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Good Morning! Last night I played Diner Dash until way too late again.

I came home at around 12:30 yesterday so Phil could go to the doctor, so I got to spend an extra amount of time with the kids. That was nice. We played a bunch, I gave them a bath, it was fun.

Phil went to work earlier than usual since I was home, so he got to come home at a reasonable hour to work on his comic and song. When I woke up this morning, he was sleeping on the floor by his computer with his monitor/keyboard/mouse on the floor. I sent him to the actual bed. I'm curious to see how that happened. I'll find out when I talk to him later.

Today at work I have to attend this Market Launch thing at the Minneapolis Convention center. I was supposed to be there all day, but now I only have to attend until 11:30. I have mixed feelings about it. On one hand I won't have to sit through boring presentations all day, but on the other hand, I'll actually have to work - wasn't originally planning to have to do that!

What was your first car?
Mine was an '86 gold Ford Tempo. I was 16 and my grandma gave it to me because she was buying a new car. It smelled like old lady and ran like crap. I put band stickers all over it. I had it for a couple of years and I drove it until the engine seized up.

At work, recovering from a late night at The Lucky Dog. Wednesday is open mic night, and I stayed until the bitter end.

I gotta get going on the Nur Ein. I was going to explain the specifics of my difficulties with this round's song, but I'm finding that almost as tough to put into words. Just a tough challenge for me, this one. But, my back is against the wall, and that's when I usually work best. Here goes!


My first car was a Dodge Colt. I drove it for about a year, until I lost my license. I got a lot of speeding tickets. And I rear-ended a policeman, although I still contend that it wasn't my fault.

Stress is the order of the day. Thursday is the day where I get the most work done during the week. But today will be a struggle. And that's because I've got too much weighing on my mind. The worst of it all is a conversation with my wife where she told me she couldn't sleep because she was stressed out. I asked about what and she said she didn't feel like talking about it right then. Me, I'm a person who can't let things linger. After having such a hard time with emotions in the past, I have made a conscientious effort that when a problem arises that I try to deal with it tout de suite. This leaves me unable to deal and leaves me hanging at work wondering what's going on. So unfair.

My dad always wanted me to learn how to drive but I rebelled. I lived in NY. It wasn't a necessary. So he tried to sweeten the pot and bought a Buick Skylark and said it would be mine if I learned to drive. Still no go. Years and years later, I'm just now learning how to drive,

Still PO'd about our bass player. He's lazy about practice and yesterday he called out with a wrist injury...our last practice before our show Friday night. ( The Pegasus Lounge, 11:00ish, Ghost Town Gridlock) So he's injured and can't practice. I understand. However, if he wouldn't miss practice so much and show up late (AND LEAVE EARLY) all the time, missing this practice wouldn't be such a big deal. Thanks for listening.

First Car driven: My folks GMC Jimmy. Loved it.

First Car I bought parts for: My girlfriend's Datsun T-10.

First Car I bought: Chevy Citation. (Gawd that thing was ugly) Lasted less than one full year. Sold it to my mechanic for $5 (bus and train fare to get to work that day)

CURRENT CAR: My mazda died two days before Christmas and my uncle sold me his old car that he didn't want to pay insurance on:

'89 Lincoln Town Car - Ahoy Matey!

So, another day. 2 days posting in a row, nice. I'll be catching up cashpoint n Leaf soon. I think not.

Any way, another day living at the corner of dude and procrastination.

That said, I watched 'Decline' again last night. Damn you Spheres. And I have a real mood on to record the Motorhead song that opens the show. We'll see how it goes.

Its a fine tune. If I can just find a copy in my extensive colletion of mp3s.
Ahh yes, there it is. I keep all my mp3s on the internets. I use a storage system called BitTorrent..... it never lets me down, keeps all my files safe.

As for my first car, like Niv, I dont drive. So Ive never bought myself a car. I, meaning the girlfriend and me, have bought a few tho. She drives, I get lifts. The first of these I think was a Suzuki Vitara Jeep. We currently drive a Suziki Vitara Jeep, tho this is indeed a different one. This one is a convertable (into a hen coop).
I was once bought a car for my 18th birthday, so as to encourage me to learn. My father seeing I had no interest thought having a car would make me want to drive (hes a driver for a living, is me Dad). However, I still cant.

So the first car I owned was a really old Mini (like in the Itallian Job) cept mine was a proper old banger. I eventually sold it in a pub, it was great, I kept drinking all night, that night.

