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Happy birthday!

I'm getting wood today. I'm gathering firewood from the forest today. Winter is coming, etc.

This really fucking sucks. For a government that claims to be conservative, they're really bad at it unless you happen to be an oil company. A bunch of my favourite bands have been on Facebook today saying that they won't be able to tour Canada again as a result of these new rules.

This. The ratio of girth to height is also important. I'd say somewhere around 0.65 is ideal.

Happy birthday, youngster.

Our pipe dream is to tear down an unusable barn on our property and side the house with weathered barn-board. Free materials, but lots of work! Hey, who wants to come and help me tear down a barn next summer? Okay, back to work. I had to come inside to get a beer. Big Rock Grasshopper wheat ale is tasty on a hot, muggy day.

Some friends came over yesterday to help me put house-wrap on my house. Today I'm going to try to finish most of the job solo. At the rate this house is progressing, we'll have siding on by the fall of 2014.

Just got a bump up to 24 hours per week from 21. A bit more dough, but more importantly it allows me (and family) to enroll in an awesome health and dental plan, fully paid by my employer. This fall and winter, my teeth will get fixed, finally.

Hope it was a good one!

Playing the headline slot with my original band at the Harvest Sun Music Festival tonight. Gonna be 2.5 hours of awesome, followed by no more rehearsals for quite awhile (I need a break!).

Absolutely agree.

In our neck of the woods, bats are known to carry rabies, but it's probably different in your area. We once had one dive-bombing us outside in the daytime - I would have given it pretty good odds of having rabies.

Time to invest in a badminton racket, Nate. Also, note that bats may have rabies. Hope it gets resolved soon.

Thanks, I'm going to check that out! Yeah, philosophically I'd prefer to keep it as simple as possible, post-processing-wise, but that would probably also require much more expensive mics than I currently own.

I failed on the recording - too much rushing about beforehand. We're doing it again in October, and it should be a better-sounding room, so I'll cook something up then.

Happy birthday, Tyll!

I'll see if we can get something recorded tonight. Maybe a minidisc with a stereo mic for the room, and another one with a line coming off the board, to be mixed together later. It wouldn't be stupendous audio quality, mainly due to limitations of a smallish room with a high ceiling and some electrical issues.

Congrats, Carl! Have fun, Bryan. I've got one more White Album concert to perform tonight. The last two have been great, and all three were/are sold out (280 tickets or so each night). We've been working on it and obsessively listening to it since the fall - kinda bittersweet to have it finish, but the afterparty should be a good time.

Really sorry to hear that. Losing a dog is really difficult.

Yup. The freezer trick. Might be a head crash.

I've been told I have a good "Ringo voice". I'm not sure if it's a compliment or not...

Birthday greetings, sir! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYN54NZqlcw

Good luck and have fun, CJ! I'm enjoying a day off from work and music, and will celebrate by fixing some fences so the cattle stop escaping. Then, tomorrow I've got a dress rehearsal for the White Album tribute concert that one of my bands has been working on since the fall. We're doing three performances this coming weekend. I'm mostly playing drums and percussion, but singing lead on the Ringo songs as well. I'm really looking forward to it, and looking forward to having some time off afterwards.

Good tips, thanks guys. I'll share some of the sounds around if I can get a project sounding good this summer/fall.