Sometimes, time flies right by and I don’t write anything. Then it seems so much time has passed that I’m not sure which events of the last few days I should write about. So here’s a rundown.

Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
Fiona Apple’s new release really has a hold of me. Great songs, great voice, and production that sounds great even to my incredibly picky ears.

Work
Podcasting, new iPods, two new machines still in boxes to implement, 10 hour days at least, large production projects, need IT help, crazy crazy crazy…

Home
My daughter is growing up way too fast. She has a new trick almost every day, she’s going from knowing words to being conversational, and all those cute little baby clothes are too small. Toddler came on very quickly, it seems.

We’re not really loving our house, and we talk about moving all of our stuff almost daily. There’s too much traffic and noise and neighbors and on and on. And really, for the money we’re paying, there are much nicer houses on the market. We were very anxious to get back on our own, perhaps too anxious. Oh well, live and learn. I wish I could just buy a place so that we could really settle. That’s dreaming though, I know.

Music
Trying to get back into jamming with Maudesty and our old three-piece is going to play again tonight. Now that my bass player set up his spare bedroom with some Roland V-Drums, we can play into the headphones without hardly making a sound. That will be fun, it’s only the second time I have gotten to play those V-Drums in a full band setting. Man, I love those things. I think all the time about parting out the Pearls and hooking up on some Rolands. Although, I would hate to get rid of the Pearls, since I doubt I would ever be able to talk myself into hooking up on such drumset/cymbal goodness.

I started a blog page for Maudesty, which is my more experimental project, consisting of guitars, drum machines, laptops, and sometimes even the turntables. I’m going to get that up and running and released probably next week. Then, I’ll get perhaps a weekly podcast of some highlights from our session out there to get an initial response.

Tech
Boy do i ever want a Treo or a Blackberry or some such device with which to have a keyboard for text messaging. I find that I really enjoy that form of communication, but I have to have to think my way through the damn phone keypad when I have something to say. Especially after a few beers - the damn phone is just too small and inconvenient.

Video-capable iPod. Gotta have it. I think around xmas time. Hopefully be then, Apple will have released their video-capable Airport Express.

In closing…
Okay, there’s some fodder. Nothing great, nor controversial, so I probably won;t even get any comments. I need to work on that. But anyway, there you have it, kids. ~peace~