But what do you figure, it's 3am here...



So time for the updates.

• Lisa, my wife, just started a blog here. Her entry on metric time is pretty amusing.
• Brian and Greg of Kvasir have decided to kick Mo out of the band, and they're joining up with Winston and I. Greg is shifting from guitar to drums. So, we're all playing together at the Old Town Pub in Silverdale as Slow Goat Riot in a week. It should be a good show; we'll definitely play the Wicked Asylum favorites (including "Wally") and we're going to try to play some of the Kvasir songs too. What I was planning on doing was taking my minidisc recorder and plugging into the outputs from the board, but then I realized that we don't mike the drums for a small venue. So, maybe I'll just do it with a microphone and see how it turns out.
  

Tomorrow I wrap up the last test of the week. Which will be a nice thing; I can finish up my Flash midterm and keep working on the preparations for the big rock show next Friday. I went to go practice with Kvasir tonight, and as I pulled in, Mo and Brian were leaving. WTF? So, I ended up working with Greg on the drum parts for all the new songs. The big surprise was that things went really well; there were no tempo changes whatsoever. I think playing with a guitar player was screwing with him. I think it's a curse when guitar players try to play drums; I swear they have the worst sense of timing. It's all I can do to get them to count through the measures where they need to rest or whatever. They start listening to the guitar player or zoning off and spontaneous tempo changes result.

It really was ridiculously rainy yesterday! We set records here in Western Washington; over 5 inches of rain yesterday. Skagit and Mason counties are pretty well flooded out, and I'm surprised we haven't had more roads wash out here.



The testing season starts today; I've got a stats test in 45 minutes. I'm really looking forward to the next week when the tests are done and I can get ready for the Halloween show. Yesterday I went looking for drum machines to cover just in case we have a drummer involved in a "bizarre gardening accident" or some other weird nonsense. After looking around, I settled on a Boss DR-3 that my local Ted Brown music was selling surprisingly for the same price as most online retailers. Of course, the Silverdale store can never seem to stock anything, so I've got to wait to pick it up. I also picked up some Audio-Technica monitor headphones, some cables, and a Rocktron Metal Planet distortion pedal for my guitar. It sounds terrific, and it let me re-bias the amp so my clean channel is once again clean.

It is ridiculously rainy today; I guess that's our penance for having a relatively nice weekend.



I'm staying busy. A statistics test tomorrow, a poli-sci test Thursday, an animation project due today, and a Flash project due next week. Between that and trying to rehearse with two bands, and the car stuff, I don't have a lot of free time.



Last night I passed out at 10pm. Which is pretty weird, because normally I'm up until about 5am every night. I took advantage of the opportunity, and slept until about 4:30 this morning. Then for no particular reason at all, I felt compelled to clean up around the house a bit, and do the laundry that didn't get done over the weekend. Then I actually made it to my 9am stats class, and learned that the test is tomorrow. I'm still going strong; I just hope I don't crash too hard and that I can sleep well again tonight.