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My sister had to drive me to the Giant today; we weren't able to get groceries delivered this weekend. And the chicken then got left in her car, so we might not see it again until pretty late in the week. Still, we have enough to last out the week pretty easily now. The main worry is what happens if the power goes out, since we won't be in position to flee anywhere warm, the way we did last time it went out when it was really cold. OPM has now officially declared we're all teleworking tomorrow. If we're not back in the office by Wednesday, I won't go in this week at all!
After spending much of the last two weeks making recording attempts at my new song, I finally sat down this evening to decide which of the successful ones to put up. I ended up making iCloud links for three different videos as I tried to choose, but eventually went with my Boxing Day recording of a little ditty I've been hearing a lot of these past nine months:

And I ended up going with yesterday's recording.

I'm mostly packed, the boarding pass is downloaded onto my phone, and I've even booked the taxi to the airport. (Later than recommended, actually, but not by too much.) I'm still figuring out my schedule after that, but as well as the day at the Con, my sister's been invited to two parties, and is taking me as her +1. It's actually going to be a much less busy SDCC for her, with a number of the panels she would be covering cancelled. Of course I support the writers' and actors' right and really their need to strike, and let my first San Diego Comic Con be whatever it will be. I very much intend to enjoy it.
I also spent the past three days doing recordings of my latest song. I actually got five of them, but as soon as I finished this last one, my mother rushed in to declare it perfect and tell me to post it. I definitely wouldn't go that far, but it is pretty much the best of the five.

After four weekends of attempting to record this through arm pain during one of them and sinus issues during all of them, I'm finally going with my recording from Friday morning.

Yesterday I managed to get a recording better enough than the rest of them that I'm definitely going with it.

The iPad app hasn't crashed out again, but now my sinuses are acting up, and yeah, this is the recording that's getting posted.

After getting through three successful recordings this weekend through worsening sinuses, I've finally gone with the one I did yesterday. Thus ends my experiment with straining my vocal range with a song that seemed like an easy one until I actually tried to record it.

After too many sinus issues, keyboard issues, low note issues, camera experiments, and occasional forays into the mind palace, I have finally posted a recording of this song:

Been trying to record this one for a while, but there was just about every problem, and it wasn't until this morning I finally got a recording I could be satisfied with. More or less.

Where I do a recording of a song, and even if it wasn't as perfect as I imagined, I realize immediately this is probably the best I'm going to get on camera. This one took me four weekends of trying to record through lingering and returning sinus woes. Getting this video was a downright relief.