Thinking about recording again...

With a new project. With an old project. With another new project. Or another old project...

I just really want to record and make music again.

Acoustic stuff. About my family. About relationships. About losing and failing and succeeding and getting beat up and beating someone up and feeling nervous and finding yourself or someone or something that makes you get up in the morning.

Drums. With Karate in the Garage. Silly, rad, rock music.

Acoustic stuff. With Lexy Baeza. About all the stuff she's written...

Oh Girl stuff. 'Nuff said.

I'm lucky. But not lucky enough to have no other options. To have no safety net. To have no fall back. No plan B...

Because then I might actually push myself to succeed. Out of necessity. Out of pure necessity...

Key Plays

The Super Bowl was an amazing game.

And its outcome hinged on a couple key plays.

2 Giants' fumbles that weren't scooped up by the Patriots. An anxiety mistake from Tom Brady resulting in a safety. A holding penalty that took the Giants out of field goal range. A Wes Welker dropped pass that would have extended a series at the end of the game. An unbelievable catch by Mario Manningham to get the last Giants' drive rolling...

I wonder what the "key plays" in my life have been...

Why did I stop?

Why does anyone stop?

Too busy. Not enough time. Too much other stuff to do.

Excuse.

Excuse...

Excuse...

I miss my blog.

2 Weeks Later

I now have 14 posts up on hitRECord. Well, I have more posts, but only 14 that I would consider a part of my hitRECord365 project... A post a day for a full year!! Here's to possibly letting myself down! (But hopefully, not)...

I'm still swimming. And my sights are set on the Seal Sprint in Coronado, CA on March 18th. 500m swim, 20k bike, 6k run... which will be a beast of a day unless I train and focus and perform how I know I can.

Chase turns 2 in a week. Wait... what!?! I love you, little Man.

I turn 30 in 15 days. Wait... huh!?! Sa-weet.

hitRECord

hitRECord is an amazing idea. And from the looks of it, it is being executed beautifully, which takes it from the realm of idea floating in ether to fully functional entity capable of growing and affecting lives.

I'll let the website speak for itself: www.hitRECord.org

I joined today and would love to collaborate with you!!! Check out my records at http://hitrecord.org/users/glynngm.

Just Keep Swimming...

Head down.

Rotate.

Exhale.

Rotate.

Don't lift your head to breathe.

Focus.

Rotate.

Head down.

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There's a lot to think about while you're swimming. Technique and what you're doing right and what you're doing wrong and how it feels when it's correct and all the minute changes that lead to more/less drag and keeping a high elbow and working on the catch and the recovery and a crap load of other stuff, too...

There are 3 triathlons that look promising: Seal Sprint in Coronado on March 18th, Carlsbad Triathlon on July 8th, and the Long Beach Triathlon some time in September.

I just need to keep swimming and running and jump back on my bike again and have fun and focus and keep it light and set goals and take it a step, stroke, pedal turn at a time...

Keep going, Glynn!!!

When do we lose our curiosity?

My son Chase turns 2 next month. On November 11th to be exact. Nine days before I turn 30. Wow... that's a trip.

Anyways, there are moments when I look at Chase and realize that he has learned something since the last time I "really" looked at him and consciously observed him and actually processed what I was seeing, mannerisms, eye contact, demeanor, body language... Sometimes I recognize the fact that he is a different person than the last time I spent time with him. Whether it's after a day at work or from Saturday night to Sunday afternoon or even from when we get to Grandma and Grandpa's house to when we leave... there are definite moments when I witness the progression of human development. And I'm sure it's exaggerated, heightened, concentrated at this point in his life because he is evolving and growing and learning at such a prodigious rate (relative to the rest of his life)...

And it's exciting. To see the learning, the growth, the evolution of a human being. And also to see how curious he is, how much he wants to figure out how things work, "the hunger that a child feels for everything they're shown"...

And I can't help but wonder... when do we lose that? The curiosity and hunger for knowledge? Not just knowledge to help on a test or to provide insight into a job or to start a new hobby... but genuine curiosity for everything we're exposed to because it's all new...

I don't know how taxes work. Or how a car engine works. Or how wireless internet works. Or why the internet doesn't run out of space or why we can't combine hydrogen and oxygen to create water or why a million other things work. And I spend almost every day of my life completely okay with that.

But not Chase. If he doesn't know how to buckle a seat, he wants to figure it out. If he sees a wheel, he wants to spin it. If he sees a hammer and nail toy, he wants to play with it and familiarize himself with why it works.

Okay. Maybe he isn't concerned with the inner workings... maybe he just touches stuff and runs after things because they look cool and he's a toddler and it truly is brand new and why not chase that shopping cart? But even if that is the case and he's just reacting on instinct... isn't that effing cool? And why can't I be more like that? Why can't I figure out how taxes work or pick apart the inner workings of a car engine or study hydrogen and oxygen and mashing the elements together to create water?

When did I become so... not curious...?

Are we just too bogged down with everyday responsibilities and tasks and nagging chores that we forget to seek out what we don't know and learn about it? Or is it just because the world is so big and there are so many things that it's essential for our own survival to not be caught up in non-essential learning...?

Why can't we all just live with the curiosity of a child? The reckless abandon? The naive point of view?

Why do we all become so cynical, skeptical, guarded, responsible, lethargic, complacent, adult...?