Found a Note Sitting by the Phone

Last night I went to bed at about 4:00am. Like usual I let the dogs out, peed, let the dogs in and got into bed with my wife. At 7:30am my wifes alarm went off. As usual the damn thing woke me up. Then something strange happened. This wasnt the moment the strange thing happened so much as it was when I noticed it had happened to me. I was in the guest bed. I was not in my bed. I was not lying next to my wife. I was not where I last had a conscious thought. I was in the guest bed.

Faster Food

This post originally appeared on "Pizza Ruined My Life".

Disapointing All Your Fans

Last night Shedu and I spent about 5 hours going through all the tapes we have. It turns out there are 13 tapes that have Paczki material on them. Currently, 4 of them have been digitized, 4 have been determined to be redundant, 1 is being recorded and 4 lay in waiting.

Heres a little advice to all you kids in garage bands who have taken to putting your music down on "tape". LABLE YOUR SHIT. Ive got one big clusterfuck in front of me and it took far to long to figure out what was what. Another thing you need to do is store everything together. Theres 13 audio tapes here but Im sure there are hours of other recordings that are gone for good.

3 Idiots and a PC

Yesterday I broke my computer. In an attempt to move it (while running), I pulled one of the cords a little too tight. When this happened, my monitor blinked out and the song that was playing started repeating the last 2 seconds that just played. After unplugging everything, putting it on the desk and reconnecting the vital components, I attempted to reboot. Nothing, double check my connections, still nothing.

Hoping that I simply wrecked my cord I call Shedu to see if I can barrow his monitor extravaganza feast to trouble shoot my problem. I get there and we plug one of his monitors in, no dice. Then we put one of his video cards in, still nothing. Then he does some stuff that I dont know how to explain other than there was a network and bios involved. After all that didnt work we had run out of time.

I told Kato about it at work that night and he said hed take a look at it after we got out. The first thing we did was make sure the hard drive worked by making it a slave on his machine. Everything was there and so we backed up all the documents on it. Then we ran scan disc to make sure that everything was fine with the drive. Next we replaced the hard drive and attempted to boot it up again. No luck.

Its about 4am at this point and there isnt much left to do. Just for fun I take the light and look around inside my computer. After a minute I realize that I forgot to tell my team of experts one very small detail. I had removed 1 of the RAM chips when I opened it up before I brought it over. Upon further investigation it appears that I did not replace the chip all the way. So, I locked the chip back into place and started her up and everything was back to normal.

In the end we never did figure out why the monitor went out or why the music kept repeating itself.

Well Prides Gone out the Window, Across the Roof Tops, Run Away

After listening to about 4 hours of old (really old) Paczki tapes Im ready to digitize them. There are only 6 songs that will beable to be taken from these tapes. The rest will have to be taken from other recordings that need to be tracked down.