No, I Haven't Given Up

I've mainly been quiet for the past 2-3 weeks since I was sick with some sort of persistent cold.  We're having work done on our house and, low and behold, it took a whole 3 days of said work for both of us to catch this freakin' illness from one of the workers.  The timing was great as always since I had planned to work on some vocal corrections that weekend, of which I still can't quite get back to even now due to persistent phlegm issues.

Upon feeling a bit better, I had meant to write up how I drove up to Irvine one Saturday afternoon to do an errand, and I just happened to be in the neighborhood of the one and only Taco Bell that was trying out the Cheez-It Tostada and so I made a point to stop in.  I must say that I was pleasantly surprised by how well it worked.  Also, if you hadn't already guessed, the Cheez-It base is actually much smaller than they made it appear in the pictures so it isn't some mammoth sized cheese flavored biscuit attempting to take over the world.  Oddly, I was expecting a true flagship Taco Bell location but it looked no different than any other one except that it's the first I've ever been in that you literally have to order through the tablets for there is no one on duty taking orders.  Apart from that, the seating was a bit more community oriented but nothing else really stood out as that different.

There IS actually a chance that I'll finally submit the CD order for "...Miss You Most..." this weekend for the redo of Track 2 is currently at the mastering lab for reprocessing.  Once that's complete and checks out, I only need to do a few more minor changes on the booklet and layout, of which I'm hoping to get completed this weekend so I can finally put this behind me.

Apart from that, I've barely touched Pro Tools or did any real mixing over the past month just due to either feeling lousy or being overwhelmed between work and juggling house improvement decisions.  There was also Wimbledon to contend with which is always a major distraction but a welcomed one.  I did manage to upgrade my Pro Tools version to be the latest 2022.06 and that ended up being more labor intensive than I had counted on but at least it's ready to go.  I'll hopefully have some real news on my next update.