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May. 21st, 2026 07:50 pmWent to breakfast with my dad today, which was nice. :) He's in town for a while working on recording.
He's doing pretty well after his various health things. He's had a few cardiac issues (though not a heart attack.) Sounds like it mostly stemmed from strain related to sleep apnea, which he's had for as long as I remember, but never wanted to treat. That's doing better, so he's back to getting some actual sleep, and that will hopefully also help the lingering heart issues. He's going in for another heart surgery sometime soon. He couldn't remember what the procedure is called, but it's inserting something into the enlarged chamber of the heart to help prevent clotting. (The explanation is a little longer, but that's the gist of it.) He's looking forward to that procedure, because then maybe he can stop taking the blood thinners he's on, because he hates them and they're expensive.
The recording seems to be going well. This is the same album project that he's been working on for a couple years now, but he's changed the whole style and tone of the project a couple of times. (Two years ago he was feeling a lot more optimistic about the world, and that has gotten to be less and less the case, which has changed what he wants for his music.) Though he says he was expecting to look at the various songs he's written and was considering and decide to scrap it all and start over. Instead, he said he's actually really happy with a lot of them, more so than he anticipated, so that's nice.
Hopefully we'll get together again sometime next week before he's on his way back to Arizona.
He's doing pretty well after his various health things. He's had a few cardiac issues (though not a heart attack.) Sounds like it mostly stemmed from strain related to sleep apnea, which he's had for as long as I remember, but never wanted to treat. That's doing better, so he's back to getting some actual sleep, and that will hopefully also help the lingering heart issues. He's going in for another heart surgery sometime soon. He couldn't remember what the procedure is called, but it's inserting something into the enlarged chamber of the heart to help prevent clotting. (The explanation is a little longer, but that's the gist of it.) He's looking forward to that procedure, because then maybe he can stop taking the blood thinners he's on, because he hates them and they're expensive.
The recording seems to be going well. This is the same album project that he's been working on for a couple years now, but he's changed the whole style and tone of the project a couple of times. (Two years ago he was feeling a lot more optimistic about the world, and that has gotten to be less and less the case, which has changed what he wants for his music.) Though he says he was expecting to look at the various songs he's written and was considering and decide to scrap it all and start over. Instead, he said he's actually really happy with a lot of them, more so than he anticipated, so that's nice.
Hopefully we'll get together again sometime next week before he's on his way back to Arizona.
