June 28, 2007

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:39 am

Jeeze, it's been the 28th for quite some time now, and there's still no update? What is wrong with you people?

I'm sitting in my bathrobe, working up the willpower to go to work. My bathrobe is plaid (red and black, of course). I like my bathrobe.

QotD: What is your favorite color/pattern? Do you wear it often? (okay that's two questions, sorry)

jimtyrrell · Post by **jimtyrrell** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:46 am

Oh, things are looking up in the studio. I got the 16-track to record without extra noise, and I got a nice quiet transfer to the PC too. Now I just gotta learn a bit about my new PC software, and I'm ready to take things from start to finish. Well, sort of. I'm gonna send the CD out for mastering and duplication.

I'm hungry, and I think it's Chinese food for lunch today. Dinner special #22 at Mandarin Taste is General Gau's Chicken, Crab Rangoons, and Pork Fried Rice. Sounds perfect to me.

QotD: I don't really claim to have a favorite color, but if you were to ask my kids, they would tell you without hesitation that my favorite color is black, because it's what I wear most often.

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:18 am

QOTD: I like red - most shades of it are cool, and I wear it often. For pants, I like plaid, but I tend to not wear it often.

Today, I'm going to get my final report card mark from school. After that, I never have to go back!

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:30 am

So of course I've been looking at real estate in the Bay area. I'd better be getting a pretty big salary increase if I'm going to afford anything. On my current salary I could get a cardboard box in Oakland (the crack-dealing part).

Looks like I'll probably be renting again for a while.

Also uh. It turns out that the Caltrain commute to SF from Mountain View is about an hour. Maybe I want to live a bit further North after all. Or maybe I'll just have to adjust my expectations about transit times (right now my commute in Seattle is 45 minutes by bus, which is insane for 6.5 miles) or find some non-boring (or maybe even productive) way of occupying the time.

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:32 am

Congrats on interview mk. II, fluffy!

QOTD: Darker colors, earthy tones, blacks & olive drab. Hell, I think I'd be happiest dressing like a mercenary in the Phillipines from the '40s or '50s.

Ah, North Oakland... good times, good times. IIRC, the SF-Mtn. View Caltrain stops at 9 or 10 pm.

Bjam · Post by **Bjam** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:00 pm

QOTD: I like most colors and patterns. I'm not particularly attached to any particular one.

Today's been pretty laid back. I'm rewatching all of The Office(US) and oh boy it's fun. I'm also in the process of rereading Harry Potter 5 for the movie release. Tonight I think we're going to see Live Free or Die Hard, so that should be a, uh, fun time

But, by far the most exciting news. The Spice Girls are going on a reunion tour!!! This is like my childhood reforming before my eyes. I went to a Spice Girls concert at Wembley in '98, and it's still one of my favorite concerts that I've been to. I know they're cheesy and manufactured and has-beens, but hell, I'm excited and the songs are fun(although relistening to them today I'm noticing just how provocative some of the lyrics were :/). Tickets, I predict, will be hell to get though.

Gosh. Harry Potter and Die Hard and Spice Girls in one post. I am living in the past today.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:00 pm

Also another interesting very strong employment possibility just turned up in Santa Clara. I love having connections. :D (The San Francisco one is definitely more compelling but living/working in Santa Clara would be nice.)

drë · Post by **drë** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:29 pm

fluffy wrote:Also another interesting very strong employment possibility just turned up in Santa Clara. I love having connections. (The San Francisco one is definitely more compelling but living/working in Santa Clara would be nice.)

The whole, "new job in another state" bug might be flying around.
Today I got offered a job in South Carolina, that’s worth considering.

I like blue.
Not blue like the badass drummer from California that attended UF, but the color blue.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:01 pm

I love my bowling type shirts, but I wear black. Daily attire is black or navy Dickies, black bowling shirts and black Vans or Converse. I do break it up with other colors and I do have shoes with other colors mixed with black, like, black and white checkered, etc, but they are always predominantly black with hints of other colors. All of my clothes come from either Ron Jon and other similar surf shops or the Rack-n-Ruin, which is more of an all around cool clothes, shoe, boot, tat, piercing, and accessory type shop. So it's easy to find cool black clothes at those places.

I'm getting ready to remix all of my music
Just the stuff that I've recorded with my computer
So pretty much anything from shortly after I joined SF
I may be asking some people to fill in on back up vox
Also for other parts instrumentally
The best part is no fast time limit, but I'd like it completed by the end of Sept, early Oct. for a Halloween event.
I've decided to make a 12 song CD of just my SF stuff
It will be for free but asked to donate to a charity (none chosen yet)
I'll probably have a link to 3 or 4 charities to pick from
We do "Make A Wish" gigs when ever we can, but missed the last two
We get involved in pretty much any "honest" charity that is not church related
We also volunteer for the KLOS "Adopt A Pet" every year
The best part is, even if they don't like my music, they are giving to a good cause.
Plus, at the same time, I can pay it forward with the only thing I have to offer.
Just like the little drummer boy, burump pah bah bump.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:39 pm

Fluffy, if your new job is near San Fran, I'd get as close to work as possible. Commuting is BS. I don't see how people keep their sanity having to travel an hour to and from work. Plus, I have gathered that you are single, so if I were you, which luckily for you, you're not, I'd get right in the heart of the college towns. Everything is cheaper including rent. PLUS, college girls...or guys, what ever you're thing is.
Live close to work, get a motorcycle, and a beater for rainy days, which there are very few of, and start enjoying life from somewhere other than a bus window.....unless that's what you're into, of course.

