Almost a month since I made a post! That's a good third of my free account, I've totally not been taking advantage of my free time on here. Things that have been keeping me preoccupied:

Music! One week there I saw a shitload of great bands all in a row, including (but not limited to) Descendents, High on Fire, The Bronx (including Miriachi El Bronx), Jean Grae, Suicidal Tendencies, Peelander Z, Joanna Newsom, Schaffer the Darklord and MC Chris. Also stumbled across a record by AC4, a new band formed from a couple fellas that used to be in Refused!

Work! A person in my department quit so things got shuffled around a bit. I'm now finishing acoustic guitar bodies instead of necks. The work is still a little frustrating, and I'm pretty much deprived of all sense of accomplishment since the body finishing process is actually split into three legs between three people. I'm getting the hang of it though, which makes me slightly less annoyed with it I guess, ha ha.

Holidays! My brother and sister came into Austin for Thanksgiving and my Birthday, good times had by all! Lots of beer and joyous festivity, plus I got a pound of spare change for every one of my years which added up to over 160 dollars! Also got a new phone, which is really sweet because I smashed my old one up good and proper in that Descendents pit : ) Here's a crappy picture from it of my newly awesomized refrigerator!



And a really cute lady helped me put all that on there after beating my ass in Soul Caliber. I'm thinking I might have had the wrong impression about this Life guy...

I slept for five hours last night, and then worked for twelve hours. My life is awesome.

God bless beer, delicious, refreshing beer : )

Soooooooooo hungover

Tomorrow is gonna be a long, long day. I'm planning on going into work at six so I can get a jump on this new position I've been training for, which I'm still not fully prepared for, but am about to dive headlong into, ha ha. Wheeeeeeeeeee, the wonderful world of guitar building!

I'm thinking about being a police constable for halloween, because I've already got a constables hat and all I really need to complete the thing is a false pigs nose. I've been watching nothing but British movies and television shows and I might have a half decent accent by this weekend. I've been rotating Monty Python, Clockwork Orange, Snatch, Cash Back, Eddie Izzard, and Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels all week and it's been awesome : )

"I am a male model, NOT a male prostitute!"

It seems odd to me that the more energy you expend, the more you have. I used to run, exercise, cook my own meals, work, and still had the energy to keep my place decently clean and hang out with friends. I'm not sure exactly how I fell out of rhythm with all that, but it seems like when the work day is over I just can't do much else. It's frustrating because I really want to keep up with all that. Maybe I need a good kick in the ass.

Volunteers?

I've had better days
I'm workin Saturday
I guess it's okay
I just can't wait to get paid

I got two free pints of Firemans 4 today and it still couldn't outweigh the awfulness of this day

As I was passing you in the fast lane, you first caught my eye by flicking a lit cigarette out of your window. This glance enabled me to also notice that you were holding your iphone at the top of your steering wheel and were, in fact, watching a video. When I saw you riotously guffaw at whatever apparently hilarious sitcom you'd been viewing, I decided I should probably just focus on the road and not what an asshole you are. About a half mile down the road, I noticed the passing lane was being merged to the right to accommodate what looked like a tow truck. So I put my turn signal on and after a few moments began entering the space between you and the car ahead of you. I would very much have liked to continue doing this, but your sudden and hasty acceleration meant our cars would have collided were I to maintain this course. So I fell back into my own soon to be closed lane, and thought maybe the next car would be slightly kinder. And they were! How fortuitous for me and my desire to exit a closing lane. Though I must admit this triumph was short lived, blinked out of existence when you decided to abandon your recently coveted lane in favor of the closing one, where you could shave eight seconds off your driving time by gunning it and forcing your way back into your old lane a few cars ahead. Congratulations, and thanks for replenishing my distaste for people!

I hate not being able to sleep in. You'd think it would ensure that I don't waste my weekends, but I'm not awake and doing anything terribly productive, just wishing I could be sleeping more and playing video games or reading comics generally. I'm getting slightly less shitty in Street Fighter, which is great because I used to be completely horrible. Speaking of completely horrible, if anyone for some reason has never seen Dr. Horrible, I still love this as much as when I first discovered it and I'm frequently appalled at how many people haven't watched it.



What's a blog without a few pictures?

Here's one of me from about six months ago, prior to my losing the hawk and the stache


My cats Hank and Dean in a rare moment of not terrorizing my house


And lastly, a few shots of guitars we've had come through the shop that caught my eye

Koaaaaaaaa *drool*


Nice maple!

Huzzah, first new blog in over a year! Thanks again for the free few months SG, I'm still probably not going to part with any of my hard earned dollars though. It's nice to revisit some old entries I made a while ago, it's crazy to think of how long such a short span of time can really seem.

At a Propagandhi show last year a girl I knew back in high school saw me and told me she knew it was me because I looked exactly the same, just my mohawk was a little longer. I feel completely different but that apparently doesn't show!

Here's a few really shitty pictures of a sleeve i began last December, sadly I need way more money to get it completed:





And here's one from a trip to Colorado I took a few months back with a couple amazing ladies!