Monday evening and I’m writing from my folks’ place up in Oregon.
One bright spot about having them way up north is getting to stay with them when work takes me up to the local sawmill up here. Didn’t bring Sharaun and Keaton along this time as the visit is a quick one and wasn’t a good candidate for a weekend-buildout.
Yesterday you may have seen a spurious blog posted here for a few hours. And, today, you may see the usable bits of that mistakenly published entry recycled here. See, I schedule all my entries to auto-post at midnight on the day I intend to publish them. Sometimes, if I’m fairly far along with a draft, to the point where I’m pretty certain I’ll be able to put the polish on it and make it a real entry, I’ll go ahead and schedule the midnight posting. Occasionally, even being fairly well developed, I may not ever get to the polish and then subsequently forget about the scheduling. Such was yesterday.
Sorry about that.
Today was the meeting that was the main motivator for me coming to Oregon this time around. And, luckily, I scheduled other worthwhile activities tomorrow to coincide with the trip… because… today’s meeting, while having a couple worthwhile moments, was by and large a bust. Well, I should qualify: Considering the sawmill-funded trip as a sawmill shareholder, today was a bust; considering the trip as an opportunity to do what “marketing” types do, today was a boon for “building rapport” with the customers. I’ll leave it up to the shirts to tell me which of the two honors my salary more.
As I write, I’m listening to a record I “discovered” last Friday called Two Dancers by a British band called the Wild Beasts. Not my typical kind of album, but I’ve become completely addicted to it. It slinks and swaggers and the singer’s voice is high and odd… the combination works perfectly though. The record isn’t out for a few weeks yet, but you can preview some of the leaked tracks over at the Hype Machine‘s aggregator. I would recommend it, were I you. Yeah, been digging on that and the new Mew record… finally some new stuff to listen to…
Oh man I’m sleepy. Nothing much more to write today anyway. I’m just going to call this a night and talk to you guys tomorrow.
Love ya, goodnight.
Also written on this day...
- a little bit country? - 2008
- grease up your keyboards - 2006
- chills - 2004