The northlondonhippy

Wel­come to a lazy Sun­day with the hippy.

I fin­ished my last shift Sat­ur­day morn­ing, which tech­ni­cally means I worked the first 7 hours of my first day off. That, in my mind makes it an actual 1/2 day off. I’m off all day today, but back at work again tomor­row night. Does this make sense? I’ve got a day and a half off. So what am I doing with all that time?

Sleep­ing mainly.

I had a 4 hour nap on Sat­ur­day in the late after­noon into early evening, woke up for a few hours (and for a Japan­ese take­away) and then went back to sleep around mid­night and up again at 6:30am this morning.

If you are won­der­ing why I haven’t posted any­thing until now, I hope that answers your ques­tion. I also hope I’m not approach­ing proper blog­ging with detailed expla­na­tions of my fucked up sleep pat­terns and take­away menus. At least it wasn’t lunch!

As today is my only proper day off in the last week, I’ve got to do all the real life shit I’ve neglected while I was work­ing. I’ve got to run a few errands, do some stuff around the house and I’m hop­ing to have the time to fin­ish installing the last of my big soft­ware pur­chase last week.

Specif­i­cally, I’ve got a full, boxed copy of the new Logic Stu­dio, pur­chased at the upgrade price, because I have Logic Express. I think there are 6 DVDs or so to install, which means its prob­a­bly going to take a cou­ple of hours or more to trans­fer all that on to my hard drive.

After my next 2 shifts, I’ve got 9 days off and my plan is to put a fair bit of time into learn­ing this new appli­ca­tion and lay­ing down a song or two. I even have a cou­ple of things in my head, so I won’t be start­ing from scratch.

I haven’t done any­thing prop­erly musi­cal in around 20 years, though I’ve recorded some inci­den­tal music which I’ve used in videos and things. For exam­ple, the back­ground music on my nlh deluxe graphic promo is taken from some­thing I recorded around 3 years ago, when I first got Logic Express. It was a test record­ing and not meant to be any­thing more than that, but it worked for my pur­poses and there were no copy­right issues, since I wrote it.

The cool thing about the music I am hop­ing to record next week is that I have some lyrics and melodies already that I want to play around with and I’m going to try to sing.

I’m not a singer and I can’t sing a note, so this should be fun. I’m going to attempt to find my voice.

The most inhibit­ing fac­tor to this is that singing, unlike gui­tar or key­boards, can’t be hid­den with head­phones; you have to sing out loud. That means my neigh­bours will prob­a­bly hear me, only with­out the ben­e­fit of any guid­ing back­ground tracks. Oh, they are going to get a right laugh out of me!

If I really do come up with any music, I’ll post it here, don’t worry and you all will be able to down­load it for free. It’s not like a record company’s going to give me a con­tract! I’m not that deluded.

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