I Like Rehearsing

I like rehearsing.

I won’t lie.

I like a rehearsal.

I like practicing stuff.

I like it so that when I’m doing the performance, I don’t have to think about it.

I know what I’m doing.

Not that I won’t think about it, but I like to know that I have it on lock, that I’m locked in.

Over the weekend, I had a rehearsal with this band that I’m sitting in with and went very, very well.

So that was good.

The band is good.

Luckily for me, I had made a bunch of notes ahead of time on a song by song basis of like, how long is the guitar solo?

And how many measures before I start and whatever else.

And that was really helpful because they clearly thought I was going to mess some of those things up, which is a very reasonable thing to expect.

But because I prepared and made notes, because I would never remember, oh, this solo is eight bars and this solo is 16 bars.

I would never remember.

Because I wrote it down, I was able to nail it.

So that was good.

I’m supposed to have a rehearsal for Jagged Little Pill tonight, except I no longer am called for rehearsal because they’re going to go over choreo on a couple of dances that I’m not in.

Then they asked if I could join a rehearsal Thursday, where previously there was no rehearsal Thursday, but I can’t go to a rehearsal Thursday because I have a band rehearsal Thursday.

And I love rehearsing.

I really want to rehearse for Jagged Little Pill.

But they just added it and I couldn’t do it.

I tried to figure out ways to make it possible and I couldn’t.

Luckily, I wasn’t the only one.

Luckily, or unluckily, I wasn’t the only one who couldn’t do it.

So although they attempted to add a Thursday rehearsal, they’ve now taken it away again.

But man, I wish we had some more rehearsals.

I really like rehearsing.

I like to feel ready.

I don’t feel ready yet.

Now, the show is still a couple weeks away, two and a half.

But man, there’s a lot to do.

And that’s how it always goes.

But I mean, this feeling is never the best feeling when you’re like, boy, I hope it all comes together because it always does.

But it’s never a guarantee.

And listen, I have every faith in us that we will get it together.

But so far, boy, we don’t have it together.

You should still come see it, though.

Go buy tickets.

Theme song?

Yeah.

Your Daily Lex I have an idea for another app.

That one’s not ready for anybody to see yet.

But sometimes I need a thing in my life.

And then I’m like, well, if I need this, maybe other people will need it.

I’ve been using one already just for the singing.

You know, I think I mentioned.

Maybe I can’t remember.

I can’t remember who I talked to about it.

But I have an app for me for song lyrics.

And I road tested it at this rehearsal recently.

And it went pretty well.

And the only thing I guess didn’t work extremely well was the, you know, a core feature, I guess.

But it still worked out fine.

What am I trying to say?

What I’m trying to say is this.

This app that I’ve built that I’m calling second verse.

It’s meant to listen as you’re singing and progress along for you when it recognizes what you’re saying.

And it works great in a quiet place.

But when you’re singing with a pretty loud band, no, it does not work quite as well.

Hey, as I’m talking about this right now, I just got a text with an updated set list for that band gig.

Anyway, I have another app idea that I’m not ready to talk about yet because we got to see if I can actually make it work.

Who knows?

But plenty of gnome updates.

I had some stresses with Apple over the weekend because they wouldn’t approve a test flight.

Test flights, you know, when you’re going to test your software.

And it’s for a limited subset of users who are opting in to test it.

And why Apple has to approve your test flight updates is beyond me.

But they took forever and it sucked.

But now I have some updates to gnome for Mac and iOS.

I had to fix a gnome Mac bug today that was affecting my pal and yours, Brian Warren.

And I love fixing bugs, frankly.

I hate fixing bugs when I don’t have the bug.

I had to keep sending Brian different builds trying to fix the bug.

I had to send one that was logging crash stuff, whatever.

Very annoying.

But Brian was so patient and we got the bug fixed.

So that’s good.

I also gave myself more work by creating a featured GIFs thing where I can try to put some topical GIFs, which, of course, meant I also had to build a fancier GIF creator so I could create cool ones for the app to use that are related to what’s going on in the world or related to, I don’t know, stuff that’s interesting to me.

But it was fun.

So anyway, now I have a way to have some editorial messaging within the app about the world.

Yeah.

Anyway, it’s Tuesday.

That feels like a Monday, which is actually what my very first featured GIF is all about.

And I hope you’re having a wonderful short week and that you had a great three-day weekend, at least if you’re in the U.S.

And boy, boy, oh boy, I’m feeling stressed.

Is that coming through?

Not stressed like, oh, no, if I were filling out an Apple health survey, they want to know how stressed I was when I say hi.

But I’m just feeling like I got a lot.

I got a lot that I want to get sorted out professionally and personally.

And we’ll get it done.

But it’s a lot.

Anyway, have a wonderful day.

More soon.

Goodbye.

Lex.