Stuck in the Mud

I've been kind of stuck in the mud for the last couple weeks. I haven't had much inspiration and haven't done much musical practice. Everything has kind of come to a stand-still. I just don't feel like doing anything.
I am going to try and get back on track soon. I'm going to try several projects to get myself moving. Just doing stuff is the key I think.
I used to sit around hoping for inspiration to strike out of the blue and instantly reveal a vision of a masterpiece in its totality. I realize now that it doesn't work this way. Inspiration seems to hit people while they are working toward something.
With that in mind, my mission this week is to get myself moving again...but not in a way that I'm in a rut. With that in mind, I'm just going to work on putting together a generic blues song. Just record a simple I-IV-V chord progress and add an equally simple bass line. After I get that recorded, I may or may not try to throw some lead licks in there. That's all. Nothing fancy, but I've never done it before. Something easy, yet something of a stretch for me.
I've also decided to give setting up a computer recording another shot...mainly because I threw so much money at it. I can experiment with a sound card I have in the garage...see if I can take some of the load off my CPU and hard drive. It'd be a waste not to try and get it to work. I'm going to approach it a bit differently though. It's not the centerpiece of what I'm doing. In other words, I can keep goofing around with it until I get it to work. Until it works, I'll just keep using the trusty Tascam 4 track to record. I may even start my mixes with the Tascam and then move them to the PC for the final mix. The idea actually appeals to me...lately I've been kind of appreciating old (analog) technology. Something about analog is appealing to the ears...kind of the same principle that makes distortion so popular for electric guitars.
I have an 80's beast lurking under my bed...an 80's Korg DW-6000. I just keep it around because it was my first "real" musical instrument. It is in horrible shape. It will definitely need a new battery to charge the patch memory. I think the lowest key is also broken. However, I may make it a project over the summer to get it working again. It had a nice "airy" quality to it -- a lot of 80's keyboards kind of had this to my mind. The DX-7 was another "breathy" keyboard.
Funny observation, I have a Casio/Radio Shack keyboard that sounds slightly out of tune. Supposedly this shouldn't happen, but there it is. It only sounded "off" to me...someone with better pitch pointed out is was actually out of tune. I think in the 80's they had a lot less faith in electronic correctness than we do now. Why...there is actually slider on the 80's keyboard to adjust the tuning. There might be a similar function for the Casio, but it's buried below fifty levels of menus. My point--sometimes it's nice to just flip a slider and get to have to get out a tech manual and search for an hour.
I'm not trying to be a luddite...I'm just starting to kind of appreciate simplicity a bit more than I used to. That's it for this ramble. Peace out.