It’s allergy season so I am a stoned zombie wandering around walking into things and sleeping for twelve hours a night. I sat here staring at the computer today and I think maybe I did absolutely nothing.

Work continues on the album however. There are some great potential album covers in the forum thread with some other sweet ones on the way. I’m trying to think of a way to use the album covers I don’t pick for “the one”.

Did I mention I’m having recurring nightmares of putting the album out and then nobody buys it and then I get chased by bees? Uhh…

Thinking about selling my guitar amp and switching to running my Boss GT-6 into a keyboard amp (or two). Right now the Behringer K3000FX or the Roland KC350 are the  leading contenders. Sorta leaning towards the Roland because a) I don’t know why I’d need 300 watts of guitar and b) I know Behringer stuff will eventually turn to dust in my hands.

I went to IKEA today thinking I might pick up a few things to improve my office:

HANNES - I wanted this as a side-table/keyboard stand so I could put my 50 key MIDI keyboard on the pull-out shelf and my little Axiom 25 on the top with room for junk on the side. In person the HANNES was flimsy and ugly and too deep. I would have had to modify it a lot to work for me and the particleboard was so thin I think it’d disintegrate if I took a saw to it. Pass.

DAVE - On the website this looked like a good general use laptop/side-work table. In person it’s real wobbly so I didn’t get it. I may go back for it, I think the equivalent non-wobbly version from somewhere else would cost at least three times the price. Pass.

BRÄDA - This was pretty much exactly as advertised. Cheap little laptop lap table. Hard on top, cushiony underneath. Also I enjoy the name. Bought.

Also I forgot to look around for a FARTYG.

Thanks to Scott Lamb of DeathBoy for pointing out that the MP3s of I Don’t Know What I’m Doing for oh I don’t know, forever, had little glitches at the end of most of the files. They’re all fixed now but that was a pretty lame oversight on my part.

I just pulled a few false positives out of my spam filter but I’m not sure I got them all. If you haven’t gotten a reply from me, please try again.

Quiltsrÿche - Metal quilts. “Bangover” is my favorite.

Canada Day celebration on Parliament Hill was good, packed full of people and the fireworks were fantastic. Most of the entertainment was a little too American Idol for me but Feist was great. Too bad she was only allowed three songs.

Hey happy Canada Day everyone, even if you don’t happen to be of the Canadian persuasion. I’ll be down around Parliament Hill today gathering data for Operation Don’t Get a Hangover. I will report my findings.

After the huge success that was my 30th birthday fireworks, my family decided to all pitch in and get an even bigger box of fireworks. I guess we’re celebrating Canada Day on July 4th but due to scheduling issues this is the only weekend we could all get together so they’re going off tonight. Anyway I decided on Kaboom Man’s Hero Box:

A closer view:

The table of contents:

3 - Super Sonic Boom
2 - Ultra Sonic Boom
2 - Fireball Classic - 10
1 - Strobes
1 - Sonic Boom
1 - Jumbo Gold Comet
1 - Tornado Warning
1 - Psycho-Delic Fountain
1 - Crazy Aces
1 - Double Doozie
1 - Top Dog
1 - Crackling Satellites
1 - Killer Bee Candle
1 - Magic Dragons
1 - Party in Paris
1 - Flying Piranha
1 - Matrix
1 - Eye Of The Storm
1 - KABOOM Man
1 - Attack From Mars
1 - Pirate King
1 - 36 Shot Comet
1 - Ground Whizzer

We also got a free Psycho-Delic Fountain (which claims to last for two whole minutes), an additional Fireball Classic and a pair of crazy fireworks glasses for every $40 we spent.

I’m pretty excited about it. Everyone says that firework “cakes” are super cool but I have no idea what they are. This kit apparently has all the best ones that they sell.

Oh and we also got a whole bunch of giant sparklers so the kids can run around and burn each other. Hooray!

A few weeks ago our old rotted deck developed a giant gaping hole. There were many other points of decay on this thing so we decided to tear it out and replace it. Here’s the old one:

We decided to make it bigger and get rid of a lot of the useless raised part. Here’s the finished new one:

In the winter I’ll put the barbecue up on the landing for sub-zero degree barbecuing. But right now I’m gonna try not drilling or lifting anything for a while. Should be awesome. More pictures here if you want them.

Here are some photos I have been sent lately:

Gia models her Brad Sucks button and a hand-written note from me.

Steve’s motorcycle, now with an advertisement for this here website. I’m gonna rake in the hits… from the ladies!