What is "The Merchants of Disquiet Minds?"

A few months ago, some friends and I decided to try a little online musical experiment. I have delved more deeply into the world of digital recording and mixing quite deeply in the last year. I use a program called Reaper which is the absolute bomb IMHO. It allows me to do pretty much anything I ever wanted to do back when all I had was a 4-track cassette deck, a synth, guitar and one really crappy mic. Oh if only I'd had this tool in the early 90's. Might be that rockstar I always wanted to be then. LOL

Anyway, software gushing aside, the program allows me to do many, many things to audio. There is also an excellent book written for users that gets into a lot of audio mixing theory and practice along with direct instructions for how to apply these things in Reaper. The book is called ReaMix. Look it up, it's worth it.

No seriously, I'm done pimping for Reaper now!!

A Gaythering Storm

Any strict fundamentalist religious types will want to stop reading now. Tim is about to get a touch controversial.




Still with me? Good, let's move on...

The National Organization for Marriage recently started airing this commercial on TV stations and the web.

So what's Tim been up to lately?

What a couple of weeks its been!!

Last week, my wife and I woke up at 6am. Normally, I take our dogs outside and feed them while she jumps in the shower to get ready for work. While I was feeding the dogs, she appeared at the front door and informed me that we had no hot water. Ugh!

A days worth of tinkering and we came to the conclusion that our tank was dead. So then we had to get it out and buy a new one. This involved turning off the water for our whole house since there are no cutoffs anywhere. To shut off the water I have to turn off the power to our well pump and then release the pressure on the faucets.

We then discovered that nobody makes a replacement tank that would fit in the space anymore. Apparently, the company that made our original one sold its water heater division to another company who then discontinued our model about 10 years ago. Yay.

Random acts of cuteness caught on camera!!

I'll let this one speak for itself. *grin*