Year: 2007

7:35 pm-Kids are watching My Side of the Mountain. We went on a looong hike today, after no one showed up at Tai Chi. Erika had to pick us up because we didn’t find the trail back. Yesterday: kids to school, work, home, worked on the web thing. Tried to come up with ideas for the last track. Went to get a smoothie, and visited storage to get my guitar.

12:13 am-Time for bed. Dinner, TV, kids to bed. Tuned the guitar and mando-popped a string-dropped things an octave. Practiced a bit-ran through ideas for the guitar part.

1:40 pm-Another day at work-took the kids to school. No play-my back hurts. Flash, more table definitions on the Big Project. More graphic design revibrating from JS that I can’t talk about-I start tonight. Time for lunch. Back is twinging whenever I move quickly-getting a headache too. Listening to Traffic.

4:50-Almost time to leave for home-I’m so glad it’s a short drive. My headache lasted until I drank some tea-caffeine withdrawal again. After listening to Burroughs it’s not so bad, but annoying nonetheless. The VMWare thing was a non-starter-he wanted a C# developer, and I’m pretty much a UI and graphic designer now. I think the Flash bit is done for now, drawing sparklines for The Big Project, listening to Cream. I’ve got to find a way to merge my bookmarks.

10:34 pm-Sitting in bed, working on the web thing. Home, kids to bed, Colin didn’t want to & melted down. Dinner, CSI, CSI, Shark.

Page 23, Sentence 5: “The line upon which there cannot be a perpendicular, that is, another line, constitutes linear, or one-dimensional space.” Tertium Organum

9:17 pm-In the bedroom, more tracking. I’m going to the Midiverb as a straight effects send…Piano melody. The day: Erika took the kids to school-I cleaned a bit and did wash. Work-splash screens, Flash. Archived my Mirage disks-the MASOS one is toast. Home, kids to bed. Criminal minds, wash, cheese for dinner. This is a difficult track-I’ve run through it twice and I’m feeling fatigued. I’m going to let the tape roll and see what happens. And it didn’t record the effects return-blecch. Onward.

11:27-Time for bed-finished the melody track-it sounds good. Sorta Blade Runner-y Harold Budd-y. I have one more track to do-still don’t know what-maybe a fast guitar bit. I really need to get my SG and the DD-12 from storage. I’m planning to drop some ambient bits in on the computer with Audacity before putting it on the movie.

12:05 pm-Working on the Big Project. Printed some stuff for school, coffee, browsing some UI web stuff. Tired, again. Erika took the kids to school. I read the paper. Listening to Discreet Music.

2:29 pm-Off to lunch. Working on table layout for the Big Project. A business opportunity arising with the day’s email-working on maintenance for software made by the company 2 jobs ago, the company has disappeared, some guy Googled me and here we are. Problem is most likely the limitations of the database manager (it’s the out of the box Turbo Pascal one). We’ll see.

11:35 pm-Finishing up a 2nd day of tracking-redid the harmony string and guitar tracks-the live guitar was making too much noise so I had to use a sampled one…Setting up for the bounce. Had to pick up the kids-Erika had to leave work early so I had to too. Library-picked up Tertium Organum and In Search of the Miraculous-more Fripp influence-I read another one when I was a teen-my grandmother gave it to me. Guy from the welding co. called-I’m going to try to help him but until I know more we wait. I also got an email from a recruiter from VMWare-I’ll respond & see where it goes. Dinner, kids bath and to bed, dinner, NCIS, the Unit, Boston Legal and I started on the tracking. Bounce is started. No tea today-I have a headache now-I’m really sensitive to caffeine withdrawal. This setup of a TX81Z, Mirage, Midiverb, Zoom 9150 and Tascam 424 plus a guitar, DDD-5 and midi keyboard is working well for my purposes-I can get 7 recorded tracks on one bounce, 10 on 2 bounces. I’m sticking to one bounce for now. Bounce is almost done-time for bed.

3:35 pm-At work, back from lunch. I had a hard time getting started at work. I got 2 icons changed and split out a splash screen. Kids up, Matt made his own breakfast, Colin had a hard time, wanted to go on the field trip with Matt… Fine once at school. Ran around, my back is a bit sore.

5:09 pm-Getting ready to go home, finished another section of the Big Project. Printed CD labels, set up for Seal Beach KF ’04 music. Tonight? Oh, and tea.

