Got a new thinkpad and was sick all week

09/27 Saturday

Penni had to work. I slept late and copy my music library to my new Thinkpad. I did a little C++ stuff out of the book I orders.

09/26 Friday

Raining all day, Still No-Gas/long-long-gas-lines. Penni and I watched the First Presidential debate. I cracked the Compiz-fusion all the way up on my new laptop, it was sweeet.

09/25 Thursday

Scott's power was cut off due to none payment. No practice. Rainy.

09/24 Wednesday

I remoted into CRMC to finish last CCSM install. Scott called off practice with a sore throat. There was a Big loaning company bail out in the news. There were gas outage everywhere. Wooo! My foot Casaba arrived in the mail.

09/23 Tuesday

very very sick. I called sick to work and slept to 11am, then napped on the couch all evening. Installed Ubuntu on G41. The build in wireless worked great. Penni brought home a pizza. Watched family guy and the office crashed at 11pm

09/22 Monday

I covered afternoon billing for the SysAdmin . My new g41 Thinkpad arrived. I started feeling sick, coughing, headaches, fever, (Wooo) so practice was cut short. I took some medicine and went to bed really early. I woke up regularly Coughing.

9/21 Sunday

Scott texted me and canceled practice.

9/20 Saturday

I slept late and did not go to the Atlanta Linux fest. Penni and I ate breakfast at Izzy's got groceries ate zucchini cheese and chips emailed teacher about system pause issue with Linux

A gig at New Brookland Tavern, a monstrous 8x10 cabinet and Monarch models for weird confirmation

Friday 09/19

Covered Dana, I secured emailed some star balancing to a outside auditor. My 20" PST5 crash/ride was delivered. Got a shower and went to the gig at the New Brookland Tavern. We met Aim Low there. They were really cool and took pictures for us. The new 20" Crash/Ride The band after us Atonementz with a Z were really good.

Thursday 09/18

Woke up early and Covered Dana. I make a monarch model to catch and some weird confirmation and dropped then in a database for my boss. Practiced and tore down for the show Friday.

Tuesday 09/16

Day off got Rejected totals from hospital commercial payers. Walked for 15 talked about The RZA Bobby Digital project with Nikki. I ate at carrabas with Penni and then order a 20" paiste PST5 ride/crash cymbal.

Monday 09/15

Emailed marriage Certificate. Printed out a legal form for fair gig. Walked a lap during lunch. Did a GotoMeeting webinar to install a CRMC desktop. Sent out the month end reports. Bought 18" Remo pinstripe floor tom head. Emailed Scott information on Galaxy personal monitors. Went practice Scott called late from the music store were he bought a monstrous 8x10 cabinet for 1000 bucks. We worked on running keys and electronic through it.

Sunday 09/14

Got new fridge installed Ate too much pizza. Went to practice worked on a sound check version of growler song Scott had a funny story about a date with girl who thought 7x7=45 and did not know what the word 'epic' meant.

chrome 18 inch tom arrived, message from Scott about 9/11 and Created a icon for the disable touch pad button

Sept 13th Saturday

Slept late. Penni tried strawberry Pocky and hated it. Created a icon for the disable touch pad button and put it on gnome-look.org. I checked my other gnome-look content and my scores seem to have gone up. Wooo. We watched shin-Chan on the laptop with Penni.


Sept 12th Friday

I ate lunch with Boss and SysAdmin at Migales. I Bought SysAdmin lunch for working in the ClickOn Balancing. I covered the Hub while he worked on it. Drove home pass long line at the Gas stations. Took a shower and then Penni and I went to buy a new refrigerator. we looked at Sears and Best Buy. we opened up a sears card and put the refrigerator and extended warranty on it. Penni found a new piano teacher and bought a piano bench. we got groceries and then went home. On the way home we saw all the gas stations were out of gas. I ate some chips and zucchini queso. crashed at 1am

Sept 11th Thursday

Walked during lunch while listening to Muse, I like them a little better now. There was a 10 gallon minimum on gas purchases at the gas station, Was able to fill up. I received a funny text message from Scott about 9/11. Q: "Why is my stomach so messed up?" A: "You probably ate an airplane packed w/ terrorists, like that building did 7 yrs ago." That is good writing. At practice we wrote an Synth Arp part for the end of the growler song. Scott wanted a cliche double bass drum riff at the end.

Sep 10th Wednesday

I changed shirts walked at lunch and ate a grilled chicken salad afterwards. my Bosses boss wants me to install the SSI CCSM emulator for CRMC. I listened to Karate stuck in traffic on the way to practice, I Though about of the old day getting Pizza at Mama Lena's with Traci, living in cheap dirty apartment with 3 roommates and being righteously lonely. Sad music was better then. Scott and I figured out how to cut off synth patchs with midi board at practice, high fives all around.

