rayj wrote:

dontfeartheringo wrote:...but the rest of his Nu Metal band is saying "DUDE! THOSE DRUMS SOUND SO MUCH BETTER THAN YOURS DO!"

I get an entertaining visual here...hopefully, they said it in unison...

That would have been worth the whole day of listening to him play so horribly.

Alas, no. Just one at a time.

I would have really gone for the Sophoclean Chorus in a big way, though.

I just spent a week in Barbados. It's kind of weird and somewhat nice to be back.

Ben and I are moving at the end of the month, to Alameda. We were just approved for the apartment that we wanted, after having the rental agency initially choose another applicant and the owner of the duplex advising them to reconsider us.

We had our interview with the owner on Saturday.

This comes on the heels of having both of our cars broken into and, early this morning, waking up to the sounds of dripping water from our ceiling. We learned from our roommate that the neighbours upstairs have a hydroponic pot-growing set-up, so I assume that it sprung a leak.

This means that I can now look for a job without questioning where I will be living, I can schedule the rest of my possessions' shipment out here (hello! leather sofa...), we'll have a garage space that may be large enough to accomodate my boat, and I can have orchids again! ORCHIDS! And Ryplalis, and Epiphyllum, and...

Gah! I am so happy!

great eurovan! (that's what they are called in america) i like those a lot, out of my price range, however.

i also acquired a new van recently. same make, different, older model.

1987 vw vanagon Wolfsburg "weekender." i love this van. 140K miles (225K kilos). it's already had the heads and valves replaced and transmission rebuilt; these were notorious for the originals bunging up. paid $2,200 for it, the most i ever paid for an automobile.

so couple of weeks ago my department moved to a new physical location. before the move i had a cublicle. now i have an office. the funny, in a rather sad way, thing, is that i have LESS privacy now. the walls in this building echo like crazy, so much so that it seems the cubicle walls i had before kept more sound out and in than my office walls do.

the fact that my new short boss is in the adjacent office on one side and his boss is in the other adjacent office leaves me very little peace or privacy.

I've just moved over to London from Chicago. Getting all of my gear through customs was shit-city and to make myself smile I walk around and try to find funny shop signs. Today I found this masterpiece in a mortgage lender: Fair Deal Tomorrow.

Today I made the best typo of my life when I accidentally referred to the acclaimed classic rock group Grand Fuck Railroad.

A quick google tells me that although this typo has happened before, there is not yet a band called this. Naturally I am seeking to rectify this situation immediately.

tommydski wrote:Today I made the best typo of my life when I accidentally referred to the acclaimed classic rock group Grand Fuck Railroad.

A quick google tells me that although this typo has happened before, there is not yet a band called this. Naturally I am seeking to rectify this situation immediately.

Classic.

Hmmm.....I bought a new bass. Looks exactly like this:

except for the fact that it is a 1983 MIJ Squier (see my post about this on the Tech Room board). It plays and sounds great, just needs some new strings. May eventually swap out the neck for a legitimate Fender Precision neck if my budget allows it.

Public Speaking 101 tonight at 7:30. Practice for "The Jesus Lizard" Halloween show later, then I'll probably come home and watch "Unforgiven" while enjoying a beer. My night is golden.

Mandroid2.0 wrote:Ben and I are moving at the end of the month, to Alameda. We were just approved for the apartment that we wanted, after having the rental agency initially choose another applicant and the owner of the duplex advising them to reconsider us.

It feels like a fat dude has stepped off of my chest. A big relief.

Ben

Snowblinder wrote:Hmmm.....I bought a new bass. Looks exactly like this:

except for the fact that it is a 1983 MIJ Squier (see my post about this on the Tech Room board). It plays and sounds great, just needs some new strings. May eventually swap out the neck for a legitimate Fender Precision neck if my budget allows it.

Public Speaking 101 tonight at 7:30. Practice for "The Jesus Lizard" Halloween show later, then I'll probably come home and watch "Unforgiven" while enjoying a beer. My night is golden.

Nice bass! I was the bassist for a Jesus Lizard Halloween band once. It came in handy when we played with Qui earlier this year.

Ben