12:15 am-Time for bed. Home, kids fed and to bed, Erika meeting. Spent the evening working on tracking for the Seal Beach 04 vid-it’s pretty spooky-got 3 bounced to 1 and 2 more bounced to 1=2 tracks of stuff. Next a piano thing and another guitar thing. Maybe tomorrow night…

2:14 pm-Sitting burning CD’s of the Sunday service-the earliest I’ve ever done it. I edited it right after the service ended-theoretically I could have the labels done, blank CD’s with me and burn them all right then and there… Not much else, church, social hour, made lunch-frittata for Matt, quesadilla for me. Erika’s off shopping. Odd sleep last night-it was cold and I had a hat on-I think it made me dream about being cold. Up late waiting for CD rip to finish.

11:10 pm-Sitting in bed watching Blade Runner. Erika watched some sappy Hallmark movie. Went skating with the kids, fried up chicken, bathed kids & put to bed. Put wipers on Erika’s car and oil. Filled in my broken window. Chili dogs, tried to get the movie going. Mini workout, practiced a little.

10:05 pm-Saturday-slept in a bit. Not much-some kids from the complex visited for awhile, had to entertain and keep in line-they seem a bit messed up. Went to get a movie and the kids whined it away. Shop, Erika cut her thumb, cooked, kids to bed. Dinner, TV-flip house, design. Now in bed drinking beer and computing-have to edit and burn church CD’s. Also another arising bank thing.

1:20 am-one of the CD’s is wonky and is taking forever to burn-another one to go-tomorrow. Then I have to burn them…

3:05 pm-Getting back from lunch, listening to King Crimson. No kids in bed-the promise of a future reward is working. Matt got up early and made his breakfast. We had some fun in bed, off to drop them off, on to work. Bitty icon, working on pieces of the big project. Not really feeling energetic today, more so after lunch. Dealing with arising bank issues. On to more Big Project work.

5:17 pm-The day and the week are over-time to go home to wife and kids. Tea, big project, tired after lunch, more KC.

9:52 pm-In bed. Just ate dinner-TJ’s mac & cheese. Erika fell asleep-I fed the kids, we watched Meerkat Manor, Colin wouldn’t brush teeth so no story. Asleep quick, Survivorman, dinner. Time to get some ice cream cake.

3:17 pm-About to go into a meeting-listening to Veruca Salt. Quickie recap-didn’t want to get up, no kids in bed, though-the deal may work. Kids to school-checking for lice-Erika said a few had it. Revibrate the offline thing I did. Work on big project, lunch, meeting. Onward.

11:34 pm-In bed, computing, TV. Meeting, Flash changes, a bit more on the Big Project. Food shop, home, kids to bed, dinner, TV & computing-CSI, CSI, Shark-tidy & fold, Daily Show.

4:40 pm-Winding down from work-we’ve got two class meetings tonight. Listening to Hawkwind. Another day-Colin had achy legs last night so I had to get up and administer painkillers. That meant that I didn’t want to get up this morning… So. Off to school, played with the kindys, then work. Finish up Flash changes, get new main icon set up. Lunch, more Flash and icon, then an overlay icon for another team. I also finally ginned up the videos I took in 2004-one of me demoing my Rev, another of the Seal Beach Kite Festival. They look nice. Now to post them on YouTube. Next up: a video of me doing my routine.

11:12 pm-Sitting in bed, the Daily Show is on. YouTube hasn’t verified my email yet, so no uploads. Two meetings at school, jumped between them. Chatted with Laura (Colin’s teacher) & wife afterwards. Kids to bed, wash, fold, tidy, put away dishes. Mythbusters, CSI: NY. Matt has a cold. Eria bargained a toy for staying in his bed for two weeks. Colin wants the same deal.

1:43 pm-Finally catching a big enough breath to post. Erika got up earlyish again-prolly the result of the weekend… Matt to school, Colin is still a bit sick. Matt’s birthday today, Erika’s bringing pizza. Got picture from yesterday, off to work. Finished up splash and offline things. Short meeting-making changes to a Flash prototype. Time for lunch.

4:21 pm-Tea time-yummy. Listening to a old Bill Moyers thing about the contras-striking parallels to today. I read another thing about parallels in classic literature-Moby Dick and the Aenid. Finished up the offline bit, more work on Flash thing.

9:19 pm-in bed, computing. Home, Matt opened presents, fried chicken, kids to bed. NCIS, Erika’s surfing (Stepford Wives, Sex and the City so far.) Didn’t watch Chimpy. blecch. Updated (sort of) bank records, bill pay. Money is gone-glad I get paid tomorrow. Going to get a beer from the fridge.

10:49 am-A busy weekend-not much time to post. I have to go to school to sub for a hour this morning, so not posting a recap until later. My hip hurts.

1:14 pm-Still not time to post-work awaits. Kindy was fun-outside play and painting.

