I'm totally swamped lately with stuff to (which is not exactly to say that I'm busy), homework in ITA, homework in everything else, a computer to fix, my own monitor to fix, college apps to fill out, college visits to sign up for, preparing for an event at church on Sunday (I'm feeding everybody), oh and making scones tomorrow for the competition. Just a shitload of stuff.
So, tomorrow is possibly my last competition ever, but I've got my fingers crossed (not while drumming) that we'll do well enough to get to States. I would just love to play in the Silverdome again. Wednesday was the last evening rehearsal, so we did the traditional naked(boxer) runthrough, and holy shit it was cold.
mmm I look forward to tea and fresh warm chocolate chip scones tomorrow
I'm listening to Interpol - Evil, as I get back to the bratwurst I forgot about.

we broke 60!

Damn, I keep forgetting about this thing. Well homecoming was pretty sweet, and quite some time ago, now. I really should have pictures of some of this stuff, like I don't even have a picture of myself on here (I could make that a sweet background for all three monitors). Also, I never got that cadence quite right, but it's the closest I've gotten in three years, so I'm satisfied. We're out of excuses to stay inside now, so I spend every day retuning my timpani (to find them detuned the next day), whilst freezing my balls off. I really wish marching band didn't end in a week, though. Speaking of which, we scored 62 last night! We have some sort of chance at states now, but I'm not getting my hopes up.
It's Prodigy - Breath right now.

heyhey

Well, I meant to post sooner, but oh well.
Anyway, Solderfest '05 was a huge success:

we got that thing cruising at about 1.3GHz, and stuffed it with a 256 DIMM of RAM, and some backlighting. It's running TI-Linux and plays DVD's.
Ok - some or all of that information may be somewhat exaggerated or opposite of truth. It took me mere minutes to lose one of the pad under the original capacitor, and it took the rest of the night to get over the denial of having no hope whatsoever to make it work. Oh, and in answer to the questions raised by the last post: they never used the red-hot catalytic butane inferno that is my soldering iron, but both Gary and Ben managed to burn themselves on the delicious Jalepeno&Cheddar poppers. I was unscathed.

Also, I'm going to Homecoming, I guess. It's hard to believe that it's senior year already, but it is, and I said I'd go, so let's just hope they play plenty of hip-hop and swing music.

I'm excited about spending the week working the cadence rather than the show (staying inside rather than freezing outside while moving heavy instruments baaaack and fooorth. Also, it's a cool cadence, and it'd be sweet if we could play it.