Blog Time

I have been far away from this for a long time. I think February was as long as January this year, mainly because I was working for ages, it seemed and then I was in Florida at Disney World and Miami, both of which were amazing. With me on that adventure was my family and my girlfriend. After that holiday I was working and working and more working and then getting practice in between sleeping and driving to and from work.

I haven't been doing anything else, really. I get up, drive for 45/60mins, work for 9hrs with 1 hour lunch included, drive home for 45/60mins. If I'm lucky I get to practice some of the nights during the week. I did end up going out two weekends in a row which hasn't happened since 2007.
One was a birthday event for one of the girls from work, (the one with the red hair)an amazing night was had. I had some cans with ones of the lads from work in his mates apartment, she had to get ready to come out for the festivities, we then headed to the Bernard Shaw and had an amazing time. some random band was playing and it involved me being here:


We then made our way to Crawdaddy which feels like i was there for 20 minutes but was definitily longer than that. The following weekend had the adventure of the the first Prestige gig. Whelans was the place along with Find A Way and The Laundry Shop. Strangest line up for a gig but it was really good, thanks to everyone that came out and said such nice things about us.
After getting rid of the equipment and my car i tried to go drinking with some of the work people that had come out for the show, one was very drunk by the time i got back and then she went home, actually she was very drunk by the time i was leaving! But i got to hang out for a while before closing as well as getting a burger. good times!

Now I have done something drastic in the last couple of days, I have given up smoking. I had been smoking for the last 11 years and I finished the carton of 200 that I had brought back from America on St.Patricks Day. So yeah that's only three days ago but still it's three days!I'm really bored though. I haven't smoked in the house for at least a year or so now but I did really enjoy going outside and having a cigarette. Now I find myself wandering around the rooms in the house. To keep myself occupied recently I have installed Ubuntu Linux onto my old PC which has proved to be very good, I also put it onto a laptop that my friend had that she needed to have wiped and then have it herself. wasn't easy since there was no CD drive of Floppy drive or would boot from usb AND it had a BIOS password which was a pain in the ass and the only way i could bypass it was open the laptop and take out the CMOS battery and put it back in and put the laptop back together. the alternative is to bring to a Toshiba dealer and they'll fixed it for €60!!!
I also having been trying to put a version of Linux onto a really old computer that had Windows 98. So far i have taking the tiny hard drive it has out, plugged it into my other PC and installed Windows XP but the versions of Fedora, Ubuntu and Puppy Linux all failed because of the sheer shitness of this PC. I'm going to try DamnSmallLinux later on. If i can get it working somehow I'll probably give it to my friend that has the laptop and the other PC i might try to use it as an audio workstation. Maybe if I have even more time to kill because of not smoking and more money because of not smoking I might build one as an audiostation for the main reason of I want to see if I can. With that in mind, recording of the Prestige may begin very soon.

I just finshed reading the17 It's one of the funniest books i have read in awhile. It is a diary of the mind of Bill Drummond and how he thinks music as a recorded format is dead and what he/we can do about it. If you can get your hands on this book, it's a great read. Maybe you will be able to put into practice what he is talking about.

I think that will do until I get the urge to smoke/I mean write again. If I see you and I snap, forgive me.