I listened to the message while trying to read along and I understood what he was saying mostly, but Google Voice doesn't. His volume goes up and down a lot and has a slight mid-west accent which seems to throw off the system. Here is the translation from Google Voice. Basically it's Chris inviting me to Turkeyday dinner and telling me about some guest and what they are cooking and other events they are going to. I have plans for most of this weekend but i'll txt him later. I just thought this shit was really funny.


Hey Kyle, it's okay, I'll try and set of Texas 5 because I can't say anything and trying to get the first floor send out that I can talk so but setup. Yes.

Anyways, and you and I are making a Thanksgiving Dinner and give me a call when you get a timeline if you gonna be in town and you decide if you can do it right or we're gonna cook dinner and get ready so late.

We've got like cheaper like twigs and a result of some your random crap and a lot of dude so. Ralph there's anything if you with your car and it's kind of closed already things, but we're gonna be home book and then Eric and then he's all excited because originally two types of mashed potatoes and you certainly gravy. Yeah if you get in on the and see if you can guest.

It's going. Michael, who would like would really need. When I first moved here. Decatur Illinois is 19. Billy pop up with the girls and I was like, obviously, gag, so I thought it anyways. I'm trying to use it sent to you later because you talk to you and you weren't 26.

Anyway, so so that's a gravy to get a Kramer songs but certainly done in Irvine Solutions, mashed potatoes, specials and and well you can. Crap. If you think. So if you're hungry at all servicing your family.

I know you're gonna do the about my niece and I would love to see him probably going to hang on a contract cut him off the figured so, give me a call and I love you and bye.

ScenicBoys The Photography of Garet and Dusty that I mentioned in a previous post (http://0bpm.com/sb) is now ready to ship. A three way donation of $100 to The Washington Trails Association, Conservation Northwest, and to their 2010 adventures gets you the book! DETAILS: http://scenicboys.com (nsfw)

Tags: scenicboys

Dustin and Garet (dust_monkee and uglyfuzzy ), who I go camping with every year to the Big Gay, Gay Camping Trip in Vantage, have been blogging on their site scenicboys.com (may not be safe for all work environments) for just over 3 years. It's photos and videos from their camping/hiking trips, often times meeting nature with nature for a few scantily clad photos hanging from trees, swimming in the rivers, or warming up near the fire.

I love the site since it features lots of my friends having a great time. I'm sure quite a few people like it for the cute boys (me too!). Regardless of why you enjoy it, I have to say their most recent post makes me so proud of them.

"We are pleased to present our first book, titled ScenicBoys The Photography of Garet and Dusty" ... "instead of selling them outright, we're offering our books in exchange for your donations. Send us an email, or stay tuned for more details about two non-profit organizations, and how you can support them (and us!) in exchange for a book of your own."

Just more reasons to love those two. I'll let my blogspherian friends know more details when I have them.

[EDIT] Details on how to get the book are now up at ScenicBoys.com! [/EDIT]

Tags: scenicboys

I'm about ready to move and decided that the majority (90%+) of my DVD collection doesn't need to go with me. Plus, I could use the money right now. So, if you live near by or we see each other relatively frequently (read: I'm not mailing any or going out of the way to get them somewhere) feel free to look over the list and let me know if you want any. On Wednesday this week I'll be taking them to work to be sold on our little mailing list. http://0bpm.net/forsale/

[20091110][08:46:42] ID: Did something break
[20091110][08:47:31] dapirate : did you hear a loud snapping sound?
[20091110][08:47:40] ZW: yes
[20091110][08:47:47] dapirate : That was just me
[20091110][08:47:56] dapirate : GIRLFRIEND *snap* *snap* *snap* in Z formation
[20091110][08:47:57] BW: O SNAP

I've also been informed by alephx :

Today's new name is pewpewsday

which is fitting since I've already heard a few chain reaction pewpews today

stolen from moonrock

Picture Meme
- go to Google Images
- search for your answer
- pick one image from the first page
- post
( pixorz! )

My emotions most be getting carried away with everything going on in my life. I just saw a commercial for Make a Wish Foundation where some boy wished to become a super hero and some guy played a super villain that the kid defeated. What an awesome wish to be fulfilled.

When my niece Kaitlyn was 4 she was given her wish to go to Disneyland. So my sister, mom and one of her nurses were flown down to California and had an awesome Disneyland adventure. Make a Wish is one of two charities I try and donate to every year over any other charity (Children's Hospital being the other). They are really awesome for taking terminally ill children who have a low or no chance of survival and making sure they get something to make their lives more fulfilled. My niece passed away later that year so it was great to have those extra memories beyond nurses and hospitals. Don't know why it hit me this hard this time, but when that commercial came on I thought about my niece and had myself a few tears.


