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About me: Musician. One who writes the occasional poem, though not a poet. Reading: Just Finished:
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6/30/2001Ludwig transation badge floor tom. I begged Sue to let me bid. It would finally round out my WFL/Transition Badge kit. I didn't get it.
6/29/2001Kiwanis Club, Rockland Maine. I'm the crazy webmaster for that page. I did a little updating. See what you think...
I had a strange dream last night. Julia woke me up crying, so I remember a little of it. I was explaining to a little old Chinese woman how I first got into the import/export business by importing a Chinese junk for someone to use as a restaurant. I then explained that I preferred the food at China Harbor, but didn't eat there anymore due to their heatlh issues, and that now I got my Chinese food from the China Jade.
6/27/2001Ok, so I signed up for Am I a poet or not. I don't normally make my poems public. In fact, this is the first time anyone other than Sue has seen it. I wrote this poem for her, and I don't hate it. You can see it, as well as vote for me, here.
Am I a Poet or Not? A spin off of "Am I hot or not." A real good place to find bad poetry. About 10 people have written poems, and you can vote for them on a 1-10 scale. The poets have included pictures, which you can also vote for. The problem is, you run out of poems very quicky. And most of them are very bad. Very. There was one good one I recall about photography, and another good one about Dennys.
6/25/2001So I'm at the end of the counter at the grocery store, swiping my debit card. There are other people in line. My total comes to $10.69. The clerk says to me "Well, there's one good number in that total." I look at him and say "I hope you mean 10." He looks at another guy in line (the guy standing in front of the woman). "Do you know anything good about the number 10?" This guy hasn't been paying attention. "What?" he asks. The clerk says "This guy's total is $10.69, and I said at least there's one good number in there. This guy thinks it's the 10. I don't know anything good about 10, but I can think of something good about 69!" First of all, how dumb do you have to be not to catch my hint that you shouldn't be a grocery clerk talking sex positions to a customer in the check out line? And then, how dumb do you have to be to want to explain your crass joke to another customer? Someone just fire this guy now. It's only a matter of time.
It seems my sister didn't understand my post about Ron's message board. I like it. I like other boards better. Like Ultimate BBS. But Ultimate is between $200-$1000. That's a long way from free, my friend.
Beautiful corner chair, right here in Maine. I contacted the owner: the almost $1000 reserve price is a little out of my league.
TU's Useless BBS - Were BS is waist deep Ron's added a new Bulliten Board. Neato! Personally, I like the boards where you can edit before and after posting. Also personally, I don't know enough HTML to fight my way out of a paper bag! People in glass CGI houses shouldn't throw grenades.
6/22/2001Adam brought up a good point yesterday.My sub is an 8", not a 12". Man, I don't even remember what gear I own!
6/20/2001I bought the Rolling Rock on 5/3. I finished it on 6/11. 41 days to drink 12 beers. That's .29 beers a day, or about one every 3 days. See, Mom, you don't have to worry.
Adam came over for a bit after work. He was impressed with my little Definitive 12" 250 watt sub. I thought I would show him a real low bass workout, so I threw the Dolby Digital version of Top Gun in the laser disc player. (The jet take-off scenes are very bass heavy.) I actually rattled a mirror and a picture off the wall. Then he went home. I continued to watch the move, after I put the picture and mirror back up. I rattled them down again. The second time, they broke.
This is what happens when I try to do two things at once. While helping a customer set up their dial up networking, I was trying to read the Midcoast Religion and Politics bbs. At one point I told the customer to "right click Father Andrew"! Whoops.
So Felix (or Fear3000) over at Vinyl Asylum has posed a picture of his record shelving system. In the photo, his daughter Rachel can be seen next to some huge Dunlavey speakers. (The picture is here.) I was so inspired, I thought I would throw together a page of Julia showing off her musical abilities. No pictures of her admiring my hi-fi, but here is a shot of her and me dancing and playing the drums.
So I come to work a little early this morning, so I can get some Blogging done. Turns out Blogger is down. Sweet! Will the whole day be like this? Stay tuned!
"Phantom Menace" Goes DVD Cool. It's about time. I saw it in the theater, and didn't really like it. I haven't bothered to rent it, as I refuse to watch it on VHS. Please. George Lucas, the man behind THX, release a film only on VHS? Although I didn't really like it, I still want to own it. I'm a Star Wars fan. I've got the Special Edition laser disc box set in Dolby Digital. I have to own Ep. I, just for the collection. I would also like to see the hacked version with Jar-Jar cut out, and Anakin a more sinister character.
6/15/2001Looking to buy Billy Rhythm a present? Here.
