After, what, going on 20 years of dinking around with all sorts of instruments, finally decided to go ahead and buy a cheap 8-track recording unit yesterday. Now I just need to clear out enough room to be able to get to instruments when I want them.

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Just met with the new boss. Turns out, my job changes not a whit.

Dammit!

I was kind of looking forward to my demotion.

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Watchmen kicked my ass. At best I had minor quibbles with it, and to discuss them here would be to spoil the moment. So... yeah. It was awesometastic. I give it ten giant blue glowing cocks out of ten.

As most of y'all know, I was married for a few years back when. I inherited a not-insubstantial piece of my current taste in music from that ex-. (My previous tastes were much, much worse.) It's funny, though, that apparently I didn't pick up enough of them. One of her albums stuck out in her collection for its hideous cover art -- pink with a ( Read more... )

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Years ago I got a credit card. It had a tiny little limit, and I used it very little. I was terrible about paying it, but since it never carried much of a balance, even the sick-penalty-pricing interest rate didn't concern me much. 30% interest on a $300 balance is still not _that_ bad. At this time, the bank was not charging late fees, or I was ( Read more... )

Trying something new -- going to actually leave the office at a realistic hour today, and then try and force myself to log on from home for a bit to handle all the stuff I normally would stay til 9 doing.

Wish me luck.

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