Hello everybody no matter where you might be land, air, space or sea, I hope all my Friendz are doing just as well as me. Welcome again to the home of the “Silky Smoove Blogcast Broadcast”. Here with another post I’m your host from the coast that gets it poppin the most. This isn’t going to be a very long blog entry. I just wanted to take some time and reach out with the Force and connect with you on this first day of this year. To tell you the truth I meant to get this post out last night before the year turned over, I was half way through writing this. I was talking about the rainy day and how I thought the rain was sexy, inspirational and arousing. I was talking about how I was home chilling in my full length plush Jedi robe and slippers with my bowl of soup. Listening to the rain pour down and the wind howl. I mentioned about how many songs are written about rainy days, like “Purple Rain”, “Can You Stand the Rain?”, “I Saw You Walking in the Rain”. I could go on and name countless others but I digress. I guess 2022 wanted to go out with a bang because that storm yesterday was not playing around. It came down on us with a vengeance. It knocked out the power out as I was writing this. We lost power about 7:45pm pacific. I was expecting it to come back on within an hour or so but it didn’t. It’s so funny how losing one thing we probably take for granted everyday like electricity. You go from being a king in your castle connected to everybody in the world and possibly beyond. To being cold alone in the dark vulnerable and isolated. Life just stops, what can you do? That doesn’t happen out here very often. I knew where my lighter was at so I used that to help my find little flash light. Fortunately, I was able locate a couple candles. I didn’t even leave them lit very long, because what was I going to do? My only options were either read or workout. So I did the only sensible thing I blew out the candles and climbed in the bed underneath two blankets. I have a few battery operated personal massage devices stored under the bed. So I grab one and powered it up. I was surprised how much light the massager gave off in the dark. I just laid there  and massaged my legs and I have been in need of doing that since I’m still running for an hour every day. So I’m just laying alone in the house listening to the wind howl I could hear it breaking stuff outside and the rain is just pouring down in buckets. The actual scientific term is an “atmospheric river”. Which basically is so much moisture picked up by the storm from the ocean that it creates a river in the sky that pours down at a massive rate. After my massage I drank a kombucha beer and dosed off listening to the storm. It was pleasant and peaceful. The power came back on about midnight. I figured it was midnight because I could hear all the fireworks and gunshots going off, also the storm had passed. I found it somewhat ironic that just as the year ended the storm also ended right on que. Still I didn’t even get up I stayed sleep. I knew I wanted to get enough rest to get up early to workout in the morning. Because there is no way I was going to miss going to the gym on January 1. Especially since I’m off tomorrow Monday and I’m usually not. That’s another thing I wanted to bring up. I thought I would have more time through to work on stuff during the holidays but it didn’t work out like that. See on my usual schedule I work four days a week. So when the holidays roll around we’re not going to get an extra day off in addition to our regular day off. No they just jumble around our days off to fit, but we do get holiday pay so its extra money. My point is the holidays this year were not as productive as I would have liked them to be. But like the scripture says unforeseen circumstances befall us all. Sometimes you have to set your self up to be productive the next time. Whether that be tomorrow or next week. This situation does make me empathize more with people who have to live without electricity on a daily basis. I got up today there was not a cloud in the sky brilliant sunshine. It was cold and windy. But I’m glad I went to the gym I had a good workout, I had fun mostly good vibes. I did resistance training for a little over two hours and I left in a good mood which actually put me in a better frame of mind to write today. It’s always a good sign that the first day of the year turns out to be a good day.  