The Song Fight Bulletin Board

Why does "Daily Roll Call" exist now? It was Phil Redmon's suggestion, and I liked it.

Here's what he had to say:

<i>"A few boards I used to frequent had a daily "Roll Call" thread, where people would check in on a daily basis and just give a little insight into their plans for the day & shit.

It's a really magical thing.

It'd stimulate the board, anyway. i know I'd post every day.

So yeah, a new thread each day is generally how it goes down.

I'd start it up myself, but, you know, seal of approval and all."</i>

The seal of approval was given by JB, and now this category exists. I'm looking forward to contributing to it.

Today? I am typing these words as I am about to leave work, pick up our vacuum, and then pick up Rach at Nelle's house.

I am ABSOLUTELY going to make time to play the Wii today, and I will probably transfer a couple of cassettes to CD for a friend.

ROCK!

Glenn Case

Aw, fresh, glenn.

Today:

Worked on making a color index for all my comic characters. Time-consume, but fun, and will pay off big time.

Also: New popcast, as per weekday usual.

Pizza for lunch for me and the kids.

Drew a racetrack on a big cardboard box for Spencer. It's great!

Gonna go in for a short shift tonight at work so I can come home anwatch 24 with Heather, then draw some comcis and work on Nur Ein #0.

I IS A BUSY BEAV.

So stoked we're gonna start doing this.

Last night I stayed up until 1am recording vocals for Evil April, then got up this morning at 5:30ish for work. Needless to say, I was a zombie at work, but I made it through with some coffee and a lot of Diet Coke. The song is awesome though, so it was totally worth it!

The kids and I had a super fun weekend. On Saturday we went to the library and they played in the children's area. Then we went from the library to the park for another round of playing. Yesterday, while Phil was working on the Hell Yeahs tune, I took the kids to the mall to play in the indoor playground. They played until they could play no more. Fun times.

Tonight, as mention by Phil, it's 24 and then a little bit of sleep.

I think this is a great idea. It was always a really fun part of the board I used to go to.

I'll be posting again tomorrow!

Thanks Glenn!

Well, I'm running around checking on my job sites and I have a bid to run on in about 15 minutes. All I can think about right now is getting back to my studio and finishing up my Nur Ein "Let Me In" song. I was hoping to have time for Evil April, but I don't think I can pull off both this week. I plan on Tivoing 24 because I pretty much have from around 6pm to 11pm to get my lead vox and some guitar work finished. The rest of it is quiet stuff.
Long may you rock! Chris signing out

How the ol' folks live:

Got up at four to walk the dogs (in AZ, especially in the summer, that's when you walk the dogs). Sat out by the pool listening to some music, then came in and figured out how to set MP3 id tags using perl. Re-did vocal track and added a lead guitar to "Evil April," which may or may not get submitted.

Worked on solving some of the current problems with the pool and made a trip to the pool store for stuff. Updated the Irish menu I'm creating and pricing for my Wednesday night cooking class and reprinted it. Loaded the dogs up in the car and stopped by my mom's to check in on her, then left the dogs with her while I went off to Sound Design class. Decided that the final class project I'm working on is coming out atrociously bad and wasted fifteen minutes of the instructor's time making him tell me I really do know what I'm doing, everybody's project is coming out like... well, like we're taking an Intro to Sound Design class and this is the first big project we've ever done and we're doing fine.

Picked up the dogs at my mom's, came home and checked in on songfight. Wrote this. Will need to figure out what to make for dinner, which will be eaten while watching whatever shows we taped the last two or three days. Like everybody else, "24" tonight and maybe an early bedtime unless the wife has projects for me to work on.

Charles

Today is the first day of finals week. But I didn't have a final today. My first one is tomorrow. It's Shakespeare, and it will be eeeaaassssyyyy.

The most exciting thing I did today was watch a cool documentary about parkour.

I work tonight at 11.

Aside from that, I ate pizza and packed up some stuff since I'm moving out next week and also packed for Thailand. I leave in a little over a week.

I also got my federal tax refund check. 8)

My new health insurance plan kicks in on May first and I am celebrating with a trip to the dentist to get my tobacco-stained teeth scraped to a slightly paler shade of coffee. At night I may go see a movie with friends; if not I think I'll go play a nice game of chess. There will probably be naps involved as well.

Maybe I'll even stop by my work contact's office and see if there's anything for me to do this month.

