Just messing with a stop motion app.

I’m on a five day weekend. If I can’t get the vocals done for RPM this weekend then they ain’t never getting done.

Five day weekend: FTW!

I’m worried about the Bruins.  I have been for a few weeks now.

They just don’t look all that good.  Not as bad as October, but still infinitely worse than November and December.  They play like a bored .500 team, not like Stanley Cup contenders.  It’s almost like they expect to be able to turn it on when they need it, but they needed it two nights ago against New York and got shut out 3-0.  They have an alarming tendency to tank against bad teams.  The majority of their losses have come to teams with sub .500 records.  Last night they beat a bad Montreal team, but they blew a 3-1 lead in the third period and needed a shoot out to win the game.  The third period is supposed to be when they dominate.  Not so last night.

Now to make matters worse, we’re seeing injuries pop up.  Nathan Horton was supposed to be out with a mild concussion, but that was weeks ago and now they are talking about him possibly being out for a long time.  He did not join the team on the six game road trip that started last night.  I’m starting to get nervous that the mild concussion is much more serious than they told us.  What if it’s Crosby-esque and he’s out for months?  Add to that Rich Peverley leaving the game in the third last night after a knee on knee hit from former Bruin, and runner up in the tallest guy in the league race to Zdeno Chara, Hal Gill.  Who knows how long he’ll be out.  Hopefully not long, but what if it turns out to be weeks?  We need these guys. 

The trade deadline is in a couple of weeks.  Do we now have to fill Horton and Peverley’s rolls as well as fill the holes we had prior to the injuries?  Do we have anyone in the farm system who can either come up and help or be used as trade bait?  The answer to that one is no.  A big resounding no.  The depth that management has raved about in recent years appears to have disappeared. 

Rick Nash is supposed to be available for trade.  Do we go all out to get him?  Do we have the assets that Columbus will demand in return for him?  Will his salary handcuff us cap wise? 

So many questions.  So few answers.  I’m nervous.  November was so dominant that we all said they could coast through the remaining games and still finish in a good playoff spot.  That may be true, but the confidence has taken a huge hit and it may not matter if we can’t get things straight before April.

Go Bruins… please!

I’m trying to explain the concept of a vow of poverty to my step son. (in terms of Jedi Knights) He’s having a tough time with it.

His exact words were, “That’s stupid!”

That-a-boy!

Please forgive me for this one.  I’m a little giddy.

My RPM Challenge this year has been done entirely on my iPad.  I started the 10th song last night.  Everything so far is just drums, bass, and keyboard parts played using the built in iPad instruments.  The big question for me was, will I be able to successfully record my guitar and voice? 

As of this morning the answer looks to be yes.

I bought a Jam iPad audio input the other day and this morning before work I took it for a test drive.  My headphone amp was already running through my mixing board so I just plugged the mono out from the board into the Jam and then plugged the guitar into the headphone amp (without bothering to actually tune it first) and crossed my fingers.

It worked.

I was able to record a guitar part for each sub-section of the song.  This years project can now officially continue.

  RPM 2012 Work in Progess #8 by Robertjames1971

Jeff Beck, showing up some of his guitars.

Just listening to him noodle is unbelievable.

Awesome.

I’ll say it again… I am the luckiest man alive.

Every now and then I mention a series of events that my friends and I put on called Game Night.  That’s where a group of us get together and use playing board games as an excuse to visit with everyone.  Game Nights weren’t always game nights though.  The original version of was an annual event called Anti-Valentines Day.  At the time we were all single, and two of us had just gone through painful break ups.  Anti-Valentines Day was meant to be a symbolic flipping off of all the happy couples in the world and it was celebrated at a bowling ally.  We’d bowl a few strings and revel in the fact that we weren’t among those lame couples celebrating a make-believe holiday.

That’s all in the past now.  Those days are long gone for me.

All I want to do today is hold my wife’s hand and smooch her and be mushy and let everyone on Earth know that I am head over heels in love with the most beautiful, charming, sweet, witty, brilliant woman alive.  Just the fact that she keeps me around is proof that I am the luckiest son of a bitch who’s ever lived, and the fact that she actually married me just blows my freakin’ mind.

I love you Jennifer,and I am so happy that you are my Valentine and I want the whole universe to know it. 

Happy Valentines Day