My heart bleeds as I try to rip it out of Ireland. I’ve been here three weeks now, but that’s nearly irrelevant–I was attached in the first few days.
I decided last night to pull out the sketch pad and oil pastels and flesh out some ideas I had for my upcoming EP. I hadn’t really touched pastels in a serious way since elementary school, so it was a messy experience. Thanks to some tips from roommate Mike, the product was much [...]
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 [...]
I’m being chastised plenty by the loyal, but I want a Mac in the worst way. I’ve been a PC man my whole life, but both Microsoft and the open source community are having trouble competing with the sexiness of Mac. Ok, ok, open source isn’t even in the game. After spending [...]
I’d just like to throw out a general gripe about the way Wordpress.com is handling themes. I was a little dismayed this afternoon when I took a look at my wordpress blog and found that the colors were all messed up. I’m assuming that this has something to do with a theme update. I don’t [...]