Sunday Slacking

Well, it was a little cool in Main yesterday - 57° A little better today at 63, but could stand a little more solar energy. Hell I'm not complaining after winters up here.
Hamma Time was a lot of fun last night. Hamma always does a good show and it's fun to hang out as a listener. Noted last night on the show that I'm about the worlds worst slacker on blogging. Thus I feel guilty and well, here I am - haha. Hamma just reminded me the race in on - good thing to chill and watch today. Will really try to be a little more consistant on the blog here. Later...

Tuesday Trepidations

Well, it was an amazing day. As much as I would have liked to attend the Planetside-Universe Mobilization Alpha, it appeared it just wasn't meant to be this year. Apparently the incredible PSU community had other plans and stepped up to the plate and hit a grand slam. As a result, Hamma, Jen, and I will be there in full force! I can't begin to express my gratitude to all those who helped make this possible. Just truly overwhelmed and I am greatly honored to be a part of this amazing community event. When Hamma told me a long time ago he's like to start a fan site for this game Planetside (What Side?) I don't think either of us expected it would lead to something like this. Most fan site fail within a short time. We've seen our share of PS fan sites alone come and go. It really is a remarable community we have at PSU and I look forward to meeting many of them in person. Viva La PSUMA! See ya all in Orlando!

Monday Mumbles

Well a fairly nice day in the state of Maine today. Got an IM from an old friend I hadn't heard from in quite a few years. She's out in AZ now I guess. We've missed each other a couple of times on the IM - gonna see if we can get 'live' tonight and talk rather than pass messages. Real nice to hear from her again. Da Interweb is a wundaful thing eh?
Last week of school for my son CrawlingKane up here. 2 down - 2 to go. I'm very proud that he is going to hang in ther ein finish school. He's getting geared up for summer work at a resteraunt my brother-in-law works at (also the place I'm playing music at too). As most typical teenagers do, he walking around here planning how to spend his money before he even has it, hehe.
Lots of summertime plans in the air between this event and that event. Lots of coordination, planning, and preperations going on by everyone. Should be quite the year for such things. My hat is off to all those people who work tirelessly to make it all happen. Few realize the hours that go into these things in the planning stage.
Oh did I mention I'm going to be a Grampa for the second time now? My middle son's wife is expecting. How time marches on.
Been watching a lot of the 60 year specials for D-Day. Learned lots of intersting stuff I didn't know before. Perhaps I did once and didn't pay attention - funny how things don't mean a lot to you when you are young, suddenly become interesting as you get older. I find myself facinated with the details now and amazed at the courage and bravery of those who threw themselves in the face of almost certain death for the cause. The challanges were overwhelming. Great stuff to watch (well at least for me lol)
Ok enuf mumbles for a Monday I guess. Onward into the rest of this day and see what awaits. Till next time...

Slacking Mumbles

Yikes, I have been seriously slacking in the blog department - haven't written here in quite while. I apologize. Been a distracting few days with some other projects going. Been trying to do a little research on my music gear. No gig last Wednesday - which was good as I wasn't able to locate an amp to use. My keyboard and rack use floppies to load sounds (720k ones even). It has the ability to use a SCSI hard drive, although getting that to work is a major pain. One problem is this unit is very fussy about what drives will talk. Second problem is I have an outdated version of the firmware which has real problems talkng to hard drives. Now the good news is that after about 6 years of promises, a site which supplies parts and pieces for these keyboards FINALLY has the new firmware for sale. So I'm going to try to get that as soon as I can. I du through the boxes this last week and located my 2 scsi drives I had set aside for this project. Hopefully they still work are being bonced around in storage for the last 2 years. I still need to find the custom SCSI cable I wired (hopefully correctly). It's an odd mix - 25 pin female D connector to 50 PIN IDC for the drive is a very hard combination to find. If I can make all this work, I can replace about 6 boxes of 720 disks, and be able to quickly load complex sounds and combinations live, not to mention leaving the 720k floppies in the closet. We'll see how that goes.
Been doing a lot of work with video lately. Still learning and refining the process to see what can be done. It's pretty amazing. In this day and age, with all the various software tools out there, we're getting real close to getting a complete video broadcast station in a box with ability to switch sources, put up stills, play movies, show multiple camera views at the same time - etc.. I see a real future in video and expect some exciting things down the road. More on that later.
Well it looks like the PSU Mobilization Alpha is a go. Still unsure if I can attend but I will continue to investigate options. A lot of things would have to come together and I am very doubltfull, but we'll see. A big hat's off to Trigger for all here hard work in getting this all organized.
Ok will wrap this out for now. Beautiful day here in the state of Maine today. Wife just walked in so off to spend time with here. L8tr peeps.