The Pace Of Life

 

Before the OBon holidays, and getting sick for about 4 weeks, I was trying to do some piece of music and a music+comic every week.  Seems easy until something like illness gets you to break the routine.

For the last 2 weeks I seem to be back at it. The latest, off the cuff thing THE PACE OF LIFE is above. 

I set out to do a fast "metal" thing, and set 156BPM.  Much faster than I normally play with, and found down picking that verse riff hard and tiring. This is a better take, but hand was getting really tired even after only 4 verses of this!

The comic text is just the first thing that came to me making the animation. Being retired isn't a subject the mostly young interweb cares about, but I do these for myself.   

As I have gotten older, I get more random old memories hitting my thoughts.  Many are of just really embarrassing things that happened. This seems to be a very common thing among us oldies!

There were times I was so busy. Mostly 1981 till 2001 was most like that. 

In a Facebook group I am in, there was a question about the systems I was one of those involved in designing.  It was "what design compromises had to be made"?   But the thing is, I did those designs 40+ years ago, and remember little.  It was a very fast pasted time for me.  I also try and not remember all the "not great" things that happened in the past.  

I used to have a really good memory. That also meant I stayed upset about something for a really long time.  I am glad I can forget much of that stuff now.  I have tried to forget much that isn't relevant to me any more. Seems to clear up the mind for things that are important now.

In my slower paced retirement, that makes me a Happy Camper.  I can do things at the pace I want now.

Have made an extended version of the music as well, and put The Pace Of Life  & The Pace Of Life Extended as a 2 track album on  Bandcamp.  Pay whatever you want, including $0.

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