Keep in mind when I leave the gym I’m still not done working out for the day. I’m still in the midst of my running experiment where I run on the treadmill every day for one hour. I’ve done that every day for the past 16 straight weeks. Now I do admit that as I get deeper into the music production an I have to carve out more time for that I may have to adjust my routine. I already kind of have done that. See I found when I get home from work Friday afternoon I jump on the treadmill as soon I can and run. I do whatever Friday night I’ll usually clean up and cook for the week. Then Saturday I wake up as early as my body allows me to. It depends on how rough the week was. Then the first thing I do Saturday morning is run. So in between Friday and Saturday I found that I wasn’t giving my body enough time to recover, So Saturdays runs were not as productive. So just recently I started running for just a half an hour on Saturday but at a faster pace. Which works well because I’ve been trying to use Saturday for day when I do stuff like work on music or write blogs. Now when I started putting out music tunes more regularly, I’m not going to stop writing the blogs. There is a whole a lot more that I want to and I will write about, in a variety of different subject matters. Also the blog writing get those neurotransmitters firing and it helps with my song writing. Keep in mind that as far as these long format blogs I want to write the stories are still unfolding and sometimes I wait a while so I can tell a more complete story. This brisk cold weather is perfect to run in so I’m taking advantage. My point is that as I become busier, I will probably be doing more half hour run days. On Sundays which happens to be today. After I do resistance training for two plus hours. I still go home and run but I do the full hour. You would think it would be harder to run after lifting weights for two hours but its not. It actually seems to be easier. But all in all, I’m continuing to run every day because I like the results. The 12 pac is starting to come in. I’m starting to see my side obliques but I admit it’s been difficult to develop my lower abs. Which means either I’m not targeting them effectively enough in my workouts or I need to lose more body fat. It’s probably a little bit of both. Keep in mind that with bodybuilding in this sport your main competition is yourself. You don’t need to compare yourself to other people. Whether it’s your exercise routine, nutrition or supplementation it’s all about learning about your body a seeing how it responds to what your doing. When you find what works for you and tune it up like a classic car. 

What I didn’t get to say yesterday is that 2022 for me was a year of turbulence it was definitely a challenging year. At the same the time as far as personal growth goes. I think it was possibly the best year of  my life. Though I still have a way to go I feel like I’m becoming the man that I want to be. Every obstacle that was place before me I have been able to find a solution to overcome it. I sometimes think “am I just now getting to the good part of my life it sure took long enough”. In the past year some unbelievable, incredible, marvelous happened for me and to me. No matter what happens going forward no one can take those experiences away from me. I just wanted say that those human connections and interactions are one the most valuable things in this life. We’re put on this planet to help each other. I want to help those who I can because I have people that have inspired to do that. It can be unexpected but you can run across that person that is the catalyst that serves to propelling you into who you are supposed to be. It may not go in the way that you think it should and you will with out question face adversity. I don’t just believe I know for a fact that there is a greater reason that we on this world are tested. I said a while back in this blog that I wasn’t going away. You see that I kept my word I’m still here with you. I don’t  know how far I will get within the music business it’s a difficult terrain, but like I once said before as far as what I am capable of doing, I don’t feel like I’ve even scratched the surface yet. When I do reach my potential the platform is not going to matter. When I’m operating at my peak performance great things will happen. As we start a new year but continue on our journey, I will continue to build upon this foundation. To those who are wondering yes, I do have access to my full catalog and it will re-emerge at the proper time. At this point in my life, I know this music production is what I’m supposed to be working on and I’m so excited to do just that. I’m going to be able to bring all the different techniques that I’ve learned and developed over the years together and create some interesting soundscapes. You will see and hear it won’t be too long from now I Promise. I wanted thank anyone that has taken the time to stop by and read my thoughts. But the real special thanx goes to the Silkys who are the main inspiration of my content creation. I’ve been thinking of ways to show you my appreciation. When I get my music factory back in 100% operation there will be plenty of song dedications. Before that I may create a temporary playlist as a page on this site. Like a prelude to good vibes silky smoove mixtape radio @night. I feel good about what the future has in store, partially because the future is what we make to be. I will be in regular contact in one form or another. If you want to, I welcome you to stay tuned. Allow me to say this one more time. Good night and pleasant dreams no matter where you might be, land, air, space or sea. I wish all my Friendz Love, Joy, Happiness and Success in the year 2023 =)