I have added 5 songs from the album ConsuMuse vol. 1 to the Music page. Check it out here. More to be added in the upcoming days.

So, today, Jonathan came over. He’s moving to Portland, Oregon next week. So, we played some card games and talked. Patrick was also supposed to stop by, but he never did.

He did call to invite us to go see 30 Days of Night but not until 10 PM. The others didn’t want to go, but I really wanted to see that movie. So, I met Patrick and his brother-in-law at the Majestic Theater in Meridian. The movie was pretty good.

So, I think I’m starting to get sick. I’ve kinda started to feel like I’m getting a sore throat/cough coming on. So, when driving home from the movie, I stopped at Wal-Mart and bought some Zicam. We’ll see how well it does at making colds go away quicker.

Anyway…going to bed soon. Enjoy.

Well, according to my little laptop (currenly resting on my stomach while I lay in bed) it is 12:17 AM currently. I should go to sleep. I really should. I have to work tomorrow. For some reason, I couldn’t sleep. So I decided to blog something, since it’s been a while since I last posted.

So, to catch up on my life:

Work is busy, busy, busy. I don’t feel like I have time to do anything anymore. While I am at work anyway.
Friend and (now) former D&D party member Megan (who co-made the Cthulhu Crispy) moved to Portland, Oregon last week to pursue her career. She will be missed.
Friend and (soon to be) former D&D party member Jonathan (who also helped make Cthulhu Crispy) will be leaving for Portland, Oregon in, I think, 2 weeks.
After taking an extended break, I have gotten myself re-addicted to Consumating.com. Now, the fate of that site is shaky. The current operator of the site has mentioned that he’s not sure how much longer he’ll be working on it. The parent company (CNET) may shut it down. The original owner and operator might be trying to get it back. Who knows what will happen.
Speaking of Consumating.com, last weekend, I started a project on the site. I did a “post here” convo, in which I had people to sign up to have songs made, by me, for them. I allowed 20 people to sign up, and am currently 75% finished with the project. It’s been a lot of fun, and has allowed me to really work with Reason 4.0, which is the new version of the music software I use to write music.
By the way, I recently upgraded from Reason 3.5 to Reason 4.0.

Okay, let’s see if I can get to sleep now. G’night, friends.

Tonight I had dinner with my mom, my brother and my niece. We went to Golden Corral, which has a pretty good steak for a buffet place.

When we were done there, we went to Best Buy. My mom is looking into getting an HDTV, and she wanted to see what they had. While there, she talked to an emo kid who worked there. He was very knowledgeable about the difference between Plasma and LCD.

I started practicing the bass again today. I had to hook my PC back up to do this. I have a breakout box created by Line 6 called Guitar Port. It is a USB interface to connect a guitar to.

I use that with a pair of headphones so I don’t bug my roommates while I practice.

There were a couple of songs I was practicing today. I learned Play That Funky Music by Wild Cherry a while back, so I played around with that. Another song I learned a while back is Save A Prayer by Duran Duran. I started playing around with Fly Away by Lenny Kravitz.

Tonight, I found that I have Stray Cat Strut by the Stray Cats on iTunes, so I started playing around with that. It’s fun and challenging, so I’m excited to get better at that one.

The only problem with that, really, is that it should be played on an Accoustic Double Bass, but all I have is an electric. I’m sure it’ll work, though.

When I was in 7th grade, my brother and sister were both in the Payette high school band. That year, the band took a trip to Los Angeles to play at Disneyland. My mom went along as a bus chaperone. Along the way, we stopped at the MGM Grand hotel in Las Vegas because the jazz band was going to play there for some show or something. We really only stayed for a short time, and it really wasn’t exciting because this was when the Mob still ran the show, so there really wasn’t anything exciting for a 11 year old kid like me.

Part of the above paragraph is untrue. I was talking about this with my mom a few weeks ago. She pointed out to me that this was at the MGM Grand in Reno, not in Vegas. For years, I had said that I’ve been to Vegas, but only when I was too young. All that time, I was incorrect.

So, I’ve never been to Vegas. I want to go.

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