January 4th, Monday - Great day

04.01.2020

Well, the day started out normally - nothing to do, smudgy feeling in my head, just waiting til workout.

Had some coffee - first 100 beans, then 100 beans more after an hour.

Then something unusual happened - after browsing Metal Archives I decided to check other bands under the name of Spire, and then I found out that someone added my band to metal archives!!! I was shocked to my teeth and blown away and just massively excited. A dream came true. I never expected it to happen so soon. And, even more curiously, on my last release Favann is marked as a guest musician for providing a drum track as a part of his december challenge. That's just plain curious. Can't wait for that video. I'm so inspired to make more new music! Also I received a new super wide belt today, felt good, finally something to wear while I noodle on bass for five hours per night 😁 Well, I only did it once. And once I spent 13 hours on my feet in front of the computer, first playing music, then eso, then surfing the net after a tough tunneled training session and a lot of caffeine.

As I mentioned before, I'm desensitised to caffeine right now, so, hopefully, I can fix that soon. Today didn't go perfectly, since I had 200 beans overall, but the coffee was really thin, so that means I consumed less caffeine, I hope.

Deadlift

Warmup

120*8

160*3 hook grip

200*3 straps

220 - 3 sets of 2 easy

222 - 2 sets of 2

235*1 easy enough, grip isn't too balanced

Bent over rows, overhand grip

160*5

120*5+5 same - felt nice, very strict, from the floor to the belly without adding any momentum with my back.

Played drums a lot, watched a lesson, learned about variations of hertas like "butterfly" (two 16ths and one 8th), and "grasshopper" (one 8th and two 16ths), played it on different drums. I gotta save money and buy a nice stationary powerful PC. I actually could buy it right now, but I'd prefer to save some more, maybe buy an extra large monitor, since it'd be so good for Cakewalk and Musescore, as well as video recording - because that's what I plan to do with it primarily, record a lot of videos and post em online. I recently have been thinking how it'd make a lot of sense for me to become a content creator, since it's basically what I do already, just not on a serious scale. Perhaps I could even make a gaming channel, that'd be lovely.

Random pic of the day -

Hekelingen, Dorpsstraat 12 - Reformed Church

https://www.reliwiki.nl/index.php/Hekelingen,_Dorpsstraat_12_-_Hervormde_Kerk


It's pretty random, isn't it? And so beautiful. Just fitting the season. And evoking some deep nostalgic sensation, something, that can't be explained, only felt.

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