An update
Since I haven't posted for quite a whil I figured I'd catch up.
The engine block on the fiero was cracked, luckily I've got a great mechanic and he was able to seal it up but the water pump was still leaking, that's getting replaced now and I should be able to pick up the car tomorrow.
Honey's is going well, the money is way better, all the income I was making in IT but instead of dealing with flakey network equipent I get to spend my time playing music and flirting with hot girls. That club is a different ball game though, at sugars you can't afford to piss anyone off so you really need to be nice to all the girls. at honey's they'll take advantage any way they can but there's enough good tippers there that you can afford to piss off the girls who don't take care of business. The other DJs there are a lot harder on the girls than I am too, so that'll take some getting used to, I have to learn to be more direct with the girls and start being able to tell them "no" when they want special treatment and aren't willing to pay for it.
I'm quitting smoking, I'm done, it's expensive and harmful. I managed to get some wellbutrin, now I just need to deal with the idea that I'm going to be completely retarded for the next few weeks while the wellbutrin counteracts the withdrawls.
Now that I have the weekends off I'll be jumping in with town cryer for st pats day. beyond that I don't know, I think that'll be my last performance with the band, I've grown out of playing trad music, it just doesn't appeal to me as much as it used to and the scene has changed. most of the people in the trad scene are too full of themselves, I enjoy playing in groups but not when they're self-absorbed and overly critical of other players. it used to be something to do for fun, get a group together and play some tunes. now it's turned into a few cliques of people who try to "out-obscure" one another, so a session ends up just being a bunch of old people sitting around playing tunes that nobody knows, by themselves. I'm out of practice too, every time I look at my guitar I think that time spent playing guitar is just taking away from time I could be spending getting better at mixing. I think I may just keep one of the guitars and sell off all of the other instruments, I think I could get enough to get my CDJ-1000s and the mixer I want plus a laptop to run VDJ.
The internet cafe is still in the works, I just haven't had a lot of time, I'll be hooking up with dave soon to get some auctions up to raise the startup cash. We're thinking that once we've got about 20K set aside we'll start looking for a space to lease and go from there. I've got everything else pretty much worked out, the market research is there and the technology is where it needs to be to do it right. If things go right the plan is to get things running and then step away from it so I can do what I want.
I really want to move to a new place, I'd like to buy a house of my own, I have the income to do it easily once I fix the few blemishes that are left on my credit. I like the place I'm at but they want too much for it and the neighbors like to call the cops any time they hear noise. that and ceratin roommates are getting on my nerves. a rental would be fine, as long as it's somewhere I can throw a party and not have the cops showing up at 10:30 on a saturday night.
things are looking up.
The engine block on the fiero was cracked, luckily I've got a great mechanic and he was able to seal it up but the water pump was still leaking, that's getting replaced now and I should be able to pick up the car tomorrow.
Honey's is going well, the money is way better, all the income I was making in IT but instead of dealing with flakey network equipent I get to spend my time playing music and flirting with hot girls. That club is a different ball game though, at sugars you can't afford to piss anyone off so you really need to be nice to all the girls. at honey's they'll take advantage any way they can but there's enough good tippers there that you can afford to piss off the girls who don't take care of business. The other DJs there are a lot harder on the girls than I am too, so that'll take some getting used to, I have to learn to be more direct with the girls and start being able to tell them "no" when they want special treatment and aren't willing to pay for it.
I'm quitting smoking, I'm done, it's expensive and harmful. I managed to get some wellbutrin, now I just need to deal with the idea that I'm going to be completely retarded for the next few weeks while the wellbutrin counteracts the withdrawls.
Now that I have the weekends off I'll be jumping in with town cryer for st pats day. beyond that I don't know, I think that'll be my last performance with the band, I've grown out of playing trad music, it just doesn't appeal to me as much as it used to and the scene has changed. most of the people in the trad scene are too full of themselves, I enjoy playing in groups but not when they're self-absorbed and overly critical of other players. it used to be something to do for fun, get a group together and play some tunes. now it's turned into a few cliques of people who try to "out-obscure" one another, so a session ends up just being a bunch of old people sitting around playing tunes that nobody knows, by themselves. I'm out of practice too, every time I look at my guitar I think that time spent playing guitar is just taking away from time I could be spending getting better at mixing. I think I may just keep one of the guitars and sell off all of the other instruments, I think I could get enough to get my CDJ-1000s and the mixer I want plus a laptop to run VDJ.
The internet cafe is still in the works, I just haven't had a lot of time, I'll be hooking up with dave soon to get some auctions up to raise the startup cash. We're thinking that once we've got about 20K set aside we'll start looking for a space to lease and go from there. I've got everything else pretty much worked out, the market research is there and the technology is where it needs to be to do it right. If things go right the plan is to get things running and then step away from it so I can do what I want.
I really want to move to a new place, I'd like to buy a house of my own, I have the income to do it easily once I fix the few blemishes that are left on my credit. I like the place I'm at but they want too much for it and the neighbors like to call the cops any time they hear noise. that and ceratin roommates are getting on my nerves. a rental would be fine, as long as it's somewhere I can throw a party and not have the cops showing up at 10:30 on a saturday night.
things are looking up.