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I’ve Had It

That’s it.  I’m done.  Screw you, winter.

I shoveled out the whole driveway yesterday, as well as the fire hydrant in the front yard.  When I finished the street was more or less clear too.  Just before going to bed I looked outside.  There was a two foot snow bank at the end of the driveway.  Apparently a plow came by and tried to widen the already wide road. 

I got up a little after 5:00am and went outside to shovel the snow bank.  It was 34 degrees out.  The snow was melting a little, and it was drizzling.  Never in my life have I shoveled heavier snow than this morning.  I was already hurting from all the digging last night, but this was just insult to injury.  There was also some slush on the two cars so I cleaned all of that off too, and I dug out the fire hydrant once again.

At 7:00am the kids and I left the house.  The car was covered in a thin layer of fresh snow.  Are you kidding me?  I cleared it off again.  If you’re keeping track, this is now three times that I’ve cleaned off the car, and I haven’t even driven it yet. 

On top of all of that crap-ola, while Jen was driving to work this morning a rock hit her windshield and cracked it a little.  Again, are you kidding me?  Kiss my ass, winter!  She told me it isn’t cracked badly, and it’s safe to drive.  If it starts to grow, as cracked windshields often do, we’ll have to replace the damn thing. 

Enough already!  I want Spring back RIGHT NOW DAMN IT!

Oh, and did I mention there is more snow in the forecast for tomorrow and Tuesday?

Winter Blues

As we sit here getting another foot of snow dumped on top of us, and I as finish up work knowing that I have to go outside and shovel the driveway, I took a look at my random pictures set on Flickr.

These two pics came up…

I hate winter more with each passing moment.

Snowing… Yet Again

This winter just won’t leave us alone.

Here are two views across Canobie Lake, just as the storm was starting. The first pic comes complete with an ice fishing hut.

And now the obligatory front and back yard pics. It is snowing like a frozen end of the world right now. At least I saw a woodpecker in the back yard this morning.

I hate snow. I hate winter. Mother nature is a big fat stinking jerk face.

Interface Issues

I bought this in 2011 to mix my ADAT projects to my laptop. It came with a DAW that fried all of the drivers on the lappie making it 100% useless. I managed to salvage it and eventually the interface worked.

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When I switched to Mac I bought this little guy, which has served my interface needs ever since.

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Last night, however, the thing started adding mountains of noise to any hot signal. I think it’s dying. That left me with three options.

1. Give up on this year’s RPM.
2. Spend a couple hundred bucks on a new interface.
3. Risk using the old Lexicon.

I chose #3. First I backed up everything on my MacBook. Then I prayed to the home audio gods and plugged in.

It worked.

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Sick

I left work sick today. I managed to record guitars for two song and vocals for one before work. I also wrote what should be the chorus to song #13. It may end up as an entry on songfight.org. We’ll see.

For now though, let’s just try to not be sick, m’kay?

Uh Oh

When I woke up this morning I said “good morning” to my beautiful bride.  She responded by saying I sounded like I had a stuffy nose.  What do you know, thinks me.  I do sound like I have a stuffy nose.  I don’t feel sick though.

Fast forward a few hours and I am sitting at my desk wondering if I am going to make it to lunch time before going home sick.

Yippee.

RPM Challenge – Day 11

As February 11th draws to a close I have a couple of updates to mention.

The 12 bar blues, aka song #6 has a rhythm guitar track.  Two of them, actually.  Song #8 has a tiny bit of rhythm guitar, although I am not sure if I like it or not.  

The song count is up to 12 now as I just put together bass and drums for a dumb, fast rocker.

Two weeks and three days to go.