Nerd Test

Bored out of my mind I took a nerd test. According to the test I am actually cool. As if some online test determines a persons nerdiness...I took the test so that must mean there is some nerdiness somewhere. Oh well. I can hang with cool, I have always been one of those people that can hang out with just about anyone, barring the super arrogant pompous people...they are the ones I would like to remove from the face of the earth.

Recording this week

THis past monday I did some recording at work that will eventually be posted on the studio website. I will be finishing up one of the tracks tonight and hopefully in the coming weeks do a second track. THis is my first time doing a fully digital recording as well as doing any recording with my newest guitars, the Ibanez SZ520 I got for Christmas this past year, the Breedlove nylon string I got just a few months ago, and there is a possibility that my Ibanez bass will be heard too. Also heard in its first time recording is my Alvarez artist series acoustic. THe nylon string sounds amazing, and this is running it direct into the board. We miked my Alvarez, something wrong with my preamp on the guitar (oh crap...more expenses). We also ran my Ibanez SZ520 through the board for rhythms and leads, gonna be fixing the tones tonight, what went down to disc was not to my satisfaction.
So, tonight is gonna be fixing a few rhythm/lead things, laying down the bass, and vocals; hopefully getting a couple harmonies here and there (I hope it comes out good vocally). Nice thing is that I am getting to do this for free and then on top of that I don't need to haul my amp with me, though hauling several guitars gets to be a pain (I sometimes forget I have more than one).

Ridden Hard and Put Away Wet!

This has been yet another long week. Camping with 4th through 7th graders...oh joy. I was with a bunch of 6th graders. SOme fo them were really good and obedient and others were bound and determined to contradict and argue with me at every point that they could. I finally had to crack the whip and begin putting kids in theri place, even one of the counselors I ahd to set straight though he had a few things to point out where I could improve as well...the kids were looking at this 17 year old as the prime authority when he was at best a captain or lieutenant where I was the five star general. I love those kids but at the same time I wanted to break my foot off on their butts.
One of the other counselors that was in there with me was also playing guitar for worship...he acknowledges that I can play circles around him yet he still tries to cop a tude with me; maybe I am reading to much into it but I was certainly annoyed by it. Glad its over for now. I am exhausted and my feet are absolutely killing me from being on them constantly for the last four days, I was always having to chase down this or that kid or something else. Now time to rest and recouperate.

Goodfellas or Gangstas?!?!

This is me and some of my buddies after we spent a few hours shooting on Aaron's birthday (the dude standing behind me, I being in the Notre Dame shirt and Khaki shorts)...it was a lot of fun though the bramble bushes made their mark on my legs.

Weddings and Farewells and other stuff

My buddy Jorge just got hitched this weekend and then a bunch of my friends took off for Bible school afterwards. Its gonna be interesting to see what develops over this next year. I am really gonna miss my friends but I know what they are doing is as much a benefit to me as it is to them and the rest of our friends.
I spent the night in Roseburg OR last night (the location of the wedding) and saw one heck fo a huge bug. I was trying to fall asleep and then I heard thsi buzzing noise, it sounded as if someone's phone was on vibrate except this was really loud. The dude I road down with jumped otu of bed after the bug got a little to close for comfort. We turned on the lights looking fro the thing and finally found it and flushed it out. It flew up at my friend sending him running across the room as the bug went the other way.
This bug's body was as big as my thumb and had huge antenae, its wings must have been solid and folded on its back cause they were nowhere to be seen when it was walking across the floor. Rather than attempting to squash this beast of a bug I grabbed my flip-flop and used it as a catapult to send the bug out of the room. After shooing another large but smaller bug out I managed to get a little shut-eye.
I get to spend this next week at a kids camp (4th through 7th grade). I have done this camp for the last few years but this time I am staying with the kids instead of my own bed at home. Oh the adventure. I still remember going to camp as a kid and now some of the people I will be working with at the camp were serving with the kids when I was going to camp 20 years ago.

Life is gonna be really lonely around here after this week...

...Several of my friends are leaving for Bible school after a friend of ours gets hitched this next weekend. I am bummin. It looks like another page in my life is turning again...of course I have had a number of people bugging me about going to the Bible school but as of yet God has not put the desire to go within me. The reasons people give me are not good enough..."you can find a wife there" is one of them and I have had the thought that going would just get everyone off my back and then I would be a member of the club. I know a lot of people that have gone to this school and they encourage everyone to go. I hear them talk of their experiences there (ah memories) and then when there is anyone else that has gone then they have some long conversation to which I cannot relate to in any way; my not having not gone to the school sort of excludes me from this "club." Of course the whole "club" mentality or idea is in NO way a reality but sometimes I feel that it is; it gets a tad boring or lonely in my corner of the world when people start talking of their experiences with others that have gone through the school.
In my lack of desire to go people ask me, "don't you want to gain more of the Lord?" DUH! I wouldn't be going to church and as many home meetings and gatherings with people from church if I didn't want the Lord to gain more ground in me. Obviously I am a bit at odds with this...got some things to sort out, see where the Lord is leading.

mowwage is whaat bwings us tegethaa today

Come Oct. my baby brother is getting married. I am happy for him and Kristen, they had been talking about getting hitched for some time but they are now expecting so that gave the process a violent kick in the butt. I may have a new niece or nephew for my birthday (my older sister had her first child three days before my 18th birthday). I have told both of my brothers that if they get married before me I am gonna break their legs...my baby bro found a loophole...he kinda needs those legs to support the coming child and I cannot in good conscience break em now...gonna have to get him some other way.
There is an order to things...this certainly isn't it...