Got a reply today from a guy I knew in high school… we hadn’t talked in probably 11 years, so I wasn’t even sure he’d remember me. He wrote:

Hey man what’s up? Yeah I remember you. I remember getting you to do the first line of Jackin for Beats for my TV tech project. AHHH how young, how stupid.

The project he spoke of was one where he had to piece together various people quoting different lines from a song (or some other pre-written script). I don’t even remember helping him with the project, but according to him, I kicked things off by saying, “Give me that beat fool, it’s a full time jack move.” I wish I could see how that project turned out… with the totally non-hip-hop-oriented people in my high school, I bet it was a riot.

Thanks to help from Rob and Brian, my wireless networking between my new studio PC and my main PC is now working well. I tell you, though, it was a struggle. I spend three days on it, including making some necessary changes that Brian suggested, but it took another two hours of work from Rob to get it functioning properly. Aren’t we at the point where setting up a very simple, ad-hoc network is as easy as attaching the wireless transmitters and then running a wizard on each PC? I can’ t tell you for sure, we’re not.

Also, tonight on MSNBC: repeats of the 2-hour democratic debates (9pm and 1am eastern).

Found today on the Wayback Machine: Trancelike State Mix Tapes, playlists for a free-form electronica mixshow I did during my junior year of college. I love going back and listening to these tapes occasionally, as I feel like they really captured moods and had a better flow to them than some of my other shows. Maybe I’ll post one or two of them online…

let me push you on the mood swing… King Laze is your intergalactic pilot on the spatial plane… let it happen — enter a trancelike state…

As I alluded to yesterday, this weekend we took a trip to Berkeley Springs, WV for a delayed anniversary mini-vacation. Given the hurricane conditions the night before we were leaving, we weren’t totally sure whether we’d be going or not, but when Friday rolled around and the weather had cleared up, we decided to make the trip. Here’s a rundown of the weekend, complete with plenty o’ pictures.

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Feeling energized after a nice three-day weekend away in the mountains of West Virginia. More on that later…

After shutting down at 7-ish on Thursday night to try and keep the PC from frying, we were underwhelmed by Miss Isabel the Jezebel. She certainly caused some problems elsewhere, even a mere 30 minutes away, but the worst thing that happened to us was our grill tipping over. We didn’t lose power (though it flickered a couple of times) and there really weren’t even many branches on the ground afterwords. Stace was without power in VA Beach for a couple of days and a co-worker in Arlington didn’t get his back until 6pm last night. That’s a lot of spoiled food.

I got a chance to fire up my new studio PC last night. It’s pretty sweet… unfortunately, I wasted hours trying to get the stupid wireless networking to function so I can have Internet access in the basement. I’m still struggling with it. It’s a jumbled, confusing mess of settings, wizards, and constant running up and down two flights of stairs trying to get things working.

In other news, I’m switching web hosts soon. Ten times the space for 1/6th of the money (and, hopefully, better service) = a good thing. Of course, that will likely mean some downtime, but I’m sure all the “Olsen Twins nude” searchers won’t mind.

I woke up this morning with a heck of a song stuck in my head.