and all the internet was free

or gratis, if you will. computers sure have gotten a whole lot sweeter in those couple years where i wasn't paying much attention to them since all i had was a glorified juke box and typewriter. ok, and solitaire machine. come to think of it, that's not a bad idea, taking everything off an old computer, maybe throw an even bigger hard drive in it and only have music and the bare necessities on it. it would be like an ipod you couldn't take anywhere. but in a couple of years some of these desktops will start looking retro in a way. floppy disk? what the fuck are you talking about? they're big enough to do cool design stuff with. i know a couple people that have been into ''modding'' their desktops and i, guess if you see it a lot that's kinda cool, but if the purpose of the machine is to serve as a jukebox of sorts you could take that in a cool direction. could build a cabinet for the whole business. anyway, this thing is great. and now i for sure can get net access in home for free any time, so that should help in the regularity of postings. except for tomorrow i'm going to chicago for the weekend and i don't think it would be necessary or even the greatest idea to bring the coumputer along. i'm not travelling on business man. i don't need to 'get something done'. and shit, it was my birthday and everything. the day itself was laid back enough but the rest of the week has been been busy. so busy that i'm writing this now instead of going out to another show, i just can't handle another night out if i'm going to chicago. guess the birthday really did make me old. show last night was amazing though, and this would be good but probably not as good. saw back forty last night, can't remember if i've written about them on here or if i wrote about them in the post that i LOST! still kinda pissed about that... anyway, they bill themselves as down home funkgrass, whatever that means to you, but its a unique sound and they're pretty good. very tight musically, but not afraid to check some stuff out. good time live if you ever get a chance (threw in a cover of that beck song debra: giiiiiiiiiiirl, i wanna get with youuuuuuu whoa and your sisterrrr). anyway, back to the computer. i'm really excited about it still and (or probably partly because) i haven't hardly even gotten to play with the thing at all. still has quite a novelty feel to it. actually thinking about reading a bunch of the owner's manual, mostly out of morbid curiosity. same force that drove me to check out the windows xp tour under the fucking start menu. i couldn't handle it for very long at all though, because it treats you like a 6 year old, like the training modules on the computers at meijer. but who knows, could still learn something useful. we shall see. much more will be gleaned from just screwing around with the thing i would guess. speaking of which, i think i'm gonna do just that for a while...