NightWoundsTime

On a similar note I fixed my RROD'd 360 using a few screws on the heatsinks to replace the tension clamps. Still working perfectly a month later.

Yeah, one of my possible plans is to rent a car and do the CA 1 trip, however touristy and ill-advised that may be. I'd noticed that Santa Barbara is planted near the end of that trip and figured that you would oblige me for a night, and a ride into LA. Then again the SF crew is talking about a bus of some sort so we'll see how that goes.

I'm doing an extended trip. SF/Monterey one weekend to hang with my Marine buddy, and then I'll find my way down to LA for this shindig.

My Morning Jacket on Run Thru. Again really basic tone but there's nothing wrong with that.

Yeah happy new year. Mine sucked. As a liquor delivery dude the last two weeks of the year are always rough. Yesterday I had 28 stops which is only a bit heavy but the real pain came from having to cover half of another dude's route, because he had a 300 case drop to do. Got in the truck in the morning, and saw the oil pressure was reporting off the gauge, over 100 psi. Reported it to the dispatcher but there wasn't much to do but go out and drive it. Had a mostly uneventful morning, got all of my own large stops off, but then the truck started to crap out. It would go back and forth between 100 psi and 0 psi, with the automatic shutoff kicking in for the latter situation. Again, reported to the dispatcher, warned him that if it stayed at 0 psi I was doomed. Drove off to the other side of town to get more of the large case drops done, said many prayers to any god I could think of to keep my truck moving. Did one stop, got back in the truck, and it happened. I could go about a block at a time, not sure if I really had no oil pressure or whether it was just the gauge going screwy, but either way the truck was shutting down constantly. Went around the block and found myself a quiet parking lot suitable for whatever needed to happen next. At that point I had 17 stops and 172 cases still waiting to be delivered. Called the dispatcher at 10:30 AM, let him know I was down. No response. 15 minutes later I call again, to inquire what's up. "You're totally broken down now?" The first little chorus of "and a happy new year" runs through my head. "Yeah I'm broken down, I told you that 15 minutes ago." Guy proceeds to call our mechanic service, which for some unexplainable reason is called Efficiency. He also says that he has a backup driver in the warehouse, so he'll see about getting him out to me. An hour goes by, no real updates. I call, and Tony the dispatcher says he's working on it. I find out that the backup driver got sent to help someone other than myself, who was having some "problems". Later find out that said problems were rather minor and that most importantly, said problems didn't involve a truck sitting in a parking lot. Help was sent to a moving truck before a broken down one... brilliant. Then they find me a mechanic, who calls me at least 4 times for directions. He got lost once because he was in an area with a few one-way roads, and the road sign said "N Armenia", and he assumed that the N meant that it only went north. Brilliant. And a happy new year. Guy gets to me, starts fiddling with the sensors. The driver with the 300 case drop (Rob) pulls into an alleyway right behind my parking lot to do said drop, so being the nice guy that I am I go back and help him sporadically, with several trips up to watch the gauge while Henry the mechanic unplugged things. They finally let me know around noon that a different backup driver will be there soon. Billy the backup driver calls me to let me know that he's on the other side of the state and not to expect him till about 2 PM at the earliest. By this point "and a happy new year" is not only running through my head but I'm singing just that little fragment at least once every five minutes. Then I get the most evil phone call ever, from my friends JP11801 and Agile_one. They're sitting at a bar in New York City, drinking good beers and just had to rub it in. I call them evil something or others and relay most of this story to them. The mechanic finally called time of death on the truck at 1 PM. I again call the company, and the news is met with some sort of shock. I come up with some line about how they always expect the magical fairy elves of truckland (I.e. Efficiency) to come out and make everything better, when they should assume that the truck is going to be towed and end up pleasantly surprised. Long story short, I finally get another truck and both backup drivers in vans and we resumed the route at about 2:30. The 17th and final stop got delivered at 5 PM, and put back on the truck when the idiot liquor store owner decided that 5 PM on NYE was too late. And a happy new year. Came home, passed out by 8 PM, woke up at 7:30 AM feeling hung over and dizzy. Going back to bed now. At least it was better than last New Year, which I spent in the hospital after discovering my hernia. Not that I was seen by a doctor, I left just after midnight when all the alcohol poisoned people started showing up, not to mention the dude with the blown off hand from fireworks.

I hadn't really noticed this one before, as an entity, but I'm sure I've seen individual comics from them. So I went and hit random a few times and found myself decently amused at least at the ones that weren't overly techy. Programming language/math jokes don't do much for me. This one did make me LOL though: Even better:

BBC cooking shows should have Gordon. Shows on Fox with the oversoundtracking and the constant repetition not to mention the censorship, do the man a great disservice. Still, he's making money and all. Agreed that Top Chef is the real American foodie show.

