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Why don’t people talk to me in ways that I hear?
Posted by dreamreal in Psychology, general on 9 September, 2010
Every now and then, I wish people would compensate for how I hear and think, instead of always expecting me to compensate for them. I end up being impossibly burdened by how people communicate. I’m used to it, of course; people have buried me in a torrent of words for my entire life. But… Every [...]
Ah, the joy of a new day. Or something.
I think I need to write on this stupid blog more often than I do. Stephen King (in “On Writing,” if memory serves, and golly is that a good book!) said that you should write every day, without fail. I’m really bad about not doing that; I get to thinking about writing, and cache those [...]
Big Saturday: football and new toys
First: FSU football! At last the summer of no-Bowden is over. We will always miss Bobby on the sidelines, but it was time. I just hate how it went down. Good luck, guys. Here’s to a successful season! Second: I’m writing this from my phone. With Oracle suing Google, and an actual need to be [...]
I am the person who wrote this blog entry!
I was looking at my poor, ragged copy of Slaughterhouse Five last night, and noted the author’s tag: “Kurt Vonnegut, author of Jailhouse!” For some reason, it hit me: I’ve never read Jailhouse. I’d like to, I guess, if I have time and can find it. But it just struck me as odd, because Slaughterhouse [...]
Waking up
Man, I was so happy when I realized that I had only DREAMED that I had woken up, until I realized that I’d ACTUALLY woken up in order to realize it.
On the Song That Is Too Fast To Play-eth
Okay, this thing is going to be a frickin’ barn-burner. As in, barns literally burning down. (It’s an anti-barn protest song.) Well… maybe. But man, oh man – just finished laying down the electric guitar tracks, and by the end of them – both of them – I’m doing my whole in-the-moment thing, where I [...]
Ow.
I write this with numb fingers, because they’re bleeding for the first time from playing guitar in freakin’ years. I usually slow songs down a little to record them, because in my head they’re too fast anyway, but today: nope! Full speed ahead! And I forgot that on bass, the song I was recording is [...]
New Rush songs!
Rush has two new singles available through iTunes and Amazon: Caravan and BU2B. They’re really good – they’ve gotten a little more comfortable with the producer they worked with for their previous album, and they’re actually a little more adventurous now. I have a feeling that Nick Raskulinecz – the producer – was pushing them [...]
Microsoft ROCKS.
My company just went to Microsoft Online for our email services, which means we are supposed to sign on through their service for Outlook, etc. What’s funny is that once I did that, email was horribly slow; I didn’t have to get on our VPN any more, but considering I have to get on the [...]