I got up at 9 on Sunday, sleepy eyed and groggy, glanced outside, and, to my surprise, it was snowing! Unbelievable! This must be the 6th time it has snowed this year! I don't remember it ever snowing more that 2 times in a winter, and that was long ago in my distant past when I was but a wee lad. Of course, I went back to bed, and, by noon, when I finally got up, it had completely vanished, hardly a trace of evidence left... what a tease...

I awoke to a lovely blanket of snow covering the ground this morning! I don't remember it ever snowing here as much as it has this year. We've had 4? different episodes of significant snowfall this year, and, the accumulation during one of those has not been matched since 1871! Global warming??

my band played our first show since i joined 6 months ago, and since they began workin' on their first full length a year ago, on saturday night. it was a little sloppy but we got good feedback so i think i was a success - you can never really tell what the audience experienced, everyone in the band makes small mistakes or you can't hear someone, or worse, yourself. this was my unfortunate fate that night - i couldn't hear myselft! i was practically playing blind the whole night! i was also freakin' nervous, the first time on stage after a lengthy break is always a bit nerve wracking, for me at least. we were originally slated for the second to last slot at 11, however, we found out the day of the show that we had gotten swapped w/ the band before us and were now on at 9:30. at first everyone was a bit peaved, this being rock 'n roll, egos can be a bit sensitive, but everything turned out ok. we actually got a much better response than the band we got swapped with (snicker, snicker). hopefully, now, the ball will start rollin' again and we'll be playin' out and possibly touring in the fall. it feels good to get back on the stallion that is rock 'n roll!

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This saturday my girlfriend and i had a great day yard-sale hoppin'. we scored a bunch of stuff for our new apts at ridiculous prices. I was thrilled to have some stuff for my new place. When i got home Jackie surfed the web for a min and then i got on. I shut my win box down to do somethin' on my mac - i lost my network switch's power adapter in the move, so, for the moment i'm swappin' boxes (sorry jason and scott, i'm gonna have a new another ip soon) to get online. when i rebooted my win box i got the dreaded 'system32/config/system' has been corrupted or deleted...' message. WTF, it was just runnin'... I... just... aahhhh!!!. Now, i believe i've encountered this before, but, probably more than once, however, i don't freakin' remember the details of gettin' thru this, nor, do i wanna remember those details. My days of wanting to know everything about how my computer works are over. i just want my system to work so i can write code in peace, and, work on music and graphics. This was quite frustrating, too say the least. Every couple of years it seems some catastrophe happens to my system and i end up starting over - passwords, music/video, personal/freelance work, other junk i've got lying around that i might want someday. luckily, i had my passwords stored in KeyPass (or, whatever the password storage software i've been using is called) on a USB stick. but, once again, a bunch of stuff is most likely lost. The last time something like this happened i told myself that i was done with window and intended to switch to Linux. well, that day never arrived... or, has it? This is the last straw, i'm done with windows. i'm lazy and don't like the mundane details of... well, anything. i'm a creature of habit and i like my work flow to be a habitual process, i like to intuitively know the steps without having to think about them, and, when my computer blows up, my whole world is shaken up. Now that i'm on a mac at work i'm thinkin' of gettin' another one for home, however, i'm not ready to buy a new home computer just yet, so, i'm switchin' to linux now... maybe...