Sept 9th Tuesday

I ate showmars with Miss A and sysAdmin. There was no practice.My chrome 18 inch tom arrived, I fixed zucchini queso and chips for dinner. Penni laughed at the mighty B cartoon really hard, it was cute.I tried installing sooper looper on the laptop from source and failed. I need to hit some forums and see what I did wrong.

Sept 8th Monday

I gave Scott an electric blanket for his dying cat. I ate alone at Nikkos and walked a lap. I got way too sweaty, I am going to start packing a extra shirt for lunch walking. We worked on growler song at practice. I changed the angle of my bass drum beats. It felt a little weird. I looked at G41 thinkpads online.

Played the Charlotte Underground again, GoToMeeting, and post-apocalyptic land squid

Sept 6th

Took Penni to get her oil changed and get groceries. I skipped breakfast and lunch. I ate zucchini salsa for dinner and watched naruto with Penni. later we took a walk. Penni crashed and I watch at weird discovery channel thing of the SPORE video game and post-Apocalypse evolution. There were ton of squids; giant elephant-like squids and smart monkey-like squid, on land. nice.

Sept 5th

Tested a new CHS communication tool. GoToMeeting enables us to share screens and desktop control. Nice. After work i shower and was a ready to leave for the space when Scott's calls. he was late getting the u-haul trailer and was freaking out. i called around and found a uhail store that was open late. Scott picked me up and we got the trailer, loaded up and still made it to the gig on time. Penni brought our a friend from work to see us. The Red Letter Blue, who are awesome guys, mysteriously did not show up. We did OK. The last band was out of chaos. There was a lot of drunken frontman raps about stabbing the missing band and a song being "good-nuff-to-bent-over-and-ra pe!" (There were actually a few ladies at the gig, I hope they appreciate rape humor...) Order of Chaos gave us all the door money. They are good guys.

Sept 4th

I added more ideas to the Db and walked again for lunch. The CPCC tech desk suggested that I try the Firefox 3 Agent changer plugin. It worked and I was able to submitted lab03 with Linux. I fought with Penni about wanting to going to see David stein at tretmont in stead of sending time with her. Fun. We practiced. Scott went to see David at tretmont and I broke down by gear for home early and fought with Penni some more. fun fun fun.

Sept 3rd

I added my own projects to the db. i ate a quick lunch and walked a lap during lunch Scott did not like the ASCAP idea . I copied the gig video to a thumb drive for 4 for Scott. we practice with just a strobe light on to practice working in terrible lighting. After practice i went to the grocery store and bought Penni some dates and myself Some zucchini for a late dinner of Chips and Zucchini salsa.

Sept 2nd

I ate Nikkos. The booby trap i set for the sysadmin worked . Kursty was coughing all day. I met with james about db Penni texted me at lunch that dhe misses misses her naps. I learning today that the Repubs nominated a female Alaskan governor for Vp. wow. Perhaps the Dems should have nominate a redneck SC gun store owner. Alienating your base is very punk.

Sept 1st

Work when to and Practice. There is now a gay bar called the garden and gun club beside the practice space. Let hear it for the Charlotte hardcore scene. Ha!

covered sysAdmin, lappy fsck error, and more C++ crap

Friday 29

Covered sysadmin chair with no issues. i ate lunch with Carlos and tzoua, picked up a sandwich for Miss A, After work I picked up groceries and worked on homework fixed the qadb filters. I changed the townhouse air filter and crashed early.

Thursday 28

Covered the system desk, the CTP report bombed at 4am due to a "/" character in the text file from star. nice. ate alone. Scotts cell phone was ringing straight to an error message. I went to the practice space and worked on my left bass drum foot for 2 hours to clean up my double bass drum licks.

Wednesday 27

Today was me and penni's 1st date 3 year anniversary. Shadowed the sysadmin again. Lunch with the Special Project crew at salsaitas bought Penni roses and qdobas. Scott canceled practice worked homework bought 1000 page C++ book for 9 dollars. yay internet.

Tuesday 26

I shadowed the sysadmin and later used flex time for coffee and Comic book run. I bought a metal door hole kit and installed the new deadbolt. later i ate cheese and crackers and fixed the Linux Lappy with a simple manual fsck (just like the error message said, duh...), I sent picture from the rock hill gig to Scott and worked on C++ labs.

Monday 25

Rainy, ate Nikkos alone. The Month End Report dropped in my lap at 2pm, finished them an 5:15pm. I showered and Picked up Penni's meds, then went to Ruby Tuesday. It was full of loud kids. My LinuxLappy had some weird fsck error. I backed it up to my external drive.

