I was tossing and turning just a minute ago, and yea [not yeah], I should be trying to sleep right now, but I had this idea and I just had to blog about it immediately (Katie, you know what I mean). Actually this idea occurred to me last night while I was reading a [...]
Quotations of an excellent song by a somewhat well-know artist (mewithoutYou) aside, Saturday was a pretty cool day. I woke up just after noon, did some baking, made a kick-butt salad, had a decent chat with a cool neighbor and learned I like the canceled TV series “Arrested Development”. The baking was particularly [...]
In a few moments of excitement for the upcoming Ireland tour, I bought a few Skype goodies, including a Skype Pro subscription and SkypeIn phone numbers in both Wisconsin and Belfast. I got a little less than I had bargained for, unfortunately.
It’s been a fantastic past few weeks. I’ve gotten plenty of time away from the cubicle, and I’m learning a lot about myself. I’ve been writing music, finding faith, meeting people and losing weight. Also, we traded Aer Lingus ~$1250 for three plane tickets to Ireland. Sweet.
One of the last things I did before becoming a poor traveling musician was to spend part of my final salary paycheck on one more Windows-on-Mac product: VMWare Fusion. My day job requires me to use some Windows apps (at least until Microsoft cranks out a Universal Binary version of Office this fall). [...]
After going part-time at work (yeah, so much for paying off the student loans), I’ve been traveling more playing music with the Katie Nelson band. I sure like not being at work, and since the rest of the trio is a bunch of health nuts, it became an excellent opportunity to take a look [...]