Back Pain & Verification

 

As a kid I remember my father always having back pain and a "slipped disc". I have suffered from this for decades myself, but found a very long time ago that walking 30 minutes a day kept that, and my cholesterol all under control and me pain free.

But the last 2 summers here in Kyoto have meant it isn't possible to go for a walk, even early in the morning for some 8 months of the year without the risk of heart stroke.  The humidity is the killer. My back started "that feels like a slipped disc coming on" during August and I started visiting the local air-conditioned Mall a few times a week to walk there, but it was too late.

Had back pain making sleeping difficult in the last weeks, "just like in the old days" 😒 A pity I know how to not get that to happen, but can do nothing but "move carefully" till it fixes itself. 

Verification

The Global Banking System is now requiring "ordinary customers" to prove who you are because of "money laundering".  I think the biggest crooks responsible for all the "money laundering" are the corporations and financial institution executives themselves, and this is all just a smoke screen of security theater.  Will do nothing to stop the crooks, who are rich enough to get threw the loop holes they paid politicians to put in the laws anyway.  

Having thousands of companies with a registered head office in the same small building in the Cayman Islands, and all those associated with them is THE REAL PROBLEM! 

Having to comply with those regulations, for a bank account have had for 30  years in Sydney is a pain too, requiring getting a document notified and signed by Consulate staff we have to make an appoint for.  

Freak Kitchen Umeda 

Looking forward to Mattias and the gangs concert. It is 22 years since they last performed here apparently, but I didn't discover them till their COOKING WITH PAGANs album.  In the last 5 years their music had such an impact on me. The inspiration to write and sing songs of my own, that actually mean something worth saying, and do more with alternate guitar tunings which made such a difference too.

This morning I brought this 2021 "Oh What A Waste" project to my new Win PC H: drive ReaperProjects Directory. I change sounds around every so often, and so had to replace some PlugIns I don't use any more in the project with with the current ones, and IR cabinet files as well.  

I am also still in the fairly recent "Simmons SDS5 drums" thing and made them electronic instead of DRUM KIT FROM HELL too.  Replaced what was the center guitar track, with a new one through the POD EXPRESS BLACK I recorded this morning.  Track was originally done with my Ibanez RG350 in Drop Dflat and that is what I am still using. My best "guitar", but it is only 6 string.  

The animation project was updated to a MUSIC+COMIC with the background being the original Garbage Dump animation. Our cat joins in too, briefly.

Last week I did a COVER-NOT-COVER of Feak Kitchen's NO BODIES LAUGHING, and the chorus riff here is very similar.  

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