Filed under: General
sure enough… they cancelled the nhl season today…
Filed under: Family
k and the kids are away and i’m a bachelor for the next week and a half…
and i’m bored….
i shall need to find new adventures… mountains to climb… challenges to meet…
… miller lite to drink…
what a strange feeling to wake up this morning without all of the usual start-of-the-day shenanigans going on…
hmmnnn…
Filed under: Family
so tugboat slept for seven hours last night… shattering his former personal best by an entire hour… a fantastic achievement methinks…
of course the five or so hours prior to his actually falling asleep were nowhere near placid and peaceful…. but i’ll accentuate the positive here… i think we’ll accept sloggin’ through a couple extra hours of fussiness if we knew it’d produce a full night’s sleep…
Filed under: Friends
darwin’s birthday night
friends all gather for sushi
sake reigns supreme
Filed under: General
it’s 3:00 in the morning… here’s what’s in my head…
hockey…
just read that the nhl season is very likely going to be officially called off this weekend… (nhl???… are those guys still around???…)… well yes… although perhaps not for long… in, from what i can figure, a classic example of too much expansion too soon with no control on expenditures, the league finds itself in a bit of a financial jam… the owners and the players have been meeting, very sporadically, to try and come to some sort of agreement on how to move forward and keep both sides rich and happy … from what i read now it looks like they’ve both told each other to pound sand… thus potentially calling off an entire season of a major professional sport for, i think, the first time ever in north america… i wouldn’t be surprised if the whole league folds… and from what i’ve seen so far this year i wouldn’t be surprised if no one notices… must say it bums me out a tad… although i don’t pay as much attention as i have done in the past i still consider myself a fan…
podcasts…
my pal steve has turned me on to this whole new frontier of DIY production and on-demand info… power to the peoples says i… steve has started his own podcast, a brit abroad, which i quite enjoy and recommend highly… he does one every week or so – i think he’s up to five or six of ‘em now…
dw…
hey… it’s friday now… happy birthday darwin!
perspective…
perhaps the most important thing in my eyes…
case study… why does a darlin’ little newborn boy… tugboat for instance… seem significantly less cute and cuddly than usual as he’s screaming it your ear at 2:30 in the morning 30 seconds after you’ve awoken from an amazingly deep and satisfying slumber???… dunno… just the way it is i guess… definitely time to step back and look at the big picture…
cd dudes…
oh i sure hope our shipment of the soon-to-be-classic snapshot by the lovely and talented spank is on the way from canada, eh?… here’s a complimentary business tip for our friends at omnidisc media… you guys are doing it backwards… what you want to do is under commit and over deliver… that way you give your customers joy…
sleep…
need some mo’ now…
Filed under: Music
band night… what a good practice…
so after a rough first-night-back we’ve now had two pretty fine practices… as i opine anyway…
took some time tonight to go back and fine tune a couple of older songs as well as work on the newest one… and had a fine time doing it…
we’re waiting to get our completed cds back from the folks doing them… been way to long and some less than ideal service as steve has pointed out on his website… but the goods are supposedly shipping in the next day or two… this is good… when we get them we’re going to try to plan a cd release party at the central in kirkland… should be a hoot…
and ebo shared with me that he treated his girls, who are huge fans, to third row tickets to see… ashley simpson… kids these days… he blew them away and i think that’s pretty awesome… made my night to think about them losing their minds with joy at the thought of getting to go to that concert…
Filed under: Music
so the place where spank practices, premier soundworks, is unfortunately going to be making a move from the eastside… uh… next door to my house… over to seattle…
this is a bummer of rather large magnitude… even apart from my 30-45 second commute to practice (depending on traffic) premier is a fantastically cool place and is relatively convenient for the rest of the band… and paul the owner is one of the coolest music-related folks i’ve met in the 10+ years i’ve been playing in bands… he shall be sorely missed…
this is also where we recorded our cd snapshot as well… good times…
should also mention that paul’s in a band called slender means that are finishing up a new album and planning a west coast tour in march… they rock… go see them…
so with change comes opportunity… links below are for my new-joint research…
http://www.musicprep.com/seattle/
http://www.musiccrunch.com/studio_nw.asp
http://www.cityofseattle.net/music/directory/recording.htm
Filed under: Sport
was a pretty good game and a fine lil’ soiree… as much of a beatles fan as i am i thought the halftime show was a bit of a snoozer though… needed some oiled dwarves or something… the network certainly played that safe…no chance of any fcc fines this year… oh well…
beautiful daughter mackenzie slept, amid the 110 decibel broadcast and cheering outbursts, for most of the second quarter… on dad… whose left side almost immediately fell asleep… once she woke up and i had restored partial circulation we headed home to mum and tugboat to watch the end of the game…
speaking of sebastian… apparently i just thought “tugboat” would be a good nickname one day… guess when he’s older he can either a) make up his own reason for it, or b) tell dad to stop calling him something silly…
Filed under: Sport
ahhhh… superbowl sunday… the most ridiculously over-hyped day o’ sport in america… let’s just hope for a good game, shall we???… nothing like enduring the two weeks of over-the-top build-up its-gonna-be-crazy this-is-the-game-to-end-all-games in-your-face promotion to have a half time score of 27-3 and the second half be a formality…
wow… having come out of the gate sounding like a totally bitter anti-sport wanker… i must correct that impression… i’m a big football fan… and a big sports fan in general… and i’m quite looking forward to the game… still think its over-hyped tho’…
so we’re packing up the clan and heading over to our friend tim’s place for a superbowl party… he’s from pennsylvania and a big ol’ eagles fan… i shall root for the afforementioned eagles a) as the underdog, and b) in honor of our host… hopefully les enfants have a swell time and we won’t need to be heading home during the second quarter…
go eagles…
Filed under: Friends
the january 4
Originally uploaded by bushrod.
had a birthday party today for mackenzie and her pals ethan, alex, and ben… they were all born around the same time and their mums got to be pals…
after a whirlwind two and a half hours o’ fun and excitement k and i looked around and… were pleasantly surprised to see that the abode was still standing and not in the usual state of disrepair…
and tonight k and i get to have a lil’ party of our own… its a date night… the first one in quite a while… we’re going to meet guitar player steve and his lovely bride nabila for a drinkie or two… this is good…
