Neglect
So the subDaily has really been more subQuarterly lately. Not for want of postworthy items, but sheerly due to time. And maybe a little bit of interest...I blame the Facepage. And having to keep up a home. And attempting to squeeze every little bit of outside time out of this year before the weather turns inclement, which it appears to be doing this weekend. Rapid City SD reported 4 feet yesterday, and there is a fine dusting of white on my lawn this morning.
I'll post some vids I took of my house before I moved in. It is much more homelike now, as it is crammed with my stuff. Have I recently said that I love my house? I love my house! I am fascinated by some of the phenomena that occur here which contradict most common laws of physics. For instance, dust bunnies. There's a room upstairs that I've declared to be my spare bedroom. There's a futon, a dresser and a lamp. There is also a closet that holds my shoes, dress pants and articles of clothing that I don't wear very often. Suffice it to say that I don't spend a great deal of time here. Nevertheless, upon cleaning upstairs I've noticed that this room tends to collect the largest 2nd floor dust bunny. I'm not sure how this happens; maybe some sort of "path of least resistance" theorem applies here.
I recently purchased a bedframe at a yard sale which turned out to be far too big for both my bed and my room. The posts are 6', and the problem lies in the pitch where the dormer line meets the ceiling. There are runners between the top of each post, which after being set up look a bit ridiculous. I might consider building my own if I can't find something I like. Meanwhile I have to figure out how to get rid of this monstrosity. I paid $15 for this thing, and I'd be willing to give it away if someone just came and took it away.
I'm still in the process of buying stuff. Blinds, curtains, a new couch and a shed are on my short list of investments. I'm not too worried about privacy issues, as my shower is downstairs, but there is something fishbowl like about having a giant bay window in one's living room without any sort of barrier to prying eyes.
Nader didn't win again this year. And I had a really, really hard time marking my ballot this year. Fortunately this time it wasn't due to picking the lesser of two evils. I genuinely felt like I had two options that I could live with. So do I give my traditional middle finger to the two-party system, or do I cast my ballot for an historic candidate? Ideals won out over practicality again, but I still feel good about the result. What I find disgusting is the reaction from conservatives who were embittered against Obama from the start. The reactions at McCain's concession speech, random-sampled opinions from the blogosphere, even some of my friends...are disheartening to say the least. Not that I would have expected the "left" to have gone quietly into that dark night had the election gone to McCain, but I'd like to think that they (We? We. Sigh.) would've been a little more civil about it. McCain's more goonish supporters scare me. The outer fringes of liberalism are mostly harmless (unless you count anarchists as liberals), choosing to voice opinion through discourse and public outcry. The fringes of conservatism have guns. But in the infamous words of arch-conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, "Get over it!". We won. So fuck them.
Halloween was interesting this year. 3rd Addiction played two shows, one at the Pavillion and the other at the Ka-De-Shack. The Pavillion gig was for a private costume party, and can be best summed up as...cold. There's nothing like playing for a crowd of 50 some people in a giant unheated barn. Somebody brought an ice cream pail full of warm home made chocolate chip cookies for the potluck table. Mmmm...beer and cookies. Needless to say, I'm not going to turn down free cookies. After the first couple of bites of cookie #1, I noticed a distinct taste that was attributable only to a non-traditional cookie ingredient. A couple minutes after consuming said cookie, it was apparent what said non-traditional ingredient was. I had another.
The Ka-De Shack gig was much warmer by comparison. And crowded. This band is getting tighter as we play more shows, which is encouraging. This had started as a side gig for me, but is becoming more and more fun to play. I dressed up as Buckethead, which creeped some people out. Something about the expressionless mask gives people the heebie jeebies. I'll post pix once I get them emailed to me.
Today finds me in the throes of excrutiating tooth pain. I've had a molar that I've known was going to cause me trouble eventually, and this week it happened. I spent last night in utter misery as my face melted. I like to think that I've got a moderately high threshold for pain, but there is nothing quite like tooth pain. There is absolutely nothing that can be done about it. This morning is actually better than last night, as it is more of a constant low grade throb than the piercing hot knife of anguish that it was last night. I'm off in search of some painkillers today that might let me sleep through this tonight. We'll see what I find.
