Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Metro-sexual-nome
I bought a digital metronome. I have been practicing with it for a few weeks and can already tell a huge difference in my playing. Guitar and drums have improved more than I really anticipated. I have a a lot of new ideas for some songs and with the new clicker I will be able to record them in time. I have struggled with my beats slowing down and speeding up when I record guitar loops. hopefully this will alleviate some of my lag time. I am excited for one particular song that I started recording tonight. I will try and document my new method as much as possible and as much as my patience for documenting will allow. I have been playing/ practicing more than usual lately and have kinda rediscovered why I started playing in the first place, besides Steve Via and Ralph Macchio in "crossroads".
Monday, May 18, 2009
golf and old men
So I have mondays off for the time being while work is slow...and I played golf today.
Let me tell you about my golf buddies today. When I walked up too the first Tee, there were a few older gents milling about and chatting. I asked what time they were supposed to tee off, my tee time was 10am, they said they were waiting for the guys in front, and that they were next...the time was 10:00am. I said I thought I was playing along with them and introduced myself..."hi, I'm Zach. I think I'm with you guys today. If thats Ok" They really dont get to decide, but I was trying to be polite and courteous. They kinda gruffed about it but said ok and introduced them selves as Gino ,70ish yrs old, and Jack, 73ish yrs old.
I dont mind playing with strangers its part of the game, if you dont have 3 friends to play with then you get matched up with some random person who has 4.5 hours to kill the time you do. No big! I have never had a really terrible experience with golfing with starngers before and didnt expect anything to out of the ordinary today.
So these guys tee up, hit their shots away and start to drive off towards their ball. I have yet to tee up and or hit...big time etiquette no no. you are supposed to wait till everyone in your group has hit, then head to the nearest ball, (furthest from the hole) and wait till that person hits away and continue this simple procedure till the last ball goes in the hole. Well apparently when your old the rules just stop applying to you.
SWEET!!! cant wait till I am a cranky old douche bag.
I didnt play very well the first two holes of the day, partly cause I am not very good to start, and also because these guys are already pissing me off and I am thinking about spending the next 4.5 hours with them. At one point I hit the ball way off to the right side ( into the woods abit) and was hopeing for some assistance in locating my ball, or at least the courtesy of waiting a few moments while I look, but douche bags drive straight to their next shot and right past me.
ASS HOLES!!!
So I hit a ball directly at them, fortunatly for them I am not that acurate....I missed by a mile, but I ended up on the green and putted in for a par! Fucking A! from that point on I played angry golf. and I did exceptionally well for myself.
At the turn They headed in to drain their colostomy bags, and I headed straight to the next tee box. I think they were surprised to see that i was going to keep playing with them but I was hitting some of the best shots I have ever hit and wasnt about to stop. At this point they start talking to me, and commenting on my shots. Helping me find miss hits and appologizing for hitting ahead of me....what happened, I dont know. There was still plenty for me to be pissed off about.
Let me tell you about my golf buddies today. When I walked up too the first Tee, there were a few older gents milling about and chatting. I asked what time they were supposed to tee off, my tee time was 10am, they said they were waiting for the guys in front, and that they were next...the time was 10:00am. I said I thought I was playing along with them and introduced myself..."hi, I'm Zach. I think I'm with you guys today. If thats Ok" They really dont get to decide, but I was trying to be polite and courteous. They kinda gruffed about it but said ok and introduced them selves as Gino ,70ish yrs old, and Jack, 73ish yrs old.
I dont mind playing with strangers its part of the game, if you dont have 3 friends to play with then you get matched up with some random person who has 4.5 hours to kill the time you do. No big! I have never had a really terrible experience with golfing with starngers before and didnt expect anything to out of the ordinary today.
So these guys tee up, hit their shots away and start to drive off towards their ball. I have yet to tee up and or hit...big time etiquette no no. you are supposed to wait till everyone in your group has hit, then head to the nearest ball, (furthest from the hole) and wait till that person hits away and continue this simple procedure till the last ball goes in the hole. Well apparently when your old the rules just stop applying to you.
SWEET!!! cant wait till I am a cranky old douche bag.
