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I’m down to the final minutes of my lunch break on this fine Friday afternoon. I am pretty exhausted from a lack of sleep over the past… month(s) but I’m hanging in there. I had some Purdue Popcorn chicken and some peanuts and some sugar free Hershey bites for lunch. I really want a drink of water but I still have to wait the better part of an hour before I am clear to drink anything. That’s a gastric bypass patient thing. If you know, you know.

Fed Ex delivered a package today. I am not home to get it, but it contains a new guitar pedal. If I read the amazon shipping notes correctly, it’s a compressor pedal. The first I’ve ever purchased. I have this weird idea of using cleaner guitar sounds for this year’s RPM Challenge in February and a compressor will be a part of that. I bought an MXR Dyna Comp because it’s super simple and it will let me squash my clean signal down to a delightfully mushy… mush. There are two more pedals coming over the weekend. One is a Flanger, the other is an Amp Sim. I don’t have room on my pedal board for any of these kiddos and I don’t have open slots on my power brick… so I am going to need to get creative, I think. It should be fun. I don’t think I bought a single guitar pedal during all of 2024. I know I bought a couple of microphones for band practices that haven’t actually happened yet, but no pedals.

There are a lot of tentative plans for the weekend. We may be messing with our living room and we may be going to some stores for research purposes. I hope to spend some time wandering around town taking pictures with my new/possibly antique (though probably not) camera. I got a gift card for the sugar free bakery in Salem, NH for xmas. I haven’t bought anything from them in about a month, but now I am definitely going back and getting some cookies. Good stuff.

What else… I thought there was something else… One of our cars is going to get a break job. That wasn’t the thing that I am forgetting though… am I going to go shopping for a new iPhone? That’s definitely on the to-do list before we go to Florida at the end of the month, but is it this weekend? I don’t know.

I have to start practicing the guitar. The band is hoping to reconvene (hopefully for real this time) at some point after this weekend. I need to get ready for that. Which guitar should I bring to the first practice? Probably the Les Paul Standard that my wife got me for my 50th birthday in 2021. I really dig that guitar.

I know I had something else I wanted to write about but it has slipped my brain entirely. Don’t get old, kids. This is what happens to you when you get old. Stay young for as long as you can. Unless you’re already old like me in which case… sorry, folks. We had a good run, I’m sure.

#absentMinded #age #breakJob #breaks #Car #carMaintenance #carRepairs #food #Guitar #GuitarGear #GuitarPedals #homeDecore #homeDesign #homeImprovement #LivingRoom #livingRoomFurniture #lunch #Memory #Music #old #oldAge #plans #redesign #sometimers #toDoList #weekendPlans

LOL. I made coffee before I left, and I just got home. I realized I forgot to reheat my leftover coffee before I drank it, and I didn't even notice till I was almost done. 🤷‍♂️
#AbsentMinded

Once every three days or so I go to my father’s to help him out with a little issue. Nothing major, and I am not going to share details. Suffice to say that the visits require me to bring scissors. You don’t need to know why, but they do.

I am going over to his place on the way home from work today. It’s been on the books all week. I’ve known about it for days and days.

When I left the house this morning I forgot to bring scissors.

You absent minded doofus.

Moron.

There is a drug store right near his place. I will stop and get a pair. That’s not the point though. The point is that I am an idiot.

Q.E.D.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/08/02/absent-minded-doofus-2/

#absentMinded #dumbAss #Family #forgetful #idiot #mathematicalProofThatIAmAnIdiot #moron

Me: "I'm doing great! I've got it all together! Today has been a great day!"

Also me: Just went downstairs and realized I made a pot of hot water because I forgot to put coffee grounds in the coffee maker this morning.

#coffee #parenting #absentminded #adhd #mentalhealth #mentalwellness

Good grief! I just went to the kitchen to get a drink. I poured a drink. Then I refilled the ice cube tray and left without my drink. 🤦
#AbsentMinded

Oops. I forgot I was doing a crossword puzzle before I cooked breakfast and I forgot to close the app. I just finished it an hour later. 🤪
#AbsentMinded #BeforeCoffee?

Oops. I accidentally licked the fork I used to beat the eggs. If I die, we'll know why. 🤪 #AbsentMinded

Ok, this has to be the most 2023 thing ever—I just logged into Mastodon on my PC, replied to something, and then looked back down at my phone and liked something else on Mastodon. 🤦 #AbsentMinded? #ExecutiveDysfunction

A friend lost her credit card — she's pretty sure at the gas pump last night.

After the frenzied car searching comes the agonized soul searching. A thing like this can make you question your whole existence.

#Absentminded #Mistakes #Despair