6/14/2001Ok, it's not Low-ZStudios, but Lo-ZStudio.com. And, as you can tell from these pictures, he's already got a page up about the experience. Let me tell you, he is a gracious studio owner, as well as a way better drummer than me. I needed some WD-40 for my kick pedal, bang, he got it. Wanna cool drink? Slam, he puts a Co-Cola (as Glen the bass player says they say down South) in your hand. Need just the right pang cymbal with rivets? Here, use mine. Blind Al need that kick mike pulled out a little? Let me do it. And he's doing it all just because we're friends. You see, Blind Albert's studio would require me to cart the drums each time, so each session we would have to get the drum sound. Since we're using Barry's studio, we can get a good drum sound, and leave them set up for next time. (Well, maybe not just because we're friends... It may be because he gets to play my Starclassics for a week or two!) And man, don't I look tubby in those pics! I gotta start exercizing.
6/12/2001Crazy mad props to Barry at Low-Z Studios. I will update you tomorrow, as it's late.
A real computer geek has developed a toaster that connects to the Internet, gets a weather forcast, and toasts an icon of the day's weather onto the bread. Stylin'! Stolen from Biz Stone, vegan genius.
6/11/2001On the way to the gig this weekend, Blind Al bought a Tri-State Megabucks ticket. The cash option (which he chose over the annuity) was about 2 1/2 million. He told me if he won, he would buy me my dream drumset, complete with cymbals and percussion items. Now, I hadn't really thought about what I would pick if price were no object, but I'm pretty sure it would be aDW kit.
6/9/2001Well, BillyRhythm.com has received over 2,000 unique visitors, and over 15,000 total hits. Not bad for 3 months in business.
Also found today on ebay, Richard Brautigan's Please Plant This Book. This was his first "book." It was a packet with 8 envelopes of seeds. On each seed envelope, there was a poem. Problem for us collectors--those crazy hippy/beats actually planted the seeds, and disposed of the book! Crazy. Now, it's super rare. As a matter of fact, this is the first one I've seen with the folder intact.
Another Tama Rosewood snare shows up on ebay. How come they never show up when I have some extra scratch? Or, the better question, how come I never have any extra scratch?
6/7/2001Well, it took me about 4 hours to get it right, (and I skipped lunch) but when I left at 4:15, the Mac had OS X and OS 9.1, and I was running 9 apps in 10. So I guess that worked ok. Now if I can only find a way to transfer my favorites folder over...
Aunt Ginny interrupted my break to pick up her machine. Thought you should know.
Installing OS X on my work G-4. Zapped hard drive, partitioned it, installed a fresh, clean 9.1, and I am putting X on partition A. Wish me luck...
Elvis' drummer's kit for sale on ebay. $100,000 opening bid? To an Elvis collector, maybe, but no self respecting drummer will pay that much.
6/6/2001I just found out that Sue and I won't be able to celebrate our anniversary on Friday as we planned--she has to babysit for that non-stop crying machine. Tomorrow is out, as we have guests. Saturday, I have to play. SUnday night, church. Monday, the actuall date, Sue isn't home. Shot!
Kevin "J" Lightning cannot do laundry at my house. Adam, however, can. And I would like to wish this guy congratulations on his new soon-to-be house.
6/5/2001Ever notice how Bloggers are getting younger and younger. I saw a nice looking page, complete with web cam, designed by a 13 year old! Way better looking page than mine. Of course, it's not hard to have a better looking page than this.
6/4/2001A new page is up in Fun Stuff: read why I think Bank of America stinks.
6/2/2001Eight-year-old's suspension to be reviewed. This kid pointed a chicken finger at a classmate (while at lunch) and yelled "Bang!" He was suspended! A chicken finger! "Critics of zero-tolerance policies say problems may arise when school staff try to determine whether students brandishing fish sticks, chicken fingers or even hotdogs are doing so to intimidate others." How many kids have ever "brandished" a fish stick? Please! Brandish. Get out, you stupid morons. Intimidation by brandishing a fishstick? If some kid is going to wack out because someone points a freakin' fish stick at em, they might as well stay home.
Note to non-musicians: if you work your day job all day, drive 2 hours to a gig, play the gig, drive back home, get home at 3 a.m., sleep, and go back to work at 9 a.m., you will be tired. But I should also say that I had the ribs at the Hilltop Steakhouse in Ellsworth last night--yummy! Maybe the best I've ever had. One of the owners got the recipie from an old rib maker in D.C., of all places. One step they omitted for the origional recipie: drizzle cooking ribs with bacon fat! Oh, they should have left that part in! You could stick a rib in your mouth, and just pull... The meat would come right off, nice and clean. Man, I'm getting hungry!
6/1/2001I will not be getting ordained by some wacko Californian group who calls themselves a "church." Two guys in the office (Ron and Adam) have ordained themselves this week. I will not be doing the same. My father in law, a Baptist minister, is not ordained. Perhaps he is on to something.
Requirements for Ordination in the United Catholic church. Or, if you went to Interfaith Seminary, you would have to meet these requirements. Ecumencial? Here. Nazarene Bible College has you attend all these couses, just for the education side of things. The Academy of Jewish Religion offers two ordiantion tracks: one for rabbis, and one for cantors.
Also, this page doesn't say that White House vandalism didn't happen (although some people and the headline would lead you to believe otherwise.); it says that there were no records kept.
No where on this page does it say that Republicans threatened Sen. Jeffords life, though some would lead you to believe that.
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