Friday night was...simply amazing. I know I've posted about many a beautiful night out dancing to techno, but this night, well this night I have to say was actually more about me than most nights ( Read more... )

Feeling the nervous jump in my tummy, even though there's nothing to worry about. The upcoming 3 day drive to the Netherlands has been laid out very nicely by Barry, with only about 6 hours a day of driving which should be totally do-able, even with cats. He's booked us into pet-friendly hotels and it all looks good. It is supposed to be quite ( Read more... )

 Hearing lifeismagic and another friend of ours comment on the magnitude of our move is actually soothing me a bit. It is a pretty big deal, so it's ok that it's a bit rough to get through. And I have no doubt we will make it through. Here are some pics to show you why we are so inspired.


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Life does know how to pile it on sometimes. I know we chose to do the quick-and-dirty route with moving so that's on us. But now I have to get a bad report from my main client about my work. Great. It's a mystery to Roland and I, because the rest of our clients are delighted, and our critical reports from this client have gotten shorter and shorter ( Read more... )

Never a dull moment around here ( Read more... )

 Getting pretty excited since Laurel and Barry may have nabbed one of our preferred home choices in Holland, in the town of Zoetermeer ( Read more... )

Tentatively beginning to listen to music with an ear to DJing again. Exploring resources related to the software I plan to use, Ableton Live, and I learned something interesting last night ( Read more... )

 Work is going spectacularly well, but I refuse to get complacent. At the beginning of this year things were so bad I had to ask for help from friends and family. Since doing the unspeakable in the translator world (lowering my prices! GASP!) I have been fully booked with interesting, fun work, and since then my reputation has grown and I have been ( Read more... )

I didn't care about Richie Hawtin at all the first time I went to see him in the year 2000. At the time, I was a trance DJ, and proud of it. To me, "hard techno" was a cold, hard, and mean genre. And in fact, some of it is cold, hard, and mean...but the truth is I didn't really know the genre very well. A couple of DJ friends of mine were techno ( Read more... )

Poor Maya is sick, no doubt a consequence of starting her new daycare two weeks ago. She seems to love it, which is great. However we actually have no idea what she does in there, since they don't allow parents during school hours and she can't yet tell us what they've been up to. But her beaming nature each day as she runs into my arms when I pick ( Read more... )