2.28.2001
(Morning)

2.26.2001
(2 AM)

2.21.2001
(evening)

Damn... Once again it's been too long. Luckily I wasn't down long enough for the search engines to de-list me. I notice that people are still for some reason clicking through Google and checking this site out. God knows why, but I guess I get bored at work sometimes too...

One thing I noticed is that someone apparently did a search for Big Smith, found my site, tried to download the mp3s, and was thwarted by my failure to move them over from the old site. Silly me. So for anyone interested, I'll repost:

12" 3-Speed Oscillating Fan
No Sir
Quarry Anthem
Preacher

If anyone actually downloads those, let me know and I'll post more. I spoke with the band not too long ago, and they don't mind taping of their shows. Apparently, when they play at Chester's Place in Fayetteville, there's somebody who almost always tapes the shows. I'll definitely be there next time they play at Chester's and I hope to get in touch with someone who has tapes so I can get copies. I'll let you know if I do get some, and if anyone wants I'll get copies to them.

Lots of good music coming up soon. Dave Matthews Band releases their next album this next Tuesday, and they're kicking off a tour very soon. No dates near KC, but hopefully they'll announce more as the tour goes on. If not, I'll be arranging a caravan to either see them in New Orleans or Dallas.

On April 1, 2000 I went to work. When I got home, I went back to my apartment, turned on the TV, watched the Simpsons, made some dinner and got on the computer. My roommate came home and told me he was going out to see a show, and they had an extra ticket. I almost declined, but I was being more anti-social than my normal self around that time, and I thought it would probably be a good idea to get out. As a result, I saw what I think may very well have been the best show I've ever seen. I've since acquired a copy of that particular show, which I listen to often. As it turns out, the Steve Kimock Band is (more than likely) returning to Chester's place in Fayetteville for shows May 2-4. He continues on to New Orleans for a 2:30 AM show Sunday May 6 (actually that would be Monday, I think, but I can't really tell from what I've seen about the show). Now the quandary I'm in is this: The Fayetteville shows are a Wednesday through a Friday. I could take a Friday off work to catch two shows in Fayetteville, or I could take a Monday off and catch Dave Matthews' Jazz fest show and the Sunday night Kimock show. But I have plenty of time to decide. Oh, it's a tough life I have.

When I moved up here in Kansas City, I forgot to do two things at my apartment in Fayetteville. One was clean out the refrigerator. Whoops. I'm sure that's coming out of my deposit. Another is remove all the X10 switches from all the rooms. That one kind of hurts. They weren't too expensive, but I don't feel like dropping the cash to replace them right now. As a result, I'm back to only my starter kit. You'll notice in the "home control" section you only have access to two of my lamps, the only two controllable devices I have right now. I'll get more and get the TV hooked up soon, but that'll probably be my next paycheck. But what I have is working again. After buying a car, a DVD player, a grill, a surround sound receiver, a set of speakers, and a car stereo, I think I've done enough to try to pull us out of this recession. Now all you guys be good consumers and do your part.

I'm working on the webcam, but haven't figured out how to run the wires out to the living room yet. So you'll have to settle for a view of the messy computer room for now. But at least it's running again. Hopefully.

Once again it's time to sign off. Gotta get packed up for Mardi Gras. Damn there's going to be a lot of driving this weekend. Any Gimpysoft fans that are heading down to New Orleans, feel free to say hi if you see me. I'll be the drunk guy. I'll probably be on Bourbon Street... Hope to see you there.

Someone I don't know has checked out my site more than once... Who are you? Why are you coming back? Not that you're not welcome...

2.10.2001
(afternoon)

Well, it's Saturday. Big Smith plays at the Jazzhaus in Lawrence, KS tonight. Head on out if you're in the area. I saw Hannibal last night, and I'm not entirely sure what to think. It definitely had plenty of gross-out moments. I was kind of disappointed with some aspects of the movie. The movie went out of its way to make you not like Hannibal's victims. It was especially heavy-handed with Ray Liota's character. Every time he was on the screen he did something to remind you that you're not supposed to like him. They could have been a bit more subtle with it. I guess it was worth seeing... I suppose the next movie I need to see is Snatch.

In Gimpysoft.com technical news, I've been doing some further work on the server. I have Oracle installed, so I'm going to start getting some cool stuff up here soon. Gimpysoft Radio is active again, so if you're bored at work, you can always listen to that. If you have Winamp installed, just click the link and it should start up. Since I have better upstream bandwidth now I've upped the bitrate to 56k. Let me know if there are any problems with it. When I got my new computer, I accidentally deleted my entire mp3 collection, so I'm just getting rebuilt now, mostly by capturing from CDs I own. The station currently plays some Enigma, Foo Fighters, Steve Kimock Band, KVHW, Big Smith, various Techno stuff, and some comedy bits every now and again. I'll try to get a request system going soon, but in the meantime if there's anything you'd like worked into the rotation, shoot me an email. Speaking of email, I haven't tried to get drscience, my old 486, working again. So mail sent to gimpysoft.com is getting bounced right now. I'll try to get mail working on pi soon, but I've been messing with that machine enough for today.

Other stuff, I haven't figured out a good place to put my camera, or how to tun the wiring. So the webcam isn't working. Also, I accidentally left most of my X10 switches in my last apartment, so you can only control one lamp in my apartment now, and I haven't even tested it to see if it works. I'll fix that tomorrow if I get a chance.

Well I'll drop this in. It's good to be back. Watch soon for your chance to register as a site user and... Ummm... Do something... I'll figure that out later...