Laissez les bon temps router my friends! Today (well, technically yesterday) is Mardi Gras. Back when I lived in Louisiana, this meant staying up late to see the parade. Now, it means getting drunk off my ass. Strange how times change...
So obviously I'm a tad inebriated right now. Funny how a lot of my posts on this blog are alcohol-induced. My stepbro made an offhand comment 4 years ago about how you're the opposite of yourself when you drink. This kind of rings true to me since I feel a lot more social and easygoing with a couple H-bombs and beers in me.
Tonight I went out with Jenny, Habibi, Taylor, and two of Jenny's friends (Morgan and Lee). I had hung out with Morgan and Lee twice before, and one of the times Lee and myself jammed on a couple tunes. Both of them are really cool, and I hope to hang out with them many more times in the future. Speaking of guitar......
Lately I've been wanting to record a lot of shit. I asked A-dizzle to send me a song he had been working on so that I could listen to it, and hopefully in the future contribute to it. Playing guitar by yourself is like masturbating... sure it feels good, but in the end you're still just jerking off. I need to start playing/collaborating with some other people. I feel like all of the stuff I've been working on in my lessons will pay dividends once I start applying it musically. Maybe I need to learn a couple of other instruments so I can produce stuff by myself.
Welp, I should probably end this blog post right now. I could go on for awhile about various things, but work is a-callin and I need to answer that call pretty soon. 'Night fellas!
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
For the past month and a half, i've been without my desktop computer. my harddrive bricked sometime in december, and until february i've just been lazy and haven't wanted to fix it. well, my computer speakers are connected to that computer, and all my music is on one of my other harddrives. the result of this is that i havent really listened to much music in the last two months or so. i only have so many cds in my car, and the radio plays the same 5 songs over and over. i'm starting to realize just how much i miss having my music
I asked Jenny recently if she would rather be blind or deaf, and she said she'd rather be deaf. My initial answer was deafness as well, but the more i think about it the more i'm not sure. life is a lot easier for deaf people (i'd imagine), but you'd never hear music or sounds ever again in your life. i'd probably still rather be deaf, since most of the things that i enjoy doing besides listening to music involve sight (tv, video games, looking at stuff). it definitely makes me appreciate my hearing a lot more
hopefully i'll have my music back sometime before the weekend (assuming i'm not sent another DOA harddrive from newegg)
anyway
I asked Jenny recently if she would rather be blind or deaf, and she said she'd rather be deaf. My initial answer was deafness as well, but the more i think about it the more i'm not sure. life is a lot easier for deaf people (i'd imagine), but you'd never hear music or sounds ever again in your life. i'd probably still rather be deaf, since most of the things that i enjoy doing besides listening to music involve sight (tv, video games, looking at stuff). it definitely makes me appreciate my hearing a lot more
hopefully i'll have my music back sometime before the weekend (assuming i'm not sent another DOA harddrive from newegg)
anyway
Sunday, February 15, 2009
another weekend has come and gone... and yet again i dont feel rested enough to go back to work. i really need a weekend where i dont do shit and just relax
Ben and his fiancee Mary Helen came into town this weekend, so me and Jenny went and hung out with them on Friday. went to the pluckers all the way in round rock (dunno why we went that far out, but it was kinda nice to go to a location i dont normally go to) and caught up. it's awesome catching up with those two, as i consider them really good friends. it's also kinda surreal... you definitely notice how much you have changed and how much other people have changed. Ben is a much different person than he was in high school, as am I, so it's strange to talk about old high school stories.
went to valentine's day dinner at Starlite downtown (right next to Cuba Libre), and had an extremely delicious meal. 4 courses, all with wine pairings. The highlight of my meal was the beef tenderloin... soooooooo good. Afterwards, we came back to the apartment and watched Once, which was a lot better than I was expecting. I made quite a few purchases this weekend too... bought a new practice amp (Roland Micro Cube) on thursday, a t-shirt from banana republic that was on clearance, and a $140 pair of running shoes (hopefully no more shin splints). it really makes working worth it when you're able to make these kinds of purchases without having to save a lot of money beforehand.
not a whole lot else going on. this week i'm in training on tuesday/wednesday, so yay for a semi-vacation those two days. today i've just been watching survivorman on discovery channel. i need to grab some food... i'm thinking Zen.