Played The Money in Rock HIll / Started C++ class

Sun 24th

Woke up early got breakfast Penni felt embarassed about drinking too much at the show. We drove to statesville for to have dinner with my parent and give my dad his birthday presents. I got him two metal lined mugs. He wants to giving me his old plumbing van to gig stuff. We got back in charlotte at 7pm. Penni drove me for a milkshake while we were waiting for Scott. Penni thanked Scott for helping me with her after the gig. Penni swore off drinking that evening.

Sat 23rd

Got a call from Scott about the show at The Money In Rock Hill around noon. The owner sold the venue Scott called the new owner and he was unsure if he wanted to have the band play from 8pm to 2am or from 8 to 11pm and have a DJ playing dance music from 11pm to 2am, (It was the latter). we played last, Included the new translation song, had to cut a few songs, and packed up asap to empty the venue before the DJ started. Penni had too much to drink and Scott was cool about it and helped me get her to the car. During the unload a taught bungee cord from my hand truck popped off and Scott was nail in the back with the metal hook. Ouch. I got Penni Home and She fixed herself some Mac and Cheese and crashed on the Couch. I carried her upstairs to bad around 3am.

Fri 22nd

Ordered a Pizza Hut Pizza online. Their Pineapple pizza is great. Reported a bug submitting C++ homework on with Linux Browser.

Thu 21st

Wrote a function to generate a list of missing employee pictures. Practiced the set. Scott was late. The cpcc homework page did not like my browser.

Wed 20th

Had lunch with miss A at subway. Fixed bug in dept project database associated with empty record sets. Walked during my break. Penni went to docs. Worked on C++ homework. I accidentally deleted a sample from the Roland 202 box in the dark. Panic.

Mon 18th

Received a praise email from my boss's boss's boss's boss's boss. yay. Kursty sprayed me up in front of a pregnant woman about not wanting/liking children. My friend took a picture of himself with Rick Flair. We Worked on a new "transition" song.

Played the Rock Shoppe in Fayetteville

Saturday 16th

Penni woke me up at 10am and then again at 11am. We got lunch at Harpers got Groceries and then Napped to 3pm. Penni, Scott and I went to the keg and Cue to get the Door money from illi-citizen from the last gig we played with them. We played pool for a while and then a lame old-guy-fight broke out at the bar and we split. Penni was a little upset and then we hit a Cat with the car on the way home. Nice. Crashed at 2am.

Friday 15th

Took 8 PTO for a gig in Fayetteville. Woke up late, 10:30am so i would be OK driving late late that night/the next morning. showered coffee picked up CD envelopes and got to the space at 2pm to break down the drum, Scott showed up late with the u-haul trailer, we loaded up and left the space at 3:30. driving down to the gig there was one lunch break, one gas break and one bathroom break in a flooded Wendy's bathroom in the middle of no where. got to the Venue around The Venue , The Rock Shoppe, Has really great murals Painted all over the walls. We played first and got a good response from the Army guys from the nearby base. The last band were army guys that were deployed in Iraq and could kill us 99 different ways. They had a song called 'busted lip' about "pulling someone in a Man Dress out of the rubble" funny stuff. Scott was arguing with a drunk woman who was good friends from Tammy Wynette and Allen Jackson and we giving us career advice. we left the venue at 2:30am. we missed a ramp on the way back and stopped at a gas station to buy a map. the Gas station clerks point us in the wrong direction, but we were able to use the map to pick up a highway in Dillon SC to get back on track and get to the practice space by 6:30am After unloading the gear, Scott looked like death. I stuck my head in the water fountain to wake up, drove home, showered and crashed at 7:30am.

Thursday 14th

United Way Parking Lot Carnival event, A full day of sweating, running drop cords, and carrying around Tables. There were wasps all over the food area so I Ran to Wal-mart to some Wasp-Spray, The lines of people were looped around the building so just grabbed a gyro from Nikko's. My new Coworker helped out a lot. My sampler volume knob failed at practice that night and had to re-adjust all my patch volume for the gig on the next day.

Monday 11th

Picked up lunch from Nikko's and wrote the Tile Guy a check for the completed work. I ate all of Penni's Cheetos before practice, she text me at from home, "WHERE R MY CHEETOS!". . We Recorded 2 rough tracks with my Linux laptop for get a click tempo and ideas for overdubs. Picked up milk and cookies for Penni after practice. While i was in the Grocery store on the phone with Penni she start doing the "I heard a noise / I think someone is in the house". Thing, scaring me to death. I had Chips salsa for dinner.

Sunday 10th

Slept late picked up Qdobas for Penni browsed home depot for lacquers. Sat up practice space after gig argued with Scott about the 28 inch clarity.