Where I End and You Begin
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Kiwi and I
So, I went home for thanksgiving. It was great. It's been a long time since all three Bachman children have been home with momma and pappa. Grandma D came down for the day and Grandma and Grandpa B came down with Aunt Theresa for desserts. It was a lot of fun. Mom was amazed with the goofy picture taking of my new iMac, as you can see above. It was set up in my room and we spent a lot of time just making funny faces at the computer. Ben got in the action too.
The whole weekend really reminded me of how lucky I am to have an amazing family. It's becoming more and more rare to have a father and a mother who love you completely genuinely and I can proudly say that I do. And, I'm finally getting to the age that I feel like I'm not being looked down on by my grandparents. Not that they have ever been condescending, I'm just not being treated like a child. It's nice.
On a side note, Josh and I found the coolest little bar last night in Philadelphia. It's on the second floor of this Ethiopian restaurant right around the corner from us. The whole place couldn't have been bigger than our Kitchen! And they have live music almost every night. And they stock tons of good local, Philly beers. It was so much fun. There was a really edgy blues band there last night and Wednesday night is a jazz night. Should be fun. I'm definitely going back soon.
OK. We're going to watch an episode of Seinfeld and then it's off to bed. By the way, I got a promotion at work and I'll be changing to week mornings from (get this) 5am-1pm! That's crazy. But it's more money, it's regular hours, it's not weekends, and I'm in a shift manager position. Fun. Ok. Night friends.
The whole weekend really reminded me of how lucky I am to have an amazing family. It's becoming more and more rare to have a father and a mother who love you completely genuinely and I can proudly say that I do. And, I'm finally getting to the age that I feel like I'm not being looked down on by my grandparents. Not that they have ever been condescending, I'm just not being treated like a child. It's nice.
On a side note, Josh and I found the coolest little bar last night in Philadelphia. It's on the second floor of this Ethiopian restaurant right around the corner from us. The whole place couldn't have been bigger than our Kitchen! And they have live music almost every night. And they stock tons of good local, Philly beers. It was so much fun. There was a really edgy blues band there last night and Wednesday night is a jazz night. Should be fun. I'm definitely going back soon.
OK. We're going to watch an episode of Seinfeld and then it's off to bed. By the way, I got a promotion at work and I'll be changing to week mornings from (get this) 5am-1pm! That's crazy. But it's more money, it's regular hours, it's not weekends, and I'm in a shift manager position. Fun. Ok. Night friends.
Thursday, November 17, 2005
New Computer
Well, I got this new computer because my old one died. Yeah. I'm in the middle of an audio editing job and it couldn't really wait. Plus I've been pricing these and thinking about getting a new one for some time. If it holds out like my last one I can expect 5 years out of it, which in computer years is a lot.
Life's good. I live in Philadelphia now for those of you who don't follow me too closely or just don't know what I'm doing but feel you're too close to ask that embarrassing question. I know that feeling. I live with Josh Hall, my friend from high school. He's been my friend, my bandmate, and so much more and now we live together again in the city of brotherly love. We lived here last summer to complete our internships. We lived only a few blocks from our current location so we know the area pretty well. So, friends, if you're ever in Philly and want to hang out please do not hesitate to call my cell.
I'm not happy with my job situation so I've been looking for other ones, thus I haven't been able to put a lot of time into my freelance work. Hopefully that'll pick up. That's really what I want to be doing with my life. I realize it's a hard industry to break and all of that crap that everyone keeps feeding to me. But I want to do it and I'll work shitty side jobs if I have to to get there. Meanwhile I make more and more music.
Well, I'm off to bed. We watched American History X tonight so it's kind of heavy here. Thoughts and thoughts to sleep on. Night all.
Life's good. I live in Philadelphia now for those of you who don't follow me too closely or just don't know what I'm doing but feel you're too close to ask that embarrassing question. I know that feeling. I live with Josh Hall, my friend from high school. He's been my friend, my bandmate, and so much more and now we live together again in the city of brotherly love. We lived here last summer to complete our internships. We lived only a few blocks from our current location so we know the area pretty well. So, friends, if you're ever in Philly and want to hang out please do not hesitate to call my cell.
I'm not happy with my job situation so I've been looking for other ones, thus I haven't been able to put a lot of time into my freelance work. Hopefully that'll pick up. That's really what I want to be doing with my life. I realize it's a hard industry to break and all of that crap that everyone keeps feeding to me. But I want to do it and I'll work shitty side jobs if I have to to get there. Meanwhile I make more and more music.
Well, I'm off to bed. We watched American History X tonight so it's kind of heavy here. Thoughts and thoughts to sleep on. Night all.
