Archive for January, 2011

The busyness

January 29th, 2011

I’ve been busy. Even though it’s been two weeks since the big studio move, there was still some things that needed to be done around the studio. I spent most of last weekend doing those things.

During the week, I’ve had to take care of all of the usual time-consuming life obligations, Beyond that, I had an appointment with a physical therapist for my ongoing left-arm problems. I was given a regimen of stretches and arm exercises to do at home to try and strengthen the muscles in my arms and upper back. I think it’s helping.

Jen’s been summonsed for potential jury duty in L.A. (400 miles away, round trip). I spent part of an evening helping her fill out the online “qualification questionnaire.” We did our best to make it as clear as possible that they really don’t want Jen on their jury. We won’t know for at least a few weeks if she’ll have to go.

I’ve written 2/3 of a new song and I kinda like it. Been thinking about the music thing a lot lately. Got some ideas there. Also thinking of finally making good on my threat of taking this blogging thing to a new location. This may tie in with the music thing. I need a clever name for this new project but I haven’t thought of anything yet. I’d like to get a simple domain name that somehow ties into my name. There is actually one shawn.xx top-level domain name available but it’s one of them weird ones that costs $50.00/year to register. Not sure if I want it that badly. I could just do things under my own first and last names (plenty of domain options there). But, I don’t know. I find my name to be rather dull. Also, it seems that my last name is difficult for many people to pronounce. It’s seemingly even harder for them to spell. Six letters. One syllable. You wouldn’t think it’d be so much trouble. This is why I need a clever alter-name to operate under. Let me know if you’ve got any ideas.

A walk to the coffee shop

January 21st, 2011

I recorded this yesterday morning but couldn’t post it until today because my web hosting company’s servers were down.

Anyway, as the title suggests, I took a walk to a local coffee shop and let my iPhone’s voice recorder roll during the process. No monologues this time. Just the sounds around me. A bit of a throwback to the old SLOwalker days, perhaps.

Phantom Power Media studios 4.0

January 18th, 2011

In what is possibly turning into an annual event, we spent last weekend rearranging our recording studio/computer room. This is our fourth, and hopefully, best version of the setup so far.

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The old studio setup. Note my computer on the left-hand side of the photo and Jen’s computer on the right-hand side.

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Simple Sunday project

January 9th, 2011

We’ve needed a hand towel holder in one of our bathrooms forever. I ordered one earlier this week. It was delivered yesterday.

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The first weekend of 2011

January 3rd, 2011

The first weekend of 2011 has come and gone. It was a good weekend, though things got a little weird at the end.

We had fun Friday evening recording GeminiDragon 18. We were joined by some friends for the live show as we discussed our predictions for 2011 and covered some amusing year-end lists.

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