Anyway before I type myself into a carpal injury.

have a good day everyone

Me$$iah

Heather. Redmon. wrote:1When I woke up this morning, he was sleeping on the floor by his computer with his monitor/keyboard/mouse on the floor. I'm curious to see how that happened. I'll find out when I talk to him later.

What was your first car?
2Mine was an '86 gold Ford Tempo.I had it for a couple of years and I drove it until the engine seized up.

1. It was purely butt-leg related. I didn't feel like sitting anymore, so i did the lay out. OBV. a bad idea.

2. Was that the car you never put oil in?

My first car is still our car, a 98 Taurus. I licensed way late in life.

I AM DOING A THINGS!!!!!

Niv: don't worry about how fair or unfair it is. Just be ready to listen when she's ready to talk. Of course, if you're like most of us married musicians on SF, you're probably figuring, "oh, crap, this is my fault." Whatever. I'm not sure I'd be able to take my own advice, but there it is FWIW.

I think I mentioned in the "jobs" thread that I was a slow starter, and in the realm of cars, it took even longer... first car was a new 1984 Honda Accord; we'd gotten along okay without one in Berkeley (and the lady who had the parking space next to me drove some sort of road locomotive and admitted that she couldn't park it), but once we were in Santa Clara it was just too difficult. Parents weren't going to let me drive until I could pay for the insurance, so I didn't drive at all when I was living "at home" - in fact, one of the last things I did before moving out was have my dad teach me just enough to get my license, which I then pretty much packed away for a few more years.

Today... most of my days anymore start out in blue gear just from feeling bad about my lack of getting started on job hunting. today is no exception. Working on overcoming that (the feelings, if not the lack of startingism). I pulled out a worship song lyric I'd written a few months ago and turned it into a song this morning, got a simple guy and guitar recording laid down. No grand ideas yet for WWNMTB, and Wages hasn't posted in need of a collaborator yet either...

Next stop will be taking my mom to water therapy, then making lunch at her house, then from 1-3 I'm supposed to be over at my wife's school to act as a "judge" for a project the kids have been working on - something about designing an amusement park (they took a trip to Knott's earlier this year to do research) and now there are seven groups presenting their "sales pitches" and we judges are supposed to... pick the winner, I guess. Dinner after that, we'll see what happens tonight. I may be back at the school for the grand presentation with all the parents and stuff.

Idolismo: I thought Melinda was a very good singer, but sort of a one-trick pony, she does great on the gospel/soul style and whatever they threw at her, she just turned into that. Arizona is, of course, in the throes of Jordin fever, so that's who I'll be cheering for...

Charles

for most of the years i lived in Atlanta...I did not drive. When I did, I never drove it. If I left my parking space on a Friday night in the Virginia Highlands, I'd have to park a few blocks away when I got back. I used the truck MOSTLY to visit my folks in the 'burbs..which I believe is why they sold it to me in the first place.

When I moved to Tampa..I did not own a car for years. Borrowed my cousin's a little when i absolutely had to. Borrowed a girlfriends car to get to work for a while. Then I got a promotion that required me to buy a car. I still only drive to work pretty much. I take cabs to Ybor City (party part of town) and I walk to bars in my neighborhood. (Although not as convenient as it was when I lived in Atlanta)

It's hard to live in Tampa without a car though. No trains and the busses are worse than Cobb County's. Everything is spread out instead of close quartered. It is nice that its flat for walking though. Atlanta = hilly (but not like west coast cities though)

king_arthur wrote:Niv: don't worry about how fair or unfair it is. Just be ready to listen when she's ready to talk. Of course, if you're like most of us married musicians on SF, you're probably figuring, "oh, crap, this is my fault." Whatever. I'm not sure I'd be able to take my own advice, but there it is FWIW.

Yep. It was my fault.

But we talked. Basically our lives have just gotten too darn stressful and when it's stress all the time, when do you have time to be happy? We had a good talk and hopefully, we'll work through the stressful times and get some more happy ones going.

My stress today is Nur Ein related
I didn't get my vox done yesterday
Started, but hated my arrangement
Rearranged several times
Will do vox tonight, good or bad
Probably the latter
Que sera sera

First car I owned:
1971 Mercury Montego

Live, Love, Rock
Chris

My first car: grey 1986 Dodge Aries (4-door sedan model). Oddly enough also my wife's first car, though a different color. K-Car!
-bill

'73 Oyota Corolla (yup, the "T" fell off sometime during the 90,000 miles that preceded my ownership). White, with Bondo and primer. During the last few months of its life, I single-handedly push-started it to get to work.

