So the holiday weekend has come and gone, and it was a nice one. Wife and I have been biking a lot lately (well, not really a lot, and actually she’s been biking more than I have, but it’s more than I did last summer, so, “a lot”!) and it’s really fun. It just makes me really happy to be riding around, and afterwards, the tiredness is a good tiredness, distinctly different from the type you get from sitting in a cubicle all day and staring at code. Actually, we’ll be going out for a ride after I finish writing this. Anyway, we spent most of the 4th of July biking around Kensington and then rowboating. The rest of the weekend was pretty cool too, but not worth going into in-depth (though I’m sure EVERYONE was dying to hear about it).

Anyway, with the biking and the Super Tennis, and all the walks I’ve been taking around the lake here at home and at work, I’ve come to the scientific conclusion that physical activity is good!

As far as the recording is concerned (for How Does It Know?), we’ve had to postpone and reschedule the guitar/piano recording in Lansing due to first, my schedule, and then, John’s schedule. We’ll get it done soon, I’m sure, but the lagtime has got me distracted and not worrying so much about the recording, which isn’t necessarily good. I’ve still got parts to write to make things fuller, but I’m liking the approach I’m taking so far. I’ve been trying to do instrument parts that aren’t necessarily strummed guitar (which have taken center stage as far as my guitar input is concerned on my last several records). This EP will also feature some piano and (if possible) other keys. Maybe some hand percussion to augment the drums, too. Basically just trying to make it sound full without being all mid-range strumming, which has been kind of challenging, but it’s good to break out of my method and routine.

I haven’t been inspired to do much musical lately at all, though several motifs have been repeating in my head since last week for the Marshmallow Mission EP I plan to record at home. One of these days… With the weather, though, spending time in my dark basement setting up microphones and tweaking the EQ is just not what I want to do right now… Maybe recording is more of a fall/winter activity.