<3

I already had a minor headache and a nasty sinking feeling in my tummy almost to the point of illness. This primarily due to the upcoming apartment move at the end of the year. Finances are tight and other than an unreplied to email I sent my roommate I haven't had any contact from him for days (weeks really, since we literally have only seen each other for seconds at a time when we see each other at all).

Today was my first day back to work after 2 weeks. The majority of the workload was expected - but I also had a meeting where it was explained to me that I'm not as far in a project as the uppers were expecting me to be.  I had to point out that I'm actually further ahead than any other group that started the project the same time I did and still am after taking a 2 week long vacation.  Not to mention that my project has more subgroups under it to deal with and just before I went on vacation a huge change was made that added even more and requires a complete revamp of how things are done. This project is extremely time consuming and I'm still expected to do my regular job as well.  While I enjoy the challenge, it is a lot to take on. Hearing that all the work I've done to this point was less than what was expected of me really burnt me a bit.

So yeah.. I prefer to only have stress in work or life. In fact I enjoy a little stress in one or the other. Having a high level of stress in both at the same time is really shitty though. Not something I wanted to come back from vacation to. What usually happens is I throw myself in to work or in to life and get things done.  When I have to throw myself at both of them I burn out really quickly. That being said, I will probably throw myself at work and hopefully a new apartment/home will fall in to my lap without much effort.  Otherwise everything goes in to storage and backup home/couch surf Kyle will go in to affect.

I've been neglecting LJ for the ease of micro-blogging on FriendFeed, Twitter, Facebook, etc.  Oh well.. here is a little life update.

I went on vacation to Disneyland last month. I spent the majority of the time with Joey, Ben, and Jonathan within the Disney resort, but also had a chance to briefly see Troy and Izzy. I was also happy to meet up with Keith and friends, but only got the chance to spend a couple hours hanging with him. There will be a next time as I ended up getting an annual pass for Disney and will be going once or twice next year (I'm thinking Gay Days and not sure when else).  It was nice to get away from work for a week, and I even took a second week off for a staycation to do some real relaxation and/or recover from Halloween.

I've also decided that this will be my last year at this apartment. I've been living off Eastlake for three years with Joe, and while it's a nice area and I do enjoy Joe's company I want to move to my own place. I've never lived by myself (other than for a couple months when a roommate went on a European adventure). I haven't told Joe yet since we haven't crossed paths much the last couple weeks. I may just have to email him or something.  Our lease ends on December 31st, so 2 months notice should be plenty sufficient for both of us to figure out what we're doing. It's a renters market out there and prices have dramatically dropped since the last time I went apartment hunting. I've also got a backup home for a month or so if I don't find anything I like (craigslist makes me believe I'll find something decent though). Boxes and supplies have been ordered so I'll be starting to pack unessential stuff throughout November and living mostly out of a bag during December. Not sure what area I'm moving too yet, Downtown, Belltown, Cap Hill, and First Hill are all on the list of candidates.

Work is great, life is fine, finances are tight, but all in all things are swell.

[14:45:37] trellake: like i would invite you but you might come dressed as a cowboy with assless chaps hahaha
[14:46:09] kupkake: all chaps are assless!
[14:46:20] trellake: really?
[14:46:30] kupkake: Yup
[14:46:41] kupkake: that's kind of the point of chaps.. leg protection
[14:47:15] trellake: oh
[14:47:17] trellake: k
[14:47:20] kupkake: "Chaps (pronounced /ˈʃæps/ or /ˈtʃæps/) are sturdy coverings for the legs consisting of leggings and a belt. They are buckled on over trousers with the chaps' integrated belt, but unlike trousers they have no seat and are not joined at the crotch. "
[14:47:38] trellake: haha thanks mr. wizard
[14:47:44] kupkake: That's like saying "head covering hat"

For quite a few years I've contemplated trying my hand at producing music. Primarily ambient/downtempo, but I could easily see myself getting in to other styles as I become more and more familiar with the process, logistics, and software. I have a lot of sound/music in my head that I think I can put to good use. I'd Start with some drone stuff, because us chill room/ambient people don't have enough interesting drone music right now, and it's kind of an ignored art form. Though, I guess a characteristic of drone is to be somewhat ignored, whatevs. Later down the road I'd really want to utilize external (to the software) equipment such as vocoders, drum machines, etc. While I believe creating with software alone is an art form, playing off a laptop isn't very interesting live. I'm a nob twiddler, and if I were ever to play live I would prefer there to be a lot of live, unique, never to be duplicated again sound where you can see the work and craftsmanship happening right in front of your face. I'm getting ahead of myself, I'm discussing phase 7.

