Welcome to Episode 133 of my podcast The view from the crow's nest. It is Friday the 16th of October 2020. And I'm not feeling quite as long as I was yesterday. After the pain of the removals business and paying 80% more all of a sudden, but I'm not, I'm still not feeling great, I'm not feeling particularly positive or optimistic per se. I'm really struggling to get my focus to get to achieve anything to feel like I'm making any progress with anything, neither business nor creative, and maybe I'm being a bit too scattered I'm not focusing on the right thing. I'm not putting the time in I'm not I don't know what I'm doing really are what I'm not doing this morning, I woke up at 10 past seven, and I exercised first we had our training session. Similar and I with our trainer normally Same goes first at eight o'clock today I went first eight. The idea being that I'd go eight to nine and have a shower and then be ready to work you know shortly after, instead of the other day is Monday, Wednesday, this week where I had in start working to kind of midday after, you know, after I'd waited and then bla bla bla. Anyhow, same deal I don't know how, but I still didn't start work until kind of midday and not even that and I call it work but it's just not even that's not even the right term I'm just kind of doing stuff but not really getting anywhere, then it's gonna make some change I don't know exactly what it is. On a positive note, I, At the end of each day. I've been doing a bit of guitar practice only for about five days or something like that. But my. I try I've style was watching an old looks like an old 80s video from guitarist called Richie kotzen who did a tutorial video called rock chops. It seems in the 80s and I got it off YouTube, and it's a lot of old, old it's a lot of the sort of metal or not metal but I'm kind of Van Halen dream theatre john Petrucci that kind of stuff. And I was never into Van Halen but when I first picked up guitar when I first started learning around when I was 17. I was not so much heavily into the music, but heavily into learning that kind of technique. I had a john Petrucci book called Wild string them. Brilliant name, and another one called rock discipline, and it was all very technical, you know, kind of math rocky type. You know techniques. And I did that for a few years till I went to uni and then I started discovering groove and blues and funk and then applying went in that direction. And I've never really gone back to it. And recently I've been listening to Richie kotzen who has just become my kind of new idol, as it were, because he sings like Chris Cornell, who's dead, he plays all instruments and some writes and produces like prints and he also has a vocal like prints as well he can go from soul to funk to great gritty rock and is a, you know, far superior guitarist is virtuoso. So it's pretty good guy to kind of follow. And, you know, he's quite famous it seems for what's called his legato technique basically using his left hand on the guitar without really needing to use his right hand. So a lot of hammer ons and pull offs and slides and all this kind of stuff so that's what I've been kind of doing and trying to learn a bit of that. And also, a little bit of Van Halen tapping. And so yeah, in the last few days I've been doing that and I've noticed my guitar playing has noticeably improved. You know my interest and my sense of timing has improved my rhythm and my just my ability. So that's definitely positive. And also another positive note, three days ago I wrote a song late at night. And then today I wrote the lyrics for it. So, and did a video of that topic. So that'll be up in the lab. This week I guess. And the story behind it so I did a bit but basically, I think I need to do is really simple I need to just abandon trying to do anything and just do music. And then I'll be happy. Basically, the calendar I was working on a calendar the last couple of days and said yesterday. My 2021 ca
