{"id":15522,"date":"2012-01-01T20:05:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T03:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=15522"},"modified":"2012-01-01T20:06:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T03:06:08","slug":"me-in-2012-writing-splendors-sound-track-among-other-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15522\/me-in-2012-writing-splendors-sound-track-among-other-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Me in 2012: Writing Splendor&#8217;s sound-track, among other things."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been living for years now with my daily calendar system of staying focused on my goals. Some months I do better, some I do worse, but having a regular agenda has proved fruitful for me.<\/p>\n<p>These are my daily goals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Work-out with free weights\n<\/li>\n<li>Walk with Cathleen and the dogs\n<\/li>\n<li>Write or update software\n<\/li>\n<li>Blog or write essays or Willie stories\n<\/li>\n<li>Practice the guitar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Software and writing came and went, strong and weak, in 2011, but the guitar got the benefit of end-of-day exhaustion almost every day: Mindless sitcoms on the TV, internet radio playing in my office, eye-candy on the iPad and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lOKEQ1GtviI\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;a Telecaster through a Vibralux turned up to ten.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love it, to say the truth, especially the sound of a solid-body electric amped up very loud but played very quietly. This is what made those Chicago blues gods such great underpants gnomes, and it&#8217;s the trick the British blues-rock gods missed when they doubled the tempo on all those old riffs and called it rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll. I feel sorry for poor Cathleen, who by now has heard the I,IV,V blues played crudely in at least half of its infinite variations. But it works for me so well that sometimes I take pity on her and play through a headphone amp. This also promotes dancing &#8212; by me, that is, since I&#8217;m self-contained and free to move where I will.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m wary of it, too, because the guitar gives me two benefits I must always find in my work: A creative outlet and something to do with my hands. I don&#8217;t want to give it up. To the contrary, I think I might take up the piano, as well, this year, as a looping and recording platform. My solution is to learn to write songs. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11999\" target=\"_blank\">I know I can do this<\/a>, but by now it is possible to carry the song-writing process all the way through to a marketable demo &#8212; or even a release-ready recording. I have no desire to perform, but I would love to find an ambitious act to feed tunes to.<\/p>\n<p>My other big blue-sky project for the year is to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15522\/me-in-2012-writing-splendors-sound-track-among-other-things\/#more-15522\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been living for years now with my daily calendar system of staying focused on my goals. Some months I do better, some I do worse, but having a regular agenda has proved fruitful for me. These are my daily goals: Work-out with free weights Walk with Cathleen and the dogs Write or update software [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,212,29,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-egoism-in-action","7":"category-flourishing","8":"category-group-therapy","9":"category-technology","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13757,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13757\/achieving-your-goals-things-can-get-a-great-deal-better-over-time-if-you-work-at-them-just-a-little-bit-every-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":15522,"position":0},"title":"Achieving your goals: Things can get a great deal better, over time, if you work at them just a little bit every day.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"December 3, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's my November: Not bad, and the guitar is sounding pretty decent by now. I'm more action than traction selling real estate, but that's been the story of my life for the past five years. Here's the secret decoder ring, what all those sloppy symbols mean: S \u2013 Write software\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Real Estate&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Real Estate","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/real-estate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2695,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2695\/bloodhound-lit-the-art-science-and-business-of-writing-interesting-and-profitable-real-estate-weblog-posts\/","url_meta":{"origin":15522,"position":1},"title":"Bloodhound Lit: The art, science and business of writing interesting and profitable real estate weblog posts","author":"Greg Swann","date":"March 3, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"By his good example, Kevin Warmath reminds you to get busy on your BloodhoundBlog Black Pearl Diver\u2019s contest entry. 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I will tell you from my own experience that perfect performance is elusive, but if you make the effort to track your efforts, it's a lot easier to stay on track --\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Egoism in Action&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Egoism in Action","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/egoism-in-action\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":17229,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/17229\/howling-about-the-positive\/","url_meta":{"origin":15522,"position":3},"title":"Howling about the Positive","author":"Eric Blackwell","date":"October 3, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the things that I found most appealing about long form blogging back in the day was the ability to tell full stories, to create complete word pictures, and to convey complete concepts. 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