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This is what I spent my entire Sunday on week before last.  Ain’t it a beaut?

Back in the old days (1996) when I could barely do a “File->Save As” and get a file successfully saved to a disk I created two little pieces of art with Microsoft Paint on a Windows 95 machine. I ran across those today and thought I’d throw them out here. One is an ocean scene and the other is my rendition of Mars (probably as seen from Phobos). I think they’re kinda humorous (in their simplicity) and, probably more importantly, remind me of a very different time in my life.

I actually drew these on my best friend Dave’s computer when we lived together on Eastwood Avenue in South Charleston, West Virginia. Dave worked at AT&T and was pretty highly paid by West Virginia standards. I had a very low paying job at McJunkin Corporation but was going to school in the evenings. Dave, making fat cash, was able to afford a Pentium I 133 HP computer so I was mooching from him since I couldn’t afford one. This was in the days when AOL was …read more »

Wow, I’ve never felt an earthquake before! A 5.2 earthquake hit just outside Evansville (about 120 miles from here) early this morning. I slept through that but around 10:15 today-just a few minutes ago-I felt an aftershock. I was in the bathroom and heard a low rumble then felt the floor start to bounce. It felt like how our apartment back in West Virginia …read more »

You have to check out this show called Free Radio; it’s unbelievably funny.

I was contacted recently by Bo Vance, former guitar player for Dead Ant Farm of the Nitro music scene some years back.  He provided me with some additional information on some of the bands, plus some bands that I either didn’t know about or had forgotten about.  Check out the Bands of the Scene section for more.

Traci and I just saw Sweeney Todd tonight and it was excellent. Bloody and depressing, but excellent. It was adapted from a musical but the movie ran like a play so the singing didn’t really seem out of context.

Oh, and our ten year anniversary was on the third. It’s hard to believe we’ve come so far in ten years.

I was going through some of my old photos today and ran across this one of Brian Dills and me at the Marshall University “Rally for Education”. Flood, Sevin, Dirt Bear, Falooda, and probably a couple other bands played it and nobody came. And when I say nobody I mean absolutely no one at all came. It was only the bands …read more »

I got some new shoes over the weekend; they’re …read more »

We have a pretty big problem here in St. Louis with people running red lights. I’ve always hoped we could do something about it and when I saw that the city was installing camera systems in order to nail red light runners I thought it would be a positive thing.

Now, however, I’m not so sure. I guess I always had a “Big Brother” fear about this type of “police enforcement” but I pushed it down hoping this was a step in the right direction and for the common good. I mistakenly thought that the city would only be concerned about people running red lights. I consider that to be extremely dangerous. Turns out they’re also interested in another type of “infraction”; turning right on red without coming to a complete stop first.

First off, I’m not saying I didn’t do it. …read more »

I finally got this thing finished.

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