TGIF

Began work on the recording one of my older songs last night, "Guiding Light". So far, so good. I layed down two guitar tracks before going to bed. Then I woke up around 2 AM and couldn't get back to sleep, so I recorded the bassline. Now comes the hard part, building a drum track on my sequencer. I just hate to do it, it's slow and frustrating. Then I'll try to get my vocals down. I'm very unsecure about my voice, so I always have to do it in about 9-10 takes. I transposed the song into A to fit my vocal range, so I hope it's going to be okay. If not, I'll have to start all over again.

Anyway, I woke up feeling like shit, since I didn't get enough sleep. I got dressed, had another listen to what I recorded and went to work. I had coffee with the Polish girls in the morning. We were talking about how hard it is to find a good appartment in town. You can look for ages until you find one that's worth having to pay instalments on a loan for the rest of your professional life. The rices here are ridiculous.

Had Lasagna for lunch. A positive note.

This afternoon I'm going to town with the wife to meet some people. I'm not that excited about it right now, I'd rather go home and get it over with the drum track. Plus my leg hurts real bad. Got injured playing soccer yesterday. I was having a damn good game up until I got kicked by a defender while we were scrambling for a loose ball. I was cursing at the top of my lungs, it's a nasty bruise. I couldn't walk yesterday but it got better by this morning :). Yet it still hurts just enough to contribute to my "high spirits" today. Anyway, as the sign says, no spitting...(By the way, I found this photo while sifting through old stuff on my hard drive. It was taken by one of my friends, Andras Hagen, in Shanghai.)