Also, I finally got Ricky Bill the 3 Yacht Rock compilation CD’s I was telling him I’d do for the MonteV jukebox. They not only have some of the smoothest songs out there, but they also include soundbites from the “Yacht Rock” series. Without further adieu, here’s the tracklist for your smooth drinking (Mimosas, of course) soundtrack:

Disc: 89

01 – George Benson – Breezin’
02 – Loggins & Messina – Sailin’ The Wind
03 – Kenny Loggins – Whenever I Call You ‘Friend’
04 – Doobie Brothers – What A Fool Believes
05 – Doobie Brothers – You Never Change
06 – Hall & Oates – Alley Katz
07 – Michael McDonald – Sweet Freedom
08 – Hall & Oates – Sara Smile
09 – Hall & Oates – Portable Radio
10 – Kenny Loggins – This Is It
11 – Steely Dan – King of the World
12 – Steely Dan – Time Out of Mind
13 – Kenny Loggins – Keep The Fire
14 – Doobie Brothers – How Do The Fools Survive

Disc: 92

01 – Journey – Lights
02 – Journey – Any Way You Want It
03 – Steely Dan – Kid Charlemagne
04 – Kenny Loggins – I’m Alright
05 – Toto – Hold the Line
06 – Toto – Make Believe
07 – Christopher Cross – Ride Like the Wind
08 – Kenny Loggins – Perry, Steve – Don’t Fight It
09 – Toto – I’ll Supply the Love
10 – Toto – Rosanna
11 – Michael McDonald – I Gotta Try
12 – Christopher Cross – Sailing
13 – Michael McDonald – I Keep Forgettin’
14 – Warren G – Regulate
15 – Steely Dan – Your Gold Teeth II

Disc: 93

01 – Captain & Tennille – Love Will Keep Us Together
02 – Steely Dan – Any World (That I’m Welcome To)
03 – Loggins & Messina – Watching The River Run
04 – Loggins & Messina – Your Mama Don’t Dance
05 – Hall & Oates – Gino (The Manager)
06 – The Doobie Brothers – Takin’ It to the Streets
07 – Doobie Brothers – Echoes of Love
08 – Van Halen – I’m the One
09 – The Eagles – Life In The Fast Lane
10 – Steely Dan – Everything You Did
11 – Steely Dan – Do It Again
12 – Steely Dan – Peg
13 – The Eagles – Hotel California
14 – Steely Dan – FM (No Static At All)

Since it’s been warmer, I’ve been waking up earlier. This means Stella goes on more morning walks. She LOVES it. This also means I’m getting out more and trying to workout more. I really want to be in my best shape ever by my 30th b-day. Weird, huh? I don’t think it’s mid-life crisis shit, rather an attempt to just make my life better in general.

I am SUPER stoked on :LTD. We kinda dropped the robothouse from the name, but whatever. We’re also going to be making shirts soon. Here’s what they’ll probably look like:

These should be done by the Lightning Bolt show on the 14th if we’re lucky. Somehow we’ve scored American Apparel shirts on the cheap. What what what!

I got a Wii. After searching for the past 2-3 months, I finally got ahold of one. It rules. So far, my roommate has gotten addicted to Zelda. I’ve totally gotten into the sports and other games as well. MJ was totally awesome and scored Rayman Raving Rabbids for me on Valentine’s Day, which unexpectedly rules. It’s probably the best party game for the system yet, even out-doing Wario Ware Smooth Moves!

I’ve been leveling up in WOW on Laughing Skull lately…. so far I’ve gotten my Gnome Mage up to almost 67 on Laughing Skull. I’m hoping to get rolling on getting Keyed and doing raids with the Ascendence guild which a couple other local folks play on.

The band is going through some changes. Owen is not playing with us anymore, but that was going to happen in August anyways. So Bobby and I took a trip to PHX yesterday to pick up BrOwen’s drumset. I scored an ANP Quarterly for free @ Stinkweeds and staved off purchasing any music once again. Tonight is first real practice with BrOwen on drums. We’ll see how it goes….

Ooh, and today I pick up my bike wheel from the shop. I finally took the thing in to get the spokes fixed and wheel aligned. Yus!

Other than that, I had a sweet weekend. I totally nerded out on Saturday, woke up @ 7am and played WOW with friends for 7hrs, then went to a houseshow. Then on Sunday went to another houseshow that we played at. it was fun. I was more stoked that MJ had a good “setting up a show” first experience. The Makai were hella stoked and really nice dudes to boot.

Bobby is totally getting awesome with the robothouse.org video podcasts. For that I am hella stoked. We’ll see where this leads in the future.

Things are going pretty well lately. I’m not as broke as I’ve been in the past. Work is going well. The band is awesome. Marty might even take over my Firm membership with Zoe. That’ll free up even more $.

