- The harmonic sequence emanating from my electric razor.
- Sewing a button back on to my pants. My first time sewing since kindergarten. [Update 2022-01-15: It’s kinda coming off again :/ I didn’t sew it well enough.]
- This awesome clip of The Pretenders “rehearsing” “Brass in Pocket”. [Via Dad.]
- The breathing-like hiss of our gas meter.
- Casey’s birthday!
- The only way not to waste time (in the long run) is to waste time (in the moment).
- Sam Learner’s River Runner and Drumset projects.
- Buying smoked salmon at Hagen’s Fish Market with Sammy, one of Chicago’s oldest school, family-owned smokehouses.
- Stepping outside barefoot when Basil has to pee in this freezing weather, in solidarity.
- Peering inside our walls with Jason’s new borescope.
- The second-floor apartment with a green fingerpainted tree (ish thing) in its window.
- The cats spilling a mason jar of tiny beads sometime around 7 AM.
- Basil turning around to head back inside the moment he feels the howling winter winds. “Nope.”
- Painting over the old plastic bathroom countertop at the studio.
- The flavor of the salsa at our local burrito joint, which changes subtly but noticeably every week.
- The wide range of quality in snow shovels. You want one with a good scoop capacity, bucket strength, and striker durability.
- Starting 2022 with spicy Korean soup in my stomach (but, this time, not on my shirt).
- The grocery store cashier’s almost cyborgian wrist brace and latex fingertip getup.
- Casey’s and my fourth anniversary!
- Jim Belushi and Dan Aykroyd on Chicago’s Channel 5 New Year’s Eve countdown.
- The new season of pen15. The best.
- Watching Crock of Gold with Dad and Sammy, growing to love Shane MacGowan. Also, nearly crying at the intensity and earnestness of Irish traditional music and the early Pogues footage.
- Melting my mind listening to cymbal samples on MyCymbal.
- Routing more audio snakes at the studio.
- David French and Sean Illing talking about masculinity.
- Christmas Day with Casey and her family :)
- At a rural gas station, around dinner time on Christmas Eve, a gruff- but young-looking dad waiting to drop his daughter off with her mom.
- Neil Young talking about building train diorama mountain ranges out of live wood and moss on Broken Record.
- Metro night 1. On Sammy’s birthday! It felt so good.
- “If You Ever Find Yourself” by Erika J. Simpson. How, sometimes, reading stories about people who overcome systemic injustice with love can make me momentarily complacent. Like, “Wow, the problems that caused Erika’s suffering are so deep and so pervasive, but I guess I don’t have to do anything about them because she had love and she ended up OK.” But that’s not how it works. Just because Erika made the best of things and found support doesn’t mean that the systems that were stacked against her are tolerable.
- Rehearsing s’more for our Metro shows.
- Rehearsing for our Metro shows.
- The Producers with Sammy and Dad.
- Traveling back in time, through the year, through tours, categorizing my credit card transactions.
- The Time of the Foxgloves by Michael Hurley.
- Getting a PCR test at a bizarre, empty, Catholic clinic in an office-y medical building, from a nurse who moments prior had been the maskless receptionist, and who forgot to ask for my contact information after collecting my nose sample. Was it a black market DNA harvesting operation?!?
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