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At least 4 Japanese people rock. I saw Mono last night and they were great. It wasn’t the show that I expected to see, but that wasn’t their fault. Russian Circles and Pelican were both extremely predictable from song to song. Mono still has their style of swelling into a wall of noise built into most of their songs, but the songs are beautifully orchestrated and varied. They also had 2 or 3 songs last night that didn’t come off like “traditional” Mono at all (one beginning with keys and the other with 3 guitars vs their usual 2 guitars 1 bass setup).
I really wish the live recording would have worked out, but it wasn’t meant to be. They have just released a new album so I can’t claim to not understand, but it would have been fun to do. I’m a bit worried that if I ever do pull it off, Headliners will be a difficult place to record and one of the places that I would end up at often. Everything comes off sounding very simlar regardless of the style of music. The sound man is so set in his ways. It isn’t necesarrily bad, just his voice rather than the band’s voice.
I was able to get quite a few pictures of the evening. Not many of them are worth looking at. Mostly low light blurred movement kind of stuff. There are a few that came out a bit dark but still, and a few more that came out well all around. You can find them in the Gallery under “wasn’t at work” for yesterday.
Today was Ellie’s first doctor’s appointment. It went very well. They didn’t do a lot, but she the couple of things that they checked went as they should have. She is back up to her birth weight and all signs of jaundice are gone. We’re just waiting on some burst blood vessels in her eye to heal and her cord to fall off. The eye should be normal anywhere from a week to a month. Her cord will probably last another week or so. All in all, it was a very good visit. Ellie’s healthy and we still like Dr Valentine (of course).
On the sleep topic…2 nights went well and last night went pretty poorly. We woke up at 1am and stayed that way until 5am. We’re trying to keep her awake tonight so she can sleep through the night. I hope it works. We really need the sleep. She’ll figure it out soon though; we’re more fun when we have slept more than 5 hours.
A little background first…a few years ago Chris’s grandmother passed away. Without getting into all of the details about the trauma that ensued afterwards, both emotionally and legally, I’ll move into a description of the least favorite thing that has been left behind for us. A fluffy ass pomeranian named Cuddles, was left in our care.
There is a lot of sentimental attachment from Chris because Cuddles belonged to her grandparents, but she’ll be the second to admit (me being the first) that he is spawned from hell. He has an incessant barking habit with absolutely no valid reasons for the barks when they come. He has a justifiable fear of me that causes him to take about 5 minutes to come in the door when I am the one encouraging him to do so. He humps other dogs even though he has been neutered. He whines to request release from the dungeon. Etc., etc….
So Chris is 30 weeks pregnant today. She decided to wash Cuddles since the weather had let up this afternoon. He had aggregated quite a bit of fecal matter in the long hairs around his ass. It was really to the point of nearing sickness any time he was walking away from you and you made the mistake of looking. So at 30 weeks pregnant she ties him up, straps on a dish-towel facemask, fastens her yardwork safety goggles, and pulls his tail towards her to attack with laundry detergent and a water hose. How is she deciding to do this and actually following through???
I’m writing this from WordPressDash a dashboard widget on my PowerBook. I’ve recently added all kinds of new toys to the site.
My last host (milescape.com) crapped out and stayed that way for 3 weeks before I decided to move. Since the site has done nothing beyond providing consistent e-mail addresses for me and Chris, I decided not to bring over the old pages. I’m trying to put a little energy into this and make it somewhat useful as I had once intended.
So far I have added this blog (WordPress), the gallery (Gallery2), and over the past couple of days a news feed aggregator (Lilina). I’ve been playing with all kinds of plug-ins to make it interesting for myself (even if no one else cares).
Again, we’ll see how long any of this stuff gets kept up.