I didnt play very well the first two holes of the day, partly cause I am not very good to start, and also because these guys are already pissing me off and I am thinking about spending the next 4.5 hours with them. At one point I hit the ball way off to the right side ( into the woods abit) and was hopeing for some assistance in locating my ball, or at least the courtesy of waiting a few moments while I look, but douche bags drive straight to their next shot and right past me.
ASS HOLES!!!
So I hit a ball directly at them, fortunatly for them I am not that acurate....I missed by a mile, but I ended up on the green and putted in for a par! Fucking A! from that point on I played angry golf. and I did exceptionally well for myself.
At the turn They headed in to drain their colostomy bags, and I headed straight to the next tee box. I think they were surprised to see that i was going to keep playing with them but I was hitting some of the best shots I have ever hit and wasnt about to stop. At this point they start talking to me, and commenting on my shots. Helping me find miss hits and appologizing for hitting ahead of me....what happened, I dont know. There was still plenty for me to be pissed off about.
feel like waiting
Nothing new to report...ok there are things, but You dont want to hear about it? But your here so I will let you know a few things.
Stacy and I are talking about February 2010 for our wedding ceremony ( in Mexico, Isla Mujeres). It will be a small ceremony so unless your Me or Stacy you probably wont be there? We are going to have some sort of pseudo reception when we return from our wedding/vacation/honeymoon thing. So thats biggish news.
I have been cut back on hours at work, it was a volunteer save the company kinda thing, M y boss would have (will) run the company into the ground if he is left unchecked. Things have changed in the last 25 years, and he just doesnt get that. I have had mondays off for the last few weeks and while I thought it would be great, it is sometimes, I feel like I need to pick some shit up. I am stressing even more about money, and though business does seem to be picking up lately ( the phone is ringing more than the last feew months), We need to start selling more work, getting people into the doors, onto our soon to be new website. So if you are looking to spend anywhere between 30k to 200k on new home entertainment, or lighting control, or home automation, or home theater, or phone and network infastructure...then email me.
The band thing is weird now too. I dont know if any of the guys read this blog but there are some weird vibes at practice latley. Either we are to tired and crabby to practice or we are too lazy to try and do better, I feel that something (or someone) is going to go off anytime. We have a few shows this week, wednesday night at Big V's in st. Paul ( not a huge deal but a venue that we could do well at on a weekend) and then saturday night in Downtown MPLS at a new club with a drawing band, and we play first. Other than myself, no else seems neither excited or grateful for these opportunities to play music. I love the band. I have a great time hanging out with the guys, and look forward to practice everyweek. But I see the frustration, and lack of enthusiasm, and it gets to people, i get it.
anyway, so yeah,
Stacy = Good, happy, lovely
work/ money = stress/ fear
band = stress/ anger/frustration
I played golf today and just thought it would be worth its own blog.
Stacy and I are talking about February 2010 for our wedding ceremony ( in Mexico, Isla Mujeres). It will be a small ceremony so unless your Me or Stacy you probably wont be there? We are going to have some sort of pseudo reception when we return from our wedding/vacation/honeymoon thing. So thats biggish news.
I have been cut back on hours at work, it was a volunteer save the company kinda thing, M y boss would have (will) run the company into the ground if he is left unchecked. Things have changed in the last 25 years, and he just doesnt get that. I have had mondays off for the last few weeks and while I thought it would be great, it is sometimes, I feel like I need to pick some shit up. I am stressing even more about money, and though business does seem to be picking up lately ( the phone is ringing more than the last feew months), We need to start selling more work, getting people into the doors, onto our soon to be new website. So if you are looking to spend anywhere between 30k to 200k on new home entertainment, or lighting control, or home automation, or home theater, or phone and network infastructure...then email me.
The band thing is weird now too. I dont know if any of the guys read this blog but there are some weird vibes at practice latley. Either we are to tired and crabby to practice or we are too lazy to try and do better, I feel that something (or someone) is going to go off anytime. We have a few shows this week, wednesday night at Big V's in st. Paul ( not a huge deal but a venue that we could do well at on a weekend) and then saturday night in Downtown MPLS at a new club with a drawing band, and we play first. Other than myself, no else seems neither excited or grateful for these opportunities to play music. I love the band. I have a great time hanging out with the guys, and look forward to practice everyweek. But I see the frustration, and lack of enthusiasm, and it gets to people, i get it.
anyway, so yeah,
Stacy = Good, happy, lovely
work/ money = stress/ fear
band = stress/ anger/frustration
I played golf today and just thought it would be worth its own blog.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
what evs...
