yesterday afternoon, i tried the spiral beach again first, through just the celestions, and was happy with the output. the next record i wanted to test in the bedroom was sister machine gun's metropolis, as it's another synth record i had around that i know well. it's a record i could test the setup with. the outcome was acceptable and i'm happy with this. i then stopped to eat.

my monday meal turned out to be the salsa i made on sunday evening, which was an expansion of my normal salsa recipe.

my normal salsa is prepared for nachos and for eggs and consists of:

- one lime

- one beet

- 1/2 tomato

- 1/2 red pepper

- 2 big cloves of garlic

- one avocado

- 1 tbsp cumin

- 1 tbsp paprika

- 1 tbsp oregano

- 1 tbsp cayenne

- pepper

- frank's hot sauce

i skipped the salsa for the two egg meals this cycle and also for the first nacho on sunday moning, so i doubled it up in a large serving bowl and expanded it into a meal by adding a can of chick peas, ceasar dressing, nutritional yeast, hemp seeds, dill and some grated cheese. i also swapped the red pepper for yellow pepper and fresh tomato for canned tomato, as both were food bank subs. this was a big bowl of salsa. i'll probably have this again in a few days as a separate meal.

i needed to get the kitchen cleaned up, so i set up the yamahas and nads on my old coffee table, ad-hoc. i listened to the sister machine gun first, as i was cleaning. i was initially not sold on it. disc two to try was the do make say think, and i realized quickly that the problem was that the input was too loud. triggering the low level made the do make say think sound far better, and it got a few cycles to test it thoroughly, culminating in my decisive post early in the morning. the sister machine gun also sounded substantively better on second listen, with the low level triggered.

i was eventually able to: 

- do two runs of dishes,

- thoroughly clean up the space

- get a new cabinet installed up on top of the stove

- clear out a pile of boxes

- vacuum

- scrub

- move to shelving units into the hall for cds

- moving the sewing table into the bedroom

- move around a large pile of boxes from one room to the other

- make some coffee

- do a lot of exfoliating. it's getting there, after a rough few weeks of moving, etc where i didn't have time to wash or shower and the weather has made the living conditions in here extremely harsh and dry. its been pretty gross.

as has become the norm, i got a little sleep in the morning, after cleaning up the kitchen.