Ben and his fiancee Mary Helen came into town this weekend, so me and Jenny went and hung out with them on Friday. went to the pluckers all the way in round rock (dunno why we went that far out, but it was kinda nice to go to a location i dont normally go to) and caught up. it's awesome catching up with those two, as i consider them really good friends. it's also kinda surreal... you definitely notice how much you have changed and how much other people have changed. Ben is a much different person than he was in high school, as am I, so it's strange to talk about old high school stories.
went to valentine's day dinner at Starlite downtown (right next to Cuba Libre), and had an extremely delicious meal. 4 courses, all with wine pairings. The highlight of my meal was the beef tenderloin... soooooooo good. Afterwards, we came back to the apartment and watched Once, which was a lot better than I was expecting. I made quite a few purchases this weekend too... bought a new practice amp (Roland Micro Cube) on thursday, a t-shirt from banana republic that was on clearance, and a $140 pair of running shoes (hopefully no more shin splints). it really makes working worth it when you're able to make these kinds of purchases without having to save a lot of money beforehand.
not a whole lot else going on. this week i'm in training on tuesday/wednesday, so yay for a semi-vacation those two days. today i've just been watching survivorman on discovery channel. i need to grab some food... i'm thinking Zen.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
jesus, the week is only halfway over??!? that long ass day of work yesterday really sapped my energy. that, and my lack of coffee this morning
so, here's a boring story: my mom gave me a heart rate monitor for my birthday a couple years ago (i had asked for it). It's one of the ones that you strap to your chest, and then there's a watch that displays your HR. The back of the watch (the part that touches your skin) is metal, so i had assumed that the thing on your chest passes some signal to the watch through your body. on some of the cardio machines @ the gym, they have a heart rate monitor that you put your hands on and it passes some current across your body to figure out your heart rate. recently when i've been going to the gym i've been wearing this thing. on the cardio machines, i noticed that even without my hands being on the machine's monitor, the machine still picked up my heart rate (and pretty accurately). i was like uhhh wtf is going on. so today i've been wearing this HR monitor just to see how many calories i burn throughout the day. i turned my electric guitar and amp on, and heard beeping. apparently the thing that straps to your chest is sending out a wireless signal, and the watch (and everything else) is just picking up that signal. the moral of this story is, don't wear a heart rate monitor if you want to play electric guitar. the end.
off to watch lost and spend some time with the gf.
so, here's a boring story: my mom gave me a heart rate monitor for my birthday a couple years ago (i had asked for it). It's one of the ones that you strap to your chest, and then there's a watch that displays your HR. The back of the watch (the part that touches your skin) is metal, so i had assumed that the thing on your chest passes some signal to the watch through your body. on some of the cardio machines @ the gym, they have a heart rate monitor that you put your hands on and it passes some current across your body to figure out your heart rate. recently when i've been going to the gym i've been wearing this thing. on the cardio machines, i noticed that even without my hands being on the machine's monitor, the machine still picked up my heart rate (and pretty accurately). i was like uhhh wtf is going on. so today i've been wearing this HR monitor just to see how many calories i burn throughout the day. i turned my electric guitar and amp on, and heard beeping. apparently the thing that straps to your chest is sending out a wireless signal, and the watch (and everything else) is just picking up that signal. the moral of this story is, don't wear a heart rate monitor if you want to play electric guitar. the end.
off to watch lost and spend some time with the gf.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
welp
so i had a blog that i updated semi-regularly back in my freshman year of college. it was a good way to cope with/talk about that crazy, uncomfortable, and awesome time in my life. now that i've started work, it kind of feels like i'm back in fall semester 2004. i'll try and write some thoughts and ramblings in here every now and then
lotsa things to write about... i'm sure the more important stuff will be written later. today, i worked for 11 hours. 10am-9pm. fucking awesome. although i guess it wasn't too bad, from 6-9pm i was @ UT teaching students how to use labview and do data acquisition. really fucking weird being on the other side of one of those things. regardless, i'm exhausted. sucks that i'm not getting paid overtime either... salaried job = fail
sunday night, jenny and i went and saw benjamin button. truly a fantastic movie, although i might be a little biased since the main setting for the movie is new orleans. there was one quote that stuck with me: "there are no rules to life." it really puts things into perspective. there isn't any set path for us to follow. the definitions of success and failure are simply a widely accepted viewpoint, and not necessarily correct or right. live life how you want to live it, and not how anyone else thinks you should.
i love my acoustic guitar, and the way it fills my entire room with sound when i play it. sometimes i want to just stay up all night and play... but bedtime comes early.
oh well
lotsa things to write about... i'm sure the more important stuff will be written later. today, i worked for 11 hours. 10am-9pm. fucking awesome. although i guess it wasn't too bad, from 6-9pm i was @ UT teaching students how to use labview and do data acquisition. really fucking weird being on the other side of one of those things. regardless, i'm exhausted. sucks that i'm not getting paid overtime either... salaried job = fail
sunday night, jenny and i went and saw benjamin button. truly a fantastic movie, although i might be a little biased since the main setting for the movie is new orleans. there was one quote that stuck with me: "there are no rules to life." it really puts things into perspective. there isn't any set path for us to follow. the definitions of success and failure are simply a widely accepted viewpoint, and not necessarily correct or right. live life how you want to live it, and not how anyone else thinks you should.
i love my acoustic guitar, and the way it fills my entire room with sound when i play it. sometimes i want to just stay up all night and play... but bedtime comes early.
oh well
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