Said my wife to our cat:

“Good kitties write good algorithms.”

Without a doubt the funniest words ever spoken. I love her SO MUCH!!

I hear that Irene is a pain in the ass.

Hurricane Irene, I mean.

I usually don’t let weather forecasts bother me, but I am getting paranoid now.

Shopping list, for between now and Sunday:

• Flashlight batteries
• Maybe a new flashlight or two
• Candles?
• if(Candles)
  {
  Matches = 1;
  }
• Masking tape
• Bottles of water

I’ll update more if I think of more.

I may retract this statement at some point in the future, but for now I declare my ADAT 8-track to be a thing of the past. Ancient history.

Last night I started noodling around in GarageBand, playing a silly little electric piano noodle in 3/4. As of this morning, it is a complete song. I just uploaded it to alonetone and soundcloud.

I had to delete one older song, but I got the newest music onto soundcloud today.

Extended Business Hours by Robertjames1971

My free account there is now officially maxed out. I like the look of soundcloud. It’s neat to watch the waveforms as you’re listening. I also very much like that there is an iPhone app, although it does not seem to recognize sets. Odd.

I still much, greatly, hugely prefer alonetone though. The community is perfect. It’s made up of people who make music because they enjoy it. There is no desire for money or fame, at least not outwardly, just love of music. That’s perfect. Sure, I’d like a snazzier looking playlist to embed here, and I sure would love an iPhone app, but I don’t need them. Everything about alonetone is everything I could want in a music hosting website.

Got music of your own? Join alonetone.com.

Speaking of making music for the fun of it…

Jen may be going on an extended business trip in the near future. That SUCKS. Worse, she might be going on another not quite as extended trip too. That doubly SUCKS. I’m going to be missing my Lovey very much, and I won’t have anything to do while she’s away. I might try to fill up one of those days with an album-in-a-day project. I had never thought about such a thing prior to coming across this website. There are also occasional album-in-a-day pushes by groups of alonetone members. I have never tried to do that before. Maybe I will while I am missing my beautiful wife.

Getting stuck with the occasional 2nd shift night is a pain and I hate it and it’s bad enough in principle without trying to pin point a specific “worst part”.

But do you want to know what the worst part is?

The next morning when you have to get up at the normal time after having gone to bed much later than usual.

Yeah, that’s the pits.

Yeah, let’s go back to San Diego right now.

Can we go back to San Diego now, please?

More music.

What my 2011 RPM Challenge turned into, along with one extra song from the 2007 challenge that I used as a guinea pig in GarageBand.

Note: One of the songs is called Suite. Just make believe you don’t hear the HORRIBLE edits between the five different sections. I apologize whole heartedly.

Did you feel the earthquake?

Read this if you don’t know what I’m talking about.

I was driving home from my lunch date with my beautiful wife when it happened. I think. I may have actually been driving her back to the office at the time. Who knows.

I didn’t feel anything, but when I got to work (I’m second shift tonight… crud) a couple of people said they felt it. They said they could feel it in the floor and that the window blinds were rattling as they moved.

Weird, huh?

There will be more bad music either today or tomorrow. I just finished mixing the nine songs from RPM 2011. I still need to do some editing and mastering, and I decided to finish off one of the ancient left over songs from 2007.

I’ll post it all when it’s all done. Until then, I’m going on a lunch date with the love of my life.

Talk to you later.