Today on Sam Plays The Ukulele

I magically learned how to strum while not playing the ukulele for several days. That’s nice.  

I’ve been going through a lot of old Staples Singers albums trying to find some good ones to learn as part of my Chicago Blues mandate, but a lot of them are difficult to adapt to a single stringed instrument. 

Also

COUNTRY ROAAAAAADS
TAKE ME HOOOOME
TO THE PLAAAAAA (keep strumming till you find the right chord) AAAAAAA (deep breath oh thank god) AAAACE
I BELOOOOOOONG 

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I haven’t run in something like two weeks (I

I haven’t run in something like two weeks (I really should date stamp these) and my running playlist somehow got removed in the last sync, so it was an interesting time today. My makeshift playlist: 

Elton John - Yellow Brick Road
Blitzen Trapper - Fur
Simon & Garfunkel - Fakin It
The Pogues - Tuesday Morning
Jolene (the Slowdown) - Dolly Parton 
Mumford & Sons - The Boxer

On weights, two sets, 10 pound weights:
10 Standing Bicep Curl each, left and right
10 Standing Side Bend each, left and right
10 Shoulder Raise each, left and right

Plus one set:
15 Goblet Squats (15 pound weight) 

Datestamp 1.31.2017

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Sometimes to make my job more entertaining I pretend the

Sometimes to make my job more entertaining I pretend the corporation I’m researching is the baddie on Leverage. 

This firm is a “management consulting firm and corporate service provider” which frankly sounds like they used to employ Eliot to murder people on behalf of corporate interests. 

The last person I researched is CEO of an insurance corporation but also on the side owns a random parking lot and is on the board of a boat-sharing business. I’m guessing the latter two are some kind of intricate drug smuggling operation. (The boat-sharing business has an initiation fee, which is normal for upper class clubs but nevertheless always sounds super sinister.)

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