I just remembered that earlier this year I watched the Devil's Advocate in the same room with Isaac Brock while he gave half-assed commentary over it. What a bizarre experience.
We found this lil guy living in a hole in the busted up shed that came with our house.
Thought maybe I could DIY replace the shut off valves for our washer but of course it wasn't an easy fix like some can be. Had to call a plumber and now we have $1000 less in our savings account that seems to be dwindling by the day.
Issues we've found in our house since moving in: Multiple cracks in bathtub/shower Oven overheats, is basically unusable Oven is 27", all new ovens are 30" so counter cutout will have to be widened Washing machine water valves leak Probably others I'm forgetting.
We haven't gotten as far as getting my desk upstairs yet so here's my work from home setup for tomorrow.
Rented a U-Haul to move today and listened to the local rock radio station I used to listen to in the early 2000s while driving. They still play basically the same stuff they were playing in the early 2000s.
We found this stray dog roaming the street in our new neighborhood a few days ago and brought him to the local shelter. They cleaned him up pretty good but he's such a little scraggly guy! Honestly would have considered keeping him if we didn't have so much going on with this house.
Was a bit excited when I learned that our new house is in AT&T's service area for fiber. Scheduled to have it set up today, only for the guy to show up, look around, and decide there's no feasible way to run the line to our house.
I've got a million things going on with moving and house repairs, but I'm also trying to finish up the artwork for an album I've been working on so I can put it out. Here's the cover. My wife Ashley did the illustration because she's the best.
My work computer has desktop background that randomly changes between different National Geographic-style photos and this guy popped up today.
Sad to hear about Glen Hansard. I never delved too far into his music but Once was a great movie and he did my favorite cover of a NMH song. youtu.be/-EPZQunlky0?...
The Swell Season covers Neutral Milk Hotel
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We just watched Marty Supreme and after learning what the original ending was supposed to be, I feel cheated.
Hey everybody, buying a house is stressful and also feels more like gambling than I think it should.
The craziest thing about trying to buy a house right now is that people are allowed to use "AI enhanced" photos in their listings to just straight-up lie about the condition of the house.
You know a band is used to playing bigger venues in their home country when their stage backdrop is too big for their name to be fully visible at a headlining show in the US.
The Beths were so good! Easily one of the best-sounding shows I've been to, both in terms of musicianship and sound mixing.
In Charlotte to see the Beths tonight! I'm here too early, but I can hear them doing soundcheck inside so that's cool. They just played "Roundabout."
Look at this insanely cool store display my wife made for the Angine de Poitrine albums that are being reissued on vinyl today.
Speaking of Modest Mouse, the new album is decent but feels kind of all over the place, probably due to using multiple producers. Also maybe some of Isaac Brock's weakest lyrics at points. "Dogbed in Heaven/ Give It A Skeleton" and "Life's a Dream" are probably my favorite tracks.
Going to a lot of shows in the next week... Weird Al tonight, Modest Mouse tomorrow, the Beths next Tuesday, Claypool Lennon Delirium/Primus next Wednesday.
I think a recent update to the Gmail app has made it unusable on a Galaxy S8. It won't load anything or sync to my account. Real cool.
Eating at Taco Bell on my lunch break. Random teen: "Sir? Excuse me, sir?" Me: "...yes?" Random teen: "Do you work here?" Me: "No, I don't." Random teen: "Oh, well you look very educated." Me: "Thank you?"
Recently found out that my wife's mom is planning on selling her house (that we've been living in) by October so we have about 4 months to find a new place to live. Cooooool.
When I worked at the battery store, I once had to replace the fill valve for our toilet and one of my employees offered to do it as he didn't mind doing some "light plumbing." I've had to do the same at home a couple times now and always think of it as having to do some light plumbing.
I recorded a whole album of music that I'm really proud of but am waiting for my wife to help me come up with some cool cover art for it. Considering the age of some of the songs, I've technically been working on it for almost 20 years.
As if filling out an annual employee evaluation for myself isn't annoying enough, I just spent an hour doing it only for the page to reload and delete everything when I tied to save my progress. Yaaay, I get to type it all up again.
Going to see Built to Spill tonight! I love that they've been playing in Charleston pretty regularly for the last 10 years or so. It's nice being able to see one of my favorite bands without having to travel out of state.