Finding Simple Solutions To Everyday Problems
I’ve been chugging away at things over here, I know you were dying to know. I struggled to come up with a title for this blog post, but there it is: finding simple solutions to everyday problem.
The shower rod in the bathroom kept falling down. Apparently the bar wasn’t long enough and the spring-loaded tension bar wasn’t holding it tight enough anymore, so simple solution: I crammed some paper towels in behind one of the non-skid pads, and popped it back up. It’s held pretty well so far.
My other problem that’s been bugging me — my new drummer’s gloves. Yea, they’re awesome, and they save my hands big time. But I play along to my iPad. I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to touch your iPad or iPhone screen with gloves on, but it doesn’t work. The screens react to something in your fingers – electricity, oil, I don’t know, but something. So the problem arose when I wanted to change tracks. I’d have to take my glove off, kind of a pain in the ass.
So I decided to find a solution, which I did — I’m bringing my laptop with me, and since there’s not a whole lot of space on the laptop for music, I put my Drum Time playlist on my iPhone, and then connect via a cable. Apparently you can use the iPhone like a harddrive, which is what I’ve been doing. When you step back and think about it, it’s kind of obvious.
Work continues on the book. My buddy continues to edit chapters, and I continue to incorporate his feedback and correction of my overuse of commas. (Sorry, Austin!) We’ll get through it eventually.
I don’t remember if I posted about it here or not, but I made the decision last week that I’ll be doing an audiobook version of the book as well. I don’t know why, but it seems like a fun process to go through so why not? The eBook process has been such a learning experience, I figure why not? Let’s do the whole shebang, right?
I’m having my very first surgery Friday morning, and I’m kind of freaking out about it. I’ve never had any surgery before, so I’m probably overreacting to things, but that’s how my brain works. Don’t worry, it’s not as major as the word “surgery” makes it sound. In short, I’m having two sinus lifts on the upper left side of my jaw, and then they’ll be doing a bone graft. Due to some freak act of nature part of my upper jaw has deteriorated over the years, and needs to be fixed. Once that’s all done, they’ll be putting in two dental implants into the newly reconstructed bone.
It sounds a lot more serious than it is, and thanks to America’s crappy health and dental insurance that we have, it’s costing me around $18k out of pocket. But it has to be done, so it has to be done.
Don’t worry, I’ll be fine. I have plenty of ice cream stock piled, and will be taking the weekend to relax. I made a mistake in scheduling it, though. Had I looked at a calendar, I’d have known that Iron Man 3 was coming out this weekend, and wouldn’t have booked the surgery for Friday. Hopefully I’ll feel up to going to see the movie. I suppose time will tell.