Finally I plan to say something snarky on the Song Fight! Network web site, but I may just get it out of the way tonight so it doesn't keep me up worrying.

let's see...........

talked to my friend J, who just moved to the westside. prolly hang out tomorrow and watch the warriors send the mavericks home early....

also, have to start packing for my trip to boston next week. anyone going to BIO?

have to run out and buy coffee at peets for work, otherwise, i'll have a bunch of ornery co-workers. should probably do a trader joes run too.

and i've been mining old analog recordings of brody with the hope of putting together a long delayed compilation and re-mastering of some of our recordings from 10 years ago. so i'll probably work on that later if i don't pass out first. fun!

I'm training for my first triathlon. On Mondays that means I run 3 miles then swin 1/2 mile.

At work (http://www.sbri.org) I have 4 million data points from three different experiments and I'm trying to develop some sort of statistical transformation so that I can compare data from each experiment and have it make sense. Dealing with that much data it takes a half an hour to do anything. And there's no guarantee that what you did was useful. So it's taken me a week so far with no real end in sight. Bright idea of the day - 3 parameter lognormal distribution seems to do the trick. I may have licked the problem finally. If that means anything to you then you need to get out more.

I cleaned my catbox, did dishes and laundry.

The makings of a 'Let me in' is beginning to take shape. It may or may not be done in time for the Nur Ein competition. We'll see.

Heh. I just discovered from a pm what a roll call is.

I had a practice with Vox Caelorum without our guitarist and it sucked, but we've decided we need a different singer.
I've eaten more chocolate today than I may have ever eaten in one day before, but I have no problem with that.
I'm trying desperately to come up with weird percussion to use for Nur Ein II, but failing miserably.

There ... I think that's what I was supposed to do.

The ticket machines on the train weren't working this morning. This didn't phase me in the least, but sausage boy's other half, Legs, was suitably phased. Its pretty easy to get her nose out of joint, though. I mean, if ticket machines can do it, anything can.

Work is really busy. Not only do two of the publications I work on schedules overlap these issues, but its the 1st of the month. This means changing all the ads over in the Daily Wine News, which is a task I loathe.

Now its 11:45, and Lu's daughter has turned up and offered to go get us chocolate muffins. How can you say no to that?

Middle aged work week:

Mondays. Wake the kids, get them dressed. Taxi to JFK for the usual 9:58 Delta to Mexico City. Got upgraded again, so comfy. Worked half the flight mapping data flows through the video archive ingestion process. Spent the other half reading Joseph Ellis' Founding Brothers. Been on a big American history kick lately, almost a book a week. The gluten free fish meal was actually pretty good. The coffee sucks. Brought my own Gorilla coffee cause I'm sick of Starbucks and local Mex joints don't do much better. Plus, they don't take the gift card I won in Las Vegas 2 weeks ago.

Arrived 3:00 at the broadcast center. Caught up on mail and development status. Spent three hours overhauling the testing process. Outlined more data flows and caught the 7:30 shuttle to the Sheraton. Dinner at the wine bar and here I am. Will read another chapter and crash. Usually rise 5:30, call home, and work till 7:30, go to breakfast, take the shuttle to the office, put out fires. Aiming to start taking the 7 am Friday flight home so I can surprise the kids at school and fool around the afternoon.

I got up, checked my Wii messages, had breakfast, went to work, spent 8 hours working on aggravating bug reports (one of which came from Mr. B himself, and boy is he whiny) and got a little bit of time to work on my ongoing research project. Then I went home and had leftover soup while watching DVRed TV. Then I saw this new grilled cheese sandwich area on here. I wonder how long it will last.

Yesterday, I had a long hard day of work trying to throw people out of the country. I missed out on seeing a new judge get appointed because all of my friends are slackers and didn't wanna go. I had many good conversations with my friend Dixie including why Songfight would be a statician's (she's one) nightmare. I also had many conversations with Luke regarding our band, his new digs and something called the "sodomy kick". I also collected the first few Round Zero tunes. Did all my usual fatherly rituals like read the kids story and dinner with the fam. I near fell asleep waiting to be able to do 10kdays as CJ hogged the computer and Aurora played Lego Star Wars. I finally did 10kdays and got in a crossword puzzle before 12.

Not the snazziest of days but it wasn't a bad one.

Funniest part of my day. Co-workers Jon-boy and Betsy are at my desk. Betsy leaves and a moment later, Jon-boy says "I know, I'm gonna have fish for lunch". I ponder how his thought processes work.

Niv kicked me up the ass today.

GlennCase wrote:It'd stimulate the board, anyway. i know I'd post every day.

LIAR

The masterminds hardly ever come around. I on the other hand spend too much time here. But I wouldn't change thing.

Billy's Little Trip wrote:The masterminds hardly ever come around. I on the other hand spend too much time here. But I wouldn't change thing.

Including punctuation, spelling, and a general disregard for the english language

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