By the way, why don't you drive? Is it a hippy thing?

anti-m · Post by **anti-m** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:54 pm

Billy's Little Trip wrote: By the way, why don't you drive? Is it a hippy thing?

It's a Pacific NW thing. (Which is more or less the same as a hippy thing!) Yes, I have a car and a license. No, I don't drive to work.

Actually, I think it may be a "major metropolitan area outside of CA thing."

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 2:00 pm

I'd get a moped. They're whimsical. I'd chase old ladies and be jumping it off curbs all the way to the dry nuts and fig store.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 2:20 pm

I have a car and a license and I drive to social things but I prefer commuting by mass transit because I don't have to pay for parking and I can catch up on sleep en route or whatever. Sleeping, IMing, etc. while driving is something of a social faux pas in most places.

I certainly wouldn't want to drive an hour each way to work but I'd take a one-hour train ride if it meant not having to live like a grad student while making a six-figure income. Seriously, have you seen how expensive housing in San Francisco is?

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 2:29 pm

I just drove 4 hours to parents' house in Michigan.

qotd: I don't like wearing bright colors. I prefer more subtle attire. I also don't like denim. I haven't worn jeans in several years. I like dark colors though. My favorite pair of pants is a pair of brown courdoroys. Best pants I've ever had.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 2:46 pm

Yes, the prices are crazy. You'd want a roommate or two until you get settled in. But every City has it's low income areas that are still nice. After you get comfy and figure out the lay of the land, get your own place and then you find roomies if needed, that way you call the shots AND get the master bedroom.

That's where single guys have it good. You can buy a 400k condo and rent out two rooms that pays half of your mortgage payment. Right now it's a buyers market if you have ok credit and a few bux in the bank. Foreclosures are at an all time high in Southern Cali, so I'm sure it's about the same in central Cali.

king_arthur · Post by **king_arthur** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 2:53 pm

Umm, does tie-dye count as a favorite color? Sadly, most of my good tie dye stuff was purchased before 1995, so it's getting pretty threadbare at this point...

BLT, if I can help out with BVs or guitar stuff for your songs, lemme know.

110 degree day here. Thinking about napping away the afternoon (we call that a "siesta" here) and then trying to get some stuff done later on when it's a little cooler.

Watched "Elevator to the Gallows" last night, wonderful movie if just for the cars (300SL Gullwing, Renault Dauphine, and a passing shot of an Isetta) and the Miles Davis music.

Charles

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:00 pm

QotD: I like bright colors, but not really into patterns. Although, i do like Indian and Indonesian patterns. I like colors and contrast, not camouflage.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:33 pm

Incidentally, red/black plaid stands out to the human eye but acts as camouflage to many prey species (which can't see red very well), which is why it's so widely used for hunting gear. So it's sort of both!

Billy's Little Trip wrote:Yes, the prices are crazy. You'd want a roommate or two until you get settled in. But every City has it's low income areas that are still nice. After you get comfy and figure out the lay of the land, get your own place and then you find roomies if needed, that way you call the shots AND get the master bedroom. :wink:
That's where single guys have it good. You can buy a 400k condo and rent out two rooms that pays half of your mortgage payment. Right now it's a buyers market if you have ok credit and a few bux in the bank. Foreclosures are at an all time high in Southern Cali, so I'm sure it's about the same in central Cali.

Yeah, that was pretty much my plan anyway. I certainly wouldn't be "low-income" though (at least not by any sane person's assessment). The bay area needs "decent income but doesn't have a fuckton of vested pre-IPO stock options" housing.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:27 pm

king_arthur wrote: BLT, if I can help out with BVs or guitar stuff for your songs, lemme know.

Hey, thanks Charles. Your velvety voice and sweet licks would be an awesome addition to my crass style. Kind of like sweet-n-sour pork.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:27 pm

"Well, I'm back."

Did anybody miss me? I just flew back from France and am just checking out the boards. My terribly confused body thinks it's 4:26 AM, or maybe it's 10:26 PM, or I dunno but that was a darn long flight. Had a lot of fun there, will post more about that later on.

Also, purple. My old car was purple.
-bill

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:37 pm

HeuristicsInc wrote:"Well, I'm back."

Did anybody miss me?

...and you arrrrrrrre?

YES, of course I missed you. I've been Jones'n for me some HeuristicsInc. I woke up the other night in a cold sweat screaming HEUR-ISTICS-INCORPERATED!!
My wife just looked at me like this > 8) and said, "hun, are you having one of your dramatic wet dreams again?"

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:02 pm

wow, uh, weeeeeellllllllll then. good, i think. thanks !
-bill