Good morning good morning. I have today off. Jane and I are sitting in my office. We have an hour and fifteen or so until we have to go to her dentist for the.. surgery? procedure? Whatever you want to call it. Rebuilding her two front teeth. She is getting general anesthesia. Very excited about that. They moved her surgery up 30 minutes this morning so by the time she woke up, it was too late for her to have her pedialyte popsicle. She is very sad about that. I gotta drug her with Halcion (and on and on GenX orbital joke) in (checks watch) an hour.

RIP David Hockney. You were a great. I was a fan. You will be missed. Man that is sad. 88, though. Good run. I would like to live to 88.

Let’s see how long it takes me to find the photo I took of the original artwork for The Talking Heads’ Remain in Light in the archives of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Less than two minutes. My photo sorting system remains undefeated.

Hey did you know about MyCart Central? You log in with whatever MyChart you have now, and then it searches for any old MyCharts you have. Which is pretty awesome. I found two old ones — one from Duke when we first moved here 15 years ago, and one from NYC even further back than that. I am recently kind of obsessed with getting all my old medical records. I don’t even remember the names of some of the clinics I went to in my Boston days. Sadly, none of those turned up here… but I guess they could have? I don’t really know how far back they go. But this seems a useful feature.

MyChart and Epic used to be so janky but I have to admit the patient-side technology has gotten pretty good in the last, er, three/four years.

Also have you seen Epic’s office? Kind of bonkers. Enough to make you want to work in an office and live in Wisconsin.

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We are, of course, listening to the new album from Olivia Rodrigo, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love (caps SIC). And this time I mean “we” in the actual non-royal manner, as Jane is here listening to it with me. We are on track five, “u + me = <3” which sucks because I was going to name my latest doom metal drone musical piece the same thing. Anyway so far so good, this album. Nothing is as stylistically shocking as either of the two first singles, but we still have five tracks until we get to the track with Robert Smith of the cure, which I expect to sound exactly like The Figurehead and not at all like Mint Car.

Deep cut Cure jokes that’s what you’re hear for right?

Yeah this album is cute.

But 10 points taken away from Gryffindor because my vinyl copy is not sitting on my doorstep this morning.

Wait. Is it?

Let’s go check.

Nope.

Good to know that Temporary Residence, the label that delivered my new Mono record on time, a day early even, has their act together more than… Geffen Records.

Oh a story I forgot to tell about my 2019 solo album I have been babbling about for a couple days now. There is a track on there called Pasture Cropping Drinking Song. It is a song about a story about a farmer named Colin Seis in Australia who nearly lost his farm to some high-tech fake manure, then the farm burned down. And then he and his friend got completely hammered and while drunk invented a new method of farming that is vastly better, requires no fertilizers or chemicals, and sequesters vastly more carbon in the ground. It is a song about tragedy and hope and redemption and having really good ideas when drunk. It has a cheesy-ass vocal and some problems with Codas that I mentioned yesterday. But I don’t care, the song fucking rules and I love it.

BUT ALSO: it has been on my mind a lot lately, because I learned about Colin Seis from the remarkable and fantastic book called Drawdown. It is from 2017, I learned about it from my friend Jenna, and it bills itself as “the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming,” and reader: it delivers. Absolutely fantastic, uplifting, educational book, tackling climate change like nothing else I’ve read.

Anyway, you know who helped fund this and wrote the forward? First time I heard of him?

Tom Steyer.

All right well I think I am about done here for the day. It is Friday. I have today off but have to have a call with my boss this afternoon and those could sometimes take, like, three hours. So if the call happens, I am hereby rescinding my vacation request and counting this as a work day. Maybe some Walmart today? I don’t know. But I DO know that tomorrow and Saturday? CHORES CHORES CHORES. We are back in the studio this weekend I am very excited about that I love the studio work so much. Met with the HVAC guy yesterday and they will be coming soon do do some duct work and move the intake and thermostat. I am very excited.

I don’t think I have any good Jane anecdotes today, do I? She has been playing Robot a lot this week, where we have to command her to walk and sit and whatnot and you know what? It’s a pretty good game. She obeys unthinkingly during the robot game. I should get the robot game going to get her to brush her teeth. Oh shit did she brush her teeth this morning?

I gotta go get her to brush her teeth. BYE BYE.

Wait. Do I even have to do that? Screw that. The dentist can do it today. HA.

W Hotel In a Better, Alternate Universe playlist for you today. I think all of it is new? This Mekons dub album is hilarious and great. Love the new Gia Margaret. Oh right the Coldplay song is old. Blame Suzy for that. OH and two tracks from Doctor Death’s volume IV for you, the amazing 1990 goth comp I wrote about two days ago. I have been listening to it constantly.

OK wish Jane luck. SURGERY TIME.