Anyone on Xbox 360 want to team up when it comes out? No use playing it without exploiting its full 4 player mode, and I don't have a lot of active friends on Live.

Stop blinking at me and speak up. Aren't such legalities based on an antiquated gender gap anyway?

Look at a map, Florida ain't inland (wait, NVM, you meant inland California. I'm tired, ok?). The worst part about the Florida bill was it also contained a ban on civil unions or any other such measure. I voted "no" for that reason. And Government does have to get involved in marriage when it comes to divorces. I don't want to see the courts start dealing with gay divorces in the same ways they're involved in marriage as it stands. I'd be all for civil unions where the notions of shared property and alimony are not present.

They chose correctly. The new full band Guitar Hero is trailing far behind Rock Band in the fun factor. There will always be great tracks in both games but I'm happy when Harmonix snaps up my absolute favorites. I really wish Tool & Hendrix had gone their way, but the Beatles make up for it. Most of the game will be easy, but that's the joy of the Beatles. My demand for the second side of Abbey Road is highly influenced by that supremely awesome drum solo in Oh Yeah Alright.

Completely, 100% unexpected. The band that hasn't allowed any digital sales thus far, has just signed with Harmonix & MTV for a full game. Hell yeah. This totally kills Guitar Hero's Metallica release next year. Still looking forward to that one though. They better have the whole Side 2 of Abbey Road, uninterrupted!

I'm surprised Rush Limbaugh isn't playing this 24/7. It's pretty much what he's saying all day every day lately. Yes, I listen to Rush, so sue me. I also listen to Fresh Air every day. I also don't have the slightest clue who I'm voting for. I think listening to the radicals on both sides is going to cause an aneurism eventually.

Yet another Tampa team that I don't give a crap about. You won't see me on the fan bandwagon any time soon.

Big payback on episode 6, considering I've had a crush on Anna Paquin since she was 13 (as was I, at the time).

What the hell? They're moving Langerado downtown? That's kinda cool actually... Interested to see what the lineup will look like now. Hopefully they don't take cues from Bonnaroo and bring in Metallica & Kanye West. For the southern folks: Look out for any local show featuring Thomas Wynn & The Believers. Dude has an amazing voice and his band is pretty tight. They're even better live than those demo tracks on the myspace page show.

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Erm... wrong thread.

that blue vinyl is sexy on the KOB set.

I played one of those once. One that was badly repaired/restored by some idiots at Bob Jones University (I have a past fundamentalist Christian life). It had some freaky feedback issues. There was some satisfaction to be gained from sounding like Jimi Hendrix playing classical music, at BJU.

Episode 5 was quite good.

No lack of bass on my system. The MFSL just has more bloated bass. Could be blamed entirely on my cartridge or phono stage or whatever. Cart: Grado Platinum Reference (the entry level wood body cart, high output) Phono: Channel Islands VPP-1, Wall-wart power supply, not the VAC-1 upgrade.

Ok so here it is: As of now I can't decide. Steve's DCC remaster sticks to that 80's thin sound, just cleans it up quite a bit (I did an ABX in Foobar with the DCC and the original CD). The MFSL bumps up the midrange quite a bit and goes for a more modern metal attack that doesn't always work. In the clean slow section of the title track I prefer the MFSL vinyl quite a bit. In the main solo that follows, I also prefer the MFSL because they planted the solo right on top of the mix, instead of buried like on the original CD and the DCC. Granted that does wash out some of what the rest of the band was doing... you could argue that the drums are just as important as the guitar during that solo and they do get buried a bit on the vinyl. Similar results with Orion, which for the most part is a cleaner sound than the rest of the album. The MFSL wins there easily. Rest of the album with the chunky 16th note guitar attack, I'll take the DCC. The MFSL's added midrange and bass gets quite messy during all this. Vocals sound congested compared to the crisp 80's sound. So there ya have it, MFSL tries to modernize an 80's album and manages to really succeed for about 20% of the running time. All listening done with the metal-master ATH-ESW9 headphones and a Corda Move2. Quintete switchbox used to A/B.

Last concert was Drive By Truckers, at an upstart music festival. Felt like a private show for me and about 80 redneck hippies, all out in a field surrounded by trees. Excellent, and a far cry from the concert previous to that: My Morning Jacket at House of Blues in Orlando. Main problem with HOB being that it's located in Downtown Disney and the soul refreshing qualities of live music are negated by the soul crushing properties of Disney. Live music in a field at a poorly organized festival > A trip to Disney.

Maybe the SH people are just championing the DCC's because SH touched them? I'll do the comparison in a bit.