I'll post some vids I took of my house before I moved in. It is much more homelike now, as it is crammed with my stuff. Have I recently said that I love my house? I love my house! I am fascinated by some of the phenomena that occur here which contradict most common laws of physics. For instance, dust bunnies. There's a room upstairs that I've declared to be my spare bedroom. There's a futon, a dresser and a lamp. There is also a closet that holds my shoes, dress pants and articles of clothing that I don't wear very often. Suffice it to say that I don't spend a great deal of time here. Nevertheless, upon cleaning upstairs I've noticed that this room tends to collect the largest 2nd floor dust bunny. I'm not sure how this happens; maybe some sort of "path of least resistance" theorem applies here.
I recently purchased a bedframe at a yard sale which turned out to be far too big for both my bed and my room. The posts are 6', and the problem lies in the pitch where the dormer line meets the ceiling. There are runners between the top of each post, which after being set up look a bit ridiculous. I might consider building my own if I can't find something I like. Meanwhile I have to figure out how to get rid of this monstrosity. I paid $15 for this thing, and I'd be willing to give it away if someone just came and took it away.
I'm still in the process of buying stuff. Blinds, curtains, a new couch and a shed are on my short list of investments. I'm not too worried about privacy issues, as my shower is downstairs, but there is something fishbowl like about having a giant bay window in one's living room without any sort of barrier to prying eyes.
Nader didn't win again this year. And I had a really, really hard time marking my ballot this year. Fortunately this time it wasn't due to picking the lesser of two evils. I genuinely felt like I had two options that I could live with. So do I give my traditional middle finger to the two-party system, or do I cast my ballot for an historic candidate? Ideals won out over practicality again, but I still feel good about the result. What I find disgusting is the reaction from conservatives who were embittered against Obama from the start. The reactions at McCain's concession speech, random-sampled opinions from the blogosphere, even some of my friends...are disheartening to say the least. Not that I would have expected the "left" to have gone quietly into that dark night had the election gone to McCain, but I'd like to think that they (We? We. Sigh.) would've been a little more civil about it. McCain's more goonish supporters scare me. The outer fringes of liberalism are mostly harmless (unless you count anarchists as liberals), choosing to voice opinion through discourse and public outcry. The fringes of conservatism have guns. But in the infamous words of arch-conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, "Get over it!". We won. So fuck them.
Halloween was interesting this year. 3rd Addiction played two shows, one at the Pavillion and the other at the Ka-De-Shack. The Pavillion gig was for a private costume party, and can be best summed up as...cold. There's nothing like playing for a crowd of 50 some people in a giant unheated barn. Somebody brought an ice cream pail full of warm home made chocolate chip cookies for the potluck table. Mmmm...beer and cookies. Needless to say, I'm not going to turn down free cookies. After the first couple of bites of cookie #1, I noticed a distinct taste that was attributable only to a non-traditional cookie ingredient. A couple minutes after consuming said cookie, it was apparent what said non-traditional ingredient was. I had another.
The Ka-De Shack gig was much warmer by comparison. And crowded. This band is getting tighter as we play more shows, which is encouraging. This had started as a side gig for me, but is becoming more and more fun to play. I dressed up as Buckethead, which creeped some people out. Something about the expressionless mask gives people the heebie jeebies. I'll post pix once I get them emailed to me.
Today finds me in the throes of excrutiating tooth pain. I've had a molar that I've known was going to cause me trouble eventually, and this week it happened. I spent last night in utter misery as my face melted. I like to think that I've got a moderately high threshold for pain, but there is nothing quite like tooth pain. There is absolutely nothing that can be done about it. This morning is actually better than last night, as it is more of a constant low grade throb than the piercing hot knife of anguish that it was last night. I'm off in search of some painkillers today that might let me sleep through this tonight. We'll see what I find.
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