Jeff.
Congrats on coming up with a killer riff.
If it sounds good it is good.
Analysis and notation is an after-the-music process.
You’ve had some great help and found solutions - of which even more are possible and there is no ‘correct’ notation style for some bars with a weird count.
You could do one bar of 16 / 8 and a bar of 13 / 8 which would work. Strange but possible. One bar of 18 / 8 then a bar of 11 / 8 (which fits the pattern / counting of the riffs two sections. There are more besides.
As soon as I read your topic and the responses I was put in mind of a post from several months back. I had to go trawling through my archives. It is about Silent Lucidity - Queensryche. It follows odd time signatures through the song and riff. Topic here:
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