Monday, August 21, 2006

yo son! yo kid! was up? Did you get your car and all? To bad that put the kibosh on the fun times planned for all. Dietz called me, the afternoon of the show, and TOLD me I was driving so I hung up and ignored his like 17 phone calls through out the day.

I don't know, I presumed you wouldn't be going, and the thought of driving John up as he sits and chain smokes, and drinks and becomes less and less tolerable to be around, and the fact that the ticket prices rose 250% didn't really sell me on the idea of attending the concert.

I tried calling John and he hung up on me. I guess I'll miss all the wonderful benefits of his friendship for the time being.

I love how when you, Corey and I wanted to walk around the plaza, on that beautiful evening, we couldn't because John had to be able to drink his beer... He should just get a fucking IV drip. Okay i'm starting to rant.

You'll have to bring over that little bag of goodness, you have stashed away, sometime.

Dave McBride (we played frisbee with him) pulled this hilarious stunt that caused him to have a bloodied face the other night, I guess I'll have to tell you in person at some point. Over and out.

Saturday, February 11, 2006

my very own Gulfstreamâ„¢ jet

My high school art teacher brought his Macintosh computer to class. I and other students were very eager to use the computer. It had a program on it called MacPaint.

I recently sold my Macintosh computer. I've had a dozen Macintosh computers in the past two decades. My first computer, A Macintosh 512k, that was upgraded to a MacPlus, didn't have a hard drive, instead it had two floppy disk drives, one for the system, which fit on a 400k disk, and one for the application. It had 1 megabyte of RAM. I bought the computer used from a local music store, for a meager $1200, and my dad paid for half of it.

I got some software for it from my high school art teacher and started creating drawings on it. I would bring the drawings on a floppy disk to a local computer store that had a laser printer, and make laser prints of my drawings. One evening I asked a sales rep at the store if they were looking for help, his manager had heard me and came out from his office, I ended getting the job and selling Macintosh computers for the next seven years. I bought a new computer almost every year following. My next computer an SE/30 had a 40 megabyte (the size of a typical modern Photoshop file) hard drive. It made my last computer seem like an antique, though like the MacPlus it had a 9" black and white monitor. The computer listed for over $4000 dollars, I paid closer to $2500 after an educators discount.