Heatstroke Interlude
By Cosmic Cairns on June 27, 2018 10:11 pm
I'm trying to record a track and listen to this week's tracks all on the one semi-light day I have in what's already been a hell week at work. It actually started last Friday with what unexpectedly turned into a 17 hour long work day. On top of that we were in the midst of an extreme heat warning and my job decided to make me go push around a bunch of heavy equipment outside. Since I had started the day at 4am I was in kind of a zombie mode and forgot to bring water bottles. When I finally found a water fountain I felt like I was about to dry up into sandpaper and I made what was probably a mistake of guzzling water down. All of a sudden my stomach started doing flips and my body felt like it needed to evacuate from every possible exit as soon as possible. I also started getting dizzy and felt like I was going to faint. What followed was four solid days of extreme churning guts and physical exhaustion. I spent my whole weekend either in bed or the bathroom and it was a highly unpleasant experience. I'm pretty sure I got a touch of heat exhaustion coupled with some serious dehydration. It was a highly unpleasant experience and I do not recommend it.
Then on Monday I still wasn't feeling good but tried to tough my way through work anyway. And that was when said equipment decided to completely break down and I ended up spending an extra three hours trying to figure out how to fix it while my stomach was doing backflips and I felt like falling over. Well, the good news is I finally feel better, the equipment issues are resolved, but my damn work decided to pull a "Yeeeeaaah. We're going to need you to go ahead and come in this Saturday as well, mmmkay? Great."
So today's been all right at least. I wasn't feeling super inspired but it seemed it would be my only chance to record. Before I even played anything I was originally going to title this "My Objectively Worst Track of the Year So Far" but actually I kind of like it. I started out just strumming a c# minor chord on the electric guitar for about a minute and a half. I played around that with a few more electric guitar parts and then added a bass line and a couple tracks of microkorg. Sorry if I'm behind on listening to your guys's tracks. I'm trying my best to catch up today. Hopefully you've all had a much better week than me and hopefully next week will be better.
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