August 22nd, Monday - Bench, squat, video, painting the guitar

 22.08.2022

Nice day. Slept little, worked, didn't eat, decided to have coffee right away and have my workout soon. It's been a while. Some problems arose. On saturday I cleaned my SG and took off the strings and just just put it back on the wall. That mighthave been a mistake. Put the new strings on today. Minimal wrapping on the tuners. The tuners seems whacked out a bit. There might have been too much tension. These strings just might be too tough for C Standard. Anyway, I put em on and decided to tune them in Cakewalk, in TH-U, and my prject just doesn't open. After some fiddling I found out you're supposed to turn off the plugins in safe mode - to do it, you have to hold the Shift button while opening the project. Turns out it was KVLT Drums by Ugritone causing problems. Deleted them, and now I'm redowloading the whole thing. Apparently it's been almost a year since I bought them. It doesn't make that much sense to use them if I play real drums. But still, I have them, cause they were cheap and good. And now I'll try to fix this issue.

The guitar also got me stumbled for a while. It often happens - the most trivial things stump you, and then you remember how to fix them. I cranked the truss rod, and then finally raised the bridge on the treble side. There's so much to do, and my brain is a little jumbled and I randomly get dizzy. Not very good. Maybe it's something to do with my nutrition. It's been plentiful yesterday, but really unbalanced. I bought hamburgers and ate em all day long. Not too many, only 3.5 for the whole day, plus some fries and nuggets. One brother got a soda, another got half a hamburger later. When i woke up today I just didn't feel like eating. I had coffee. First coffee - just arabica. I realised it's a blend from all over the world. I don't like idea, but the coffee is alright. Now I'm having the second one - half old robusta, half new arabica. I don't feel bad, but I am slightly worried about my brain and nutrition. Having the other soda with it. Just a little worried and jumbled. What a mess. Anyway, today I have some bench press and HIGH BAR squat to do. I don't want to stretch my shoulders anymore. In fact, I need to stretch htem back to 2015 level, when I could actually put them on my clavicles like a weightlifter.

I'm so thankful I didn't choose to reinstall Cakewalk. That would have been pretty dumb.

I should always play drums in my monitor headphones. They are pretty stressful to listen to with open ears. If I always do it I can learn to avoid having that reaction.

I'm finishing my second coffee. NGL I wanna have a third one. Cause I took  a break after the first one. Also I let my little brother play Minecraft for a while. I tried to teach him to "go on expeditions" more properly, cause he didn't manage his inventory and didn't have tools with him. And he got lost in his small world I made for him. He played in Peaceful mode and seemed to be getting too afraid when playing on Easy mode. Well, admittedly, minecraft can be scary, cause of all the constant sounds coming from everywhere. He switched back to peaceful. I rackon in his age kids aren't ready to fight, it's more natural to avoid fighting and do more exploration. I really hate the word "natural". I mentioned it before. Appeal to nature fallacy. It's too prevalent in today's society. The word lost all it's meaning. I guess I don't feel too jumbled after all. I think I sleep too cold. It's not july anymore.

I slowed down watching "Better Call Saul". The first three seasons are different from the fourth (that I'm currently watching). Of course, Charles' character arc is unsatisfying. Perhaps it's meant to be this way. Trying to teach us to cherish family no matter what it is. Reasonable.

19:19. I will put on the third layer of sealer today. On my G310. It's very slow. I kinda want the texture to be there. But maybe less of it. Honestly, it's already technically refinished. In fact, it doesn't need to be painted at all in order to be playable. But my paint removal job was really bad, of course. I have an excuse. Doesn't matter. It's gonna be painted thick. Many layers, exactly like it was originally. I still ahve to figure out what to do with the neck. I tend to thick it's better to use the old paint as sealer. Just sand it gently, not reach the raw wood. Maybe I'll paint the head separately. I'll try to fix the crack in paint that it has. It'll be many layers as well. And then I'll have to even out the neck with the body. Shouldn't be overly complicated, but of course, I won't underestimate it. Not that it helps, he he.

I write so much. And now I'm writing about writing. They say there are "graphomaniacs". It's a word in russian language used to put down some authors. Bad word, honestly. Psychologically bad. This here's a diary. It's not a  book. It's not even meant for anyone besides me. And the only thing I acutally read is my training numbers, They are worth something. It can be a research material. I should upload more of my workouts. Perhaps I could edit and upload my saturday's PP. Should be easy.

Honestly, it would sooo comfortable to record drums in my room rather than downstairs. Not kidding. I'm tempted to do that. Tomorrow's mostly a free day.

I've been enjoying the simple pleasure of toying with AID lately. It's so fun. Just generating various littel stories. Gratifying as well. Can be distracting.

20:19. Hmm. A whole hour passed. Talking to my little brother. Finished tuning the guitar. Cranked the neck back. IIRC it's alright if there's high action on high frets on the lowest string. I don't feel like it's a problem. High action, naturally, isn't bad at all. Most players don't want it, of course. But it's not your enemy. Just think about it.

Played some nice riffs. These strings, I feel like, naturally get into B Standard. So I tuned it to B. Sounds nice. Less dramatic, more doomy. The key of C Minor is definitely very dramatic.

I have not been so jumbled in a very long time. It must be the music, he he. Maybe not. I've no idea.

Workout

Bench

Warmup

110 - 5 sets of 5 - figuring out the technique, pecs feels like they're going to tear all the time 😁

Covered the G310 in another layer of sealer. Stinky.

Squat - high bar only

50 for 8

90 for 8

110 for 8

Did a tiny bit of olympic stretching with 50 and the bar.

That's about it. I am going to reduce intensity and volume on my squats, but not frequency. I always need energy.

I wish I wanted to play FO76 now. There's an event going on. And I am only two steps away from finishing the scoreboard. Perhaps I should just force myself, ha ha.

Made a video from saturday. Gonna upload it here nad paste it into saturday's post as well!

Random pictures of the day

The easter egg (secret)