Wow. I just spent a couple hours exploring the inside of a pipe organ and getting to play it a bit! Woohoo! Step one of diving into the organ world here in PDX... first contact. It's actually a really neat theater style organ... a Kimball. Nice sound. Needs some voicing work. It is installed in a high school here in Portland. How come my high ( Read more... )

I am so bad about blogging. I drop into here once every couple months and drop a few lines of text. I suppose that was not as big a deal when my friend list could be counted on two fingers. Since I've found more friends on here I should TRY and blog a little more often. So now for the 30 second update ( Read more... )

I have lived in PDX for a year and a half now (2 if you count the 6 months of spending weekends up here). Finally Gretchen and I went out drinking. Why the hell did it take a death to connect with some people again?! I haven't closed a bar in a LONG time... LOL. It was good despite the reason for being there ( Read more... )

Rayn Boone passed from this world Yesterday afternoon. His life support was removed in the morning. His final neurological scans looked very very bad. I consider it a blessing that his body failed him in just a few short hours because the things that made Rayn - Rayn... were already gone ( Read more... )

I am posting this for those few people that see my occasional post that have not heard yet. I received some not totally surprising yet still numbing and saddening news this evening regarding my ex Rayn. Apparently while partying Monday evening, his heart and breathing stopped for an extended period of time. CPR was performed and they were able to ( Read more... )

The organ is finally 100% here - at the house. Woohoo! Here is a picture of what will be filling my spare time... an ultimate geek project to carry me through the winter.


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So as I was digging through the phone book today to find a U-Haul to move this thing with... I decided to actually call movers and get some price quotes. The first couple I called where a bit spendy. They were listed as movers only. The last I tried was specifically a piano/organ mover. For $125 I don't have to run all over picking things up and ( Read more... )

So anyone that knows me very well knows I have a strange unexplainable organ fetish... ya know... like pipe organ... the musical instrument. Many also know that the past several years I've been working on building a digital pipe organ. Up to this point it has consisted of a Yamaha keyboard plugged into a PC running specialized organ control ( Read more... )

So I went and hung out at the Ubuntu Live conference happening at the Convention Center today. Pretty much limited to the exhibit hall... but it was fun to stop at some of the booths. Spent some time at the Sun Microsystems booth talking about a little Java program I use called jOrgan - it is a java driven MIDI controller for 'building' virtual ( Read more... )

Back from Rasputina! They were excellent as always. The theatre SUCKED! The good news was it was no smoking in the concert area.... the bad news is they don't believe in AC. I swear it was 180 degrees in there! So did Melora ( Read more... )