Not much to talk about today. I have a lot of meetings and have just enough time to heat some ravioli and get to another. I have a lot of deliverables to get done as well as make some job offers. We have been doing a lot of interviewing over the past three months and it is exhausting.
Today I plan on playing guitar again but at least I will be playing Xbox tonight. I want to tear into that Splinter Cell Game! And I want to try the Call of Duty or whichever war game Nic has.
I am so ready to not be here for three days but I still have too much work to do yet so I need to get my head in that realm and pace myself till I can be gone.
We will probably seeing the crafts fair that is the prequel to the July 4th festival in Hoffman Estates given good weather that is. That should be fun. Maybe see some good artistry and hopefully some decent baked goods. What’s a crafts fair without nuns selling tarts?!
Friday, June 25, 2010
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Tired....
I didn’t play guitar last night. Although I did go home and had energy to expend on the family, my 3 year old sapped it all out: and not in a fun way. She already can speak for every second she is awake during the day but last night she had a little extra! She didn’t get to go out of the house much due to the storms and humidity so she was cooped up all day and no park visit and plus the time I get home is the time she starts getting keyed up anyway for some reason.
So I was fine with her energy level up until just before dinner when she began to lose her mind about any little thing. I know I usually have a shorter fuse than most but last night twice I had to stop her and get her to calm down and stop being a brat! Poor thing had so much energy pent up she was busting. I felt bad for her but at the same time that shrill loud mouth little varmint was occupying the entire house with her operatic vocal. She was taken by the mother to bed a little earlier than usual as she (my wife) over heard me mention to the daughter about how I may be on 48 Hours telling my story soon.
I did contemplate the guitar after they went to bed and the house was quiet, but it was just too good to sit there and record new music onto my laptop instead. Then I laid back on the couch and put in yet another Harry Potter DVD and drifted off.
I have had the interest to begin playing again and have looked at new equipment up to and including PA Systems even. They are extremely cheap now given the new technologies available. I mean for $400.00 I can get four microphones, two speakers with stands and an average wattage PA with cables. That’s well over 75% lower than a few years ago.
The reason this route is good for me is because, well…I am old. Therefore I am not playing Megadeth and Anthrax anymore. Not out in public anyway. Most of the music I will be playing will be either acoustic or blues and will not require extra volume to push out the vocals. The music should be at a manageable level to begin with as also the venues will not be Royal Albert Hall but Spunky Joes Eat and Greet and that type of clientele is right up my alley.
I haven’t been out much at all well, actually at all since we have been in Illinois, to hear any music. I know a few places have music from the ads I hear on the radio and the occasional business lunch I have at a local spot so maybe I should find one that is along our genre lines and take a few hours one night to hear the kids from the area. I mean I am in the spot where some big name folks started like Cheap Trick. And those guys still hang out in Rockford and play a lot up here. My wife and I have talked about doing that every now and then and just havent done it yet.
So anyway, trying to keep my mind busy with something other than worry and work and I do miss playing and singing.
So I was fine with her energy level up until just before dinner when she began to lose her mind about any little thing. I know I usually have a shorter fuse than most but last night twice I had to stop her and get her to calm down and stop being a brat! Poor thing had so much energy pent up she was busting. I felt bad for her but at the same time that shrill loud mouth little varmint was occupying the entire house with her operatic vocal. She was taken by the mother to bed a little earlier than usual as she (my wife) over heard me mention to the daughter about how I may be on 48 Hours telling my story soon.
I did contemplate the guitar after they went to bed and the house was quiet, but it was just too good to sit there and record new music onto my laptop instead. Then I laid back on the couch and put in yet another Harry Potter DVD and drifted off.
I have had the interest to begin playing again and have looked at new equipment up to and including PA Systems even. They are extremely cheap now given the new technologies available. I mean for $400.00 I can get four microphones, two speakers with stands and an average wattage PA with cables. That’s well over 75% lower than a few years ago.
The reason this route is good for me is because, well…I am old. Therefore I am not playing Megadeth and Anthrax anymore. Not out in public anyway. Most of the music I will be playing will be either acoustic or blues and will not require extra volume to push out the vocals. The music should be at a manageable level to begin with as also the venues will not be Royal Albert Hall but Spunky Joes Eat and Greet and that type of clientele is right up my alley.
I haven’t been out much at all well, actually at all since we have been in Illinois, to hear any music. I know a few places have music from the ads I hear on the radio and the occasional business lunch I have at a local spot so maybe I should find one that is along our genre lines and take a few hours one night to hear the kids from the area. I mean I am in the spot where some big name folks started like Cheap Trick. And those guys still hang out in Rockford and play a lot up here. My wife and I have talked about doing that every now and then and just havent done it yet.
So anyway, trying to keep my mind busy with something other than worry and work and I do miss playing and singing.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Just a quick shot of useless information from me...
Haven’t been here in ages but I may start again when I have time. I haven’t been able to write creatively for quite some time now. All my writing has been technical and hardly personal at all. When I have written personally it has been posted elsewhere.
So I may try to make this a habit again to collect my sanity back through writing again.
Let’s see if my mood changes but I plan on playing my guitar tonight. We’ll see anyway. Got a cool autographed picture from my boss of Paul Reed Smith yesterday. That capped off a great father’s day weekend that spanned two weeks! Mel and Nic thought fathers day was the previous week. I didn’t know either so its not a slam, but I got to stretch my stuff over two weeks! HA!
I racked up! I got some beef jerky, movie money, cash, heartfelt cards, texts and calls from my kids in Tennessee, DVD’s, a cool ass coffee cup and an Xbox game I was hoping to play (Which I haven’t played yet but plan on doing it soon.) Hugs and kisses and just all around good stuff. So much I can’t remember and confuse it with my birthday gifts which were awesome too!!!!! I also had Chipotle for dinner…yes…Chipotle…it wasn’t free this time, I think they reached their 300 limit on giving out free food to us. HA! Long story.
They tried to get me a bike I wanted but it wasn’t in stock. It was a cool mountain bike with University of Tennessee Colors and logos.
So anyway, there you have it. I’ll try to keep writing and hopefully something may interest the occasional folk to some degree and read all of it. HA!
So I may try to make this a habit again to collect my sanity back through writing again.
Let’s see if my mood changes but I plan on playing my guitar tonight. We’ll see anyway. Got a cool autographed picture from my boss of Paul Reed Smith yesterday. That capped off a great father’s day weekend that spanned two weeks! Mel and Nic thought fathers day was the previous week. I didn’t know either so its not a slam, but I got to stretch my stuff over two weeks! HA!
I racked up! I got some beef jerky, movie money, cash, heartfelt cards, texts and calls from my kids in Tennessee, DVD’s, a cool ass coffee cup and an Xbox game I was hoping to play (Which I haven’t played yet but plan on doing it soon.) Hugs and kisses and just all around good stuff. So much I can’t remember and confuse it with my birthday gifts which were awesome too!!!!! I also had Chipotle for dinner…yes…Chipotle…it wasn’t free this time, I think they reached their 300 limit on giving out free food to us. HA! Long story.
They tried to get me a bike I wanted but it wasn’t in stock. It was a cool mountain bike with University of Tennessee Colors and logos.
So anyway, there you have it. I’ll try to keep writing and hopefully something may interest the occasional folk to some degree and read all of it. HA!
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