Coming this spring, after a long hiatus, I’ll be releasing a new album… Do they even call them albums anymore?  Anyway, the title is the same as the title of this post (unless things change, as things do).  I’ve got seven originals and a cover song set and there might be more… all done stripped-down and unplugged style.

It’ll be available on iTunes and the whole of the “digital music for sale” internet spectrum, but I’ll also produce 100 physical CDs that’ll be hand-autographed in case I become hugely famous sometime long after I’m dead so your grandchildren can argue about who gets the profits from the estate auction.

On a side note, I have some more songs that’ll get released in digital download under a different title to be determined.  These songs will be completely different from the usual… shooting for a retro-80s loop feel there.  Not even sure if I’ll bother with the whole iTunes thing for that.

So… sometime around April or May look for “There Will Be Cake” by yours truly.

As of today, I’ve done a total of 465 pushups this year.  I’ve been increasing the number from one pushup on the 1st of January by one pushup every day as outlined in my “Pushups and Other Resolutions” post.   As I struggled, grunted, and trembled while completing my 30 pushups today, I had a realization; adding a pushup to a single set every day is unsustainable.  I’m struggling at 30, how the hell am I going to pull of 60… or 366?

So, I’m still going to do one more pushup every day, but I’m breaking them into sets.  I’m shooting for sets of 20 plus finishing up the odd ones in the last set, so when I get to 54 I’ll have two sets of 20 and a set of 14.  Between sets I’m going to rest very minimally (just enough time to get blood back in my arms so that I don’t fall on my nose).  I’m still going to do all the pushups in one session, not spreading them out throughout the day.

We’ll see how it goes…  hopefully on the last day of the year I’m doing 18 sets of 20 and a set of six to finish!

Yeah, the video didn’t embed exactly correct, but you can still watch it here… but I recommend going to the TED site and watching it there, then reading more.

So I’ve actually made some resolutions. Yep. Not gonna list ‘em all here, but I’ll tell ya the toughest one is not to be such a curmudgeon.

One idea I had was to do pushups in increasing amounts according to what day of the year I’m on. January 1st, I did one pushup. I did two the next day, then three, then four yesterday, and five today. I’m not sure how long I’ll last but I’m going to give it a shot. By summer I’ll either be really good at pushups or laughing at what a stupid idea this was.