4:26 pm-Working on a splash screen and icons. No time to post. Listening to Aaron Russo rant.

11:01 pm-The day is over-Daily Show is on. Offline screen, went to CVS for cold stuff for Colin and Erika’s meds. Put kids to bed, pastrami dinner, 24, CSI Miami, quickie workout. And here’s the recap: Friday-Erika was up early-sat down in the car to wait-a cop came up behind her. Kids to school, drove to Long Beach, picked up 2 things for Matt at Barnes & Noble, job fell through-tried to sell the chick on Quest stuff for SQL Server. Drove to Belmont Shore, picked up peanuts at Polly’s, drove back home. Picked up Matt & Colin at school, library, Trader Joe’s. Cleaned house next morning, parents visited. Made pizza, ate cheap cake. Matt got a few gifts. Fried chicken for dinner. Church Sunday, annual meeting, cleaned more, kids to bed late, Erika came home.

11:05 am-Trying to post as often as Fripp-we’ll see how long this lasts. My life is much less exciting than his.

Right on time for school-kids left their coats in Erika’s car, made a frittata for Matt-I’d like to leave the house by 8:05 rather than 8:15…Erika’s working in the office today rather than subbing. Colin made a pile out of the straw in the kindy yard and jumped in it, followed by all the other kids-straw in my shoes. I declined to play tag-my hip got messed up yesterday by doing that. On to work after dropping a book at the library. E-mail, web, coffee, now on to work.

12:25 pm-Taking a break-got through starting a revibrate of one product for another-need more info from the dev team. A cuppa decaf and task switch. I sent an email to my parents telling my mom to stop her mean behavior and she replied not addressing it at all. She’ll prolly want to talk about it on Sat when they come down-not gonna happen-I said my piece, now she needs to change her behavior. I’ve put up with it forever, and it’s time for say enough. Erika gets so upset, and I can’t have that. Listened to Democracy Now-Israel refusing entry to Palestinian residents, American Airlines refusing passage & losing a lawsuit over it.

3:14 pm-Back to work after lunch-splash screens. Got dragged into a meeting (sleepy), Erika needed a check on $$$ so she could get warm coats for the boys, bill pay-ending up in OK shape this month-not like last month…Lunch-chicken soup and bananas. Cool Firefox plugin-FirebugOnward.

4:58 pm-Work day is done-splash screens are generated and sent, icon generated and sent-splash screen guy wants offline splash screen revibrated to Vista similarity. Not today, Monday. We’ll see if icon guy likes his icon (he did). No more on webification-long project, that. Three mini tasks first-Monday. Add button to wireframe design for web gig. Need to get domain name. Tea at 4:20. Listening to The ConstruKction of Light. I’m on a big Crim kick right now-that Fripp thing, I guess.Now home.

8:44 pm-Sitting in bed, waiting for dinner, computing. E-mail checked, listening to some odd ambient thing, reminiscent of Michael Stearns-probably a Webbed Hand thing. Kids to bed, easy. Wife packing for trip to Sacramento-Waldorf conference. Dinner sounds like it’s ready. The k sticks on this computer.

11:22 pm-Dinner, mini workout, practicing guitar. Sleep now-Colin joined. Erika has to get up early.

Another month duration-the holidays, basically, ate up all my free time. Whatever. Much the same-kids, school, work, home, church. Reading Robert Fripp’s diary, practicing my guitar, set up my recording rig in the bedroom. Tai Chi starting up again.

My exciting life: A month-here we go-school party at Dana Point beach, Matt, then me, then Colin got a stomach bug-I had the worst case-2 1/2 sick days. Office party, then department party at a murder mystery dinner theater. Day off, visit parents-fondue & presents, christmas, swim, hang out, days off, New Years-old champagne was good for 3 glasses, 20 year old Port, Erika got the Demon Bug, work Hawaii-themed event, new web design gig, Ikea, Japanese market (Mitsuwa Marketplace), the Hat, Sealight, Johnny Rockets, US alum reception.

Issues and current events: I don’t remember. It’s nice to have this storage unit with all my music and Project Gutenberg. Dems take control. The escalation is worthless. James Brown died. Gerald Ford died-very few people said anything about East Timor. Robert Fripp is cool. I installed Vista on one of my servers. TV: watching Criminal Minds, Mythbusters, forgetting to watch Afro Samurai.

Links and downloads: DGM, gurdjieff stuff, manuals for my rig, more Tibetan tantras, Guitar Craft, guitar lessons.

Page 23, Sentence 5: “In North America, a couple of decades ago, it was common to hear residents remark, as they locked up for a short departure from home, that they never used to need to lock their doors.” Dark Age Ahead