Gotta love life's little changes ( Read more... )

My car decided to pick the absolute perfect time to break down. Well, in the end, I suppose it was more the piss-for-brains mechanics at Wal-Mart (I got a flat Friday night, but it ended up just being a valve problem and I had Wal-Mart fix it...the last time I ever take a car there) then my car itself, but I was still extremely irritated either ( Read more... )

Every once in awhile you get some news that really strikes you. That slaps you out of the reality that you've been living in for however long and forces you to take a hard look at what's going on. It forces you to think about the people you've met and how they've affected you and your location in life. It's best comparable to a bucket of ice ( Read more... )

...and ran up a $400 phone bill ( Read more... )

More specifically, Scott Joplin. My grandmother was nice enough to get me a CD compilation of nearly every piece Scott Joplin wrote to assist me in learning many of them (a few years back, I bought a book of sheet music which included twelve of his pieces; all originals, not simplified versions). So far, it's help me to perfect Maple Leaf Rag and ( Read more... )

Hello, 2008 ( Read more... )

Once again, Christmas day is just around the corner. That one day in the year we seem to need to spend three months and thousands of dollars to prepare for. The seasons going well for me this year...I got great grades in my first semester of SIUC (four A's and a B), and I absolutely nailed my vocal juries (for the uninformed, every private vocal ( Read more... )

So, as is my usual behavior, I went a little overboard in the spending department recently.

I bought a piano like I was talking about in my last entry. A Roland FP-2. Not cheap, but I got it for 60% off the retail price on eBay. Nice ( Read more... )

Well, I got the job. So far, it's been a bunch of computer updates...mostly just making sure the computers have all the proper service packs...one has a virus and I'll have to format it and reinstall Windows, but other than that, easy stuff. I'm going to be working on fixing a reel to reel tape player (old ass thing...from the 70's) and I'm going ( Read more... )

Life is progressing ( Read more... )