Found myself at the keyboard, kind of void. I think it is because I like writing about minutiae, but there are a lot of enormous things happening. Me choosing my next pencil compared to global economic upheaval is a proton-level tiny thing.

That proton-level tiny action is what I need to do to start the ball moving at all. Doing the particle-level things gets me to the atom-level things and so on.

I am at the end of the pencil I have been using. It is an F, as in hardness, not failing grade. It is the center point between an H and B pencil, so it is the Goldilocks pencil. Not too hard and not too soft. They seem to last a little longer than a pencil on the B side of the scale.

They have a nice "scritch" level, meaning there is a little friction when you write on the paper. You get a sizzle sound while you write, which I am into.

For the next pencil, I am wavering between a carpenter pencil or a really soft B pencil. The large shape of a carpenter pencil is so satisfying for a drummer, I think. After an F pencil, a 6B would feel like writing with a Sharpie. Still deciding.

A quick review of last week's music and these three clearly stood out in my mind. I don't know how that Swamp Dogg album got in my list but thanks to past me for somehow finding that. Tranzmitors and Fire Engines too. Totally happy those got on my list somehow too.

If I was smart, I would make a note on how I come across music. A good idea but giving future me even more tasks maybe not such a good idea.

- Tranzmitors Busy Singles #punk
- Swamp Dogg Total Destruction To Your Mind #soul
- Fire Engines The Hungry Beat #post-punk

I am a big fan of dill. Dill is pretty rare to non-existent in a Japanese grocery store. If there is any, it is pretty expensive. I always keep my eye out for seeds when we are somewhere that sells plants but they never have it.

So I was stoked that I actually found a pack the other day. Yes I know I can order them online but there is a thrill in the hunt.

Planted them and after three days, they sprouted. Very stoked to have fresh dill soon.

The music that stuck out to me from last week are the Uriah Heep album and the Eric Dolphy album. I think I am in the mood for heavy music from around 1970 right now. Stuff like that and Deep Purple for example. It's probably more of a needing to hear sound that isn't compressed or digital.

For the Eric Dolphy one, I searched all the artists in the title. Found a bunch of albums to check out in the future. Finding ways to find more music is as important as finding music sometimes. Also just a cool record. I keep going back to Eric Dolphy lately.

• Uriah Heep Look At Yourself #rock
• Eric Dolphy At the Five Spot, Vol. 2 [feat. Booker Little, Mal Waldron, Richard Davis & Ed Blackwell] #jazz

Woke up wondering, "If something can floor you, can something door you?"

Is door a verb like floor is a verb? I don't remembering anyone ever saying "something doored me". 

You could use it for things that block you that you just need the key to open.

Example: The key to the drum fill that was dooring me from getting to the end of the song was practice.