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I have been absent from the forum for most of the summer as I have been busy with other things in my life.  I’ve been meaning to come back on, but every time I decide to catch up, I see the over 100 unread topics and decide to postpone catching up.  I need to make a daily habit of logging on as I did in highschool.  Maybe it will be another goal of mine.  I’ve been pretty busy this summer with work and social happenings.  I’ve fallen in and out of depression several times, but I’m surviving.  One of my best buddies in the area that I’ve known since I moved here has started dating this gal that I got him together with which means I now hardly see him, making my options of people to hang out with limited.  I’ve also done a number on my Beatles music collection, as I’ve shared in the CD collection thread, and should also share in the vinyl collection thread.

Beyond all that, the biggest news is I’ve been working on an album.  That’s right, y’know the music kind  I currently have 9 songs written and plan to write 5 more to make 14 track album like the old Beatles ones.  It started back in October of 2020 when I wrote a song called Golden Saphire.  Then in the space of then to May of this year, I wrote 3 more songs just for fun, one of which is a love lost number called “Wubba Lubba Dub Dub” after Rick’s catchphrase in Rick and Morty which means “I am in great pain”, and another is called “The Meadows”, which I think will be the title track of the album and as some of you may know is “Las Vegas” in English.  Then I wrote a 5th song one night all at 1 in the morning.  The whole song came together magically, and a week later I played it for a friend of mine, and they told me it was the saddest song they’d ever heard.  That was about when I decided I wanted to make an album.  Since then I’ve written 4 more songs, and have various unpolished ideas that may turn into the last 5.

Now the goal is to record the songs.  I’ve recorded ukulele demos from my phone, but I want to make proper recordings of my songs as they all aren’t acoustic ukulele songs.  For example “The Meadows” is supposed to be a bigger hard rock sort of number.  The challenge is getting proper recording equipment.  The stuff I would need to buy costs about $140 which isn’t a ton, but I want to do some practice mixes with my apple earbud mic to mess around with the art of music produdction before I drop the dough.  I may share those when I get them polished.