Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

... to my 15-year-old super_star_girl!!!!!

My younger daughter's getting older by the day. Have a great one!!

tracks and taxes

Spent the afternoon working on "Guilty Pleasures" and "Someplace in the Net"; doing new guitar and vocal tracks for both. I find that my head is in a really different place when I'm concentrating on a guitar part with no vocals -- definitely a light trance state when I'm doing it right. Doesn't keep me from blowing it occasionally, but, yeah, it's different.

Also added a "bongoid" percussion track to "Guilty Pleasures" -- I felt that it needed something. "Bongoid" is me banging on the back of a guitar -- sounds a lot like bongos only a little lower and more mellow. In contrast to Joyce's djembe that we've used in concert, it's not only a lot quieter but it has a slightly "woody", tone, with less ring. ([ogg] [mp3] -- comments welcome.)

We went out for sushi (celebrating super_star_girl's 15th birthday and improved grades and the chaoswolf's engagement) with a dump CD in the car player. The flower_cat noticed that my vocals were lower on the first verse of "Stuck Here" than on the rest of it, so I just fixed that.

The Cat is still feeling arthritic, and has gone to bed. So no more tracks tonight. There's a parent-teacher conference Wednesday; I may use that as an excuse to take another day. Anyway, I really only have vocals on "I Wanna Be a Webmaster" and "TEOTWAWKI", plus a percussion track on the latter, left for me to do. Then there's editing, the possibility of a harmony part from cflute on "Someplace In the Net", and maybe some more chorus parts on "Bugs" and "Daddy's World" -- I think it would be neat to give the chaoswolf a crack at those, since I wrote "Daddy's World" for her and it's not as if she doesn't know it.

Put together a box and started putting away the non-tax receipts from 2006. With a little luck I should be able to get started on data-entry this week. I also have to get the preorder checks deposited and the rest of the data-entry done. I've been lazy.

Did I mention taxes? OK, did I mention album-cover layout? Did I mention that I'm going to be busy for the next three weeks? I haven't dropped LJ, but my flist and Groklaw are the only blogs I read regularly at the moment.