I am Austindude

Today, I parted with my drum set but my plan is to get an electronic drum pad and/or keyboard, or maybe even a set of turntables and mixer again to create musical bliss. Take a peek at this video. It’s pure sweetness.

A few years ago while reading the ads in the back of Popular Science magazine I came across this cool little thing called an Ecosphere, which is an all-enclosed, self-sustaining, ecosystem. There’s algae, little shrimp and bacteria that all eat off of each other. The system can last up to 10 years!! I knew I had to get one - I never pass up an opportunity to be a nerd.

Years went by, and I forgot about it. Late last year, as I was looking at various sites for cool stuff for the casa, I found this hand hook sculpture by Harry Allen, and WHAM my idea was born! Why not create an unbelievable way to show off the Ecosphere? That’s what I did. I bought an Ecosphere and ordered the hand sculpture, and low and behold this is what a manifested vision looks like:

I seemed to have lost my focus, my way and my creativity. This blog is designed to help me nurture those traits back to their former glory. Are your fingers crossed? Mine sure are. Hey, see that photo at the top of the blog - yeah that’s MINE. I took it in Seaside, Oregon a few years ago. That was pre-Digital Rebel and I used Paint Shop Pro to digitally turn it black-and-white. I plan on taking more photos soon, and adding a link on the blog to my photography, which I’m certain you’ll enjoy.

Life is great! I have a bad ass domain, my own condo, good health, a great job, a couple of awesome gatos, am working toward finishing my degree with the light-at-the-end near, and have pretty much everything I need and want right now. But man, I do need to get out more often and hang with friends and get some face-to-face time with real people haha. My social contact is severly inhibited by my anti-social tendancies. It’s time I work on that, and I am not saying that just for the sake of saying it, to appease myself. I fucking mean it.

So stick around, and make a new friend. I’ve listed a bunch of categories with links I frequent pretty much on a daily-basis, to the right there. Check ‘em out and start filling up my comment boxes, yo.

Friday I got a horizontally impacted wisdom tooth removed that had been bothering me for a while.  Whenever I ate steak, chicken or any other variety of meat, a piece of it would usually get stuck between the number 32 wisdom tooth and the molar in front of it (why it was only meat that got stuck back there I have no idea), and the pain was so sickening.  I was under IV sedation during the tooth removal so I don’t remember a damn thing about the procedure which is more than A-OK by me. 

This is the first time I’ve used any sort of major painkiller before and Hydrocodone is some simply amazing stuff. Buddies are telling me to make sure not to forgot to down ‘em with some hard liquor or booze haha.

First post, hooray!