Well, over the past couple of days ‘net access at home has been flakey at best. I think it’s a sign from the broadband god. “BUY YOUR ACCESS”, booms His voice. “But this is free!” “YOU’LL BE ABLE TO SEND FILES VIA IRC AND INSTANT MESSAGING PROGRAMS, IT’LL BE GOOD.” “Keep trying.”
Sunday Simon saddled up the Subaru and sped out of Sarasota
Simon’s fiance, Janice, flew down to help him pack and keep him company on the way back up to Winterpeg. And to take a little 1000-mile detour to Houston to visit her family.
Simon and Janice hang out with their last piece of furniture (which is, incidentally, now in my couch)
Everything was in that little car. Let me tell you, an Econoline 150 it ain’t. Things were packed in there so tight the windows were popping out of place.
Well, almost everything. Some stuff ended up back at my place.
Simon and Janice left in a hurry because they were late, and ended up arriving at their destination early. Figures! As I was doing a final check of the place before handing in the keys on their behalf, I discovered a whole bunch of dishes still in the washer. I offered to mail them to him, but he said Cam and I should split ’em up. Fine by me!
Ended up working pretty late tonight — till 7:30 actually — so I missed 1.5 hrs of Ultimate. Good thing we usually play for three. 🙂
George Acosta’s 5th mixed album on Ultra, ‘Touched’
Jeff lent me a double-disc mix set he picked up while in Boston last week — George Acosta’s Touched — and oh my god is it ever good. I just about went deaf in the car tonight. Even though I knew it probably wasn’t good for my ears, I just kept turning it up. I couldn’t help myself. It’s sooooooo good.
A while back my friend Scott in Regina sent me a burnt copy of one of George’s previous albums — I can’t recall the title of it right now, but I do remember it was trying to do the megamix thing — 22 tracks in 74 minutes or something like that. I wasn’t very impressed. It was a gazillion tiny little slices uber-trance, just enough time to get the taste of a song, but never enough time to actually enjoy it.
But “Touched” is completely different. Each CD contains just 12 tracks; the first disc is called “Epic Side”, and that’s completely what it is. It’s the one I had cranked in the car. In particular the first real track (Track 1 is a 40 second intro) is an absolute killer: Armin Van Buuren Featuring Ray Wilson “Yet Another Day” (Riva Remix). I’ve had this song stuck in my head all night. My other favorites include Driftwood’s “Freeloader” (Green Martian Remix) and (of course) Gouryella’s “Ligaya”. The second disc — labelled “Darc [sic] Side” — I can’t recommend it, but not because it isn’t good. It may well be better than the first disc. Problem is, I haven’t heard it cause I keep on playing disc one over and over again.
Anyway, buy it if you see it! It’ll make you tingly all over!
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It’s all in the Post-processing
Went to Siesta Key beach on Saturday! Took my camera with me, too, of course.
But because Cam beat me to posting the pictures, I thought I’d try something a little different for this post. You know, crop here, zoom there. Change things up a bit. Add a bit of a “non-married” touch. Think I succeeded? 😉
In other news, my friend Sue put up a blog! See on the sidebar, under “Pages I visit”? There’s a link called “Sue”. Click it!
Sue’s a great person who can sew like a mofo, doesn’t take crap from anybody, and can make the steak sauce they serve at the Japanese Village. She’s also a recovering STSer (something her, davin, devon, renee, the other sue and I have in common). Go check out her page, all sorts of fun bits there! -
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Man. My face and hands smell like chlorine — I jumped in the pool at my apartment complex last night, and afterwards felt so refreshed I didn’t bother taking a shower. Oops. 🙂
I’m getting additional responsibility at work, but I’ve got it all under control — being organized helps a lot, as does having the ability to see what I’m doing in light of the bigger picture.
I think it also helps a lot that the current project I’m on is wide in scope, meaning I don’t have to track of my time on such a micro-level like I was doing before. God that can be stressful. Try switching tasks 10 or 15 times in the morning, and then remembering how long you did each for. It’s fun!
