The Weekend

I'm not sure what has happened to me in the last few days, but my motivation has just skyrocketed. I've spent so much of the last few months struggling to do everything that wasn't just hanging out with friends. I haven't even had time to hang out this weekend because I've been too busy doing things around the house. This is strange, but I'm not complaining.

So, what have I done? Well, Since I'm at my parent's place, and have a little bit of guilt for the fact that they are putting me up through my period of struggles, and since they are gone for a while, I cleaned the fridge on Friday morning. And I don't mean just tossing old food... I mean completely disassembling the shelves and pulling the whole entire fridge apart and washing everything. The damn thing looks brand new now. This is kind of the old me... when I do a job, I do it well. This should surprise them.

I have also wired my whole entire car for the upcoming stereo system. I should get either my old Alpine CD player, or a brand new one tomorrow. Or, if nothing else, sometime in the afternoon I will know what is happening. As it stands, all I need to do is install the CD player and connect the new wires, install the front stage speakers, and place the amp rack in the trunk. Also, a rough version of the sub box is completed. I have coated all the joints in silicone and am letting that cure overnight. Tomorrow I will drill the hole for the sub and that will be ready to go in the car as soon as the CD player is in. I did this box roughly as I am going to be playing around with positioning in my trunk as well as box sizing in order to make sure the sub performs as I want it to. I am not a plug and play person when it comes to audio. However, later this week the whole car should be wired up and I should have a very loud, very wonderful sounding stereo. And yes, I will provide earplugs for those that request them. This whole process thrills me.

And finally, I have started ripping my 200+ CD's to MP3's on my computer. I haven't bought a CD in a long long time, other than local bands that I couldn't download. I think it's been at least 5 years, but probably longer, so this stuff is older and not as heavy as my current list of bands. Going down memory lane, I really got to wondering what happened to Econoline Crush (they got a lot of play this weekend when I found their CD's)? I also forgot how much I enjoy Silverchair's music, and quite enjoy their progression as songwriters as they matured. I also remembered how much the Punk of today sucks my ass, and how pre 2000 Punk is so fun to listen to. I mean, old Pennywise, Ten Foot Pole, No Use For A Name, No Fun At All, Lagwagon, Face To Face and so on are just fantastic bands to sit back and crank up. Let's not forget about Avail and Good Riddance... I mean, damn. Today's punk is not even punk, but watered down poppy music that somehow gets labelled Punk. It's just wrong. Oh yeah, and for those that think I'm close minded, I do have some electronic music like Prodigy and The Crystal Method, as well as Rap, but once again, it's all pre 2000 when Rap made sense to me. I won't start to comment on the current state of affairs with that genre.

I got through about 40 CD's last night, and discovered that my music drive (120 Gigabytes) is full. That is half of my computer solely dedicated to music. I've had to move things around in order to clear my 40 Gig drive so that I can start storing music on that drive. I am closing in on 17000 Mp3's on my computer and am happy to say that my FTP site is up and running again (yeah, I don't know what was wrong for a while there) and all this new (old) music is available to those that have access. If anyone else would like access, send me an email so we can discuss it.

Yeah, this post was really pointless, but I thought I'd let a few of my good friends know that I'm doing pretty well for the most part.