New Blog Mission Statement

Wow, sounds serious. I think only a handful of friends bother reading this, though I will be exposing all of facebook to it as well.

1) Food Journal entries - notes to myself about things I want to make, recipes I've tried and succeeded or failed with, pictures maybe.

2) Music Journal entries - youtube videos, mixes, lots of lists

Random Observations and a Mix made in August

If you find some Raw Jock Power, you can do a pump double max. That's what Clif said anyway.

Safety first.
No sweets before dinner.
You have to grow your beard, before you can trim it.

All words of wisdom.

My new TV and I are pretty happy together (we were very happy together, then I spent a week not watching her and she got jealous).

1. Tortoise - It's All Around You
2. Wilderness - It's All the Same
3. Califone - Wade in the Water
4. Radiohead - Nude
5. The Timeout Drawer - There is so much love here...
6. Channels - Mayday
7. Yppah - Southern Sky Tells
8.Clues - remember severed head
9. Elbow - Mexican Standoff
10. The Drift - Smoke Falls
11. Japandroids - Heart Sweats
12. Calexico - Guero Canelo
13. Red Sparowes - A Brief Moment of Clarity...
14. Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened
15. Grizzly Bear - While You Wait for the Others

The New Commute

There's always two ways to do the commute to work, given where I work and the fact that both the Red and Blue lines go downtown into the loop. First, get on a bus. Thank you ctabustracker.com. Right now, the 66 bus down Chicago Ave makes the most sense because its a shorter walk than the 65 Grand bus, and its next to a coffee shop. Logically, the faster I get on a train line, the faster I'll get to work, but logic doesn't work well with the CTA. In fact, it generally fails. So I decided to snub logic and just stay on the 66 bus all the way to the red line. Took me basically 40 minutes, which isn't awful, but could be better. Wednesday I can test out of the 66 bus to the blue line and see if its actually faster.

In other news, I've had no hot water or gas at the new apartment, not until Tuesday morning. Nothing like going to the gym to shower.

It's Alive...

This seems as good a place as any to start spewing forth random observations, thoughts, comments, etc.

My new apartment, i.e. the new Headquarters of SethCo Worldwide, is starting to take shape a little. Tonight, I paint. Post-move organization is going to be a bitch, I'm sure. Not exactly one of my strengths.

Very interested in watching the Cats adapt to the apartment (if you're just stumbling upon this and don't know, their names are Grendel and Tweez) .