We're in Manchester

No luck on getting an eye appointment today but I do have an appointment tomorrow morning at 7:20am.  Now, I usually don't get up that early on work days so...  Nothing like setting your alarm during your time off but, then again, it's for a pretty damn important cause.

I got off to a late start today, mainly with being on the phone to the doctor's office and other things.  It's pretty hard not to focus on an eye issue when you see it constantly.  Still, what can I do, and I must trudge onward, no matter how difficult.

I had a pretty good practice session today and I'm finally playing more up to speed.  My trigger finger is so far cooperating enough that it's not limiting me.  I have found that I need to keep that finger (and hand) pretty much in a half grasp shape all day long, or at least that seems to help.  The more flat you keep your hand the worse the issue seems to get.  Of course, when I'm asleep, I can't completely control my actions so there's always a bit of pain in the morning when I try to flex it.  Still, it's not getting in my way so far, thankfully.

I finished working on the bass for "Younger Days of Manchester" and just got done listening to what I've got so far on my stereo.  I'm pretty pleased and I think I got exactly what I was going for.  I don't know what it is about this song but it's been stuck in my head pretty much since I came up with the raw idea about 2 years ago.  It's really cool hearing it finally become real.  Next up will probably be the solos and such on that track but I'm not sure when I'll actually do that yet.

I also started working on the next song called "This Town's Not Big Enough (for You and I)".  I really like that title, and the song had a certain "Ghost Town" Bill Frisell vibe to me when I came up with it.  Since I had almost no time to prepare going into this recording week, this song still needs to be completely fleshed out and I usually don't spend recording week time doing these things.  I made a bit of progress on it but I'll have to revisit it tomorrow and see what I think.  I'm thinking I'm going to do a weird bridge in the track, maybe add some sound effects, etc., but nothing is for sure yet.

More tomorrow.  I need to go to bed so I can get up when the rooster crows...