Saturday, March 1-2, Hyde Street Studios.

The sessions over the weekend went really well. Mike (top left) played great, we got some good tones, Scott (below left), the engineer, was an ace. But I learned a valuable lesson: it pays to rehearse and prioritize. Duh.

For whatever reason, I didn't do as much prep for these sessions as I've done for ones in the past, and as a result, we didn't get through everything I was hoping to. I totally blame myself for this. I completely lagged on getting the tunes to Mike, I didn't have good notes with me, I was unclear on what I wanted. Yet despite my lameness, we still managed to capture a lot of good music.  We recorded acoustic and electric guitars for Coming Together (By Falling Apart) and Money, and we got great acoustic rhythm takes for Demons and Saints and The World Turned.

There's still a lot to do, and I confess that I'm having motivational difficulties* at the time, but I am determined to finish this CD by my birthday on June 27. And with a little luck, I think I just might make it.

*About those motivational difficulties: I know that my brain is just playing cruel tricks on me and that I have no good reason to be down these days and yet I am. Actually, maybe I do have a good reason to be down, because waking up every morning and feeling dizzy and knowing that it will last all day until I go back to sleep wears on me. I feel like a burden to Catherine, I can't stand to hear myself complain, I'm sick of startling people with my odd ticks, the nausea has gotten very old. I know my accident could have been far worse, that I could have suffered cognitive issues, but still, it's tough. I want more than anything to be well again.