I have been so rutted lately. I dont even know what is wrong with me. I was sick last weekend, Now that the weather is getting teasingly nice I am getting anxious about golfing this year. I would love to break 100, but I know thats not going to happen. I was on a pretty good routine with the Wii fit thing but getting sick has stopped that, plus my job is so weird now I dont want to get out of bed early to get ready so I can be all like super employee and cheerful and crap, thats not how Im feeling lately.
On a great note though, Stacy and I started talking about wedding stuff the other day. We have a simple idea but it seems in order to make everyone happy we will need to incorporate a lot of planning and notices and things that get us both bogged out and then just don't want to deal...but at least we started talking about, the whole buy a house plan just ain't gonna work out at this point. We have no savings and we will not be able to sell the condo without some major investment/ improvements. We are talking about January 2010...well see if that gets pushed back some though.
I have been so into this rut that everything that I enjoy is getting really muddied up. I just don't have the energy to get motivated..I have tons of plans, things I would like to get started on, but I just get so overwhelmed, it feels heavy. I feel heavy.
I feel that Stacy's new job is already starting to consume her, and that makes me anxious. she works 8+ hours out of the house and come home exhausted, then sit in front of her computer for work charting from the day, and getting ready for the next day, then she goes to bed exhausted...and this goes on all week. I love that she is into her job and I love that she wants to do a good job and impress everyone and do good for her patients but I feel like home is the place where we should be able to turn off and reset our selves. The weekends just don't offer that much time, between running to target for the umpteenth time or trying to catch up on house work (laundry dishes, laundry) we barely have time to take Oscar to the park or god forbid go play golf together...
I got some work done on my ongoing tattoo, it was supposed to be finished but It doesnt feel that way to me. I have had this idea for so long that it started out looking pretty great and there were some things that made the tattoo look better than my original idea, i thought. But now it seems unfinished like someone started a cool drawing and got alot of the colors done then just missed large sections and left areas to vague and open. I was hopeing it would be bold and bright and it feels dull and too busy there isnt the definition I had hoped for, I have to explain what alot of the images are....I love everything he has done up till recently but the last session just felt very rushed and the results look that way to me.
Maybe its just the spring fever, or the getting over being sick, or the realization that I am getting older everyday and that we cannot change the ways we have set upon ourselves.
On a great note though, Stacy and I started talking about wedding stuff the other day. We have a simple idea but it seems in order to make everyone happy we will need to incorporate a lot of planning and notices and things that get us both bogged out and then just don't want to deal...but at least we started talking about, the whole buy a house plan just ain't gonna work out at this point. We have no savings and we will not be able to sell the condo without some major investment/ improvements. We are talking about January 2010...well see if that gets pushed back some though.
I have been so into this rut that everything that I enjoy is getting really muddied up. I just don't have the energy to get motivated..I have tons of plans, things I would like to get started on, but I just get so overwhelmed, it feels heavy. I feel heavy.
I feel that Stacy's new job is already starting to consume her, and that makes me anxious. she works 8+ hours out of the house and come home exhausted, then sit in front of her computer for work charting from the day, and getting ready for the next day, then she goes to bed exhausted...and this goes on all week. I love that she is into her job and I love that she wants to do a good job and impress everyone and do good for her patients but I feel like home is the place where we should be able to turn off and reset our selves. The weekends just don't offer that much time, between running to target for the umpteenth time or trying to catch up on house work (laundry dishes, laundry) we barely have time to take Oscar to the park or god forbid go play golf together...
I got some work done on my ongoing tattoo, it was supposed to be finished but It doesnt feel that way to me. I have had this idea for so long that it started out looking pretty great and there were some things that made the tattoo look better than my original idea, i thought. But now it seems unfinished like someone started a cool drawing and got alot of the colors done then just missed large sections and left areas to vague and open. I was hopeing it would be bold and bright and it feels dull and too busy there isnt the definition I had hoped for, I have to explain what alot of the images are....I love everything he has done up till recently but the last session just felt very rushed and the results look that way to me.
Maybe its just the spring fever, or the getting over being sick, or the realization that I am getting older everyday and that we cannot change the ways we have set upon ourselves.
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