After work tonight, sat down cracked a beer and flipped channels for half an hour. Ten seconds before I decided to turn off the idiotbox and head to bed I stumble across a show called "My coolest years" metalheads. And for the next hour i watched my life from the age of fifteen to twentyfour unfold through the eyes of others. I realized that what...
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I have decided to sell my jeep after the california trip and concentrate on the hotrod project. Between the huge payment and the unbelievable insurance bill I am spending $700 a month on a jeep that I won't be able to play with for three more years. I can buy the roomates old jeep for two months payments and if I can't keep that thing...
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wynnesome:
I don't think they will let me vote "often," but I suppose I'm free to get my votes in as soon after receiving the packets as possible...
I'm looking forward to seeing how the whole process works from this perspective.
I'm looking forward to seeing how the whole process works from this perspective.
I get to go to California for two weeks and make two months pay, and I don't even have to sell drugs or kill anybody! Goodbye credit card bills, forever.
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sky:
wow! sounds like a dream.
sky:
wow! sounds like a dream.
I never knew that the online gaming world was so evolved. I havent had a computer of my own since the apple 2c i had when I was 10. I have learned that all of my high school buddies play the same game. In other news, when entrusted with a friends pschotic, hyper aggressive parrot, NEVER assume that it is behaving. It is not. It...
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Well, chrismas was great, 6 degrees, sunny and we had barbequed steak and burgers for dinner. got world of warcraft and a neat little .22 revolver for loot and now I am spending even more time on the computer than ever, I swear I'm gonna go blind.
I finally have something worth updating about. Two days ago my local chairman comes up to me and tells me that my apprenticeship is over. this came as quite a supprise because it is like three or four months early by the calendar but I have apparently worked enough overtime in the last three years to knock a considerably amount of time off of the...
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The mighty hunters have returned... with nothing. they got froze out of the mountains. the heater quit on them and they had no water to drink because it all froze on them like 2 hours after they set up camp. makes me kinda glad I didnt have the vacation to go up and freeze my but off with them. a pity that all that effort...
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Ha, I got to go shooting today, this time just for fun with my buddy from work, Holmie. we bought a box of clays, cause the only gun he's got is an old shotgun, and after we messed around with the .22's and the revolver I bought for dad, we did some clays off of the side of the mountain, just winged them off into...
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wynnesome:
Thanks... well, the Simpsons, being TV, would be up for Emmys, not Grammys, right? I guess music for a TV show gets nominated for Grammys, but I'd be judging/voting for that on the basis of the music itself, not just cause it was in a show I don't like much either. It has its moments here and there I guess, but overall, not my thing. What I've seen of it has been times when I was hanging out with other people who liked it and were watching it. Not my choice.
Honestly there are things about the Grammy structure that I have no idea about, especially as far as like, the awards that David (chief engineer at the studio I'm interning at) has won. He's got walls of certificates for albums that he mastered that won Grammys, and he's also won several of the actual awards himself. Has the statuettes in his mastering room at the studio, pretty darn cool!
Basically, I'm not sure what categories the engineers actually share in the award for, when the song/album wins it, and what ones the music just wins and it happens to be something that the engineer worked on, so that's still cool. I bet when I send in the app and become and official NARAS member, that somewhere in the rules that stuff will get explained!
You know, I just realized, you probably mean "no Grammy for the Simpsons" as in Jessica and Ashlee... which goes to show you how little I even regard them, musically, when the tv show comes to mind first even in this context!
No worries, I can't say I think those and their ilk are deserving of any kind of artistic validation whatsoever. Maybe their engineers and producers, since albums by charting pop artists are often very big-budget and well-recorded, from the audio standpoint. I can't say about those girls' albums in particular, as I haven't listened to them beyond unfortunately hearing a single or two played here or there. But as for the "artists" themselves, no, no, no. No Grammy votes from me, nope, nothing of the sort!
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Honestly there are things about the Grammy structure that I have no idea about, especially as far as like, the awards that David (chief engineer at the studio I'm interning at) has won. He's got walls of certificates for albums that he mastered that won Grammys, and he's also won several of the actual awards himself. Has the statuettes in his mastering room at the studio, pretty darn cool!
Basically, I'm not sure what categories the engineers actually share in the award for, when the song/album wins it, and what ones the music just wins and it happens to be something that the engineer worked on, so that's still cool. I bet when I send in the app and become and official NARAS member, that somewhere in the rules that stuff will get explained!
You know, I just realized, you probably mean "no Grammy for the Simpsons" as in Jessica and Ashlee... which goes to show you how little I even regard them, musically, when the tv show comes to mind first even in this context!
No worries, I can't say I think those and their ilk are deserving of any kind of artistic validation whatsoever. Maybe their engineers and producers, since albums by charting pop artists are often very big-budget and well-recorded, from the audio standpoint. I can't say about those girls' albums in particular, as I haven't listened to them beyond unfortunately hearing a single or two played here or there. But as for the "artists" themselves, no, no, no. No Grammy votes from me, nope, nothing of the sort!
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wynnesome:
I'm in a better mood tonight, yes, thank you.
