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44F tonight and clear, going down to 41F
I did some googling yesterday and found that, within walking distance from here, there's a place called, Elgym Studios, and among other services, they DO rent out rehersal space at $25.00 per hour!
When the idea to rent some space first came to me, I was like, No, cuz then I'd need to buy a laptop!.. and I can't afford that!
And then I rememebered, Oh shit! I already own a laptop!
It's this little compact machine, but it's running windows, and it's here in a drawer, in the flat!
So, if I put Audacity on it... it should? have enough processor to handle recording vocals?
And that's when I looked and found Elgym Studios... just five blocks from here.
So, I'm gonna try to call them this week and line up some kind of a walk through or whatever.
The thing is though, at $25.00 per hour...
Let's say I only did vocals there for two hours every Saturday... which isn't a long time.
That's $200.00 per month!
If I stayed for three hours, on two of those Saturdays, that'd be $300.00 per month.
So, two to three hundred more a month is what I'm expecting to pay for an 07 unit.
And in an 07 unit I could also, easily put in 10 hours of vocal time per month!
So... what this says to me, is that it's worth it to upgrade to an 07 unit... for the freedom to record vocals at home.
Yesterday when I was doing laundry, I stepped out of my flat to hear a very loud, bassy movie blasting from the livingroom of the 07 unit next to me.
I could hear it clear as day... but inside my flat... absolute silence!
So, that confirmed for me that the bedroom that's between her livingroom and my north wall, really IS an effective sound barrier!
In theory, any corner unit; 01, 03, 04, or 07, would work the same.
However, the 03 & 04 units are on the south end of the hall where the passenger & freight elevators are at, so they get all the traffic passing by them, and in that stairwell.
They also have front doors directly across from one another, meaning that if I was singing in an 03, they might still hear me in the 04, or vise versa, through the doors!
At the other end of the hall, where there's no traffic, the doors to the 01 & 07 units are offset from one another by a good five feet!
But the 01s are the most expensive units so they're out!
Which means that it HAS to be an 07 unit!
So until one comes open, it makes the most financial sense to stay here in the 06, and pay an extra two to three hundred for rehearsal space.
I got to thinking about how the address of the building itself is 7 N. Polt Avenue... and that it would be cool to wind up in, say, 707, so my address could be;
Patrick Melody
7 N. Polt Ave, APT 707.
Aurora, IL 60506
And then I got to thinking how when I first moved into this building with Sabrina, back in 1997, we were in unit 703.
But later, in 1999, I lived here by myself in unit 1702.
And both those numbers, numerologically, add up to 10.
The one I'm in now, 1106, only adds up to 8, but it's been known from the get go, that this was only to be temporary.
Just a place to take refuge, and a way to get myself into the building... to upgrade later.
And so, one would assume whatever unit becomes my permanent home here, for the next 7-10 years, will add up to 10... cuz that's the numerological precident that's been set!
And since I now know that upgrade must be into an 07 unit... the only two possibilites are, 307, and 1207.
So, it'd be very fitting if I went from 1106 to 1207.
In other words... if I were to wind up in 1207... then 1106 would seem like a pretty obvious foreshadowing of that!
I mean, I'm not very big into numerology?.. but occasionally it does catch my attention.
Way back in 2017, when Dad & I were at the cemetery, and he was showing me the gravesites of our relatives, I noticed that his dad died in 1966, and his mom died in 1988.
And Mom had just died the year before, not in a double digit year, but at the double-digit age of 77.
And I warned Dad then, half-jokingly, that he needed to be careful, cuz he was gonna turn 88, in December 2022!
And in October and November of 2022, I warned him again, like, You have to be really careful between December 3rd, and New Year, because you'll be 88 in 22!
You need to make it to 89, in December of 23!.. to avoid the double-digit curse! But if you do!.. then you're safe until you turn 99 in 2033!
And he wound up breaking his hip at the DMV on FRI DEC 02, of 2022!.. and turned 88 the next day in the hospital, having gotten hip surgery that same day!
So the double digit curse got him!.. but he did manage to survive into mid-january of 2023, so his headstone does not reflect that.
Still though... Mom was 77, and he was 88!
In 2044, I'll be 75... close enough to my mother's death age that... the double-digit curse could claim me!
But if I make it through 2044, then in 2055, I'll be 86... close enough to my father's death age that... it'd get me for sure!