LMNOP wrote:'73 Oyota Corolla (yup, the "T" fell off sometime during the 90,000 miles that preceded my ownership). White, with Bondo and primer. During the last few months of its life, I single-handedly push-started it to get to work.

Bingo! Also '73 Toyota Corolla (with T intact). Orange. I named it Gordon. It had a flat battery I could't afford to replace. So I always parked it facing down a hill so I could clutch start it. I used to sleep in it a lot. My mate had an identical one. We would park them next to each other - then go out on the piss. Then sleep it off in Hotel Corolla.

And many years later when I was much older and much richer - I bought my first ever "brand new" car. It was...a Toyota Corolla! I still have it. I named it Gordon...

Caravan Ray wrote:

LMNOP wrote:'73 Oyota Corolla (yup, the "T" fell off sometime during the 90,000 miles that preceded my ownership). White, with Bondo and primer. During the last few months of its life, I single-handedly push-started it to get to work.

Bingo! Also '73 Toyota Corolla (with T intact). Orange. I named it Gordon. It had a flat battery I could't afford to replace. So I always parked it facing down a hill so I could clutch start it. I used to sleep in it a lot. My mate had an identical one. We would park them next to each other - then go out on the piss. Then sleep it off in Hotel Corolla.

And many years later when I was much older and much richer - I bought my first ever "brand new" car. It was...a Toyota Corolla! I still have it. I named it Gordon...

This made me laugh my ass off. Two Corolla's named Gordon.

go out on the piss? HaHaHa!

The big boss has been around for a while, so everyone has been pretending to work real hard. Its odd, but the big boss is the tiniest man I have ever met.

There is a new article being ghost written for the Wine Industry Journal, called PP Bradshaw. I'm illustrating the character of PP for the layout, but I realised the other day that he looks like Dexter form the Octothorpe comic. I hope Spud and Mad Dog don't sue me...

My first car was a Ford Meteor (the famous three piston car). I bought it from a old lady, and over the course of three years, drove the thing into the ground. Then I sold it for $500 to some bogan. Success!

I was doing some last-minute grocery-store research to finish up some lyrics. The lyrics laud the Kool Aid Man for having points, and disparage Betty Crocker for discontinuing her crappy point program.

Imagine my shock when I noticed only the older Kool-Aid products (from January 2007 or earlier) seemed to have points! KOOL AID MAN, SAY IT AIN'T SO!

First car was a 79 El Camino for my 16th birthday if I remember correctly. After seeing how I drove it on the ranch, I was told that I was too irresponsible to drive it, and it was taken away.

YEARS later I got my drivers license, and the first car that I actually got to drive around was a 1986 Buick Skylark. I'm 32 now, and that was only a few years ago.

<a href="http://www.singshot.com">singshot.com</a> is cool, but it also distracted me from working on the Half Racks CD today. I am NOT wild about the sync issues I keep having on the site. I'll perform a song, and the playback is not lined up with how I performed it. After enough takes, it would SOMETIMES get it right. That feature is frustrating.

I found out about SingShot through an old friend that goes by the name AgentFresh. He recorded a classic Elton John in such a way that <a href="http://www.singshot.com/playPerformance ... &play=Y">I will never hear the song the same ever again.</a>

Three of my performances finally lined up enough to be acceptable. I enabled the webcam for each of them. Watch and enjoy if you like:

<a href="http://www.singshot.com/playPerformance ... lay=Y">The Beatles - "I Will"</a>

<a href="http://www.singshot.com/playPerformance ... lay=Y">Jim Croce - Lover's Cross</a>

<a href="http://www.singshot.com/playPerformance ... ay=Y">Paul Revere and the Raiders - Kicks</a>

ROCK!

Glenn Case

Cars:

1959 Ford Thunderbird bought for $350, sold for $65
1964 Olds Cutlass convertible with wire wheels bought for $500, sold for $650
1972 Fiat Spider bought for $2000 traded in for $500
1982 Renault Feugo (first brand new car, 23.5% interest) bought for $8,200 traded in for $600
1991 Jeep Wrangler lost track of prices at this point - numbers too high
1992 Pontiac Transport (the Octovan)
2001 Nissan Xterra bought for like $20K and totalled
2005 Honda Element

SPUD