Temp: 25
Back in the office today, but it was so nice out, I went for a walk at lunch. I checked on the geocache that I've placed nearby, and basically did my regular 20 minute circuit which gives me enough time to grab a chicken salad sandwich and a Coke Zero before heading back to my desk. At 2PM I had to run to another office for a meeting, and before I knew it, the day was over and I was driving home with the sunroof open, just soaking up the sun.
I spent from 4PM 'till 7PM in the bakc yard with my shirt off, grabbing more soothing rays and doing anything I could think of to keep busy... hand watering, weeding, more herb harvesting, reading the newspaper, etc. Anything that was an excuse to stay in the sunshine was fine with me. I even took the wireless laptop outside and started doing work research, which probably wasn't the brightest idea, since I ended up doing that the rest of the night (four hours of work for free... am I nuts?) But I DID break long enough to make myself a nice BBQ dinner.
Carole was out again, shopping for new jeans on snooty Robson Street, so I just made myself a BBQ pork steak, baked potato, and peaches'n'cheam corn. YUM! I actually haven't fired up the BBQ in quite a while (sacrilege!), so that made tonight's outdoor dinner in the evening sun all that much tastier.
On another note, I forgot to mention this Saturday, but something else I had been meaning to do for a while was to watch my favorite movie on my new big screen - so at about 9PM I popped in "The Matrix", cranked up the surround, and dug in to the leftover popcorn from Superman the night before. The movie was awesome, except for one thing ... I got my very first noise complaint in six years!!! Of all the loud blasting parties I've held, of all the band recordings I've done in my studio, not to mention the late night mastering sessions... - of all the previous movies I've cranked with the subwoofer, or thrash metal CDs I've cranked up to ten, I've never had anyone bang on my door before. This was a total shocker - but honestly, I'm so glad the neighbours did it. I've been pushing the boundaries for so long, it's good to know there actually IS a limit. And now I know where it is. So, in retrospect, I had The Matrix cranked up to 8 with the subwoofer on full, and the next day when I popped in Matrix 2 and set the volume to 4, it was STILL loud enough to make me wonder if it might be bugging the neighbours, so yeah, totally no harm no foul. I'm glad I know now that someone does actually live next door and that there in fact, aren't deaf.
The only thing that troubled me a bit though was that after 6 years in the place, I've only just finished the rec-room in the basement and installed the home theatre in there ... I really hope the neighbours don't have a bedroom down in the adjacent basement room, or that would really suck for both of us - all these years I've made noise, maybe it never bothered them because they were in the basement and I was up on the ground floor? How will this bode for my future moie nights? And what's going to happen when I start recording my next album in the fall? Yikes! Well, there's no sense worrying about things that haven't happened. For now, let's just hope that was my one and only complaint.
Posted by Calvin at July 18, 2006 08:57 AM