So, I either have 19 years left, or 30 years left... but either way, it's probably only 20 good years left.
And I'd kinda rather drop dead in my apartment of a widow-maker at 75... some Sunday morning after making my coffee... than in a hospital at 86, after some battle with lung cancer or some bullshit!
Who knows?.. maybe apartment 1207 is where I'll eventually be found dead at 75!
I could be on the verge of moving into the last place I'll ever live!
Weirdly, however, that does not bother me right now!
I'm actually a lot more bothered by not being able to record vocals, here in this studio unit, in the here and now!
And I guess that's because when I do go... I want to have gotten all these old songs properly produced... and digitally AI restored all kinds of other stuff from my past, and Brian's past, and the family's past, like old films & videos and whatnot.
Like, I'm not really worried about death itself?.. I just don't want to die until I've put together a really nice package, for future generations, of what our lives were about, in our time!
I heard these stories growing up, about different ancestors on both Mom and Dad's sides of the family... and some of them weren't all that removed in time from us!
Like, so & so was a musician, or a poet, or an actor.
And I always felt like, What the hell?.. Where are the poems? Where's the sheet music, or the shitty recordings?
In my family, at least, my generation... my siblings and I, are the first to have had the ability to record audio and video of stuff like that, so I think it's unacceptable to let that all just vanish!
I want to leave behind a nicely currated website or something with, like, the best stuff!
The stuff where we really shined.
So that the many descendants (my siblings have 14 kid's between them, and now one of them has two kids of her own) can know the lore!.. see & hear us in real time!.. and read the synopses!
Cuz it IS this story of this kind of diaspora... this bunch of tribes that will trace their roots back to one group of six siblings who all came from one house in Aurora, IL, on Jackson street!
And, of course, I'm the only one who didn't have any kids, but... that's why I'm the one who has the time to do all this before I shuffle off the mortal coil.
And that's how I get remembered in their different family lineages.. as the historian brother of their forefathers and foremothers.
This sick album comes down to us from Patrick the Lesser, brother of Crone Colleen, our matriarch.
I'd be referred to as, Patrick the Lesser, to differentiate myself from my grandfather, who was also named, Patrick Melody.
But I'm not, "the second," so... he's Patrick Melody the Greater, which unfortunately makes me, Patrick the Lesser.
But I'm fine with that.
It's in keeping with the themes of my life!
But getting back to numerology...
I do feel like the appearance of 7 as the newly important number in my life, has some significance.
I mean, everybody knows, "lucky 7," and it's probably the most popular favorite number in the western world... with, 3, I think being the most popular in the eastern world.
But I've LONG been a 9 person, who has a secondary affinity for 13.
I decided a long time ago that 7 was for the masses, but more distinguished people can see that 9 is actually cooler!
It's not prime, like 7, but it's still odd... unlike 8, which is everywhere!
I feel like 4, 6, and 8, are really pedestrian numbers that show up in art and architecture all the time, because they're easy!
3, 5, 7, and 11 are the primes, so they're cool!.. and among them, I think 11 really gets ignored... but it IS the first double-digit, so... to me, that's impressive!
12 is obviously lord of the numbers... in a way that 10 is very jealous of!
10 wants to act like it's the lord of numbers, because, HEY!.. it's a base 10 system, right?
Nothing's easier than counting by tens!.. ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or more!..
And the metric system fell under it's spell, and have been singing it's praises for a couple centuries, but... ten is kinda stiff and rigid!
It's only divisible by 2 and 5!
You can't even divide it by 4!.. what?.. No!.. That's miserable!
12 is just organically way more elastic, because it's divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6!
I mean, come on!.. what other number can you divide into halves AND thirds?.. it's so versatile!
And if you divide a circle into twelve sections, and subdivide those sections into 30 degrees... you're able to divide that 360 degree circle by... 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 18, 20, 24, 30, 36, 40, 45, 60, and 90!
10 can never hope to match that shit!
BUT... I said that I've got a thing for 13.
And the reason that I do... is because it's prime... but it's also kinda built into the astronomical framework of the calendar!
Each astronomical season is thirteen, seven-day weeks!
The year is exactly 13x7=52 weeks... and one day... or two days on leap years.
But that's damn good work for two prime numbers!.. thirteen and seven, working together, to get us within a day or two of a perfect orbit!
We really should have 13 months, each of exactly four weeks, or 28 days!
