rainforest jungles of Antarctica.
  
• Went thrifting after work... uh, alright, just to the Habitat for Humanity store in Loveland. I bought a CD player boombox thing for work, and also browsed the records and found Wendy Carlos' "Switched on Bach"! I listened to it earlier. It's far less "futuristic" than I remember it sounding, but it's still pretty fun. I'm interested in how early music with Moogs have very little timbral modulation, nowadays if you put a Moog in front of someone, they aren't going to be able to stop twiddling the knobs. Used to be the old synth users found a good sound and kept it there until they were done with it. The same thing struck me when I got the Mother Mallard CD.
  
• Turned in some books at the library that I wasn't having any luck finishing. Didn't get any more, since I still have that book about the Pencil (as an engineering marvel), and the book that my Uncle Darrell sent to me about Jesus Christ's childhood pal Biff.
  
• Very strongly considered signing up for the services of LP Broadband. The monthly fee for the basic account is only 8 bucks more per month than we're paying now. and 1 Mbps is, let's see... 180 times faster than the speed we get now? Pow. I reckon I could keep Earthlink for long enough to get my email addresses changed over everywhere (and everywhere's a lot of places, yeesh) and then ditch Earthlink in a while.
  
• Need to clean the cat boxes and cat dishes and stuff. Lumpy's getting snuffly again. His remission only lasted about a week.