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Jan. 18th, 2008 10:37 pmShite day at the day job today. Overbooked, understaffed, and overstressed. Problem is I like my job, I like making glasses and helping people see, but I can not stand the poor management and horrific grasp on customer service the owners have. I do not mind being busy or working hard. What I do mind is trying to do the work of three full time trained individuals and failing miserably at all three jobs because I'm spread too thin. Didn't even get out of the office until 5;30, which set me behind on the errands I had to run before getting on the road and driving. My poor little Hyuandai is going to have a billion miles on it by the time it dies.
Was talking to a mate last night and she asked why I haven't worked on Noreen lately. And I realized I've hardly been online at all compared to what I was on previously. Between work where I don't sit at a computer anymore and getting the backline job I am just not around anymore. I don't do the forums and have lost touch with a lot of the people I used to hang with a year or two ago. Was never anywhere near a BNF in that little community, but I had my mates and obsessed over every little new thing that came out. And now... Sure I'm still here, it's my sanity break and a good way to fill time while waiting around for something, but I don't write the big long stories anymore. I don't send out a dozen PM's a day. I have to split one email response into separate days because I run out of time. It's a three hour drive here, an hour flight there, hour drive there, 45 minutes waiting in a room, twenty minute drive there, never enough time to get much of anything done except move and go.
I find my life is more fulfilling now, altho being online did have a certain appeal and purpose. Online friends have given way to business associates and a few people I'd consider friends. I'm not as able to be selective about who I talk to or hang with in real life. Farts and stinky feet all smell worse in real life. My online mates might have gotten pissed or high, but they didn't take me along for the ride. But when has an online friend ever rubbed my back after hauling a bass amp or lent me their clothes when mine get lost? I don't know what I'm trying to say here really, but I sort of miss the life I used to have. Which is really strange 'cos I remember lamenting that I missed road life when I was home constantly. Never can make a woman happy, can ya?
Have gotten this great Sweet bootleg from 1976 Kobe Japan. The sound quality sucks, the mix is off in spots (obviously an sbd tape but old), and there's magnetic damage where the tape was wound for many years, but it's a great fun gig. Lots of laughs and politically incorrect things (besides the song lyrics). None of the guys in Sweet spoke Japanese, and they thought none of the Japanese spoke English. It's fun.
Something about a Union Jack shirt paired with spandex that always gets me. Great party band with such a sad story to them, shame they're always looked over. How many other bootlegs come with little paper dolls of the band that you can dress up and play with? So cool.
Probably one of the better set lists of their career as well.
SWEET-Japan76-CD1
http://sharebee.com/ae4eac3e
SWEET-Japan76-CD2
http://sharebee.com/a3ec67e7
Play It Loud! and Enjoy!
In the meanietime, I'm off to get buggered soundly and then be half suffocated as someone sleeps on me. To the haunting strains of 'If We Don't Fuck You, Someone Else Will'. Now that's sex music.
Was talking to a mate last night and she asked why I haven't worked on Noreen lately. And I realized I've hardly been online at all compared to what I was on previously. Between work where I don't sit at a computer anymore and getting the backline job I am just not around anymore. I don't do the forums and have lost touch with a lot of the people I used to hang with a year or two ago. Was never anywhere near a BNF in that little community, but I had my mates and obsessed over every little new thing that came out. And now... Sure I'm still here, it's my sanity break and a good way to fill time while waiting around for something, but I don't write the big long stories anymore. I don't send out a dozen PM's a day. I have to split one email response into separate days because I run out of time. It's a three hour drive here, an hour flight there, hour drive there, 45 minutes waiting in a room, twenty minute drive there, never enough time to get much of anything done except move and go.
I find my life is more fulfilling now, altho being online did have a certain appeal and purpose. Online friends have given way to business associates and a few people I'd consider friends. I'm not as able to be selective about who I talk to or hang with in real life. Farts and stinky feet all smell worse in real life. My online mates might have gotten pissed or high, but they didn't take me along for the ride. But when has an online friend ever rubbed my back after hauling a bass amp or lent me their clothes when mine get lost? I don't know what I'm trying to say here really, but I sort of miss the life I used to have. Which is really strange 'cos I remember lamenting that I missed road life when I was home constantly. Never can make a woman happy, can ya?
Have gotten this great Sweet bootleg from 1976 Kobe Japan. The sound quality sucks, the mix is off in spots (obviously an sbd tape but old), and there's magnetic damage where the tape was wound for many years, but it's a great fun gig. Lots of laughs and politically incorrect things (besides the song lyrics). None of the guys in Sweet spoke Japanese, and they thought none of the Japanese spoke English. It's fun.
Something about a Union Jack shirt paired with spandex that always gets me. Great party band with such a sad story to them, shame they're always looked over. How many other bootlegs come with little paper dolls of the band that you can dress up and play with? So cool.
Probably one of the better set lists of their career as well.
SWEET-Japan76-CD1
http://sharebee.com/ae4eac3e
SWEET-Japan76-CD2
http://sharebee.com/a3ec67e7
Play It Loud! and Enjoy!
In the meanietime, I'm off to get buggered soundly and then be half suffocated as someone sleeps on me. To the haunting strains of 'If We Don't Fuck You, Someone Else Will'. Now that's sex music.