I resisted the cell phone thing till just recently, and I agree that many people use their phones many places they shouldn't. When I worked at places and people would come up to the counter, while still talking, and expect me to ring them up without their ever acknowledging me, like I wasn't even really there... THAT got me. I would usually stand and ignore them till they got off the phone. They would get all huffy and say to the person they were talking to "I'll be RIGHT back" in this indignant tone, and give me dirty looks. It was my sort of petty revenge, I guess. I like my phone now that I have it, but I really don't want to have to deal with the company. Like, look, I owe you X dollars a month, I will pay my bill, you just get it right and leave me alone!
I resisted the cell phone thing till just recently, and I agree that many people use their phones many places they shouldn't. When I worked at places and people would come up to the counter, while still talking, and expect me to ring them up without their ever acknowledging me, like I wasn't even really there... THAT got me. I would usually stand and ignore them till they got off the phone. They would get all huffy and say to the person they were talking to "I'll be RIGHT back" in this indignant tone, and give me dirty looks. It was my sort of petty revenge, I guess. I like my phone now that I have it, but I really don't want to have to deal with the company. Like, look, I owe you X dollars a month, I will pay my bill, you just get it right and leave me alone!
What a crappy week, I took the little brother shooting, and with the cheap old 30-30 I just bought he can just knock'em dead, but I hand him my thousand dollar scoped hunting rifle and he can't hit the broadside of a barn, on even the hillside. I'm gonna have to take him out again on thusday when he gets off of work again. We've...
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I made it to the junkyard today and I scored some pretty good stuff. I got a whole seat that looks really great and a new wing window since mine fell out when we drove the truck home.
In the morning brother and I are gonna go and sight in the rifles to get him ready for hunting season. I don't get to go this...
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In the morning brother and I are gonna go and sight in the rifles to get him ready for hunting season. I don't get to go this...
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no pictures of the truck today, but I get to go to the junkyard, whee! last time I went I got like $300 worth of restoration parts for $25 bucks. I'd love to make a find like that today since my backpay bonus is gone.
I need to see if I can make the computer box thingee shut off automatically at like 1:00 in the...
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I need to see if I can make the computer box thingee shut off automatically at like 1:00 in the...
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wynnesome:
I take it you mean staying up all night doing computer stuff instead of going to bed? Well, you could set it to automatically defragment or virus scan or something at 1:00am... that might kick you off, or at least remind you what time it is!
I know what you mean though. Even when I don't have anything particular to do on the computer, I can waste piles of time surfing around and so on. Moreso than ever now that I'm on this site! Groups, boards, photosets, oh yeah, can I lose hours! I run myself on way too little sleep anyway when I'm doing stuff I'm into.
Hey thanks for more gun comments and advice on my post. The 1911 wasn't anything like as smooth as the 9mm's I was shooting last time, but I don't have the experience yet to know if that's a characteristic of the larger caliber in general, or just that particular gun. As I said, it fit my hand fine and was comfortable for 50 rounds, but I could tell it would rub a blister if I did a lot with it, so it's not exactly the ideal gun for me. But it's nice to know that a .45 isn't too much for me, just for that little bit of "macho" that I still manage to have in me, girl or no.
The range actually has a Glock .40 that I'm sure I'll try one of these days. I haven't fired a Glock yet, becaue the Glock 9mm was already rented the other week when I methodically tried all of their 9mm rentals! So I don't have any idea if I get along with Glocks or not. I'm still in that process of trying any and every gun I can, to develop my own set of experiences and opinions about them.
Meanwhile I'm just bemoaning the fact that I only get to go once a week, and that ammo is expensive and limits how much I can do at once!
I know what you mean though. Even when I don't have anything particular to do on the computer, I can waste piles of time surfing around and so on. Moreso than ever now that I'm on this site! Groups, boards, photosets, oh yeah, can I lose hours! I run myself on way too little sleep anyway when I'm doing stuff I'm into.
Hey thanks for more gun comments and advice on my post. The 1911 wasn't anything like as smooth as the 9mm's I was shooting last time, but I don't have the experience yet to know if that's a characteristic of the larger caliber in general, or just that particular gun. As I said, it fit my hand fine and was comfortable for 50 rounds, but I could tell it would rub a blister if I did a lot with it, so it's not exactly the ideal gun for me. But it's nice to know that a .45 isn't too much for me, just for that little bit of "macho" that I still manage to have in me, girl or no.
The range actually has a Glock .40 that I'm sure I'll try one of these days. I haven't fired a Glock yet, becaue the Glock 9mm was already rented the other week when I methodically tried all of their 9mm rentals! So I don't have any idea if I get along with Glocks or not. I'm still in that process of trying any and every gun I can, to develop my own set of experiences and opinions about them.
Meanwhile I'm just bemoaning the fact that I only get to go once a week, and that ammo is expensive and limits how much I can do at once!
wynnesome:
Well, it was pretty easy for me to go for the Paul McCartney tickets being as he is such a particular favorite of my mom's. Not exactly something random I came up with or anything.
If your mom likes music, I think you can sign up for a weekly ticket alert with Ticketmaster, and then you'd know what was coming up, to maybe get her tickets for a cool show.
If your mom likes music, I think you can sign up for a weekly ticket alert with Ticketmaster, and then you'd know what was coming up, to maybe get her tickets for a cool show.
Well crap, I'm now broke again. The bonus lasted all of ten friggin' days. On the happy side, I've bought my little brothers chrismas present(I wont say what in case he snoops), a thirty-thirty(great deal!) and an engine for my 61 pickup. Got a ton of goodies for the engine too! If I put the thing together with all of the great parts I got...
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