pat does stuff.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

i wanna be the very best, like no-one ever was.

brendan covered the pokemon theme. it's amazing. he's a dreamboat.

today was the good morning moose reunion at my house. and by that, i mean josh and tuddy came over and we played some songs. it was great! i missed tuddy a whole bunch, and i was surprised by how happy it made josh to play the old tunes again. we jumped. it was great. and it pointed out to me that i'm a bit better at everything now than i was a few years ago. which was nice.

then gez and i jammed with yahna, and that was great too! it's been a jamtastic day, and it'll only continue throughout the week. it's gonna kick butt.

drinking miller chill > worrying about having spent the last of my money on miller chill

Friday, January 16, 2009

you are the man for me. can i be the man for you?

a quick one before my laptop's battery dies!
i worked today, for the first time in a while. it was good times. i'm working again tomorrow, apparently.

then i met up with my good buds brendan and matt violi, and we headed into the city to see the ever-impressive celadore. they just keep getting better and better. they were supporting neon, which is pretty freakin' cool.

brendan and i played chess on his phone on the train ride home. i had him on the ropes, but he shiftily reset the game. accurate description of events? i think so.
one maccas pitstop later, and now i'm at home. matty's here too, sleeping in the granny flat.
i just re-read the first hundred pictures for sad children comics, and if i know me, i'll probably re-read the rest of them tomorrow. remind me to record a demo, too.

well, goodnight.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

here's to just sick of this shit but not giving a shit.

fucking hell.
i just spent a good hour trying to do something that would've taken roughly a minute on any other version of windows than vista.
i was trying to set it up so that when i open a file in winamp, it adds it to the playlist rather than erasing the entire playlist and simply playing that file. not hard, right?
well, i've done it several times before on every other computer i've ever had, and it's been incredibly simple! just change it so that "enqueue file in winamp" is the default action, rather than "play file in winamp". well apparently that was just too complicated, because they've completely removed your ability to do that in windows vista.

so i checked out what people were saying about it on the internet, and not surprisingly, there were a lot of people pissed off about the same thing. and the only solution seemed to be downloading one of a multitude of programs that'll bring back the functionality that used to be built into explorer.
well, i had to download four (count 'em) different programs before i found one that had the ability to simply change the default action of a file type. seriously, how fucking hard is it? if you're gonna make a program that edits file type actions, why the hell would you release it without implementing THAT, the most basic of features?

so, in summation, HOLY HELL

Sunday, January 11, 2009

no corners for you.

so hey! true to the name of my blog, i've been doing stuff.
last night, my good buddy daniel came over, and we wrote and recorded a song about a five-legged spider who lives in daniel's shower. his name is legs. check it out at the ample love handles myspace.

today, i started to really get into the seemingly endless task of transferring all my crap from my old laptop onto my new one. it's going okay. it's still gonna take a few more days though. i've been having trouble finding time so far. mostly cause people call me up wanting to hang out, and i say okay. SO WHOSE FAULT IS THAT?
hint: it's theirs.

and tonight, i went to my good buddy hayden's (of fist2face fame) 18th birthday party. gez, coops and i played some songs. it was magical. matt violi joined in. it was supermagical.
then i was really bored, surrounded by drunk 17-year-olds. until matt and coops both got drunk off their faces. then it was HILARIOUS.
and then i came home. coops and i were gonna stop in at maccas on the way home, and then we realised that we both have no money. so no double beef and cheese for us.

and that was the end! of all time! kind of anticlimactic if you ask me.

Friday, January 09, 2009

he had absolutely no idea.

so i'm just hanging out in bed, posting this from my brand spanking new laptop!
it's a dell studio 17, full to the brim with awesome shit. like, AWESOME shit.
i'm so happy, not only because i have a sweet computer that gives me wet dreams, but because
a) this is the first brand new computer i've ever owned; and
b) this is the biggest thing i've ever saved up to buy.
so all of that is fantastic. and i'm semi-quietly off my face happy. i'm trying not to sound like too much of a geek about it though.

as for what else i've been doing, i've been hanging out with steph for the past couple days. aquarium, movies, coops' house... we've been everywhere.
and right now i'm sending messages to jo to remind her that i like her face. I LIKE IT.

also, someone remind me to update this more often. for some reason i usually think of it as a chore, but it's really not that difficult.

hey, goodnight.

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

where did you go?

yes, i'm eating potato salad at 1:15 in the morning. do you have a problem with that?