A lot going on right now.

Physically I’m doing well. I can do almost anything with my right shoulder, but there is still minor pain at the edges of my range of motion. And my range of motion is a bit limited. Especially when I try to reach behind me. I’m managing the pain with icing, heat and a tens unit, as well as taking ibuprofen and tylenol. I had physical therapy yesterday and have a new set of exercises to work on. I’m hopeful that I can avoid surgery.

Artistically I’ve been putting the finishing touches on four new paintings and thinking about where to go next. I’ve started playing my guitar more and am fooling around with the major scale as well as the mixolydian. For all these years I’ve been strictly a pentatonic guy, but I can see where adding these scales to my bag of tricks will give me a broader range of sounds. So much to learn, so little time.

I’m having some major anxiety today, something that’s plagued me most of my life, but with better living through chemistry and meditation, it’s been rare the last ten years or so. Except for Covid of course, I got pretty anxious during that period. Today’s mood stems from a few things, mainly though it was Hegseth and Trump’s speech to the generals yesterday, which really makes me fear for the future of our country.

Also I got a little freaky about my work as the board president at the Robbin Gallery. We have a meeting tonight and I procrastinated sending out an agenda and making sure everyone remembered the meeting. There are also a lot of personnel changes. I get anxious whenever I need to influence people. Brings me back to my days as a manipulative shit head kid.

And tomorrow we head for Chicago which is always fun but can also be stressful.

Got some stuff done yesterday including restringing my Strat. It always amazing how new strings make you a better player. Maybe I should change them more often. I did learn a better approach to the task. It’s amazing what you can learn on Youtube.

Weather continues to be wonderful. Also they’re finally finishing up the road construction in our neighborhood after three months of constant noise and streets turned into obstacle courses.

That’s it for now.