Phase 1: What the fuck software are people using these days?

I'm so out of the loop. The last I paid attention, people were using Fruity Loops, Rebirth and uh, something else I can't remember right now. We're talking years and years ago though. I'm looking for software that has a decent trial time or is free open source software. I'd definitely want a decent amount of time to play with trial software before I commit to buying anything. While I'm definitely not opposed to pirating software (OMG WAREZ!), I also want to know that if I were to produce something I'm proud of that it was done in legitimate ways so that should it get so far as me pressing vinyl/CDs it wouldn't come back and bite me in the ass. Then again, this might just be a week long fancy and maybe 'borrowing' some expensive software for awhile to play with might be the best route. Once again, I'm skipping ahead to a later phase... lets just focus on the software. WTF are people using now?

Phase 2: ?

Seriously. what would phase 2 be?

Phase 3: Profit

Profit is pretty unlikely, at least anytime in the near future. It is more likely I'll play around for a little while then get bored with trying to put something together, and start playing with the next project that comes my way. But should I really get in to it, and I'm proud of what I'm doing (I'm pretty anal about the work I do in other projects), I could see putting my track(s) up for review via paid downloads.  But.. lets be honest, this is way the fuck ahead of myself.  I need to focus on phase 1 to see if I'm even going to have the time and repeated enthusiasm to get me anywhere.

Musicians, artists, creative people - Where should I start? Any pointers?

Tags: music

I've been tracking Keith (liquid_kaos ) on his US walkabout. doubt this is very accurate but he's been vague about his locations. So far here is what I got:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Beacon+Hill,+Seattle,+WA&daddr=Maple+Valley,+WA+to:Black+Diamond,+WA+to:Buckley,+WA&geocode=&hl=en&mra=ls&dirflg=w&sll=47.37477,-122.02476&sspn=0.04278,0.087461&ie=UTF8&ll=47.027078,-121.15448&spn=1.377955,2.798767&t=p&z=9

I like this game!

Also, feel free to track his flickr photos as he posts them too.  cowpunchflickr

Tags: keith

What is everyone's favorite mailing list providers. One that doesn't require much for people to manage their own mailing options.  Gmail and yahoo both seem to require you log in with one of their accounts to manage your stuff, I want people to be able to log in using their own email address.

It needs to be easy to manage too. I'm setting this up for someone else and EZMLM would go over their head.

http://talklikeapirate.com/

[14:31:25] briansm: everybody experiments a little in their youth
[14:31:38] jarred: everybody?
[14:31:43] jarred: story time briansm
[14:32:04] kjohnson: wow.. it's friday.. I didn't read youth, I read mouth.. and I nearly shot water out my nose

I decided to order Comcast cable internet. I'm too far from a CO to get decent DSL speeds from Speakeasy and 1.5/384 just doesn't cut it these days. I used the online chat to order my service (because there isn't a simple web form ordering page which would make more sense and cost them less, but whatever). I quickly realized that I should have just called.  I want to know why my name was "Guest_"  I kept wanting to type "/nick kamen" but figured that would just confuse "Gwendolyn"

( Oh the Chatloggyness! )

I highly suggest people check out the Beerfest at Seattle Center's Mural Amphitheater. $20 to get in and gives you 10 tickets plus a glass. Show up at noon for an additional 5 tickets, and you can buy more if needed. 

Then when you've finished getting your beer on, I highly suggest heading down to Myrtle Edwards Park for Chillography. It's kind of a chill Sundazed like FREE music event.  It starts at noon and ends at 8. If you aren't doing Beerfest, you should head straight to Chillography!

I usually hate these stupid things, but I feel like being a bit narcissistic today. I also haven't posted this meme since 2005! I think it's definitely time to get some new memories recorded for posterity! :)

If you read this, even if I don't speak to you often (or EVER!), you must post a memory of me. It can be anything you want, it can be good or bad, just so long as it happened.

Then post this to your journal. See what people remember about you.


Anonymous comment posting is enabled for those who need it. Comments will NOT be screened.

(Though I may have to censor comments that get in to graphic detail of my ginormous cock and what it feels like inside of you... Then again, maybe I won't! That is something that should be shared with everyone!)

Tags: meme, memories