And if we did... we'd only have one gap-day at the end of a normal year... or two gap-days on a leap year!
And I feel like that be a lot more intuitive to people than the current system!
I think the calendar is the sphere where 12 is overstepping it's bounds!
12 is great for clocks, and eggs, and measurements of space... but when it comes to our orbit around the sun... That's 13 months, baby!... like it or not!
Okay, so... I've laid out why, through most of my life, I've been partial to 9 and 13.
I've always had a healthy respect for 7 and 12, of course, because I'm a maintenance guy who works every single day of my life with 12 on the tape measure!
The imperial foot of 12 inches.
But I also live by the 7 day week like everybody else on Planet Earth!
The 7 day week goes back so far into the past, nobody will EVER know when, how, or why it was established!
Personally, I think it's because the earliest naked-eye astronomers from the stone age figured out pretty quick that dividing the year into 7-day units is really the only way that makes sense.
But you know, there's also the 7 classical orbs... Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Moon and Sun... that naked eye astronomers could see, moving about, against the background of the fixed stars.
And both those things pertain to the heavens!
Seven orbs, and a seasonal journey that is most easily divisible by seven day units.
While, here on the ground, you just don't see seven!
You see flowers with six petals, or eight!
Animals have four limbs... hands and feet have five digits.
But you just don't see seven popping up anywhere in nature, on the ground!
So it would be perfectly natural to assume that seven is the number of the heavens!
And before seven got it's modern identity of being, lucky... it had the older identity of being, MAGIC!
So... I got back into magic, last year, as a response to the foreclosure crisis... and that is when 7 popped up again, with this old, 7 N. Polt building being the place to go!
And now that I'm ready to upgrade, I'm seeing that the only viable option is an 07.
And the outside corner of the livingroom floor plan for the 07s... is shaped like a 7!
And the block that the old house is on, is also shaped like a 7!
We used to say it was L-shaped, but, if viewed on a map with north at the top... it's actually a 7!
The original address of that house was 247 Jackson Street... before things changed in 1929.
And while that did have a 7... the numbers, 2, 4, and 7 also do add up to 13!
Stranger... the NEW address, of 463, also adds up to 13!
And when I lived at Autumnwood... that was building 1317!.. apartment A.
So there is a precedent for 13 in my address lore, outside of Melody Manor!
And that 17, in 1317, mirrors the 17 of 1702, here in the tower!... which is more sevens!
So... I'm tellin ya man!
1207's gonna be the unit, if the old precident for this building holds, and it adds up to 10 again.
But if not, then it's almost certainly gonna be 1307!
I mean, the more I think about it... 1307 is really THE coup to pull off here!
Because!..
Ya know!.. the card calendars all about 13 and 7... and I lived at 1317... and Melody Manor added up to 13... and this is the seven building....
Okay, I just double checked, in the elevator, and we do have a 13th floor!
Technically, because the 3rd floor is the mezzanine (currently closed and unused) the floor numbered as 12, is the true 13th floor... and the floor numbered as 13, is the 14th floor.
It's like, B, 1, 2, M, 3, 4, 5...
So, it's a toss-up between 1207 and 1307!
1207 preserves the precident of my units in this building adding up to 10... while being the TRUE 13th story of the building!
1307 attaches the number 13 to my records, the way 1317 did.
I guess if it were up to me... I'd pick 1307!
In my ideal future... I move into unit 1307 this year!.. and that's my address until I die of a heart attack in 2044 or thereabouts.
I mean... there are numerological cases to be made for me dying in 2045 at 76, or 2046 at 77... but it's in that time frame!
In the mean time, while I'm waiting for either 1207 or 1307 to manifest... maybe it's a good thing if I spend a few months involved with Elgym studios?
Maybe I'll meet some other local musicians?
It wouldn't even be weird to imagine that they're old farts like me, cuz... there's a lot of us around.
But it'd be nice if I met some young farts too... and maybe got to sit in on some of their recordings sessions, just... as an old fart there to observe and offer a few suggestions?
I dunno!
It may have some potential for busting me out of this solitude a bit.
Old hermit musician mingles with his local peers a bit?
Perhaps, a necessary side-quest to follow, before disappearing into my 07 unit forever more!
Maybe it leads to me helping to produce people up here in the tower?
I dunno!
2025 is still wide open right now!
But it's March, so the story of this year is about to start unfolding.
And as it does... I'm gonna be paying a little more attention to the numbers.
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