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I've been having a lot of great conversations this year. Last night, I got to talking to Heidi from The Automatics. She recently quit her job at FHM and started doing freelance photography. I said something about me getting ready to quit my own job after the next batch of big projects are over, and how I've been noticing that so many of my friends are leaving their jobs for happier things.
She said, "Well it's the times .... Everyone needs a change."
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Even machines need changes. Late last year, almost all of our servers or had hard drive failures in the same span of time. It was a tense couple of weeks getting everything back online. Then our workstations started to crash. Now in the second month of 2007, things are comfortable again. I'm reformatting my laptop as we speak though, as it's been running the same OS for so long, with so much crud, that it needs a change, even without having to actually have hardware failure.
After I get it nice and reinstalled, I'm taking it to the shop to have the casing repaired, and to get it repainted! A nice bright red laptop sounds really appealing to me at this moment.
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My '93 Lancer needed a whole new set of shock absorbers and a general overhaul of the suspension stuff underneath. The stabilizer arm, the Pittman arm, etc etc. Front and back bumpers repainted. Fixed the big dent in the roof caused by a Narra tree branch during the height of Milenyo. Replaced the rubber seals and hinge on one door. Tuned up. Many other small things.
Next day, after having wheels aligned, we discovered that my rear brakes were leaking brake fluid, and that the right rear brake was permanently on, causing this groaning sound I'd been noticing for a while. So I had to drive around on a sunday afternoon to find two of the little parts that contain the pistons that apply pressure on the brake shoes, that slow down the wheels. This took a while, and I got one defective one that I had to return to the shop. But it got done.
Car feels like a dream. I don't remember the last time it was this well-tuned.
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After 15 years, I'm finally coming back to really understanding something about double bass drum technique. Well, kick technique in general. This post on drummerworld.com really helped. I don't remember how I used to play double kick. I only know that I don't play that way any more, or I can't. Maybe my muscles haven't gotten back to where they were, or I learned to play differently once I started using the hi hat. Whatever. In any case, it's like I'm relearning it all from the ground up again.
Man, there's so much to learn about drumming again. I don't know where the time will come from. I'm figuring out stuff in my head faster than I can train my hands and feet to actually pull it off.
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She said, "Well it's the times .... Everyone needs a change."
-
Even machines need changes. Late last year, almost all of our servers or had hard drive failures in the same span of time. It was a tense couple of weeks getting everything back online. Then our workstations started to crash. Now in the second month of 2007, things are comfortable again. I'm reformatting my laptop as we speak though, as it's been running the same OS for so long, with so much crud, that it needs a change, even without having to actually have hardware failure.
After I get it nice and reinstalled, I'm taking it to the shop to have the casing repaired, and to get it repainted! A nice bright red laptop sounds really appealing to me at this moment.
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My '93 Lancer needed a whole new set of shock absorbers and a general overhaul of the suspension stuff underneath. The stabilizer arm, the Pittman arm, etc etc. Front and back bumpers repainted. Fixed the big dent in the roof caused by a Narra tree branch during the height of Milenyo. Replaced the rubber seals and hinge on one door. Tuned up. Many other small things.
Next day, after having wheels aligned, we discovered that my rear brakes were leaking brake fluid, and that the right rear brake was permanently on, causing this groaning sound I'd been noticing for a while. So I had to drive around on a sunday afternoon to find two of the little parts that contain the pistons that apply pressure on the brake shoes, that slow down the wheels. This took a while, and I got one defective one that I had to return to the shop. But it got done.
Car feels like a dream. I don't remember the last time it was this well-tuned.
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After 15 years, I'm finally coming back to really understanding something about double bass drum technique. Well, kick technique in general. This post on drummerworld.com really helped. I don't remember how I used to play double kick. I only know that I don't play that way any more, or I can't. Maybe my muscles haven't gotten back to where they were, or I learned to play differently once I started using the hi hat. Whatever. In any case, it's like I'm relearning it all from the ground up again.
Man, there's so much to learn about drumming again. I don't know where the time will come from. I'm figuring out stuff in my head faster than I can train my hands and feet to actually pull it off.
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