Vacation! and this and that . . .

Yes, I am on vacation all next week.

What am I planning? Well, I have around ten characters who have to have an extremely unpleasant demise. In other words, I'm hoping to be over halfway through this spec script by this time next Friday. Plus, Atari (my dog) has his yearly physical Monday morning. His shots, that sort of thing.

Atari, as I've said previously, is really old for an Akita. Their life expectancy is eight years--I'm estimating around the first of September Atari will be 13. He's got arthritis, so he doesn't get around all that well any more, and his kidneys are failing. Plus he has this skin condition that's common to Akitas (and Shiba Inus, too--but really they're just min-Akitas). So he has a tendency to get skin infections. I don't think he has one of those right now, though--he's actually doing pretty well in that area.

But he hates it when it rains--I think it stiffens his joints right up. Poor boy. I know the medicine helps, but not enough, I know.

I have noticed that Atari's relationships with cats sort of mimic my relationships with women. He thinks they're beautiful, fascinating, fun to be around . . . and they think he is either beneaith their notice or they are terrified of him. Been there, done that . . .

Tonight I'm watching Eureka and Haven on Syfy. Other than that, and listening to some music, I'm just chilling. Trying not to think too hard about things. I have a big decision to make--problem with it is I'm supposed to make this decision withou the bare minimum of information. I won't go into details yet, but it involves my job. I'll blog about it soon, I promise. If you care.

What are you doing this weekend? Something fun? Working, What?

Sunday Afternoon randomness

Okay, it's 96 degrees right now according to www.weather.com--just got in from walking my Akita and I can believe it. It's ridiculously hot out there. Atari, for his part, finished his business quickly and came back in without protest. He and I are both cool weather dogs.

I finished the basic rhythm tracks for my new tune, "Scathed." It's going to be a little different from my previous tracks. Sort of like "Beast of Love" but not quite as dark. I really enjoyed recording the bass line for this one--I love playing bass, especially my six-string Schecter Stilletto. It's such a bad-ass. And on this tune it's not just a simple droning bass line--it actually gets to sing!

I finished my rerunning of the entire The West Wing TV series the other day, and now just finished watching (again) the final season of Stargate: Atlantis. Trying to decide now what else to put in the DVD player. I'm not really in the mood for anything I have here. May just go to hulu.com and watch old episodes of Bones or something.

I know, I really should be doing something productive. In a little while I'm going to make some sesame chicken for dinner--does that count?

I'm just trying to keep my mind busy so I don't think about the next two weeks. About half (or even more) of the people I work with are going to be on vacation. I wouldn't be surprised if someone else didn't call in sick three or four days, either. So, for those of us who remain, it's going to be busy. Thankfully we get a holiday next Monday.

Hopefully work won't leave me too tired to work on my music this week--I really want to get this one done but there's still a long way to go on it. Gonna be a lot of tracks--more rhythm guitars, leads, a synth line, some fills I'll probably do with the Strat . . . not to mention the vocal. I'll be doing something else a little different for this one, too--I'm going to do one mix without a vocal and one with. Why the hell not?

So, what are you up to this Sunday afternoon?