Master! Master! Master of Engineering

I finished grad school! I am now allegedly a Master of Engineering in Computer Engineering. It felt rather anticlimactic to finish as a distance student given that I didn't attend the graduation ceremony, but it's good to be done at any rate. Hopefully I can parlay this into a raise or promotion or something. Now if only my diploma would arrive...

New new new new new new music

Yeah! I am making music again. I'm going for an EP-length running mix this time. Enjoy this crappy video I made using the iTunes visualizer for the first track I finished.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y71DybgWTWc

In happier news

We are looking for houses in the proximity of Lyn-Lake. Holy moly are houses more expensive here than in KC. But we will try to make it work. It's hard to resist houses like this: http://www.edinarealty.com/MN/Minneapolis/55405/homes-for-sale/2536-Harriet-Avenue-S-59729408/popup

Anyone want to rent a room?

I mean holy wow that house is gorgeous. Hopefully it's in better shape than our KC house (it appears to be), otherwise no deal. It's in Whittier, near all the stuff, and I mean ALL the stuff, worth doing around here.

But yeah, it looks like $250 is about what you're paying for a house in decent shape up here, so... ouch.

And apparently central air is not a thing here, because it just doesn't get that hot. Weirrrrrd.

Also, we might be getting a Corgi puppy soon if things work out, and OMG it's the cutest thing in the world And I never use OMG, ever.

The weeks of awesome

Ok, school's out forever on May 6. The twin cities have blessed me with a ton of great shows over the couple of weeks following that, which I will dub the weeks of awesome.

5/8 tUnE-YarDs / Buke & Gass
5/13 Fiery Furnaces
5/16 James Blake
5/17 Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings / Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears
5/18 Zoe Keating
5/19 Sleigh Bells / CSS
5/21 Death Cab for Cutie
5/23 Man Man
5/26 Adele

Man! I knew this town was going to make me broke.

I love you, Kurt Vonnegut.

"They say there are no atheists in foxholes, and this is a good argument against atheism. I think it's a better argument against foxholes." - Kurt Vonnegut

In like a lion, out like... a lion?

It's still 20 out and there's still snow on the ground. Please make it stop. Kthx.

I do have the most fabulous friends up here, though. We'll get through it.

Then, the glorious (I'm told) spring and summer, and the return of farmers' markets.

Inner Circle

I've finished my 2011 RPM Challenge album. I still need to mail in the disc, but it's done. You can download or stream it here: http://datadamage.bandcamp.com/album/inner-circle

It was fun, as always. But I think I'm running out of useful Garageband loops. Next time, a drum machine / sampler/ synth will probably be involved.