Thanksgiving was hella fun with the siblings. My brother Mike came up to visit a few days early. He even brought the turkey fryer. It was awesome to see him and know that he’ll be on to bigger and better things on the east coast. Owen and Audra had their brothers and sisters over too. We deep fried a turkey and a bunch of people came over in the morning on Thanksgiving to drink mimosas. That was fun to see a bunch of people that normalls don’t come over.

Recently, a certain someone has my total adoration and crush. It’s been loads of fun to take time and find out more about that someone. Oh, and the making out is awesome.

Today at work I moved into a new area and it’s doubled my desk & storage space. That is badass. I’m a little woozy from whoopin it up the night before, but it’s alright. I’m gonna go see some of the Macy’s employees bands play during First Friday Art Walk. Should be fun.

Looking forward to next weekend, we play Modified on the 8th and then a Tucson houseshow on the 9th. hell yes.

Well how about this… I’ll do a bulleted list of things I should cover in detail as the time arises… ok.

• Started a new band. It is called Robothouse: LTD. Bobby, Owen, & Owen are in it. it is fun, but we worry too much about being old dudes. There are 3 bass players. Somebody awesome is possibly interested in being a producer. I like the fact that there are other people who would like to invest their efforts in Flagstaff’s music.
• I started a new job. I now work over at Distance Learning @ NAU. It’s pretty cool. I’m a “Support Systems Analyst” and I do PC support for faculty and distance labs. I’m happy to be working @ NAU again since most of the nerds I went to school with that stayed in Flagstaff work here. The bennies are awesome, the pay is better, and it’s way more chill than CCC was. I’m also working on helping better develop the multimedia streaming capabilities of the university. Fun work!
• I broke down and finally bought a bike. It’s a Lemond Poprad. It’s way overkill for just getting into cyclocross, but hey, when am I not overkill when it comes to gear? This reminds me, I should take pictures of the bike. That’ll happen soon enough.
• Work just got me a MacBook Pro. It is pretty badass. It makes me wanna get one for my personal use.

Ok, that’s enough for now. I’ll type more when I’m not slacking off from work.

Sister Pants in my mind is seeming more like a selfish pleasure than a band lately. Phil is probably one of the nicest people I know. I don’t care if anyone other than Phil and I like the music. I’m much more interested in smoking out and learning how to hack together little pieces of piano and guitar than being in one of those “hip bands.” I have more interest in having a “set” full of imagery behind us and feeling comfortable playing than I do in actually performing a bunch or having anything meaningful to say. It’s one of those transitions ya go through when ya go from unscrupulous youth to old fogey in a matter of one year.

On the other hand, I do have a rocking out side that caters to the drunks and spastics and rediculous things. It’s bubbling up and will be unleashed sometime this summer, but not in Sister Pants. Sister Pants is more refined (idealistically, at least) and “fancy.” This thing will be layers and layers of postmoderninsm.

I’ve been feeling very tired lately. Ah, the Springsteen references come flooding in (Dancing In The Dark most likely.) I feel like I should be more motivated, and interested in things around me. I feel like I don’t really have any meaningful conversations with anyone. Even if someone talks to me, I just glaze over and BS for a while and then take off early, creating an atmosphere that I’m either a snob, or too lame to say anything truly insightful. I feel bad because I do like talking with people, hell I even just like the fact that someone is paying attention to me. When I do talk, I find myself rambling… no, ranting about whatever topic I’m fixated on at the moment. Later on in the evening I will realize this and be embarassed about it. I also feel turned off by alot of people lately. Maybe it’s past experiences I’ve had with them, or certain expectations I have. Maybe it’s because I’m usually alot older than the people I hang out with. Most people my age are taking care of their newborns or sleeping or watching crappy ass Fox news. None of those things interest me. I don’t think they ever will… at least I hope so. Whatever. Maybe I just need to get laid. It’s frustrating. I think this attitude is a combination of me being in my late 20′s and not having any solid direction in mind with my social or professional life.

Why is my throat always dry? I drink shittons water.

With a number of things.

The robothouse.org website is back up and running. All it needs is some loving content from some local folks. I’m wondering when that’s gonna start happening! People’s interests have been peaked tho.

I have been SERIOUSLY enjoying playing music with Phil lately. I need to take Desi and him out for dinner sometime. That would be a most excellent way to show my apprecation. The band is called Sister Pants and it’s been really healthy for me to play in. I’m starting to learn how to sing while playing guitar and even dabble on the keyboards. I’m guessing we have hour first show on May 6th. We’re all about creating a nice atmosphere when we play music.

There is also talk of a super secret band between Mr Robert E Carlson and myself. It’s secret, so more on that never.
Work has been ok lately. There’s talk of ogranization-wide raises and movemeny of myself into the IT department, which includes a title change, etc. After the past year’s worth of events and letdowns, I’m definitely not going to be holding my breath.

Also, I like going to the gym, but never get time to do it anymore. Ack!

There, now you have an idea of what I’ve been up to lately without even having to talk to me!