Hello, stranger!

Another 3 months have passed without my posting a single blog entry. Not even a re-blog, which said 3 month-old, most-recent blog entry just happens to be. For shame...I've been crazy busy though, and I have excuses:

1: Music stuff has been POPPING lately, which is 99% good and one percent bad. The 1% manifests itself in that I'm lucky to have one night to myself--not working/gigging/practicing--per week. My musical life being 99% good = me being 100% haaaaaaaaaappy, though, so fuck yea.

2: A good amount of my (admittedly little) free time has been consumed with the delights of domestic living. I moved--or rather, am still moving--to a nice house in Sterling with my friends Chris and Kristin. One of these days we'll get all our furniture over there, but suffice it to say, if I haven't had the time to move my double-wide La-Z Boy recliner in yet, I haven't had much blogging time available.

3: I haven't had a computer on which to blog, which is unrelated to excuse number 2, seen above. No...sadly, my computer was stolen from me. Last January. And I haven't, until today, been able to replace it. The only thing (besides the ability to blog, of course) I truly have had trouble living without since being involuntarily made to go computer-less is the massive, 120+ gig collection of painstakingly organized MP3s that lived in its 'My Music' folder. This story/excuse, thankfully, has a happy ending: my freshman-year era 1 gHz/128 megs of RAM Pentium 3 (byah!) Dell desktop had roughly half of the total volume of MP3s from my storied collection, and essentially all of the important, canonical shit. The rest, I'm downloading back currently. Dad just upgraded his desktop, so I write to you now on the sweet ass HP Media Center VIIV (that's better than my long-ago stolen computer, btw) that used to be his and is now mine--and full of my meticously organized MP3s.

But count me as back and in full effect. My having a computer means, also, more/new youtube videos of my music makin, more/new blog posts from me, more/new social networking with yours truly, and no more updating my facebook exclusively through my iPhone.

There's so much that's happened in the last three months to catch up on: the specifics of my fledgling music career, MICHAEL FUCKING JACKSON'S DEATH, the last 2 weeks I've spent with my baby brother Al (who's headed currently back to Iraq, God bless him), Sarah and Todd Palin's disgraceful exeunt from the Governor's mansion in Anchorage, my new guitar loop sampler (which DOMINATES), my latest crush (who is a grad student and supremely hot AND cool, which is a hard mixture to pull off--it's science), and the fact that I'm exhausted after a GREAT time at the Paul McCartney show I just attended some 6 hours ago.

Night night, kids. I've missed you. It's good to be back.