phewwww

i am shattered.

band = new material, something that NEVER happens in threequartersmile land. it’s shaping up to be a great new sound, and we’re all back and thinking on the same level again.

i cannot wait to gig again.

speaking of which, playing a gig on wednesday night, drumming for a kick-around band that me and some mates from work have put together. we’re playing a few covers at a battle of the bands night the college is putting on, it should be a good laugh.

i love ruth. she bought me a robot arm, it’s wicked.

I had the best birthday ever. as in, it’s actually the best birthday i’ve ever had, ever. over the course of the day, everyone i hold dear to me was whispering behind my back and plotting a surprise party in the evening, and i had NO idea.

walking into a pub thinking your girlfriend’s brought you out for a meal and being faced with a beer garden full of your closest friends is amazing, i was lost for words. specially when I saw my mum sat there, fag in one hand, glass of wine in the other.

Loui’s inspired me to get back into doing artwork again, when i get some time out from the music, i don’t know when that’ll be, but i’ll make sure that it happens soon.

I now have my osx 10.5.6 server running flawlessly at home, blog/wiki server, open directory, network logins and mobile user accounts. I’ve worked ith this stuff for years, but this is the first time that I have it in my own house, where i can play with it, try different things, and break it if i absoloutely have to. You can’t learn a great deal from a system that’s so critical you can’t really take it offline until half term.

Work is good, few niggly problems here or there, but the bread and butter of my project at barton is up, running, and in constant use. I’ve put together a portal page for the mac-centric intranet, strings together a few links that art and photography students or teachers would find useful, as well as direct links to existing intranet pages and areas, plus the wiki’s and blogs that run from their own user and group credentials. that side of things is really interesting to me… group collaboration suites can either be the one thing that ties together a project for a bunch of people, or a black hole that eats your time and makes you far less productive.

luckily it’s the former so far

anyway, will keep it short. threequartersmile will be gigging before the summer, ready to try and hit a few decent gigs with local bands over the summer, and i’m more proud than ever of the people in this band and the music that we’re making. I’ll let you know when gigs are on the horizon!

hope you’re all well peeps!

benny