Oh, mercy

The lads have been prolific, and they wrote another song for us to peform for next week's Songfight. The good news is that it's a cute song. The theme chosen:"Feet".

The bad news was: it's got a punk sound to it.

I've never played so fast for so long in my life.

Oy, I'm tired.

Sunday

Holy cow. Yesterday wore me out. This morning I achieved consciousness later than I normally do. Last night, I was yawning so much, I thought I was going to break my jaw.

I have a number of practical things I could get done today:

• assemble new Pearl Rhythm Traveller drum kit
  
• laundry*
  
• get some stuff at home depot
  
• wash cars
  
• practice some cake decorating stuff
  
• clean up the kitchen*
  

We'll see how much I accomplish. This morning I did achieve a small victory of getting my print function to work on my ibook. Upon upgrading to Tiger, I could no longer print over my network to my hp printer. Thanks to the 10.4.1 patch, and re-adding said printer, all works well.

General note: don't configure your hp printer as a generic postscript printer over the net. It vomits forth a lot of meaningless code, instead of your desired print job. In my case, defining the printer as an hp deskjet 2000 series worked just fine. My specific print model was not in the list of printer models.

New Drum Kit

I assembled my new Pearl Rhythm Traveller drum kit today. I purchased it because it was mainly designed for it's compact nature, as well as it came with heads for silent practice.

Here's a picture of it:


I intend to use this kit basically for practicing at home, since I leave the main kit at my friends' studio.

Notice how shallow the heads are. They are about 5 inches deep. The bass drum is about 10 inches deep. Normal bass drums are over twice that, so this kit is a bit of a space-saver, too.

I've played on it so far, and the mesh practice heads are quite quiet. If you were to buy this set for someone in your household, you could rest assured that they can practice quietly in their room without disturbing the rest of the denizens.