Pre-Rest Day of Rest (or something to that end)

Music lately has been one heckuva way to focus and clear my head, did some playing last night, and tonight after a day of sleeping the entire day (all but maybe 20-30 minutes) I slept, was a very nice day, and it’s finishing up with some off and on rain, which is a nice peaceful thing to help with calm/relaxing.

What a crazy 2 weeks. Followed up with a Friday that was so back and forth, wowza! Just glad it ended on a fun note, saw Eragon with my cousin, as she knew I’d go see it, and no one else probably would go with her, but for $4 - it was alright, I love our cheap theater, I still want to see Stranger than Fiction with Will Ferrel, looks hilarious, but I hate going to the movies alone, anyone wanna come?

But tonight’s playing around on the piano, was nice, did a lot of just off the wall stuff, playing around, no recording, but then I decided to record something:

I know I know, it’s just one of those bits of music I hafta play now and again, it’s silly, but from as simple as it can be, to complex and a tad more elegant, it’s a good piece to just play and tweak since the basicness of it is easy to remember - I also fiddled with the main theme from The Notebook, one I have fiddled with off and on for years, sure sure, I could buy the sheet music, but where’s the fun in that? Where’s the discovery? :)

I am doing a lot better though this weekend, some folks have expressed concern for me, and I greatly appreciate the comments on the last post, the IM’s asking me if I am good, heck even people at the office wondering if I am okay - just 2 weeks of high stress, lack of sleep, and a mind that won’t quit - some things, it’s still grinding away at, but 2-3 things compared to 30000 things, I’ll take that any day - sometimes I wish I was a big company, lots of employees, but then the other end of that, I also wish I was a W2 employee who had a set of things to do, for-sure paycheck that didn’t just rest on if clients wanted to PayPal funds in, but simply was there because I did the work.

Life is choice, life is mistakes and learning from them, and in the end Life is what you allow it to become, not what you make it. I know too many people who tell me that “Life is what YOU make it.” - honestly, I think in life we do make it, we stand in the way of GREAT things happening, fear, doubt, constantly questioning “Is this Right?!” - I know I am definitely guilty of it, but hopefully one day, I’ll get Chuck out of the way, and let some things which could be a benefit to me, happen. All in due time.

Well it’s coming up on 1am, got a great bit of piano time in, had some fun chats during, before, and who knows, here in a bit someone may start chatting me up - night is still young. Have a Good Sunday, and hopefully a not too stressful monday. Night.

Posted on 11 February '07 by Chuck Brown, under deep thoughts, random thoughts. 1 Comment.

Office on the Road

Laptops are handy - I don’t think anyone can really say they aren’t but once you start packing apps on your laptop it can be bogged down, and you can have limited space - so lately I have been considering selling my HP laptop and going MacBook - simple, sleek, and maybe slowly phase out things to only Mac & Linux - mainly because I have been phasing out use of Office a bit - Google has helped in that process greatly.

My Online Office

Writely - For wordprocessing, access wherever I am, works great in Firefox, Safari and IE - so no issues in accessing it at all! Top it off, it’s free.

Google Spreadsheets - A excellent Excel replacement, granted I wish it had a PDF print function (save to PDF or download PDF to print) but for now, it is great for doing my deposits, and quote write ups.

Google Calendar - I have just updated my schedule with the appointments from my Treo - now I have my schedule with me online and Gmail whines reminds me of things.

But all in all for a bunch of free programs, and Gmail acting as my mail dump for all my major “need to check” accounts, its awesome - wonderful in the realm of once things calm down and I go on my road trip, then the office is there if and when I need to connect.

Anywhoo thats my tid-bit for the day, just sitting down here at the office working on quotes and running some numbers - its all going good, and my CD’s are burning from iTunes & Ripping in Winamp to mp3’s for the roadtrip tomorrow (going to Grover Beach!) just a fun day thus far.

Posted on 7 September '06 by Chuck Brown, under basic goodness, work. .

I heart GarageBand

So I got to playing around tonight in Garageband, and came up with the content below hopeflly the flash player works!

Posted on 2 June '06 by Chuck Brown, under basic goodness. .