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Yesterday I started listening to every Rush record I own on vinyl, in release order. I have everything up to 1987, after which they stopped releasing their music on vinyl (in large quantities at least). I have a couple of 21st century releases from when vinyl became a thing again. I’m in the office today so I won’t be playing that game again until tomorrow. I did take some Hipstamatic Shake to Shuffle style pics while I was packing up my laptop. Just because.

I’m not one of those people who thinks that vinyl is some magical thing. I just like the vibe. I also like having my father’s record player in my work from home space. It’s nice. I’ll start the Rush thing over again tomorrow at the start of the work day. It’s like having a big playlist from a streaming service except that I have to keep flipping the records.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/10/02/records/

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I wanted to take a picture of a cat for today’s photo a day thing. Unfortunately when I took my phone upstairs during my lunch break both cats were hiding and I couldn’t find them. I guess we’ll have to settle for a Hipstamatic shake-to-shuffle of a guitar… again.

333/365

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/07/29/the-cats-are-hiding/

#365 #365Challenge #Guitar #Hipstamatic #iphoneography #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photography #shakeToShuffle

It’s Hipstamatic time because no reason at all.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/04/28/robin-says-hi-shake-to-shuffle/

#365 #365Challenge #Cat #Hipstamatic #iphoneography #Kitty #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photography #robin #shakeToShuffle

Earlier I did a Hipstamatic Shake to Shuffle post full of pics of Robin in the little basket thing on the cat tree.

Now we have part two, the Lily edition.

Pointless posts for the win.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/04/20/hipsta-kitty-shake-to-shuffle-part-2/

#Cat #hipstaKitty #Hipstamatic #iphoneography #Kitty #lily #photography #shakeToShuffle

As mentioned yesterday, I need to practice.

I really need to practice.

I mean it. I need to practice.

I need to practice.

(think writing self-guilt trip posts will help encourage me to practice? Probably not)

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/04/10/i-need-to-practice-3/

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My 2000 Les Paul Standard 50’s has new strings. Now if I just had calluses on my finger tips and had the nine songs on my to-do list all practiced up and rehearsal ready. Ugh.

Hipstamatic shake to shuffle to celebrate.

219/365

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/04/06/new-strings/

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Two days in a row. I’ve played guitar two days in a row. It feels good, except for my very sore, callus-free fingers. Ouch, babie.

I worked on four songs. I put rhythm tracks onto two songs and leads onto two others. All of that plus the four vocals this morning makes it a pretty good day, RPM Challenge wise. I have a lot more that I need to get to today though. With tomorrow being a vacation day for me, I want to do more vocals in the car in the morning. I don’t have any songs that are ready for that yet, so I want to try and write lyrics for 3-4 songs before bed.

In closing, the obligatory pics. This time with Hipstamatic and shake-to-shuffle.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/02/18/my-finger-tips-hurt-again/

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I played some guitar today. I finished tracking two songs that could be December’s submission for the Record Every Month Challenge. Both songs really suck though… so… yeah.

Dig those shiny new frets!

https://robertjames1971.blog/2023/12/31/new-years-eve-music/

#GibsonLesPaulCustom #Guitar #Hipstamatic #iphoneography #Music #photography #recordEveryMonth #Recording #remChallenge #shakeToShuffle #SongWriting

Bellana left. She’s spending the next couple of days with a friend, then at her dad’s, then with another friend. We were joking that there is only so much of her to go around and everyone wants a piece.

Harry’s in the city visiting a friend and Jen just ran out to the store.

I’m home alone. Just me and the cats. Speaking of which…

119/365

https://robertjames1971.blog/2023/12/28/all-alone/

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I didn’t play guitar at all today, but I did take a few Hipstamatic pic of my #1, my Les Paul Custom. Shake to Shuffle and all that stuff.

HoHoHo

https://robertjames1971.blog/2023/12/24/xmas-eve-les-paul/

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I haven’t done a shake to shuffle post with the Hipstamatic app in a while. Here are a couple views of Robin sitting in my chair in the living room.

92/365

Wasn’t that fun? Sure was!

https://robertjames1971.blog/2023/12/01/miss-robin-shake-to-shuffle/

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One of our concert going group has had to bail due to illness. That blows.

Until then, here is Robin grooming herself. I’m still sitting here in my pajamas, so she’s way ahead of me today.

Shake to shuffle, of course….

79/365

https://robertjames1971.blog/2023/11/18/bath-time-2/

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No reason, just messing around.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2023/11/13/hipsta-guitar-shuffle/

#Guitar #Hipstamatic #iphoneography #photography #shakeToShuffle

I took these this morning. I was going to share them at the time but I was too busy doing other stuff.

Hipstamatic, hipsta-kitties. Shake to shuffle.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2023/11/11/more-shake-to-shuffle/

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I couldn’t resist. They look so cute wedging themselves into that little space that is way too small for both of them. Five seconds after I took the last of these pictures they started fighting and looked like they were trying to decapitate each other. Yeah, welcome to our cats’ lives.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2023/11/10/hipsta-kitty-shake-to-shuffle-2/

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