I was just looking back through all my old music, and noticing how many songs I’d done each year over the last few years. Just 1 in 2002, But it jumped up to 7 in 2003, and 5 each in 2004 and 2005. But this year, only 2. And one of those was a collaboration, … [Read more…]
Lately, it seems like I never have enough time to do everything I need/want to do. My energy to do the things I have time to do seems much less as well. I'm waking up late, I'm dragging fairly regularly, and I always feel like I'm one step behind. Am I trying to do more … [Read more…]
I finally did it yesterday. I bought the 17″ MacBook Pro I've been gearlusting after all these weeks. (Which hopefully means I'll stop cluttering up this blog with all these MacBook postings. *laugh*) I'm already feeling a bit of that buyer's remorse after making such a mojor purchase. Thinking about all the other things I … [Read more…]
Okay, I'm not actually going to Mars, but my name is! As a donor to and member of the Planetary Society, my name is being included on the DVD to accompany the Phoenix lander to Mars in 2008. It will contain a lot of Mars-related material, including messages from Carl Sagan and Arthur Clarke, Orson … [Read more…]
Don't you hate it when you're having a really good dream, and you're just getting to the really good part of that really good dream, and your alarm goes off…
For all the grumbling I've done lately about how bored I am with the uber-minimal techno that's all the rage in Berlin lately, I just sat down and wrote a big, steaming slice of it myself. As much as I contradict myself there though, I've also gone on and on about following one's muse, not … [Read more…]
Though I usually avoid black Friday shopping like the black plague, I nonetheless found myself at the local Guitar Center first thing this morning and just couldn't resist buying myself a little early Christmas present while I was there. So I picked myself up a new Jackson guitar. I've been wanting to pick up a … [Read more…]
I had hoped to finally get some proper rest this weekend after my lack of sleep throughout the week last week, but it never seemed to happen. I was up before 8am both Saturday and Sunday. I was up until around midnight Saturday, falling asleep on the couch watching Dirty Jobs sometime between 11pm and … [Read more…]
I got a little scare from my iPod this morning when it appeared to have died. I went to use it in the car this morning, and it wouldn't boot. It would show the black boot up screen with the Apple logo, and then the screen would get all garbled and it would shut off. … [Read more…]
In order to get the freelance project I mentioned a couple days back done in the time frame the client wants, and thus cash in on that nice incentive/bonus, I'm working some pretty long hours this week. Up past midnight the last two nights, and out of bed by 5am the last two mornings. Working … [Read more…]
I got to spend all afternoon playing around with an iPod Nano & iTunes, and I got paid for it! One of our clients wanted to ship the iPod to one of their clients loaded with a bunch of their podcasts on it. Thing is, they weren't really podcasts, but just a bunch of random … [Read more…]
I've got a freelance gig that I'm starting this week, pretty basic front-end coding stuff, a dozen or so static HTML pages with consistent layout/page elements. Originally, the code was to be delivered on November 27th, which would have given me more than enough time to get everything done. But, they really want the code … [Read more…]
Apparently I fell asleep in a really bad position last night, because my back is giving me all kinds of problems today. Every time I go from a sitting to standing position (or even just bend over) I get a really painful spasm in the middle of my spine. I was hoping it would go … [Read more…]
Yeah, Robot Chicken can still make me smile, laugh even, so things must not be as bad as it seemed last night. Still feeling pretty down, just not so hopeless any more. (Oh yeah, Dogma is cracking me up pretty well right now too.) I will say though, that with two of my three siblings … [Read more…]
Yep, definitely snowing again. I could stand here and shake my fist at the little white flakes and curse the onset of winter, but what would that really serve? May as well accept that it's that time of year. I'm feeling in a rather wintery mood recently anyway. *shrug*